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You searched for: Year start: 1900Year end: 1910Place: is exactly 'Mount Desert Island'Date: 1950sSubject: Businesses
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  • Businesses
  • Building Business
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  • Document
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  • Mount Desert Island
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  • Northeast Harbor Library
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Benjamin Graves Record Books
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Building Business
  • 1897-1951
  • Mount Desert Island
Benjamin Graves Record Books
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Box 1 Record book A, 1897-1909 Record book B, Oct. 1902-Oct. 1903 Record book C, 1927-1929 Record book D, 1925-1927 Record book E, 1931-1935 Record book F, 1929-1931 Record book G, 1932 Record book H, 1951 Includes database of clients and works (see uploaded pdf file): Information from Benjamin Graves'work done in the village and on Mount Desert Island from around 1897 through 1951. Much of this time was before reinforced concrete was widely adopted, so while the ledger detail includes other materials, "stone" is a common denominator. Labor rates and other local masons names are shown, as well as early rusticators. Bishop Doane, the Episcopal Church, Pres. Eliot and others' work is laid out. [show more]