Description: Top lifts to reveal space for books and pencils. One drawer at top with white knob. Two doors with shelves behind. One drawer at bottom missing pull. Decorative cut base. Lender info - used by Lynam Smith during the 1850s when he was the teacher in the first school in Pretty Marsh, called "The Little Red Schoolhouse." Lyman Smith also taught in other area schools. Donor is a descendant of Smith.
Description: Child sized rocking chair. Natural finish with red trim. Donor info - belonged to his grandmother, Maria Merritt Beckworth, who is pictured in the chair in MDIHS photo # 996-39-39.
Description: Maria Merritt Beckwith Age 6 in 1850. Seated in Rocking Chair. Grandmother of donor, Robert Harris of Oak Hill Road, Mt. Desert. Hair parted in middle, pulled back behind ears. Wearing necklaces and possibly pocket watch around neck. Plaid dress with flounces in skirt. Narrow white lace collar.
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: "Translated out of the original greek, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised." Inscriptions in front: "This book belongs to Mrs. Lloyd Lurvey, Bar Harbor, Me. Bought at 2nd hand bookstore." Older inscription also in front: "For "Dannie", Mrs. Loretta Covert from her great-grandson George T Coles, Christmas 1865."
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."
Description: School master's desk. Top lifts to reveal space for books and pencils. One drawer at top with white knob. Two doors with shelves behind. One drawer at bottom missing pull. Decorative cut base. Lender info - used by Lynam Smith during the 1850s when he was the teacher in the first school in Pretty Marsh, called "The Little Red Schoolhouse." Lyman Smith also taught in other area schools. Donor is a descendant of Smith.
Description: This is an itemized bill from Benjamin H. Higgins to the town of Eden for his services as Selectman. Some of the charges are for transportation, distributing bills and attending meetings in Ellsworth.
Description: Horseshoe shaped hair wreath a memorial to Bethany Oakes Salisbury (according to Thomas Vining's work "Cemeteries of Cranberry Isles and Mount Desert Island Bethany E. Salisbury died 18 July 1886 aged 71 years, 8 months and 13 days and was the wife of Nathan Salisbury. The Oakes name may have been her maiden name and the "E." her maiden middle name initial), wife of Nathan Salisbury. Oval frame. Hair woven, tatted and braided in different colors. Small beads woven into design. [show more]
Description: "de Nosso Senhor E Salvador Jesus Christo" New Testament translated into Portuguese. Handwritten inside front cover: "Loaned by Kate Richardson."
Description: Made of walnut; shaped like a small boat. Sits in frame and rocks. Cradle has swan head and end like a ship’s stern. Frame is carved with flowers on each end and underneath. Donor info - made for Olive Perkins (Mrs. S.W. Smith, Jr.) of Warren, Ohio born August 17, 1858. Mattress made in 1924 for Samuel Smith Wilson. Following info from Samuel Smith Wilson who visited Museum in 1997. Olive Perkins married Judge Smith who rented the house between the Mount Desert Tavern and the Abraham Somes III house in Somesville. This house is no longer standing. She died near 1930. Her grandfather was Brig. General Simon Perkins, an Ohio land surveyor and speculator. [show more]
Description: Letter between brother and sister, Beatrice (?) and A. M. Capen (?). This letter is from A. Capen to his sister, informing her on his recent relocation to Mount Desert Island. He speaks of swimming in the ocean and how pleasent the air is.