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You searched for: Collection: is exactly 'General Collection'Date: 1990sType: Publication
Item Title Type Subject Description Creator Date Property Name Street Pages Medium Condition
1733Lady in landscape garden: B.F. at Arnold Arboretum P. 2.
  • Publication, Other Publication
  • People
Beatrix Farrand's later years as Consultant Landscape Gardener to the Arnold Arboretum.
  • Jane Brown
  • 1992
  • pages 9-17
  • photocopy
Description:
Beatrix Farrand's later years as Consultant Landscape Gardener to the Arnold Arboretum.
2002Like Father, Like Son
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Businesses, Business Shop
  • People
Article about Percy Walls and son Mickey who run H. G. Walls and Son flower shop, the 100 yr. old family flower shop on Main Street, Northeast Harbor. Published in Down East Magazine, September 1993.
  • Letitia Baldwin
  • 1993
  • pages 58-68
  • magazine
Description:
Article about Percy Walls and son Mickey who run H. G. Walls and Son flower shop, the 100 yr. old family flower shop on Main Street, Northeast Harbor. Published in Down East Magazine, September 1993.
1490The Bar Harbor Fire:
  • Publication, Literary, Memoir
  • Events, Fire
Ruth Donnell Coombs, switchboard operator at Seal Harbor recalls the fire of 1947 that burned Bar Harbor.
  • Ruth Donnell Coombs
  • 1993
  • 4
  • typescript
Description:
Ruth Donnell Coombs, switchboard operator at Seal Harbor recalls the fire of 1947 that burned Bar Harbor.
1667Far East Down East
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Places, Garden
Article about the combined oriental and English garden at the summer retreat of Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hall on Peabody Drive, Northeast Harbor.
  • Paula Deitz
  • 1993
  • page 58
Description:
Article about the combined oriental and English garden at the summer retreat of Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hall on Peabody Drive, Northeast Harbor.
6973First Class Mail
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Organizations, Civic, Municipal
  • Places, Island
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Post Office
Article about Little Cranberry Isle post office and postmaster Joy Sprague, who built a big business for this tiny post office with cream puffs and a personal touch. Published in Down East Magazine, December 1994.
  • Letitia Baldwin
  • 1994
  • magazine
Description:
Article about Little Cranberry Isle post office and postmaster Joy Sprague, who built a big business for this tiny post office with cream puffs and a personal touch. Published in Down East Magazine, December 1994.
2005Two Geniuses and a Paintbrush
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
Article about the friendship of artist Thomas Eakins and physicist Henry Rowland, summer resident of Seal Harbor, while Eakins spent the summer painting Rowland's portrait. 2 copies.
  • 1994
  • pages 66-88
  • magazine
Description:
Article about the friendship of artist Thomas Eakins and physicist Henry Rowland, summer resident of Seal Harbor, while Eakins spent the summer painting Rowland's portrait. 2 copies.
6962Edsel Ford's Bright Idea - Mount Desert joins the War effort
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Other, Military, World War II
  • People
Down East Magazine article about Edsel Fords's plan to keep an army of Mainers employed during World War II. Published June 1995.
  • Letitia Baldwin
  • 1995
  • page 52
  • magazine
Description:
Down East Magazine article about Edsel Fords's plan to keep an army of Mainers employed during World War II. Published June 1995.
1887Hands Across the Elbe
  • Publication, Other Publication
  • Events
  • Other, Military, World War II
Soviet American Linkup as recalled by veterans who witnessed the event on April 25, 1945 on the Mulde and Elbe Rivers. Given to library by Igor Belousovitch who photographed the event as it unfolded.
  • Delbert Philpott, Donna Philpott, eds.
  • 1995
  • 10
  • photocopy
Description:
Soviet American Linkup as recalled by veterans who witnessed the event on April 25, 1945 on the Mulde and Elbe Rivers. Given to library by Igor Belousovitch who photographed the event as it unfolded.
1974Sutton Island: From Year-round to Summer Colony
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Places, Island
Article published, in part, by the Island Institute. This is Mr. Little's complete article of the development of Sutton Island from a working class, year-round place to a summer enclave. Story begins with an account of John Gilley.
  • Carl Little
  • 1995
  • 12
  • typescript
Description:
Article published, in part, by the Island Institute. This is Mr. Little's complete article of the development of Sutton Island from a working class, year-round place to a summer enclave. Story begins with an account of John Gilley.
2045Healing Power of the Wild Provides a Warming Winter Tale
  • Publication, Literary, Memoir
  • Events
Rick Savage's story of hunting with his uncles Frank and Red Johnson and the aftermath of Frank's heart attack.
  • Tom Hennessey
  • 1995
  • 2
  • photocopy
Description:
Rick Savage's story of hunting with his uncles Frank and Red Johnson and the aftermath of Frank's heart attack.
2024Serious Seafood
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • People
The "Burning Tree Restaurant" owned by Elmer Beal and his wife Alison Martin in Otter Creek flaunts elegant seafood and vegetarian meals. Published in Down East Magazine, October 1996.
  • Sarah Scott
  • 1996
  • pages 27-30
  • magazine
Description:
The "Burning Tree Restaurant" owned by Elmer Beal and his wife Alison Martin in Otter Creek flaunts elegant seafood and vegetarian meals. Published in Down East Magazine, October 1996.
1683Re-User Friendly
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Bed & Breakfast
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
"Breakwater", a Fred Savage designed summer cottage in Bar Harbor, originally built for John E. Kane in l904,is turned into a bed and breakfast home.
  • Bonnie P. Sawyer
  • 1996
  • 1
  • photocopy
Description:
"Breakwater", a Fred Savage designed summer cottage in Bar Harbor, originally built for John E. Kane in l904,is turned into a bed and breakfast home.
1786Man Who Built Northeast Harbor
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Places, Town
Biography and genealogy of Fred K. Savage with descriptions and photographs of homes and buildings he designed in Northeast Harbor. Published in Down East Magazine, February 1996
  • Letitia Baldwin
  • 1996
  • pages 32-35
  • magazine
Description:
Biography and genealogy of Fred K. Savage with descriptions and photographs of homes and buildings he designed in Northeast Harbor. Published in Down East Magazine, February 1996
7358The Champlain Society
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Organizations
  • People
Article "The Champlain Society: How they spent their summer vacation in 1880", published in the "Bar Harbor Times" on August 1, 1996. Written by Nan Lincoln. Photographs by Marshall P. Slade.
  • Nan Lincoln
  • 1996
  • 1 clipping
  • good
Description:
Article "The Champlain Society: How they spent their summer vacation in 1880", published in the "Bar Harbor Times" on August 1, 1996. Written by Nan Lincoln. Photographs by Marshall P. Slade.
1848Freedom
  • Publication, Other Publication
  • Events, Civic
Account of the awarding of the Medal of Freedom to C. Douglas Dillon in 1989. Scan: cover, first pages only
  • Susan Sage Dillon
  • 1996
  • 11
  • bound typescript
Description:
Account of the awarding of the Medal of Freedom to C. Douglas Dillon in 1989. Scan: cover, first pages only
1760Power Lunches
  • Publication, Other Publication
  • People
Autobiographical accounts of lunches with Imelda Marcos (1988) and Madame Chiang Kai-shek. Scan: cover, first pages only
  • Susan Sage Dillon
  • 1996
  • 13
  • bound typescript
Description:
Autobiographical accounts of lunches with Imelda Marcos (1988) and Madame Chiang Kai-shek. Scan: cover, first pages only
2110The Lichen collections of Merritt Fernald and Elmer Merrill.
  • Publication, Clipping
  • People
Biographical information on Merritt Fernald and Elmer Merrill, Botanists, and lists of their lichen collections.
  • James Hinds and Richard Harris
  • 1997
  • 9
  • photocopy
Description:
Biographical information on Merritt Fernald and Elmer Merrill, Botanists, and lists of their lichen collections.
16631947 Fire
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Events, Fire
1: Bar Harbor Burning. Reprint of a letter from U. Maine, Orono, student to his father in NJ about the l947 Bar Harbor fire which he and fraternity brothers helped fight. 2: The Big Fire by Parson Williams and Mrs. Williams 3: Bar Harbor 40 Years Later
  • 1997
  • 14
  • magazine
Description:
1: Bar Harbor Burning. Reprint of a letter from U. Maine, Orono, student to his father in NJ about the l947 Bar Harbor fire which he and fraternity brothers helped fight. 2: The Big Fire by Parson Williams and Mrs. Williams 3: Bar Harbor 40 Years Later
1725The Esquimaux-Indians in Berlin 1824-1825 Drawings and Prints
  • Publication, Other Publication
  • People
Capt. Samuel Hadlock Jr. (1792-1829) was a 19th century entrepreneur who made & lost his fortune in Europe in the 1820's, while exhibiting a traveling show of Eskimos.
  • Ulf Bankmann
  • 1997
  • pages 21-26
  • photocopy
Description:
Capt. Samuel Hadlock Jr. (1792-1829) was a 19th century entrepreneur who made & lost his fortune in Europe in the 1820's, while exhibiting a traveling show of Eskimos.
1762Carpaccio Capriccio
  • Publication, Other Publication
  • People
  • Places
Autobiographical account of a trip to Venice, staying at the Gritti Palace Hotel on the Grand Canal (with 3 photographs). Scan: cover, first pages only
  • Susan Sage Dillon
  • 1997
  • 4
  • bound typescript
Description:
Autobiographical account of a trip to Venice, staying at the Gritti Palace Hotel on the Grand Canal (with 3 photographs). Scan: cover, first pages only
1761Love Gardens Hate Gardening
  • Publication, Other Publication
  • People
  • Places, Garden
Autobiographical story of her gardening capers at her Maryland home, 1980. Scan: cover, first pages only
  • Susan Sage Dillon
  • 1997
  • 9
  • bound typescript
Description:
Autobiographical story of her gardening capers at her Maryland home, 1980. Scan: cover, first pages only
1890Two Emperors
  • Publication, Other Publication
  • Events
  • People
Contains accounts of a trip to Japan, where Susan Dillon & her husband had a audience with Emperor Hirohito. Scan: cover, first pages only
  • Susan Sage Dillon
  • 1997
  • 20
  • bound typescript
Description:
Contains accounts of a trip to Japan, where Susan Dillon & her husband had a audience with Emperor Hirohito. Scan: cover, first pages only
1743A Career in Bud; Beatrix Jones Farrand's Education & Early
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • People
Biography of Beatrix Farrand with intensive review of early focus on landscape design, her mentors, her developing philosophy of gardening.
  • Cynthia Zaitzevsky
  • 1998
  • pages 14-31
  • photocopy
Description:
Biography of Beatrix Farrand with intensive review of early focus on landscape design, her mentors, her developing philosophy of gardening.
1763Brief Encounters
  • Publication, Other Publication
  • People
Short autobiographical sketches of contacts with notables as Claus von Bulow. Somerset Maugham, Sir Harry Oakes, Clement Freud, and a nameless bootlegger. Scan: cover, first pages only
  • Susan Sage Dillon
  • 1998
  • 19
  • bound typescript
Description:
Short autobiographical sketches of contacts with notables as Claus von Bulow. Somerset Maugham, Sir Harry Oakes, Clement Freud, and a nameless bootlegger. Scan: cover, first pages only
1934Asticou: History of Inn and an Era
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Businesses, Lodging Business
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Inn
A booklet containing the history of the Asticou Inn. It is dedicated to The Savage Family, Builders and Caring Innkeepers Through Three Generations.
  • Katherine Barr
  • 1999
  • 20
  • 2 books
Description:
A booklet containing the history of the Asticou Inn. It is dedicated to The Savage Family, Builders and Caring Innkeepers Through Three Generations.