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| 12647 | Historical Atlas of Maine |
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Description: Historical geography of Maine from end of last ice age to 2000. Sections are: history of Native peoples, European exploration and settlement, American Revolution, Maine statehood, industrial developement, rise of tourism and environmental awareness. Includes maps, paintings, graphs, and text. | |
| 1547 | The Mirror of Maine |
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Description: This is an annotated and illustrated bibliography of 100 books "that reveal the history of the state and the life of its people." | |
| 12430 | Mrs. Clarke's Cook Book |
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Description: "Over one thousand of the best up-to-date receipts for every conceivable need in kitchen and other departments of housekeeping." Introductory section on "Domestic Cookery"; essay on art and history of cookery; other sections on invalid diet, and a separate part on household management (marketing, table linens, etc.) Inscribed on title page: Ava Rice Bordeaux, Mrs. Flora Bordeaux | |
| 12815 | Fish and Game Laws Maine-1899 |
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Description: This is a revision of the fish and game laws for the state of Maine. It includes such topics as the prohibition against use of dynamite, closing time for hunting or fishing designated species, and the like. | |
| 13967 | Vital Records of Mount Desert Island Maine and Nearby Island 1776-1820 |
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Description: Introduction includes brief history of Mount Desert Island. | |
| 16545 | Petite Plaisance: Marguerite Yourcenar, 1903-1987 |
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Description: Photographs, sketches, biographical information about Marguerite Yourcenar, and descriptions of her Northeast Harbor home. | ||
| 12795 | Practical and Mental Arithmetic, on a New Plan... |
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Description: "...in which mental arithmetic is combined with the use of the slate; containing a complete system for all practical purposes; being in dollars and cents, stereotype edition, revised and enlarged, with exercises for the slate, in which as added a practical system of book-keeping." Exercises cover compound numbers, fractions, and decimals. | |
| 13936 | Fundamentals of Botany. |
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| 14604 | The Tarn: Community Recollections and Reflections |
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Description: Interviews of 27 residents of the Bar Harbor and Otter Creek areas about the Tarn, now a small, shallow pond and emergent wetland; it was originally a meadow. | |
| 1569 | The White House Cook Book |
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Description: " Cooking, toilet, and household recipes; menus, dinner-giving, table etiquette; care of the sick, health suggestions; facts worth knowing, etc. etc." "A comprehensive cyclopedia of information for the home" Full-page photographs of Frances Folsom Cleveland and Carrie Scott Harrison in front. Written in pencil on front page: Miss (?) Mary H. Whitmore Inserted with in book are a floral card that reads, "Love, Honour, Hope & JoyFill Every Year of Thine" and a small "affectionate greeting" from Joseph Whitmore. [show more] | |
| 17276 | Historic Preservation Vol 201-4, Vol 193-4 |
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| 12880 | Preservation Briefs, Nos. 15-23 |
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| 1550 | Sadie's Winter Dream |
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Description: Fishermen's Wives & Maine Sea Coast Mission Hooked Rugs, 1923-1938 | |
| 13779 | The three eras of a woman's life: The maiden, the wife, and the mother. |
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Description: Novel includes chapters illustrating the heroine's duty before pleasure and a woman's goodcharacter, trials, disappointments, love, beauty, courting, marriage. | |
| 12685 | Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy |
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Description: Donated by Mrs. George Somes; keep for Somes family connection, although badly damaged. On title page: "In Two Volumes. Vol. II." | |
| 12778 | Hulda or The Deliverer |
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Description: Per title page: A Romance after the German of F. LeWald. Label inside front cover: Regulations of Sound Public Library, Mount Deseret Island, Maine | |
| 13890 | The Adventures of Roderick Random, Vol. !! |
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| 12794 | The New Testament... |
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Description: Translated from Greek, with the former translations "diligently compared and revised." Daniel Kimballl inscribed on title page | |||
| 14125 | Boston: A Guide Book |
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Description: Gives history of Boston, describes districts, greater metropolitan region, parks; also information about day trips and excursions as well as principal hotels. | |
| 12782 | A New Graded Spelling-Book |
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Description: Emphasizes words in common use that are difficult to spell. Label pasted in front shows that the book is the "property of the Town of Mt. Desert" No. 97 and gives the rules, such as inspection by the teacher very two weeks, students must pay for "material injury" to the book. | |
| 12779 | The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language |
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Description: This is an abridged version of the Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language. Inscribed Meredith E. Bordeaux, Xmas 1924 | |
| 12565 | A Museum of Early American Tools |
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| 17280 | Daedalus, “ The Art of the Impossible” |
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| 12911 | Popular Legends of Brittany |
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Description: English version of Sonvestre's "Foyer Breton" translated by "a lady." Inscribed Edith E. Salisbury, Mt. Desert, Maine Dec.1878. | |
| 1549 | FromSchoolhouse to Schooling System... |
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Description: This book is the story of Maine public education in the 20th century; it traces the history from small community schoolhouses to a "seamless statewide system" with the attendant tensions that accompany this transition. |
