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You searched for: Date: 1900sType: Object
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
11426Glass Bottle of Rexall “Skeeter Skoot" Insect Repellent, c. 1902
  • Object, Merchandising, Apothecary Container, Apothecary Bottle
  • Other, Bottles
  • Other, Drugstores
  • Other, Insects
  • c. 1902
Description:
Rexall “Skeeter Skoot” Improved Formula “Drives Away Mosquitoes, Gnats, Black Flies, etc.” Glass bottle with tin lid and pink label and small applicator; contains liquid- app. 1./3 full. Potentially dangerous insecticide.
12397Check from M.L. Allen to John W. Somes
  • Object, Pay Order, Bank Check
  • Other, Checks
  • 1900
Description:
Bar Harbor Banking and Trust Co. check from M.L. Allen to John W. Somes
17647Bar Harbor Banking and Trust Co. check
  • Object, Pay Order, Bank Check
  • Other, Business
  • Other, History - Bar Harbor
  • Other, Real Estate
  • 3/19/1900
Description:
Check to John W. Somes from M. Allen for 100 dollars
12452Wallet
  • Object, Personal Case, Wallet
  • Other, Wallets
  • c.1900
Description:
Small brown leather accordian wallet.Came from Reiss’s basement. Included a receipt for Stanley from Granite Union 1904.
3366Bread Maker
  • Object, Bakeware, Baking Pot
  • 1906c.
Description:
Bucket shaped bread maker c.1906 with hand crank shaped mixing utensil and clamp (two separate pieces). Handle adjusts for larger or smaller bucket
3375Dinklespiel’s Joke
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • c 1904
Description:
Carving of three heads mounted on carved rectangular board. Marked, “Dinklespiel’s Joke. Hear’s a good yarn! Tries to tell it to his wife!! Forgets the point!!!” Signed, C.C. Steele 1904.
3453Baby Gown
  • Object, Baptismal Garment, Baptismal Gown
  • early 1900s
Description:
White baby gown with lace at neck and cuffs and along the clam shell hem continuing up the left hand side to the bodice. Belonged to Jeannette Godfrey as her Christening gown
1599Union Church of Northeast Harbor quilt
  • Object, Art, Needlework, Quilt
  • 1900
Description:
Album Quilt created by members (men and women) of The Federated Church Society of the Union Church of Northeast Harbor in 1900. Presented to the church in 2000 by Connie Seavey. This Object Id # also includes a framed list of all of the signers of the quilt and a short explanation of the provenance and history of the quilt and the ownership of it.
1611Sock
  • Object, Clothing, Hosiery, Sock
  • c 1870 - 1900
Description:
Pair of long white child’s socks.
1613Sock
  • Object, Clothing, Hosiery, Sock
  • c 1870 - 1900
Description:
Pair of long white child’s socks.
2334Oilcloth doll with white bonnet and dress, yellow painted hair and blue eyes
  • Object, Doll
  • 1900c.
Description:
Oilcloth doll with white bonnet and dress, yellow painted hair and blue eyes. "Chase Doll” made by Mrs. Chase (from Rhode Island) as play dolls - successful career through Boston store, and later used by nurses in training. At the turn of the century these were sold undressed, or for a dollar more - fully dressed. *The dress may be a christening gown that was donated separately; it has no accession or object number.
2355Bar Harbor Bottling Works crate
  • Object, Containers, Crate, Shipping Crate
  • 1900c.
Description:
Bar Harbor Bottling Works crate. Marked Bar Harbor Bottling Works, Bar Harbor on all sides. Marked Registered on both ends. Metal strapping nailed around ends of box. Space for 12 bottles. Signs of infestation on bottom of box. Some rust on metal. Donor info - purchased in antique store in Brewer.
2361The Boston File Alphabetical Filing Box
  • Object, Writing, File Box
  • c 1903
Description:
The Boston File Alphabetical Filing Box - contained letters pertaining to M.L. Allen’s 1908 campaign for county commissioner. These documents are filed in box #5 Folder #13. Inside two sets of alphabetized pages one with cover marked Boston File - other with marble print cardboard cover. Foxing on paper in interior. Paper hinge fragile. Metal clasp closed by pressing. Green and red marble print paper on outside. On end marked The Boston File - marked “letters from-- to -- with leather pull strap. Also marked - patented Oct 6, 1903. Contained letters pertaining to M.L. Allen’s 1908 campaign for County Commissioner. There papers are filed in box # 5 Folder # 13. [show more]
4337Wedding Calling Cards
  • Object, Identification Card, Calling Card
  • c. 1909
Description:
Wedding calling cards, J. W. Somes, Lucie F. Allen, (3 cards)
11430Eyeglasses
  • Object, Personal, Eyeglasses
  • Early-mid 1900s
Description:
silver spectacles with oval-round frames. Belonged to R.Ruze’s father, Donald B. Perry Married to Cora May Phillips of Northeast Harbor, the daughter of Cora Justina Savage and Augustus Chase Savage.
3390Check from M.L. Allen to Obadiah Allen
  • Object, Pay Order, Bank Check
  • 1900
Description:
Bar Harbor Banking and Trust check from M.L. Allen to Obadiah Allen
17627Drying rack for doll clothes
  • Object, Maintenance, Drying Rack
  • c. 1902
Description:
Drying rack for doll clothes given to Edna Rumill by her father, Capt. Edwin Rumill
13227Shoe
  • Object, Clothing, Shoe
  • c 1900
Description:
Men’s square toed leather shoes. Manure and shavings in crack of sole. Leather cut from opening towards center of toe. 4.5” flaps fold over opening on either side with four holes for laces. Both shoes have remnants of laces. Some sign of mildew in past. Wooden pegs in sole, nails in heal. 12 printed on right shoe. 9 1/2 stamped in heal. Donor info - from Heath house in Seal Cove.
11428Box of Quick Elastic Starch
  • Object, Containers, Box
  • c. 1902
Description:
Paper box. Quick Elastic “Hot Starch in 30 seconds”,10 cents -includes instructions and illustration of iron and “how to”
11427Suededene Brand Shoe Powder Canister, 1902
  • Object, Containers, Canister
  • 1902c.
Description:
blue tin with cap “Suededene” powder cleans and recolors suede and ooze footwear
11429Mecca Cigarette Box, c.1900
  • Object, Furnishings, Cigarette Box
  • c. 1900
Description:
Badly damaged cardboard Mecca cigarettes case. Red lettering with blue background and turkish-looking skyline. Belonged to a Stanley?
12204Stereopticon
  • Object, Stereoscope
  • 1901c.
Description:
Made by Underwood and Underwood of New York. Tin face piece with floral pattern. Includs booklet, "The Story of the Stereoscope;" identical Stereopticon Accession # 011.31.2
17584China Pitcher
  • Object, Drink Serving Vessel, Pitcher, Cream Pitcher
  • ca 1900
Description:
This small pitcher measures 2 and one half inches high. It looks like it was for a single serving of cream. It is inscribed with the letter "k" and is marked on the bottom with the date "1929", as well as, the words "The Bailey-Walker vitrified china". There is a wider gold band around the top, on the handle, and a thinner band around the bottom. (see picture) This is thought to be a creamer used in the dining room at the Kimball House, Northeast Harbor hotel. See relations tab for same object. [show more]
12068Sad Iron
  • Object, Maintenance, Iron
  • 1900
Description:
Sad iron: Removable lifter with round wood handle and three irons. Marked "Asbestos Sad Iron" Patent: May 22nd, 1900 on lifter
17626Wedding gown of Gertrude Crosby
  • Object, Wedding Dress
  • 1903
Description:
5-piece brown and white wedding dress which belonged to Gertrude Crosby, mother of Norma and Polly Fernald of Somesville. According to Jean Fernald, "Gertrude Jewett and Cecil Crosby were married March 28, 1903 at the Town Hall in Amherst, Maine. The newspaper report of the wedding noted that 150 guests attended. They were married by Brother John Grover, Justice of the Peace. Gram Crosby, as she was lovingly called by all her grandchildren, told us that her gown was made by her mother with some of the hand work being done by herself. A gown was often colored so that it could be worn as best dress after the wedding. The fabric was purchased from a traveling man who sold fabric as well as a variety of other things.The gown consists of: skirt, top (blouse), cummerbund, neck insert with beads and lace, and long ruffled petticoat. with pink trim. [show more]