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6138Beyond God's Pocket
  • Publication, Book
  • People
Collection of writings about the travels of Captain Samuel Hadlock of Cranberry Isles and George Niagungitok and Mary Coonunnak, the Eskimos who accompanied him.
  • Hugh L. Dwelley
  • 2003
  • 98
  • 1 book
Description:
Collection of writings about the travels of Captain Samuel Hadlock of Cranberry Isles and George Niagungitok and Mary Coonunnak, the Eskimos who accompanied him.
7098Guide book for Mount Desert
  • Publication, Guidebook
  • Places, Island
Loring, Short & Harmon's illustrated guide book for Mount Desert Island (before Acadia National Park). With 5 mounted photographs. Fourth edition (1879). Sixth edition (1885).
  • Clara Barnes Martin
  • 1879
  • 95
  • 2 books
  • fragile
Description:
Loring, Short & Harmon's illustrated guide book for Mount Desert Island (before Acadia National Park). With 5 mounted photographs. Fourth edition (1879). Sixth edition (1885).
6039Holy Bible (Holmes Family Bible)
  • Publication, Book
Holmes Family Bible. Includes family record. It was handed down from the Stanleys through their descendants the Rosebrook, Holmes and Carpenter families.
  • 1818
  • 929
  • leatherbound book
Description:
Holmes Family Bible. Includes family record. It was handed down from the Stanleys through their descendants the Rosebrook, Holmes and Carpenter families.
6137General Andrew B. Spurling and Second Maine Cavalry
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Military, Civil War
  • People
Biography of General Andrew B. Spurling and the Second Maine Cavalry. Civil War. Compiled from official, individual, newspaper, etc. reports.
  • C. C. Roberts
  • 1904
  • 91
  • 1 book
  • fair
Description:
Biography of General Andrew B. Spurling and the Second Maine Cavalry. Civil War. Compiled from official, individual, newspaper, etc. reports.
6162Maine place names and the peopling of its towns
  • Publication, Book
Collection of pamphlets for the following places: Washington County and Hancock County (x2), Kennebec County and Somerset County, Lincoln & Waldo & Knox Counties, York County and Oxford County, Penobscot County, Franklin County and Androscoggin County, Cumberland County and Sagadahoc County, Piscataquis County and Aroostook County.
  • 1957
  • 9 pamphlets
  • pamphlet
Description:
Collection of pamphlets for the following places: Washington County and Hancock County (x2), Kennebec County and Somerset County, Lincoln & Waldo & Knox Counties, York County and Oxford County, Penobscot County, Franklin County and Androscoggin County, Cumberland County and Sagadahoc County, Piscataquis County and Aroostook County.
7097Richard Cary's Letter to the Society for propagating the Gospel
  • Publication, Book
  • Organizations, Religious
  • Other, History
Red box containing a folded hard cover with a booklet inside.
  • Richard Cary
  • 1789
  • 9
  • 1 boxed book
  • good
Description:
Red box containing a folded hard cover with a booklet inside.
7081Cherokee-Iroquois Little People
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Other, History
  • People
Reprinted from "Journal of American Folklore", October-December 1946.
  • John Witthoft, Wendell S. Hadlock
  • 1946
  • 9
  • 1 booklet
  • fair
Description:
Reprinted from "Journal of American Folklore", October-December 1946.
6093Winslow Homer's Right and Left
  • Publication, Book
Pre-publication copy of a chapter in John Wilmerding's book" Studies in the History of Art 9" re Homer's 1909 oil painting "Right and Left"
  • John Wilmerding
  • 1980
  • 85
  • 1 book
Description:
Pre-publication copy of a chapter in John Wilmerding's book" Studies in the History of Art 9" re Homer's 1909 oil painting "Right and Left"
7118Memories of St. Agnes School 1878 - 1891
  • Publication, Literary, Memoir
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • People
Memories of St. Agnes School, Elk Street, Albany, N. Y. 1878-1891 - By an Old Girl. Bound one-sided typescript.
  • Mrs. Charles S. Hamlin
  • 1929-1931
  • 85
  • bound typescript
  • good
Description:
Memories of St. Agnes School, Elk Street, Albany, N. Y. 1878-1891 - By an Old Girl. Bound one-sided typescript.
7063History of Vinalhaven
  • Publication, Book
  • Events, Civic
  • Other, History
  • Places, Island
A brief historical sketch of the Town of Vinalhaven from its earliest known settlement. Prepared by order of the town on the occasion of its One Hundredth Anniversary.
  • Albra Josephine Vinal
  • 1900
  • 84
  • 1 book
  • fair
Description:
A brief historical sketch of the Town of Vinalhaven from its earliest known settlement. Prepared by order of the town on the occasion of its One Hundredth Anniversary.
7067Richmond, a long view 1823-1973
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Places, Town
Pictorial supplement to "Richmond on the Kennebec".
  • The Richmond Historical and Cultural Society
  • 1973
  • 83
  • 1 book
  • good
Description:
Pictorial supplement to "Richmond on the Kennebec".
7114Crab Apples for America
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature, Plants
Originally from the Reef Point Gardens Library.
  • Donald Wyman
  • 1943
  • 81
  • 1 book
  • good
Description:
Originally from the Reef Point Gardens Library.
7079Brief description of Birch Bark Canoe Building
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Vessels, Boat, Canoe
Bulletin IX. Published by the Robert Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine. With illustrations courtesy of the American Neptune.
  • Peggy Fernald, Alice N. Wellman
  • 1970
  • 8
  • 1 booklet
  • great
Description:
Bulletin IX. Published by the Robert Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine. With illustrations courtesy of the American Neptune.
7085The Concept of Tribal Separation as rationalized in Indian Folklore
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Other, History
  • Other, Mythology
  • People
Reprinted from "Pennsylvania Archeologist", Vol. XVI, No. 3
  • Wendell S. Hadlock
  • 1946
  • 8
  • 1 booklet
  • good
Description:
Reprinted from "Pennsylvania Archeologist", Vol. XVI, No. 3
6090Report of a Committee of the No. East Harbor Association for the Protection of the Woods from Fire
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Events, Fire
  • Places
Report of a Committee of the No. East Harbor Association for the protection of the woods from fire, upon the forest fires on the Island of Mount Desert, Me., in the year 1883, with a brief record of the same, and some suggestions for the better protection of the woods in the future.
  • Northeast Harbor Association for the protection of the Woods from Fire
  • 1884
  • 8
  • pamphlet
  • good
Description:
Report of a Committee of the No. East Harbor Association for the protection of the woods from fire, upon the forest fires on the Island of Mount Desert, Me., in the year 1883, with a brief record of the same, and some suggestions for the better protection of the woods in the future.
6133A Faithful Friend
  • Publication, Book
  • People
  • Samuel A. Eliot
  • 1948
  • 8
  • pamphlet
6130John Gilley of Baker's Island
  • Publication, Book
  • Businesses, Farming
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • People
  • Places, Island
"Originally published in 1899 in The Century Magazine and in book form in 1904 by the American Unitarian Association under the title of: John Gilley, Maine farmer and fisherman."
  • Charles W. Eliot
  • 1967
  • 72
  • 1 booklet
Description:
"Originally published in 1899 in The Century Magazine and in book form in 1904 by the American Unitarian Association under the title of: John Gilley, Maine farmer and fisherman."
6062Report on the Safe Guiding of Public Welfare
  • Document, Report
  • Places, Town
Alfred Mullikin, C. E. An engineering report to the Building Ordinances Committee of the town of Mount Desert on the character and location of buildings
  • Alfred Mullikin
  • 1927
  • 7
  • good
Description:
Alfred Mullikin, C. E. An engineering report to the Building Ordinances Committee of the town of Mount Desert on the character and location of buildings
6161Mount Desert Maine Visitors Guide
  • Publication, Book
  • 68
  • color pamphlet
7078Uses of Birch-Bark in the Northeast
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places
Published by the Robert Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine. Second printing, 1974
  • Eva L. Butler, Wendell S. Hadlock
  • 1957
  • 66
  • 1 book
  • great
Description:
Published by the Robert Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine. Second printing, 1974
6145Sir Francis Bernard and his Grant of Mount Desert
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Land
  • People
  • Places
About Francis Bernard, governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts, his interest in the boundary question between the U.S. and Nova Scotia, and his grant of 100, 00 acres of land. Built a summer home in part of SW Harbor.
  • William Otis Sawtelle (1874-1939)
  • 1922
  • 65
  • 1 book
Description:
About Francis Bernard, governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts, his interest in the boundary question between the U.S. and Nova Scotia, and his grant of 100, 00 acres of land. Built a summer home in part of SW Harbor.
7071The Civil War
  • Publication, Book
  • Events
  • Other, Military, Civil War
U. S. Civil War Centennial Commission 1961-1965.
  • James I. Robertson, Jr.
  • 1963
  • 64
  • 1 book
  • good
Description:
U. S. Civil War Centennial Commission 1961-1965.
7050George Folsom, John A. Poor and a Century of Historical Research with reference to Early Colonial Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Events
  • Other, History
  • Places
By Henry S. Burrage, D.D., L.L.D. State Historian of Maine.
  • Henry S. Burrage
  • 1926
  • 62
  • 1 book
  • good
Description:
By Henry S. Burrage, D.D., L.L.D. State Historian of Maine.
7052Tercentenary of the Landing of the Popham Colony at the mouth of the Kennebec river
  • Publication, Book
  • Events
  • Other, History
  • Places
Tercentenary of the Landing of the Popham Colony at the mouth of the Kennebec river. August 29, 1907. (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)
  • Maine Historical Society
  • 1907
  • 58
  • 1 book
  • fragile
Description:
Tercentenary of the Landing of the Popham Colony at the mouth of the Kennebec river. August 29, 1907. (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)
6164Patriotic Plantations, Towns, and Cities of Maine
  • Publication, Book
advertising campaign of the Maine Development Commission with descriptions and geographic location of Maine communities.
  • 1930
  • 58
  • 1 book
Description:
advertising campaign of the Maine Development Commission with descriptions and geographic location of Maine communities.