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You searched for: Date: 1920sSubject: Other
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Frederic Delano Weekes to Frank B. Rowell Letter, July 14, 1924
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other
  • Places, Park
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Weekes, Frederic Delano
  • 1924-07-14
  • Mount Desert Island
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Frederic Delano Weekes to Frank B. Rowell Letter, July 14, 1924
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
Description:
A letter from Frederic Delano Weekes to Frank B. Rowell, the secretary of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. Weekes states his hope that high-ranking officials in the National Park Service will share his and Rowell's view that road construction in Lafayette National Park should be curtailed. Weekes goes on to suggest that those involved with the various path committees should confer and create a plan to prevent over-development in the park. People Mentioned: Robert Sterling Yard, Arno B. Cammerer, Harold Peabody [show more]
The Future of Mount Desert Island Report, 1928
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • Document, Report
  • Other
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Park
  • Recreation
  • Eliot, Charles W.
  • 1928
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
The Future of Mount Desert Island Report, 1928
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
Description:
A report by landscape architect Charles W. Eliot on the conservation of nature and the character of Mount Desert Island. The report features maps and photographs. People Mentioned: Gist Blair, Parker Corning, George B. Dorr, Charles S. Frost, William Lawrence, Fred C. Lunam, Vance McCormick, David Hennen Morris, Charles P. Pike, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Hubert Work
Bar Harbor Path Committee to George B. Dorr Letter, April 1, 1922
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other
  • Places, Park
  • Recreation
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Bar Harbor Path Committee
  • 1922-04-01
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
An unsigned letter from the Bar Harbor Path Committee to George B. Dorr, the custodian of Lafayette National Park. The letter states that the various Mount Desert Island path committees are eager to cooperate with Dorr and asks that he confer with them regarding any planned road construction in the park. The path committees understand the need for limited automobile access to the park but would like the pedestrian trail system to be left untouched. People Mentioned: William Jay Turner [show more]
Fred C. Lynam to Frank B. Rowell Letter, March 11, 1924
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Nature
  • Other
  • Places, Park
  • Recreation
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Lynam, Fred C.
  • 1924-03-11
  • Mount Desert Island
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Fred C. Lynam to Frank B. Rowell Letter, March 11, 1924
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
Description:
A letter from Fred C. Lynam to the secretary of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, Frank B. Rowell. Lynam disagrees with Senator George Wharton Pepper's objection to the proposed road construction project in Lafayette National Park. Lynam believes the road network is necessary for providing access to the park to those who cannot, or do not want, to hike. People Mentioned: George Wharton Pepper
Arno B. Cammerer to Gist Blair Letter, August 6, 1927
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other
  • Cammerer, Arno B.
  • 1927-08-06
  • Mount Desert Island
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Arno B. Cammerer to Gist Blair Letter, August 6, 1927
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
Description:
A letter from Arno Cammerer, the acting director of the National Park Service, to Gist Blair of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, regarding the arrival of a government landscape architect. Cammerer assures Blair that, despite continued delays, the National Park Service wants to work with Blair's organization toward a plan for Lafayette National Park's future development. People Mentioned: Charles W. Eliot
The Whitmore Family and Pineapple Upside Down Cake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Other
  • 1924 c.
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Description:
The Whitmore and Dole families are both connected to Southwest Harbor, Maine. This is the story of what happened when archivists tried to connect them to Pineapple Upside Down Cake.