Description: Champlain Society records camp log with photos 1881 Includes: * a photograph of Camp Pemetic with captions identifying individual tents and Flying Mountain across Somes Sound. * entries from Sunday July 3 through Sunday August 14, 1881 * ledger of payments and expenses
Description: Register of Somes House Inn 1929-1959. Date when given to Historical Society is unknown. Blank pages at end of Register. Gift of Keating Pepper - see sheet in front
Description: Black leatherbound guestbook kept by unknown individual, possibly Constance Robbins. First entry is Eugene Robbins. Notes regarding gifts to host/hostess in back of the book.
Description: Record book kept by the secretary of the Past Noble Grands Club containing meeting minutes and a list of past noble grands. Last entry made 1/16/1968.
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.
Description: From a note, possibly as display label, inserted in the notebook: Charles Eliot's notes on the early explorers of the New England coast. This notebook was probably compiled in 1881-1883. Some of the notes were used in S. A. E's "Mt. Desert" Two pages have been cut out from the start of the notebook. Pages have been numbered with a sequential stamp. The first remaining page is 5. The last numbered page is 288. In most of the notebook there is writing only on the odd pages - the right page of an open two page spread. A single detached page found in the notebook is entitled, "Summary". This page is entered separately as 005.17.20 27 x 23 cm. [show more]
Description: Title page: Champlain Society Records Camp Log 1882 Camp Asticou Northeast Harbor Me. - Also the yacht log 1882. First entry: Sunday July 2nd, 1882 Last entry: Monday September 11th, 1882
Description: Cambridge Wednesday March. 31. 1880. This evening the gentlemen named below met at 34 Grays and had a talk about the camping expedition which has been proposed by Charles Eliot. The party is to have the use of Mr. C. W. Eliot's yacht and camping outfit, and the plan is that each member of the party shall do some work in some branch of natural history or science. Charles Eliot has invited 12 person to be members of the club, and 7 of these were present this evening, as follows. [show more]
Description: Title page: Champlain Society. Records | Vol. VII (crossed out) | Camp Log | 1883. | Camp Asticou. | Northeast Harbor | Maine | From July 8th to September 6th Pages hand numbered through 143
Description: Title page: Champlain Society | Records | Volume Ten. | Meetings etc. during the years 1886-7 ; 1867-8 ; 1888-9 ; Cover and some pages detached Includes many items affixed to the notebook pages: meeting notices, expense ledgers, etc.
Description: Title page: Champlain Society. | 1881 | Record of Meetings and Yacht's Log. The back side of the title pages contain a quote from Champlain dated 1604. First entry: 34 Grays Hall. | March 31st 1881. Last entry: 34 Grays Hall. | Thursday. April 20th 1882. Cambridge
Description: Title page: Champlain Society. | Records. | Vol IX (crossed out) | Camp Log 1884. Cover detached, some water damage. Includes 9 photographs of various locations on Mount Desert Island. One photograph of Camp Asticou follows the title page. The remaining photographs follow the text. First entry: Sunday, July 13th. Last entry: Tuesday, August 26th Pages hand numbered through page 105. Photographs are on unnumbered pages.
Description: Title page: Champlain Society. | Meteorological Department. | Record Book. | Samuel Atkins Eliot. | Recorder. | Mount Desert. The notebook contains four sets of records labeled A, B, C and D. A: Bar Harbor 1879, recorded by S. D. Be??ett. Esq. B: Bar Harbor 1880, recorded by S. D. Be??ett. Esq. C: Camp Pemetic D: 10 different stations, various recorders. Includes 2 unlabled graphs
Description: Title page: Champlain Society | Report of the Secretary. | For 1886-7 | Cambridge | 1887 6 pages, one side only Includes a 2 page catalog of Champlain Society Library.
Description: Title page: Champlain Society | Report of the Secretary for the year 1882 - 1883 15 hand numbered pages using the right side only of a two page spread.
Description: Title page: Champlain Societry. | Records. | Volume Eight (crossed out) | Meetings etc during the years 1883-4 - 1884-5 | 1885-6 Includes many items - receipts, meeting notices, etc. some affixed to pages, other inserted loose. Includes a list of Champlain Society Departments: Botanical, Geological, Meteorological, etc.
Description: Contemporary label of the cover: Champlain Society | Meteorological Reports | submitted by Samuel A. Eliot Custom printed notebook, pages labeled: Champlain Society | Meteorological Department First observation at station 1: July 9 Unbound
Description: This notebook has an unusual configuration. A brass rivet which holds it together also hold the cover of a second notebook. However, rest of the second notebook is not attached. The pages of the second notebook are in landscape orientation. The cover of the second notebook: 1882 | 2d report on the Marine Invertebrata of Mount Desert Isle. Me. | Charles W. Townsend I have marked these two detached pieces 005.17.36a and 005.17.36b
Description: Weather record for 1913. Hand written account of the weather during summer months in a small pocket account book. Previously archived as object id 016.FIC.001.36