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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
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.
12565A Museum of Early American Tools
  • Publication, Book
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Funk & Wagnalls
  • 1964
Description:
Describes and illustrates early tools.
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.
12608Friendly Village
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Reading
  • Other, Textbook
  • O'Donnell, Mabel
  • Harper & Row
  • 1963
Description:
Reading textbook ( no local relevence found)
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]
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.
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.
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.
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...
16947The American Builder's Companion
  • Publication, Book
  • Benjamin, Asher
  • 1969
Description:
The American Builder's Companion
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).
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.
17099Historical Notes on Mount Desert Island
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Joy, Barbara Ellen
  • 1966
17107Forest Trees of Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Maine
  • Other, Natural history
  • Other, Trees
  • Maine Forestry Dept.
  • 1968
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
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
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
17208Time of Decision
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Coast
  • Other, Maine
  • Bowdoin College
  • 1967.
17225The Maine Coast:Time of Decision
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, History
  • Other, Maine
  • McKee, John
  • Bowdoin College Center for Resouce Studies
  • 1967
17265The Village Mill in Early New England
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Mills
  • Other, New England
  • Hamilton, Edward P.
  • Old Sturbridge Village
  • 1964
17268Milk Glass Addenda
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Glassware
  • Warman, Edwin G.
  • E.G. Warman Publishing Co
  • 1966
17269The Management of Small History Museums
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Management
  • Other, Museums
  • Guthe, Carl
  • American Assoc. for State and Local History
  • 1964.
17284Customs on the Tabletop.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Food
  • Other, History
  • Sprackling, Helen
  • Sturbridge Village
  • 1966.
17302Organizing a Local Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Guidebook
  • Other, Historical Societies
  • Silvestro, Clement M.
  • American Association for State and Local History
  • 1968.