A booklet containing an address, dealing with the history of Coles Express & A. J. Cole & sons, was delivered at a "1989 Maine meeting of the Newcomen Society held in Bangor". Scan: Cover, first pages only.
Description: A booklet containing an address, dealing with the history of Coles Express & A. J. Cole & sons, was delivered at a "1989 Maine meeting of the Newcomen Society held in Bangor". Scan: Cover, first pages only.
A monthly magazine devoted to the history of Maine towns and families. Volume IX, No. 5, May 1898. Two Dollars Per Annum. Single number twenty five cents.
Description: A monthly magazine devoted to the history of Maine towns and families. Volume IX, No. 5, May 1898. Two Dollars Per Annum. Single number twenty five cents.
Description: Biography of General Andrew B. Spurling and the Second Maine Cavalry. Civil War. Compiled from official, individual, newspaper, etc. reports.
3 articles published in 1981 commemorating Mary Peabody: 1. "Mary Peabody, 89, fighter for rights", The Boston Globe, Saturday, February 7, 1981 2. "Mary Peabody, jailed at 72 for rights protests, is dead", The Hartford Courant 3. "Claremont's Lisa Berdecki recalls Mary Parkman Peabody", Eagle Times, April 20, 1981
Description: 3 articles published in 1981 commemorating Mary Peabody: 1. "Mary Peabody, 89, fighter for rights", The Boston Globe, Saturday, February 7, 1981 2. "Mary Peabody, jailed at 72 for rights protests, is dead", The Hartford Courant 3. "Claremont's Lisa Berdecki recalls Mary Parkman Peabody", Eagle Times, April 20, 1981
2 articles about Endicott "Chub" Peabody: 1. "Submarine Heroes Return: Crew of USS Tirante recalls WWII Action" 2. "'Chub' Peabody is dead at 77", December 1997
Description: 2 articles about Endicott "Chub" Peabody: 1. "Submarine Heroes Return: Crew of USS Tirante recalls WWII Action" 2. "'Chub' Peabody is dead at 77", December 1997
4 articles about three generations of Peabody Women: Frances Fitzgerald, her mother Maretta Tree and her grandmother, Mary Parkman Peabody. 1. "Genteel dissension among 3 generations of Peabody women"Submarine Heroes Return: Crew of USS Tirante recalls WWII Action" 2. "Naughy Marietta", Newsweek, May 14, 1979 3. "'American Women, a film by a Peabody", Washington Star, April 26, 1979 4. "Those Peabody Women...'The Female Line'", Boston Herald American, April 28, 1979
Description: 4 articles about three generations of Peabody Women: Frances Fitzgerald, her mother Maretta Tree and her grandmother, Mary Parkman Peabody. 1. "Genteel dissension among 3 generations of Peabody women"Submarine Heroes Return: Crew of USS Tirante recalls WWII Action" 2. "Naughy Marietta", Newsweek, May 14, 1979 3. "'American Women, a film by a Peabody", Washington Star, April 26, 1979 4. "Those Peabody Women...'The Female Line'", Boston Herald American, April 28, 1979 [show more]
Review by Carl Little of the book "Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect", written by his father, Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard College and one of the first summer resident of Northeast Harbor. The book was originally published in 1902. Also mentioned is the Champlain Society of which Charles Eliot was a member. Published in the "Bar Harbor Times" on October 5, 2000.
Description: Review by Carl Little of the book "Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect", written by his father, Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard College and one of the first summer resident of Northeast Harbor. The book was originally published in 1902. Also mentioned is the Champlain Society of which Charles Eliot was a member. Published in the "Bar Harbor Times" on October 5, 2000.
Several clipped articles about the 1943 war time activity in the Town of Mount Desert. Focus on residents: Wilma Clark Eaton, Herbert Thomas (town manager), servicemen Fred Ralph, James McElroy, Ray Young, and Charles Stover.
Description: Several clipped articles about the 1943 war time activity in the Town of Mount Desert. Focus on residents: Wilma Clark Eaton, Herbert Thomas (town manager), servicemen Fred Ralph, James McElroy, Ray Young, and Charles Stover.
Booklet containing reminiscences of the Vaughan Family esp. Benjamin Vaughan, LL.D. Read before the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, August 2, 1865.
Description: Booklet containing reminiscences of the Vaughan Family esp. Benjamin Vaughan, LL.D. Read before the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, August 2, 1865.
A brief review of some historical and industrial incidents in the Puritan "New English Canaan," still the Land of Promise. Published by the Old Colony Trust Company of Boston, commemorating the Tercentenary of the First Landing at Plymouth in 1620 (MCMXX).
Description: A brief review of some historical and industrial incidents in the Puritan "New English Canaan," still the Land of Promise. Published by the Old Colony Trust Company of Boston, commemorating the Tercentenary of the First Landing at Plymouth in 1620 (MCMXX).
Description: History-census reprinted and distributed by the Western Somerset Historical Society, David Bishop, President, Box 92, North New Portland, Maine 04961.
Description: History-census reprinted and distributed by the Western Somerset Historical Society, David Bishop, President, Box 92, North New Portland, Maine 04961.
The Expeditions of Capt. John Lovewell and his encounters with the Indians; including a particular account of the Pequauket Battle, with a history of that Tribe; and a reprint of Rev. Thomas Symmes Sermon.
Description: The Expeditions of Capt. John Lovewell and his encounters with the Indians; including a particular account of the Pequauket Battle, with a history of that Tribe; and a reprint of Rev. Thomas Symmes Sermon.
Their Builders, Owners, and Captains. A glance at an interesting phase of the American Merchant Marine so far as it relates to Boston. With 30 black and white illustrations of ships. (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)
Description: Their Builders, Owners, and Captains. A glance at an interesting phase of the American Merchant Marine so far as it relates to Boston. With 30 black and white illustrations of ships. (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)
A biography of John Neal (August 25, 1793 – June 20, 1876), the first American writer to represent "The United States of North America" in the British Quarterlies.
Description: A biography of John Neal (August 25, 1793 – June 20, 1876), the first American writer to represent "The United States of North America" in the British Quarterlies.
Photograph and caption from an article published in "The Magazine Antiques", June 1973, by Walter Muir Whitehill, director and librarian emeritus: "Portrait busts in the library of the Boston Athenaeum". The bust of Emily Marshall was carved from a death mask in Florence in 1839 by Horatio Greenough and given to the Athenaeum in 1956 by her great-grandson, Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison.
Description: Photograph and caption from an article published in "The Magazine Antiques", June 1973, by Walter Muir Whitehill, director and librarian emeritus: "Portrait busts in the library of the Boston Athenaeum". The bust of Emily Marshall was carved from a death mask in Florence in 1839 by Horatio Greenough and given to the Athenaeum in 1956 by her great-grandson, Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison.
Article published in Life Magazine in 1968 about 9 prominent ladies of American high society: Mrs. T. Charlton Henry Mrs. Christopher Temple Emmet Mrs. Edgard B. Stern Mrs. Nicholas Longworth Mrs. Harper Sibley Mrs. Malcom Peabody Mrs. August Belmont Mrs. Lytle Hull Mrs. Thomas Armstrong
Description: Article published in Life Magazine in 1968 about 9 prominent ladies of American high society: Mrs. T. Charlton Henry Mrs. Christopher Temple Emmet Mrs. Edgard B. Stern Mrs. Nicholas Longworth Mrs. Harper Sibley Mrs. Malcom Peabody Mrs. August Belmont Mrs. Lytle Hull Mrs. Thomas Armstrong
Article "The Champlain Society: How they spent their summer vacation in 1880", published in the "Bar Harbor Times" on August 1, 1996. Written by Nan Lincoln. Photographs by Marshall P. Slade.
Description: Article "The Champlain Society: How they spent their summer vacation in 1880", published in the "Bar Harbor Times" on August 1, 1996. Written by Nan Lincoln. Photographs by Marshall P. Slade.
A clipping from a newspaper article about Mrs. Harriet M. Lyman, 80, who saw Mt. Desert Develop from Fishing Villages to World-famed Resort, also a Photograph of Mrs. Lyman.
Description: A clipping from a newspaper article about Mrs. Harriet M. Lyman, 80, who saw Mt. Desert Develop from Fishing Villages to World-famed Resort, also a Photograph of Mrs. Lyman.