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17279Composition: The Anatomy of Picture Making
  • Publication, Book
  • Object, Art
  • Other, Drawing
  • Stenbey, Harry
  • Pitman Publishing Co
  • 1958.
12863The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Inquiry into the Salem Witch Trials
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Massachusetts
  • Other, Witchcraft trials
  • Starkey, Marion L.
  • Alfred A. Knopf
  • 1950
12900Customs on the Table Top: How New England Housewives Set Out their Tables
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Home Economics
  • Other, Housewives
  • Other, Table settings & decoration
  • Sprackling, Helen
  • Old Sturbridge Village
  • 1958
Description:
Description of New Englander as good host, hearty eater, and "prodigious drinker."
4107Spiker, LaRue defense of peace petition
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Other, Politics
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 7/21/1950
Description:
Article signed by LaRue Spiker and Iola Klaas in defense of her peace petition which demanded the outlawing of atomic weapons. Explains her concern about being questioned by police while circulating her petition and loss of her job as a child welfare worker. 2 pages.
4124 Sea-Going Policeman are Fisherman’s Friend
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Other, Law Enforcement
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1957
Description:
By George H. Taylor: Sea Going Policeman are Fisherman’s Friends ; part of LaRue Spiker Collection Previously archived as object id 013.FIC.30.32
17292Secrets of the North Atlantic Islands
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, North Atlantic
  • Snow, Edward Rowe
  • Dodd
  • 1950
17142Our Vanishing Landscape
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Landscapes
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Wilfred Funk
  • 1955
Description:
Illustrations of disappearing structures and man-made landscaping
17143American Barns and Covered Bridges
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Barns
  • Other, Bridges
  • Other, Buildings
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Wilfred Funk
  • Inc., 1954
17144American Yesterday
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Tools & Implements
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Wilfred Funk
  • 1956 .
Description:
Occupations of early America
17184Recollection of Southwest Harbor, Maine 1885-1894
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, Southwest Harbor
  • Parker, Jesse L.
  • 1955
Description:
Photocopied manuscript describes Southwest Harbor, families, and personal accounts
12860The Book of American Clocks
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Clocks & watches
  • Palmer, Brooks
  • MacMillan Company
  • 1950
Description:
Gives background of clock and watch making in America; illustrates types of clocks and watches; gives list of makers and information about them. Also gives a brief history of American timekeeping.
17305Naval Visits to Bar Harbor
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Navies
  • Opdycke, Leonard
  • Bar Harbor Times Publishing Co.
  • 1952.
9221The Oldham Era
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Other, Newspapers
  • Oldham Era
  • 3/15/1957
Description:
Copy of The Oldham Era newspaper from LaGrange, Oldham County, Kentucky. Property of LaRue Spiker. Previously archived as 012.FIC.056
17085Dress
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Home economics
  • Other, Sewing
  • Oerke, Bess V.
  • Chas. A. Bennett Co.
  • 1956
17220Portuguese and Further Spanish Notes
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Travel
  • O’Brien, Louise and John
  • Independently
  • 1955
12857Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Glassware
  • McKearin, Helen and George S.
  • Doubleday
  • 1950
Description:
Gives the history of blown glassmaking from colonial days to othe modern period; covers tableware, flasks, molded glass, and more.
17309A Maine Town in the Civil War.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Civil wars
  • Other, Deer Isle
  • Hutchinson, Vernal
  • The Bond Wheelwright Co.
  • 1957.
12583New England Clocks at Old Sturbridge Village
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Clocks & watches
  • Fennelly, Catherine
  • Old Sturbridge Village
  • (1955).
17294Sands, Spindles and Steeples: A History of Saco, Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Maine
  • Other, Saco
  • Fairfield, Roy P.
  • House of Falmouth
  • 1956
17215Merchant Sail, Volume V
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Boat & ship industry
  • Other, Clipper ships
  • Other, Merchants
  • Other, Sailing ships
  • Fairburn, William Armstrong
  • Fairburn Marine Educational Foundation
  • 1945-1955
Description:
U.S. Wood Shipbuilders and Shipbuilding Centers during the days of the young republic and throughout the Nineteenth Century
17216Merchant Sail Vol V
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Merchants
  • Other, Sailing ships
  • Fairburn, William Armstrong
  • Fairburn Maine Educational Foundation
  • 1955
17108Fishes of Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fish
  • Other, Maine
  • Other, Natural history
  • Everhart, W. Harry
  • Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Game
  • 1958
17300Pilots and Pilot Boats of Boston Harbor.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Pilot boats
  • Eastman, Ralph M.
  • Second Bank - State Street and Trust Co
  • 1956.
17075Mount Desert: The most beautiful island in the world
  • Publication, Book
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Explorers
  • Other, Railroad companies
  • Other, Railroads
  • Collier, Sargent F.
  • Houghton Mifflin
  • 1952
Description:
Chapters on: Indians and explorers; Jesuits; de Gregoire; Bernard; Wreck of the Grand Design; British Navy; Early settlers; Summer visitors; Green Mountain Railway; Navy; Social Life; Bar Harbor fire; Jackson Lab; Acadia National Park.
17283Decorative Design
  • Publication, Book
  • Object, Art
  • Other, Decorations
  • Brod, Fritzi
  • Pitman Publishing Co
  • 1958.