Browse Items (2665 total)

  • Collection: Library Catalog

Summer cottages in the White Mountains : the architecture of leisure and recreation, 1870 to 1930

Book / In-house Use Only

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Collection: Books and Pamphlets

Among the white hills : the life and times of Guy L. Shorey

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Collection: Books and Pamphlets

The story of Mount Washington

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Collection: Books and Pamphlets

The Courier [Bethel Historical Society publication]

Serial / Available Online

The Courier(entitledThe Bethel Courier prior to 1999) is a quarterly publication of the Bethel Historical Society.It should not be confused withThe Bethel Courier (1858-1861), Bethel's first newspaper, for which it is named.The Courierhas served as…

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The Broad Street Herald

Serial / Available Online

TheBroad Street Heraldwas the newsletter of the Bethel Historical Society from summer 2008 to spring 2015. It was printed alongside our longstanding publication The Courier, which during that period was overhauled into the Society's history journal.…

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Back country blues [videorecording]

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"Five rural-Maine families describe their struggles against poverty in this report, which focuses on life on the slopes of Egypt Mountain in Oxford County. Interspersed with the families' stories are comments from author Carolyn Chute, who found…

Collection: Video Library

Chronicle [videorecording] [Bethel, Maine, 1989]

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Bethel, Maine featured on Boston television station WCVB-TV's "Chronicle" program in 1989.

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Collection: Video Library

Chronicle [videorecording] [Bethel, Maine, 1995]

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Bethel, Maine featured on Boston television station WCVB-TV's "Chronicle" program in March 1995.

Collection: Video Library

The End to a Perfect Day, Fryeburg Maine [videorecording]

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"FRYEBURG SESQUICENTENNIAL / 1927 / PRESENTED BY FRYEBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY"

Collection: Video Library

Earliest Maine films [videorecording]

Moving Image / In-house Use Only

"EARLIEST MAINE FILMS / 1. LOGGING IN MAINE, 1906 / Length - 12 min. / 2. A TROUT FISHING TRIP TO THE RANGELEY LAKES, 1906 Length - 9 min. / 3. DRAWING A LOBSTER POT, 1902 / Length - 30 sec. / Silent, Black & White"

Collection: Video Library

Chronicle [videorecording] [Maine Grange, 1992]

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Boston television station WCVB-TV's "Chronicle" program from May 1, 1992, focusing on the Maine State Grange. Includes commentary from Bethel Historical Society director and Maine State Grange historian Stanley Russel Howe.

Collection: Video Library

All but forgotten [videorecording] : Holman Francis Day, filmmaker

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Collection: Video Library

Anchor of the soul [videorecording] : a documentary about black history in Maine / produced by Shoshana Hoose & Karine Odlin

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Provides an in-depth look at Black history and race relations in northern New England: the inspiring story of African Americans struggling to create and sustain a church in Portland, Maine. The Abyssinian Church, founded in the early 1800's, became…

Collection: Video Library

A Visit with Norman Gray [videorecording]

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Norman Gray discusses his memories of logging in Maine in the 1930s. Includes many photographs taken by Gray.

Collection: Video Library

Our stories [videorecording] : At the center of things [East Bethel, Maine]

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Discusses the Hastings dairy farm in East Bethel.

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Collection: Video Library

Reader's Digest World [videorecording] : America in the '40's

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It was the most momentous decade of the century: ten years of triumphs and tragedies, heartaches and heroics, hopes and humor. This series looks at the fads, the fun, the hits, the headlines, the hometown life ... and the decades' best-loved stars…

Collection: Video Library

A midwife's tale [videorecording] / Blueberry Hill Productions ; directed by Richard P. Rogers ; written and produced by Laurie Kahn-Leavitt

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The life of a frontier midwife, Martha Ballard, in Hallowell, Maine is reconstructed from her diary by historian Laurel Ulrich.

Collection: Video Library

Mary Silliman's war / [presented by] Heritage Films and Citadel Films ; produced by Steven Schecter & Barry Cowling ; directed by Stephen Surjik ; written by Steven Schecter & Louisa Burns-Bisogno

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After the kidnapping and imprisonment of her husband by the British for his part in convicting two local Tories during the Revolution, Mary Silliman manages to secure her husband's freedom while still handling domestic affairs and coping with the…

Collection: Video Library

Old Sturbridge Village [videorecording]

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Step back in time to rural New England in the 1830's in this historical VideoTours adventure. In Old Sturbridge Village, you'll become part of "Living History" as pieces from our past are once again assembled into reality.

Collection: Video Library

Woodsmen and river drivers [videorecording] : "Another day, another era" / Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History

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Collection: Video Library

In the public interest [videorecording] : the Civilian Conservation Corps in Maine / produced by Skip Anderson ... [and others]

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A pictorial history of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Maine, 1933-1942.

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Collection: Video Library

The How and why of spuds [videorecording]

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This silent film details the techniques and equipment of potato farming in 1920, taking the viewer from seed preparation to harvest to enjoyment of the final product. Videocassette release of the 1920 film made by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.

Collection: Video Library

Into the White Mountains [videorecording] : The romantic invention of scenic tourism

Moving Image / In-house Use Only

Collection: Video Library

Modern times in Maine and America [videorecording] : 1890-1930

Moving Image / In-house Use Only

Collection: Video Library

Ice harvesting sampler [videorecording]

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Five short silent films from the 1920s-1940s showing a near-forgotten New England industry.

Contents: Everett Johnson Collection. Long Pond-South Portland, Maine. 1943 -- Robert Taylor Collection. East Andover, Mass. 1927 -- Good Will-Hinckley…

Collection: Video Library