Description: Shell-covered box with hinged cover. Lined with purple velvet. Mirror inside cover framed by metal basket-weave pattern. Covered with small tropical shells - cones, knucklebones, nautica, sunset clams and limpets. Donor info - made by Emma Frances Somes, daughter of Abraham Somes III, sister of Thaddeus Shepley Somes. She died at age 22.
Description: Box covered with flowered paper. Made of cardboard. Lid has red cushion top Embroidered design on top. Number 239 is written on tape on the side of the box. Inside the box are trinkets: 3 miniature pewter spoons; 1 Lilac Sweets perfume bottle; one hair pin with glass flower; one brooch with with two leaves and a flower with glass inset; 10 miscellaneous buttons, one sewn on cloth; and one unknown piece of wood or ivory that would screw into another object. [show more]
Description: Small box top. Glass over black and white design. Reads, “Forget Me Not”. Paper edged with dots. May be a box for saving a lock of hair or other personal item.
Description: Wooden sign designed to be hung, "Ice:One Block To Right."12" x 29." Background of the sign is white, and letters are painted in bold black. There flaking throughout much of the white paint.
Description: Large wooden board sign. Black with gold lettering. “John Somes WI & Dry Goods”. WI stands for West Indies. Donor info - from John Allen Somes house.
Description: Tin sign for Dr. Sawyer's Office. Faded brown/gold lettering and border, with black background. Finger points to right; holes for nails or screws. Painted black - nail holes in each corners and center of each side. Sawyer had office in Southwest Harbor in the late 19th century into the twentieth. Sign was taken from the Freeman-Wall’s house on Wesley Avenue in Southwest Harbor next door to Freeman’s store.Taken down by Jerry Craige owner of house in 1976. Sawyer’s Office reached by enclosed staircase in back of the building. [show more]
Description: Tin sign for Dr. Sawyer's Office. Faded brown/gold lettering and border, with black background. Finger points to right; holes for nails or screws. Painted black - nail holes in each corners and center of each side. Gold lettering and gold stripe in edge. Reads, “Dr. C.M. Sawyer’s Office Up Stairs.” Sawyer had office in Southwest Harbor in the late 19th century into the twentieth. Sign was taken from the Freeman-Wall’s house on Wesley Avenue in Southwest Harbor next door to Freeman’s store.Taken down by Jerry Craige owner of house in 1976. Sawyer’s Office reached by enclosed staircase in back of the building. [show more]
Object, Agricultural, Crop Loader, Hay Loader, Bale Hay Loader
Description: Iron frame with two stakes on each side fit around hay bale. Levers at top pull up causing two small iron spikes to come under hay. Round loop in middle for lifting bale. Iron pegs hold mechanism together. Two iron bars support middle. Marked, “T” and “H$” on each handle. Donor info - purchased at local yardsale.