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You searched for: Object ID: is not emptyDate: 1880sSubject: OtherType: Publication
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
2823The Sea Serpent, His Visit to Southwest Harbor
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Legends
  • Other, Sea monsters
  • Mount Desert Herald
  • 10/25/1883
Description:
Article describes legend of a sea serpent purportedly seen in waters of Mt. Desert Island near Southwest Harbor, in the 19th century.
12908A Practical English Grammar...
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Grammar
  • Raub, Albert N.
  • Porter and Coates
  • 1880.
Description:
Grammar rules with exercises. written on back page: We went down by about half past three, there was a gray headed man with him. I did not know who it was untill he spoke. I was out side of the road picking flowers, as I did not have anything else to do. I got all ready to go to S. School. Why didn't you go. Because is would not change my dress again. Mother said it was going to rain and I could not ware (sic) my gray dress.
14614Kerl’s Language Lessons
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Grammar
  • Perkins, S.M. editor
  • Ivison
  • 1880
Description:
Elementary text-book
2844Bar Harbor Tourist paper, Aug 11, 1880
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Hotels
  • Other, Parks
  • Other, Tourists
  • 1880
Description:
List of tourists staying at the various hotels and city or state they are from, the lack of a park in Bar Harbor, list of railroad representatives staying in Bar Harbor, raising money for the Bar Harbor Libary, List of prominent people staying in Bar Harbor,
12747Gospel Hymns No. 4
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Hymn Books
  • Sankey, Ira D., James McGranahan, & Geo. C. Stebbins
  • 1881
Description:
Stated on cover: "As Used by Them in Gospel Meetings." Publ. by John Church & Co, Cincinnati. Contains title and first line index.
12879McGuffey’s Eclectic Primer
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Reading
  • Other, Schools
  • John Wiley & Sons
  • 1881
Description:
Incorporates phonic, word, and alphabet methods; includes exercises in writing in script letters and in reading same.
13259The Complete Arithmetic, Oral and Written
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Mathematics
  • Greenleaf, Benjamin
  • Leach,Shelwell & Sanborn
  • 1881
Description:
The Complete Arithmetic, Oral and Written
13695The Summer School of Philosophy at Mt Desert.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Early tourism
  • Mitchell, J. A.
  • Henry Holt
  • 1881
Description:
Illustrations with some text on Mount Desert.
13938Colby’s Atlas of Hancock County Maine 1881
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Atlas
  • Other, Hancock County
  • Colby, George N., ed.
  • S.F. Colby and Company
  • 1881.
Description:
Colby's Atlas of Hancock County Maine
12637Book of Common Prayer.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Prayer
  • Other, Religion
  • Margaret Coffin Prayer Book Society
  • 1883.
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.
12644The Home Library of Useful Knowledge.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Business
  • Other, Etiquette
  • Other, Handbook
  • Peale, R.S., ed.
  • Home Library Association
  • 1883.
Description:
A Complete Cyclopedia of Reference. Bound into the front is a Home Library Association Certificate of Membership, No.293316, certifying Mr. L. Allen as a member. Certificate dated Aug. 17, 1889.
12907A Graded Spelling Book
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Spelling
  • Other, Textbook
  • Harrington, H.F.
  • Harper & Brothers
  • 1883
Description:
"Being a Complete Course in Spelling for Primary and Grammar Schools."
12912Kings of the Battlefield
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Military history
  • Ramey, W. Sanford
  • 1883 “sold only by subscription”
  • 1883
Description:
Stories of warriors.
17072Maine State Year-Book and Legislative Manual for the year 1882-83
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Legislative bodies
  • Hoyt, Edmund S.
  • Hoyt, Fogg & Donham
  • 1883
17322Book of Common Prayer
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Religion
  • Margaret Coffin Prayer Book Society
  • 1883.
2843Mt Desert Herald 1/18/1883
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Acadians
  • Other, Catholics
  • Other, Hermits
  • 1883
Description:
Article for Mt Desert Herald regarding Acadian treatment in NS in 1755, specifically regarding Emile LeBlanc; some history of Jimmie Welsh, Hermit of Southwest Harbor.
2629Newspaper supplemetn: Adamson’s Cough Balsam Advertising Book
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Other, Advertising
  • 1884
Description:
“Adamson’s Cough Balsam Advertising Book”. Includes notes on cures, population and other trivia. Nine pages.Circa 1884.
12581A Geneaolgy and Historical Notices of the Family of Plimpton or Plympton in America and of Plumpton in England.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, Plimpton family
  • Chase, Levi B.
  • Plimpton Mfg. Co.
  • 1884
Description:
Handwritten notes by Virginia Somes Sanderson in front.
12629The Normal Fourth Reader
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Readers
  • Other, Reading
  • Raub, Albert N.
  • Porter and Coates
  • 1884.
Description:
Inscribed in front: Carrie K. Wiggins, West Eden, Maine
1565Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bibles
  • Other, Grindle family
  • Other, Robbins family
  • P. W. Ziegler & Co.
  • 1885
Description:
Bible of Robbins and Grindle families. Inscribed in the front: "Your father's bible, Dr. R.L. Grindle, Mt. Desert, Maine." Includes marriage and death names and dates on included pages between Old and New Testaments.
1537Holy Bible
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bibles
  • Other, Genealogy
  • 1886
Description:
Very large family Bible with names and descendants of Palmer and Gilley families. Includes marriages, births, deaths. Places for photos in back includes just one photo of Ruth Laraway (?) 1st. Inscribed "Christmas Gift from Mother and Father Palmer to Harry and Ida, December 25th 1887." Includes hand-written notes on stationery of Eunice Gilley, Jan. 1, 1978.
1562Conversations on the Bible. Its Statements Harmonized and Mysteries Explained.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bibles
  • Other, Religion
  • Pond, Enoch
  • C.A. Nichols & Co.
  • 1886
12913Glimpses of Three Coasts.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, California
  • Other, England
  • Other, Geography
  • Other, Miss Mary Somes signature
  • Other, Norway,Denmark, Germany
  • Other, Oregon
  • Other, Scotland
  • Jackson, Helen
  • Roberts Brothers
  • 1886.
Description:
Miss Mary Somes's signature is on front page and date. Book is about other coasts, not Maine. From the Somes House.
2893Frank Robinson
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Amputation
  • Other, Drinking (alcohol)
  • Other, Liquor
  • 1886
Description:
Transcription of Bar Harbor Record Frank Robinson went to Bar Harbor to sell flounders, got drunk and almost froze on return in evening. Had to have some fingers amputated
9297The Ladies Home Companion June 15, 1887 Vol XIV # 14
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Other, Periodicals
  • 1887
Description:
The Ladies Home Companion June 15, 1887 Vol XIV # 14.