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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...
12875The Indian Heritage of America.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Indians of North America
  • Josephy, Alvin M. Jr.
  • Alfred A. Knopf
  • 1968
Description:
Addresses stereotypes and diversities, early man in America, and Native American tribes, as well as native people in Central and South America, and Canada.
12873An Investigation of the Granite Quarry Industry in Hancock County, Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Other, Hancock County
  • Other, Quarries
  • Domingos, Frank Eugene
  • Univ. of Maine
  • 1967
Description:
Study of granite industry in Hancock Co., Maine, after Civil War to locate major quarry sites, ownership of quarries, types of granite products, characteristics of granite centers, and causes for the decline of the industry.
12861The Right People: The Social Establishment in America
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Biography
  • Other, Social classes
  • Birmingham, Stephen
  • Little
  • 1968.
Description:
A witty account of Society and Real Society in America; Northeast Harbor, the Pot and Kettle Club, prep schools, debutante traditions, Junior League, are among the institutions mentioned.
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]
12608Friendly Village
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Reading
  • Other, Textbook
  • O'Donnell, Mabel
  • Harper & Row
  • 1963
Description:
Reading textbook ( no local relevence found)
12587Know Your Antiques
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Kovel, Rolph and Terry
  • Crown
  • 1967
Description:
How to recognize and evaluate any antique--large or small--like an expert. This is a general guide covering paper, glass, furniture, pottery and porcelain, clocks, and more.
12565A Museum of Early American Tools
  • Publication, Book
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Funk & Wagnalls
  • 1964
Description:
Describes and illustrates early tools.
12431Scrapbook
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Clarke Point
  • Other, Dance parties
  • Other, Southwest Harbor
  • 1966
Description:
A scrapbook of recipes and household tips pasted in a book. Note in book indicates these are recipes of Corinthia Bassett Earl (Dad's Grandmother) d. 1897 in her 70's, buried in Derby, Conn. Had been a printer in Cleveland.
11878Poems For Sutton Island
  • Publication, Book
  • Hortense Flexner
  • 1969
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)
7432Harper Lees's To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Publication, Book
  • Christopher Sergel
  • 1960
Description:
Copy of Christopher Sergel play. Stamped "property of MDIHS, No 9, purchased 71" on inside front cover.