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You searched for: Date: 1940sType: PublicationType: Book
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Acadia National Park: It's Growth and Development by George B Dorr
Bar Harbor Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Dorr - George Bucknam Dorr (1853 - 1944)
  • 1948
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Undetermined
Description:
Hard cover book, green cover embossed with gold lettering. Written by George B Dorr.
Acadia National Park: It's Origin and Background by George B Dorr
Bar Harbor Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Dorr - George Bucknam Dorr (1853 - 1944)
  • 1948
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Undetermined
Description:
Hard cover book, green cover embossed with gold lettering. Written by George B Dorr.
Cranberryana
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Mary Frances Parkman
  • 1944
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Cranberryana
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Copies of this paper, presented at the annual meeting of the Cranberry Club in Aug. 1986, were presented to members of the club at Christmas.
The Quails.
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Spaulding - Edward Selden Spaulding (1891-)
  • 1949
The Quails.
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Illustrated by Francis Lee Jaques. Published by MacMillan.
Turn Home
Tremont Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Maine village life - Fiction
  • Mayo, Eleanor
  • 1945
Turn Home
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Bub Dolliver returned home to stay in Minot Harbor, Maine. A former town terror, he hoped to erase his past from the long memory of the villagers and make them accept him as a responsible, hard working member of the community. Book was made into a film noir, Tarnished, by Republic Pictures 1950. Originally published by William Morrow & Co. 1945
The Last Resorts
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Recreation
  • Amory, Cleveland
  • 1948.
The Last Resorts
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Describes how the great resorts have fallen
Birds of Mt. Desert Island Acadia National Park.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Natural History
  • Tyson, Carroll S. and James Bond.
  • 1941.
Birds of Mt. Desert Island Acadia National Park.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Baymeath
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Cottages
  • Bowen, Louise deKoven
  • 1945
Baymeath
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Written when author was 85 years old, an account of her family's times at "Baymeath" in Bar Harbor. Preface is written to her grandson, Capt. Wm. McCormick Blair, Jr., who was serving during WWII in India.
The Social Service Review
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book, Journal
  • Other, Miscellaneous
  • 1941
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".
Handicrafts of New England
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Handicrafts
  • Other, New England
  • Eaton, Allen H.
  • 1949
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
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Maine
  • Recreation
  • Sperry, Willard L.
  • 1941
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
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Maine
  • Recreation
  • Hasenfus, Nathaniel J.
  • 1949
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
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fiction
  • Other, Maine
  • Chase, Mary Ellen
  • 1941
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
  • Publication, Book
  • Object, Art
  • Other, Antiques
  • Brazer, Esther Stevens
  • 1947
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
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Penobscot Bay
  • Stiles, Dan
  • 1946
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
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Flowers
  • Reed, Chester A.
  • 1940
Let’s Look Around
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fiction
  • Other, Reading
  • Arthur I Gates & Jean Ayer
  • 1940
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
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • People
  • 1948
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
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Law & legal affairs
  • Other, Maine
  • Moody, Robert E., ed.
  • 1947
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
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, History
  • Hale, Richard Walden Jr.
  • 1949
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
  • Publication, Book
  • Wallace, Lily Hayworth
  • 1945
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
Bo, The Cave Boy
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Wilber Fiske
  • 1944
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.
Loom of the Land
Tremont Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Mayo, Eleanor R.
  • 1946
Loom of the Land
Tremont Historical Society
Cuckoos on the Hearth
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Other
  • Parker Fennelly
  • 1941
Cuckoos on the Hearth
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Script of a three-act play by Parker Fennelly of New York and Northeast Harbor. It was staged at the Morosco Theater in NY in October 1941 under direction of Antoinette Perry. 1st copyright title " Two Story House" 1941; Cuckoos on the Hearth 1942. Scan: Cover, first pages only.
The Bar Harbor Directory
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • F. C. Fearing
  • 1947
  • Bar Harbor
The Bar Harbor Directory
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Cottage directory. Scan: Cover, first pages only.