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12840Old Time Tools and Toys of Needlework
  • Publication, Book
  • Object, Art, Needlework
  • Other, Handicraft
  • Other, Textiles
  • Whiting, Gertrude
  • Dover Publications
  • 1971
Description:
Illustrates and describes uses for beeswax, winders, reels, swifts, scissors, thimbles, pincushions, shuttles, and more.
11882Biography of Walter Keith Shaw
  • Publication, Book
  • W. K. Shaw, Jr.
  • 1970
16673The Pink Granite of Somes Sound
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Other, Granite quarrying
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Truax, C.V.
  • 1972
Description:
Article from Down East magazine, October 1972. Title not on article, but is listed on bibliography, which is in same folder.
12887The Child’s First Reader
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Reading
  • Other, Schools
  • Town, Salen, LLD
  • Sanborn & Carter
  • 1977
Description:
Facsimile of the 1848 ed. prepared for a living history program in Livermore, Maine
12886The Second Reader, consisting of easy and progressive lessons
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Reading
  • Other, Schools
  • Town, Salem, LLD
  • Sanborn and Carter
  • 1978
Description:
Reprint of 1848 edition prepared for the living history program in Livermore, Maine.
3082The Town of the Five Islands: A Thumbnail Sketch of Cranberry Isles, Maine
  • Publication, Literary, Essay
  • Ted Spurling
  • 1979
Description:
Essays on the settlement, history and way of life on Great Cranberry, Little Cranberry, Sutton, Baker and Green Islands. Graphics by Rose Russo Crooker. Lists early settler families. Describes the visit of the Russian vessel Cimbria in 1878.
2908"Automobile War" on MDI Was Long and Spirited
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Automobiles
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Buckboards
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1978
Description:
Jan. 5, 1978 newspaper article from Ellsworth American recounting arrest of Sim Mayo for civil disobedience (driving automobile), banning of driving autos on certain roads; 2 photos: cars on road above Eagle Lake, buckboards in front of Bass Cottage, Bar Harbor.
4181As Maine Goos [sic]
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Other, Miscellaneous
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 3/3/1970
Description:
Draft of an article submitted to Nation on 3/3/70. As Maine Goos [sic] by LaRue Spiker. 6 pages. Previously accessioned as **1157, Object Id **1157 and 013.FIC.30.28
17001Early Iron Ware
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Ironware
  • Smith, Elmer L.
  • Applied Arts Publishers
  • 1971
Description:
Fireplates, cooking utensils, fireplace equipment, doorstops, trivets, book ends, desk and paper weights, iron banks, iron toys, flat irons.
17145The Little Red Schoolhouse
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Schools
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Doubleday and Company
  • Inc., 1972
Description:
Illustrations of early American schools and meeting houses
12893An Age of Barns
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Barns
  • Other, Buildings
  • Sloan, Eric
  • Funk & Wagnalls
  • 1976
16682The Bar Harbor Auto War
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Other, Automobiles
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Rustication
  • Savage, Richard
  • 1975
Description:
Article in August 1975 issue of Down East magazine; includes photos.
1530Mount Desert: the Early French visits
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Mount Desert
  • Savage, Charles
  • 1973
Description:
Reprint of work published in 1954 in honor of the 350th anniversary of Champlain's discovery and naming of Mount Desert Island; this anniversary celebration included a dinner with menus in both English and French. The current work is in celebration of the 400th anniversary and reprings the menu, drawings, and other highlights.
12959The Collectors’ Encyclopedia of Antiques
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Phillips, Phoebe, ed.
  • Crown Publishers
  • 1973
Description:
Covers arms and armour, bottles and boxes, carpets and rugs, ceramics, clocks, watches and barometers, embroidery and needlework, furniture, glass, jewellery, metalwork, musical instruments, Netsuke and Inro, pewter, scientific instruments, silver, and toys and automata; gives historical and technical information, glossary, maintenance and repair, books for further reading, and list of museum collections for each section
17031A Pictorial Guide to American Spinning Wheels
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Spinning
  • Pennington, David A. and Michael B. Taylor
  • Shaker Press
  • 1975
Description:
Photos and descriptions of spinning wheels.
12967Hall Quarry: The Little Town That Wasn’t There
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Other, Quarries
  • O’Neill, Susan and Bill Troy
  • 1978
Description:
Covers the beginnings of the village, boom years, growing pains and the end of the Standard Granite Company, renewal, good times and hard, its decline and rise, and Hall Quarry now.
11766Newsletter Volume 3 Number 1
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • January 1977
Description:
Newsletter from the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Volume 3, January 1977, No. 1. Contains sections and articles giving information about places on MDI and the work that the Historical Society is doing.
11765Newsletter Volume 3 Number 3
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • 07/01/1977
Description:
Third newsletter from the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, continuing topics and sections from the first of volume 1.
11763Newsletter Volume 4 Number 4
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • October 1978
Description:
Newsletter from the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Number 4 of Volume 4. Edited by Virginia Somes Sanderson.
11764Newsletter Volume 4 Number 2
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • April 1978
Description:
Newsletter from the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Number 2 of Volume 4. Edited by Virginia Somes Sanderson.
11762Newsletter Volume 2 Number 2
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • March 1976
Description:
Newsletter of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Number 2 of Volume 2.
2902Somesville History is Family History for Chauncey Somes
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Daniel Somes Inn
  • Other, Mills
  • Other, Somesville
  • Other, Somesville Library
  • Mercy Johnson, writing for the Bar Harbor Times
  • 1979
Description:
Photocopy of Bar Harbor Times article describing aspects of Somesville history and biography of Chauncey Somes. Contains photograph of Chauncey Somes, early Somesville buildings including the wool carding mill and the library.
2744Carrying on a Family Tradition
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Blacksmithing
  • Other, Cherryfield
  • Mel Allen writing for Maine Sunday Telegram
  • 10/10/1976
Description:
Two page article on the life and career of Cherryfield blacksmith, George Ricker, and his successor in the family business, George Brace. Previously archived as 012.FIC.047.3
17287Whalemen and Whaleships of Maine.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Maine
  • Other, Whaling
  • Martin, Kenneth R.
  • Harpswell Press
  • 1975.
18488Crystal Palace Cafe
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Maine Campus Newspaper
  • May 15, 1977
Description:
Newspaper clipping from the Maine Campus, 15 April 1977. Details the Cyrstal Palace Cafe in Bar Harbor. Clipping mounted on posterboard with scotch tape.