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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
12183Vaughan's Improved Pea Huller and Bean Slicer
  • Object, Food Handling Tool, Peel
Description:
Mechanical kitchen tool: Vaughan's Improved Pea Huller and Bean Slicer. Attaches to table. Some rust and top is bent. Good for exhibit.
17595Small painting
  • Image, Art, Painting
  • Garmie/Somes
Description:
Small card size painting by Garmie/Somes?- likely Ann Somes Fenneley. See photographs 997-293-48 and 997-298-463 for family history and artist details.
11862Men's Pants
  • Object, Clothing, Pants
Description:
These are tan cotton twill pants with a fly closed with five buttons. The letters "MERC" are stamped inside on the belt flap. There are several numbers stamped inside. For example, "9149" in black ink which has bled slightly, M-9149 in yellow and again in black two more times, and "71418" on a label. They are clean and pressed. There are signs of wear around the pant leg hem lines. There are faded red stains on the left leg. [show more]
16928A glimpse of Jordan Mt.
  • Image, Art, Painting
Description:
Watercolor painting: A glimpse of Jordan Mountain
16930Garden at Key Wadin
  • Image, Art, Painting
Description:
Watercolor of the garden at Keywadin. The artist may be Mary Davis Dunham
3289Painting - Small House
  • Image, Art, Painting
Description:
Pastel on cardboard. Three mountains in center with trees on each side. Small house on right near gray water. Dark skies.
3290Painting - Portrait of Nathan Salisbury
  • Image, Art, Painting
Description:
In oval dark wood frame with gilt edge. Portrait - gray background. Subject wearing black suit and bow tie resembles Abraham Lincoln. Loaner is descendant of Nathan Salisbury who lived in Somesville.
3291Painting - Books and Candle
  • Image, Art, Painting
Description:
Still life painting of Dr. Kittredge’s books and candle in oil on canvas. Heavy ornate gold frame. Artist unknown.
13714Portrait of Sarah Whiting Kittredge
  • Image, Art, Painting
  • unknown
  • Early 19th c
Description:
Background brown and gray. Subject is wearing bonnet, shawl, black dress. A hand is reaching from behind sofa to take sheet music. Sarah Kittredge ( 1776-1871) was the wife of Dr. Kendall Kittredge (1773-1857), first doctor on Mount Desert Island. Artist unknown- may be an itinerant painter.
17607Organ Pipe
  • Object, Musical, Keyboard Instrument, Organ, Pipe Organ
Description:
Lead organ pipe. Removable cone-shaped top. Wire protruding from side and base. 21" long.
12289Coffee mug from first voyage of "The Cat."
  • Object, Mug
Description:
Blue and white coffee mug from first voyage of "The Cat." The Cat was the Bluenose catamaran that was used as a ferry between Bar Harbor and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in the late 1990's and early 2000's. Blue pattern on the mug is a logo pattern from the owner of the vessel.
12293Mug with seal of USS Samuel Eliot Morison
  • Object, Mug
Description:
Mug with seal marked "USS Samuel Eliot Morison" . Mug is cream-colored, with yellow, red, blue and white seal.
12292Mug
  • Object, Mug
  • mid-20th century
Description:
Heavy thick cream colored mug with Masonic Emblem. Belonged to Howard Crafts the father of the donor.
3418Candle mold (3 candles)
  • Object, Mold, Candle Mold
Description:
Candle mold makes 3 candles. Curved handle is attached at base.
3419Candle mold (8 candles)
  • Object, Mold, Candle Mold
Description:
Candle mold. Makes eight candles. Has stand on either end. Curved handle should be attached to cross bar but needs soldering.
3420Candle mold with double stands
  • Object, Mold, Candle Mold
Description:
Candle mold. Makes six candles. Stand on either end. Has curved handle.
13829Baby mittens
  • Object, Clothing, Mitten
Description:
Pair of baby mittens
11795Hooked mittens
  • Object, Clothing, Mitten
Description:
Pair of large hooked mittens. White and red.
17522Coffee grinder
  • Object, Food Grinding Tool, Culinary Mill, Coffee Mill
Description:
Coffee grinder. Drawer missing. Turn wooden handle to grind coffee.
3321Shoe fragments
  • Object, Animal Material
Description:
A collection of the remains of 19th-century leather shoes discovered in the kitchen crawlspace during the 2013 remodeling of the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church parsonage. Twenty soles or pieces of soles, two heel uppers with soles missing, remains of nine high boots with eyelets, and twenty leather show scraps.
12155Light Meter
  • Object, Photographic, Light Meter
Description:
Sekonic multi-lumi light meter, model L-248, with carrying case and strap
2519New Home Treadle Sewing Machine
  • Object, Needlework Machine, Sewing Machine
Description:
New Home treadle sewing maching manufactured by S.M. Co. of Orange, Mass. Research this and compare with the Singer sewing machine in the collection.
8565Letter from the Dana and Bristol Families
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • 11-06-03
Description:
This is a letter dated 11-06-03 to Ms. Jeschke from Sandy Brown. The letter is from Sandy Brown, PO Box 511, Marlborough, Connecticut. The letter refers to the photos the Brown family has contacted the MDI Historical Society about.
12219Town Records (Town of Mt. Desert)
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
Description:
Town Records of town meetings, marriages and deaths 1821-1842
16958Somes Store Ledger
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
Description:
Fred H., Della, Lyman Somes Store Ledger (Day Book)