Description: Undated magazine on Hancock County, Maine. Text dates publication between 1963 and 1969. Focus on history, economic development, and advertisements.
Description: Gazettes, "War Cry," Official Gazette of the Salvation Army in the United States. Six issues: 1902 (8 Nov, 18 Oct, 21 June, 31 May, 10 May, and Christmas 1901.
Description: Magazine, "Ladies Home Journal," Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia. Issue of 15 May 1911, "The Girls Mid-May Number", with postal label addressed to Mrs Wm Bulger, Cranberry Isle, Maine.
Description: Magazine, "Ladies Home Journal," Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia. Issue of March 1908, "The Spring Fashion Number with 100 Fashion Pictures."
Description: Magazine, "The Modern Priscilla, Home Needlework and Everyday Housekeeping," Priscilla Publishing Company, Boston. Issue of Apr 1918. Includes embroidery patterns and many wartime recipes.
Description: An article written by Andrew Weegar of the Maine Times about the brothers, Galen and Ted Turner of Swan’s Island who have decided to protect the isoand’s maritime history by collecting and saving everything they can get their hands on. They are having difficulty finding funding and have been doing it on their own.
Description: Photocopy excerpt pertaining to Stephen Jones of Gouldsborough, with handwritten notes on reverse pertaining to Thomas Richardson of Bass Harbor and the partitioning of land on MDI.
Description: Located in Princeton files in School House Library top shelves by window; specific date ranges given on labels. 1895-1929 located in Archival Storage area, Row #1, Unit #2, Shelf #5 (behind Chebaccos).
Description: Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Vol. VIII, 2006-2007 Burnt Coat Harbor Light Station, Swans Island, Maine by John M. Bryan A Boy in Summer, Pretty Marsh, The 1930's by Michael McGiffert The Kellams of Placentia Island by Peter P. Blanchard III Island Poets & Poems: Lucy Bell Sellers, Louisa Newlin, Meredith Hutchins, Carl Little, Philip Heckscher August Heckscher: A Man about the World--and Mount Desert Island by Carl Little "Behold This Isle" and Other Poems by August Heckscher The Mayflower and Mount Desert Island by Ralph W. Stanley [show more]
Description: America - Her Grandeur and Her Beauty. “Coast of Maine”. Part eight of a series “presenting the beauty and grandeur of nature in America to the veiw of man.” Published by “Union Book and Publishing Company Publishers”. Sold by subscription only. Black and white photographs; 12" x 14"
Description: Publication by the City of Philadelphia, encouraging people to come and see Philadelphia, for both its history and its modern elements. Research for an article by LaRue Spiker. Previously accessioned as 1948, object Id 2001.1948
Description: Magazine articles. Two articles from Down East Magazine. (1): Down East, December 2014, "Alone Together" p. 73-79, 118-130, by Virginia Wright, photos by Douglas Merriam. Magazine, tear sheets, and scanned copies; digitally as pdf. (see also: http://www.downeast.com/alone-togethe). Storyline - Islesford and Great Cranberry facing the future side by side, with photos and statements by Blair Colby, Tiffany Tate, Beverly Sanborn, Eileen Richards, Phil and Karin Whitney, Tom and Becca Powell, and a cameo photo of Anne Grulich walking in front of the church. (2): Down East, April 2015, "The Secret Lives of Houses" storyline - clues to your old home's age and the people who lived there p. 59, 68, and 70, by Virginia Wright with photos by Brian Vanden Brink. PDF copy and print out. Tells the story of the GCI parsonage house 2014 renovation and how the four concealed shoes in the fireplace wall lead Anne Grulich to research into the house's history, connected it with 7 other cape houses built about the same time, information from other houses, and how to research old houses in general. (There are some mistakes: Bulger didn't live in the Parsonage House. She may have the wrong Enoch Spurling as "ship captain" and owner.) See also www.downeast.com/the-secret-lives-of-houses. [show more]