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18684The Mount Desert Messenger
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • October 15, 1943
Description:
10 page Newsletter printed by Parish of St. Mary's and St. Jude. Gives curret news of the Parish and service men seerving in World War II. There is also a list of service men and their current addresses should anyone wish to write them.
2898Health Measures after the Fire
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Jackson Laboratory
  • Oct 30, 1947
Description:
Photocopy Health measures to be taken related to returning evacuees, pledge of funds to Jackson Lab, Red Cross role, Bar Harbor Times
12364Mount Desert Island's Worst Disaster
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Bar Harbor Fire
  • Other, Fire of 1947
  • Oct 30, 1947
Description:
photocopy of BH Times, pp. 1-7 Bar Harbor Fire
2896Accounts of Fire of 1947
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Bar Harbor Savings Bank
  • Other, Coast Guard
  • Other, Estates
  • Other, Jackson Laboratory
  • Other, Looting
  • Other, National Guard
  • Oct 24-26, 1947
Description:
Newspaper stories from Boston Post, Bangor Commercial, NY Times (listing places burned and owners) retyped on a computer
3780Radio announcements about Fire of !947
  • Publication, Literary, Speech
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Fire engines & equipment
  • Oct 1947
Description:
Announcement by unknown radio station of what radio announcer Johnny McCray saw regarding Fire of 1947, 2 photocpies, radio announcement of description of what Superintendent of Public Works, Bangor(?) Reprint on computer
2899Bar Harbor Burns
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Fire
  • Oct 1947
Description:
article from the Bureaugraph , November 1947 on Maine Fires and Situation on Mount Desert Island
18683The Mount Desert Messenger
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • November 8, 1942
Description:
10 page Newsletter printed by Parish of St. Mary's and St. Jude. Gives curret news of the Parish and service men seerving in World War II. There is also a list of service men and their current addresses should anyone wish to write them.
2593Said the Bicycle to the Automobile
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Transportation - land
  • 9/5/1942
Description:
Picture with caption showing the number of bicycles versus automobiles parked at the Kimball House in NE Harbor.
13440Between the Hills and Its 100 - Year Old Church
  • Publication, Literary, Speech
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • 7/14/1940
Description:
15 page Sermon / historical address given by Rev. Horace H. Leavitt, D.D. on the history of the Somesville Union Meeting House, U.C.C.
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.
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.
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.
3036Eyewitness: Peekskill U.S.A.
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Other, Civil Rights
  • 1949
Description:
Publication entirely about an event in Peekskill, NY. A concert was stopped from occurring by a racist mob and the police took very little action. LaRue Spiker collection.
17236The Last Resorts
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Recreation
  • Amory, Cleveland
  • Harper and Brothers
  • 1948.
Description:
Describes how the great resorts have fallen
13759Gilmanac 1948 Gilman High School Yearbook
  • Publication, Yearbook
  • Other, Northeast Harbor
  • Other, Schools
  • 1948
Description:
"Gilmanac 1948" - Yearbook of Gilman High School in Northeast Harbor
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.
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.
2916The New Bar Harbor
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • 1947
Description:
NY Times article the "New Bar Harbor" Nov 2, 1947 discusses plans to rebuild
14783Special Paper Maine Fire Disaster
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Events, Fire
  • 1947
Description:
Picture record of Bar Harbor Fire of 1947
2915Experts Plan Rebuilding of Bar Harbor: Lumber in Firs Area to be Salvaged
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Architect
  • 1947
Description:
Photo from newspaper of those planning reconstruction of Bar Harbor after Fire of 47
4656Who Was Bob Patterson
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • Other, Architects
  • Other, Architects
  • Other, Maine Historic Preservation Commission
  • 1947
Description:
Page from Beatrix Farrand Society News, "Who Was Bob Patterson"
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
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
17161Newsletter of The Mount Desert Messenger (1945)
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • Other, Newspapers
  • Other, War
  • Other, War correspondents
  • 1945
Description:
Newsletter of The Mount Desert Messenger (1945) - volume LVI. Thanksgiving/Christmas issue. Sections include: "News From The Home Front" - local and war news including recent war discharges - and "News From The Camps" - listing local soldiers and their regiments.