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You searched for: Date: 1990s
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Map of Baker Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Map
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Baker's Island
  • Other, Coast Guard
  • Other, Lighthouses
  • Other, Maps
  • 1996
Map of Baker Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Photocopy of Baker Island map of ownership, ownership of houses, USCG, Acadia National Park, cemetary (sic)
Map of Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Map
  • Solby & Stuart
  • 1997 (image)
Map of Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Blueprint of an existing map. Size: 15" by 20".
Bass Harbor Village and Manset Village on the Quiet Side of Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Map
  • Other, History - Bass Harbor
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Tourism
  • 1/1/1990
Description:
1990 Map of Bass Harbor and Manset with names and numbers of businesses on Mount Desert Island, blue and white *pronounced ‘dessert’ as in blueberry pie!
Vital Records of Mount Desert Island Maine and Nearby Island 1776-1820
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Long, Alice Macdonald, ed.
  • 1990
Description:
Introduction includes brief history of Mount Desert Island.
The Shipbuilders of Essex: A Chronicle of Yankee Endeavor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Ship building
  • Story, Dana A.
  • 1995
The Shipbuilders of Essex: A Chronicle of Yankee Endeavor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
History of the Essex shipbuilding industry up to 1949.
Letter to MDI Historical Society Inquiring about Stanley Genealogy
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Adrian O. Stanley
  • 1996
Description:
Letter inquiring about Stanley genealogy, particularly regarding William Stanley of Tremont and his wife Ruth Gott.
Caring for Your Collections
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Baskets
  • Other, Masks
  • Other, Paintings
  • Other, Photographs
  • Other, Textiles
  • Schultz, Arthur W., ed.
  • 1992
Caring for Your Collections
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Preserving and protecting collectibles (paintings, stamps, books, photographs, etc.)
The Seaside Inn Reunion, Seal Harbor, Maine, August 22, 1996
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • 1996
Description:
Describes history of Seaside Inn and of the land, originally owned by "Bingham heirs" or John Bracy. Examples of early advertisement for the inn, menus, document showing transfer of land to James Clements by the Barings of London. Early photographs; lists of names of those who worked there; written memories. Seaside Inn opened in 1869 and was demolished in 1964.
A Souvenir of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, W.H. Sherman
  • 1996
A Souvenir of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Souvenir Booklet of Bar Harbor - Reproduction of 1893 booklet. Benefit of the Bar Harbor Historical Society
The History Journal of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Periodical
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Cadbury, Karen and Anne Mazlish
  • 1998
Description:
Vol. I, 1998
Crossing Lines: Jews and Gentiles in Three Maine Communities
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Religion
  • Goldstein, Judith S.
  • 1994
Description:
A Record of the 1992-93 exhibit conceived by Judith S. Goldstein and organized by the Univ. of Maine Museum of Art
Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Biography
  • Other, Yourcenar, Marguerite
  • Savigneau, Josyane
  • 1993
Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) was the first woman elected to the Academie Francaise; she lived on Mount Desert Island in Northeast Harbor and is buried in Brookside Cemetery in Somesville.
Revised Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging...
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Blackaby, James and Patricia Greeno
  • 1995
Revised Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging...
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
A Revised and Expanded Version of Robert G. Chenhall's System for Classifying Man-Made Objects
Down East: The Magazine of Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • 1990
Down East: The Magazine of Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
The June 1990 issue contains an article (pp. 56-59) on the Haynes Garage in Northeast Harbor: "A Family Affair," which describes the history of this garage used to store many of the summer residents' vintage or antique automobiles.
Summers at the Eyrie
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Ellen MacDonald Ward
  • August 1996
Summers at the Eyrie
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Summer home of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and his family. Describes family life, gardens, interior furnishings. House was demolished c. 1963.
Wildfire Loose: The Week Maine Burned
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor Fire
  • Other, Fire of 1947
  • Other, Firefighters
  • Butler, Joyce
  • 1997
Wildfire Loose: The Week Maine Burned
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Description of the progression of fires throughout Maine in fall, 1947. Describes drought that affected the state. Several chapters have sections on Mount Desert Island. Photos include aerial view of Bar Harbor, burned public buildings and homes in Bar Harbor, including Jackson Lab. Photo of firefighters with Indian pumps. Third edition, 1997.
My Cove Has Many Moods: Happy Memories of Mount Desert Island, Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Pamphlet
  • Other, Kayaks
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Pretty Marsh
  • Bond, Mary Wickham
  • 1990
Description:
Mary Bond Collection of essays published by the Bar Harbor Times from 1976 to 1986. (Updated description 04/17/2012 by Annette). Mary Bond was the wife of James Bond - the ornithologist who was the namesake for Ian Fleming's character. The Bonds lived in Pretty Marsh on the estate which is now (2012) owned by Joan Fitzgerald.
Mr. Rockefeller’s Roads: The Untold Story of Acadia’s Carriage Roads &Their Creator
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Carriage roads
  • Roberts, Ann Rockefeller
  • 1990
Discovering Old Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park: An Unconventional History and Guide.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, History
  • Hill, Ruth Ann
  • 1996.
Description:
Discovering Old Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park... Autographed by author.
Inventing Acadia: Artists and Tourists at Mount Desert
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Belanger, Pamela J.
  • 1999
Inventing Acadia: Artists and Tourists at Mount Desert
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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.
Beyond Bar Harbor: Being a history, memoir, and walks of Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Instructional, Instruction Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Dresser, Thomas
  • 1996
Description:
History, walks, trails, lodging, and more on Mt. Desert Island.
Beyond Bar Harbor: Being a History, Memoir, and Walks of Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Dresser, Thomas
  • 1996
Description:
Describes the history, activities, lodging, shopping, walks, and more about Mt. Desert Island.
A History of the Houses of West Tremont, Maine, Vol. One: Richtown Road to “Upper” Clark’s Point Road
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Houses
  • Other, Tremont
  • Robbins, Raymond E., Jr.
  • 1994
Description:
A two-volune history of these houses, arranged by location Volume One: Richtown Road to "Upper" Clark's Point Road Volume Two: Andrew Lopaus House (Kelleytown Road) to James Moulden/Bill Robinson House Inscribed by the author to the MDI Historical Society
A History of the Houses of West Tremont, Maine Vol. Two: Andrew Lopaus House (Kelleytown Road) to James Moulden/Bill Robinson House
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Houses
  • Other, Tremont
  • Robbins, Raymond E., Jr.
  • 1997
Description:
History of these houses, arranged by location.
A Day’s Work: A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs 1860-1920 Part I
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Maine
  • Other, Photographs
  • Bunting, W.H.
  • 1997
Description:
Photographs from about the Civil War times to about the time of the First World War relating to economic activity in the state. Activities include agriculture, lumbering, boat building, and more. Photo credits are given.