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You searched for: Date: 1940sType: Publication
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.
Gilmanac, 1948
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Yearbook
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • 1948
Gilmanac, 1948
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
1948 Gilman High School yearbook
Gilmanac, 1943
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Yearbook
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • 1943
Gilmanac, 1943
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
1943 Gilman High School yearbook
Gilmanac, 1945
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Yearbook
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • 1945
Gilmanac, 1945
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
1945 Gilman High School yearbook
Gilmanac, 1947
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Yearbook
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • 1947
Gilmanac, 1947
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
1947 Gilman High School yearbook
Resort Town War-Minded
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events
  • Other
  • People
  • Places, Town
  • 1943
  • Mount Desert
Resort Town War-Minded
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Several clipped articles about the 1943 war time activity in the Town of Mount Desert. Focus on residents: Wilma Clark Eaton, Herbert Thomas (town manager), servicemen Fred Ralph, James McElroy, Ray Young, and Charles Stover.
Fire of 1947
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events, Fire
  • 1947
  • Bar Harbor
Fire of 1947
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Newspaper articles on the 1947 Bar Harbor Fire: Bar Harbor Times - Thursday, November 6, 1947 (pp. 1 + 4) Bangor Daily News - Friday, October 24, 1947 (pp. 1 + 2 + 4)
Maine Fire Disaster
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Events, Fire
  • Guy P. Gannett, Publisher
  • 1947
  • Mount Desert Island
Maine Fire Disaster
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Pictorial review of the 1947 fire.
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.
Cherokee-Iroquois Little People
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Other
  • People
  • John Witthoft, Wendell S. Hadlock
  • 1946
Cherokee-Iroquois Little People
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Reprinted from "Journal of American Folklore", October-December 1946.
Mount Desert Island's Worst Disaster
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Bar Harbor Fire
  • Other, Fire of 1947
  • Oct 30, 1947
Mount Desert Island's Worst Disaster
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
photocopy of BH Times, pp. 1-7 Bar Harbor Fire
Radio announcements about Fire of !947
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Speech
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Fire engines & equipment
  • Oct 1947
Radio announcements about Fire of !947
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Announcement by unknown radio station of what radio announcer Johnny McCray saw regarding Fire of 1947, 2 photocpies, radio announcement of description of what Superintendent of Public Works, Bangor(?) Reprint on computer
The Mount Desert Messenger
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • October 15, 1943
The Mount Desert Messenger
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
10 page Newsletter printed by Parish of St. Mary's and St. Jude. Gives curret news of the Parish and service men seerving in World War II. There is also a list of service men and their current addresses should anyone wish to write them.
The Mount Desert Messenger
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • November 8, 1942
The Mount Desert Messenger
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
10 page Newsletter printed by Parish of St. Mary's and St. Jude. Gives curret news of the Parish and service men seerving in World War II. There is also a list of service men and their current addresses should anyone wish to write them.
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
Gilmanac 1947 Yearbook
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Yearbook
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • 1947
Gilmanac 1947 Yearbook
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Incomplete proof-pages of the 1947 Gilman High School Yearbook. Photographs include one of front view of building with the town WW I & II Honor Roll. Also included is a b/w glossy photograph of the graduating class. For the complete Yearbook 1947, see Item 7204
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
Newsletter of The Mount Desert Messenger (1945)
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • Other, Newspapers
  • Other, War
  • Other, War correspondents
  • 1945
Newsletter of The Mount Desert Messenger (1945)
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Newsletter of The Mount Desert Messenger (1945) - volume LVI. Thanksgiving/Christmas issue. Sections include: "News From The Home Front" - local and war news including recent war discharges - and "News From The Camps" - listing local soldiers and their regiments.
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
Special Paper Maine Fire Disaster
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Events, Fire
  • 1947
Special Paper Maine Fire Disaster
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Picture record of Bar Harbor Fire of 1947
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.
Life Magazine, June12, 1944
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • 1944
Life Magazine, June12, 1944
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Aerial photo. on cover of bombs falling on an oil refinery in Leghorn, Italy; title on cover, "Invasion by Air."
Gilmanac 1944
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Yearbook
  • 1944
Gilmanac 1944
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
“Gilmanac 1944” Gilman High School yearbook - belonged to J. Walter Allen. Class of 1944 - Editorials, class members, class song, motto “We Finish to Begin”. Class notes for freshman, sophomores and juniors. Literary section with poetry etc. Basketball team pictures, records. Alumni section.