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You searched for: Object ID: is not emptyDate: 1950sSubject: OtherType: Publication
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
2626Comeback of a Shabby City
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Writers
  • 12/5/1959
Description:
Torn out pages of Saturday Evening Post. Article by Roul Tunley about the refurbishment of Philadelphia. Research for an article by LaRue Spiker. Previously accessioned as **1934, object Id 2001.1934
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
12857Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Glassware
  • McKearin, Helen and George S.
  • Doubleday
  • 1950
Description:
Gives the history of blown glassmaking from colonial days to othe modern period; covers tableware, flasks, molded glass, and more.
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.
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
17292Secrets of the North Atlantic Islands
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, North Atlantic
  • Snow, Edward Rowe
  • Dodd
  • 1950
3512Joint Statement opposing atomic bombs-Stockholm Agreement
  • Publication, Literary, Essay
  • Other, Atomic bombs
  • Other, Peace
  • 1950
Description:
Joint Statement of position of LaRue Spiker on the Stockholm Agreement. As child welfare workers they cannot see rebuilding a world after the atomic bomb. Must actively oppose the bomb. Previously archived as object Id 012.FIC.15.10
13754Norumbega 1951
  • Publication, Yearbook
  • Other, Schools
  • 1951
Description:
"Norumbega 1951" Yearbook for Mount Desert High School
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.
17305Naval Visits to Bar Harbor
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Navies
  • Opdycke, Leonard
  • Bar Harbor Times Publishing Co.
  • 1952.
2837Articles in support of Filipino family in Indianapolis
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Discrimination
  • 1953
Description:
4 articles chronicling support for a Fillipino family moving into a neighborhood in Indpls. A petition had been circulated against the family moving in. Picketing of an alderman who objected to the family moving in Mrs. Hardman Declares... (2p), Union Leader, Defending..(2p), Residents on Fetter..(1p) Previously archived as object id #012.FIC.015.4, **1266, **1266, **1267, **1268
9259The Louisville Pattern
  • Publication, Literary, Transcript
  • Other, St. Louis
  • 1954
Description:
The Louisville Pattern Excerpts from the Official Transcript Jefferson County Grand Jury Investigation Sep 1954 into an Explosion at the House of Andrew Wade IV. Previously archived as object id 012.FIC.069, **1284
12583New England Clocks at Old Sturbridge Village
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Clocks & watches
  • Fennelly, Catherine
  • Old Sturbridge Village
  • (1955).
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
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
17216Merchant Sail Vol V
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Merchants
  • Other, Sailing ships
  • Fairburn, William Armstrong
  • Fairburn Maine Educational Foundation
  • 1955
17220Portuguese and Further Spanish Notes
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Travel
  • O’Brien, Louise and John
  • Independently
  • 1955
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
17085Dress
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Home economics
  • Other, Sewing
  • Oerke, Bess V.
  • Chas. A. Bennett Co.
  • 1956
17294Sands, Spindles and Steeples: A History of Saco, Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Maine
  • Other, Saco
  • Fairfield, Roy P.
  • House of Falmouth
  • 1956
17300Pilots and Pilot Boats of Boston Harbor.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Pilot boats
  • Eastman, Ralph M.
  • Second Bank - State Street and Trust Co
  • 1956.
2890Bar Harbor Tourism
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Acadia National Forest
  • Other, Bluenose Ferry
  • Other, Camping
  • Other, Motels
  • 1956
Description:
Article about revival of tourism since the fire. Role of Bluenose Ferry Previously archived as 011.FIC.54.3
13502The Garden Journal
  • Publication, Book, Journal
  • Other, Biology
  • 1956
Description:
Magazine containing an article by LaRue Spiker, titled "Green Factories", about the food-making processes of plants.
2677Bar Harbor Times 5/31/1956
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Bluenose Ferry
  • Other, High Schools
  • Other, Masons
  • 1956
Description:
Articles on Bluenose, SWH Masonic Lodge 100th anniversary, editorial on need to build HS. 553 students in 3 Island high schools
17144American Yesterday
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Tools & Implements
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Wilfred Funk
  • 1956 .
Description:
Occupations of early America