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| Health Measures after the Fire Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Health Measures after the Fire Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: ...Photocopy Health measures to be taken related to returning evacuees, pledge of funds to Jackson Lab, Red Cross role, Bar Harbor Times... | |||
| Letter to Maine State Publicity Bureau Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Letter to Maine State Publicity Bureau Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: ...Suggestions of ways to counteract bad publicity indicating that the whole state, MDI, Bar Harbor have been destroyed by the fire of 47... | |||
| Mount Desert: The most beautiful island in the world Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Mount Desert: The most beautiful island in the world Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: ...Jesuits; de Gregoire; Bernard; Wreck of the Grand Design; British Navy; Early settlers; Summer visitors; Green Mountain Railway; Navy; Social Life; Bar...Harbor fire; Jackson Lab; Acadia National Park... | ||
| Maine Publicity Bureau Flyer Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Maine Publicity Bureau Flyer Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: ...Biggest Job in 26 Years Faces Publicity Bureau Newspaper clippings (photocopies) of articles about the loss of Bar Harbor after the 1947 fire... | |||
| Fabbri Cottage Print and Notes Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Fabbri Cottage Print and Notes Jesup Memorial Library Description: ...House and grounds at The Fabbri Cottage in Bar Harbor, ME... | ||
| 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 | |||
| 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. | |||
| Jordan Pond House Fire Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Jordan Pond House Fire Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Jordan Pond House Fire-best quality.pdf …Conservation Corps buildings on McFar land s Hill in Bar Harbor. …BAR HARBOR REALTY CO. 67 Main Street Tel. 288-3578 CHARLES W. …As of Tuesday morning, nine had found new jobs: in Bar Harbor, a breakfast cook at the Golden Anchor, cook at the Town Farm, a waitress at the Bar Harbor …Sants Agmy Southwest Harbor Danielle Davis 244-3891 George Corkum 244-7135 Bar Harbor Jane MacLeod 667-5109 288-4748 The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday | |||
| Articles on Jordan Pond House History and Fire Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Articles on Jordan Pond House History and Fire Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Eight pages of articles detailing history of the Jordan Pond House, its loss by fire, reactions to the loss, employee reminiscences and popover recipe. Many photographs included. Previously archived as object Id 012.FIC.038.1 | ||
| Fire, Obliteration, Mission 66, and Park Trails Program, 1943-2003 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Fire, Obliteration, Mission 66, and Park Trails Program, 1943-2003 Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Excerpt from Pathmakers: Cultural Landscape Report for the Historic Hiking Trail System of Mount Desert Island, pgs. 149-156 File Attachment: Effects_of_the_1947_Fire.pdf …However, as recorded in Bar Harbor or maintenance of the trails. …Norton had also been a member of the towards Hulls Cove and Bar Harbor and south over CCC trails crew at the Great [Long] Pond Camp. …For several years, Norm Walls and his crew divided their time between the NPS and the Bar Harbor VIA. …Path in Bar Harbor, a challenging task as the area was often hard-hit by winter storms. | |
| Kaelber Hall fire College of the Atlantic |
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|  Kaelber Hall fire College of the Atlantic Description: The college's main campus building, Kaelber Hall, engulfed in flames. | |
| 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 | |||
| Two look on as Kaelber Hall is engulfed in flames College of the Atlantic |
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|  Two look on as Kaelber Hall is engulfed in flames College of the Atlantic Description: Two look on as Kaelber Hall is engulfed in flames on July 25, 1983. | |
| 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. | ||
| 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. | |
| Accounts of Fire of 1947 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Accounts of Fire of 1947 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper stories from Boston Post, Bangor Commercial, NY Times (listing places burned and owners) retyped on a computer |