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12899In Wildness is the Preservation of the World
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature
  • Porter, Eliot
  • Sierra Club/Ballentine Books
  • 1962
Description:
Porter's photographs set side-by-side with selected Thoreau writings...
14655Native Birds of Mount Desert Island
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Natural History
  • Bond, James
  • Livingston Publishing Co.
  • 1969
Description:
Indicate the habitats of all the birds that breed on or near MDI during the past fifty years. Ian Fleming named his James Bond after the well known ornithologist who summered in Pretty Marsh. (description added by AC 2011)
17146ABC Book of Early Americana
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Agriculture
  • Other, Tools and Implements
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Doubleday and Company
  • 1963
Description:
Illustrations of early American tools and articles
12587Know Your Antiques
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Kovel, Rolph and Terry
  • Crown
  • 1967
Description:
How to recognize and evaluate any antique--large or small--like an expert. This is a general guide covering paper, glass, furniture, pottery and porcelain, clocks, and more.
17268Milk Glass Addenda
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Glassware
  • Warman, Edwin G.
  • E.G. Warman Publishing Co
  • 1966
14164Robert Swain Peabody of Peabody and Stearns in Boston the Early Years (1870-1886)
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architects
  • Other, Peabody, Robert Swain
  • Holden, Wheaton Arnold
  • unpublished
  • 1969
Description:
Doctoral thesis on Robert Swain Peaboy, design partner in prominent Boston architectural firm Photocopy only - probably a gift of author, Wheaton Arnold Holden
16521Green Grows Bar Harbor: reflections from Kebo Valley
  • Publication, Book
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Kebo
  • Recreation, Sports, Golf
  • Collier, Sargent F.
  • 1964
Description:
History of Bar Harbor, with photographs by Sargent Collier. Includes chapters on Acadia National Park, social and club life, island laboratories, Bar Harbor-Yarmouth ferry, Fire of 1947, Kebo Valley Golf Club, Bar Harbor Club, Pot and Kettle Club, the Building of Arts, Great Automobile War. Mentions performances of the Boston Symphony at the Building of Arts.
12861The Right People: The Social Establishment in America
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Biography
  • Other, Social classes
  • Birmingham, Stephen
  • Little
  • 1968.
Description:
A witty account of Society and Real Society in America; Northeast Harbor, the Pot and Kettle Club, prep schools, debutante traditions, Junior League, are among the institutions mentioned.
17148The Cracker Barrel
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Stores & shops
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Funk and Wagnalls
  • 1967
Description:
Illustrations and anecdotes dedicated to the general store
12431Scrapbook
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Clarke Point
  • Other, Dance parties
  • Other, Southwest Harbor
  • 1966
Description:
A scrapbook of recipes and household tips pasted in a book. Note in book indicates these are recipes of Corinthia Bassett Earl (Dad's Grandmother) d. 1897 in her 70's, buried in Derby, Conn. Had been a printer in Cleveland.
13706Record book for traveling crooks, Watson Robbins
  • Publication, Book, Journal
  • Organizations
  • Other, Clubs
  • 10/18/1963
Description:
Small journal kept by Watson Robbins containing records of his traveling crooks including dates, locations, mileage, and new members. Last emtry 4/28/1964.
17284Customs on the Tabletop.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Food
  • Other, History
  • Sprackling, Helen
  • Sturbridge Village
  • 1966.
17225The Maine Coast:Time of Decision
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, History
  • Other, Maine
  • McKee, John
  • Bowdoin College Center for Resouce Studies
  • 1967
17302Organizing a Local Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Guidebook
  • Other, Historical Societies
  • Silvestro, Clement M.
  • American Association for State and Local History
  • 1968.
17308Mount Desert Island Maine: Guide and Directory.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Guidebook
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Joy, Barbara C. and Marjorie Camp
  • Bar Harbor Times Publishing Co.
  • 1960.
12873An Investigation of the Granite Quarry Industry in Hancock County, Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Other, Hancock County
  • Other, Quarries
  • Domingos, Frank Eugene
  • Univ. of Maine
  • 1967
Description:
Study of granite industry in Hancock Co., Maine, after Civil War to locate major quarry sites, ownership of quarries, types of granite products, characteristics of granite centers, and causes for the decline of the industry.
17189The Story of Mount Desert Island
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Discovery & exploration
  • Other, History
  • Other, Indians of North America
  • Other, Islands
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Steamships
  • Morison, Samuel Eliot
  • Islandport Press
  • 1960
17190The Story of Mount Desert Island, Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Discovery & exploration
  • Other, History
  • Other, Indians of North America
  • Other, Islands
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Steamships
  • Morison, Samuel Eliot
  • Little Brown
  • 1960
17265The Village Mill in Early New England
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Mills
  • Other, New England
  • Hamilton, Edward P.
  • Old Sturbridge Village
  • 1964
16551History of the Maine Woods.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Forests
  • Other, History
  • Other, Maine
  • Coolidge, Philip T.
  • Furbush-Roberts
  • 1963
12875The Indian Heritage of America.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Indians of North America
  • Josephy, Alvin M. Jr.
  • Alfred A. Knopf
  • 1968
Description:
Addresses stereotypes and diversities, early man in America, and Native American tribes, as well as native people in Central and South America, and Canada.
17208Time of Decision
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Coast
  • Other, Maine
  • Bowdoin College
  • 1967.
9214Second Annual Report and Financing Assistance for Tourism Attractions
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Maine
  • Recreation
  • Maine Recreation Authority
  • 1968
Description:
Single page folded Annual Report of the Maine Recreation Authority and a 16 page booklet, unstapled, explaining the program and legal authority for the organization to fund construction and expansion of recreational facilities in Maine. Part of LaRue Spiker Collection Previously archived as object id 012.FIC.058.6
17099Historical Notes on Mount Desert Island
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Joy, Barbara Ellen
  • 1966
17269The Management of Small History Museums
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Management
  • Other, Museums
  • Guthe, Carl
  • American Assoc. for State and Local History
  • 1964.