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Southwest Harbor Public Library Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, Civic, Public Library Structures, Civic, Library	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Southwest Harbor Public Library Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-3487 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, Civic, Public Library Structures, Civic, Library Place: Southwest Harbor Description: Nell Thornton famously said, in her book, The Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor, “The Southwest Harbor Public Library had its beginning [as the Tremont Public Library] in 1884 when Mrs. Annie Sawyer Downs gathered a number of discarded books from the hotels, mostly paper covered volumes, and placed them on a shelf in one corner of Dr. R. J. Lemont's drug store…” The library was, as were many small libraries on the coast of Maine, started by “people from away,” in other words, summer people. This small library, however, was quickly adopted by native Southwest Harborians, and has grown, in the almost one and a half centuries since its founding, to be one of Maine’s very few five-star libraries, according to the Library Journal Index of Public Library Service. Thornton, Nellie C., Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine (Merrill & Webber Company, 1938, The Southwest Harbor Public Library, 1988) [show more]
Woman’s Literary Club Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Document, Program	Organizations Other, Clubs Structures, Civic, Library			Woman’s Literary Club Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-17431 Type: Document, Program Subject: Organizations Other, Clubs Structures, Civic, Library Description: Woman’s Literary Club program for 1927-1928. Mt. Desert, Maine. Written on the cover in pen is, “J.S. Fernald”. Previously Archived as 016.FIC.001.40.a
Woman’s Literary Club Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Document, Program	Organizations Other, Clubs Structures, Civic, Library			Woman’s Literary Club Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-12081 Type: Document, Program Subject: Organizations Other, Clubs Structures, Civic, Library Description: Woman’s Literary Club program for 1951-1952. Mt. Desert, Maine. Picture of the Somesville library on the cover. “Marjory Hayward” written on the inside cover. Previously archived as object id 016.FIC.001.40.c
Woman’s Literary Club program for 1924-1925 Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Document, Program	Organizations Other, Clubs Structures, Civic, Library			Woman’s Literary Club program for 1924-1925 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-7772 Type: Document, Program Subject: Organizations Other, Clubs Structures, Civic, Library Description: Woman’s Literary Club program for 1924-1925. Mt. Desert, Maine.
Northeast Harbor Library Northeast Harbor Library	Image, Photograph	Organizations, Civic, Public Library Structures, Civic, Library	Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor		Northeast Harbor Library Northeast Harbor Library Identifier: nehl-4911 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Organizations, Civic, Public Library Structures, Civic, Library Place: Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor Description: A photograph of the Northeast Harbor Library, which was sent to The Bar Harbor Times that ran in a special supplement, "Getting to Know Your Mount Desert Island Non-Profit Organization".
Vesta E. (Spear) McRae House and Original Bass Harbor Library Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, Civic, Public Library Structures, Civic, Library Structures, Dwellings, House	Tremont, Bernard	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Vesta E. (Spear) McRae House and Original Bass Harbor Library Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13420 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, Civic, Public Library Structures, Civic, Library Structures, Dwellings, House Place: Tremont, Bernard

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