Description: Novel includes chapters illustrating the heroine's duty before pleasure and a woman's goodcharacter, trials, disappointments, love, beauty, courting, marriage.
Description: Duplicate record of 002-16-20-2410. Letter from Daniel Somes Jr. (1803-1883) to President Franklin Pierce recommending Thomas Jones for office of Collector of the Customs for the District of Frenchman Bay.
Description: From title page: piety and usefulness exemplified in a memoir of the life of Samuel Hick, late of Micklefield, Yorkshire From the Seventh london Edition.
Description: Photocopy of handwritten poem about Nicholas Thomas of Eden "written by himself in the 78th year of his age." Donor was given this personally by Augustus Phillips 25 years or so ago when he (donor) was researching doggerel by Bill Ayles. The poem was printed in Vol. VI 2004 issue of Chebacco.
Description: Written for students in public and private schools; primary goal is to gain and fix attention of pupil on lesson to be read. Inscribed C.G. Bordeaux, Sound
Description: Fourth in a series of short stories for Christmas: Christmas Blossoms Inscribed Edith E. Salisbury from Aunt Hittie, Dec. 25, 1878--Christmas present; also Edit Salisbury
Description: Small (doll's sized) trunk adorned with animal fur and leather on the outside, lined with printed paper on the inside. A slip of paper on the inside reads: "This trunk was given to Emily Manchester by her father Major John Manchester, in 1850, (Now in the Gilley family)" Emily was born in 1834 and would have been 16 when she got the trunk. She was one of 10 children (from 2 wives). Fur on trunk needs to be identified: could be beaver, deer?? [show more]
Description: Contract between pew subscribers and the Somesville Union Church to build a meeting house. Paper backed. Black frame .5” wide. Paper mounted on fabric. Two sheets of paper glued together. Typed transcript of document in object file.
Description: Minutes of meeting of Directors of the Mount Desert Bridge Corporation ordering repairs to be done by William Thompson due to damage by wind and sea in storm.