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Milking Stool
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Furnishings, Stool, Milking Stool
Milking Stool
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Three Legged Green Painted Milking Stool. Six Sided.
Sausage Stuffer
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Sausage Stuffer
Sausage Stuffer
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
This is a sausage stuffer with a base measuring 35 and a half inches in length. There is a hallowed out chamber on the base. At one end of the base is a post which measures 17 and a half inches high. There is a handle hinged into the post so it can swing up and down. When the handle is pressed down, there is a wooden block which is pushed down into the hallowed out chamber.
Cream stockings
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Clothing, Hosiery, Stocking
Cream stockings
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1 pair woman's cream silk stockings with fine stitchery .
Baby stockings
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Clothing, Hosiery, Stocking
Baby stockings
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Cream knit baby stockings (pair)
Cream stockings
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Clothing, Hosiery, Stocking
Cream stockings
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1 pair woman's cream silk stockings
Bicentennial Stamp marked with Seal Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Stamp
Bicentennial Stamp marked with Seal Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
This is the fourth of four bicentennial stamps. It is marked Seal Harbor, Aug. 5, 1989 and at the top has 1789-1989. It has been used by the post office because it is stained with black ink. It measures 2 and one half by 4 inches and has a label on the front edge in white which reads Town of Mount Desert BICENTENNIAL. There is an oval label on the side which says: Granite State Stamps, Manchester, Laconia, 603-669-9322 and 603-524-9172. There is a hint of ink on the edges of the stamp but the bottom still is quite clear indicating that it may have not been used as much as 009.035.1. [show more]
Bicentennial Stamp marked Northeast Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Stamp
Bicentennial Stamp marked Northeast Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
This is the second of four bicentennial stamps. It is marked Northeast Harbor, Aug. 5, 1989 and at the top has 1789-1989. It has been used by the post office because it is stained with black ink. It measures 2 and one half by 4 inches and has a label on the front edge in white which reads Town of Mount Desert BICENTENNIAL. There are oval labels on the bottom and side which say: Granite State Stamps, Manchester, Laconia, 603-669-9322 and 603-524-9172. There is a hint of ink on the edges of the stamp but the bottom still is quite clear indicating that it may have not been used as much as 009.035.1. [show more]
Bicentennial Stamp marked Otter Creek
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Stamp
Bicentennial Stamp marked Otter Creek
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
This is the third of four bicentennial stamps. It is marked Otter Creek, Aug. 5, 1989 and at the top has 1789-1989. It has been used by the post office because it is stained with black ink. It measures 2 and one half by 4 inches and has a label on the front edge in white which reads Town of Mount Desert BICENTENNIAL. Attached to this stamp is a note indicating that all four stamps came out of the Mount Desert Post Office. They were earmarked for being thrown away, abandoned by the post office. [show more]
Bicentennial Stamp for Mount Desert, Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Stamp
Bicentennial Stamp for Mount Desert, Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
This is the first of four bicentennial stamps. It is marked Mount Desert, 04660, Aug. 5, 1989 and at the top has 1789-1989. It has been used by the post office because it is stained with black ink. It measures 2 and one half by 4 inches and has a label on the front edge in white which reads Town of Mount Desert BICENTENNIAL. There is an oval label on the bottom which says: Granite State Stamps, Manchester, Laconia, 603-669-9322 and 603-524-9172. [show more]
Taff rail
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Mechanical, Speedometer
Taff rail
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Taff rail used on ship belonging to Captain Edwin Rumill, who died in a mutiny in October 1905. It was not listed in his effects at the time of his death. Rumill was the father of Edna Rummill, mother of Gail Reiber and Joanne Whitney. The taff rail hung off the stern of a vessel and measured the speed of the vessel.
Child's wooden sled
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Snow Coaster, Sled
Child's wooden sled
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Child's sled with cut-out yellow wood seat, black metal runners. 10.5" high Runners are 12" apart Approx. 30" long
Infant slip
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Clothing, Slip
  • c. 1940s
Infant slip
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Cream sleeveless infant dress or slip. Emboridered at neck and along hem. Embroidered flowers at center bottom of front. Some discoloration. Made in Philippines.
Border of fancy ball skirt or dress
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Clothing, Skirt
Border of fancy ball skirt or dress
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Border of very elegant ball gown or skirt worn by Anne Funderburk's grandmother. Blue silk with tiers of lace. Has been removed from the bottom of the gown.
Black wool window-pane pattern skirt
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Clothing, Skirt
Black wool window-pane pattern skirt
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Black window-pane pattern wool skirt, fully lined. Moth hole.
Plaid skirt
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Clothing, Skirt
Plaid skirt
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Long plaid skirt, pink and brown. Several holes in fabric
Brown embossed woman's skirt
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Clothing, Skirt
Brown embossed woman's skirt
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Brown embossed woman's skirt, heavily lined. Full length for a tall woman.
Baby shirt
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Clothing, Shirt
Baby shirt
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Baby button-downed shirt, now yellowed. MF 2/19/19
Men's Army Shirt
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Clothing, Shirt
Men's Army Shirt
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
This is a tan twill cotton army shirt. It has the markings "MERC and M9149 on the inside collar. There are two buttoned tabs on the shoulders and a 6 button fly front. In addition, there are two tabbed pockets on the front. The sleeves have buttoned cuffs. The shirt is folded with a cardboard insert in the collar as if it had just been cleaned at a laundry.
Infant shirt
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Clothing, Shirt
  • c. 1940s
Infant shirt
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Pale green cotton embroidered infant's shirt, with buttons down front and scalloped opening at neck. Embroidered around neck. "Pemae Hand Made."
Infant shirt
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Clothing, Shirt
  • c. 1940s
Infant shirt
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Sleeveless cream cotton infant shirt with pocket and rabbit embroidery in green thread. hand made in the Philippines.
Fork and Knife
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Flatware Set
Fork and Knife
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
The fork is 7 and 1/4 inches long.The knife measures 8 and 3/4 inches long. Each has a handle that measures 4 and 1/4 inches. Each handle has a 2 and 1/2 inch section which appears to be pearl. On either end of this pearl section is a fan-like carving in the pearl. This pearl section is framed on both end by one inch sections of silver which has elaborate carvings.
Brown fringed shawl
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Clothing, Shawl
Brown fringed shawl
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Brown fringed shawl. May be part of an outfit that included a pink and brown dress (997-72-561)
Private Communion Set
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Ritual Container, Communion Vessel, Communion Set
Private Communion Set
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Private communion set that had been given to George Price by descendants of The Reverend Dr. Horace Hall Leavitt, to whom it had belonged. Dr. Leavitt, married to the former Louise B. Whiteman, was the father of Mrs. Constance Scott and Mrs. Carlo Ninfi, both of Somesville. Leavitt's sister was Mrs. Charles E. Gilpatric of New York. Dr. Leavitt died in Somesville in 1966, at age 84. The Reverend Dr. Leavitt was a graduate of Princeton University and Union Theological Seminary. He was pastor of Presyterian churches in Amagansett and Brooklyn, New York and in Honolulu. The communion set is in a case initialed "H.H. L." [show more]
Corporate Seal for the MDI Historical Society
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Seal
Corporate Seal for the MDI Historical Society
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
This is a corporate seal which measures 9 and three quarters inches high when the handle is in the "up" position. At the base, it measures 6 inches long by two inches wide (under the seal section). It is made of metal and is black with gold trim. When the handle is pressed down and a paper is inserted between the seal discs, the paper is marked with "MDI Historical Society 1931".
Corporate Seal Marked with the Town of Eden
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Seal
Corporate Seal Marked with the Town of Eden
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
This item is made of metal and has two holes in its base to mount it on a desk, table or counter. It is an embosser. There is a seal which is not engaged when the handle is up. This allows a person to insert a document under the seal template. When the handle is pressed down, the seal makes an imprint on the document. This reads, " Town of Eden, Maine" at the top and "incorporated in 1796" in the bottom section of the circle. It measures 11 inches high when the handle is in the up position and the base is 6 and a half inches long by 2inches wide. There is a hole on either end of the base. On the sides, there are painted flowers in gold and red. [show more]