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| Gilmanac 1948
Gilman High School Yearbook Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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|  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 |
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|  Summer Yesterdays in Maine: Memories of Boyhood Vacation Days Mount Desert Island Historical Society 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 |
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|  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 |
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| 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 |
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|  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 |
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| Land of Enchantment: The Penobscot Bay - Mount Desert Region of Maine. Mount Desert Island Historical Society 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 |
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| The Flower Guide: A Pocket Manual of the Wild Flowers East of the Rockies. Mount Desert Island Historical Society | ||
| Let’s Look Around Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Let’s Look Around Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: short stories for teaching reading, pronouncing dictionary. | ||
| John D. Rockefeller 1839-1937 Industrial Pioneer and Man Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| John D. Rockefeller 1839-1937 Industrial Pioneer and Man Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: A Biography of John D. Rockefeller 32 pages for the Newcomen Society of England in North America by W. Trevor Holliday | |||
| Maine Province and Court Records Vol. 3 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Maine Province and Court Records Vol. 3 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Reprint of the first three volumes of six that were published by the Maine Historical Society between 1928 and 1975. Vol. III contains the Province of Maine Records 1680-1692. | ||
| The Story of Bar Harbor: an Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years In the Life of a Community Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  The Story of Bar Harbor: an Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years In the Life of a Community Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: History of Bar Harbor from approximately 1800-1950 According to the introduction, this book was written to "find out what had made it [Bar Harbor] what it was". The book was written at the time of the Bar Harbor fire and covers early explorers and claimants, settlers, town of Eden, artists, cottagers, summer colony, and more. | ||
| Rumford Complete Cook Book Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Rumford Complete Cook Book Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Reprint of earlier (1908 cookbook); inscribed "Eva Bordeaux Oct. 25, 1946". Preface indicates that Rumford was the first "to issue booklets and folders on better cooking" 85 years before this edition | |||
| Somesville Grammar School Yearbook 1941 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Somesville Grammar School Yearbook 1941 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Somesville School Yearbook, 1940-1941, Grades 4,5,6, Somesville, Mt. Desert, ME | ||||
| Bo, The Cave Boy Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Bo, The Cave Boy Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: 1 copy of Bo, The Cave Boy, by Wilber Fiske. Stamped Seal Harbor School Library on inside cover. | |||
| Who Was Bob Patterson Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Who Was Bob Patterson Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Page from Beatrix Farrand Society News, "Who Was Bob Patterson" | |||
| "The Mount Desert Larger Parish: A Church Co-op That Works", a 12-page booklet by Leigh Mitchell Hodges written in 1942. Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| "The Mount Desert Larger Parish: A Church Co-op That Works", a 12-page booklet by Leigh Mitchell Hodges written in 1942. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: "The Mount Desert Larger Parish: A Church Co-op That Works", a 12-page booklet by Leigh Mitchell Hodges written in 1942. | |||
| Eyewitness: Peekskill U.S.A. Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Eyewitness: Peekskill U.S.A. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Publication entirely about an event in Peekskill, NY. A concert was stopped from occurring by a racist mob and the police took very little action. LaRue Spiker collection. | |||
| Mount Desert, Maine Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Mount Desert, Maine Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Small (4'" X 6", 55pps.) booklet: Visitors' Guide and Directory. Contains decriptions of villages (Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor, Somes Sound, Somesville, Business and Church Directory, sailing and motoring directions, advertisements, and a 1942 map of Mount Desert Island. Photographs by W.H. Ballard and C.K. Savage. | |||
| The New Bar Harbor Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| The New Bar Harbor Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: NY Times article the "New Bar Harbor" Nov 2, 1947 discusses plans to rebuild | ||||
| Experts Plan Rebuilding of Bar Harbor: Lumber in Firs Area to be Salvaged Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Experts Plan Rebuilding of Bar Harbor: Lumber in Firs Area to be Salvaged Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Photo from newspaper of those planning reconstruction of Bar Harbor after Fire of 47 | |||
| Bar Harbor Burns Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Bar Harbor Burns Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: article from the Bureaugraph , November 1947 on Maine Fires and Situation on Mount Desert Island | |||
| Health Measures after the Fire Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Health Measures after the Fire Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Photocopy Health measures to be taken related to returning evacuees, pledge of funds to Jackson Lab, Red Cross role, Bar Harbor Times |