Description: Scrapbook with clippings about Mount Desert Island. Numerous articles about high school basketball, the Schooner Thomas W. Lawson, and Liberace. May have belonged to Somesville Postmaster Hollis Smith.
Description: Scrapbook kept by Mrs. Emily Savage with newspaper clippings of poetry, life events for the Savage family (obituaries, marriage announcements, etc.), recipes, remedies, and newspaper articles related to Mount Desert Island and popular culture. A few examples include: a Civil War era fractional currency 25-cent note, obituary for Herman L. Savage, golden wedding anniversary celebration of Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Savage, image and description of a medal commemorating the departure of the Atlantic fleet, and an article about Abraham Lincoln. [show more]
Description: 5x6 leather photo album containing sixteen unidentified portraits. Condition of album cover, poor. Some pages at end of photo album are empty. Some photos in album are tintypes, others are studio portraits on paper. Inscription on frontispiece is Dec. 25, 1880. Photos in the album have been left in the pages as found in the collection. Each page has been scanned and given a separate object ID #
Description: 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 red velvet/leather embossed photo album with metal clasp in good condition. Portraits of Jewett family, including two of Arno as a baby and a 2/3 yr. old. Silsby family, Charles Richardson, J. Herbert Patten M.D. , Johnson children; Rita, Bessie, Shirley and Laurence, Dewey, Ned. Photo of Gertrude Sumner Woods missing from the album. Other family names in album: Woods, Sumner, Short, Brigham, Brimmer, Gregg, Withee, Johnson. A number of the portraits are unidentified. [show more]
Description: 8x10 worn red velvet photo album in poor condition. Includes death notice of Holland Edmond Fernald, 5 mo., 1889, unidentified portaits of children and adults. Death notices for Marjorie Somes Fernald, 2 years, 1894. Portrait of two little girls opposite first notice- one of the children could be Marjorie 21 photos and 3 objects were found in this album. Object Id numbers correspond to the page order in which these photos and mourning cards appear. [show more]
Description: Book of sewing samples made by Emily N. Phillips (Reynolds) during a course at a Boston dressmaker's school about 1910. Contains samples of her stitchery and cutting.
Description: This is a hardcover scrap book measuring 8 x 10 inches. The front cover is embossed with a raised picture with a parrot on a hanging ring, a cat, flowers and 2 borders. The trademark stamped on the inside front cover reads, "Mark Twain's Scrap Book, registered April 23rd, 1878" published by "Daniel Slote & Co." On the next page, is a faded inscription which reads in cursive, "Lucie F. Somes, Mount Desert, Maine, Nov. 1881". Next, there is a four -page index set up alphabetically with several entrees in cursive. Some examples of entrees are: Doctor and Judge 16; Boston Men Killed 5; Captain W. T. Ober 16; and Pillow lace making 18. The rest of this book is a compilation of newspaper clippings from many places. Several of the clippings have information which relates to the Somes family or of Mount Desert Island. For example, "Memorial Day at Somesville"; a column entitled, Then and Now (for the Mount Desert Herald) dated Nov. 2, 1885; and "Death of John W. Somes of Mount Desert". There is a beige grosgrain ribbon inside which is used as a marker. [show more]
Description: leather photo album, holding approximately 50 photos. Leather cover, back and spine. Diamond-shape embossed onto front and back, also decorated with gold leaf in vine pattern, as well as embossed zig-zag design. Four white studs protrude from four corners of album on both front and back. Two metal clasps on right hand side, ivy leaf and vine design. Word “Photographs” embossed on spine of album.
Description: Clippings from Yarmouth Light, Bar Harbor Times, and other memorabilia in plastic covers. Shows old Stotesbury estate on Frenchman's Bay, Bar Harbor, where landing dock constructed. Compiled by Judy Gerrish.
Description: 3" x 2" x 1" photo. album; brown leather covers, gold embossing; latch. Not all places have photos; many photos disintegrating. No identification of owner or those photographed.
Description: Red cloth-covered photograph album with metal clasp containing photos of the following families: Higgins, Moore, Mayo, Emery, Parker, Clark, Smith, Herrick, Taylor, Kimball, Lawson, Robinson. Separate photo. of Ruby Elizabeth Higgins , age 6 months, inside front cover. No design on the cloth cover.