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Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
The Mariner’s Book of Days
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Sailors
  • Spectre, Peter H.
  • 1997
The Mariner’s Book of Days
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
This is a desktop calendar containing quotations, definitions, and other ephemera related to the sea, as well as spaces for each date/day of the 1998 calendar year.
Early Settler Activity Guide
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Home Economics
  • Stenson, Elizabeth
  • 1992
Early Settler Activity Guide
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
This is a guide for teachers and others for use with classes and small groups. It covers making a time line, costumes, use of field trips, and other activities.
Home Pattern Company 1914 Fashions Catalog
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fashion design
  • Other, Home Economics
  • 1995
Home Pattern Company 1914 Fashions Catalog
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
..."the newest, most sophisticated styles for the home sewer." Shows fashions for 1914 including those for children.
Antiquing for Dummies
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Zoglin, Ron and Deborah Shouse
  • 1999
Antiquing for Dummies
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Gives auction tips, questions to ask and antique dealer, signs of a valuable antique, flaws to watch out for, and more.
American Maritime Paintings of John Stobart
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Paintings
  • Other, Stobart, John
  • Stobart, John F.
  • 1991
American Maritime Paintings of John Stobart
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Contains more than 70 color reproductions of Stobart's paintings as well as halftones and drawings. Subjects include clipper ships, whalers, and steamboats; text gives background information and relates American maritime history.
Rural New England Furniture: People, Place, and Production
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Furniture
  • Other, New England
  • Benes, Peter, ed.
  • [1998]
Description:
The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings 1998, a collection of articles on subjects such as "Repairs versus Deception on Essex County Cupboards," "Cabinetmaking Practices...", and about such people as Capt. Abraham Knowlton, William Lloyd, Amzi Chapin; and places such as Worcester County, Mass.; Sterling, Mass.
Identifying American Architecture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, 1600-1945
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Blumenson, John J.-G.
  • 1995
Description:
Covers styles with minimal text and black and white photographs. Styles include: Spanish Colonial, Mission, Pueblo, Spanish Colonial Revival, New England Colonial, Southern Colonial. French Colonial, Dutch Colonial, Georgian, Federal, Roman Classicism, Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, Egyptian Revival, Gothic Revival, Victorian Gothic, Italian Villa, Italianate, Renaissance Revival, Second Renaissance Revival, Romanesque Revival, Victorian Romanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque, Octagon, Chateau, Second Empire Easter Stick, Western Stick, Eastlake, Shingle, Queen Anne, Sullivanesque, Beaux-Arts Clasicism, New-Classicism, Bungalow, Prairie, International, Art Deco, Art Moderne [show more]
Maine Lobsterboats: Builders and Lobstermen Speak of Their Craft
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature, Animals, Shellfish, Lobsters
  • Other, Boat & ship industry
  • Thorndike, Virginia L.
  • 1998
Description:
Describes construction and features of lobsterboats and give profiles of those who built them.
A Comprehensive Guide for Listing a Building in The National Register of Historic Places
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Historic buildings
  • Greenberg, Gail
  • 1996
Description:
Gives guidelines for completing forms to list properties in National Register. Author was executive director of the Camden, NJ, Cultural and Heritage Commission.
John Calvin Stevens: Domestic Architecture 1890-1930
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Stevens, John Calvin
  • Stevens, John Calvin II and Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.
  • 1990
John Calvin Stevens: Domestic Architecture 1890-1930
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
A survey of architect Stevens's four decades of design taken from his photographs in albums, a change from the earlier line drawings. The primary photographer was Thomas Ellison. An introductory biographical essay was written by grandson John Calvin Stevens II.
A Delight to All Who Knew It: The Maine Summer Architecture of William R. Emerson
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Emerson, William R.
  • Reed, Roger G.
  • 1995
Description:
The author is an architectural historian and has gathered information about the architects and builders of hotels and cottages, along with their clients, beginning in the late 19th century and continuing to today. This work focuses on the work of William R. Emerson.
Houses and Homes: Exploring Their History
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Howe, Barbara J., et al
  • 1997
Houses and Homes: Exploring Their History
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
How and why to explore an house's history using the setting, written records, oral and visual sources, and the home itself as resources. Also discusses the American dream of owning a home, construction techniques and materials, and more.
Ray Dwelley of Islesford, Maine: A Short Biography
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Dwelley, Ray
  • Other, Islesford
  • Dwelley, Hugh L.
  • 1994
Ray Dwelley of Islesford, Maine: A Short Biography
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
A brief biography of one of the individuals (as opposed to families) who came to live in Islesford, Maine. He was a teacher, hotel keeper, store keeper, postmaster, grange master, and churchman. Occasional Paper #5
The Roofing Handbook for Historic Buildings
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Roofs
  • Slaton, Deborah and Charles E. Fisher III
  • 1999
The Roofing Handbook for Historic Buildings
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Series of articles by various people in chapters about Guidelines and References, History and Technology, Planning and Specifications, and Roofing Materials
Landscapes & Gardens for Historic Buildings
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Gardens
  • Places, Landscape
  • Favretti, Rudy J.
  • 1997
Landscapes & Gardens for Historic Buildings
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Tells how to create historic gardens and landscapes that reflect specific periods, e.g., colonial, Victorian as well as how and where to research these gardens. Suggested plantings that are historically accurate are given as are guidelines for maintaining the restored landscape.
The American Legion: An Official History 1919-1989
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Clubs
  • Rumer, Thomas A.
  • 1990
The American Legion: An Official History 1919-1989
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
The Lewiston Historic Preservation Design Manual
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Design
  • Other, Lewiston
  • Wright, Russell J.
  • 1999
The Lewiston Historic Preservation Design Manual
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Maine Families in 1790 Vol. 2
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, Maine
  • Gray, Ruth, ed.
  • 1990
Maine Families in 1790 Vol. 2
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.
Maine Families in 1790 Vol. 3
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, Maine
  • Gray, Ruth, ed.
  • 1992
Maine Families in 1790 Vol. 3
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.
Maine Families in 1790 Vol. 4
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, Maine
  • Anderson, Joseph Crook II, ed.
  • 1994
Maine Families in 1790 Vol. 4
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.
Maine Families in 1790 Vol. 5
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, Maine
  • Anderson, Joseph Crook II, ed.
  • 1996
Maine Families in 1790 Vol. 5
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.
Saltwater Foodways: New Englanders and their food at sea and ashore in the nineteenth century.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Food
  • Other, History
  • Other, Home Economics
  • Other, New England
  • Oliver, Sandra L.
  • 1995
Description:
This is a "food history" book that incorporates a social history of preparing and eating food; it includes recipes, many from old cookbooks.
Maine Probate Abstracts Volume 1 1687-1775.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Law & legal affairs
  • Other, Maine
  • Frost, John Eldridge
  • 1991
Maine Probate Abstracts Volume 1 1687-1775.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
A compilation of all records of the Probate Courts of Maine: wills, administrations, estate divisions, estate accounts, guardianships, and other acts for 1687-1775.
Maine Probate Abstracts Volume 2 1775 - 1800.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Law & legal affairs
  • Other, Maine
  • Frost, John Eldridge
  • 1991
Maine Probate Abstracts Volume 2 1775 - 1800.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
A compilation of all records of the Probate Courts of Maine: wills, administrations, estate divisions, estate accounts, guardianships, and other acts for 1775-1800.
Sterling Silver Flatware: For Dining Elegance 2nd Edition
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Silverware
  • Osterberg, Richard
  • 1999
Sterling Silver Flatware: For Dining Elegance 2nd Edition
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
"Serving implements" arranged by category, e.g., teaspoons, butter knives; place pieces, place settings, and serving pieces are shown.