Description: Boston Sunday Advertiser Pictoral Review. “America Will Never Forget Pearl Harbor.” Pictures and articles about Pearl Harbor and World War II.
Description: Boston Sunday Herald article on decline of BH as resort area, Chamber letter to the editor (photocopy) and photocopy of letter in the Bangor Daily News responding to a letter of Nov 3 of demise of summer homes
Description: This is a work of fiction by Maine writer Mary Ellen Chase. It is Inscribed “Harriet S. Sanderson, January 1942” on title page and appears to be a first edition. A review by Bess Jones from an unidentified source is pasted inside the back cover.
Description: A reminiscence by the author of his vacation days beginning in 1885 and continuing for about 40 years in York Co., Maine. He pays special tribute to the illustrator, Charles H. Woodbury
Description: Volume XV of the Social Service Review, in which LaRue Spiker has written an article titled "Rural Housing Conditions in an Illinois Township".
Description: Newsletter of The Mount Desert Messenger (1945) - volume LVI. Thanksgiving/Christmas issue. Sections include: "News From The Home Front" - local and war news including recent war discharges - and "News From The Camps" - listing local soldiers and their regiments.
Description: Written when author was 85 years old, an account of her family's times at "Baymeath" in Bar Harbor. Preface is written to her grandson, Capt. Wm. McCormick Blair, Jr., who was serving during WWII in India.
Description: A brief history of the region with special attention to Belfast, Camden, Rockland, Castine, Deer Isle and Stonington, Mount Desert and Bar Harbor, Vinalhaven and North Haven, and smaller islands (Isle au Haut, Swan's, and others). Map of area inside front and back covers. Virginia Somes Sanderson's bookplate inside front cover
Description: Reprint of the first three volumes of six that were published by the Maine Historical Society between 1928 and 1975. Vol. III contains the Province of Maine Records 1680-1692.
Description: Gives information about the techniques of decorating early American furniture, walls, tinware, etc. and also gives instructions about how to do that oneself. Covers stenciling, applying gold leaf, japanning, oil-painted boxes and chests Envelope inside front cover contains cut stencils.
Description: History of Bar Harbor from approximately 1800-1950 According to the introduction, this book was written to "find out what had made it [Bar Harbor] what it was". The book was written at the time of the Bar Harbor fire and covers early explorers and claimants, settlers, town of Eden, artists, cottagers, summer colony, and more.
Description: Sequel to We Summer in Maine by same author, but exploring further to such places as Boston, Bar Harbor, Bangor, Harpswell, Camden, Pemaquid, Mohegan [sic] and Moosehead Lake.
Description: Includes background of pilgrim and arts and craft handicrafts as well as woodworking, spinning, weaving, knitting, dying, pottery, carving, needlework, silversmithing, and more.
Description: Publication entirely about an event in Peekskill, NY. A concert was stopped from occurring by a racist mob and the police took very little action. LaRue Spiker collection.