Description: Page two of a letter to an unknown person from Fred Savage claiming that Bar Harbor is Sick! He goes on to state what a doctor does when he comes to your house. There is no first or third page to this letter and it ends mid sentence.
Description: During his tenure as lightkeeper, his family consisted of his wife, Catherine (Kimball), 4 daughters, Sarah, age 8, Ida, age 7, Augusta, age 4, and Adelma, age 2. Gives accounts of oil, wicks, and chimneys expended daily; shows time of lighting and extinguishing and length of time lighted each night, for each month.
Description: Many photographs of 19th century Bar Harbor "cottages" and views. Also includes advertisements and two pages of narrative. No publisher indicated. A reproduction of this book may be found at 008.029.
Description: This book is the story of Maine public education in the 20th century; it traces the history from small community schoolhouses to a "seamless statewide system" with the attendant tensions that accompany this transition.
Description: Contains Old and New Testaments, helps to Bible study, a new concordance, elementary introductions to the Hebrew and Greek languages, and an indexed Bible Atlas. Inscribed W.H. Whitmore, Emma A. Whitmore Paper inserted contains recipe for mock apple pie written on receipt of W.H. Whitmore "dry and fancy goods" store.
Description: Songs and hymns for Sunday School, Social Gatherings, and Prayer Meetings. Inscribed Emma Whitmore, Oct. 4, 1882 and [??] Pray and Epping Camp Ground.
Description: More than 200 hymns; most have music, some have just words. Note on title page says, "For Use in Gospel Meetings and other Religious Services." Inscribed EA Whitmore
Gillette, Mrs. F. L. and Hugo Ziemann, Steward of the White House
Publisher:
N.D. Thompson
Date:
1897
Description: " Cooking, toilet, and household recipes; menus, dinner-giving, table etiquette; care of the sick, health suggestions; facts worth knowing, etc. etc." "A comprehensive cyclopedia of information for the home" Full-page photographs of Frances Folsom Cleveland and Carrie Scott Harrison in front. Written in pencil on front page: Miss (?) Mary H. Whitmore Inserted with in book are a floral card that reads, "Love, Honour, Hope & JoyFill Every Year of Thine" and a small "affectionate greeting" from Joseph Whitmore. [show more]
Description: Hand made canvas banner 23" wide by approximately 75" long lists 14 dances including Waltz, Contra, Quadrille, Barn Dance, Two Step, Extra, followed at end by "Good Morning." This came from the Masonic Hall in Somesville and was used for the "Way Back Ball."
Description: Hand-made canvas painted banner 23" wide by 71"long listing 14 dances for "Way Back Ball" in Masonic Hall, Somesville; no date given. Dances include Grand March, Waltz, Contra, Two Step, Quadrille, Shottiche, followed by "Drink & Eat."