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Wedding belt
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Clothing, Belt
  • ca. 1835
Wedding belt
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Silk wedding belt Belonged to Bethany Oaks who married Nathan Salisbury in 1835
Bill for L. Higgins from Samuel Reed
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Armaments, Bill
  • June 11, 1833
Bill for L. Higgins from Samuel Reed
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
This appears to be an account bill for L. Higgins from Samuel Reed. Each item is dated and they appear to be mostly grocery store items.
Desert Rock Light House Print
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Print
  • 1839
Desert Rock Light House Print
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Desert Rock Light House engraving of rough seas, three men in forground hoisting a log with lighthouse back right, boats back left. Black wooden frame illustration by W. Radclyffe/ Engraving by R. Doughty
Bill-Of-Sale
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Sales Record, Bill of Sale
  • 1831
Bill-Of-Sale
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Bill from Military Store in Boston in wooden frame with dark finish. Bill attached to matte. Reads, “Military Store Boston Aug 22, 1831, J. Somes - Bought of John J. Low and Co. at their military rooms, no 19 Washington St. 1 sword [$6] 1 belt 1.02, 1 epaulet $3, sash $7. 1 cockade and eagle 2/3 - totaled 17.99. Rec Payment J.L. and Co. 1 1/4 yd Blue Broad Cloth @ 3.88 - 4.85, 1 fur hat @ 3.50 1 gal gin 1.56 totaled 27.90.
Clock
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Clock
  • 1835 c
Clock
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Clock made by “Boardman and Wells - Forestville, Conn.”. Label inside glass shows eagle with “E Plurubus Unum”. Also marked, “Improved clocks manufactured and sold by Boardman and Wells, Bristol, Conn. Case Tiffany and Co, Printers - Hartford”. Label gives directions to set clock. Glass not original. Probably had reverse painting on glass. Clock face is painted on wood. White in center with strawberries. Gold in corners. “Pillars” carved on each side of clock. Dark wood. Missing weight. The works are still intact. Donor info- came from Gilley house on Baker’s Island. This house was built by William Gilley in 1812. Clock was given to donor by his grandmother, Phoebe Gilley Stanley. [show more]
Request & receipt for payment to Ebenezer Shipey (?) for teaching and repairing chimney
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
  • 1838
Practical and Mental Arithmetic, on a New Plan...
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Smith, Roswell C.
  • 1835
Practical and Mental Arithmetic, on a New Plan...
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
"...in which mental arithmetic is combined with the use of the slate; containing a complete system for all practical purposes; being in dollars and cents, stereotype edition, revised and enlarged, with exercises for the slate, in which as added a practical system of book-keeping." Exercises cover compound numbers, fractions, and decimals.
Confession of Faith and Covenant adopted by the 1st Congregational Church, Mount Desert, Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Pamphlet
  • 1834
Description:
Small pamphlet with Confession of Faith: Christ is God, The Holy Spirit is God, Sacred Trinity, and other Articles including Baptism and the Lord's Supper.
Letter from Josiah Phillips to Luther A. Phillips
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Josiah Phillips
  • 1830
Letter from Josiah Phillips to Luther A. Phillips
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Photocopy of an 1830 handwritten letter from Josiah Phillips to Luther A. Phillips of Orland, Maine. The letter tells of the death of Josiah's father and Luther's father. The letter fills one-page; a photocopy of the page showing the address has also been copied. The orginal sheet of paper was approx. 15 inches wide and 12' high. It had been folded in half and the address written on the outside. The letter itself was about 7.5" in width and 12" high. [show more]
Ledger
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • 1833
Ledger
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Pillowcase
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Furnishings, Pillowcase
  • c 1835
Pillowcase
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Hand stitched with ruffle on edge. Marked in brown ink “Mary A. Tapley”. Number after name not legible. Donor info - pillow case from Somes family of Gloucester, Massachusetts. From 1835 trousseau of Mary A. Tapley. It appears that there are two identical pillowcases with this ID #.
Stove Lid Lifter
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Furnishings, Stove Tool, Stove Lifter
  • c.1830
Stove Lid Lifter
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
wound iron rod with loop handle and turned end found at kitchen midden of Benjamin and Sophronia Carter home “C” relates to a map that was created by Alice Smith 002.47