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You searched for: Date: 1870sSubject: Other
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
7418Somes Cove and Lumber Mill from Somes House Cottage
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
  • 1875c.
Description:
View of Village of Somesville including Somes Cove, Somesville Lumber Mill, Somesville Union Meeting House, A.J. Whiting store, and Mount Desert House, taken from the Somes House.
9180Ida Downing
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Portrait
  • Unknown
  • c 1870s
Description:
Ida Downing, marked Aunt Ida. Married Carolus Downing Dec. 15, 1875. Born Oct 19, 1851. Woman age 20s. Wears hair parted in middle and pulled to back of head. Paper worn over left eye and on jawbone. Head turned to the right. High white collar with dark dress of stripe or plaid. Shoulders only visible. Tiny portrait on paper. Paper has been folded - has waxy surface.
12358Main Street, Somesville, 1870
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Transportation
  • People
  • Places, Landscape
  • 1870c.
Description:
Caption in The Living Past, p. 122: "Somesville's main road in 1870, looking north towards Ellsworth. Mount Desert House on left; A.J. Whiting store on right (note balcony and porch); corner of blacksmith shop on right. Telegraph wires were in use in 1870." Horse-drawn vehicles on each side of rutted dirt roadstopped in front of blacksmith’s shop.
9164Somes Cove and Lumber Mill from Somes House Cottage
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
  • Unknown
  • 1875 c.
Description:
A view of the Village of Somesville including Somes Cove, Somesville Lumber Mill, Somesville Union Meeting House, A.J. Whiting Store, and Mount Desert House taken from The Somes House. Small B&W print.
12366Main Street and Cove, Somesville
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
  • 1877
Description:
Main Street, Somesville.Somes Cove on left. Trees line street. Board sidewalk visible on right near picket fenced yards. Fernald’s Store (later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore) hidden by trees. Lumber Mill to left. Two masts of schooner rise up over trees.
13174Rodick House
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Building
  • unknown
  • 1875
Description:
Matted print of Rodick House c. 1875. Porch stretched across front of entire building. Two stariways descend from porch. Small porch on second story. Small crowd on porch. Building four storied high with two towers on front. Covered walk connects to building next door. Came from frame artifact # 997-37-526
17659Helps For Teachers
  • Publication, Catalog
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Schools
  • 1877
Description:
56 page Helps For Teachers catalogue of school products. Published by: D.H. Knowlton & Co., Farmington, Maine. 1877 is written on the cover. Also written is, “Emma Frances Somes Previously archived as 016.FIC.001.11
17191Nooks and Corners of the New England coast
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, New England
  • Drake, Samuel Adams
  • Harper
  • 1875
Description:
Photocopy of Chapter II ,“Mount Desert Island,” and Chapter III, “Christmas on Mt. Desert Island.”
17182Scenes in the Isle of Mount Desert, Coast of Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • DeCosta, B.F.
  • 1871
17147McGuffey’s Third Eclectic Reader
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Reading
  • Other, Schools
  • John Wiley & Sons
  • 1879
17114McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Reading
  • Other, Schools
  • John Wiley & Sons
  • 1879
16966McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader
  • Document, Instructional, Instruction Book
  • Other, Literature, grammar, speech
  • Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co
  • 1879
Description:
McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader (revised edition), 1879. Published by Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co, Cincinnati and New York. Donated to Sawtelle Collection, transferred to MDI Historical Society. Originally owned by a family in North Canton, Ohio.
16658 Lossing's Primary History of the United States for Schools and Families
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, United States
  • Lossing, Benson J.
  • Sheldon and Company
  • 1874.
Description:
School Book illustrated with numerous engravings. (no local relevance found)
16612Mount Desert on the Coast of Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Guidebook
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Martin, Clara Barnes Mrs.
  • Loring, Short, and Harmon
  • 1877
Description:
Guidebook, including routes to Mt. Desert, topography of the island, and excursions on and around the area
14644National Encyclopedia of Business and Social Forms
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Business & finance
  • Other, Etiquette
  • McCabe, James D.
  • National Publishing Company
  • 1879.
Description:
Complete and comprehensive book of reference, expressly designed to meet the every-day wants of the American people.
14616First lines of English Grammar.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Grammar
  • Brown, Goold
  • William Wood and Co.
  • 1871.
Description:
Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, Prosody copy 2
14212An Analysis of the English Language; or, the Elements of Sentences...
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Grammar
  • Greene, Samuel S.
  • Cowperthwait & Co.
  • 1874
Description:
Grammar text for "the higher grades of schools." Donor notes that it was John Somes school book; his name noted inside along with "Waterville Maine," and "Mt. Desert Maine."
14156Apgar’s Plant Analysis.
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature, Plants
  • Other, Biology
  • Other, Botany
  • Other, Education
  • Apgar, E.A. and A.C.
  • Ivison
  • 1874
Description:
Student's record book. Donated by A.C. Thom
14077Comprehensive Geography; local, physical, descriptive, historical....
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Education
  • Other, History - Pretty Marsh
  • Other, Schools
  • Monteith, James
  • A.S. Barnes
  • 1872
Description:
Monteith's Independent Course. Comprehensive Geography. Copy 1 - Johnny A. Smith Pretty Marsh Hancock C. Maine, handwritten on back of 1st page. Colored newspaper copy of sea-captain inserted between cover and first page. Copy 2. Lettie A. Smith. A. D. 1880 Pretty Marsh Maine, handwritten on first page
13984Maine Register, 1876-77
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Business enterprises
  • Other, Guidebook
  • Other, Maine
  • Hoyt, Edmund S.
  • Hoyt
  • 1876.
Description:
Maine Register, 1876-77 Includes Map of counties, towns, railroads, steamboat, telegraph, and express companies. Handwritten inside front cover " T.S. Somes Mt. Desert Maine".
13897A Brief History of the United States
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, United States
  • A.S. Barnes & Company
  • 1871
Description:
Belonged to Allie Somes of Somesville; his notes and pictures are inside.
13896A History of the United States from 1492 to 1866 for the use of schools
  • Document, Instructional, Instruction Book
  • Other, Education
  • Other, History
  • Martindale. Joseph C.
  • Eldredge & Brother
  • 1870
13887The Home of Washington:
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Presidents
  • Other, United States
  • Lossing, Benson J.
  • Virtue and Yorston
  • 1871.
Description:
History and description of Mount Vernon. Inventory Julia A. Lord Mt. Desert, Maine written on 2nd page
13874A System of Modern Geography designed for the use of schools and academies...
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Geography
  • Other, Textbook
  • Mitchell, S. Augustus
  • J.H. Butler & Co.
  • 1875
Description:
Old geography textbook
13851The New Normal Primary Arithmetic
  • Document, Instructional, Instruction Book
  • Other, Elementary school teaching
  • Other, Mathematics
  • Brooks, Edward
  • Sower, Potts & Co.
  • 1878