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Maine Invites You: 15th Edition [1949]

Maine Publicity Bureau

This fifteenth edition of MAINE INVITES YOU is designed to help you plan for that glorious vacation which only the great Pine Tree State can offer.

Between the covers of this booklet an endless variety of information has been arranged for the sole purpose of introducing you to Maine's limitless VACATIONLAND possibilities.

By word and picture we hope to convey some idea of the way Nature has showered her greatest blessings on Maine -- silent, mysterious forests, the beauty of lakes and hills, the music of streams, the sweep of great rivers, the majesty of a rock-bound coast and sea-girt isles.

That's why it's such a pleasure to send you this copy of MAINE INVITES YOU -- to assist you in planning for maximum enjoyment during your visit to Maine.

A county index map on the opposite page and a complete index of advertisers at the back of the book will help you to locate the place that may interest you. Handy inquiry cards also are included for your convenience in requesting more specific information or reservations from advertisers.

We'll appreciate your mentioning MAINE INVITES YOU when corresponding or conversing with those who have participated in making this book possible. This Bureau is at your service at all times to help you plan for the happiest vacation possible.
The Tentative Street Plan

Bangor City Planning Board

An analysis of the needs to change the streets and traffic patterns in Bangor, Maine, complete with diagrams and maps.

Sample text:

Times have changed.

In the early days of Bangor's growth, making a new street was no problem at all. Survey a couple of straight lines over any kind of land, uphill or downhill; scrape out between the lines; perhaps throw back a little gravel, and the street was ready for business. As the city grew more streets were laid out in the same way. It was a mechanical process, and the result was a mechanical system of straight streets intersected at right angles by other straight streets. Except for a period of Spring mud, this expanding, gridiron street system provided pretty decent roadways for the surreys, buckboards, and Bangor Buggies.

Times have changed. The leisurely pace of the surrey has given way to the speed and pounding of the automobile. The old street system just isn't built for the onrush of "traffic." Streets, which are natural traffic arteries, are in many cases too narrow to carry traffic efficiently. Too many intersections cut the efficiency still further, and cause too many accidents. More accidents are caused by the slippery grades of "up and down" streets.
Maine Invites You: 14th Edition [1948]

Maine Publicity Bureau

This fourteenth edition of Maine Invites You is designed to help you plan for that glorious vacation which only the great Pine Tree State can offer.

Between the covers of this booklet an endless variety of information has been arranged for the sole purpose of introducing you to Maine's limitless Vacationland possibilities.

By word and picture we hope to convey some idea of the way Nature has showered her greatest blessings on Maine -- silent, mysterious forests, the beauty of lakes and hills, the music of streams, the sweep of great rivers, the majesty of a rock-bound coast and sea-girt isles.
Bangor: The Center of Maine (Three 1940s Promotional Pamphlets)

Bangor Chamber of Commerce

The annals of Bangor begin with the visit of Samuel de Champlain, who gave Mt. Desert Island its name and who founded the City of Quebec. Intrigued by the reports of a fabulous city, Norumbega, Champlain ascended the Penobscot in 1604 to find only an important Indian rendezvous and camping place where the Kenduskeag and Penobscot Rivers merge. In the story of his voyage he mentions "the falls," the location of Bangor's water supply, long famous as the Bangor Salmon Pool. Before founding the Mission of St. Sauveur on Mt. Desert Island, the Jesuit Fathers considered establishing themselves here because of the importance of this location among the Indians.

History gives the distinction of Bangor's first settler to Jacob Buswell who, in 1769, built a log hut near the present site of St. John's Catholic Church on York Street. Among the French and Indians, Bangor was known variously as Kadesquit, Conduskeag and, later, Kenduskeag. In 1776 there were some 75 persons, adults and children, resident in Kenduskeag Plantation, the settlement being in the neighborhood of Penjejawock stream, near Mount Hope Cemetery. Following the close of the Revolutionary War, more settlers arrived and with them was the first pastor, Reverend Seth Noble, a native of Westfield, Mass.

Pastor Noble was delegated to appear before the General Court of Massachusetts, of which Maine was then a part, to petition for the incorporation of the growing frontier town under the name of "Sunbury." On the long journey to Boston, the clergyman solaced himself by singing his favorite hymn, "Bangor," and, when the petition to the Court was made, he asked that the new town be designated "Bangor" instead of "Sunbury." The incorporation was allowed on February 25, 1791.
Dedication: City of Bangor, World War II Memorial, Book of Honor

Bangor City Council

Begnning at 9:00 AM, May 31, the Book of Honor, in its special case, flag guarded, will be on perpetual display in the foyer of the Bangor Public Library, there to remain until other provision may be made. A page of the Book will be turned each day, God willing, forever.

The title page of the Book reads "Bangor Remembers Her Sons Who Died for Victory, 1941-1945". Following pages which carry the speeches read during tonight's program, are 101 separate pages each one carrying the photograph and brief biography of a Bangor man who died for victory. Then follows a page carrying the names of nine Bangor men who died but of whom photographs were not available to the City in time for inclusion in the Book. Lastly comes a colophon page telling how and by whom the Book was made. The biographical pages are arranged in the order in which the men died.

The photographs are of uniform size, enlarged or reduced from originals lent by relatives. All biographies are of identical length -- fifty words -- whatever the rank or grade of the man. Each biography gives the man's military record, his decorations, his schools, his civil occupation, and something of his personal interests, his serial or file number, his dates of birth and death, his rank, grade, or rating and his unit at death.

The Book is entirely engrossed and illuminated by hand. It is bound by hand in the finest leather, gold tooled, and with the seal of the City and the insignia of the services on its cover. There is no other copy.

The colophon page, which tells of the making of the Book, reads as follows: Commissioned October 1944, by the City Council of the City of Bangor, Maine, Henry C. Knowlton, Chairman with the advice of Horace S. Estey City Manager. Compiled by the Librarian and Staff of the Bangor Public Library. Written by L. Felix Ranlett, Librarian. Engrossed by Irving Bookstein, Boston, Massachusetts. Bound by Frederick W. Young, Harcourt Bindery, Boston, Massachusetts. Photographic copying by Preston M. Williams, Bangor and Cooper Studio of Photography, Brookline, Massachusetts. Finished March 1947.

A photographic reproduction of the Book, full size, but less sumptuously illuminated and bound, is being made and will later be available at the Bangor Public Library for public handling. The reproductions of pages being presented by the City to designated relatives are made photographically and illuminated by hand.
Bangor Hebrew School: Fortieth Anniversary, 1907-1947

Bangor Hebrew Community Center

Presents an exhaustive history of the Bangor Hebrew School. Past presidents and board members are listed. Many photographs of students current are shown as are photographs of the school's founders and past administrators.
Cliff Cottage, Bangor, Maine: 1847-1947

Angela Godfrey Clifford

Details the history of the Kenduskeag Avenue, Bangor, Maine, residence of John Edwards Godfrey. Godfrey, in addition to being a judge, was the author of numerous articles on the history of early Maine. Covers Godfrey's family history as told by his granddaughter, Angela Godfrey Clifford.
Dedication of the New Library, University of Maine

University of Maine - Main

The New Library

Ground was formally broken for the New Library during Commencement, 1941. The shell of the building was constructed during 1941-1942, but war conditions made it impossible to proceed with the construction of the interior. At the close of hostilities, work on the building was resumed.

The stack capacity provided at present is estimated to be 250,000 volumes, with space available for an additional 200,000 volumes as needed. The Library is fireproof throughout. The seating capacity of the building when fully utilized for library purposes will be 600.
Of Paper and People (A Story of the Eastern Corporation of Bangor, Maine)

Eastern Corporation

The Eastern Corporation owned paper mills in Brewer, Orono and Lincoln, Maine. The company began in the 1880s in Brewer as a sawmill, with a sulfite pulp mill built in 1889 to use waste products from the sawmill. In 1896, the company, now called the Eastern Manufacturing Company, began to make both chemical wood fiber and rag paper at the site, later changing the emphasis to the manufacture of fine business papers. In 1915 the company acquired the Katahdin Pulp and Paper Company in Lincoln and in 1930 purchased the Orono Pulp and Paper Company. In 1939 the company was reorganized as the Eastern Corporation, with executive offices in Bangor and sales offices in Boston, New York, Chicago and Atlanta. Eastern Corporation became the Eastern Fine Paper and Pulp Division of Standard Packaging Corporation in 1958. [Description courtesy Raymond H. Fogler Library, Special Collections, University of Maine].
Maine the Land of Remembered Vacations 1946

Maine Development Commission

Centuries ago intrepid voyagers sailed uncharted seas to visit the coast of Maine in search of Norumbega, a fabulous city of gold.

Although they cruised along the ruggedly beautiful seashore and sailed up the picturesque rivers as far as their craft would permit, they were unrewarded for, as we know now, there is little of the precious metal in this State.

Sailing away, these colorful explorers little realized that many years later other visitors would find in Maine something infinitely finer and more valuable than mere gold.
Recognition and Farewell Party Open House: USO Club, Bangor, Maine, Sunday, April 14, 1946

United Service Organizations, Bangor, Maine

Lists members receiving USO Distinguished Service certificates and the civic groups and businesses of Bangor who sponsored the reception.
Japan's struggle to end the war

United States Strategic Bombing Survey

Preface

While the impact of Allied air operations in the entire Pacific war bore directly upon the enemy's military and economic capabilities for resisting, only by translating these military and economic effects into political events could our announced war aim of unconditional surrender be realized. Japan's acceptance of defeat without invasion while still possessed of 2 1/2 million combat-equipped troops and 9,000 Kamikaze airplanes in the home islands, reveal how persuasively the consequences of our operations were translated into political results. The nature of Japanese politics and its vulnerability and responses to air assault constituted therefore a major and significant line of inquiry for the Survey.
The effects of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

United States Strategic Bombing Survey

Foreword

The United States Strategic Bombing Survey was established by the Secretary of War on 3 November 1944, pursuant to a directive from the late President Roosevelt. Its mission was to conduct an impartial and expert study of the effects of our aerial attack on Germany, to be used in connection with air attacks on Japan and to establish a basis for evaluating the importance and potentialities of air power as an instrument of military strategy, for planning the future development of the United States armed forces, and for determining future economic policies with respect to the national defense. A summary report and some 200 supporting reports containing the findings of the Survey in Germany have been published.
Maine Invites You: 11th Edition [1945]

Maine Publicity Bureau

Foreword

Between the attractive covers of this, our eleventh edition, we hope that you will find the answer to your war-time vacation problem; for, more than ever before, amidst the grief and turmoil of the times, you will need the health-giving, morale-building benefits of a Maine vacation, this year.

More than ever before, Maine Invites You to enjoy the mystery of her forests, the beauty of her lakes and hills, the music of her streams, the sweep of her great rivers, and the majesty of her rock bound coast and sea-girt isles. Here, in a perfect symphony of nature's greatest blessings, you may, for a time, re-create those all-important reservoirs of mental and physical strength upon which every American is making such demands in his effort to be of service to his nation.

Of course, vacation habits are different. By necessity, transportation methods and facilities have changed. Vacations must be planned, well in advance, for the complete elimination of interference with the war effort. All of us must adjust our tempo to the pace of a democracy fighting for the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Dow Field and Surroundings: 1379th AAF Base Unit North Atlantic Division Air Transport Command

Public Relations Office, Dow Field

This booklet has been issued for the information of personnel at Dow Field, Bangor, Maine. Compiled by the Public Relations Office at the Station, and published by the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co.
Maine Fishing Hunting Canoeing 1944

Maine Development Commission

Photographs and maps add depth to this booklet showcasing hunting, fishing, and canoeing spots in Maine circa 1944.
Postwar Planning for the State of Maine by the Maine Development Commission, as compiled November 1, 1944

Maine Development Commission

The 91st Legislature, by enacting this Law, recognized the urgent desirability of an orderly transition from the economy of war to the economy of peace. This war, to a degree unrecorded in our history, has produced an economic upheaval that by its very magnitude will challenge the ablest leadership of Labor, Management and Government in their coordinated effort to accomplish an orderly return to an economy geared to our peacetime needs.

This complex problem that must be faced offers to the State a challenge to assume an aggressive leadership po ition in Postwar Planning that will effectually aid the economic reestablishment of the men and women of Maine who are in wartime service on world wide battlefields and in the war plants of this and other states. Such transition, if it is to be successfully completed, must be supported by carefully designed plans, prepared well in advance of the need.

The Maine Development Commission, following the enactment of "An Act to Provide for Post War Planning", proceeded with the preparation of the plans and data submitted herein.
Message Urgent: Du Commandement Supreme des Forces Expeditionnaires Alliees Aux Habitants de Cette Ville

Unknown

Message dropped by Allied airplanes over towns about to be bombed during the 1944 liberation of northern France. It tells the inhabitants immediately to get off the roads and out of the towns, into the country, to escape the bombing.
She "Floats" Thru the Air: With The Greatest of Ease

American Steel & Wire Company

A colorful booklet showing mountain tramways in Idaho, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Quebec. Booklet serves primarily as an advertisement for tramway construction by the American Steel and Wire Company.
First Paralyzing Blow at Freedom of the Air in the United States, a Statement by William S. Paley, President of Columbia Broadcasting System

Columbia Broadcasting System and William S. Paley

A statement by Columbia Broadcasting System President Paley in opposition to recent Federal Communications Commission regulations. Time has told that Paley's concerns were unwarranted, though, maybe he still wouldn't have thought so at the time.
121 Tested Recipes Made with Famous State of Maine Canned Foods

Maine Development Commission, Maine Department of Agriculture, Maine Department of Sea and Shore Fisheries, Maine Canners' Association, and Maine Sardine Packers' Association

Dedication

"The thousands of vacationists who come to enjoy Maine's famous recreational facilities each year take away with them also a long-lasting respect for our good Maine foods.

From their frequent inquiries, it is apparent that very few realize how many of these foods are available the year 'round in their own communities.

So we have prepared this combination recipe book and directory of Maine Canned Foods to make it easy for these good friends to distinguish, in their local markets, the many products packed in the State of Maine from foods grown here and from sea foods caught in Maine coastal waters.

Those, too, who have not yet enjoyed first-hand a real "Down East" meal, but who have a discerning taste for high quality and distinctive flavor in foods, will find it worthwhile to look for the labels of Maine canners when they buy canned sweet corn, beans, peas, blueberries, clams, sardines, crab meat and other sea foods."

Sumner Sewall, Governor of Maine
You Can Defend America

Moral Re-armament

This booklet comes to you inspired by those who desire to see realized the vision of the General of the Armies, that this message may reach "every American."

Its purpose is to enlist every reader as a partner in national service, to bring this spirit to every home, every workshop, every farm, every industry.

It is hoped that you will give your best thought in planning how this can be accomplished.

It may well prove that this booklet will become the basis for the national philosophy of total defense for America.
Bangor: First Formal Visit to Our City of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 20, 1941

Antoinette Torrey

This pamphlet provides an itinerary of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's visit to Bangor on May 20, 1941. The pamphlet also offers a brief biography of Mrs. Roosevelt as well as a snapshot of Bangor business and social and civic life of the time. Reprints of the news reports from the Bangor Daily News and Bangor Daily Commercial of the First Lady's visit are included.
Questions ... and the Answers: Why Does Maine Need a New Library

University of Maine - Main

Opening paragraph:

For more than thirty years the present library has endeavored to serve a University constantly growing in response to the educational demands of the state and the nation. New departments, new courses, a larger enrollment of students, and a significant trend toward more research, reference reading and outside study have brought a continually growing need for library service.
Tales of Aroostook

Suzanne Reynolds

Opening of The Old Flewelling House:

The old Flewelling house was haunted. There wasn't a doubt about it. Although most ghosts have been accounted for or explained in some way the ghost of the old Flewelling house has never yet been laid by the heels.

I sought out old Aunt Betsy Walters who had at one time dwelt beneath its roof and who had always insisted that no one could remain in that house for long. Aunt Betsy was busily spinning on this bright March morning, but she was only too eager to sit down and talk. After I had explained my presence by telling her I was after a ghost story she was glad to tell me all she knew of the ghost which, she insisted, still haunted the very spot where the old brown house in the hollow once stood.