Description: 5x6 leather photo album containing sixteen unidentified portraits. Condition of album cover, poor. Some pages at end of photo album are empty. Some photos in album are tintypes, others are studio portraits on paper. Inscription on frontispiece is Dec. 25, 1880. Photos in the album have been left in the pages as found in the collection. Each page has been scanned and given a separate object ID #
Description: Document turning over property of James Grining, held in guardianship for his minor heirs by HH Clark, to his son (not named and did not sign). Only witnesses : Thomas Savage, Cora E. Bracy. Tremont Apr 8, 1882
Description: William P. Smith claims lot of land and the abstract gives the "grants and conveyances" that include the lot; includes references to John Bernard (1785), Mme. de Gregoire (1787) and many others. Mr. Campbell, Hancock Registry of Deeds concludes that "although the record title of the herein described premises are a little defective" William P. Smith's title may be good
Description: Affidavit in support of William P. Smith's ownership and occupation of land on shore of Somes Sound; signed by Lynam Somes, Andrew Whiting, John Somes, Libby Richardson, and William Kittredge before Johathan Hamor, Justice of the Peace.
Description: Photograph of Champlain Society camp, July 1880. Pictured: S.A. Eliot, George Dunbar, John Wakefield Charles Eliot, William Dunbar, Ernest Lovering,
Description: Atlas of Hancock County. Compiled and published under the direction of Geo. N. Colby by S.F. Colby & Co. Drawn from official plans, U.S. Coast Survey Charts, and actual surverys by H.E. Halfpenny & J.H. Stuart Appears to be a modern reprint.
Description: Bill from W.B. Campbell to H.M. Hobart of Chicago for researching (?) title of the William P. Smith lot in Mt. Desert. This Hobart is likely the same person listed as Hovert in 015.FIC.033.14.
Description: Bill of Sale between Jacob Higgins and Thomas Church (last name?). "I agree to sell the timbers that lies on Sparow Higgins Landing so called if he likes the timbers and all the plank also by paying 12 dollars per thousand." Blue Hill April 28th, 1883
Description: Reuben W. Carter to pay Bloomfield R. Smith $10,000.00 for c.40 acres of land on Beech Hill in Mt. Desert. Land described by who owns other land to north, south and west and by the county road to the east. (However, there is some confusion about who is the seller and who the buyer.)
Description: Certificate of ordination as a Deacon in the Episcopal Church, Diocese of Tennessee, for William Thomas Manning. Manning was a summer resident of Somesville and owner of The Mount Desert House. Manning became Bishop of the Diocese of New York. 1889. William Thomas Manning From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008 | The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: William Thomas Manning 1866-1949, American Episcopal bishop of New York, b. England, received his collegiate and theological training at the Univ. of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. Ordained a priest (1891), he served parishes in California, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee and taught dogmatic theology at the Univ. of the South before becoming rector of Trinity parish, New York City, in 1908. Manning was bishop of New York from 1921 until his retirement in 1946. [show more]
Description: Cambridge Wednesday March. 31. 1880. This evening the gentlemen named below met at 34 Grays and had a talk about the camping expedition which has been proposed by Charles Eliot. The party is to have the use of Mr. C. W. Eliot's yacht and camping outfit, and the plan is that each member of the party shall do some work in some branch of natural history or science. Charles Eliot has invited 12 person to be members of the club, and 7 of these were present this evening, as follows. [show more]
Description: Champlain Society group at Hadlock Pond Brook near Camp Pemetic, summer of 1881. Pictured: Rand, Hubbard. J. M. Wakefield, C. Eliot, ?, W.H. Dunbar, Spelman, S.A. Eliot. Men seated on rocks and logs over rushing stream with two separate currents.
Description: Photograph of the Champlain Society, June 1881. In the photograph: George Dunbar, Heyliqar Windt, Roland Thatcher, Samuel A. Eliot, Henry Spelman, Charles Townsend, William Davis, Charles Eliot, Edward L. Rand, Marshall Slade, Ernest Lovering, William Dunbar, John Wakefield.