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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
17147McGuffey’s Third Eclectic Reader
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Reading
  • Other, Schools
  • John Wiley & Sons
  • 1879
17145The Little Red Schoolhouse
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Schools
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Doubleday and Company
  • Inc., 1972
Description:
Illustrations of early American schools and meeting houses
17118Early Schools
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Schools
  • Kalman, Bobbie
  • Crabtree Pub. Co.
  • 1982
17117Early Schools
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Schools
  • Kalman, Bobbie
  • Crabtree Pub. Co.
  • 1982
17116A One-Room School
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Education
  • Other, History
  • Other, Schools
  • Kalman, Bobbie
  • Crabtree Publishing
  • 1994
17115A One-Room School
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Education
  • Other, History
  • Other, Schools
  • Kalman, Bobbie
  • Crabtree Pub. Co.
  • 1994
17114McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Reading
  • Other, Schools
  • John Wiley & Sons
  • 1879
16959Mount Desert School Records
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Other, History - Mount Desert
  • Other, Schools
Description:
Several folders of miscellaneous paperwork and reports from the Town of Mount Desert School Ledgers 001-96
16912Reminiscence of Somesville
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • Other, Schools
Description:
Reminiscence of Somesville. Adelma Somes Joy recalls Somesville’s Red school house in 1847. Includes description of the interior and student pranks. Also the tale of Sam Slick. 3 pages - typed copy of above.
16891Seal Cove--Schools
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Schools
  • Other, Seal Cove
  • 1832
16890School Records-accounts
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Other, Schools
16794Singing School
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Schools
  • Other, Singing
Description:
Names and amounts paid for singing school (no date).
16735Deed to land for Pretty Marsh schoolhouse
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Pretty Marsh
  • Other, Schools
  • 1812
Description:
Deed from Daniel Smith to District Four of lot for schoolhouse, 1812.
16732Request for road through Pretty Marsh
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Cemeteries
  • Other, Pretty Marsh
  • Other, Roads
  • Other, Schools
  • 1839
Description:
1. 1839 petition, commission survey related to request for road from Seal Cove through Pretty Marsh to Narrows; second request of 1843. 2. Personal letter from "Betty" about arriving in Pretty Marsh, fishing; reference to Mrs. Rumill's home and Edna (no date). 3. Compositions by Linnie (?) Smith: "Work", "House Cleaning", "The object of attending school", "Ice". Also "Verses for Otto". 4. Pencilled notes by Linda Florence (Smith) Foote on brown paper about store, post office on Pretty Marsh; Bar, Tinker, Hardwood, Bartletts Islands. 4. Note about Israel Atherton and family. 5. Letter from Elizabeth C. Wescott of Blue Hill to Mrs. Hysom, 1980, concerning area families' histories. 6. Photo. of stone from Pretty Marsh cemetery inscribed "Hear [sic] lies the body of James Pray was drowned 1784 (?) 7. 1968 newspaper ad. for bids to "purchase and remove woodshed at Pretty Marsh schoolhouse." 8. Newspaper clippings about charges against Judge Darius L. V. Moffett (no date). 9. Copies of photographs of Mary Anna Smith, Capt. Sewell Smith, Reuben Smith, Lois Bartlett Smith. [show more]
16731Pretty Marsh School
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Pretty Marsh
  • Other, Schools
Description:
Souvenirs, hand-written notes on old school house.
14658The Pemetic 1933
  • Publication, Yearbook
  • Other, History - Southwest Harbor
  • Other, Schools
  • People
  • 5/1/1933
Description:
1933 yearbook from Southwest Harbor High School, red cover with PHS design
14633School Consolidation Program, sponsored by the MDI Historical Society, April 28, 2009
  • Document, Program
  • Other, Schools
  • 4/28/09
Description:
Audio recording of a program held on School Consolidation on Mount Desert Island, April 28, 2009, sponsored by the MDI Historical Society.
14077Comprehensive Geography; local, physical, descriptive, historical....
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Education
  • Other, History - Pretty Marsh
  • Other, Schools
  • Monteith, James
  • A.S. Barnes
  • 1872
Description:
Monteith's Independent Course. Comprehensive Geography. Copy 1 - Johnny A. Smith Pretty Marsh Hancock C. Maine, handwritten on back of 1st page. Colored newspaper copy of sea-captain inserted between cover and first page. Copy 2. Lettie A. Smith. A. D. 1880 Pretty Marsh Maine, handwritten on first page
14071Reminiscences of Somesville
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Object, Telegraph
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • Other, Roads
  • Other, Schools
Description:
All by Adelma Somes Joy: “Somes Sound must have been one beautiful place." Recalls arrival of Abraham Somes, the oak trees on oak hill, Ebenezer Sutton, and Denning’s Pond. "Years ago when we had the telegraph..." Recalls advances in technology, balloons, and flight. Northeast Harbor Women's Literary Club talk , Jan. 30, 1920. Plans to travel abroad, give clothing to naked Africans, open beauty parlor. "That Old Reed House." Mrs. Reed was her grandfather's sister; house near Jim's Cove. "My first recollections of life..." Recalls her grandparents' house in 1838. Also separate essay, "Grandfather's House." Reminiscences of Somesville #6. Recalls naming of Somesville, old roads, school house, industry, and tanning pits. Two Letters from Adelma Somes Joy to Harriet Somes Sanderson, Aug. 10, 1929. recalls Col. Black House in Ellsworth, Episcopal Church at Seal Cove, Bp. Manning, church sales, other historical notes. "Memories" of her father. History of Somes and Richardson families. [show more]
13759Gilmanac 1948 Gilman High School Yearbook
  • Publication, Yearbook
  • Other, Northeast Harbor
  • Other, Schools
  • 1948
Description:
"Gilmanac 1948" - Yearbook of Gilman High School in Northeast Harbor
13754Norumbega 1951
  • Publication, Yearbook
  • Other, Schools
  • 1951
Description:
"Norumbega 1951" Yearbook for Mount Desert High School
13589Reminiscence of Somesville
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • Other, Indians of North America
  • Other, Mills
  • Other, Roads
  • Other, Schools
  • Other, Shoemaking
  • Other, Singing
  • Other, Tanning
Description:
Adelma Somes Joy recalls Somesville’s Red school house in 1847. Includes description of the interior and student pranks. Also the tale of Sam Slick. Also Singing School; Indians Camping at Somesville, two poems (one alludes to a suicide), Churches on Mt. Desert (1840), That Old Tannery (recalls Daniel and Lewis Somes, Israel Haven, John Keniston and Somesvilles' cobbler shop), That Old Factory (woolen mill), That Old Road [over Beech Hill], (1837), That Upper Gate (kept water back when not needed to turn mill wheels)--all by Adelma Somes Joy. "The Indian Violin Player" by Eunice Deering. [show more]
13251Mt. Desert High School graduation program
  • Document, Program
  • Other, Schools
  • 1907
Description:
Program for 1907 Mt. Desert High School graduation including titles of speeches, music, names of 7 graduates, school officers and committee
12891On the Art of Teaching
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Schools
  • Mann, Horace
  • Applewood Books
  • 1989
Description:
A facsimile of the classic 184o book which described the qualifications for those who teach.
12890Early American School Books
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Schools
  • Chandler Press
  • 1988
Description:
Contains selected pages from schoolbooks from 1785 to 1880. Examples are from spelling and geography books, among others.