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You searched for: Date: 1960sSubject: Events
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Mount Desert Island's Worst Disaster
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events, Fire
  • Places, Island
  • 1964
  • Bar Harbor
Mount Desert Island's Worst Disaster
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Summary of the 1947 Fire on Mount Desert Island. Photograph of Clarence Cook Little and post-fire Jackson Lab. 2 copies.
Entire Island Menaced by Fire
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Events, Fire
  • Places, Island
  • 1967
  • Bar Harbor
Entire Island Menaced by Fire
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Special edition of the 20th anniversary of the 1947 Bar Harbor fire with numerous articles and photographs. 2 copies.
Southwest Harbor Revisited: Times Writer Reports on 1922 Fire
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events, Fire
  • Places, Town
  • LaRue Spiker
  • 1965
  • Southwest Harbor
Description:
Bar Harbor Times article about the 1922 fire that burned the business district. (January 7, 1965).
Weather data of 1947
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Report, Administrative Report
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Weather
  • 1960?
Weather data of 1947
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Comparison weather 1947 to 31-60, Fire of 1947
Green Grows Bar Harbor: reflections from Kebo Valley
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Kebo
  • Recreation, Sports, Golf
  • Collier, Sargent F.
  • 1964
Green Grows Bar Harbor: reflections from Kebo Valley
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
History of Bar Harbor, with photographs by Sargent Collier. Includes chapters on Acadia National Park, social and club life, island laboratories, Bar Harbor-Yarmouth ferry, Fire of 1947, Kebo Valley Golf Club, Bar Harbor Club, Pot and Kettle Club, the Building of Arts, Great Automobile War. Mentions performances of the Boston Symphony at the Building of Arts.
Passamaquoddy Indian Dancers
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Events
  • People
  • Augustus D. Phillips
  • 1968
  • Maine
Passamaquoddy Indian Dancers
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
A group of Passamaquoddy Indian Dancers who perform, annually in August, at the Pleasant Point Indian Reservation, Perry, Maine. Photo by Augustus D. Phillips & Son.
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Lemuel T. Ward, Nov. 8, 1965
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Events
  • People
  • Ward - Lemuel T. Ward (1896-1984)
  • 1965-11-08
Description:
Lemuel T. Ward, the noted decoy carver, wrote this letter to Wendell Gilley after meeting him at an unnamed carving show
Trustees signing incorporation papers
College of the Atlantic
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Events
  • 1969-07-10
  • Bar Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Description:
Trustees signing the college incorporation papers. From left to right: Carlo Ninfi, Seldon Bernstein, Rev. A. C. McGiffert, Frederick Burril, Re. James Gower, Albert Cunningham, Robert Smith, Richard Lewis, and John Good.
Bar Harbor Times article, November 20, 1969
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Events
  • People
  • 1969-11-20
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Announcement that Wendell Gilley would be attending a bird carving exhibition in Chestertown, Maryland. The carving of a bald eagle family that he entered in the exhibit is depicted.
Kent County News article, October 20, 1965
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Events
  • People
  • 1965-10-20
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Lists Wendell Gilley as one of America's top craftsmen exhibiting at the Kent County Chapter of the Maryland Ornithological Society show of waterfowl and upland game bird carvings in Nov. 1965. Other carvers exhibiting included Harold Haertel.
1967 Bar Harbor Times Newspaper, Fire of 1947 Anniversary Supplement
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Events, Fire
  • 1967-10-19
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
A 12 page special supplement published on the 20th anniversary of the 1947 Bar Harbor Fire.
Burning of Des Isle Building
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events, Fire
  • 1965
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Burning of Des Isle Building
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Roy Salisbury Collection
Maine in the Civil War
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Catalog
  • Events
  • Other
  • Maine State Library
  • 1961
Maine in the Civil War
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
A list of material in the Maine State Library
Cranberry Club Invitation
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Request, Invitation
  • Events, Gala
  • 1969
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Cranberry Club Invitation
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Invitation, Cranberry Club 75th. Anniversary (1969)
Union Church Guild Meeting
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events
  • Organizations, Religious
  • People
  • Arthur Coombs
  • 1962
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Union Church Guild Meeting
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Three b/w photographs of women of the Union Church Guild (incl. Marguerite Coombs, Alida Coates, Carolyn Meader, Sheila Graves, Alice Carter, Mary Hooper, and Grace Donnell).
Bicentennial Souvenir Section Commemorates 200th Anniversary
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events
  • Other
  • Places, Town
  • LaRue Spiker
  • 1961
  • Mount Desert, Somesville
Description:
Special Edition of Bar Harbor Times covering 200 years in articles and photographs. August 1961.
Rockefeller Home To Be Razed
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • 1962
  • Mount Desert, Seal Harbor
Rockefeller Home To Be Razed
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
June 10, 1962 Demolition of the Rockefeller's cottage, The Eyrie in Seal Harbor, Maine.
Northeast Harbor Vaudeville Show
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Advertising, Poster
  • Events
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1961
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Northeast Harbor Vaudeville Show
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Letterpress printed broadside. The Northeast Harbor Vaudeville Show of 1961 will be presented August 11 at Mt Desert High School Auditorium at 8:30 o'clock.
Harris Room, Northeast Harbor Library
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • Brown' Studio, Bar Harbor, ME
  • 1966
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
Construction of the Harris Room. Includes photo cover that these were stored in.
The Civil War
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Events
  • Other
  • James I. Robertson, Jr.
  • 1963
The Civil War
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
U. S. Civil War Centennial Commission 1961-1965.
Gilman High Reunion
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • People
  • Arthur Coombs
  • 1962
Gilman High Reunion
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Five b/w photographs of class members and spouses at the 1962 Gilman High Reunion
Main Street Fire 1966
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events, Fire
  • Places, Town
  • Alan Knox
  • 12-15-1966
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Main Street Fire 1966
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Fire on corner of Main St. and Summit Rd., Northeast Harbor.
George Brown's Garage after Fire
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Automotive Repair Business
  • Events, Fire
  • Places, Town
  • 1966
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
George Brown's Garage after Fire
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Main Street, Northeast Harbor: Brown's Garage and Pastime Theater after the fire. Roy Salisbury Collection.
1966 Fire Scenes
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events, Fire
  • Places, Town
  • Alan Knox
  • 1966
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
1966 Fire Scenes
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
1966 fire, Main Street, Northeast Harbor.
Des Isles Building Fire
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events, Fire
  • Places, Town
  • Transportation, Truck, Fire Truck
  • Kimball
  • 1965
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Des Isles Building Fire
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Small B/W photograph of the Des Isles Building on Main Street, Northeast Harbor at the start of the fire which destroyed it in 1965. Photograph shows truck parked in front of building and adults and children (one with bike.)