Description: Certificate dated March 15, 2006 certifies that David L. Stanley has been a member of The American Legion for 50 years. Accompanying letter gives guidelines for honoring recipients of such certificates.
Description: Photogrraph of David L. Stanley on front, celebrant was Rev. William J. Wood; service held at St. Mary's Chapel, Northeast Harbor, Maine on Oct. 23, 2006.
Description: Letter to Mr. Stanley indicating "unsettled accounts for a number of years" for a total of $59.35. Bain Russell & Co. are Ship Stores and Ship Chandlery in Portland, Maine; Mr. Stanley's father had recently died, apparently at sea, for mention is made in the letter of recovering the body.
Description: Undated note from postmaster, Millbridge, Maine, to Mr. Fernald indicating that a Mr. Cole came and paid the note and that there was no expense for registering the letter.
Description: Document is copy of original; date is not readable. Deed of land in Town Hill from heirs (F. Adelle Hamblen, Mary Hersey, Lewis Carter) of Andrew J. Carter to Eugene B. Haynes.
Description: 3" X 5" forms to Treasurer requesting payment to various individuals for services (e.g., rations for the soldiers, visiting schools, abatement on sundry taxes, preaching the preasant [sic] year). Also two envelopes addressed to A.C. Fernald, Mount Desert, Maine, with 2cent stamps and postmarked 1888.
Description: This file includes a drawing ( blue print) of "Old Farm " owned by William Miller. All other drawings refer to George B. Dorr as owner. 1. Blue prints include plans and elevations of the linens and tracings. 13 prints and one kraft paper drawng. 2. Pencil and ink on tracing paper includes plans, elevations and assorted full scale details of elements of the alterations. (12 drawings). One drawing on kraft paper of the original house with dimensions. This drawing is in poor condition. (13 drawings in all). 3. Ink on linen, plans, elevations and some details. (15 drawings) 4. Ink on linen drawings of a "farm house" on the estate - plans and one elevation. (4 drawings) [show more]
Description: Sketches of and plans for the "Lewis H. Story", model Chebacco boat that donor made; drawings show scale of 1:20. Also 5 color photographs of the actual "Lewis H. Story" of Essex. Actual receipt was June 2014.
Description: 3" X 5.5" unpaginated pamphlet offering work for those who are"out of employment" opportunity to sell Turkish rug patterns. Cover has words written in pencil including what appears to be "BN Higgins."
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.
Description: Small pamphlet with Confession of Faith: Christ is God, The Holy Spirit is God, Sacred Trinity, and other Articles including Baptism and the Lord's Supper.
Description: Letterhead indicates this is a bill or receipt from Blanchard, Blanchard and Gilmore, Dealers in W.I. Goods, Ship Stores & Chandlery for clasps, locks, rings, and other things, sent by the Schr (Schooner) Olive Branch.
Description: Mr. Richardson writes that he would like to have hardwood boards and specifies the sizes "to work around the top of boats" and on "skiff bottoms." Exact year of letter hard to read, but the letter was written from the Cranberry Isles. Letter measures 5" X 8".
Description: Letter written from the Custom House in Bath [Maine]; writer's name hard to read. Letter dated Nov. 6, 1851 responds to letter from Mr. Heath; indicates that a Capt. McMullin cleared [customs] the previous day and had asked the writer to give him the name of a person to whom he should send money. Writer apparently gave the wrong name (A.J. Clark of Southwest Harbor);it should have been Mr. Heath.
Description: Deed between sellers Addie B. Smith, Donald E. Smith, and Stuart J. Smith all of Somesville and purchasers Frank Kibbe and Michael Voorhees, both of Southwest Harbor for two parcels, one in Town of Mount Desert and the other in Bar Harbor. The first lot is for property sold by Ezra D. Reed to Eben E. Babson in 1876; the second lot is the eastern part of lot number one except for part conveyed in a 1928 deed from B.R. Smith to C. Millard Kittredge. [show more]
Description: This is the original of 015.FIC.033.06; giving from ER Kittridge to FP Smith a right of way from the Marsh lot in Bar Harbor to the highway leading from Somesville to Town Hill.