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A Pictorial Guide to American Spinning Wheels
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Spinning
  • Pennington, David A. and Michael B. Taylor
  • 1975
A Pictorial Guide to American Spinning Wheels
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Photos and descriptions of spinning wheels.
Antique Woodstoves: Artistry in Iron
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Stoves
  • Curtis, Will and Jane
  • 1974
Antique Woodstoves: Artistry in Iron
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Early Iron Ware
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Ironware
  • Smith, Elmer L.
  • 1971
Early Iron Ware
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Fireplates, cooking utensils, fireplace equipment, doorstops, trivets, book ends, desk and paper weights, iron banks, iron toys, flat irons.
Down East magazine, July 1976: Memories of Old Bar Harbor.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • July 1976
Description:
Photos and drawings of Bar Harbor summer activities, sites, buildings, boats and memories. 1880's-1960's.
Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Maine
  • Berchum, William
  • 1973
Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
The Bar Harbor Auto War
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Other, Automobiles
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Rustication
  • Savage, Richard
  • 1975
The Bar Harbor Auto War
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Article in August 1975 issue of Down East magazine; includes photos.
The Pink Granite of Somes Sound
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Other, Granite quarrying
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Truax, C.V.
  • 1972
The Pink Granite of Somes Sound
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Article from Down East magazine, October 1972. Title not on article, but is listed on bibliography, which is in same folder.
The First Fifty Years of the Robert Abbe Museum.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Indians of North America
  • Other, Maine
  • Other, Museums
  • Other, Robert Abbe Museum
  • 1978.
The First Fifty Years of the Robert Abbe Museum.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
History of the Abbe Museum
Down East Pictures and Poems
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Poetry
  • 1978
Down East Pictures and Poems
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Poems by editor James Russell Wiggins; photographs by various people.
Pink Granite of Somes Sound
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Other, Grinici and Ellis
  • Other, McMullen Construction
  • Other, Quarrying
  • Other, Standard Granite Company
  • 1972
Pink Granite of Somes Sound
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Downeast magazine article on pink granite and quarrying. Previoulsy archived as 011.FIC.71.11
Memories of Old Bar Harbor, Mt. Desert Islan
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Clayton, Cathleen Sherman
  • 1976
Memories of Old Bar Harbor, Mt. Desert Islan
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Article in Down East magazine about Bar Harbor's "golden days."
Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Maine
  • Berchen, William
  • 1973
Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Photographs of Maine's landscape: islands, coast, farmlands, people.
Hall Quarry: The Little Town That Wasn’t There
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Other, Quarries
  • O’Neill, Susan and Bill Troy
  • 1978
Hall Quarry: The Little Town That Wasn’t There
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Covers the beginnings of the village, boom years, growing pains and the end of the Standard Granite Company, renewal, good times and hard, its decline and rise, and Hall Quarry now.
The Collectors’ Encyclopedia of Antiques
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Phillips, Phoebe, ed.
  • 1973
The Collectors’ Encyclopedia of Antiques
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Covers arms and armour, bottles and boxes, carpets and rugs, ceramics, clocks, watches and barometers, embroidery and needlework, furniture, glass, jewellery, metalwork, musical instruments, Netsuke and Inro, pewter, scientific instruments, silver, and toys and automata; gives historical and technical information, glossary, maintenance and repair, books for further reading, and list of museum collections for each section
A Pictorial History of the State of Maine on the occasion of its 150th Birthday 1970
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Maine
  • Griffiths, Thomas Morgan and Arthur Morgan Griffiths, eds.
  • 1970
Description:
Black and white photographs illustrating history, industry, animals, etc. of the state.
An Age of Barns
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Barns
  • Other, Buildings
  • Sloan, Eric
  • 1976
An Age of Barns
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
The Child’s First Reader
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Reading
  • Other, Schools
  • Town, Salen, LLD
  • 1977
The Child’s First Reader
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Facsimile of the 1848 ed. prepared for a living history program in Livermore, Maine
The Second Reader, consisting of easy and progressive lessons
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Reading
  • Other, Schools
  • Town, Salem, LLD
  • 1978
Description:
Reprint of 1848 edition prepared for the living history program in Livermore, Maine.
Old Time Tools and Toys of Needlework
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Object, Art, Needlework
  • Other, Handicraft
  • Other, Textiles
  • Whiting, Gertrude
  • 1971
Old Time Tools and Toys of Needlework
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Illustrates and describes uses for beeswax, winders, reels, swifts, scissors, thimbles, pincushions, shuttles, and more.
Obituary notice L Francis Herreshoff
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • 1972
Obituary notice L Francis Herreshoff
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Time magazine obituary notice for L. Francis Herreschoff, Dec. 1972 Previously accessioned as 007.140
Biography of Walter Keith Shaw
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • W. K. Shaw, Jr.
  • 1970
Biography of Walter Keith Shaw
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Newsletter Volume 3 Number 1
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • January 1977
Newsletter Volume 3 Number 1
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Newsletter from the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Volume 3, January 1977, No. 1. Contains sections and articles giving information about places on MDI and the work that the Historical Society is doing.
Newsletter Volume 3 Number 3
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • 07/01/1977
Newsletter Volume 3 Number 3
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Third newsletter from the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, continuing topics and sections from the first of volume 1.
Newsletter Volume 4 Number 2
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • April 1978
Newsletter Volume 4 Number 2
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Newsletter from the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Number 2 of Volume 4. Edited by Virginia Somes Sanderson.
Newsletter Volume 4 Number 4
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • October 1978
Newsletter Volume 4 Number 4
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Newsletter from the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Number 4 of Volume 4. Edited by Virginia Somes Sanderson.