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| Personal Bible Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Personal Bible Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Brown leather cover with embossed design and gold metal trim with clasp initialed with "MGWD". Page edges are gilded. Owned by Mary Gray Ward Dorr, George B. Dorr's mother. | ||
| American Coast Pilot book 1854 purchased by Meltiah Richardson 1866 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  American Coast Pilot book 1854 purchased by Meltiah Richardson 1866 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Book. The American Coast Pilot containing directions for the Principal Harbors, Capes and Headlands on the Coasts of North and South America, etc. by Edmund M. Blunt, Seventeenth Edition by E. & G. W. Blunt, New York, May 1854. 678 pages including fold-out charts. Size: 6" x 9.75" x 3.5". Book is covered with loose tan canvas cloth hand stitched to keep it on the front and back covers. Inside the front cover, under the cloth cover flap is written: "Capt Nathan King 1854 bought book of East Trenton Maine." With several other pencil notations on first four pages. First one states: "Purchased this book from the Lewis Stanley Estate (Less White S. West Harbor) and paid $1.00 for same - Mrs. Mary Alice White, Cranberry Isles, ME June 18th, 1957." Second states: "Purchased of Capt. Nathan King Dec 20th 1866, M. J. Richardson." Third states: "This book belonged to Carrie (Stanley) Richardson daughter of Enoch B. Stanley and her son was Charles (Peter) Richardson Cranberry Isles, Maine." (This third note seems to be in the same handwriting as the first note by Mary Alice White.) There are several other notations, calculations, and also newspaper clippings pertaining to new lighthouses on the first several pages and the last two pages. Other notations:" Feb 23 1867 6 days out from NY bound for [Goanives?] St. Demingo Latt 27.45." "26th Jan 1867, 4 days out from Boston made Bermuda." "Wreck bears from Light Boat on [Cifs?] Rip WNW dist 3 or 4 miles." "May 5th 1872: Passed Hole in the Wall Fourteen days out from Portland. Made Moro Light Havana Sixteen days out from Portland." "Jan 25th [18]77, five days out from NY Latt 31:20 71:47 bound to [Havana?] made [Abeo?] light [five?] days out from NY." One newspaper clipping with header "Exports" includes mention of the schooner C. F. Young -449 box shooks. (GCIHS has a receipt for Meltiah carrying sugar aboard the Young.) Scans of notations made. [show more] | ||
| "Rab and his Friends" by John Brown Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  "Rab and his Friends" by John Brown Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: From the library of Beatrix Farrand. | ||
| Old Farmer’s Almanac Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Old Farmer’s Almanac Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Old Farmer’s Almanac 1865 tied together with string, yellow cover Previously archived as object id 013.FIC.31.08 | |||
| Laws for the suppression of Drinking Houses and Tippling Shops Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Laws for the suppression of Drinking Houses and Tippling Shops Northeast Harbor Library Description: Published by order of the Legislature. | ||
| The Indian of New England Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  The Indian of New England Northeast Harbor Library Description: The Indian of New England and the North-Eastern Provinces. A sketch of the life of an Indian hunter, ancient traditions relating to the Etchemin Tribe, their modes of life, fishing, hunting etc. | |
| The Holy Bible Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| The Holy Bible Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: 1857 Holy Bible with a sticker inside cover which reads" Issued by the Maryland State Bible Society from their depository.....". Faded writing on inside cover: 'Lettie A. Smith, Pretty Marsh, Maine" | |||
| Progressive Parsing Book Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Progressive Parsing Book Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Parsing and Syntax Prose and Poetry | ||
| Weld's English Grammar Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Weld's English Grammar Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Composition, Analyzing, and Parsing | ||
| The Intermediate Standard Speaker containing pieces for declamation... Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| The Intermediate Standard Speaker containing pieces for declamation... Mount Desert Island Historical Society | ||
| The Young Reporter or How to Write Shorthand Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  The Young Reporter or How to Write Shorthand Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Shorthand exercises | ||
| Cosmopolitan Art Journal Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Cosmopolitan Art Journal Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Selected pages; note,"copy for Thaddeus Somes" and "see page 124 for Elizabeth Barrett Browning", which is an essay and "medallion portrait." Other articles on "Dignity of Art," Power of Beauty," sketch of Jerome B. Thompson and sketches of farm life. | ||||
| [Blue Hill] Academy Journal, vol. 2, no. 3 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  [Blue Hill] Academy Journal, vol. 2, no. 3 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Handwritten journal, E.H. Kimball & F.E. Somes, editors. Editorial, poems, and more. Note on blue cover says, "Garpa went to Blue Hill Academy when he was 16 years olf-1852.) Don't know who wrote this note. | ||||
| True Stories from Modern History. Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| True Stories from Modern History. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Short historical stories. gift of Abbie Thomas Richardson | |||
| A Key to the National Arithmetic Exhibiting the Operation of the More Difficult Questions in that Work: For the Use of Teachers Only Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| A Key to the National Arithmetic Exhibiting the Operation of the More Difficult Questions in that Work: For the Use of Teachers Only Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Guide for teachers; appears to cover almost all grades, but method also seems obscure. Inscribed on front cover, Lyman Smith. | ||
| The Life and Times of Aaron Burr. Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| The Life and Times of Aaron Burr. Mount Desert Island Historical Society | ||
| The three eras of a woman's life: The maiden, the wife, and the mother. Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| The three eras of a woman's life: The maiden, the wife, and the mother. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Novel includes chapters illustrating the heroine's duty before pleasure and a woman's goodcharacter, trials, disappointments, love, beauty, courting, marriage. | |||
| Popular Legends of Brittany Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Popular Legends of Brittany Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: English version of Sonvestre's "Foyer Breton" translated by "a lady." Inscribed Edith E. Salisbury, Mt. Desert, Maine Dec.1878. | |||
| Little Kitty Brown and Her Bible Verses Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Little Kitty Brown and Her Bible Verses Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Written for the American Sunday School Union, this little book contains stories about a little girl learning Bible verses, one per day. | ||||
| The Visit; or, the Difference Between Being a Good Child and Being Like a Good Chile Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| The Visit; or, the Difference Between Being a Good Child and Being Like a Good Chile Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: One of the books in a series of Sunday School Union publications. Inscribed Sound Sabbath School No. 10 | ||||
| The Swiss Pastor Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| The Swiss Pastor Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Note on title page indicates this is "the life of the Rev. F.A.A. Gonthier". Inscribed "No. 58 Sound Sabbath School." | |||
| Stories for Village Lads Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Stories for Village Lads Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Fictional stories for Sunday School. Inscription says, "????have you got a slate pencil that you would let me have. Yes. | ||||
| O Novo Testamento Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| O Novo Testamento Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: "de Nosso Senhor E Salvador Jesus Christo" New Testament translated into Portuguese. Handwritten inside front cover: "Loaned by Kate Richardson." | |||
| Thoughts upon Thought for Young Men Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Thoughts upon Thought for Young Men Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: "In Three Parts. From the Second London Edition." | |||
| Margaret and Henrietta Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Margaret and Henrietta Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Decorative, embossed cloth cover. |