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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
17268Milk Glass Addenda
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Glassware
  • Warman, Edwin G.
  • E.G. Warman Publishing Co
  • 1966
9217Multiple Clippings on Various Political Issues
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Political issues
  • Various Publications
  • 1968
Description:
Multiple clippings from newspapers and newsletters, all pertaining to various political topics such as highways, taxation, distribution of wealth, etc. Items may have been saved in preparation for articles Spiker was writing. Part of LaRue Spiker Collection Previously archived as 012.FIC.057.3
19126No Air Pollution, Urban Sprawl Boost to Economic Development
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Economic policy
  • Other, Environment
  • Other, Environmental policy
  • Various Newspapers and Publications and LaRue Spiker
  • 2/1/1969
Description:
Collection of articles and notes on environmental topics used by journalist LaRue Spiker. Newspaper clipping from 2/1/69 entitled "No Air Pollution, Urban Sprawl Boost to Economic Development" about the research being conducted at the University of Maine research station. Talks about current research topic focusing on the environment and urban development and the more traditional research being conducted. Previously archived as object id 012.Fic.061.1 [show more]
2727Articles, Editorials, Letters and Advertisements regarding TEPCO
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Aluminum industry
  • Other, Nuclear power plants
  • Other, TEPCO
  • Other, Trenton
  • Various Newspapers
  • 1969
Description:
Multiple newspaper articles, editorials, letters to the editor and advertisements regarding TEPCO proposed industrial development in Trenton. Development was to include a nuclear power plant and an aluminum reduction plant. Part of LaRue Spiker Collection Previously archived as 012.FIC.055.5 WDEA Replays Entire Hearing previously accessioned as **1690, object id **1690
2722Unknown Poet Bewails the Bane of Polishing Lighthouse Brass
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Lighthouses
  • Other, Poetry
  • Unknown
  • 3/15/1962
Description:
One page newspaper clipping from unknown source reprinting a poem entitled "Brasswork or The Lighthouse Keepers Lament".
2723Bakers Island Lighthouse Photo
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Bakers Island Light
  • Unknown
  • 9/20/1962
Description:
Newspaper photograph with brief description of Bakers Island Lighthouse.
17284Customs on the Tabletop.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Food
  • Other, History
  • Sprackling, Helen
  • Sturbridge Village
  • 1966.
2909The Great Automobile War: Part II
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Automobiles
  • Other, Buckboards
  • Other, Davis. Co.
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1968
Description:
Bar Harbor Times article of June 20, 1968 concerning ban against automobiles on Mt. Desert and its challenge in 1909. Photograph of Davis Co. buckboards on street in Bar Harbor.
2913Pretty Marsh was Once Populous Farming and Fishing Community
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Pretty Marsh
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 05/09/1963
Description:
Bar Harbor Times article describing homes, wharf, marsh, etc.
12565A Museum of Early American Tools
  • Publication, Book
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Funk & Wagnalls
  • 1964
Description:
Describes and illustrates early tools.
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
17302Organizing a Local Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Guidebook
  • Other, Historical Societies
  • Silvestro, Clement M.
  • American Association for State and Local History
  • 1968.
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]
11412Story of Mount Desert Island
  • Publication, Book
  • Samuel Eliot Morison
  • 1960
Description:
Copy of Samuel Eliot Morison's book The Story of Mount Desert Island. (Little, Brown and Co., 1960)
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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...
12608Friendly Village
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Reading
  • Other, Textbook
  • O'Donnell, Mabel
  • Harper & Row
  • 1963
Description:
Reading textbook ( no local relevence found)
9222Conservation Bulletin
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • Other, Aluminum industry
  • Other, Natural Resources Council of Maine
  • Other, TEPCO
  • Natural Resources Council of Maine
  • 12/ 1968
Description:
Six page newsletter of the Natural Resources Council of Maine which includes an article on p.3 regarding proposed aluminum smelter on the Maine coast near Ellsworth. This proposal eventually became associated with the company TEPCO. Previously archived as 012.FIC.055.9
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