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You searched for: Date: 1980sType: Publication
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Croquet, Anyone?
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Cole, John N.
  • 1984
Croquet, Anyone?
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Article fromAugust 1984 Down East magazine about croquet at the Claremont Hotle, Southwest Harbor.
Saved by A Great White Elephant
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Davis, Norah Deakin
  • 1985
Saved by A Great White Elephant
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Article about the Turrets, on College of the Atlantic campus, from Oct. 1985 Down East magazine.
Blue Lobsters, Old Ghosts: A Visit to Bar Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Maxwell, Jessica
  • 1986
Blue Lobsters, Old Ghosts: A Visit to Bar Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Overview of Bar Harbor and surroundings in Islands magazine.
Traditions and Records: Southwest Harbor, and Somesville -- Mount Desert Island, Maine.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Somesville
  • Other, Southwest Harbor
  • Thornton, Mrs. Seth
  • 1988
Ancestral Roll and Chapter Roster, Maine State Organization
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Bois, Betty Kragelund
  • 1987
Description:
Compiled by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to "aid those in search of that often elusive ancestor."
Bar Harbor Times
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Other, History - Tremont
  • 1988
Bar Harbor Times
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Bar Harbor Times, “Selects” section. “Historic Houses on View” in Tremont for sesquicentennial. Houses include Bass Harbor LIghthouse Keeper''s Cottage, "Goose Gables," owned by Sam Hamill, and other homes in the Tremont area.
MDI Historical Society Newsletter
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • 1983
MDI Historical Society Newsletter
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Newsletter for Volume VI, September 1, 1983, No. 1. Describes decision to keep museum open in Sept., painting of bridge by Girl Scouts, fundraising efforts, gifts to Society.
Maine: The Coast and Islands
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Islands
  • Other, Maine
  • Ledbetter, Jack
  • 1989
Maine: The Coast and Islands
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
A brief history of the coastof Maine and many, many color photographs.
Past in Photos: Scenes of SW Harbor, Tremont, and Mt. Desert
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Mount Desert
  • Other, Southwest Harbor
  • Other, Tremont
  • 1989
Description:
Collection and description of photos or old Southwest Harbor, Tremont, and Mt. Desert.
Lobstering and The Maine Coast
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature, Animals, Shellfish, Lobsters
  • Other, Fishing
  • Martin, Kenneth R. and Nathan R. Lipfert
  • 1985
Lobstering and The Maine Coast
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Community life and everyday aspects of coastal Maine, especially lobstering, the "regional maritime culture."
The Rediscovery of America’s Maritime Heritage
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Ships
  • Stobart, John and Robert P. Davis
  • 1985
The Rediscovery of America’s Maritime Heritage
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Descriptions, photographs of maritime paintings of the 19th C.; author is a "foremost marine artist."
Taking Care of Business Down East: the History of the Bar Harbor Banking and Trust Company 1887-1987
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Banking
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Marmon, Edward Lee
  • 1987
Description:
Growth of Bar Harbor banking services to include communities farther "down east". Gives history of banking in Maine and relationship to Boston banking, beginning in 1887.
The Conservation Easement Handbook: Managing Land Conservation and Historic Preservation Easement Programs
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Conservation & restoration
  • Other, Easements
  • Diehl, Janet and Thomas S. Barrett
  • 1988
Description:
Gives guidelines for managing an easement program, developing criteria, marketing, and more. Includes list of useful contacts.
Eliots and Asticou Foreside, Northeast Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Eliot, Charles W.
  • Other, Northeast Harbor
  • Eliot, Charles W. 2nd
  • 1981
Eliots and Asticou Foreside, Northeast Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Description and comments about family homes in Northeast Harbor, visitors to the homes, and summer activities.
On the Art of Teaching
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Schools
  • Mann, Horace
  • 1989
On the Art of Teaching
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
A facsimile of the classic 184o book which described the qualifications for those who teach.
Native Birds of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Long, Ralph H.
  • 1987
Description:
Almost 150 native species of birds reside on Mount Desert and surrounding Islands; this book is a guide to those birds here from June to August of the year. It indicates good places to view these birds
Early American School Books
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Schools
  • 1988
Early American School Books
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Contains selected pages from schoolbooks from 1785 to 1880. Examples are from spelling and geography books, among others.
The Interiors Handbook for Historic Buildings
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Interior design
  • Other, Preservation
  • Fisher, Charles E. III, Michael Auer, Anne Grimmer, eds.
  • 1988
The Interiors Handbook for Historic Buildings
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Maine Families in 1790 Vol. 1
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, Maine
  • Gray, Ruth, ed.
  • 1988
Maine Families in 1790 Vol. 1
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Gives information about the more than 400 families living in Maine in 1790, according to that year's census. At that time the District of Maine had just five counties and was part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Members of the various Indian tribes were not inclded in this census.
History of Barlett’s Island, Mount Desert Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bartlett’s Island
  • Other, History
  • Binnewies, Esther and Muriel Davisson
  • 1981
History of Barlett’s Island, Mount Desert Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
164-page history of Bartlett's Island; with an introduction by Peggy Rockefeller. Copy #2 was donated by Gail Reiber.
Saving the Ozone Layer Newsletter
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • 1987
Saving the Ozone Layer Newsletter
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Saving the Ozone Layer: A citizen Action Guide Natural Resources Defense Council Collected by League of Women Voters
The Living Past: Being the Story of Somesville Mount Desert, Maine and Its Relationships with Other Areas of the Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Somesville
  • Somes-Sanderson, Virginia
  • 1982.
Description:
As the author says in the preamble, " This is the story...of the first permanent settlement on Mount Desert Island..." ?At one time Somesville had seven mills, five shipyards, four blacksmith shops, two stores, and ...serv[ed] the entire area and outlying islands."
Champagne and a Gardener: A Little Maine Murder
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fiction
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Morison, B.J.
  • 1982
Champagne and a Gardener: A Little Maine Murder
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
According to the dust jacket, this is a "novel of manners and ...mystery" centering around a Boston family who summers on the "backside" of Mount Desert Island. (The author bought the Criterion Theater in Bar Harbor in 1969.)
Needlecraft for Today (June 1980)
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • 1980
Needlecraft for Today (June 1980)
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Needlecraft for Today (June 1980)
John Gilley One of the Forgotten Millions
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Charles W. Eliot
  • 1989
John Gilley One of the Forgotten Millions
Mount Desert Island Historical Society