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You searched for: Year start: 1900✖Year end: 1910✖Date: 1800s✖
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Photo Album
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
  • Other, Photograph albums
  • late 1800’s
Photo Album
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Identifier:
  • mdihs-3276
Type:
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
Subject:
  • Other, Photograph albums
Date:
  • late 1800’s
Description:
Photo / cabinet card album with a faded green velvet cover. On the cover is a metal design that has two flowers in the background and “ALBUM” written on a scroll across the front in woven letters. There are sixteen gold edged leaves. The green pages have a design with a curtain in the top left, flowers, and a spider web in the bottom right. Fourteen of them have space for one picture on each side and are occupied, the last two have spaces for four pictures on each side and are empty. There is a metal clasp with two small springs on it. It contains photos #999-823-3907 to 999-849-3933. Cabinet cards from P.8 to P.23 and P.28 in this album are all young men wearing similar uniform jackets and vests. A few are identified as being from Coburn Classical Institute, 1891. Coburn Classical Institute was a preparatory school in Waterville, Me. [show more]
Tooth Extractor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Medical, Dental Extractor, Tooth Extractor
  • Other, Dental equipment & supplies
  • Other, Teeth
  • circa 1800
Tooth Extractor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Identifier:
  • mdihs-3155
Type:
  • Object, Medical, Dental Extractor, Tooth Extractor
Subject:
  • Other, Dental equipment & supplies
  • Other, Teeth
Date:
  • circa 1800
Description:
Wooden handle, iron tool. Resembles corkscrew handle with hinged hook at end which tightens around the tooth.
Tax Records
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record
  • Other, Taxes
  • 1803
Tax Records
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Identifier:
  • mdihs-2461
Type:
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record
Subject:
  • Other, Taxes
Date:
  • 1803
Description:
Tax Records, Richard Heath Tax Collector Town of Mt. Desert
Stampless folded letter sent from the Ellsworth post office 1809
Tremont Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Ellsworth, Hancock County, Maine
  • Other, Mail Delivery
  • 9/27/1809
Stampless folded letter sent from the Ellsworth post office 1809
Tremont Historical Society
Identifier:
  • ths-2167
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
Subject:
  • Other, Ellsworth, Hancock County, Maine
  • Other, Mail Delivery
Date:
  • 9/27/1809
Description:
Stampless folded letter sent from the Ellsworth post office 1809
Kittredge family crib
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Furnishings, Bed, Child's Bed, Crib
  • Other, Family
  • Kittredge, Kendall (1773-1857)
  • 1800 c.
  • Mount Desert, Somesville
  • No Copyright - United States
Kittredge family crib
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Identifier:
  • mdihs-1687
Type:
  • Object, Furnishings, Bed, Child's Bed, Crib
Subject:
  • Other, Family
Creator:
  • Kittredge, Kendall (1773-1857)
Date:
  • 1800 c.
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Somesville
Description:
Made by Dr. Kendall Kittredge for his baby daughter. Seven generations of the Kittredge family have slept in it. Crib has one open side so that it can be pushed against the mother's bed. Made of wood. Wooden pegged construction. Turned posts. Rope webbing. Later used in the Fred Wiggin house. 3' 11" long, 2' 3/4" wide. 3' 3 1/2" high.
Spurling - Julia Spurling's utensils from house.
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Food Cutting Tool
  • People
  • 1800
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
  • No Copyright - United States
Spurling - Julia Spurling's utensils from house.
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Identifier:
  • gcihs-2013.496.2987
Type:
  • Object, Food Cutting Tool
Subject:
  • People
Date:
  • 1800
Place:
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
Description:
Four forks and two knives. These utensils are likely saved from a house fire in 1928. The first knife is a wood handled steak knife, this knife has "Steak Knife" engraved into the side of it, but is no longer sharp enough to be used to cut anything. The second knife is a yellow plastic handled steak knife with no engravings on it. The first fork is a long wood handled three-pronged with the words "Chadwick stainless Taiwan." The second for is a wood handled, dark stained three pronged fork, this fork has no engravings. The third fork is a wood handled three pronged fork, this fork has no engravings on it. The last fork is a cast iron fork with the brand logo JR&CO on it. JR&CO brand made utensils back in the 1800's, which is probably when this fork was made. *Three Pronged forks were often used to pick the meats out of seafood. [show more]