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: Table of contents in front includes oaths of officers, warrant of special meetings, records of meetings, constables return, etc. and pages for same.
Description: This is a white loose-leaf binder, approximately 10" X 11", containing six articles by Ralph Stanley: The Clark family: Charmian Kittredge and Jack London The Romer Boys Shipbuilding on Mount Desert Island Early Maritime History of Mount Desert Island Schooner Augusta E. Herrick of Swan's Island Boatbuilding during World War II: M.D.I., Ellsworth, Stonington, and Bluehill
Description: This is comprehensive report that addresses such topics as attendance, subjects of study (reading, arithmetic, geography, language and grammar, history, spelling, penmanship). The School Improvement League of Maine is discussed. The 1894 volume has newspaper clippings of recipes pasted onto the first few pages as well as several loose clippings.
Description: Series of pamphlets, one for each named architect, inserted into red folder. Architects: Parris, Alexander Peabody and Stearns Romer, Colonel Wolfgang William Kent, Rockwell Chamberlain, Calvin Kimball, John Jr. Keely, Patrick C. Kilham, Hopkins & Greeley Lawrence, Ellis F. Longfellow, William Pitt Preble Rand, James H. Stanley, Freeman A. Wheelwright, Edmund M. Harrison, Wallace K. Dunton, Ebenezer Lord, Thomas M. Mullett Alfred B. Bassford, Asher B. Grain, Peter Sr. Also contains a Preliminary Historical Checklist of Landscape Architects in Maine by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. [show more]
Description: Selections from Caesar's Civil War, the Story of the Argonauts with a view to improving students' working vocabulary and principles of grammar. Includes a Grammatical Appendix and a Vocabulary section as well as notes throughout the text. Illlustrated. Inside front cover: John W. Somes, 4 Eaton Cottage, Andover, Mass.
Description: "And Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland."
Description: Sayings from English, American and European authors; table of contents arranged by topic, e.g., accidents, business, civility. No publication date.
Description: Clothbound green covers with gold decoration on cover, spine and page edges. Handwritten inside front: "George A P Somes, from his Mother."