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You searched for: Date: 1960sType: Publication
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Organizing a Local Historical Society
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Guidebook
  • Other, Historical Societies
  • Silvestro, Clement M.
  • 1968.
Organizing a Local Historical Society
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Customs on the Tabletop.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Food
  • Other, History
  • Sprackling, Helen
  • 1966.
Customs on the Tabletop.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
The Management of Small History Museums
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Management
  • Other, Museums
  • Guthe, Carl
  • 1964.
The Management of Small History Museums
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Milk Glass Addenda
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Glassware
  • Warman, Edwin G.
  • 1966
Milk Glass Addenda
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
The Village Mill in Early New England
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Mills
  • Other, New England
  • Hamilton, Edward P.
  • 1964
The Village Mill in Early New England
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
The Maine Coast:Time of Decision
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, History
  • Other, Maine
  • McKee, John
  • 1967
The Maine Coast:Time of Decision
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Time of Decision
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Coast
  • Other, Maine
  • 1967.
Time of Decision
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
The Story of Mount Desert Island, Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Discovery & exploration
  • Other, History
  • Other, Indians of North America
  • Other, Islands
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Steamships
  • Morison, Samuel Eliot
  • 1960
The Story of Mount Desert Island, Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
The Story of Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Discovery & exploration
  • Other, History
  • Other, Indians of North America
  • Other, Islands
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Steamships
  • Morison, Samuel Eliot
  • 1960
The Story of Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
The Cracker Barrel
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Stores & shops
  • Sloane, Eric
  • 1967
The Cracker Barrel
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Illustrations and anecdotes dedicated to the general store
ABC Book of Early Americana
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Agriculture
  • Other, Tools and Implements
  • Sloane, Eric
  • 1963
ABC Book of Early Americana
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Illustrations of early American tools and articles
Forest Trees of Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Maine
  • Other, Natural history
  • Other, Trees
  • 1968
Forest Trees of Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Historical Notes on Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Joy, Barbara Ellen
  • 1966
Historical Notes on Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Edith Hamilton; An Intimate Portrait
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Greek Mythology
  • Other, Roman Mythology
  • Other, Seal Harbor
  • Other, Seawall
  • Reid, Doris Fielding
  • 1967
Edith Hamilton; An Intimate Portrait
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
This book describes Edith Hamilton's life and her work with Greek and Roman mythology and history. She summered in Seal Harbor for several years and loved Mount Desert Island so much that she bought a summer house in Seawall in 1917 where she spent a great deal of time, including the winter of 1926.
Jones Tracy, Tall Tale Teller from Mount Desert
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Richard Lunt
  • 1968
Jones Tracy, Tall Tale Teller from Mount Desert
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Vol X in Northeast Folklore Series, published in 1968. Tall tales and anecdotes about MDI families (Manring, Smallidge, Carroll, Holmes, Somes, Storer and Reed among them) and particularly about Jones Tracy (1856-1939).
The American Builder's Companion
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Benjamin, Asher
  • 1969
The American Builder's Companion
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
The American Builder's Companion
Edith Hamilton: an Intimate Portrait
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Seawall
  • Reid, Doris Fielding
  • 1967
Edith Hamilton: an Intimate Portrait
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Biography of Edith Hamilton, who lived for awhile at Sea Wall. Inscribed Marion Holmes in front.
History of the Maine Woods.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Forests
  • Other, History
  • Other, Maine
  • Coolidge, Philip T.
  • 1963
History of the Maine Woods.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Green Grows Bar Harbor: reflections from Kebo Valley
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Kebo
  • Recreation, Sports, Golf
  • Collier, Sargent F.
  • 1964
Green Grows Bar Harbor: reflections from Kebo Valley
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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.
"Childhood Memories" -- Emma Reed Richards
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Reminiscence
  • Other, Bass Harbor
  • Other, Childhood & youth
  • Other, Children
  • Other, McKinley
  • Other, Motion picture theaters
  • Other, Stores & shops
  • Other, Theaters
  • Other, Theatrical productions
  • Structures, Civic, Entertainment
  • Richards, Emma
  • 1932-1960
"Childhood Memories" -- Emma Reed Richards
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
A 7-page handwritten memoir of Emma Richards' childhood in Bass Harbor.
Native Birds of Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Natural History
  • Bond, James
  • 1969
Native Birds of Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Indicate the habitats of all the birds that breed on or near MDI during the past fifty years. Ian Fleming named his James Bond after the well known ornithologist who summered in Pretty Marsh. (description added by AC 2011)
Down Memory Lane
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Biography
  • Other, Northeast Harbor
  • Other, Reynolds, Emily Phillips
  • Reynolds, Emily Phillips
  • 1966
Down Memory Lane
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Emily Phillips Reynolds memoir of her childhood and early days in 1900's.
Robert Swain Peabody of Peabody and Stearns in Boston the Early Years (1870-1886)
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architects
  • Other, Peabody, Robert Swain
  • Holden, Wheaton Arnold
  • 1969
Description:
Doctoral thesis on Robert Swain Peaboy, design partner in prominent Boston architectural firm Photocopy only - probably a gift of author, Wheaton Arnold Holden
Life Magazine, Mar. 13, 1964
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • 1964
Life Magazine, Mar. 13, 1964
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Issue contains Part I: The First World War. Cover photo of British wounded, Western Front, May 1917.
Life Magazine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • 1963
Life Magazine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
a-Life magazine for Nov. 29, 1963; photograph of President John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 on cover. Editorial: The President's Empty Chair Articles: Murder of the President; Lyndon Johnson, the 36th President; Intimate Memory of John Kennedy b- Life Magazing October 2, 1964, The Warren Report: How the Commission Pieced Together the Evidence ,