Description: Gift of Northeast Harbor Library (duplicates) Known as the Red Book, Directory and Hand Book of Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor, Mount Desert and Adjacent Islands
Description: Bangor Daily News, Oct. 24, 1947: "Thousands Flee as Raging Blaze Sweeps Bar Harbor." Bangor Daily News, Oct. 25-26, 1947: "Ellsworth Scouts Aid in Disaster," "U.of M. Students Aid in Fighting Flames," " 40 Bangor Jaycees Fight Forest Fires," "Fires Ravage Maine Towns," "$10,000,000 Loss at Bar Harbor; Maine Still Fights many Fires," and photo. of Faith and Caroline Olsen, evacuees separated from relatives. Photo, elderly evacuee Dorothy Hodgkins consoled by Grace Hodgkins, n.d. Bangor Daily News, Oct. 24, 1947: "Trail of Ruin is Left by Forest." Bangor Daily News, Oct. 25-26, 1947: Photo., Mrs. E.T. Johnson; JImmy Nolan and younger brother. Bar Harbor Times, July 9, 1964: "Mount Desert Island's Worst Disaster." "The Fire of '47," Supplement to the Bar Harbor Times, Oct. and Aug. 1987 Misc. notes and postcards to Ballard. [show more]
Description: News story about part of a hs reunion story (Somesville High?) with names of those present in July 1977. Previously archived as 011.FIC.71.6
Description: Series of pamphlets, one for each named architect, inserted into red folder. Architects: Parris, Alexander Peabody and Stearns Romer, Colonel Wolfgang William Kent, Rockwell Chamberlain, Calvin Kimball, John Jr. Keely, Patrick C. Kilham, Hopkins & Greeley Lawrence, Ellis F. Longfellow, William Pitt Preble Rand, James H. Stanley, Freeman A. Wheelwright, Edmund M. Harrison, Wallace K. Dunton, Ebenezer Lord, Thomas M. Mullett Alfred B. Bassford, Asher B. Grain, Peter Sr. Also contains a Preliminary Historical Checklist of Landscape Architects in Maine by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. [show more]
Description: Selections from Caesar's Civil War, the Story of the Argonauts with a view to improving students' working vocabulary and principles of grammar. Includes a Grammatical Appendix and a Vocabulary section as well as notes throughout the text. Illlustrated. Inside front cover: John W. Somes, 4 Eaton Cottage, Andover, Mass.
Description: America - Her Grandeur and Her Beauty. “Coast of Maine”. Part eight of a series “presenting the beauty and grandeur of nature in America to the veiw of man.” Published by “Union Book and Publishing Company Publishers”. Sold by subscription only. Black and white photographs; 12" x 14"
Description: Draft of an article for an unknown publication. No Date. Americans in the Spanish Civil War, by LaRue Spiker. 13 Pages. Previously accessioned as **1154, object id **1154 and 013.FIC.30.29
Description: Article about Mrs. Alice Gray, Mrs. Linda Foote, Allen Smith. "Pretty Marsh Was Once Populous Farming and Fishing Community," Bar Harbor Times, May 9, 1963. (3 copies) "Pretty Marsh is a few miles and a world away from the rest of MDI," Community Observer, Sept. 4, 1974 "Under Uncle Dick Hill, " Bar Harbor Times, July 12, 1979 "Acadia: Land and Sea Vie in Eternal Struggle," Philadelphia Inquirer, May 11, 1965 (2 copies) Christening of "Acadian" by Lisa MacQuinn, Bar Harbor Times, April 16, 1970 Articles from Bar Harbor Times, April 9, 1970 Letter to editor, Bar Harbor Times, from Helen Cosgrove-Carignan, Sept. 23, 1976 "Legend of Schooner Head," Bar Harbor Times, Aug. 27, 1981 "Wreck of the Grand Design," Bar Harbor Times, April 16, 1987 Obituary, David Eliot McGiffert, Bar Harbor Times, Oct. 20, 2005 [show more]
Description: Three short articles from the Mount Desert Herald pertaining to the geology of Mt. Desert Island. One article also discusses historical visitation by Norsemen to the shores of Mt. Desert Island.
Description: Two articles pertaining to the history of the Bar Harbor Times newspaper. Titles are: Bar Harbor Times is Fifty Years Old This Week, commemorative edition, published in the Bar Harbor Times, Bar Harbor Times Has New Owners, published in the Ellsworth American and authored by LaRue Spiker.
Description: This is a white loose-leaf binder, approximately 10" X 11", containing six articles by Ralph Stanley: The Clark family: Charmian Kittredge and Jack London The Romer Boys Shipbuilding on Mount Desert Island Early Maritime History of Mount Desert Island Schooner Augusta E. Herrick of Swan's Island Boatbuilding during World War II: M.D.I., Ellsworth, Stonington, and Bluehill