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Rumford Complete Cook Book
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Wallace, Lily Hayworth
  • 1945
Rumford Complete Cook Book
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Reprint of earlier (1908 cookbook); inscribed "Eva Bordeaux Oct. 25, 1946". Preface indicates that Rumford was the first "to issue booklets and folders on better cooking" 85 years before this edition
Somesville Grammar School Yearbook 1941
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Yearbook
  • 1940-1941
Somesville Grammar School Yearbook 1941
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Somesville School Yearbook, 1940-1941, Grades 4,5,6, Somesville, Mt. Desert, ME
Bo, The Cave Boy
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Wilber Fiske
  • 1944
Bo, The Cave Boy
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1 copy of Bo, The Cave Boy, by Wilber Fiske. Stamped Seal Harbor School Library on inside cover.
Who Was Bob Patterson
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • Other, Architects
  • Other, Maine Historic Preservation Commission
  • 1947
Who Was Bob Patterson
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Page from Beatrix Farrand Society News, "Who Was Bob Patterson"
"The Mount Desert Larger Parish: A Church Co-op That Works", a 12-page booklet by Leigh Mitchell Hodges written in 1942.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, Mount Desert
  • 1942
Description:
"The Mount Desert Larger Parish: A Church Co-op That Works", a 12-page booklet by Leigh Mitchell Hodges written in 1942.
Eyewitness: Peekskill U.S.A.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Other, Civil Rights
  • 1949
Eyewitness: Peekskill U.S.A.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Publication entirely about an event in Peekskill, NY. A concert was stopped from occurring by a racist mob and the police took very little action. LaRue Spiker collection.
Mount Desert, Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Guidebook
  • Mount Desert Chamber of Commerce
  • 1942c.
Mount Desert, Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Small (4'" X 6", 55pps.) booklet: Visitors' Guide and Directory. Contains decriptions of villages (Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor, Somes Sound, Somesville, Business and Church Directory, sailing and motoring directions, advertisements, and a 1942 map of Mount Desert Island. Photographs by W.H. Ballard and C.K. Savage.
The New Bar Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • 1947
The New Bar Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
NY Times article the "New Bar Harbor" Nov 2, 1947 discusses plans to rebuild
Experts Plan Rebuilding of Bar Harbor: Lumber in Firs Area to be Salvaged
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Architect
  • 1947
Description:
Photo from newspaper of those planning reconstruction of Bar Harbor after Fire of 47
Bar Harbor Burns
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Fire
  • Oct 1947
Bar Harbor Burns
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
article from the Bureaugraph , November 1947 on Maine Fires and Situation on Mount Desert Island
Health Measures after the Fire
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Jackson Laboratory
  • Oct 30, 1947
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
Society issues related to Fire
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Chambers of commerce
  • Other, Cottages
  • Other, Social life
  • 11/3-11/9 1947
Society issues related to Fire
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Boston Sunday Herald article on decline of BH as resort area, Chamber letter to the editor (photocopy) and photocopy of letter in the Bangor Daily News responding to a letter of Nov 3 of demise of summer homes
Accounts of Fire of 1947
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Bar Harbor Savings Bank
  • Other, Coast Guard
  • Other, Estates
  • Other, Jackson Laboratory
  • Other, Looting
  • Other, National Guard
  • Oct 24-26, 1947
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
Boston Sunday Advertiser Pictoral Review
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Military History
  • 11/29/1942 1942
Boston Sunday Advertiser Pictoral Review
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Boston Sunday Advertiser Pictoral Review. “America Will Never Forget Pearl Harbor.” Pictures and articles about Pearl Harbor and World War II.
Island Retrospect
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, History - Bar Harbor
  • 10/17/1947
Island Retrospect
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Bar Harbor Times ,10/13/1983, written by Dotty Cooke. A first hand account of the 1947 Bar Harbor fire as told by Dotty Cooke.
Said the Bicycle to the Automobile
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Transportation - land
  • 9/5/1942
Said the Bicycle to the Automobile
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Picture with caption showing the number of bicycles versus automobiles parked at the Kimball House in NE Harbor.