Description: Envelope and stamp sent from New York, NY to Chas. B. Pineo in Bar Harbor. This stamp has the newer "Schermack" perforation, and came in a sheet of 400.
Description: Diploma of Harriet Helen Condon from Tremont Grammar Schools, Tremont, Maine, certifying that she has completed the course of study prescribed by this grammar school and passed satisfactory examination in the same, dated June 8, 1917.
Other, Seawall, Southwest Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
Other, Southwest Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
Other, Stamps
Date:
1914
Description: Envelope sent from Seawall Post Office, 1914. The Post Office opened in 1881 under the name, East Tremont until 1882, when in was changed to Seawall. The Seawall post office closed in 1930.
Description: Journal of William K. Hinton, while in the US Navy, 3/31/1919-1923. William K. Hinton William was a certified boy scout scoutmaster with a term ending in 1932, and from all appearances, was a caring husband and father. William left the area and went back to Ohio around 1936 or 1937, where he had family. Paul would have been 9 or 10 at this time. He worked in Colombus in an electric shop doing radio service work. He later worked at the Curtis Wright plant making electrical connections between the engines and planes. They were not officially divorced? as on William's death certificate, Harriet is listed as surviving spouse. According to this document,William died in El Cajon, California. His occupation is listed as accountant for K.A.L. Industries, which was involved with auctions. As he was a radioman in his navy years, he gravitated to work with radio repair after leaving the area. In a 1971 letter written to Harriet and Paul, he describes his fondness for playing the “numbers", and how he sometimes heard a voice in his dreams that told him which numbers to play! [show more]
Description: New article from the Bar Harbor Record, March 22, 1910 about the new (current) post office to be built in Bar Harbor. Accompanied by recent photo.
Description: Chesapeake Bay to Straits of Florida, Chart #1001, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington, D.C., first published 1913, reissued 1916.
Description: Document listing foreclosed properties sold in Tremont, Maine. The document includes the names of property owners, property descriptions, amount of taxes owed, and the names of the purchasers. Bartlett, Abel Bowen, Edward A. Bragg, Oscar L. Bunker, Lowell A. Butler, Andrew J. Davis, David Davis, John Ferrell, Albion Gott, Benjamin F. Gott, Charles Gott, John M. Hodgdon,William C. Hodgkins,Isaac L. Kelley, Hattie Kelley,Clara B. Mitchell, Henry F. Rich, W. W. Rumill, Loren W. [show more]
Description: Envelope and stamp sent from Batchelder & Snyder in Boston to Chas. B. Pineo in Bar Harbor. Additional text includes information about mail delivery methods and times.
Description: Envelope and stamp sent from New York, NY to Chas. B. Pineo in Bar Harbor. Additional text includes information about mail delivery methods and times.