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17003Self-Guided Walking Tour of Historic Bar Harbor
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Guidebook
  • Massie, Betty M.
  • Betty Massie
  • 2005
12941Steam to the Summit: The Green Mountain Railway, Bar Harbor’s Remarkable Cog Railway
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Railroads
  • Bachelder, Peter Dow
  • Breakwater Press
  • 2005
Description:
From 1883 to 1890 a cog railway ran up the slopes of today's Cadillac Mountain; the railway was the inspiration of Francis (Frank) Clerque.
14738The Story of The Grand Design
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Grand Manan
  • Other, Londonderry
  • Other, Presbyterians
  • Other, Ship Harbor
  • Other, Shipwrecks
  • Lane, Julia
  • Castlebay, Inc.
  • 2007
Description:
It is the story of The Grand Design, a Scots Irish Journey. Tucked in the inside cover is a one page fact sheet about the Legend of the Grand Design Wreck in the late fall of 1740 near Ship Harbor on Mount Desert Island.
16397Norumbega Reconsidered: Mawooshen and the Wawenoc Diaspora
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Indians of Northern America
  • Brack, H.G. Skip
  • Davistown Museum
  • 2006
Description:
Questions, Controversies, paradigms, and Uncertainties about these indigenous communities.
16550Art of the Edge Tool: The Ferrous Metallurgy of New England Shipsmiths and Toolmakers 1607-1882
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Forge shops
  • Other, Iron industry
  • Other, Metallurgical industry
  • Other, Ship building
  • Brack, H.G.
  • Davistown Museum
  • 2008
Description:
Hand tools of maritime culture: shipsmiths, metallurgy, bog iron furnaces and forges.
16518Bar Harbor's Gilded Century: Opulence to Ashes, 1850-1950
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Cottages
  • Other, Rustication
  • Vandenbergh, Lydia Bodman
  • Down East
  • 2009
Description:
Story in words and pictures of everyday people on Mt. Desert Island, and of the rusticators.
16516Bygone Bar Harbor: A Postcard Tour of Mount Desert Island & Acadia National Park
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Brechlin, Earl
  • Down East Books
  • 2002
Description:
Postcard tour of Mount Desert Island & Acadia National Park
16395Hike On: Poems from Mount Desert Island, Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Poetry
  • Bennett, Thomas Peter
  • Goose River Press
  • 2008
Description:
Collection of poems about MDI and Acadia National Park. Inscribed, "For Tim Garrity as you HIKE ON in your fine work."
17131Caring for Your Family Treasures: Heritage Preservation
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Preservation
  • Jane S. Long and Richard W. Long
  • Harry N. Abrams
  • 2000
12579A History of Little Cranberry Island, Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Cranberry Islands
  • Other, History
  • Other, Islesford
  • Dwelley, Hugh L.
  • Islandport Press
  • 2000
Description:
The author grew up on Little Cranberry (Islesford). Chapter titles include Pioneer Settler Families (Stanwoods, Stanleys, Gilleys, Bunkers, Spurlings, Hadlocks), Farming and Fishing, Arts and Entertainment, Summer Colony, Winter Living, Great War, World War II, as well as sections on schools, roads, churches, and more.
17336Beyond God's Pocket: A Collection of Materials About the Travels of Capt. Samuel Hadlock, Jr., Cranberry Isles Skipper...
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Cranberry Islands
  • Other, Hadlock, Samuel
  • Islesford Historical Society
  • 2003
17223Encyclopedia of Antique Tools and Machinery
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Carpentry
  • Other, Tools & implements
  • Wendel, C.H.
  • Krause Publications
  • 2001
12939Summers With Percy
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Reed, Percy
  • Finney, Redmond C.S.
  • Landslide Farm Publisher
  • 2002
Description:
A biography of Percy Thompson Reed, who was born on Mount Desert Island in 1917, and was the caretaker for the author's wife's family in Northeast Harbor, Maine.
17087Maine Sardine Industry History 1875-2000
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fishing industry
  • Other, Maine
  • Other, Sardine cans
  • Warren, James L.
  • N/A
  • 2000
12927Finding Aid for Cranberry Isles Collection 1596-1982
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Cranberry Island
  • Other, Islesford
  • Karle, Tim J.
  • National Park Service
  • 2003
Description:
Describes materials collected from various sources by William Otis Sawtelle, who founded the Islesford Historical Museum on Little Cranberry Island.
12928Finding Aid for Islesford Wharf Collection, Islesford Collection Inc. Collection U.S. Lifesaving Station Collection
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Islesford
  • Karle, Tim J.
  • National Park Service
  • 2003
Description:
Guide to the William Otis Sawtelle collection of documents for 1915-1935; these include receipts, correspondence, and ledgers. Related works are the Islesford Collection Inc. Collection and the U.S. Lifesaving Station Collection.
16909Finding Aid for Carroll Farm Collection 1840-1966 (Bulk Dates 1880-1940)
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Carroll family
  • Other, Southwest Harbor
  • Karle, Tim J.
  • National Park Service
  • [2005]
17337Working the Sea
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature, Animals, Shellfish, Lobsters
  • Other, Fishing industry
  • Seavey, Wendell
  • North Atlantic Books
  • 2005
17104Acadia Trails Treatment Plan: Cultural Landscape Report for the historic hiking trail system of Acadia National Park, Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Places, Landscape
  • Barter, Christian S., Margaret Coffin Brown, J. Tracy Stakely, Gary J. Stellpflu
  • Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation
  • 2006
17105Pathmakers: Cultural Landscape Report for the Historic Hiking Trail System of Mount Desert Island
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Places, Landscape
  • Brown, Margaret Coffin and Jim Vekasi
  • Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation
  • 2006
13004Acadia Revealed: Mount Desert Island & Acadia National Park
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Kaiser, Jay
  • Papyrus Travel Guides
  • 2000
12936Registry of Maine Toolmakers vol. IX
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Tools & implements
  • Brack, H. G., ed.
  • Pennywheel Press
  • 2005
Description:
Included information on the Robert Merchant Wantage Rule, Berwick, Maine 1720
17140The Maine Perspective: Architectural Drawings, 1800-1980
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architectural drawings
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Mount Desert
  • Other, Savage, Fred L.
  • Other, Somesville
  • Other, Southwest Harbor
  • O'Gorman, James F. and Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.
  • Portland Museum of Art
  • 2006
17141The Maine Perspective: Architectural Drawings, 1800-1980
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architectural drawings
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Mount Desert
  • Other, Savage, Fred L.
  • Other, Somesville
  • Other, Southwest Harbor
  • O'Gorman, James F. and Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.
  • Portland Museum of Art
  • 2006
12958Maine Cottages: Fred L. Savage and the Architecture of Mount Desert
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architects
  • Other, Architectural drawings
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Bryan, John M.
  • Princeton Architectural Press
  • 2005
Description:
In the words of the introduction, written by Robert R. Pyle, this book "preserves the memories relevant to understanding the roots of communities on Mount Desert Island." It includes sections on Savage's ancestors and the history artists, tourism, and recreation on the island; his education and training and photographs and descriptions of buildings designed by him in Northeast Harbor, Islesboro, and Bar Harbor.