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17236The Last Resorts
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Recreation
  • Amory, Cleveland
  • Harper and Brothers
  • 1948.
Description:
Describes how the great resorts have fallen
17121Birds of Mt. Desert Island Acadia National Park.
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Natural History
  • Tyson, Carroll S. and James Bond.
  • Waverly Press
  • 1941.
14651Baymeath
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Cottages
  • Bowen, Louise deKoven
  • Privately printed
  • 1945
Description:
Written when author was 85 years old, an account of her family's times at "Baymeath" in Bar Harbor. Preface is written to her grandson, Capt. Wm. McCormick Blair, Jr., who was serving during WWII in India.
13503The Social Service Review
  • Publication, Book, Journal
  • Other, Miscellaneous
  • 1941
Description:
Volume XV of the Social Service Review, in which LaRue Spiker has written an article titled "Rural Housing Conditions in an Illinois Township".
12956Handicrafts of New England
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Handicrafts
  • Other, New England
  • Eaton, Allen H.
  • Harper Bros.
  • 1949
Description:
Includes background of pilgrim and arts and craft handicrafts as well as woodworking, spinning, weaving, knitting, dying, pottery, carving, needlework, silversmithing, and more.
12884Summer Yesterdays in Maine: Memories of Boyhood Vacation Days
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Maine
  • Recreation
  • Sperry, Willard L.
  • Harper Brothers
  • 1941
Description:
A reminiscence by the author of his vacation days beginning in 1885 and continuing for about 40 years in York Co., Maine. He pays special tribute to the illustrator, Charles H. Woodbury
12872More Vacation Days in Maine. Signed by the author.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Maine
  • Recreation
  • Hasenfus, Nathaniel J.
  • Sagadahoc Publishing Co.
  • 1949
Description:
Sequel to We Summer in Maine by same author, but exploring further to such places as Boston, Bar Harbor, Bangor, Harpswell, Camden, Pemaquid, Mohegan [sic] and Moosehead Lake.
12868Windswept
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fiction
  • Other, Maine
  • Chase, Mary Ellen
  • MacMillan
  • 1941
Description:
This is a work of fiction by Maine writer Mary Ellen Chase. It is Inscribed “Harriet S. Sanderson, January 1942” on title page and appears to be a first edition. A review by Bess Jones from an unidentified source is pasted inside the back cover.
12859Early American Decoration
  • Publication, Book
  • Object, Art
  • Other, Antiques
  • Brazer, Esther Stevens
  • Clarence W. Brazer
  • 1947
Description:
Gives information about the techniques of decorating early American furniture, walls, tinware, etc. and also gives instructions about how to do that oneself. Covers stenciling, applying gold leaf, japanning, oil-painted boxes and chests Envelope inside front cover contains cut stencils.
12858Land of Enchantment: The Penobscot Bay - Mount Desert Region of Maine.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Penobscot Bay
  • Stiles, Dan
  • Sugar Ball Press
  • 1946
Description:
A brief history of the region with special attention to Belfast, Camden, Rockland, Castine, Deer Isle and Stonington, Mount Desert and Bar Harbor, Vinalhaven and North Haven, and smaller islands (Isle au Haut, Swan's, and others). Map of area inside front and back covers. Virginia Somes Sanderson's bookplate inside front cover
12751The Flower Guide: A Pocket Manual of the Wild Flowers East of the Rockies.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Flowers
  • Reed, Chester A.
  • Doubleday Doran and Co.
  • 1940
12606Let’s Look Around
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fiction
  • Other, Reading
  • Arthur I Gates & Jean Ayer
  • Macmillan Company
  • 1940
Description:
short stories for teaching reading, pronouncing dictionary.
12593John D. Rockefeller 1839-1937 Industrial Pioneer and Man
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • People
  • 1948
Description:
A Biography of John D. Rockefeller 32 pages for the Newcomen Society of England in North America by W. Trevor Holliday
12589Maine Province and Court Records Vol. 3
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Law & legal affairs
  • Other, Maine
  • Moody, Robert E., ed.
  • Anundsen Publishing Co.
  • 1947
Description:
Reprint of the first three volumes of six that were published by the Maine Historical Society between 1928 and 1975. Vol. III contains the Province of Maine Records 1680-1692.
12575The Story of Bar Harbor: an Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years In the Life of a Community
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, History
  • Hale, Richard Walden Jr.
  • Ives Washburn Inc.
  • 1949
Description:
History of Bar Harbor from approximately 1800-1950 According to the introduction, this book was written to "find out what had made it [Bar Harbor] what it was". The book was written at the time of the Bar Harbor fire and covers early explorers and claimants, settlers, town of Eden, artists, cottagers, summer colony, and more.
12429Rumford Complete Cook Book
  • Publication, Book
  • Wallace, Lily Hayworth
  • 1945
Description:
Reprint of earlier (1908 cookbook); inscribed "Eva Bordeaux Oct. 25, 1946". Preface indicates that Rumford was the first "to issue booklets and folders on better cooking" 85 years before this edition
7438Bo, The Cave Boy
  • Publication, Book
  • Wilber Fiske
  • 1944
Description:
1 copy of Bo, The Cave Boy, by Wilber Fiske. Stamped Seal Harbor School Library on inside cover.