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| Marian Lawrence Peabody, War and Domesticity May 31, 1917 to Dec 31, 1917 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Marian Lawrence Peabody, War and Domesticity May 31, 1917 to Dec 31, 1917 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Marian Lawrence Peabody, War and Domesticity May 31, 1917 to Dec 31, 1917 Discusses views of servants and Peabody household about the war related to their family heritage | |||
| Marian Lawrence Peabody, Chapter 1, excerpts of her diary, 1914 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Marian Lawrence Peabody, Chapter 1, excerpts of her diary, 1914 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Marian Lawrence Peabody, Chapter 1, excerpts of her diary, Aug 2, 1914 to 1916 | ||||
| Marian Lawrence Peabody War Approaches Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Marian Lawrence Peabody War Approaches Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Marian Lawrence Peabody one cut page War Approaches Another full page, 25 discussing Peabody's diary. "Although attendance fell off badly in the war yuears, MLP held on to her custom of organizing an annual concert | |||
| Marian Lawrence Peabody excerpts from her diary, Boston at War Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Marian Lawrence Peabody excerpts from her diary, Boston at War Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Marian Lawrence Peabody, Boston at War, p. 10 both pages Excerpts from Peabody's diary MLP found that the fine private yachts wer not the only transportation equipment taken by the government. | |||
| Account of Captain Spurling Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Account of Captain Spurling Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Typed copy of article from Bangor Daily News "A Little Bit of Hell--Maine Style. In 1893 he drove a pirate ship away from Trinidad Harbor in his schooner, Cashier. Account by E. Preble, daughter. Brace of revolvers and sword given to Capt. Spurling. | |||
| March 1915 Current Events student newspaper Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  March 1915 Current Events student newspaper Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Friday, March 12, 1915 Current Events student newspaper "Fleets storm Dardanelles" Printed Springfield MA, Chicago, IL, Atlanta, GA | |||
| Re-printed article in the Ellsworth American about the Harry E. Davis Buckboard company, located in Ellsworth and Bar Harbor. Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Re-printed article in the Ellsworth American about the Harry E. Davis Buckboard company, located in Ellsworth and Bar Harbor. Tremont Historical Society Description: Re-printed article in the Ellsworth American about the Harry E. Davis Buckboard company, located in Ellsworth and Bar Harbor. | |||
| Obituary of Nettie C. (Allen) Higgins Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Obituary of Nettie C. (Allen) Higgins Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| A Little Bit of Hell, Maine Style Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| A Little Bit of Hell, Maine Style Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Article: A Little Bit of Hell, Maine Style. (TBD 1/9/18, article not located; see also pending Backlog item 2501 for possible copy.) See reprint in Cranberry Chronicle Spring 2014 edition, page 7, from Bangor Daily News ca. 1919; Sam Spurling was aboard the Cashier during this event. Introductory paragraph: “A Little Bit of Hell—Maine Style That’s What Capt. Spurling Gave a Pirate. State Gets Tokens of His Courage. from the Bangor Daily News, ca. 1919 It was just ninety-six years ago Tuesday (Jan. 21) that an event happened in the harbor of Trinidad, Cuba, which reflected great credit on the leader of a bold enterprise, recollections of which have recently been stirred in Maine, on account of the purchase by the state of a brace of pistols and a sword from Mrs. E. Preble of Framingham, Mass…..” And see Charles Liebow notes on the Cashier: - CASHIER: Masters - Samuel Spurling & William Moore, Built in Eden in 1820, 30 Gross Tons, 49.8/17.8/5.3: Two masts with a square stern. Perhaps the vessel from which Sam Spurling gave the Caribbean pirates a "little bit of Hell, Maine style." [show more] | ||
| History and Civics, Fifth year, first half, American, discovery, exploration, colonization related old world history, local history, civics Tremont Historical Society |
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| History and Civics, Fifth year, first half, American, discovery, exploration, colonization related old world history, local history, civics Tremont Historical Society Description: Textbook used for 5th grade. Has signature of P. Thurston, McKinley Maine and Patricia Harvell Brown, Allston, Massachusetts. Found in Book were two typewritten copies of "the Indian's Twenty-Third Psalm" | ||
| William Hinton journal 1919 Tremont Historical Society |
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|  William Hinton journal 1919 Tremont Historical Society Description: Journal of William K. Hinton, while in the US Navy, 3/31/1919-1923. William K. Hinton William was a certified boy scout scoutmaster with a term ending in 1932, and from all appearances, was a caring husband and father. William left the area and went back to Ohio around 1936 or 1937, where he had family. Paul would have been 9 or 10 at this time. He worked in Colombus in an electric shop doing radio service work. He later worked at the Curtis Wright plant making electrical connections between the engines and planes. They were not officially divorced? as on William's death certificate, Harriet is listed as surviving spouse. According to this document,William died in El Cajon, California. His occupation is listed as accountant for K.A.L. Industries, which was involved with auctions. As he was a radioman in his navy years, he gravitated to work with radio repair after leaving the area. In a 1971 letter written to Harriet and Paul, he describes his fondness for playing the “numbers", and how he sometimes heard a voice in his dreams that told him which numbers to play! [show more] | ||||
| Sieur de Monts National Monument and its Historical Associations Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Sieur de Monts National Monument and its Historical Associations Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: George Buckham Dorr is given at the "custodian". The essay includes black and white photographs and describes Sieru de Monts National Monument, which is not "a purchase by the government" but a "gift from citizens." Photocopy | ||
| The Beginner's American History Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  The Beginner's American History Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: U.S. history textbook published by Ginn and Company, c. 1915. Stamped "Property of Trenton School Department" inside front cover. | |||
| If Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  If Northeast Harbor Library Description: Print of the poem 'IF' by Rudyard Kipling. Has accompanying note by Robert Pyle describing Kipling as a summer visitor who donated this print. | ||
| Souvenirs from Three Island Painters Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Souvenirs from Three Island Painters Northeast Harbor Library Description: Scanned photographs, prints and letters of booklet presented to William Otis Sawtelle from H. Warren, C. Kincaid, and S. White, aka Three Island Painters (TIPS) who had a gallery in "Blue Duck", now the Islesford Historical Museum. | |||
| The Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia Northeast Harbor Library |
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| The Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia Northeast Harbor Library Description: Published quarterly by the Geographical Society of Philadelphia. Volume XVII, No. 4, October 1919. Of special interest is the first article: "The Physiography of Mount Desert" by F. Bascom (p. 117-130). Attached is a detailed map of Mount Desert Island by William H. Munroe (Walker Lith. & Pub. Co., Boston). See also item 6084. | |||
| A Path Guide of Mount Desert Island, 1915 Northeast Harbor Library |
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| A Path Guide of Mount Desert Island, 1915 Northeast Harbor Library | ||
| Articles describing the 1916 Firebug Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Articles describing the 1916 Firebug Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Two copies of articles describing the 1916 Firebug on the Cranberry Isles with a summary provided by Bruce Komusin | ||
| Religious booklet for Gramie Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Religious booklet for Gramie Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Booklet, religious, from Eleanore Mildred Joy to Gramie, 25 Dec 1914 | ||
| Stars and Stripes Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Stars and Stripes Northeast Harbor Library Description: File of Stars & Stripes, the official newspaper of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe in WWI | ||||
| Sleeping Homecomers Victims of Rear-end Collision Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Sleeping Homecomers Victims of Rear-end Collision Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Describes the crash of the Bar Harbor Express and the White Mountain Express on Sept. 2, 1913. 21 people were killed and 50 were injured. | ||
| Article about John Lenzy Stanley in Maine - A History Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Article about John Lenzy Stanley in Maine - A History Southwest Harbor Public Library |