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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
16989Edith Hamilton; An Intimate Portrait
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Greek Mythology
  • Other, Roman Mythology
  • Other, Seal Harbor
  • Other, Seawall
  • Reid, Doris Fielding
  • w w Norton and Company Inc
  • 1967
Description:
This book describes Edith Hamilton's life and her work with Greek and Roman mythology and history. She summered in Seal Harbor for several years and loved Mount Desert Island so much that she bought a summer house in Seawall in 1917 where she spent a great deal of time, including the winter of 1926.
16981Jones Tracy, Tall Tale Teller from Mount Desert
  • Publication, Book
  • Richard Lunt
  • 1968
Description:
Vol X in Northeast Folklore Series, published in 1968. Tall tales and anecdotes about MDI families (Manring, Smallidge, Carroll, Holmes, Somes, Storer and Reed among them) and particularly about Jones Tracy (1856-1939).
16947The American Builder's Companion
  • Publication, Book
  • Benjamin, Asher
  • 1969
Description:
The American Builder's Companion
16558Edith Hamilton: an Intimate Portrait
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Seawall
  • Reid, Doris Fielding
  • 1967
Description:
Biography of Edith Hamilton, who lived for awhile at Sea Wall. Inscribed Marion Holmes in front.
16551History of the Maine Woods.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Forests
  • Other, History
  • Other, Maine
  • Coolidge, Philip T.
  • Furbush-Roberts
  • 1963
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.
14659"Childhood Memories" -- Emma Reed Richards
  • Publication, Literary, Reminiscence
  • Other, Bass Harbor
  • Other, Childhood & youth
  • Other, Children
  • Other, McKinley
  • Other, Motion picture theaters
  • Other, Stores & shops
  • Other, Theaters
  • Other, Theatrical productions
  • Structures, Civic, Entertainment
  • Richards, Emma
  • 1932-1960
Description:
A 7-page handwritten memoir of Emma Richards' childhood in Bass Harbor.
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)
14646Down Memory Lane
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Biography
  • Other, Northeast Harbor
  • Other, Reynolds, Emily Phillips
  • Reynolds, Emily Phillips
  • D. Mitchell and Crew
  • 1966
Description:
Emily Phillips Reynolds memoir of her childhood and early days in 1900's.
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
13902Life Magazine, Mar. 13, 1964
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • 1964
Description:
Issue contains Part I: The First World War. Cover photo of British wounded, Western Front, May 1917.
13760Life Magazine
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • 1963
Description:
a-Life magazine for Nov. 29, 1963; photograph of President John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 on cover. Editorial: The President's Empty Chair Articles: Murder of the President; Lyndon Johnson, the 36th President; Intimate Memory of John Kennedy b- Life Magazing October 2, 1964, The Warren Report: How the Commission Pieced Together the Evidence ,
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.
13497Frontiers - A Magazine of Natural History
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Other, Biology
  • Other, Ecology
  • Other, Geology
  • 1960
Description:
Magazine containing article by LaRue Spiker, titled "The Tundra Meets the Temperate Zone". About the geological formation and modern appearance of Mount Desert.
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...
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.
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.
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.
12646A Study of Summer Visitors' Facilities in the Town of Mount Desert, Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Sewall, James W. Company
  • 1964
Description:
Prepared for the Summer-Year Round Resident Planning Committee of the Mount Desert Chamber of Commerce. Includes land use maps of Otter Creek, Seal Harbor, Bracy Cove, Northeast Harbor, Somesville, Pretty Marsh. The overall objective was to find ways and means to guide the coourse of change while maintaining the basic character of the community; find ways to achieve growth of the permament summer community. Includes study of hotel/inn and restaurant facilities to see if they are adequate. Among the findings: lengthening season, more older permanent summer residents; need for basic recreational facilities, expansion and modernization of Bar Harbor airport; light housekeeping rental cottages;better shopping and marine services on Sea St. in Northeast Harbor [show more]
12608Friendly Village
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Reading
  • Other, Textbook
  • O'Donnell, Mabel
  • Harper & Row
  • 1963
Description:
Reading textbook ( no local relevence found)
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.
12565A Museum of Early American Tools
  • Publication, Book
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Funk & Wagnalls
  • 1964
Description:
Describes and illustrates early tools.
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.
12141Grand Old One Design Class Still Races off Northeast Harbor
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Other, Northeast Harbor
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Sloop
  • 1964
Description:
Magazine artilce from Down East Magazine Sept. 1964 about A Clss. Written by E.R.Welles III, photos by W.H. Ballard Previously accessioned as 007.122
12013McCall's Fashion Crochet (1965)
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • 1965
Description:
McCall's Fashion Crochet (1965) -- lessons for beginners.