Description: Large bolt from old quarry site on the Long Pond Fire Road in Pretty Marsh; relates to a map that was created by Alice Smith002.47 (archived in flat file).
Description: S. O. Richardson's Somesville Brass Band box , for carrying sheets of music and music clip. May have belonged to Samuel Osgood Richardson (1842-1910). Some of the sheets of music are handwritten, others printed. Brown and gold decorated box lined with blue fabric. Per Raymond Strout, came from Kittredge family house in Somesville (7/28/11, AB)
Description: Table folds out (hinges missing) and is supported by legs which turns. Four simply carved legs. Space where drawer should be is missing. Some wooden pegs still intact. Reinforced with nails. Dovetail joints. Donor info - this table from log house of Abraham Somes, first settler of Mt. Desert Island. Originally made without nails but with wooden pegs.
Description: Rexall “Skeeter Skoot” Improved Formula “Drives Away Mosquitoes, Gnats, Black Flies, etc.” Glass bottle with tin lid and pink label and small applicator; contains liquid- app. 1./3 full. Potentially dangerous insecticide.
Description: Patchwork and embroidered quilt. Embroidered inscription reads, "When this you see / Remember me/ Athalaney Fly/ Mouonldefort [Mount Desert]/ August 26, 1824/ Aged 7 years / 3 months." Athlaney was the daughter of Patty Somes Flye and James Flye; she died at the age of 18 and is buried in the Flye Cemetery in Tremont.
Description: Small raffle ticket: “Raffle - For a double-jointed, steam-heating, anti-corrosive, self acting, non-explosive, back-action CENTENNIAL BUSTLE. Warranted not to rip, ravel, or run down at the heel. For the benefits of a Young lady suffering from the pull-back. Tickets: 3 smacks and a squeeze.” Previously archived as 016.FIC.001.3.c
Description: “Friendship” courtesy card with a poem about friendship printed on a scroll and framed by colored flowers Previously archived as object id 016.FIC.001.6.e
Description: Postcard of the Swan's Island Ferry, underway, 1961. Published in 1965. Back of card: Operated by Maine State Ferry Service, carries 150 passengers and 8 cars between mcKinlye, in Acadia national Park, and Swans Island, Maine. A 5 mile trip in 35 minutes across beautfiul Blue Hill Bay. Note on original sleeve: Sold $6,000 to H.G. Reed, $103.00
Description: 8*6.5" notebook used for school work and then used for Friday Club minutes Says 1926 on outside. Inside cover lists subjects beginning with Physiology and ending with Rhetoric. Seems to have some grades As and Bs but others check marks. Next pages are geometry theoremsMinutes begin in 1924, possible spelling list, poetry, stanzas of Lord Ullin's Daughter written by a Scottish poet Thomas Campbell, heaven is not reached on a single bound by J.G. Holland Could be book of child of Maud Trask Mentions waiting list 1/28/27 minutes [show more]
Description: Notice of Classification from the Local Board No. 1, Ellsworth, Maine and from the War Department to Cpl. Stuart J. Smith of the 67th T.C. Sq. Company and the 433d T.C. GP Regiment.
Description: Bond of $8000 - Contractors to build a bridge across Mount Desert Narows - to John Black for Mt. Desert Bridge Corporation signed by William Thompson, John M. Noyes, Edward Brewer and Joel Emery.