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Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Acadia National Park: It's Growth and Development by George B Dorr
Bar Harbor Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Dorr - George Bucknam Dorr (1853 - 1944)
  • 1948
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Undetermined
Description:
Hard cover book, green cover embossed with gold lettering. Written by George B Dorr.
Acadia National Park: It's Origin and Background by George B Dorr
Bar Harbor Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Dorr - George Bucknam Dorr (1853 - 1944)
  • 1948
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Undetermined
Description:
Hard cover book, green cover embossed with gold lettering. Written by George B Dorr.
Mount Desert Island's Worst Disaster
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Bar Harbor Fire
  • Other, Fire of 1947
  • Oct 30, 1947
Mount Desert Island's Worst Disaster
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
photocopy of BH Times, pp. 1-7 Bar Harbor Fire
Radio announcements about Fire of !947
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Speech
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Fire engines & equipment
  • Oct 1947
Radio announcements about Fire of !947
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Announcement by unknown radio station of what radio announcer Johnny McCray saw regarding Fire of 1947, 2 photocpies, radio announcement of description of what Superintendent of Public Works, Bangor(?) Reprint on computer
The Mount Desert Messenger
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • October 15, 1943
The Mount Desert Messenger
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
10 page Newsletter printed by Parish of St. Mary's and St. Jude. Gives curret news of the Parish and service men seerving in World War II. There is also a list of service men and their current addresses should anyone wish to write them.
The Mount Desert Messenger
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • November 8, 1942
The Mount Desert Messenger
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
10 page Newsletter printed by Parish of St. Mary's and St. Jude. Gives curret news of the Parish and service men seerving in World War II. There is also a list of service men and their current addresses should anyone wish to write them.
Turn Home
Tremont Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Maine village life - Fiction
  • Mayo, Eleanor
  • 1945
Turn Home
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Bub Dolliver returned home to stay in Minot Harbor, Maine. A former town terror, he hoped to erase his past from the long memory of the villagers and make them accept him as a responsible, hard working member of the community. Book was made into a film noir, Tarnished, by Republic Pictures 1950. Originally published by William Morrow & Co. 1945
The Last Resorts
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Recreation
  • Amory, Cleveland
  • 1948.
The Last Resorts
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Describes how the great resorts have fallen
Newsletter of The Mount Desert Messenger (1945)
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • Other, Newspapers
  • Other, War
  • Other, War correspondents
  • 1945
Newsletter of The Mount Desert Messenger (1945)
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Newsletter of The Mount Desert Messenger (1945) - volume LVI. Thanksgiving/Christmas issue. Sections include: "News From The Home Front" - local and war news including recent war discharges - and "News From The Camps" - listing local soldiers and their regiments.
Birds of Mt. Desert Island Acadia National Park.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Natural History
  • Tyson, Carroll S. and James Bond.
  • 1941.
Birds of Mt. Desert Island Acadia National Park.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Special Paper Maine Fire Disaster
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Events, Fire
  • 1947
Special Paper Maine Fire Disaster
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Picture record of Bar Harbor Fire of 1947
Baymeath
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Cottages
  • Bowen, Louise deKoven
  • 1945
Baymeath
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Written when author was 85 years old, an account of her family's times at "Baymeath" in Bar Harbor. Preface is written to her grandson, Capt. Wm. McCormick Blair, Jr., who was serving during WWII in India.
Life Magazine, June12, 1944
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • 1944
Life Magazine, June12, 1944
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Aerial photo. on cover of bombs falling on an oil refinery in Leghorn, Italy; title on cover, "Invasion by Air."
Gilmanac 1944
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Yearbook
  • 1944
Gilmanac 1944
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
“Gilmanac 1944” Gilman High School yearbook - belonged to J. Walter Allen. Class of 1944 - Editorials, class members, class song, motto “We Finish to Begin”. Class notes for freshman, sophomores and juniors. Literary section with poetry etc. Basketball team pictures, records. Alumni section.
Gilmanac 1948 Gilman High School Yearbook
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Yearbook
  • Other, Northeast Harbor
  • Other, Schools
  • 1948
Gilmanac 1948 Gilman High School Yearbook
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
"Gilmanac 1948" - Yearbook of Gilman High School in Northeast Harbor
The Social Service Review
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book, Journal
  • Other, Miscellaneous
  • 1941
The Social Service Review
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Volume XV of the Social Service Review, in which LaRue Spiker has written an article titled "Rural Housing Conditions in an Illinois Township".
Between the Hills and Its 100 - Year Old Church
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Speech
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • 7/14/1940
Between the Hills and Its 100 - Year Old Church
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
15 page Sermon / historical address given by Rev. Horace H. Leavitt, D.D. on the history of the Somesville Union Meeting House, U.C.C.
Handicrafts of New England
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Handicrafts
  • Other, New England
  • Eaton, Allen H.
  • 1949
Handicrafts of New England
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Includes background of pilgrim and arts and craft handicrafts as well as woodworking, spinning, weaving, knitting, dying, pottery, carving, needlework, silversmithing, and more.
Summer Yesterdays in Maine: Memories of Boyhood Vacation Days
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Maine
  • Recreation
  • Sperry, Willard L.
  • 1941
Description:
A reminiscence by the author of his vacation days beginning in 1885 and continuing for about 40 years in York Co., Maine. He pays special tribute to the illustrator, Charles H. Woodbury
More Vacation Days in Maine. Signed by the author.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Maine
  • Recreation
  • Hasenfus, Nathaniel J.
  • 1949
More Vacation Days in Maine. Signed by the author.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Sequel to We Summer in Maine by same author, but exploring further to such places as Boston, Bar Harbor, Bangor, Harpswell, Camden, Pemaquid, Mohegan [sic] and Moosehead Lake.
Windswept
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fiction
  • Other, Maine
  • Chase, Mary Ellen
  • 1941
Windswept
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
This is a work of fiction by Maine writer Mary Ellen Chase. It is Inscribed “Harriet S. Sanderson, January 1942” on title page and appears to be a first edition. A review by Bess Jones from an unidentified source is pasted inside the back cover.
Early American Decoration
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Object, Art
  • Other, Antiques
  • Brazer, Esther Stevens
  • 1947
Early American Decoration
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Gives information about the techniques of decorating early American furniture, walls, tinware, etc. and also gives instructions about how to do that oneself. Covers stenciling, applying gold leaf, japanning, oil-painted boxes and chests Envelope inside front cover contains cut stencils.
Land of Enchantment: The Penobscot Bay - Mount Desert Region of Maine.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Penobscot Bay
  • Stiles, Dan
  • 1946
Description:
A brief history of the region with special attention to Belfast, Camden, Rockland, Castine, Deer Isle and Stonington, Mount Desert and Bar Harbor, Vinalhaven and North Haven, and smaller islands (Isle au Haut, Swan's, and others). Map of area inside front and back covers. Virginia Somes Sanderson's bookplate inside front cover
The Flower Guide: A Pocket Manual of the Wild Flowers East of the Rockies.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Flowers
  • Reed, Chester A.
  • 1940
Let’s Look Around
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fiction
  • Other, Reading
  • Arthur I Gates & Jean Ayer
  • 1940
Let’s Look Around
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
short stories for teaching reading, pronouncing dictionary.