Description: Colby & Stuart map includes towns of Eden, Mount Desert, Tremont, Cranberry Isles; physical landmarks, adjacent islands (1887). This mylar transparency may be used to make copies of the map. size: 30 by 40 inches Scale: 1 mile=1 inch
Published for F.D. Foster, Bar Harbor, Maine by Colby & Stuart"
Collection:
Map Collection
Date:
1887
Description: Colby & Stuart map includes villages of Mount Desert, physical landmarks, adjacent islands in 1887. This is a blue print copy. size: 30 by 40 inches
Description: Death notice of Daniel Somes, 1803-1882, copied from the Mount Desert Herald of January 18, 1883. Includes biographical information on Somes.
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
Description: From a note, possibly as display label, inserted in the notebook: Charles Eliot's notes on the early explorers of the New England coast. This notebook was probably compiled in 1881-1883. Some of the notes were used in S. A. E's "Mt. Desert" Two pages have been cut out from the start of the notebook. Pages have been numbered with a sequential stamp. The first remaining page is 5. The last numbered page is 288. In most of the notebook there is writing only on the odd pages - the right page of an open two page spread. A single detached page found in the notebook is entitled, "Summary". This page is entered separately as 005.17.20 27 x 23 cm. [show more]
Description: Samuel de Champlain April 1882 - Information about Samuel de Champlain Compiled/Written 1882 A copy of whole paper on Champlain by C. Eliot for Nathan Price (in 11 pages)
Description: Historical notes nos. I-VIII. Champlain Society Historical Notes submitted by Charles Eliot One "volume" is I-V; another is No. VI, another No.VII, and another No. VIII (1887) They are all covered in mylar and tied together in string.
Description: portrait of young girl with corkscrew curls sitting on knee of elderly man with long beard. Girl holds some sort of stick-like object in her right hand (possibly gun), her left hand rests on the older man’s left arm. Her dress is light-colored with dark velvety trim at wrists and collar. The older man is wearing a dark suit with a white handkerchief.
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.
Description: Receipt for boots, hat, shoes, peas, corn, tea, and more issues by Higging Brothers, dealers in Dry Goods and Groceries, Flour and Corn, Paints and Oils, Ready-made Clothing, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes. Store apparently was in Bar Harbor.
Description: Carte de visite of a man with straight, thick dark hair parted on left. Wears dark suit jacket, vest, white shirt, dark thick bow tie. Inscription on back reads ”Geo Joy.”