Description: Red: Clark's Southwest Dairy (clear letter on a red background representation of Mount Desert Island) | S.W. Harbor, Maine, Phone CH 4-3257 Yellow: You'll appreciate quality and value | Farm fresh eggs | cream that whips | cottage cheese | chocolate milk | buttermilk
Description: Niddy Noddy, also known as Yarn Winder or reel . Belonged to John and Betsy Alexander who lived in the white farm house at the corner of Oak Hill Road and Whitney Farm Road. Kathy Cepeda is their daughter.
Description: 12" wheel with wooden frame and spokes. Wooden frame is covered by a rusted metal strip on outside. A rod would attach to the metal piece in center. Probably used for a cart.
Description: Pale blue sleeveless cotton vest with images of birds on two pockets. White embroidery around neck and arm openings. Knotted flowers on both sides of front opening. Three buttons down front. Small tag which reads Made in the Fillipeans.
Description: Tea towel initialed "JAB"; Could this be related to Object ID 009.074.016 (large pillowcase with "Julian Ann S. Babson" stamped on it? MF- 2/19/19
Description: This is a sausage stuffer with a base measuring 35 and a half inches in length. There is a hallowed out chamber on the base. At one end of the base is a post which measures 17 and a half inches high. There is a handle hinged into the post so it can swing up and down. When the handle is pressed down, there is a wooden block which is pushed down into the hallowed out chamber.
Description: This is the fourth of four bicentennial stamps. It is marked Seal Harbor, Aug. 5, 1989 and at the top has 1789-1989. It has been used by the post office because it is stained with black ink. It measures 2 and one half by 4 inches and has a label on the front edge in white which reads Town of Mount Desert BICENTENNIAL. There is an oval label on the side which says: Granite State Stamps, Manchester, Laconia, 603-669-9322 and 603-524-9172. There is a hint of ink on the edges of the stamp but the bottom still is quite clear indicating that it may have not been used as much as 009.035.1. [show more]
Description: This is the second of four bicentennial stamps. It is marked Northeast Harbor, Aug. 5, 1989 and at the top has 1789-1989. It has been used by the post office because it is stained with black ink. It measures 2 and one half by 4 inches and has a label on the front edge in white which reads Town of Mount Desert BICENTENNIAL. There are oval labels on the bottom and side which say: Granite State Stamps, Manchester, Laconia, 603-669-9322 and 603-524-9172. There is a hint of ink on the edges of the stamp but the bottom still is quite clear indicating that it may have not been used as much as 009.035.1. [show more]
Description: This is the third of four bicentennial stamps. It is marked Otter Creek, Aug. 5, 1989 and at the top has 1789-1989. It has been used by the post office because it is stained with black ink. It measures 2 and one half by 4 inches and has a label on the front edge in white which reads Town of Mount Desert BICENTENNIAL. Attached to this stamp is a note indicating that all four stamps came out of the Mount Desert Post Office. They were earmarked for being thrown away, abandoned by the post office. [show more]
Description: This is the first of four bicentennial stamps. It is marked Mount Desert, 04660, Aug. 5, 1989 and at the top has 1789-1989. It has been used by the post office because it is stained with black ink. It measures 2 and one half by 4 inches and has a label on the front edge in white which reads Town of Mount Desert BICENTENNIAL. There is an oval label on the bottom which says: Granite State Stamps, Manchester, Laconia, 603-669-9322 and 603-524-9172. [show more]
Description: Taff rail used on ship belonging to Captain Edwin Rumill, who died in a mutiny in October 1905. It was not listed in his effects at the time of his death. Rumill was the father of Edna Rummill, mother of Gail Reiber and Joanne Whitney. The taff rail hung off the stern of a vessel and measured the speed of the vessel.
Description: Border of very elegant ball gown or skirt worn by Anne Funderburk's grandmother. Blue silk with tiers of lace. Has been removed from the bottom of the gown.