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: 8x10 worn red velvet photo album in poor condition. Includes death notice of Holland Edmond Fernald, 5 mo., 1889, unidentified portaits of children and adults. Death notices for Marjorie Somes Fernald, 2 years, 1894. Portrait of two little girls opposite first notice- one of the children could be Marjorie 21 photos and 3 objects were found in this album. Object Id numbers correspond to the page order in which these photos and mourning cards appear. [show more]
Description: Green Binder: Copies of Reminiscences of Somesville by Adelma F. Joy; Excerpts from The Island of Mount Desert Register 1909-1910;Annual Report of Town Officers of Mount Desert, ME 1900,1910, 1911 - 1916 and 1931
Description: Collection of poems and thoughts by friends of Emma's in autograph book form. Emma Somes was the sister of Thaddeus Somes. She died age 22.
Description: Red Binder: Copies of Commissioners’ Proceedings at Mount Desert, 1808Records of the First Church of Mount Desert, Maine 1792-1867Guide books:The Handbook of Mount Desert; Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island; Chisholm’s Mount Desert GuideTraditions and RecordsStory of Mt. DesertMount Desert, A HistoryMaine Families in 1790Maine FortsOld Hancock County FamiliesInventory of the Towns and Cities of MaineMisc.
Description: Brown Binder: Copies of Military Records 1812; Cattle and Sheep Marks 1826-83;Roads in Pretty Marsh 1864-1885; Perambulation of Town Line between Eden and Mount Desert 1871; Heads of Families at the first Census, Maine 1790; Reader Corrects Data from 1820 Census of Mt. Desert and Eden;Hazel Hammond Notebooks 1790-
Description: Book of sewing samples made by Emily N. Phillips (Reynolds) during a course at a Boston dressmaker's school about 1910. Contains samples of her stitchery and cutting.
Description: Scrap book of Eastern Star newspaper articles, newspaper photos, installation program booklets, finances, speeches, photos of individuals, Jeptha Chapter Southwest Harbor and Harmony Chapter, Grand Chapter items. Most clippings do not have dates Scrapbook of Constance Robbins, Bar Harbor Maine
Description: Eden Baptist Church (Salisbury Cove) 200th Anniversary Commemorative Plate (1799-1999). History of the church has been printed on the back.
Description: Scrapbook of information from Eden Maine (now Salisbury Cove) with genealogies and reproductions of newsclippings, obituaries, letters and other documents. Letter asking not to divide town of Eden. Names include: Bunker, McFarland, Lurvey, Richardson, Somes, Heath, Boynton Haynes Cemetery in West Trenton Obituary Mrs Charles Pettingill, 1907 Dates of events recorded by Nicholas Thomas, Salisbury Cove 1837-1844 Appears to be photocopies of documents [show more]
Description: leather photo album, holding approximately 50 photos. Leather cover, back and spine. Diamond-shape embossed onto front and back, also decorated with gold leaf in vine pattern, as well as embossed zig-zag design. Four white studs protrude from four corners of album on both front and back. Two metal clasps on right hand side, ivy leaf and vine design. Word “Photographs” embossed on spine of album.