26 - 50 of 87 results
You searched for: Date: 1880sType: Publication
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Colby’s Atlas of Hancock County Maine 1881
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Atlas
  • Other, Hancock County
  • Colby, George N., ed.
  • 1881.
Colby’s Atlas of Hancock County Maine 1881
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Colby's Atlas of Hancock County Maine
Mount Desert Herald, Julne 21, 1883
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • 1883
Mount Desert Herald, Julne 21, 1883
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Single issue for June; contains local news as well as advertisements and summaries of national news.
Ladies Home Companion
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • 1887
Ladies Home Companion
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Only 16 pps., probably not entire issue. Contains articles about poultry raising, painting on china, making honey, remedy for moths, practical housekeeping, summer millinery, fancy work, and advertisement for baking powder, rug machine, magic lantern, razor-steel knife, and more.
New England Fireside
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • 1888
New England Fireside
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Christmas edition. Includes advertisements for stamping patterns, paper hangings, tooth powder, liniment, and more. Also Illustrations and stories.
Face To Face, Trifet's Monthly Galaxy of Music
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Musical Composition, Sheet Music
  • 1887ca.
Face To Face, Trifet's Monthly Galaxy of Music
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Sheet music for listed titles; also "The World's Method for Cornet and Sax-horn". "Face to Face" is by Herbert Johnson
Meservey’s Book-Keeping,
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Business & finance
  • Meservey, A.B.
  • Brown and Company, 1882.
Meservey’s Book-Keeping,
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
The Summer School of Philosophy at Mt Desert.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Early tourism
  • Mitchell, J. A.
  • 1881
The Summer School of Philosophy at Mt Desert.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Illustrations with some text on Mount Desert.
The Complete Arithmetic, Oral and Written
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Mathematics
  • Greenleaf, Benjamin
  • 1881
The Complete Arithmetic, Oral and Written
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
The Complete Arithmetic, Oral and Written
Glimpses of Three Coasts.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, California
  • Other, England
  • Other, Geography
  • Other, Miss Mary Somes signature
  • Other, Norway,Denmark, Germany
  • Other, Oregon
  • Other, Scotland
  • Jackson, Helen
  • 1886.
Glimpses of Three Coasts.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Miss Mary Somes's signature is on front page and date. Book is about other coasts, not Maine. From the Somes House.
Kings of the Battlefield
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Military history
  • Ramey, W. Sanford
  • 1883
Kings of the Battlefield
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Stories of warriors.
A Practical English Grammar...
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Grammar
  • Raub, Albert N.
  • 1880.
A Practical English Grammar...
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Grammar rules with exercises. written on back page: We went down by about half past three, there was a gray headed man with him. I did not know who it was untill he spoke. I was out side of the road picking flowers, as I did not have anything else to do. I got all ready to go to S. School. Why didn't you go. Because is would not change my dress again. Mother said it was going to rain and I could not ware (sic) my gray dress.
A Graded Spelling Book
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Spelling
  • Other, Textbook
  • Harrington, H.F.
  • 1883
A Graded Spelling Book
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
"Being a Complete Course in Spelling for Primary and Grammar Schools."
McGuffey’s Eclectic Primer
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Reading
  • Other, Schools
  • 1881
McGuffey’s Eclectic Primer
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Incorporates phonic, word, and alphabet methods; includes exercises in writing in script letters and in reading same.
Gospel Hymns No. 4
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Hymn Books
  • Sankey, Ira D., James McGranahan, & Geo. C. Stebbins
  • 1881
Gospel Hymns No. 4
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Stated on cover: "As Used by Them in Gospel Meetings." Publ. by John Church & Co, Cincinnati. Contains title and first line index.
Gospel Hymns No. 5
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Hymn Books
  • Sankey, Ira D., James McGranahan and George C. Stebbins
  • 1887
Gospel Hymns No. 5
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Stated on cover: "For use in Gospel Meetings and other Religious Services; with standard selections." Publ. by Biglow & Main, NY. Contains title, first line and topical indexes. Handwritten inside cover: "Mrs. _.A. Rumill, Pretty Marsh, Maine, July 26, 1890"
The Home Library of Useful Knowledge.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Business
  • Other, Etiquette
  • Other, Handbook
  • Peale, R.S., ed.
  • 1883.
The Home Library of Useful Knowledge.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
A Complete Cyclopedia of Reference. Bound into the front is a Home Library Association Certificate of Membership, No.293316, certifying Mr. L. Allen as a member. Certificate dated Aug. 17, 1889.
Book of Common Prayer.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Prayer
  • Other, Religion
  • 1883.
Book of Common Prayer.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
"And Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America." Marked on back cover: St. Mary by the Sea.
The Normal Fourth Reader
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Readers
  • Other, Reading
  • Raub, Albert N.
  • 1884.
The Normal Fourth Reader
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Inscribed in front: Carrie K. Wiggins, West Eden, Maine
A Geneaolgy and Historical Notices of the Family of Plimpton or Plympton in America and of Plumpton in England.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, Plimpton family
  • Chase, Levi B.
  • 1884
Description:
Handwritten notes by Virginia Somes Sanderson in front.
Gilpin's Forest Scenery
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Francis George Heath, william Gilpin
  • 1887
Gilpin's Forest Scenery
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Harpers School Geography
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Harper and Brothers
  • 1883
Harpers School Geography
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
One copy Harper's School Geography, 1883. Signed Cora Walls of Bar Harbor and Nillie Wasgatt of Eden, Maine. School schedule written in pencil on flyleaf. On inside back cover, book signed Cora A. Wasgatt and Cora A. Sargent, Sound Me.
The Ladies Home Companion June 15, 1887 Vol XIV # 14
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Other, Periodicals
  • 1887
The Ladies Home Companion June 15, 1887 Vol XIV # 14
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
The Ladies Home Companion June 15, 1887 Vol XIV # 14.
Picturesque Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • M.F. Sweetser
  • 1880
Picturesque Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Copy of M.F. Sweetser's Picturesque Maine, 1880. Primarily text detailing the major cities and natural features of Maine.
Summary
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Eliot, Charles
  • 1881
Summary
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
A single sheet summary of early explorers of the New England Coast 1498-1759. This sheet was found in "Charles Eliot's notes on the early explorers of the New England coast." item 005.17.19
Frank Robinson
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Amputation
  • Other, Drinking (alcohol)
  • Other, Liquor
  • 1886
Frank Robinson
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Transcription of Bar Harbor Record Frank Robinson went to Bar Harbor to sell flounders, got drunk and almost froze on return in evening. Had to have some fingers amputated