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| Campaign to Restore and Endow the Sound School House Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Campaign to Restore and Endow the Sound School House Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Pamphlet adovcating for support to restore the Sound Schoolhouse. Two news articles included in pamphlet. | |||
| Campaign Plan for the Sound Schoolhouse Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Campaign Plan for the Sound Schoolhouse Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Set of 2 flyers outlining the timing and gifts pyramid for the schoolhouse restoration project. | |||
| Sound Schoolhouse Restoration Appeal Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Sound Schoolhouse Restoration Appeal Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Envelope containing appeal letter, brochure, response envelope, and solicitation for support for the sound schoolhouse restoration project | |||
| Campaign to Restore the Sound School House Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Campaign to Restore the Sound School House Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Four page document outlining the rationale for restoring the school house and costs of the project. | |||
| The Sound Schoolhouse Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| The Sound Schoolhouse Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Three page document outlining the rationale for the schoolhouse restoration, the beneficiaries of the restoration, and the outline of the restoration campaign. | ||||
| Chebacco, Vol. XXIV: The Maritime Edition Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Chebacco, Vol. XXIV: The Maritime Edition Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Volume XXIV of Chebacco. Focus on maritime history. | |||
| Architectural Drawings & Early Sketches of Fred L. Savage Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Architectural Drawings & Early Sketches of Fred L. Savage Northeast Harbor Library Description: Catalog of Fred Savage exhibit held at the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. | |
| List of Founders of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| List of Founders of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: One page photocopy of list of founding members of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. List includes Evelyn Lunt. | |||
| By-Laws of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| By-Laws of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Two copies of 10 pp. By-Laws of the MDI Historical Society, including one page Summary of Changes in ByLaws, adopted in 1998. | ||
| Bicentennial Notes Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Bicentennial Notes Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Three typewritten pages of Bicentennial Notes pertaining to the 1) wreck of the ship Grand Design in Ship Harbor, and 2) Sons of Eden Monument in Bar Harbor village cemetery. | ||
| Guest Books Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Guest Books Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Mt. Desert Island Historical Society Guest Book pages for the years 1966-1967 and 1989, 1991, 1993-1995. Divided into folders a,b and c. | |||
| Deed and Notes of Land Transfer Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Deed and Notes of Land Transfer Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Photocopy of handwritten note and two photocopies of deed of land. This pertains to a land transfer from Emily Grindle to the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. | |||
| Meeting Notes Regarding Sanderson House Donation Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Meeting Notes Regarding Sanderson House Donation Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Seven handwritten pages of meeting notes pertaining to proposed donation of Virginia Somes Sanderson's historical Somesville house to the MDI Historical Society for use as a museum. | ||
| Details of Virginia Somes Sanderson's House Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Details of Virginia Somes Sanderson's House Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Notes created by the MDI Historical Society regarding the Virginia Somes Sanderson house, which Sanderson proposed to donate to the Society for use as a museum. Sanderson's own notes are appended to the original. | ||
| Board of Director's Meeting Agenda and Notes Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Board of Director's Meeting Agenda and Notes Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Typewritten agenda and handwritten notes of the Board of Directors of the MDI Historical Society meeting. Consideration of refusal of the proposed gift of the Virginia Somes Sanderson house and discussion of the future of the Society. | ||
| Resolution of the MDI Historical Society Regarding Proposed Donation of Sanderson House Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Resolution of the MDI Historical Society Regarding Proposed Donation of Sanderson House Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Typewritten and handwritten resolution of the MDI Historical Society to decline the proposed donation of the Virginia Somes Sanderson house. Mrs. Sanderson appended her handwritten comments to the resolution at a later date. | |||
| Official Documents pertaining to Footbridge Construction in Somesville Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Official Documents pertaining to Footbridge Construction in Somesville Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Building and land use permit applications and building permit for construction of footbridge between two MDI Historical Society buildings in Somesville. | ||
| Letter from Nelson F. Goodwin to Robert Heffner Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Letter from Nelson F. Goodwin to Robert Heffner Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Letter from Nelson F. Goodwin to Robert Heffner May 3, 1994 about the Somesville bridge construction. The letter also includes a copy of the plans for the footbridge. | ||
| Materials Supply list Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Materials Supply list Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: A supply list from Ellsworth Building Supplies showing the cost of materials for the Somesville Bridge. | ||
| Letter from MDI Historical Society to Thalia Nutting Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Letter from MDI Historical Society to Thalia Nutting Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Letter from Society secretary, Winfield Sprague, notifying Thalia Nutting of appointment as a charter member of the MDI HIstorical Society. | ||
| Letter from MDI Historical Society to Helen Fernald Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Letter from MDI Historical Society to Helen Fernald Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Letter from MDI Historical Society secretary, Winfield Sprague, to Helen Fernald notifying her of her appointment as a charter member of the Society. | ||
| Letter from MDI Historical Society to Helen Fernald Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Letter from MDI Historical Society to Helen Fernald Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Letter from the MDI Historical Society secretary, Winfield Sprague, to Ada Leland, notifying her of her appointment as a charter member of the Society. | ||
| Letter from MDI Historical Society to Virginia Somes Sanderson Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Letter from MDI Historical Society to Virginia Somes Sanderson Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Letter from MDI Historical Society secretary, Chadbourne Gilpatric, to Virginia Somes Sanderson, notifying her of her election as Honorary Director of the Society. | |||
| Newsletter Printing Information Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Newsletter Printing Information Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Handwritten one page folder cover describing printing details of the MDI Historical Society Newsletter. Date unknown. Printing was to be done by Downeast Graphics, Ellsworth, Maine. | |||
| Letters to Bidding Contractors on New Museum Building Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Letters to Bidding Contractors on New Museum Building Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Two double sided typewritten sheets containing carbon copies of letters to bidding contractors on new museum building for MDI Historical Society. Letters inform contractors that a contractor had been chosen. | ||
| Program Poster, "Four Generations in Maine, The Carroll Homestead" Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Program Poster, "Four Generations in Maine, The Carroll Homestead" Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Single page hand lettered poster describing a program of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. The video talk and book signing by Dr. Henry Raup was scheduled at the Somesville Parish House on August 17, 1993. | |||
| Notes for Preparation of Newsletter of the Society Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Notes for Preparation of Newsletter of the Society Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: 20 scraps, clippings and pages of notes and submissions used in preparation of the Newsletter of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. | |||
| Mount Desert Island Historical Society Newsletters Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Mount Desert Island Historical Society Newsletters Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Newsletters of the Society ranging from March, 1975, to Winter, 2008. Not all months or years are included. | |||
| Notes on History of Somesville, Maine Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Notes on History of Somesville, Maine Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Four pages of handwritten notes on the history of Somesville, ME, drawn from the book, "The Living Past" authored by Virginia Somes Sanderson. | |||
| Somesville Day Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Somesville Day Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Two copies of printed poster announcing "Somesville Day" sponsored by the Village Improvement Society and the Mount Desert Historical Society. Year not specified. | |||
| History of Somesville, Betwixt the Hills Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| History of Somesville, Betwixt the Hills Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: 14 page photocopy of History of Somesville, including scripts for costumed guides, for use in a walking tour of Somesville. | ||
| Illustrations in Preparation for Walking Tour Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Illustrations in Preparation for Walking Tour Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Four photocopied pages including period costumes and portraits used in preparation for walking tour of Somesville. | |||
| Treasurer's Reports Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Treasurer's Reports Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Financial reports of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society from four years, 1959, 1961, 1978, and 1978. | |||
| Strawberry Festival Financial Report Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Strawberry Festival Financial Report Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: One page typewritten financial report of the Strawberry Festival of July 9, 1977. | ||
| History of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| History of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Handwritten pages (2) and handwritten or typewritten fragments (3) containing information related to the history of the founding of the MDI Historical Society. The purpose of the Society is described here. | |||
| The Campaign to Restore the Sound School House Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  The Campaign to Restore the Sound School House Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Fundraising and informational materials prepared for the Sound School House Campaign Committee of the Mount Desert Island Historial Society dated July 1998. Includes the Sound School House Fact Sheet, the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Fact Sheet, the Sound School House Restoration and Use Plan, Fundraising Plan, and pledge sheet. | |||
| The Campaign to Restore the Sound School House Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  The Campaign to Restore the Sound School House Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Fundraising and informational materials regarding the Sound School House Restoration project prepared by the Mount Desert Island Historical Society and dated March 1998. | |||
| Solicitation Materials Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Solicitation Materials Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Solicitation training materials addressed to Dwight Carter for fundraising efforts for the Sound School House Restoration Project. | |||
| Newsletter Volume 3 Number 1 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Newsletter Volume 3 Number 1 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Newsletter from the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Volume 3, January 1977, No. 1. Contains sections and articles giving information about places on MDI and the work that the Historical Society is doing. | |||
| Newsletter Volume 3 Number 3 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Newsletter Volume 3 Number 3 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Third newsletter from the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, continuing topics and sections from the first of volume 1. | |||
| Newsletter Volume 4 Number 2 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Newsletter Volume 4 Number 2 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Newsletter from the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Number 2 of Volume 4. Edited by Virginia Somes Sanderson. | |||
| Newsletter Volume 4 Number 4 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Newsletter Volume 4 Number 4 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Newsletter from the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Number 4 of Volume 4. Edited by Virginia Somes Sanderson. | |||
| Newsletter Volume 4 Number 1 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Newsletter Volume 4 Number 1 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Newsletter of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Number 1 of Volume 4. | |||
| Newsletter Volume 2 Number 2 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Newsletter Volume 2 Number 2 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Newsletter of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Number 2 of Volume 2. | |||
| 1999 Annual Report to the Members Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| 1999 Annual Report to the Members Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Report informing members of the projects and accomplishments of the Historical Society over the 1999 year. | ||||
| 1996 Annual Report to the Members Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| 1996 Annual Report to the Members Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Report recounting highlights of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society's 1996 year, listing coming events for the next year, and listing the membership. | ||||
| Chebacco, The Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Chebacco, The Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Volume XVII 2015 La Maison d'Or By Oliver Wendell Holmes Introduction: A Cloud of Witnessess By Tim Garrity How Changing Climate Created Mount Desert Island By Catherine Schmitt A Kaleidoscopic View of Place: Ecological Studies and Island Conservation Across the Generations By Marina Schauffler Landscapes We Have Lost: Environment ad History of Mount Desert Island By David Hackett Fischer When Canopies Rivaled Cathedrals By Polly McAdam From Wealth to Poverty: The Rise and Fall of Cod Around Mount Desert Island By Natlie Springuel, William B. Leavenworth, and Karen Alexander [show more] | |||
| The History Journal 1998 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| The History Journal 1998 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: 1998 Logo Provenance Charles W. Eliot and John Gilley: Good Hope for Our Island By Jaylene B. Roths Hadlock Executed This Day By Mary H. Jones A Research Adventure: The Tracy Log Book of 1855 By Anne Mazlish This Island Is A Gift By Carl Little | |||
| The History Journal 1999 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| The History Journal 1999 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: 1999 Great Duck Island- At Sea and On Memory's Horizon By Peter P. Blanchard III The Legend of Talleyrand By Gladys Butler Maypole Point By Rachel Field The Acadians, Thier culture and Their Influence on Mount Desert Edited By Anne Mazlish Fred Savage, The Cottage Builder By Jaylene B. Roths Review- Mount Desert: A History by Michael McGiffert | |||
| The History Journal 2001-2002 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| The History Journal 2001-2002 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Volume IV 2001-2002 Larue Spiker and "America's Most Beautiful Island' By Elizabeth Redhead A Playground Contested: Bar Harbor Natives and Rusticators, 1875-1925 By Lynne Nelson Manion College of the Atlantic: The First Decades By William Carpenter Review- A History of Little Cranbery Island, ME By Michael McGiffert Review- The Story of Mount Desert Island By Carl Little | |||
| The History Journal 2003 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| The History Journal 2003 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Volume V 2003 Transcription of The Early Records of Mount Desert By Patti Leland- Hanson Boatbuilding During World War II MDI, Ellsworth, Stonington and Blue Hill By Ralph W. Stanley Establishing Dr. Abbe's Museum in Mr. Dorr's Park By Ronald H. Epp Ph.D The Green Mountain Railway Bar Harbor's Remarkable Cog Railroad By Peter Dow Bachelder Preview- The Story of Mt. Desert Island And Acadia National Park By Anne S. Funderburk Review- Cemeteries fo Canbery Isles and the Towns of Mount Desert Island ByMichael McGiffert [show more] | |||
| Page from a newsletter Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Page from a newsletter Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Page that appears to be from a newsletter, articles/stories include "History of the Somesville Samplers", "Soapstones and Warming Pans", "'Ed Pete'". Undated. | ||||
| List of Officers of MDI Historical Society Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| List of Officers of MDI Historical Society Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Two double-sided handwritten sheets listing officers of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society from 1931 to 1979. Lists of latter years are incomplete. | |||
| Misc. Fundraising Committee Materials Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Misc. Fundraising Committee Materials Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Explanation of restoration project, committee agenda from January 18, 1999 with contributions, 1998/99 Historical Society membership list, list of donors, chart of gifts. | ||||
| Resoration Project Publications Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Resoration Project Publications Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: 1998 Annual Report to Members, restoration project brochure (undated), Mount Desert Island Historical Society Brochure (undated), 1998 Thanksgiving campaign, photocopy of February 2, 1998 The Coast article on the school house restoration project with architect drawing, photocopy of February 2, 1998 The Coast article on the school house restoration project with February 26, 1998 Bar Harbor Times editorial on the project on the reverse. | |||
| Founding of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Founding of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Five handwritten pages describing the founding, incorporation, early members and officers and early meetings of the MDI Historical Society. The Society was founded in 1931. The Society was founded for the purpose of maintaining a museum in the village of Somesville to educate, inform and benefit the public. Annual meeting activity from 1931-1935 is summarized. | |||
| Membership Application Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Membership Application Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Application to become a member of the MDI Historical Society for 1991-92. On the back is copied a newspaper clipping titled "Federal Work at Somesville", and some general information for upcoming Historical Society events. | ||||
| Campaign Committee and Board of Directors Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Campaign Committee and Board of Directors Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: List of members of the Campaign Committee and Board of Directors, undated. | ||||
| Landscape of Change College of the Atlantic |
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|  Landscape of Change College of the Atlantic Description: Exploring the Past to Build a Resilient Future To understand how climate change is affecting Mount Desert Island we need to look to the past. Our ancestors documented the natural world around them in stories, reports, journals, diaries, and letters, which are cared for in the collections of history museums and libraries. Increasingly, scientists are pulling observations and data from historic records to get a clearer picture of the natural world of the past to understand how the present is changing. [show more] |