Description: A video of the history of the Maine Seacoast Mission. This film was created in 2005 by Jeff Dobbs Productions, Bar Harbor, Maine The film is in the library in two formats: DVD and VCR
Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society
Date:
1892.
Description: "Three Grades for Sunday-Schools, Bible cclasses, Normal Classes, Sunday-School Assemblies, and Institutions of Learning Where the Bible is Taught". Textbook, includes Bible Dictionary and historical map of Palestine. Marked on front pages: "Mary B. Somes, Jan., 1897".
Description: Arthur Foote, 88 , retired Unitarian minister died in December of 1999 at his home in SW Harbor. He was the gandson of Henry Wilder Foote, minister of Kings Chapel in Boston for much of the 19th century. He was married to Rebecca Carroll Clark. Article goes into detail regarding his life. Bar Harbor Times
Description: An account of his early life--two years in a printing office--eleven years at sea, in which he was twice shipwrecked, and experienced several narrow escapes from death. Also his Christian experience and labors in the Gospel ministry. Page 137 begins his account of time on Mt. Desert. Published in Portland [Maine] by advertising steam job printing office, Horace C. Little, printer.
Description: Photocopy (2pp.) of handwritten notes pertaining to various members of the Somes family in colonial Mass. Notes were taken from the source: "Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750" by Christine Leigh Heyrman publ. by W.W. Norton Co., New York, 1984.
Description: "And Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America." Marked on back cover: St. Mary by the Sea.
Description: "Translated out of The Original Hebrew: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised." Written in the front: "Myra Lurvey, Bar Harbor Me. Tel. 288-3613"
Description: "A New and Extensive Collection of Music and Hymns. Prepared Expressly for Sabbath Schools, Etc." Inscribed inside front cover: Geo A Somes, C A P somes, 1871. Includes title and first line index.
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
Description: Christmas card with a winter scene painted on the front and a blue ribbon on the left side. It opens, and on the inside pages are a printed poem and hand written note from “Frank & Ruby.” Previously archived as 016.FIC.001.4.b
Description: "Being a Portion of Scripture for Every Day in the Year." Handwritten inside: "Charles Edwin Somes from his Mother, Dec. 25, 1855." Book has gold decoration on front cover, spine and page edges.
Description: "Incidents and anecdotes of Rev. Edward T. Taylor, for over forty years pastor of the Seaman's Bethel, Boston" Inscribed in front: "Mrs. H.A. Wiggin, South [Lauren?].
Description: Clothbound green covers with gold decoration on cover, spine and page edges. Handwritten inside front: "George A P Somes, from his Mother."
Description: "Translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised with Canne's marginal notes and references" Inside cover marked: "Loaned by Mrs. A.F. Joy, No.64" Following page inscribed: "1730, David Seavey". Inside back cover marked: "Catharine Seavy".
Description: "Translated out of the original tongues, together with the Apocrypha, Concordance and Psalms, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised." Inscribed in front: "Sylvina J. Gilmore, Belfast, Me. Presented by Mrs. Martha J. Gilmore, July 21, 1856."