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Old Farmer’s Almanac
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Almanac
  • Other, Agriculture
  • Other, History - Bar Harbor
  • 1852
Old Farmer’s Almanac
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Old Farmer’s Almanac 1865 tied together with string, yellow cover Previously archived as object id 013.FIC.31.08
The Holy Bible
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bibles
  • 1857
The Holy Bible
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1857 Holy Bible with a sticker inside cover which reads" Issued by the Maryland State Bible Society from their depository.....". Faded writing on inside cover: 'Lettie A. Smith, Pretty Marsh, Maine"
Progressive Parsing Book
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Grammar
  • Weld, Allen H.
  • 1859
Progressive Parsing Book
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Parsing and Syntax Prose and Poetry
Weld's English Grammar
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Grammar
  • Other, Textbook
  • Weld, Allen H.
  • 1854
Weld's English Grammar
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Composition, Analyzing, and Parsing
The Intermediate Standard Speaker containing pieces for declamation...
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Public Speaking
  • Sargent, Epes
  • 1857.
The Young Reporter or How to Write Shorthand
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Phonography
  • Other, Shorthand
  • Webster, E.
  • 1855
The Young Reporter or How to Write Shorthand
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Shorthand exercises
Cosmopolitan Art Journal
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • 1857
Cosmopolitan Art Journal
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Selected pages; note,"copy for Thaddeus Somes" and "see page 124 for Elizabeth Barrett Browning", which is an essay and "medallion portrait." Other articles on "Dignity of Art," Power of Beauty," sketch of Jerome B. Thompson and sketches of farm life.
[Blue Hill] Academy Journal, vol. 2, no. 3
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • 1852c.
[Blue Hill] Academy Journal, vol. 2, no. 3
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Handwritten journal, E.H. Kimball & F.E. Somes, editors. Editorial, poems, and more. Note on blue cover says, "Garpa went to Blue Hill Academy when he was 16 years olf-1852.) Don't know who wrote this note.
True Stories from Modern History.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • 1859.
True Stories from Modern History.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Short historical stories. gift of Abbie Thomas Richardson
A Key to the National Arithmetic Exhibiting the Operation of the More Difficult Questions in that Work: For the Use of Teachers Only
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Arithmetic
  • Other, Mathematics
  • Other, Textbook
  • Greenleaf, Benjamin
  • 1854
Description:
Guide for teachers; appears to cover almost all grades, but method also seems obscure. Inscribed on front cover, Lyman Smith.
The Life and Times of Aaron Burr.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Burr, Aaron
  • Parton, J.
  • 1859.
The Life and Times of Aaron Burr.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
The three eras of a woman's life: The maiden, the wife, and the mother.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Arthur, T.S.
  • 1858
Description:
Novel includes chapters illustrating the heroine's duty before pleasure and a woman's goodcharacter, trials, disappointments, love, beauty, courting, marriage.
Popular Legends of Brittany
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Bode, Heinrich
  • 1854
Popular Legends of Brittany
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
English version of Sonvestre's "Foyer Breton" translated by "a lady." Inscribed Edith E. Salisbury, Mt. Desert, Maine Dec.1878.
Little Kitty Brown and Her Bible Verses
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • 1851
Little Kitty Brown and Her Bible Verses
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Written for the American Sunday School Union, this little book contains stories about a little girl learning Bible verses, one per day.
The Visit; or, the Difference Between Being a Good Child and Being Like a Good Chile
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • 1853
Description:
One of the books in a series of Sunday School Union publications. Inscribed Sound Sabbath School No. 10
The Swiss Pastor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Vulliemin, L. and C.
  • 1850
The Swiss Pastor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Note on title page indicates this is "the life of the Rev. F.A.A. Gonthier". Inscribed "No. 58 Sound Sabbath School."
Stories for Village Lads
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • 1856
Stories for Village Lads
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Fictional stories for Sunday School. Inscription says, "????have you got a slate pencil that you would let me have. Yes.
O Novo Testamento
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bibles
  • Other, Religion
  • 1857
O Novo Testamento
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
"de Nosso Senhor E Salvador Jesus Christo" New Testament translated into Portuguese. Handwritten inside front cover: "Loaned by Kate Richardson."
Thoughts upon Thought for Young Men
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Moral & ethical aspects
  • Other, Philosophy
  • Other, Religion
  • 1855.
Thoughts upon Thought for Young Men
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
"In Three Parts. From the Second London Edition."
Margaret and Henrietta
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Moral & ethical aspects
  • Sigourney, Mrs. L.H.
  • 1852.
Margaret and Henrietta
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Decorative, embossed cloth cover.
The Village Blacksmith
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fiction?
  • Everett, James
  • 1853.
The Village Blacksmith
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
From title page: piety and usefulness exemplified in a memoir of the life of Samuel Hick, late of Micklefield, Yorkshire From the Seventh london Edition.
Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Hymn Books
  • 1852
Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Revised Edition. Inscribed in front: Melissa D. Higgins. Includes first line and verse indices.
The Ladies Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance, Vol 14
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fashion industry
  • Other, Women
  • 1850.
The Ladies Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance, Vol 14
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Reader for women. Contains colored Godey plates. Inscribed in front: From the late Ellen Gerry's Collection.
The Progressive First Reader for Primary Classes...
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Readers
  • Town, Salem and Nelson M. Holbrook
  • 1856
The Progressive First Reader for Primary Classes...
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Written for students in public and private schools; primary goal is to gain and fix attention of pupil on lesson to be read. Inscribed C.G. Bordeaux, Sound
Christmas Blossoms and New Year's Wreath for MDCCCL
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Christmas
  • Other, New Year's
  • Other, Readers
  • Uncle Thomas
  • 1850
Christmas Blossoms and New Year's Wreath for MDCCCL
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Fourth in a series of short stories for Christmas: Christmas Blossoms Inscribed Edith E. Salisbury from Aunt Hittie, Dec. 25, 1878--Christmas present; also Edit Salisbury