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Item Title Type Subject Description Creator Date Property Name Street Pages Medium Condition
6141The Vincent Astor Foundation 1948-1997
  • Publication, Book
Provides an overview of the foundation's grantmaking between 1960 and 1997. Includes board president's message, grants lists for each year, 1997 financial statements, and lists of 1997 and previous board members and staff.
  • 6/1/1998
  • 170
  • 1 book
Description:
Provides an overview of the foundation's grantmaking between 1960 and 1997. Includes board president's message, grants lists for each year, 1997 financial statements, and lists of 1997 and previous board members and staff.
7111Emergence Myth
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature
  • Other, History
  • Other, Mythology
  • People
According to the Hanelthnayhe or Upward-reaching rite. Recorded by Father Berard Haile, O. F. M. Rewritten by Mary C. Wheelwright. With 13 serigraph color plates by Louie Ewing after sand paintings recorded by Franc J. Newcomb, Mrs. John Wetherell and Mrs. Laura A. Armer. Navajo Religion Series, Vol. III.
  • Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • 1949
  • 186
  • 2 copies
  • good
Description:
According to the Hanelthnayhe or Upward-reaching rite. Recorded by Father Berard Haile, O. F. M. Rewritten by Mary C. Wheelwright. With 13 serigraph color plates by Louie Ewing after sand paintings recorded by Franc J. Newcomb, Mrs. John Wetherell and Mrs. Laura A. Armer. Navajo Religion Series, Vol. III.
7080A Report on Tribal boundaries and Hunting areas of the Malecite Indian of New Brunswick
  • Publication, Booklet
  • People
  • Places
Reprinted from "American Anthropologist", Vol. 48, No. 3, July-September 1946.
  • Frank G. Speck, Wendell S. Hadlock
  • 1946
  • 19
  • 1 booklet
  • good
Description:
Reprinted from "American Anthropologist", Vol. 48, No. 3, July-September 1946.
6154Sutton Island Maine: Its Houses, People, Animals, Weather
  • Publication, Book
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Structures, Dwellings
Developmental history of Sutton Island which includes information on land owners and families, including John Gilley, Mary Cabot Wheelwright, and Rachel Field.
  • George Lyman Paine
  • 1963
  • 19
  • 1 book
Description:
Developmental history of Sutton Island which includes information on land owners and families, including John Gilley, Mary Cabot Wheelwright, and Rachel Field.
7110The Great Star Chant
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature
  • Other, History
  • Other, Mythology
  • People
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.
  • Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • 1956
  • 190
  • 2 copies
  • good
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.
6072Report of the Commissioner of Education of the State of Maine for the School Biennium Ending June 30, 1944
  • Publication, Book
This report covers a detailed statement of the schools of Maine, including census, school attendance, receipts, expenditures and general progress.
  • Harry V. Gilson
  • 6/30/1944
  • 194
  • 1 book
Description:
This report covers a detailed statement of the schools of Maine, including census, school attendance, receipts, expenditures and general progress.
6051Historic resource study for the carriage road system, Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Places, Carriage Road
  • Places, Hiking Trail
  • Places, Park
Copy of intensive study of the ANP carriage road system involving transfer of land ownership, natural resources, trail and road planning & design, costs, labor
  • William Rieley and Roxanne Brouse
  • 1989
  • 2 volumes: illustrations, maps
Description:
Copy of intensive study of the ANP carriage road system involving transfer of land ownership, natural resources, trail and road planning & design, costs, labor
7103Cianbro, the Constructors
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Businesses, Building Business
By Ival R. Cianchette, member of the Newcomen Society, chairman and chief executive officer of Cianbro Corporation, Pittsfield, Maine.
  • Ival R. Cianchette
  • 1984
  • 20
  • 1 booklet
  • good
Description:
By Ival R. Cianchette, member of the Newcomen Society, chairman and chief executive officer of Cianbro Corporation, Pittsfield, Maine.
7409Asticou Inn and Cottages
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Inn
Asticou Inn and Cottages, Northeast Harbor, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Advertising booklet of the Asticou Inn and its cottages. Several exterior and interior photographs of the inn, the surrounding buildings and areas and of the island are included.
  • George A. Savage
  • 1924
  • 20
  • 1 booklet
  • good
Description:
Asticou Inn and Cottages, Northeast Harbor, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Advertising booklet of the Asticou Inn and its cottages. Several exterior and interior photographs of the inn, the surrounding buildings and areas and of the island are included.
7094Indian Games, Toys and Pastimes of Maine and the Maritimes
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Object, Toy
  • People
  • Recreation
Bulletin X of The Robert Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor. Illustrated by Alice Dengler.
  • Edith Favour
  • 1974
  • 21
  • 1 booklet
  • good
Description:
Bulletin X of The Robert Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor. Illustrated by Alice Dengler.
6132Searsport's Sam Houston
  • Publication, Book
  • Charlene Knox Farris
  • 1987
  • 21
  • pamphlet
7093Opportunities on Maine Farms
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Organizations, Civic
With a personal message from Fred J. Nutter, Commissioner of Agriculture, State of Maine. Contains articles, photographs and detailed production maps for beef and sheep, dairy, poultry, gardens and fruit, food processing plants, apples and blueberries.
  • State of Maine
  • 1952
  • 22
  • 1 booklet
  • good
Description:
With a personal message from Fred J. Nutter, Commissioner of Agriculture, State of Maine. Contains articles, photographs and detailed production maps for beef and sheep, dairy, poultry, gardens and fruit, food processing plants, apples and blueberries.
6057Recreation Penobscot Bay, Mount Desert region
  • Publication, Book
This is one of the four reports which will serve as a Master Plan for the development of the State of Maine. Recreation should be developed without destroying scenery.
  • Stelling, Lord-Wood & Van Suetendael
  • Nov-62
  • 22
Description:
This is one of the four reports which will serve as a Master Plan for the development of the State of Maine. Recreation should be developed without destroying scenery.
7058The Story of Ancient Pemaquid - Metropolis of the "New World"
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Other, History
  • Places
First edition: 1950 Second edition: 1953
  • Harold W. Castner
  • 1953
  • 23
  • 1 booklet
  • good
Description:
First edition: 1950 Second edition: 1953
7072The Discovery of America
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Events
  • Other, History
  • Places
A Massachusetts Historical Society picture book. Contains several historical maps and portraits. Twenty-second in a series of picture books issued yearly since 1954 by the Massachusetts Historical Society.
  • Massachusetts Historical Society
  • 1975
  • 23
  • 1 booklet
  • good
Description:
A Massachusetts Historical Society picture book. Contains several historical maps and portraits. Twenty-second in a series of picture books issued yearly since 1954 by the Massachusetts Historical Society.
7086Who was Paugus?
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Other, History
  • People
Reprinted from "The New England Quarterly", Vol. XII, No. 2, June 1939.
  • Fannie Hardy Eckstorm
  • 1939
  • 23
  • 1 booklet
  • good
Description:
Reprinted from "The New England Quarterly", Vol. XII, No. 2, June 1939.
7102L. L. Bean, Inc. Outdoor Specialties by Mail from Maine
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Businesses, Store Business
By Leon A. Gorman, member of the Newcomen Society, president of L. L. Bean, Inc. Freeport, Maine.
  • Leon A. Gorman
  • 1981
  • 23
  • 1 booklet
  • good
Description:
By Leon A. Gorman, member of the Newcomen Society, president of L. L. Bean, Inc. Freeport, Maine.
7115A Part of Vermont
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Other, Poetry
Booklet containing a collection of poems: - To Ethan Allen - The Nursery Rhyme and the Summer Visitor - Gilfeather - Gilfeather Again - On the Trout Streams - An Afternoon, Smoking, Writing, Swimming - Vermont and the Northwest Wind - Primavera - Coming and Going of Storms - To My Mother - Flute in Late Summer - On Planting a Small Lilac in Vermont - Bounding Line - Holiday Song - In Flame Over Vermont - A Poem to Explain Everything About a Certain Day in Vermont - Dialoge on Cider - Delight
  • Genevieve Taggard
  • 1945
  • 23
  • 1 booklet
  • good
Description:
Booklet containing a collection of poems: - To Ethan Allen - The Nursery Rhyme and the Summer Visitor - Gilfeather - Gilfeather Again - On the Trout Streams - An Afternoon, Smoking, Writing, Swimming - Vermont and the Northwest Wind - Primavera - Coming and Going of Storms - To My Mother - Flute in Late Summer - On Planting a Small Lilac in Vermont - Bounding Line - Holiday Song - In Flame Over Vermont - A Poem to Explain Everything About a Certain Day in Vermont - Dialoge on Cider - Delight [show more]
6144Sir Samuel Argall, the First Englishman at Mount Desert
  • Publication, Book
  • People
Publication of a paper presented by William Sawtelle to the Maine Historical Society in 1923 about Samuel Argall, merchant tailor, of Bristol, England, and the first Englishman recorded to have visited Mount Desert Island in 1613.
  • William Otis Sawtelle (1874-1939)
  • 1924
  • 23
  • 1 book
Description:
Publication of a paper presented by William Sawtelle to the Maine Historical Society in 1923 about Samuel Argall, merchant tailor, of Bristol, England, and the first Englishman recorded to have visited Mount Desert Island in 1613.
6058This Is Mount Desert Island
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Places, Island
Booklet prepared and published as a community service by the League of Women Voters of Mount Desert Island.
  • League of Women Voters of Mount Desert Island, ME
  • 1971
  • 23
Description:
Booklet prepared and published as a community service by the League of Women Voters of Mount Desert Island.
7397Sunshine and Play-Time
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Poetry
Verses by the Rt. Rev. Wm. Croswell Doane D. D. With illustrations by Emma Justine Farnsworth. Contains handwritten comments in margins.
  • William Croswell Doane
  • 1893
  • 23
  • 1 book
  • fragile
Description:
Verses by the Rt. Rev. Wm. Croswell Doane D. D. With illustrations by Emma Justine Farnsworth. Contains handwritten comments in margins.
7109Hail Chant and Water Chant
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature
  • Other, History
  • Other, Mythology
  • People
Recorded by Mary C. Wheelwright. Navajo Religion Series, Vol. II.
  • Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • 1946
  • 237
  • 2 copies
  • good
Description:
Recorded by Mary C. Wheelwright. Navajo Religion Series, Vol. II.
7107Navajo Creation Myth
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature
  • Other, History
  • Other, Mythology
  • People
The Story of the Emergence, told by Hasteen Klah, recorded by Mary C. Wheelwright. Navajo Religion Series, Vol. I.
  • Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • 1942
  • 238
  • 1 book
  • good
Description:
The Story of the Emergence, told by Hasteen Klah, recorded by Mary C. Wheelwright. Navajo Religion Series, Vol. I.
7083The Indian of New England
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Other, History
  • People
The Indian of New England and the North-Eastern Provinces. A sketch of the life of an Indian hunter, ancient traditions relating to the Etchemin Tribe, their modes of life, fishing, hunting etc.
  • Nicola Tenesles
  • 1851
  • 24
  • 1 booklet
  • poor, very fragile
Description:
The Indian of New England and the North-Eastern Provinces. A sketch of the life of an Indian hunter, ancient traditions relating to the Etchemin Tribe, their modes of life, fishing, hunting etc.
7100New England in National Leadership - 1895 - The First Steam Railroad Electrification!
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Transportation, Railroad
By Howard S. Palmer, member of the Newcomen Society, president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company. With an opening poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Broomstick Train".
  • Howard S. Palmer
  • 1945
  • 24
  • 1 booklet
  • good
Description:
By Howard S. Palmer, member of the Newcomen Society, president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company. With an opening poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Broomstick Train".