Description: Brown poster with photograph of the Union Meeting House in Manset The Busy Bees Society invite you to its 50th Annual Sale of Aprons, novelties, cooked food, benefit of Manset Meeting House. Completed in 1828 and still in use. Tuesday-August 1st Gleaners Hall Seawall Road, Manset
The Mutual Improvement and Benovolent Society of Southwest Harbor, Maine
Description: Ledger with hand - written notes from 1853 - 1883 includes accounts and minutes and mention of the sewing circle. Includes many names from Southwest including Doliver, Stanley, Hadlock, Moore, Teague, Haynes, McGoffey, King, Newman, Anderson, Cleveland, Dyer
Description: Instructional booklet for a Mason who has "passed to the degree of a Fellow Craft." This is Booklet Number Three in a series called "The Pollard Plan," prepared by the Committee on Masonic Education and distributed by the Grand Lodge of Maine, A.F. & A.M. Includes a history of Freemasonry from its European roots to its establishment in the United States. Those entering the Fellow Craft degree are to master the history of the Masonic movement. [show more]
Description: Instructional booklet for "the newly initiated Entered Apprentice" in Masonry. This is Booklet Number One in a series named "The Pollard Plan," prepared by the Committee on Masonic Education and distributed by the Grand Lodge of Maine, A.F. & A.M. Includes a discussion of the rights and responsibilities of an Entered Apprentice.
Description: Alphabetical list of Mount Desert Island Odd Fellow and Rebekah officers from 1921-1988, compiled by Bill Skocpol based on Constance Robbins' collection of proceedings.
Description: Notes (5 versions)about the club, giving names of members, items sewed, plans to raise money to buy hearse, organ, build sidewalk, fence around Brookside Cemetery. Library, church parish house, Somesville School House also mentioned.
Description: Archival copy. 10/22/1987 - 6/28/1990. Topics include land use development planning, arms control, nuclear power, environment, Earth Day. Photos, newspaper clippings and handwritten comments.
Description: Archival copy. 11/25/1976 - 6/5/1979. Topics include development/planning issues, Equal Rights Amendment, solid waste, recycling. Photos, newspaper clippings and handwritten comments. Same as object ID 015.017.36
Description: Archival copy. 7/18/1979 - 4/14/1983. Topics include solid waste/recycling, Earth Day, health care, civil rights (gay rights). Photos, newspaper clippings and handwritten comments. Same as Object Id 015.017.37
Description: Archival copy. 1/4/1974 to 10/28/1976. Topics include environmental and energy issues, land use planning, Equal Rights Amendment. Photos, newspaper clippings and handwritten comments.
Description: Brown spiral ring notebook with color illustration of day-time church scene in the snow pasted on the cover, whitelabel:records of weekly meetings from 1952- Jan. 1955 Hand -written in ink. Also includes by-laws...purpose statement to repair and maintain the Union Church of Manset.
Description: Brown spiral ring notebook with color illustration of night-time church scene in the snow pasted on the cover, blue label:records of weekly meetings from 1950- Nov. 1952 Hand -written in ink. Also includes stamps, envelopes, letters, memorabilia
Description: Brown spiral ring notebook :records of weekly meetings from 1955- Nov. 1960 Hand -written in ink. Also includes by-laws...purpose statement to repair and maintain the Union Church of Manset
Description: Brown Composition lined notebook with Newspaper photograph of the Manset Church. Property of Busy Bee’s :records of weekly meetings from 1960-Aug. 1966 Hand -written in ink.
Description: First Minutes are 2/27/1900. Minutes of Oct 2, 1900 mention that the Literary Club had its first meeting of season so Literary Circle may have started earlier than 1900. Met at office of Dr. Philips. Appears that men and women are members. Pres George R. Fuller, VP Margaret Holmes