Description: Biggest Job in 26 Years Faces Publicity Bureau Newspaper clippings (photocopies) of articles about the loss of Bar Harbor after the 1947 fire. There are also letters discussing how to contradict information in the news claiming the fire burned everything.
Description: History of Northeast Harbor Library & Reading Room, a picture of proposed building, articles of the Maine Library Association, newspaper clipping & a picture postcard.
Description: Vol. 5. No. 2, Summer 1949. Published quarterly by the State of Maine Publicity Bureau, 3 St. John St., Portland, Maine. (Printed in Maine on Maine-made paper) In this issue: - Maine Summer Events, 1949 - Rockland inherits a million; Farnsworth fortune builds museum, by James Brown III - I worked in a summer hotel; memories of a resort employee, by Calvin E. Eells - So you think you know Maine? Quiz questions with answers, by Stanley B. Attwood - Hamon Hall; remedial teaching at York Harbor, by Victor A. Schlich - The Maine Coast; sketches of familiar scenes, by Edwin O. Nielsen - Industrial Clinic; applied research at University of Maine, by Don Gross - Made in Maine; new industrial area in Aroostook, by William A. Hatch - Minstrelsy of Maine, edited by Sheldon Christian - Famous Maine Recipes, by June L. Maxfield - Harbor Town, by George S. Graffam (photograph) [show more]
Description: Cranberry Isles brochure ca. 1929-1942. It mentions the Hamor Tea House and the Teel House and insect pests (Hamor house out of existence 1942). Mosquitoe project was 1928. Bus service connected to train "Bar Harbor Express."
Description: Flier listing upcoming exhibitions at the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor, ME. In addition, the flier asks for monetary contributions and lists different subscriber levels. The names of the members of the book committee are also provided. People Mentioned: Sargent Collier, John Whitcomb, Edward Browning, Mrs. R. Amore Thorndike, Dora Brewer, John Hampton Barnes, Mrs. Edward Browning, Mrs. Haskell Cleaves, Mrs. Harry Conners, Mrs. Shepard Fabbri, Albert Eugene Gallatin, Sheldon Goldthwait, Mrs. Richard W. Hale, Mrs. Russell S. Hubbard, Mrs. John H. Evans, Seth Libby, Mrs. C. C. Little, Mrs. Ralph Masterman, Eleanor Mellon, Harriett V. C. Ogden, Mrs. John DeWitt Peltz, Mrs. Stanley M. Rinehart, Alonzo H. Tuck [show more]
Description: Collection consists of three boxes of archival files donated by the Seal Harbor Library pertaining to the history of Seal Harbor village and Acadia National Park. An itemized summary of each boxes' contents is enclosed in each box. An announcement from the library to the patrons on when the library will be open the summer of 1943. Based on war conditions and limited funds the library shortened the hours. It also contains a published list of recently purchased books as well as a short mention persons who donated books to the library. Two Copies [show more]
Description: Green bound date book labeled Year Book 1939 in which Belle Smallidge Knowles attached clippings of obituaries of Northeast Harbor residents et al.
Description: This is a collection of photos, documents and booklets saved by Margaret Elizabeth Harkins, who taught primary school in Tremont during the years 1934-1938. 33 black & White photos of Harkins, friends & students 7 documents related to the purchase of a car, 1938
Description: 2 bound typescripts: one original with photographs, handwritten letters, and other visual materials and the other the carbon copy of the typescript. Leather bound books. Brown with gold leaf and red with gold leaf. Title in gold leaf on spines.
Description: Copies of Rachel Field's letters to Rosamond Lamb - one included Aimee Lamb - her Sutton Island friends from Milton, MA. Sent from Maine & California, the letters are about her marriage to Authur Pederson, her writing, the involvement with movie studios, etc. Introduction by Robert R. Pyle.
Description: Letter to Mr. & Mrs Fred P. Smith from Cp. Donald E. Smith First uncensored letter to his parents now that the war had ended. Talks of going to Bari, Italy on leave, his stationing in Termoli, Italy, changes to the town now that the war is over, where he has been stationed since being sent overseas and what he did in the various locations, doesn't know where they will be sent next.
Description: Envelope with Memories of Dr. Grindle written on it and a 8.5x5.5inch piece of paper labeled Mendocino Bank of Commerce with a letter to Brother Robe from Joshua Grindle. He talks of a trip to visit someone and the meeting of a man (name hard to read), gives a physical description of the man, relates he is fluent in 3-4 languages.
Description: Five page Letter written on 5x7 paper Letter to Jud from Don while he was stationed in Italy during World War II. In the letter he talks about friends he has heard about from letter from home, hopes that his friend will have some success in the upcoming hunting season, life in an field tent with five other people, camp life, weather, movies shown in the camp, what he did on his recent leave.
Description: Miscellaneous papers related to the formation of the MDI Regional High School from 1948 - 1949. Includes surveys, letters to the editor, letters to Rockefeller, pta minutes, general correspondence
Description: Copy of letter from Robert W. Patterson to Miss Joan Fizgerald, November 20, 1970, related to the plans that had been developed but not executed for a house for her father, Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald, in 1948.
Description: Letter, handwritten ink on paper, two pages, from Joan Fitzgerald to Robert W. Patterson, related to plans for a House for Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald, Somes Sound, Mount Desert, Maine, 1948
Description: Letter of Nov. 5 1947 from Robert W. Patterson to his mother, Jane A. Patterson, describing the fire of October 1947 in detail. Includes copy of news article describing work for reconstruction. Has been annotated with footnotes explaining to whom he is referring.