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School Master's Desk
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Furnishings, Desk, Standing Desk
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • Structures, Institutional, School
  • 1850 c.
  • Mount Desert, Pretty Marsh
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School Master's Desk
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Identifier:
  • mdihs-1686
Type:
  • Object, Furnishings, Desk, Standing Desk
Subject:
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • Structures, Institutional, School
Date:
  • 1850 c.
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Pretty Marsh
Description:
School master's desk. Top lifts to reveal space for books and pencils. One drawer at top with white knob. Two doors with shelves behind. One drawer at bottom missing pull. Decorative cut base. Lender info - used by Lynam Smith during the 1850s when he was the teacher in the first school in Pretty Marsh, called "The Little Red Schoolhouse." Lyman Smith also taught in other area schools. Donor is a descendant of Smith.