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Fishes of Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fish
  • Other, Maine
  • Other, Natural history
  • Everhart, W. Harry
  • 1958
Fishes of Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Dress
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Home economics
  • Other, Sewing
  • Oerke, Bess V.
  • 1956
Dress
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Mount Desert: The most beautiful island in the world
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Explorers
  • Other, Railroad companies
  • Other, Railroads
  • Collier, Sargent F.
  • 1952
Mount Desert: The most beautiful island in the world
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Chapters on: Indians and explorers; Jesuits; de Gregoire; Bernard; Wreck of the Grand Design; British Navy; Early settlers; Summer visitors; Green Mountain Railway; Navy; Social Life; Bar Harbor fire; Jackson Lab; Acadia National Park.
Record of Official Visits by Eugene S. Robbins
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book, Journal
  • Organizations
  • Other, Clubs
  • 3/21/1952
Record of Official Visits by Eugene S. Robbins
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Journal of official visits made by Eugene S. Robbins as Grand Senior Warden (1951-1952) and Grand HIgh Priest (1952-1953) for Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Includes meeting locations, mileage, attendence, and notes. Last entry 3/23/1953.
Willing Workers Record Book
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book, Journal
  • Organizations
  • Other, Clubs
  • 3/2/1953
Willing Workers Record Book
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Record book started by Constance Robbins, secretary for the Willing Workers Club, formed on 3/2/1953 to raise money for “the mortgage and carpet”. A group of Odd Fellows and Rebekahs comprised the club membership. The record book contains minutes from various meetings, loose reciepts, bank statements, and notes. Last entry made 12/30/1970.
The Garden Journal
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book, Journal
  • Other, Biology
  • 1956
The Garden Journal
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Magazine containing an article by LaRue Spiker, titled "Green Factories", about the food-making processes of plants.
The Commonwealth
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book, Journal
  • Other, Civil Rights
  • 1957
The Commonwealth
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Article by LaRue Spiker, about the attempts of a mother to send her two black children to a white school in Kentucky, shortly after this was legalised. Describes the antagonism of the local people, including the police.
The Nation
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book, Journal
  • Other, Business
  • Other, Fisheries
  • 1958
The Nation
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Journal containing article by LaRue Spiker titled "Farmers of the Sea." About the falling price of lobsters, and the fate of lobstermen.
Customs on the Table Top: How New England Housewives Set Out their Tables
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Home Economics
  • Other, Housewives
  • Other, Table settings & decoration
  • Sprackling, Helen
  • 1958
Description:
Description of New Englander as good host, hearty eater, and "prodigious drinker."
The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Inquiry into the Salem Witch Trials
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Massachusetts
  • Other, Witchcraft trials
  • Starkey, Marion L.
  • 1950
The Book of American Clocks
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Clocks & watches
  • Palmer, Brooks
  • 1950
The Book of American Clocks
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Gives background of clock and watch making in America; illustrates types of clocks and watches; gives list of makers and information about them. Also gives a brief history of American timekeeping.
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Glassware
  • McKearin, Helen and George S.
  • 1950
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Gives the history of blown glassmaking from colonial days to othe modern period; covers tableware, flasks, molded glass, and more.
New England Clocks at Old Sturbridge Village
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Clocks & watches
  • Fennelly, Catherine
  • (1955).
New England Clocks at Old Sturbridge Village
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Jeb Ellis of Candlemas Bay
Tremont Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Moore, Ruth
  • 1952
Jeb Ellis of Candlemas Bay
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Juvenile or Young Adult version of the novel Candlemas Bay. Version written by the author Ruth Moore.
A Fair Wind Home
Tremont Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Maine - Fiction
  • Moore, Ruth
  • 1953
A Fair Wind Home
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
The adventures of the Ellis family in eighteenth-century Boston...including the real story of Ringgold the Pirate
A Fair Wind Home
Tremont Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Maine Fiction
  • Moore, Ruth
  • 1953
A Fair Wind Home
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
The adventures of the Ellis family in eighteenth-century Boston...including the real story of Ringgold the Pirate
Candlemas Bay
Tremont Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Maine - Fiction
  • Moore, Ruth
  • 1950
Candlemas Bay
Tremont Historical Society
Cold as a Dog and the Wind Northeast
Tremont Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Poets, American- Maine
  • Moore, Ruth
  • 1958
Cold as a Dog and the Wind Northeast
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
The Ballad of the Night Charley Tended Weir The Ballad of Long-Gone Jones The Ballad of Willy The Ballad of The Three Green Waves The Ballad of Tryphosa's Husband The Ballad of The Mermaid
Speak to the Winds
Tremont Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Maine - Fiction
  • Moore, Ruth
  • 1956
Speak to the Winds
Tremont Historical Society
Speak to the Winds
Tremont Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Maine - Fiction
  • Moore, Ruth
  • 1956
Speak to the Winds
Tremont Historical Society
Uses of Birch-Bark in the Northeast
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Other
  • People
  • Places
  • Eva L. Butler, Wendell S. Hadlock
  • 1957
Uses of Birch-Bark in the Northeast
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Published by the Robert Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine. Second printing, 1974
History of Frenchboro, Maine
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Other
  • Places, Island
  • Vivian D. Lunt
  • 1956
  • Frenchboro
History of Frenchboro, Maine
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
History of Frenchboro, Maine.
The Great Star Chant
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature
  • Other
  • People
  • Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • 1956
The Great Star Chant
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
The Myth and Prayers of the Great Star Chant and the Myth of the Coyote Chant. Recorded by Mary C. Wheelwright. With 22 serigraph color plates by Louie Ewing after sand paintings recorded by Franc J. Newcomb and others. Navajo Religion Series, Vol. IV.
A Study of Navajo Symbolism
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature
  • Other
  • People
  • Franc Johnson Newcomb, Stanley Fishler, Mary C. Wheelwright
  • 1956
A Study of Navajo Symbolism
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Published as part of the Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. XXXII, No. 3. Line drawings by Lloyd Moylan.
Chants noirs
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Other
  • Marguerite Yourcenar
  • 1952
Chants noirs
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
French translation of negro spirituals published in the French journal "Mercure de France", June 1952.