Description: Draft of article by LaRue Spiker for unknown publication. No Date. Dennysville Wildlife Refuge by LaRue Spiker. 4 page. Previously accessioned as **1178, Object Id **1178, 013.FIC.30.26
Description: 1795, 1809,1813,1818-1822,1827,1829,1830,1837,1838,1841,1845 (3 copies),1847,1848, 1850-53 Object Id Number is on the first page of each almanac since the covers are falling off All were "adopted by David Reiber" per 1999 catalog records which this new single record replaced.
Description: Eight printed pages from an almanac source, possibly Old Farmers' Almanac. All pages are headed by advertisement for Adamson's remedies. Also included is a newspaper clipping entitles "Egyptian Obelisk," describing a structure in Central Park, New York. Stated to be part of LaRue Spiker Collection, from a folder marked "Mrs. Dorr."
Description: Eight articles on various topics clipped from the Mount Desert Herald in the 1880's. Titles and dates include: The Norsemen Maine and its Development. 11/23/1882 The Ice Age. 10/19/???? A Dream. 11/6/1885 Intelligence Among Animals. 10/18/1883 Bridging the Chasm. 9/28/1888 Boarding Around: Trials of a Down East School-Teacher. 5/17/???? Church Law in Maine. 1886
Description: Series of pamphlets, one for each named architect, inserted into red folder. Architects: Parris, Alexander Peabody and Stearns Romer, Colonel Wolfgang William Kent, Rockwell Chamberlain, Calvin Kimball, John Jr. Keely, Patrick C. Kilham, Hopkins & Greeley Lawrence, Ellis F. Longfellow, William Pitt Preble Rand, James H. Stanley, Freeman A. Wheelwright, Edmund M. Harrison, Wallace K. Dunton, Ebenezer Lord, Thomas M. Mullett Alfred B. Bassford, Asher B. Grain, Peter Sr. Also contains a Preliminary Historical Checklist of Landscape Architects in Maine by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. [show more]
Description: Poor quality photocopies of articles from undated newspaper (unidentified, but likely Bar Harbor) relating to debate about allowing cars on Mt. Desert Island. Handwritten notes on verso of some indicate dates are April 4, 1900; July 4, 1906
Description: Contains brief written descriptions of activities, accommodations, and more. No date given, but mentions the Building of Arts, USN Radio Station at Otter Cliffs.
Description: 1.The Davis Bar Harbor Buckboard Company (c. 1889),copy of news paper article. “The Davis Bar Harbor Buckboard Company - First Manufacturing Concern in Bar Harbor - W.H. Davis, L.B. Decey (Deasy?), C.E. Marcyes”. Company on School Street in Bar Harbor. Circa 1889. 2 "Memories of old Bar Harbor..." Down East Magazine, July 1976, by Cathleen Sherman Clayton. (Author's parents were native to Bar Harbor, who established a hardware business in 1892.) Illustrated with photos. 3. Map, Village of Bar Harbor, Bar Harbor, Town of Eden, Mount Desert, c.1881. 4."The Fire," typwritten ms. by Horace H. Leavitt, Pres,. V.I.A., Nov. 2, 1947. Report on various aspects of fighting the fire with total community support. [show more]
Description: Bangor Daily News, Oct. 24, 1947: "Thousands Flee as Raging Blaze Sweeps Bar Harbor." Bangor Daily News, Oct. 25-26, 1947: "Ellsworth Scouts Aid in Disaster," "U.of M. Students Aid in Fighting Flames," " 40 Bangor Jaycees Fight Forest Fires," "Fires Ravage Maine Towns," "$10,000,000 Loss at Bar Harbor; Maine Still Fights many Fires," and photo. of Faith and Caroline Olsen, evacuees separated from relatives. Photo, elderly evacuee Dorothy Hodgkins consoled by Grace Hodgkins, n.d. Bangor Daily News, Oct. 24, 1947: "Trail of Ruin is Left by Forest." Bangor Daily News, Oct. 25-26, 1947: Photo., Mrs. E.T. Johnson; JImmy Nolan and younger brother. Bar Harbor Times, July 9, 1964: "Mount Desert Island's Worst Disaster." "The Fire of '47," Supplement to the Bar Harbor Times, Oct. and Aug. 1987 Misc. notes and postcards to Ballard. [show more]