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You searched for: Object ID: is not emptyDate: 1950sSubject: OtherType: Publication
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
268640 Hayseeders And 700 Guests Prepare for 60th Annual Ball 1954
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Hayseeders Ball
  • Other, Way Back Ball
  • Other, Waybackers
  • 2/21/1954
Description:
Newspaper article describing the plans for the 1954 Hayseed Ball (Feb. 21, 1954). The Hayseeders were originally organized as the Waybackers, according to the article. This event was held at the Bar Harbor Casino and was the 60th such event. Photocopy Another photocopy of newspaper article of 84th event. "Annual Hayseeders Ball to feature the yesterdays." Another Photocopy of newspaper article, It's time to Swing 'Em at the Way Back Ball. the 75th event. [show more]
17309A Maine Town in the Civil War.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Civil wars
  • Other, Deer Isle
  • Hutchinson, Vernal
  • The Bond Wheelwright Co.
  • 1957.
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
2837Articles in support of Filipino family in Indianapolis
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Discrimination
  • 1953
Description:
4 articles chronicling support for a Fillipino family moving into a neighborhood in Indpls. A petition had been circulated against the family moving in. Picketing of an alderman who objected to the family moving in Mrs. Hardman Declares... (2p), Union Leader, Defending..(2p), Residents on Fetter..(1p) Previously archived as object id #012.FIC.015.4, **1266, **1266, **1267, **1268
13756Bar Harbor Times
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Other, History - Seal Harbor
  • Other, Miscellaneous
  • 1959
Description:
Bar Harbor Times - Commemorative Issue - “150th Anniversary of the Founding of Seal Harbor in 1809," by LaRue Spiker, Thursday, August 20, 1959.
2677Bar Harbor Times 5/31/1956
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Bluenose Ferry
  • Other, High Schools
  • Other, Masons
  • 1956
Description:
Articles on Bluenose, SWH Masonic Lodge 100th anniversary, editorial on need to build HS. 553 students in 3 Island high schools
2890Bar Harbor Tourism
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Acadia National Forest
  • Other, Bluenose Ferry
  • Other, Camping
  • Other, Motels
  • 1956
Description:
Article about revival of tourism since the fire. Role of Bluenose Ferry Previously archived as 011.FIC.54.3
2626Comeback of a Shabby City
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Writers
  • 12/5/1959
Description:
Torn out pages of Saturday Evening Post. Article by Roul Tunley about the refurbishment of Philadelphia. Research for an article by LaRue Spiker. Previously accessioned as **1934, object Id 2001.1934
17279Composition: The Anatomy of Picture Making
  • Publication, Book
  • Object, Art
  • Other, Drawing
  • Stenbey, Harry
  • Pitman Publishing Co
  • 1958.
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."
17283Decorative Design
  • Publication, Book
  • Object, Art
  • Other, Decorations
  • Brod, Fritzi
  • Pitman Publishing Co
  • 1958.
13494Dodge News Magazine
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Other, Lobstering
  • 1959
Description:
Article written by LaRue Spiker in Dodge News about Fred Cunningham, lobsterman.
17085Dress
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Home economics
  • Other, Sewing
  • Oerke, Bess V.
  • Chas. A. Bennett Co.
  • 1956
17108Fishes of Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fish
  • Other, Maine
  • Other, Natural history
  • Everhart, W. Harry
  • Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Game
  • 1958
4308Florida Hideaway from All Florida Magazine
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Writers
  • 7/29/1958
Description:
Article titled Florida HIdeaway from the All Florida Magazine 7/29/1958 Previously accessioned as **1958, object id **1958
13498Frontiers - A Magazine of Natural History
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Other, Biology
  • Other, Ecology
  • 1959
Description:
Magazine containing article by LaRue Spiker, titled "Fern Seed in you Shoes". About the botanical history of ferns and their properties.
13500Frontiers - A Magazine of Natural History
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Other, Biology
  • Other, Ecology
  • 1959
Description:
Journal containing article by LaRue Spiker, titled "Air Plants: A Success Story". About 'Tillandsia' or 'air pines', of the bromeliad family.
3512Joint Statement opposing atomic bombs-Stockholm Agreement
  • Publication, Literary, Essay
  • Other, Atomic bombs
  • Other, Peace
  • 1950
Description:
Joint Statement of position of LaRue Spiker on the Stockholm Agreement. As child welfare workers they cannot see rebuilding a world after the atomic bomb. Must actively oppose the bomb. Previously archived as object Id 012.FIC.15.10
17433Lewisville Sewage Facilities Under Construction
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • Other, Environment
  • Other, Industry
  • 5/1/1957
Description:
Long article by LaRue Spiker, reporting on $6,000,000 sewage plant construction taking place in Louisville, Kentucky. Previously accessioned as **1770, object Id **1770 and 012.FIC.061.1
3815Life details and obituary copy of Fannie M. Brown
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Boston Post Cane
  • Other, Genealogy
  • 1957
Description:
Handwritten details of life of Mrs. Fannie M. Brown and a pasted on newspaper obituary of Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Brown was the oldest resident of Mount Desert Island at the time of her death in 1957 at age 99. She was holder of the gold-headed Boston Post Cane since 1954.
17216Merchant Sail Vol V
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Merchants
  • Other, Sailing ships
  • Fairburn, William Armstrong
  • Fairburn Maine Educational Foundation
  • 1955
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
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.
17305Naval Visits to Bar Harbor
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Navies
  • Opdycke, Leonard
  • Bar Harbor Times Publishing Co.
  • 1952.