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| The Bar Harbor Fire From Route 102 in Town Hill Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Bar Harbor Fire From Route 102 in Town Hill Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The photograph was taken at about noon on October 23, 1947. W.H. Ballard was standing on Route 102 in Town Hill. Notice that the flames are taller than the trees in the foreground. |
| 1947 Fire Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  1947 Fire Northeast Harbor Library Description: ...1: Bar Harbor Burning. Reprint of a letter from U...Maine, Orono, student to his father in NJ about the l947 Bar Harbor fire which he and fraternity brothers helped fight. 2: The Big Fire by Parson Williams...Williams 3: Bar Harbor 40 Years Later... | ||
| The Fire of '47; Remembering - 40 years later Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  The Fire of '47; Remembering - 40 years later Northeast Harbor Library Description: ...Supplement to the Bar Harbor Times about the 1947 Bar Harbor Fire, with numerous articles and photographs... | |
| Fire of 1947 Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Fire of 1947 Northeast Harbor Library Description: ...Newspaper articles on the 1947 Bar Harbor Fire: Bar Harbor Times - Thursday, November 6, 1947 (pp. 1 + 4) Bangor Daily News - Friday, October 24, 1947... | ||
| Entire Island Menaced by Fire Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Entire Island Menaced by Fire Northeast Harbor Library Description: ...Special edition of the 20th anniversary of the 1947 Bar Harbor fire with numerous articles and photographs. 2 copies... | ||
| Address by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Address by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell Northeast Harbor Library Description: ...Mitchell's address before the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Society, Original brought to Library by Mimi Miller... | |
| Wedding invitation Carrie E. Brown to George W. Greenwood Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Wedding invitation Carrie E. Brown to George W. Greenwood Northeast Harbor Library Description: ...Greenwood on January 30, 1895 at the Belmont Hotel, Bar Harbor. (Manchester Collection)... | ||
| The Maine Fire Story Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  The Maine Fire Story Northeast Harbor Library Description: ...Article about the 1947 fire that destroyed Bar Harbor... | |||
| Mount Desert Kennel Club Dog Show Poster, c. 1930s Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Mount Desert Kennel Club Dog Show Poster, c. 1930s Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: ...Poster advertising a dog show hosted by the Mount Desert Kennel Club at the athletic field in Bar Harbor, ME. People Mentioned: T. E. L. Kemp... | |
| Prologue: The Great Fire Memoir Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Prologue: The Great Fire Memoir Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Prologue-The Great Fire-uncompressed.pdf …The wind shifted again, driving the fire toward the village of Bar Harbor. …From The Story of Bar Harbor by Richard Walden Hale, Jr 1 Bar Harbor Weather 1947 Oct 17 Friday 62 degrees Sunshine Oct 18 Saturday 65 degrees …returned to Bar Harbor later and joined the firefighters. …Frances Spear Seeley Pineo Lane Bar Harbor, Kaine January, 1977 | |||
| College of the Atlantic Students Photograph Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  College of the Atlantic Students Photograph Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: ...Inscription on back reads "COA is governed by" and "Return to LaRue Spiker Southwest Harbor" in blue pen... | |
| The Maine Fire Story Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  The Maine Fire Story Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: The Maine Fire Story-uncompressed.pdf …Wherever one travelled, sympathy was expressed for the small home owner, the permanent resident of Bar Harbor. …In the Bar Harbor Central Office every conceivable effort was being made to maintain communications. …The world famous Jackson Memorial Cancer Research Laboratory was directly in the path of the Bar Harbor fire. …Scenes such as this stretched for miles across the face of the Gold Coast of Bar Harbor on Mt. | |||
| The Great Fire of '47 Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  The Great Fire of '47 Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: The Great Fire of '47-uncompressed.pdf …The Great Fire of 47 LaRues Photos Courtesy of the Bar Harbor Historical Society. People hoped, and still no rain fell. …In Bar Harbor they were still It was quiet in the village of Bar Harbor today awfully quiet and quietly awful. …night and Bar Harbor was forever changed. …In Bar Harbor they were still work ing when the flames were within a quarter of a mile of the building. | |||
| Destroyed (partial article) / Fire of '47 Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Destroyed (partial article) / Fire of '47 Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Destroyed-uncompressed.pdf …Onontakah Tourist cottage, owned by Andrew Peterson of Bar Harbor. The Rocklyn cottages owned by David Higginbotham of Bar Harbor. …Guy Torrey of New York and Bar Harbor. The Barnacles, owned by Arthur Liscomb of Bar Harbor. …HARBOR LANE Dustpan, owned by Dr. James Cunningham of Bar Harbor, Rexcote, owned by Joseph Kloman of Philadelphia. …Brown of Bar Harbor. Miller Cottage, a small hotel owned by Webster Harrington of Bar Harbor. Sunnyside, owned by Mrs. | |||
| Tight-Lipped Fire Evacuees Worried About Homes and Kin Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Tight-Lipped Fire Evacuees Worried About Homes and Kin Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Tight Lipped Fire Evacuees Worried About Homes-uncompressed.pdf …She had just been evacuated from Bar Harbor s roaring inferno via Winter Harbor a few hours before and was somewhat dazed by what had taken place …The woman in the Ellsworth City Hall told how she was ordered to the Bar Harbor athletic field where a canteen was set up. …The wind had played havoc with ; Bar Harbor. …Now it had shifted and towns that had helped Bar Harbor needed help and the men weren t, going to let them down. | |||
| Bangor Daily News 10/22/1947 and 11/1-2/1947 Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Bangor Daily News 10/22/1947 and 11/1-2/1947 Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: BDN Fire Photos-uncompressed.pdf …Hil dreth was in Bar Harbor yesterday conferring with local planners on the rehabilitation of the community. …In the picture, are, left to right: Donald McLeod, Bar Harbor planning board; Major Paul Pooler, National Guard; L. W. …Roland, na tional Red Cross official; and Sheldon Goldthaite, chairman of the Bar Harbor citizens committee. …of Bar Harbor shows that much of the town proper escaped the holocaust last week. | |||
| The Mount Desert Island Fire of Oct. 17-Nov. 14 with particular reference to Acadia National Park Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  The Mount Desert Island Fire of Oct. 17-Nov. 14 with particular reference to Acadia National Park Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: The MDI Fire-compressed.pdf …Savage and Moore reached Bar Harbor at 1 U5 pas. on October 22. …Johnson and Benton) had arrived at Bar Harbor Airport frost Washington, D. …The fire started on the 17th and was corralled by the Town of bar harbor Fire Department with pa k cooperation. …It was within territory under th protestleu of the Bar Harbor Fire kopartic.ent. | |||
| Bill of Services: Funeral of Evelyn C, Manchester Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Bill of Services: Funeral of Evelyn C, Manchester Northeast Harbor Library | |
| Morrill Park Fire, Jackson Laboratory Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Morrill Park Fire, Jackson Laboratory Northeast Harbor Library Description: A Fire at Jackson Laboratory, the photograph shows the entire laboratory and surrounding areas. | |
| Children at College of the Atlantic Ocean Day Photograph, March 21, 1981 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Children at College of the Atlantic Ocean Day Photograph, March 21, 1981 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Children examine whale bones and other materials at the College of the Atlantic "Ocean Day" on March 21, 1981. Inscription on back reads "College of the Atlantic "Ocean Day" March 21, 1981/ Photo by John Jacob/ Please Return" in blue pen and "John P. Jacob/ COA/ 288-5015" in red pen. Black and white |
| Memorial Service for Roc Ritchie Caivano Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Memorial Service for Roc Ritchie Caivano Northeast Harbor Library Description: Program of the Memorial Service for Roc Ritchie Caivano held at The Turrets, College of the Atlantic on July 24, 2021. Eulogy by Willie Granston. Roc Ritchie Caivano February 12, 1944 - July 8, 2021 | ||
| Mount Desert Island's Worst Disaster Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Mount Desert Island's Worst Disaster Northeast Harbor Library Description: Summary of the 1947 Fire on Mount Desert Island. Photograph of Clarence Cook Little and post-fire Jackson Lab. 2 copies. | ||
| Mount Desert Island 1947 Fire Jesup Memorial Library |
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| Safe With A Few Belongings/It could Have Been Worse Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Safe With A Few Belongings/It could Have Been Worse Jesup Memorial Library | |||
| All College Meeting College of the Atlantic |
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|  All College Meeting College of the Atlantic Description: Photographic print of students leading the last All College Meeting (ACM) to be held in the old auditorium. |