Description: This is a hardcover scrap book measuring 8 x 10 inches. The front cover is embossed with a raised picture with a parrot on a hanging ring, a cat, flowers and 2 borders. The trademark stamped on the inside front cover reads, "Mark Twain's Scrap Book, registered April 23rd, 1878" published by "Daniel Slote & Co." On the next page, is a faded inscription which reads in cursive, "Lucie F. Somes, Mount Desert, Maine, Nov. 1881". Next, there is a four -page index set up alphabetically with several entrees in cursive. Some examples of entrees are: Doctor and Judge 16; Boston Men Killed 5; Captain W. T. Ober 16; and Pillow lace making 18. The rest of this book is a compilation of newspaper clippings from many places. Several of the clippings have information which relates to the Somes family or of Mount Desert Island. For example, "Memorial Day at Somesville"; a column entitled, Then and Now (for the Mount Desert Herald) dated Nov. 2, 1885; and "Death of John W. Somes of Mount Desert". There is a beige grosgrain ribbon inside which is used as a marker. [show more]
Description: Clippings from Yarmouth Light, Bar Harbor Times, and other memorabilia in plastic covers. Shows old Stotesbury estate on Frenchman's Bay, Bar Harbor, where landing dock constructed. Compiled by Judy Gerrish.
Description: 3" x 2" x 1" photo. album; brown leather covers, gold embossing; latch. Not all places have photos; many photos disintegrating. No identification of owner or those photographed.
Description: Red cloth-covered photograph album with metal clasp containing photos of the following families: Higgins, Moore, Mayo, Emery, Parker, Clark, Smith, Herrick, Taylor, Kimball, Lawson, Robinson. Separate photo. of Ruby Elizabeth Higgins , age 6 months, inside front cover. No design on the cloth cover.