Description: Small booklet with glossy plate prints from buildings and sights of Mount Desert Island, c.1893. Brown cover. Similar to 001-99-2352, but pages are uncut.
Description: Application for membership, James Parker Post, GAR. Discharged by reason of gun shot wound. Occupation: farmer Was in 1st Regiment, H. Aart (maybe Artillery) Lives in Salisbury Cove, born in Seawall?
Description: Application for membership in James M. Parker Post GAR by William Edwin Hadlock who served in the 28th Maine Infantry for one year. He was wounded on or about Dec. 16, 1862 when he was thrown from a horse; rank was Lt. Colonel.
Description: Ephemera: Framed poster inviting the citizens of Mount Desert to a Republican Rally in Otter Creek on Sept. 2nd. Speakers at the rally were T.R. Simonton, Esq. and A.P. Wiswell, Esq. Probably dates to the 1880s-1890s. Every line of type is different. Fine example of a typesetter's skill. A gift to the Historical Society in honor of Louisa Kennedy. Poster dimensions: approximately 13 1/4" wide by 20" in height.
Description: "In the Graded Literature Readers good literature has been presented as early as possible, and the classic tales and fables, to which constant allusion is made in literature and daily life, are largely used."
Description: 48 pps. Gives report of Selectmen on appropriations, receipts and expenditures, e.g., for sprinkling streets, disposing of garbage, payments to overseers of poor. Given to Jesup Library, January 2014
Description: large black hard cover ledger with red binding includes record of minutes of Ocean Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows. from 1898- 1907 and hard cover book called Question Book ffrom 1899 to 1969 It is a series of questions that initiates attest to.
Description: Hard Cover Ledger with gold embossed letters “Question Book” listing initiation question for Ocean Lodge No. 140, I.O.O.F. Located at Northeast Harbor, Maine 1898-1974 Questions include: Name? Residence? Occupation?Age? Do you hold Memberhsip in or are you suspended or expelled froma any lodge of this order? Are you in sound health? Do you believe in the existence of a Supreme Being...?
Description: large black hard cover ledger with red binding Includes record of minutes of Ocean Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows. from 1907 - 1915
Description: “Soft Drinks”, and Games ProhibitedFlyer defining Soft drinks, Beers and unconstitutional Games and describing them as unfit for lodge activities. Written by Grant Rogers, G.C.T.
Description: Small booklet containing the by-laws etc. for the Pemetic Lodge of Southwest Harbor Instituted May 7, 1895 and this version printed in Portland May 1928
Description: Marbled Book with paper mend on binding Minutes of meetings from the Somesville Christian Endeavor Society Journal, Somesville Union Meeting House U.C.C. (Congregational Church) from 8/27/1895 -11/13/1912
Description: 2.5” x 4.25” Christmas card from “Mr. and Mrs. Peterson, Methodist Parsonage. North Walderboro, December, 1896.” Previously archived as 016.FIC.001.4.a