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| Colton's Railroad and Township Map of Maine, 1854 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Colton's Railroad and Township Map of Maine, 1854 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Colton's Railroad and Township Map of Maine, 1854 | ||||
| US Coast Survey Map of Baker's Island Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| US Coast Survey Map of Baker's Island Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: 1854, 1864, or 1884 Map by W. E. Greenwell, Assistant USCS Date unclear. Photocopies only. | |||
| Cosmopolitan Art Journal Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  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 |
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|  [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. | ||||
| Poem: Life of Nicholas Thomas Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Poem: Life of Nicholas Thomas Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Photocopy of handwritten poem about Nicholas Thomas of Eden "written by himself in the 78th year of his age." Donor was given this personally by Augustus Phillips 25 years or so ago when he (donor) was researching doggerel by Bill Ayles. The poem was printed in Vol. VI 2004 issue of Chebacco. | |||
| True Stories from Modern History. Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  True Stories from Modern History. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Short historical stories. gift of Abbie Thomas Richardson | |||
| The Practical Arithmetic, Designed for the Use of Schools and Academies... Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| The Practical Arithmetic, Designed for the Use of Schools and Academies... Mount Desert Island Historical Society | ||
| 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 |
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| 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 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 |
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| 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 |
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| The three eras of a woman's life: The maiden, the wife, and the mother. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Novel includes chapters illustrating the heroine's duty before pleasure and a woman's goodcharacter, trials, disappointments, love, beauty, courting, marriage. | |||
| Cradle Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Cradle Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Made of walnut; shaped like a small boat. Sits in frame and rocks. Cradle has swan head and end like a ship’s stern. Frame is carved with flowers on each end and underneath. Donor info - made for Olive Perkins (Mrs. S.W. Smith, Jr.) of Warren, Ohio born August 17, 1858. Mattress made in 1924 for Samuel Smith Wilson. Following info from Samuel Smith Wilson who visited Museum in 1997. Olive Perkins married Judge Smith who rented the house between the Mount Desert Tavern and the Abraham Somes III house in Somesville. This house is no longer standing. She died near 1930. Her grandfather was Brig. General Simon Perkins, an Ohio land surveyor and speculator. [show more] | ||||
| Popular Legends of Brittany Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| 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 |
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|  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 |
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| The Visit; or, the Difference Between Being a Good Child and Being Like a Good Chile Mount Desert Island Historical Society 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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|  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 |
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|  Margaret and Henrietta Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Decorative, embossed cloth cover. | ||
| The Village Blacksmith Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  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 |
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| 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 |
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|  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 |
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|  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 |
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|  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 | ||
| Receipt for 11.5 cords of wook Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Receipt for 11.5 cords of wook Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Receipt surveyed from Capt. Parker Bridges (?) to Thomas Lothock (?) for 11.5 cords of wood, attested by Litchfield Kimball. NB: Difficult to read names and to tell just what this was for. |