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2611Island Retrospect
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, History - Bar Harbor
  • 10/17/1947
Description:
Bar Harbor Times ,10/13/1983, written by Dotty Cooke. A first hand account of the 1947 Bar Harbor fire as told by Dotty Cooke.
14783Special Paper Maine Fire Disaster
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Events, Fire
  • 1947
Description:
Picture record of Bar Harbor Fire of 1947
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
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
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
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.
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.
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"
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.
2897Society issues related to Fire
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Chambers of commerce
  • Other, Cottages
  • Other, Social life
  • 11/3-11/9 1947
Description:
Boston Sunday Herald article on decline of BH as resort area, Chamber letter to the editor (photocopy) and photocopy of letter in the Bangor Daily News responding to a letter of Nov 3 of demise of summer homes
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
2674Boston Sunday Advertiser Pictoral Review
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Military History
  • 11/29/1942 1942
Description:
Boston Sunday Advertiser Pictoral Review. “America Will Never Forget Pearl Harbor.” Pictures and articles about Pearl Harbor and World War II.
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".
3088"The Mount Desert Larger Parish: A Church Co-op That Works", a 12-page booklet by Leigh Mitchell Hodges written in 1942.
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, Mount Desert
  • 1942
Description:
"The Mount Desert Larger Parish: A Church Co-op That Works", a 12-page booklet by Leigh Mitchell Hodges written in 1942.
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
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