Description: The Holy Bible, containing the old and new testaments: Translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. Handwritten notes between Old and New Testaments. Newspaper clippings pasted inside front and back covers.
Description: "Together with the Apocrypha: Translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised." Somes family bible. Somes family birth, marriage and death records recorded on included pages between the Old and New Testaments. Envelopes containing the following objects stored inside Bible: Undated obituary of Dr. S.B. Brinkerhoff; ribbon with raised stitchery panel - Judith Somes; needlework panel with words "Holy Bible". [show more]
Description: Illustrated with over 250 engravings, maps and charts. Stated in front: "Presented to Mount Desert Island Museum by Mrs. Abbie Thomas Richardson."
Description: The Mount Desert Larger Parish Historic and Descriptive Manual of the First Seven Years of the Organization, 1925-1932. Covering the communities of Otter Creek, Seal Harbor, Northeast Harbor, Somesville, Town Hill and Salisbury Cove.
Description: "Translated out of the original Greek: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised." Inscribed in front: "Charles E. Somes, Mt. Desert, Maine, Jan. 7, 1873." Poem written in back. Included inside the Bible are two small sheets with handwritten biblical quotes as well as a hank of hair tied up with string or embroidery floss.
Description: Various religious tracts. Handwritten inside front cover: "From old Lewis Somes house." Hnadwritten inside back cover: "Lewis Somes, Mount Desert ____".
Description: "An Exposure of Its Origin, Character, and Results in Letters from a Father to his Children." Handwritten in front, " ______ A. Somes, Somesville, Maine"
Description: In pencil at top, says "They that Hear" John 6:25. Hand writing on side and edits of pages Previously archived as object id 012.FIC.065.08, **1400