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12942Rural New England Furniture: People, Place, and Production
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Furniture
  • Other, New England
  • Benes, Peter, ed.
  • Boston Univ.
  • [1998]
Description:
The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings 1998, a collection of articles on subjects such as "Repairs versus Deception on Essex County Cupboards," "Cabinetmaking Practices...", and about such people as Capt. Abraham Knowlton, William Lloyd, Amzi Chapin; and places such as Worcester County, Mass.; Sterling, Mass.
11932Table
  • Object, Furnishings, Table
  • Other, Dining tables
  • Other, Furnishings
  • Other, Furniture
Description:
Table folds out (hinges missing) and is supported by legs which turns. Four simply carved legs. Space where drawer should be is missing. Some wooden pegs still intact. Reinforced with nails. Dovetail joints. Donor info - this table from log house of Abraham Somes, first settler of Mt. Desert Island. Originally made without nails but with wooden pegs.
3792Description in Deed John J. Somes to Harry G. Somes
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • Other, Deed
  • Other, Farm tools
  • Other, Furnishings
  • Other, Furniture
  • nd
Description:
Typewritten copy of deed of John Somes to Harry G. Somes in Somesville, conveying mill, real estate in New Mill Pond area, Northwest Arm lot
3204School Master’s Desk
  • Object, Furnishings, Floor Stand, Lectern
  • Other, Desks
  • Other, Furniture
  • Other, Schools
  • Other, Teachers
  • 1850s
Description:
Top lifts to reveal space for books and pencils. One drawer at top with white knob. Two doors with shelves behind. One drawer at bottom missing pull. Decorative cut base. Lender info - used by Lynam Smith during the 1850s when he was the teacher in the first school in Pretty Marsh, called "The Little Red Schoolhouse." Lyman Smith also taught in other area schools. Donor is a descendant of Smith.
3007Atkinson House Furnishing Company.
  • Document, Advertising, Print Ad
  • Other, Business & Finance
  • Other, Furniture
  • Other, Maine
  • Chisholm Brothers.
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Blue covered notebook of blank pages. Advertising free stuff.