Item	Title	Type	Subject	Creator	Publisher	Date	Place	Address	Description
3487	Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, Civic, Public Library Structures, Civic, Library				Southwest Harbor	338 Main Street	Nell Thornton famously said, in her book, The Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor, “The Southwest Harbor Public Library had its beginning [as the Tremont Public Library] in 1884 when Mrs. Annie Sawyer Downs gathered a number of discarded books from the hotels, mostly paper covered volumes, and placed them on a shelf in one corner of Dr. R. J. Lemont's drug store…” The library was, as were many small libraries on the coast of Maine, started by “people from away,” in other words, summer people. This small library, however, was quickly adopted by native Southwest Harborians, and has grown, in the almost one and a half centuries since its founding, to be one of Maine’s very few five-star libraries, according to the Library Journal Index of Public Library Service. Thornton, Nellie C., Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine (Merrill & Webber Company, 1938, The Southwest Harbor Public Library, 1988)	Southwest Harbor Public Library Item: 3487    Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, Civic, Public Library Structures, Civic, Library Place: Southwest Harbor State: ME Address: 338 Main Street Description: Nell Thornton famously said, in her book, The Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor, “The Southwest Harbor Public Library had its beginning [as the Tremont Public Library] in 1884 when Mrs. Annie Sawyer Downs gathered a number of discarded books from the hotels, mostly paper covered volumes, and placed them on a shelf in one corner of Dr. R. J. Lemont's drug store…” The library was, as were many small libraries on the coast of Maine, started by “people from away,” in other words, summer people. This small library, however, was quickly adopted by native Southwest Harborians, and has grown, in the almost one and a half centuries since its founding, to be one of Maine’s very few five-star libraries, according to the Library Journal Index of Public Library Service. Thornton, Nellie C., Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine (Merrill & Webber Company, 1938, The Southwest Harbor Public Library, 1988) [show more]
13420	Vesta E. (Spear) McRae House and Original Bass Harbor Library	Reference	Organizations, Civic, Public Library Structures, Civic, Library Structures, Dwellings, House				Tremont, Bernard	90 Bernard Road		Vesta E. (Spear) McRae House and Original Bass Harbor Library Item: 13420    Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, Civic, Public Library Structures, Civic, Library Structures, Dwellings, House Place: Tremont, Bernard State: ME Address: 90 Bernard Road
15873	Jesup Memorial Library	Reference	Structures, Civic, Library				Bar Harbor	34 Mt. Desert St.	"The Jesup Library was founded in 1875 by summer visitors who left their books for winter use, and clubbed together to get the services of a part-time librarian." - “The Story of Bar Harbor – An Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years In the Life of a Community,” by Richard Walden Hale, Jr., Ives Washburn, Inc., 1949, p. 209.	Jesup Memorial Library Item: 15873    Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Civic, Library Place: Bar Harbor State: ME Address: 34 Mt. Desert St. Description: "The Jesup Library was founded in 1875 by summer visitors who left their books for winter use, and clubbed together to get the services of a part-time librarian." - “The Story of Bar Harbor – An Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years In the Life of a Community,” by Richard Walden Hale, Jr., Ives Washburn, Inc., 1949, p. 209.
13211	Bass Harbor Memorial Library	Reference	Structures, Civic, Library				Tremont, Bernard	89 Bernard Road		Bass Harbor Memorial Library Item: 13211    Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Civic, Library Place: Tremont, Bernard State: ME Address: 89 Bernard Road
13281	Ellsworth Public Library Meltiah Jordan House	Reference	Structures, Civic, Library				Ellsworth ME	State Street		Ellsworth Public Library Meltiah Jordan House Item: 13281    Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Civic, Library Place: Ellsworth ME State: ME Address: State Street
13270	Manset Library	Reference	Structures, Civic, Library				Southwest Harbor, Manset			Manset Library Item: 13270    Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Civic, Library Place: Southwest Harbor, Manset State: ME

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