Description: George Buckham Dorr is given at the "custodian". The essay includes black and white photographs and describes Sieru de Monts National Monument, which is not "a purchase by the government" but a "gift from citizens." Photocopy
Description: History of Bar Harbor, with photographs by Sargent Collier. Includes chapters on Acadia National Park, social and club life, island laboratories, Bar Harbor-Yarmouth ferry, Fire of 1947, Kebo Valley Golf Club, Bar Harbor Club, Pot and Kettle Club, the Building of Arts, Great Automobile War. Mentions performances of the Boston Symphony at the Building of Arts.
Description: The story of "how and why Lieutenant Fabbri conceived and developed" the Otter Cliffs Naval Radio Station in 1917, commemorated in the Fabbri Memorial on Ocean Drive. NOTE: PDF available
Description: Almost 150 native species of birds reside on Mount Desert and surrounding Islands; this book is a guide to those birds here from June to August of the year. It indicates good places to view these birds
Description: Landscape paintersThomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, and others discovered Mt. Desert Island and inspired tourists to visit. This book examines how images and works of art inspired the artists and tourists, alike.
Description: Copy 1 (for the library) of Paul Richardson's manuscript about Acadia National Park with particular emphasis on the carriage roads and bridges and their construction. Includes a map and pictures and an appendix with a description and technical information on all carriage road bridges. A bibliography and index are included. "A Gift from Paul S. and Dorothy L. Richardson to the Mount Desert Island Historical Society." Fifty copies were given to the Historical Society for distribution locally. [show more]
Description: History of the community of Otter Creek, Maine, and its historical connections with the waterfront in Acadia National Park. Early families settled there and earned a living fishing and lobstering. Book recounts changes to relationship between community and waterfront, especially following the Depression; Otter Creek was only town on Mount Desert Island to be fully encircled by new Acadia National Park, thus losing access to the waterfront.
Description: Three page article describing the history of the construction of the carriage roads, bridges and gatehouses of Acadia National Park on Mt. Desert Island.
Description: Newspaper photograph illustrating a marsh which is preserved in Acadia National Park. Marsh is near Echo Lake Sand Beach. Previously archived as object id 012.FIC.029.8