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Bar Harbor, 1897, Sanborn-Perris Map Co.

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm. Sheet 1 includes an index of the area covered on subsequent sheets.

Phillips, 1897, Sanborn-Perris Map Company

Sanborn Maps of Maine

A map of Phillips, Maine, at a scale of 1:600, 50 ft. to an inch. The original color map is on a sheet 64 x 54 cm.

Burrowes Wire Screens For Windows And Doors, 1897, E. T. Burrowes Co.

Maine History Documents

A promotional piece explaining the benefits of screening doors and windows and providing information about the products of the E. T. Burrowes Company in Portland, Maine in 1897.

Falmouth Neck In The Revolution, Nathan Goold

Maine History Documents

A history of Falmouth Neck (now Portland), Maine during the Revolutionary War, prepared by the Historian of the Maine Sons of the American Revolution.

Story Of The Girls' High School Of Portland, Maine, 1850-1863, Elizabeth Mcl. Gould Rowland

Maine History Documents

A detailed account of daily life for the students at the girl's high school in Portland, Maine, as overseen by Moses Woolson. Includes lists of graduates, librarians, scholars, and a diagram of the schoolroom.

Diary For 02 07 To 08 31, 1897, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by Willis Carter, a resident of West Pembroke, Maine. This section includes notes of credits and expenses under headings of "Can Making," (which are similar to records kept in the category of Factory Work in other diaries) "Team," and amounts received from several individuals.

Financial Records, 1897, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by Willis Carter, a resident of West Pembroke, Maine. This section includes records of purchases for household items from June to December, 1897, and one news clipping that reads, "Defend the Absent," and includes a poem titled "The Man With The Grudge."

Diary For 11 15 To 12 18, 1897 With Financial Records, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by Willis Carter, a resident of West Pembroke, Maine. This section of diary includes notes on payments received for work, amounts paid, and purchases for the months of January through May, 1897.

Machias, 1897, Sanborn-Perris Map Co.

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Machias, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm. Sheet 1 includes an index of the area covered on subsequent sheets.

Biographical Review : This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches Of Leading Citizens Of Oxford And Franklin Counties, Maine, Biographical Review Publishing Company

Maine History Documents

In all this wide earth there is nothing else so interesting and important as human life; and the history of individual lives is recognized as, at its best, one of the most attractive and valuable forms of literature. It behooves every generation to write its own records, to leave behind its own memorials. The present volume of local biographies, carefully prepared from materials furnished by the patrons of the work, is issued by the publishers in the confident hope that it will prove satisfactory as the fulfilment of' promise and a work of permanent value. These pages treat of earnest …

Northern New England Sunday-School Assembly And Maine Chautauqua Union, Maine Chautauqua Union

Maine History Documents

The program for the Northern New England Sunday School Assembly and Maine Chautauqua Union at the "Gateway of the White Mountains," Fryeburg, Maine, August 3 - 21, 1897.

History Of Amity Lodge, No. 6: Free And Accepted Masons, Camden, Maine, Reuel Robinson

Maine History Documents

Believing that the interesting history of Old Amity Lodge ought, in some, way to be preserved in print, lest sometime it be lost altogether, I have ventured upon the undertaking of compiling from the Lodge records and other sources, the following history of the Lodge from the first meeting of the founders in 1799, down to the present time.

Already the records of the Lodge have passed through two terrible fires, that each time destroyed almost everything else that the Lodge possessed. They were in both instances almost miraculously saved from destruction and the Lodge still has them all intact. …