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2604McKinley Minstrel Cast
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Structures, Civic, Entertainment
  • 3/2/1950
Description:
Listing of the members of the cast of a benefit Minstrel Show presented by the Willing Workers of the McKinley church.
17216Merchant Sail Vol V
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Merchants
  • Other, Sailing ships
  • Fairburn, William Armstrong
  • Fairburn Maine Educational Foundation
  • 1955
17215Merchant Sail, Volume V
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Boat & ship industry
  • Other, Clipper ships
  • Other, Merchants
  • Other, Sailing ships
  • Fairburn, William Armstrong
  • Fairburn Marine Educational Foundation
  • 1945-1955
Description:
U.S. Wood Shipbuilders and Shipbuilding Centers during the days of the young republic and throughout the Nineteenth Century
17075Mount Desert: The most beautiful island in the world
  • Publication, Book
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Explorers
  • Other, Railroad companies
  • Other, Railroads
  • Collier, Sargent F.
  • Houghton Mifflin
  • 1952
Description:
Chapters on: Indians and explorers; Jesuits; de Gregoire; Bernard; Wreck of the Grand Design; British Navy; Early settlers; Summer visitors; Green Mountain Railway; Navy; Social Life; Bar Harbor fire; Jackson Lab; Acadia National Park.
13713National Geographic Magazine, September 1952
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • 1952
Description:
This issue contains an article entitled, "Down East Cruise," by Tom Horgan and Luis Marden.
17305Naval Visits to Bar Harbor
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Navies
  • Opdycke, Leonard
  • Bar Harbor Times Publishing Co.
  • 1952.
12583New England Clocks at Old Sturbridge Village
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Clocks & watches
  • Fennelly, Catherine
  • Old Sturbridge Village
  • (1955).
2862New Signs in Acadia National Park
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • 1959
Description:
LaRue Spiker article on new signage in the park
13754Norumbega 1951
  • Publication, Yearbook
  • Other, Schools
  • 1951
Description:
"Norumbega 1951" Yearbook for Mount Desert High School
17422Old Gods Came to Somesville, Maine
  • Publication, Literary, Poem
  • Other, Poetry
  • 9/4/1956
Description:
Photocopy of Poem, “The Old Gods Came to Somesville, Maine” by Rachel Field from Points East pages 89-109.
17142Our Vanishing Landscape
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Landscapes
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Wilfred Funk
  • 1955
Description:
Illustrations of disappearing structures and man-made landscaping
17300Pilots and Pilot Boats of Boston Harbor.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Pilot boats
  • Eastman, Ralph M.
  • Second Bank - State Street and Trust Co
  • 1956.
17220Portuguese and Further Spanish Notes
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Travel
  • O’Brien, Louise and John
  • Independently
  • 1955
17184Recollection of Southwest Harbor, Maine 1885-1894
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, Southwest Harbor
  • Parker, Jesse L.
  • 1955
Description:
Photocopied manuscript describes Southwest Harbor, families, and personal accounts
13707Record of Official Visits by Eugene S. Robbins
  • Publication, Book, Journal
  • Organizations
  • Other, Clubs
  • 3/21/1952
Description:
Journal of official visits made by Eugene S. Robbins as Grand Senior Warden (1951-1952) and Grand HIgh Priest (1952-1953) for Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Includes meeting locations, mileage, attendence, and notes. Last entry 3/23/1953.
17294Sands, Spindles and Steeples: A History of Saco, Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Maine
  • Other, Saco
  • Fairfield, Roy P.
  • House of Falmouth
  • 1956
4124 Sea-Going Policeman are Fisherman’s Friend
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Other, Law Enforcement
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1957
Description:
By George H. Taylor: Sea Going Policeman are Fisherman’s Friends ; part of LaRue Spiker Collection Previously archived as object id 013.FIC.30.32
17292Secrets of the North Atlantic Islands
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, North Atlantic
  • Snow, Edward Rowe
  • Dodd
  • 1950
4107Spiker, LaRue defense of peace petition
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Other, Politics
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 7/21/1950
Description:
Article signed by LaRue Spiker and Iola Klaas in defense of her peace petition which demanded the outlawing of atomic weapons. Explains her concern about being questioned by police while circulating her petition and loss of her job as a child welfare worker. 2 pages.
19252St. Jude's Church, Seal Harbor
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • 1954
Description:
Collection consists of three boxes of archival files donated by the Seal Harbor Library pertaining to the history of Seal Harbor village and Acadia National Park. An itemized summary of each boxes' contents is enclosed in each box. Ten typed pages on the history of St. Jude's Church in Seal Harbor written by John Walls in 1954. The perface notes the information has been collected from his personal accounts, accounts of his mother and her friends, and church records. The history is bound in a brown cardstock report holder. [show more]
2688Summertime Sailors Take Over Maine Coastal Towns
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Northeast Harbor
  • Other, Sailing
  • 1955
Description:
Full page article in Bangor News entitled Summer Sailor Take Over Maine Coastal Towns. Focus is NEH. many photographs Previously accessioned as 007.120
12860The Book of American Clocks
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Clocks & watches
  • Palmer, Brooks
  • MacMillan Company
  • 1950
Description:
Gives background of clock and watch making in America; illustrates types of clocks and watches; gives list of makers and information about them. Also gives a brief history of American timekeeping.
13501The Commonwealth
  • Publication, Book, Journal
  • Other, Civil Rights
  • 1957
Description:
Article by LaRue Spiker, about the attempts of a mother to send her two black children to a white school in Kentucky, shortly after this was legalised. Describes the antagonism of the local people, including the police.
2672The Courier-Journal Magazine
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Ecology
  • People
  • 1957
Description:
An article titled "The Vanishing Herb Gatherer" by LaRue Spiker, and also a small piece about LaRue herself. Her article is about the work of Sim Brackett, one of the few remaining people in 1957 who still gathered herbs in the local area, to sell. 3 copies of the newspaper.
12863The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Inquiry into the Salem Witch Trials
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Massachusetts
  • Other, Witchcraft trials
  • Starkey, Marion L.
  • Alfred A. Knopf
  • 1950