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You searched for: Date: 1880sType: Document
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
18733Note
  • Document, Note
  • Unknown
  • Monday July 4, 1881
Description:
1 Typed Page Excerpt fromt he Champlain Society Log book Monday July 4,1881. Details, Raising of the flag at Camp Pemetic, fireworks at Northeast Harbor.
3526Probate record Joshua Moore
  • Document, Government, Probate
  • Other, Estates
  • Jan 1886
Description:
Caroline Moore, widow of Joshua Moore allowed the value $99.25 of articles from Joshua Moore's estate to be charged for administration of estate
17520Bill of Sale between Jacob Higgins and Thomas Church
  • Document, Financial, Sales Record, Bill of Sale
  • April 28th, 1883
Description:
Bill of Sale between Jacob Higgins and Thomas Church (last name?). "I agree to sell the timbers that lies on Sparow Higgins Landing so called if he likes the timbers and all the plank also by paying 12 dollars per thousand." Blue Hill April 28th, 1883
3080West End Hotel dinner menu
  • Document, List, Menu
  • Other, Hotels
  • Other, Menus
  • Other, West End Hotel
  • Shaw, G. M.
  • 8/15/1880
Description:
West End Hotel dinner menu. Bar Harbor, restaurant (Sunday, August 15, 1880). 5 34" high by 4.25" wide. Opens to 8.5" in width O.M. Shaw and Son Propietors
19199Fiday Club By-Laws and Consitution
  • Document, Bylaws
  • Other, Hotels
  • Other, Menus
  • Other, West End Hotel
  • Shaw, G. M.
  • 8/15/1880
Description:
Four pages of hand written notes titled Constitution and By-laws. Also one page listing the members who have paid their dues.
18737Notes from Aug 1, 1884-Aug 23, 1884
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Unknown
  • 8/1/1884-8/23/1884
Description:
7 typed pages A recounting of the founding of the Champlain Society by Charles Eliot, purpose of the group, selection of the camp on Mount Desert Island, the set-up of Northeast Harbor at the time, gathering of provisions while on Mount Desert Island. Hand written notes on the last two pages of the document.
18738Notes from Aug 1, 1884-Aug 23, 1884
  • Document, List, Inventory
  • Unknown
  • 8/1/1884-8/23/1884
Description:
1 typed page Inventory of photos, papers, books compiled by unknown author.
4566J. Darling Hunter and Guide
  • Document, Advertising, Advertisement
  • Other, Tourism
  • Recreation
  • 8/11/1880
Description:
Typed copy of Bar Harbor Tourist advertisement for J. Darling hunter and guide - Jordan Pond Canoe and Guides.
3856Administration of Estate of Daniel Somes
  • Document, Legal, Will
  • 6/3/1884
Description:
1 p.
4491Martha Newman, Cherryfield Maine to mother Mary Newman, 1889
  • Document, Correspondence
  • 1889
Description:
Martha Newman, Cherryfield Maine to mother Mary Newman, November 13, 1889 Is lonesome and wanting to get home. Children sick with hooping cough She'd like to see her father
12302Ledger
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • 1889
Description:
Small paper ledger c. 1889 belonging to Smith who owned the Somesville Store
16857Fernald Store Sales book, Aug. -Oct., 1889
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • 1889
Description:
Fernald Store Sales Book, August 14, 1889-October 4, 1889
16856Fernald Store Sales book, Apr.-June, 1889
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • 1889
Description:
Fernald Store Sales book, April 22-June 15, 1889
16889Fernald Store Sales Book Oct. 1889
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • 1889
Description:
Fernald Store Sales Book 5 October-31 December 1889
2478Advertisement cards
  • Document, Advertising, Advertising Card
  • Other, Advertising
  • 1888
Description:
Advertising card for “Libby McNeill & Libby’s” canned meats. The card has a picture of King Lear and his fool from Act III, Scene II. It says, “He that has a house to put his head in [and Libby McNeilll & Libby’s canned meats to eat] has a good head [and stomach] piece.” Durham card with cows identified as Charlie and George, John Dwight and Company Dwight's cow brand soda for cooking
9193New Year’s card from Morey Churchill & Morey of Boston, “Crockery, Lamps, Gas Fixtures.”
  • Document, Advertising, Advertising Card
  • Other, Advertising
  • 1888
Description:
New Year’s card from “Morey Churchill & Morey” of Boston, “Crockery, Lamps, Gas Fixtures.” It includes a monthly calendar on the back, “in convenient form”, for January, 1888. On the front is a color picture of a big snow-covered log cabin with smoking chimneys, a frozen pond, and a man and a woman outside near a wagon. It says, “With the Seasons Compliments; Wishing You a Prosperous New Year; We Subscribe Ourselves: yours to Command. Morey, Churchill and Morey.” Previously archived as object id 016.FIC.001.3.b, old accession number **1540 [show more]
4635Announcement of Marriage Fuller and Manchester
  • Document, Announcement, Wedding Announcement
  • 1888
Description:
Marriage Announcment of Minnie Fuller and Ansel Manchester, envelope Very light printing so doesn't scan well
12468Quit-Claim Deed, Heirs of Jacob Somes to William P. Smith
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • 1888
Description:
Heirs of Jacob Somes (John J. Somes, Leonice K. Somes, Kate Y[?] Stevens, Adelma F. Joy, Ann R. Fennelly, William Fennelly) quit-claim to William P. Smith land described in document. This deed is to correct an error or omission in a former [1887] deed of the same premises. Furthermore, in this document Rebecca T. Somes, widow of Jacob Somes relinquishes her "right of dower in the above described premises..."
3486Affidavit supporting William P. Smith's ownership and occupation of land
  • Document, Legal, Affidavit
  • 1888
Description:
Affidavit in support of William P. Smith's ownership and occupation of land on shore of Somes Sound; signed by Lynam Somes, Andrew Whiting, John Somes, Libby Richardson, and William Kittredge before Johathan Hamor, Justice of the Peace.
3653Curtis Hamor membership, James Parker Post, GAR.
  • Document, Form, Application, Membership Application
  • Other, Veterans
  • 1888
Description:
Application for membership, James Parker Post, GAR. Discharged by reason of disability Occupation: carpenter
3655Fred S. Smith
  • Document, Form, Application, Membership Application
  • Other, Veterans
  • 1888
Description:
Application for membership, James Parker Post, GAR. Occupation: laborer Lives in Bar Harbor Private in Coast Guard
3671Simeon A. Holden
  • Document, Form, Application, Membership Application
  • Other, Veterans
  • 1888
Description:
Application for membership, James Parker Post, GAR. Occupation: farmer
13864Receipt for Items purchased in Store
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • Higgins Brothers [store]
  • 1887 (?)
Description:
Receipt for boots, hat, shoes, peas, corn, tea, and more issues by Higging Brothers, dealers in Dry Goods and Groceries, Flour and Corn, Paints and Oils, Ready-made Clothing, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes. Store apparently was in Bar Harbor.
11730Historical notes nos. I-V.Champlain Society
  • Document, Log
  • Other, Champlain Society
  • Eliot, Charles
  • 1887
Description:
Historical notes nos. I-VIII. Champlain Society Historical Notes submitted by Charles Eliot One "volume" is I-V; another is No. VI, another No.VII, and another No. VIII (1887) They are all covered in mylar and tied together in string.
3854Administration of Estate of Henry Somes
  • Document, Legal, Will
  • Other, Estates
  • 1887
Description:
Clarification of heirs to estate