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You searched for: Object ID: is not emptyDate: 1870sSubject: Other
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
12626New Normal Second Reader
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Readers
  • Other, Textbook
  • Raub, Albert N.
  • Porter & Coates
  • 1878
Description:
Textbook including composition and phonic lessons.
12698The Guiding Hand: or, Authentic Records of Providential Direction.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Religion
  • Hastings, H.C.
  • Scriptural Tract Repository
  • 1871.
Description:
Handwritten in front pages: "Presented to Charles E. Somes by R.L. Grindle, As a prize for Declamation during tern just closed. Somesville Mar 2nd 1872."
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)
12442El Nuevo Testamento de Nuestro Senor Y Salvador Jesu Cristo
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bibles
  • Other, Religious books
  • Sociedad Americana de la Biblio
  • 1874
Description:
Associated with Capt. Rumill. Spanish language New Testament.
13851The New Normal Primary Arithmetic
  • Document, Instructional, Instruction Book
  • Other, Elementary school teaching
  • Other, Mathematics
  • Brooks, Edward
  • Sower, Potts & Co.
  • 1878
12628The Franklin Third Reader
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Reading
  • Other, school book
  • Hillard, G.S. and L.J. Campbell
  • Tainton Bros & Merrill and Co.
  • 1873.
Description:
for the use of public and private schools with an Inrtoductory Treatise on elocution by prof. Mark Bailey no local relevance except possibly the Ada Gray signature in front
12630The Franklin Second Reader
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Readers
  • Hillard G.S. and L.J. Campbell
  • Taintor Brothers & Co.
  • 1873
Description:
Intended to follow the Primer or First Reader in the Franklin series; Contains a variety of subjects of interest to "young scholars" and to influence morality and "kindly affections" including the "good treatment of domestic animals." Also includes questions to test comprehension. Inscribed "Harry Ernest Bordeaux."
12622The Franklin Fifth Reader...
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Readers
  • Hillard, G.S.
  • Taintor Brothers, Merrill & Co.
  • 1871
Description:
...for the use of public and private schools. Pencil writing and calculations on end papers. Stamped Ada R. Gray inside front and Geog Freeman in back
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.
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
14616First lines of English Grammar.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Grammar
  • Brown, Goold
  • William Wood and Co.
  • 1871.
Description:
Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, Prosody copy 2
3946Petition to bring water to Bar Harbor
  • Document, Request, Petition
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Water
  • 1875
Description:
Handwritten petition (original and one copy) signed by Fountain Rodick, Charles Higgins, Samuel Higgins (?), T.G. (?) Roberts; says they will pay expense incurred in making survey of route, take stock in a company to be formed to bring water into the village of Bar Harbor.
4023Sale of land by Leonice H. Somes to Amos Hooper
  • Document, Financial, Sales Record, Bill of Sale
  • Other, Deed
  • Other, Land transfer
  • 1876
Description:
Land in Mt. Desert and Brooklin. Husband of Leonice Somes "gives up his right of dower." Signed by E.M. Hamor, Justice of the Peace.
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.
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.
9299Peterson’s Magazine August 1876
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Other, Crafts
  • Other, Periodicals
  • 1876
Description:
Peterson’s Magazine August 1876. Danish Braid Work.
7399Main Street, Somesville, 1870.
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Nature, Animals, Horses
  • Other, Buildings
  • 1870 c.
Description:
Caption in The Living Past page 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 rutted dirt road. Negative.
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.
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.
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
13549Keepsake Autograph Album
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History - Seal Cove
  • People
  • 1879
Description:
Tiny red autograph/keepsake album with silver writing and many local Seal Cove names including Heath, Minnie Fuller, Rachel Fuller, Belle Salisbury, Wilhemena Sprague, Flora Reed, Becky Greene, May Dodge, Deacon Stubbs, Vildie Robbins, John Knowlton, Laurie Stickney, Billings, Delhi Harper, Albert Carver, Bertha Hinkley, Amanda and Charlie Sawyer, Florence Drummond, Almira Barlett, Whitmore, Ober. Appears to have belonged to Willie Heath.
13671Loring Short & Harmon illustrated guide book for Mount Desert Island, Me.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Tourism
  • Martin, Mrs. Clara Barnes
  • 1877
Description:
95 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Includes photographic plates; Advertisements. Bar Harbor, Somesville, Southwest Harbor, topography, history
17182Scenes in the Isle of Mount Desert, Coast of Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • DeCosta, B.F.
  • 1871
4068Scrap Book
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Scrapbook
  • Other, Crafts
  • 1876
Description:
Purple hard cover scrap book. Picture on front of two young ladies sitting at a table, one reading a letter. Filled with cut-out pictures of flowers, Christmas and holiday cards, and other assorted cutouts. Pat. March 1876 written on back.