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1524Fabulous Radio NBD
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Fabbri, Alessandro, Lt.
  • Other, Otter Cliffs
  • Wentworth,Brandon
  • Beech Hill Publishing Co.
  • 1984
Description:
The story of "how and why Lieutenant Fabbri conceived and developed" the Otter Cliffs Naval Radio Station in 1917, commemorated in the Fabbri Memorial on Ocean Drive. NOTE: PDF available
1535Styles of the Emerging Nation
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Mullins, Lisa C., ed.
  • The National Historical Society
  • 1988
1536Village Architecture of Early New England
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, New England
  • Mullins, Lisa, ed.
  • The National Historical Society
  • 1987
1545Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast, Vol. II: Mount Desert to Machias Bay
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Machias
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • McLane, Charles B.
  • Kennebec River Press
  • 1989
12577Champagne and a Gardener: A Little Maine Murder
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fiction
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Morison, B.J.
  • Thorndike Press
  • 1982
Description:
According to the dust jacket, this is a "novel of manners and ...mystery" centering around a Boston family who summers on the "backside" of Mount Desert Island. (The author bought the Criterion Theater in Bar Harbor in 1969.)
12596The Living Past: Being the Story of Somesville Mount Desert, Maine and Its Relationships with Other Areas of the Island
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Somesville
  • Somes-Sanderson, Virginia
  • Beech Hill Publishing Co.
  • 1982.
Description:
As the author says in the preamble, " This is the story...of the first permanent settlement on Mount Desert Island..." ?At one time Somesville had seven mills, five shipyards, four blacksmith shops, two stores, and ...serv[ed] the entire area and outlying islands."
12788History of Barlett’s Island, Mount Desert Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bartlett’s Island
  • Other, History
  • Binnewies, Esther and Muriel Davisson
  • Seavey Printers
  • 1981
Description:
164-page history of Bartlett's Island; with an introduction by Peggy Rockefeller. Copy #2 was donated by Gail Reiber.
12878The Interiors Handbook for Historic Buildings
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Interior design
  • Other, Preservation
  • Fisher, Charles E. III, Michael Auer, Anne Grimmer, eds.
  • Historic Preservation Education Foundation
  • 1988
12889Native Birds of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Long, Ralph H.
  • Beech Hill Pub. Co.
  • 1987
Description:
Almost 150 native species of birds reside on Mount Desert and surrounding Islands; this book is a guide to those birds here from June to August of the year. It indicates good places to view these birds
12890Early American School Books
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Schools
  • Chandler Press
  • 1988
Description:
Contains selected pages from schoolbooks from 1785 to 1880. Examples are from spelling and geography books, among others.
12891On the Art of Teaching
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Schools
  • Mann, Horace
  • Applewood Books
  • 1989
Description:
A facsimile of the classic 184o book which described the qualifications for those who teach.
12895Eliots and Asticou Foreside, Northeast Harbor
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Eliot, Charles W.
  • Other, Northeast Harbor
  • Eliot, Charles W. 2nd
  • unpublished
  • 1981
Description:
Description and comments about family homes in Northeast Harbor, visitors to the homes, and summer activities.
12925The Conservation Easement Handbook: Managing Land Conservation and Historic Preservation Easement Programs
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Conservation & restoration
  • Other, Easements
  • Diehl, Janet and Thomas S. Barrett
  • Land Trust Alliance
  • 1988
Description:
Gives guidelines for managing an easement program, developing criteria, marketing, and more. Includes list of useful contacts.
12934Taking Care of Business Down East: the History of the Bar Harbor Banking and Trust Company 1887-1987
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Banking
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Marmon, Edward Lee
  • Graphic Chronologies
  • 1987
Description:
Growth of Bar Harbor banking services to include communities farther "down east". Gives history of banking in Maine and relationship to Boston banking, beginning in 1887.
12937The Rediscovery of America’s Maritime Heritage
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Ships
  • Stobart, John and Robert P. Davis
  • E.P. Dutton
  • 1985
Description:
Descriptions, photographs of maritime paintings of the 19th C.; author is a "foremost marine artist."
12969Lobstering and The Maine Coast
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature, Animals, Shellfish, Lobsters
  • Other, Fishing
  • Martin, Kenneth R. and Nathan R. Lipfert
  • Maine Maritime Museum
  • 1985
Description:
Community life and everyday aspects of coastal Maine, especially lobstering, the "regional maritime culture."
12994Past in Photos: Scenes of SW Harbor, Tremont, and Mt. Desert
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Mount Desert
  • Other, Southwest Harbor
  • Other, Tremont
  • Public library Trustees
  • 1989
Description:
Collection and description of photos or old Southwest Harbor, Tremont, and Mt. Desert.
12998Maine: The Coast and Islands
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Islands
  • Other, Maine
  • Ledbetter, Jack
  • Rizzoli
  • 1989
Description:
A brief history of the coastof Maine and many, many color photographs.
13921Ancestral Roll and Chapter Roster, Maine State Organization
  • Publication, Book
  • Bois, Betty Kragelund
  • 1987
Description:
Compiled by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to "aid those in search of that often elusive ancestor."
16942Country Houses and Seaside Cottages of the Victorian Era
  • Publication, Book
  • Comstock, William T.
  • 1989
Description:
Country Houses and Seaside Cottages of the Victorian Era.
16945Turn-Of-The-Century Houses, Cottages and Villas
  • Publication, Book
  • Shoppell, R.W.
  • 1983
Description:
Turn-Of-The-Century Houses, Cottages and Villages: Floor Plans and Line Illustrations of 118 Homes from Shoppell's Catalogs.
16950The American House: Styles of Architecture
  • Publication, Book
  • Smith, A.G.
  • 1983
Description:
The American House: Styles of Architecture Coloring Book.
16957Beer and Skittles
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fiction
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Morison, B.J.
  • Thorndike Press
  • 1985
Description:
Fiction about Mount Desert Island
17030Early American Trades Coloring Book
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Occupations
  • Copeland, Peter F.
  • Dover Publications
  • 1980
Description:
Black and white drawings of colonial trades
17074Forgotten household crafts: A portrait of the way we once lived.
  • Publication, Book
  • Seymour, John
  • 1987
Description:
Kitchen, dairy, laundry, textile, decorative and other household crafts. Many drawings and photographs. Chapters on food and drink, milk, butter, cheese, soap, linen, herbs, candles and lighting, chimney sweeping, spinning, weaving, rug making, lace, crochet, tatting, and knitting, quilting, embroidery, painting, furniture.