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Top of Jewel Box
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Accessory Box, Jewelry Box
Top of Jewel Box
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Identifier:
  • mdihs-17508
Type:
  • Object, Accessory Box, Jewelry Box
Description:
Top of jewel box. Underneath top is mirror with gold border. Surrounded by pink and green flowers, paper lace and leaves on red paper.
Top of Box
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Accessory Box, Trinket Box
Top of Box
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Identifier:
  • mdihs-17507
Type:
  • Object, Accessory Box, Trinket Box
Description:
Small box top. Glass over black and white design. Reads, “Forget Me Not”. Paper edged with dots. May be a box for saving a lock of hair or other personal item.
Box
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Accessory Box, Trinket Box
Box
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Identifier:
  • mdihs-12445
Type:
  • Object, Accessory Box, Trinket Box
Description:
Box covered with flowered paper. Made of cardboard. Lid has red cushion top Embroidered design on top. Number 239 is written on tape on the side of the box. Inside the box are trinkets: 3 miniature pewter spoons; 1 Lilac Sweets perfume bottle; one hair pin with glass flower; one brooch with with two leaves and a flower with glass inset; 10 miscellaneous buttons, one sewn on cloth; and one unknown piece of wood or ivory that would screw into another object. [show more]
Hatbox
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Accessory Box, Hatbox
Hatbox
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Identifier:
  • mdihs-12212
Type:
  • Object, Accessory Box, Hatbox
Description:
Oval hat box of brown cardboard with lid.
Box
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Accessory Box, Trinket Box
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Box
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Identifier:
  • mdihs-12070
Type:
  • Object, Accessory Box, Trinket Box
Date:
  • unknown
Description:
Shell-covered box with hinged cover. Lined with purple velvet. Mirror inside cover framed by metal basket-weave pattern. Covered with small tropical shells - cones, knucklebones, nautica, sunset clams and limpets. Donor info - made by Emma Frances Somes, daughter of Abraham Somes III, sister of Thaddeus Shepley Somes. She died at age 22.