Description: Wedding announcement card:“Mr & Mrs. Henry Whiting, of Ellsworth, ME. Request the pleasure of your company at the Marriage Ceremony of their daughter”. August 1, 1870. Previously archived as 016.FIC.001.37.k
Description: Caption in The Living Past page 122; "Somesville's main road in 1870, looking north towards Ellsworth. Mount Desert House on left; A.J. Whiting store on right (note balcony and porch); corner of blacksmith shop on right. Telegraph wires were in use in 1870." Horse drawn vehicles on rutted dirt road. Negative.
Description: Carte de visite of a woman with dark hair curled, pulled back, but also with long corkscrew curls hanging down shoulder. Wears dark dress with ruffled bodice, white ruffled collar, patterned shawl over shoulders. Wears earrings, long strand of large dark beads. Inscription on back reads “Lucy Noyes... Brinkerhoff California.”
Description: Carte de visite of a man with dark hair parted on right, swept over (and slightly up) on right side. Has very thick dark mustache. Wears dark suit, dark bow tie, white shirt. Jacket unbuttoned after first button, distinctive horseshoe shaped pin on left lapel.
Description: tintype of child seated in wooden chair. Wears hair parted down center, cut very short. Also wears light colored blouse--could be very long blouse, could be dress. Also wears string of beads around neck. Is looking down and to the right of camera. Top left hand and bottom corners of tintype have been clipped off.
Description: tintype of man seated, one arm resting on armrest of chair, the other hand resting on knee. Wears dark suit, white shirt, striped bow tie. Has dark hair, widow’s peak, dark drooping mustache, and slight goatee. Lots of marks on front of tintype.
Description: Tintype of two men in front of studio backdrop of winter scene. They both wear very simple white pullover shirts (don’t seem to be button up) and dark trousers; their suspenders have been pulled down and hang loose. Both have mustaches and dark hair that has been shaved on the sides. They stand apart, but reach out towards one another with their left fists clenched, their left wrists touch. They pull their right hands across their chests, right fists also clenched. Look like mirror images of one another. Inscription on back reads Paul Bener at top, Peter Bener at bottom (name could also be Bever). Left hand corners have been cut. [show more]
Description: tintype of two men, one standing, one sitting next to him. The seated man wears a white shirt, dark trousers, and a long duster coat, as well as a plaid newsboy-style cap. The man standing next to him has his right hand on the shoulder of the other man, and is wearing a white shirt covered by a long duster, also wears a cap in the same newsboy style. Backdrop of flowers, even looks to be grass underfoot.
Description: Daguerreotype, taken from the neck up, of an unknown young man wearing a formal dark suit with white shirt and large dark bow tie. Wavy dark hair parted on right and combed over. Lots of spotting on face of daguerreotype.
Description: Daguerreotype of unknown older man wearing dark suit with vest, white shirt, dark bow tie. Dark hair thinning in front, but worn long over ears.
Description: Daguerreotype of unknown young man with bushy dark hair, wearng dark suit with dark jacket, vest with type of paisley print, white shirt, and large dark bow tie.
Description: Daguerreotype of unknown woman wearing dark dress with two buttons on bodice, white collar secured with brooch. Has dark hair parted in middle; wears large bonnet with white ruffles around face, flower trim around chin.
Description: Daguerreotype of unknown woman wearing dark dress with white lace collar, with brooch at collar. Has dark hair parted in middle and combed down, wears white ruffly bonnet to cover hair. Significant deterioration on face of photo; spot obscurring woman’s face.
Description: Photo within album: page 34. Portrait of unknown woman sitting next to small table, book open on table. Woman wears dark dress with large sleeves, lots of detailing at collar. White collar covered by large brooch. Hair worn long, curly, fastened with bow on top of head.
Description: Photo within album: page 46. Portrait of unknown woman wearing dark dress with white buttons up placket, small white lace collar. Hair parted in center, pulled back, some curls loose around face. Cheeks hand tinted pink, also seems to be a tiny fleck of gold leaf affixed to indentation at throat.
Description: Letter to Mrs Mary Newman from Charlotte Newman, daughterr to Mary Newman's daughter. Lots of spelling errors. mother is spelled mothar Charlotte states that she heard that mothar (Mary) wanted her to come home, but she doesn't want to because "you noi (sic) as Well as I do how father treated me." He would not speak to her She is writing from South West Harbor to East Eden.
Description: Letter to George W. Newman of Mt Desert, from his sister Nell in East Lamoine "Henry (is this Nell's husband or father) is getting disconted and wants to get home. George will carry him over to the Sandpoint next Sunday and you will have to come anGd get him. he would carry him before that time but he can't leave his work to go as he is on wages. George expects to be going away "a coasting". Since he is going to be gone she is going to have to go see "George's father to get his dets? ... [show more]
Description: Letter to Mary Newman, 1877 from Nellie, East Lamoine Her husband George is now gone until January. Children have hooping cough "in the place" and she wonders when her children will get it. She had to work "dreadful hard this summer" Had work done on the house? " I have just moved out into my cookroome." She asks her mother for roles
Description: To Mary Newman, Apr 13, 1879. Dear Mother from Nellie M. Pierce. George is gone to Boston and she is all alone with the childern..He is sailing. He lost his jib during a gail but was able to get into Portland. He's been to Rockport on one trip but "the ice took his vesil(sic) ashore." She is lame
Description: To Mary Newman, East Eden, Feb 27, 1870s from presumably her daughter in East Sullivan. 'I do not haff (sic) to pay eny rent. She and Mrs John Carpenter are there in Sullivan so she is not alone.. "I can stay here my life timeif I want to but I do not know..." Write to her in care of George Bunker
Description: To George Newman, (brother) orwarded to East Eden, probably from Nellie M. Pierce, Sep 1870 Mention her husband, George, is sailing to Portland. Her husband wants her to go home until he comes back in two to three weeks.or as you will? come down
Description: July 21 1879 To my dear mother Newman from Nellie M. Pierce in Gouldsboro Explains that she had a letter from Firies? Josiah Newman's wife is mentioned Has 3 boys and 4 girls Mentions wanting to see Willie and Charlotte, perhaps her brother and sister
Description: To Mrs. George Newman, Winter Harbor from Nellie M. Pierce May 1871 Wants her mother to come home. Nellie and Jane will take her place and take care of her (not sure who she is referring to) Care of ?M.Carpenter