Description: " Including Exercises and Manoeuves of Light-Infantry and Riflemen; for the use of the militia of the United States. Published by the Department of War . . . " Includes diagrams.
Description: Copy of an account from Hallowell Free Press of Oct. 21, 1833, recounting a boat accident in which Richard Solmes (Somes) died. The accident occurred when a cargo boat capsized in the Bay of Quinte, Upper Gap, Lake Ontario, Canada.
Description: Bill from Military Store in Boston in wooden frame with dark finish. Bill attached to matte. Reads, “Military Store Boston Aug 22, 1831, J. Somes - Bought of John J. Low and Co. at their military rooms, no 19 Washington St. 1 sword [$6] 1 belt 1.02, 1 epaulet $3, sash $7. 1 cockade and eagle 2/3 - totaled 17.99. Rec Payment J.L. and Co. 1 1/4 yd Blue Broad Cloth @ 3.88 - 4.85, 1 fur hat @ 3.50 1 gal gin 1.56 totaled 27.90.
Description: Clock made by “Boardman and Wells - Forestville, Conn.”. Label inside glass shows eagle with “E Plurubus Unum”. Also marked, “Improved clocks manufactured and sold by Boardman and Wells, Bristol, Conn. Case Tiffany and Co, Printers - Hartford”. Label gives directions to set clock. Glass not original. Probably had reverse painting on glass. Clock face is painted on wood. White in center with strawberries. Gold in corners. “Pillars” carved on each side of clock. Dark wood. Missing weight. The works are still intact. Donor info- came from Gilley house on Baker’s Island. This house was built by William Gilley in 1812. Clock was given to donor by his grandmother, Phoebe Gilley Stanley. [show more]
Description: Small pamphlet with Confession of Faith: Christ is God, The Holy Spirit is God, Sacred Trinity, and other Articles including Baptism and the Lord's Supper.
Description: Desert Rock Light House engraving of rough seas, three men in forground hoisting a log with lighthouse back right, boats back left. Black wooden frame illustration by W. Radclyffe/ Engraving by R. Doughty
Description: Property deed -lands being transferred for the quantity of 2 thousand dollars from Lewis and Sophronia Freeman to George FreemanJudge - Benjamin Atherton
Description: Photocopy of an 1830 handwritten letter from Josiah Phillips to Luther A. Phillips of Orland, Maine. The letter tells of the death of Josiah's father and Luther's father. The letter fills one-page; a photocopy of the page showing the address has also been copied. The orginal sheet of paper was approx. 15 inches wide and 12' high. It had been folded in half and the address written on the outside. The letter itself was about 7.5" in width and 12" high. [show more]
Description: Letter to William Thompson of Mount Desert Bridge Corporation from John Black, President of the Corporation regarding dividends and notice of such to be posted in Post Office.
Description: Handwritten documents: 1. Contract to build bridge across Mt. Desert Narrows, 1836 2. Survey of Mt. Desert Narrows, 1836 3. Letter complaining about bridge corporation 4. Proposal to build toll house. 5. Bond--contractor to build bridge 6. Other letters related to declaring dividend, concern about tolls by mail carriers, ministers 7. 1850 bill for repair. 8. Dividend Payment for John Somes
Description: Hand stitched with ruffle on edge. Marked in brown ink “Mary A. Tapley”. Number after name not legible. Donor info - pillow case from Somes family of Gloucester, Massachusetts. From 1835 trousseau of Mary A. Tapley. It appears that there are two identical pillowcases with this ID #.
Description: "...in which mental arithmetic is combined with the use of the slate; containing a complete system for all practical purposes; being in dollars and cents, stereotype edition, revised and enlarged, with exercises for the slate, in which as added a practical system of book-keeping." Exercises cover compound numbers, fractions, and decimals.