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Fair women from Vogue: being a collection of portraits of ladies of New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Richmond, and other American cities
Unknown
Preface
The alliance between women and portraiture, close as it has been in all ages since first the art of portrayal was employed, ought not to be set down as wholly an affair of vanity. Doubtless there be feminine Narcissus'; but may not benevolence have somewhat to do with beauty's desire to secure for a larger audience a more enduring impression of itself than the one fleetingly mirrored in a cheval glass?
Artists have been the most potent factor in stimulating woman's penchant for painted semblances of her charms, the guild having dedicated the highest qualities of its art to the service of perpetuating her loveliness. In these later times photography also has added its beguilements, and on every side it offers opportunities for seeing ourselves as others see us, or more properly, for seeing ourselves as we hope others see us -- the subtle art of practical flattery being not unknown to the manipulators of cameras.
Vogue at the beginning of its career conceived the idea of publishing, as one of its principal features, portraits of some of the attractive women who adorn the social life of our foremost cities.
In pursuance of this purpose for nearly two years a succession of beauty portraits has been given as charming a presentation as the ability of American decorative artists and the skill of American printers made attainable.
The unique collection of artistically rendered pictures of representative American Society women here presented is the outcome of Vogue's beauty portraits. Photography has rarely, if ever, been so generously aided by art and liberal money expenditure.
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Official Papers Addressed to the Legislature of the State of Maine by Henry B. Cleaves
Henry B. Cleaves
Papers included are: Some Suggestions presented to the Sixty-Sixth Legislature by Governor Cleaves, touching the financial condition of the State of Maine ; State of Maine, Treasurer's Office, Augusta, March 1, 1893 ; An Act to incorporated the Auburn and Mechanic Falls Railroad Company
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The State of Maine in 1893 by George H. Haynes
George H. Haynes
As this is the book to be distributed by the Board of World's Fair Managers of Maine, to the thousands who will visit the Columbian Exposition at Chicago, in 1893, we preface the descriptions and illustrations of the many beautiful attractions and industries, by fine portraits of Governor Edwin C. Hurleigh, who was foremost in advocating and approved the appropriation to enable Maine to erect a building and exhibit her manufactures, minerals, metals, and all specimens of her handiwork. Also, that of our present Governor, who is heartily in favor of same. Following these are portraits of all the members of the Commission, with short biographical sketches. The remainder of the book will be devoted to our beautiful summer resorts, mineral springs, unexcelled system of railroads, steamer lines, manufactures, and all our industries. Also the pride of the state "our fish and game." Elegant illustrations of all will adorn the book.
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11th Annual Report of the Temporary Home for Women and Children of Maine
Temporary Home for Women and Children of Maine
It has been thought best in presenting the Annual Report of our work for 1893 to enter somewhat into the object of our existence, the work we aim to do, and what actually comes into our hands to do. The statistics for the past year will be given in· a separate report as usual.
The Temporary Home for Women and Children was instituted eleven years ago, to supply a great and long felt need, namely a temporary home for women and children needing from any cause and in any emergency, a helping hand. It is a State Institution, and yet is not limited to those of our own State household, any one found within our borders is offered such assistance as she may need to help her to self-support, or to assist her to her friends.
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Genealogy of the Hazen family: eight American generations
James King Hazen
Preface
The pages that follow are to be regarded as merely an attempt to put in permanent form the genealogical material that has fallen into my hands, with the hope that it may be useful to generations following, and possibly may encourage some one of the tribe to prosecute the work until there shall be a complete genealogy of the Hazen Family.
A considerable portion of the facts here given was furnished by my father, Rev. Reuben S. Hazen, and has been in my hands for many years. I am indebted to Rev. H. A. Hazen, of Boston, Mass., and H. A. Hazen, Esq., Washington, D. C., for much material, and for correction of that already in my possession.
If those to whom a copy of this may be sent will send me such information as may be in their possession. with regard to the present or to past generations of the family, not herein contained, it will be carefully preserved, and possibly used at some future time for the enlargement of the work.
James King Hazen
Richmond, VA., January 1892
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10th Annual Report of the Temporary Home for Women and Children
Temporary Home for Women and Children
As the annual report of the Temporary Home for Women and Children is again due, we realize that this year completes its first decade. It is with grateful hearts that its managers acknowledge the success that attends the work. Though little discouragements may have come, still the progress has been steady, and through the shadows we have seen the sunshine, and with faith in the Divine leader have looked cheerfully forward and upward.
Those who visit the Home cannot but realize to some extent the untiring care which is necessary to attend properly to all the bodily wants of its many inmates, as well as to give wise and tender counsel to those young women, whose sad history brings them within its walls.
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Campobello: An Historical Sketch
Kate Gannett Wells
Introduction
The mysterious charms of ancestry and yellow parchment, of petitions to the admiralty and royal grants of land, of wild scenery and feudal loyalty, of rough living and knightly etiquette, have long clustered round a little island off the coast of Maine, called on the charts Passamaquoddy Outer Island, but better known under the more pleasing name of Campobello.
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Bangor: Its Points of Interest and Its Representative business men; including an historical sketch of Brewer
George Fox Bacon
Introduction
It is less than 130 years since the first permanent settlement bv white men was made upon the banks of the Penobscot, or long after towns had heen established in other parts of the present State of Maine, very few of which possesed natural advantages comparable with those offered along the valley of Maine's noblest river, but these advantages. although appreciated to some extent by the English colonists in this region, were neutralized so far as they were concerned by the fact that the French held absolute and almost undisputed sway over the Penobscot country and would have quickly destroyed any English settlement in that section.
The seventeenth century had barely opened when the French made their first appearance on the Penobscot, for they arrived as early as 1603, and subsequently made frequent visits, mainly for the purpose of establishing and extending trade relations with the Indians, with whom they were on the most amicable terms. The Penobscot Indians belonged to the famous Tarratine tribe, and as regards intelligence, knowledge, honor, skill and industry were far above the average and had reached a degree of civilization paralleled by but very few other Indian tribes in the country. Hence they fully appreciated the advantages to he gained by trading with the French, and not only allowed them to traverse the country unmolested, but welcomed their coming and honorably fulfilled all trade and other agreements made with them.
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Boston and Bangor Steamship Company Proposed Sailings
Boston and Bangor Steamship Company
Two schedules showing sailing times for the Boston and Bangor Steamship Company. One schedule is dated 1891; the other is not dated.
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Catalogue of the First Universalist Sunday School Library of Bangor, Maine
First Universalist Church, Bangor, Maine
The object of this Library is the cultivation of the mind and heart, in purity, truth and love. Let him, therefore, who handles these books do it reverently, for they contain the song and story, the wit and wisdom, of many generations of men. May the thoughts with which they are filled be as wings to lift our spirits up into better thoughts and deeds, and a truer love.
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Old Times in Saco
Daniel E. Owen
Opening Paragraph:
The history of Saco practically begins with the discovery of the Saco River in 1603. Some few adventurers had cruised along the coast of New England previous to that year, and since it is probable that fishermen visited the inlets of southwestern Maine before those waters were generally known to explorers, it is not unreasonable to suppose that white men set foot upon the shores of Saco Bay prior to the beginning of the XVIIth century. There is, however, no satisfactory evidence in support of such a conjecture and history must be said to begin with the date above given.
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Official Local Postal Guide, February 1891, Augusta, Maine, Post Office
Walter D. Stinson
This document features many historically appealing features. Among them are "The History of Postal Affairs in Augusta" by Walter D. Stinson, advertisements for business of Augusta, a listing of Augusta business which served as U.S. postage stamp agencies, and a listing of street locations for collections of the U.S. Post Office of the era.
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9th Annual Report of the Temporary Home for Women and Children of Maine
Temporary Home for Women and Children of Maine
On this ninth annual meeting of the Temporary Home for Women and Children, we, the Board of Managers welcome the friends and patrons of the Institution to an enlarged and greatly improved house. During the year just closed, steam-heating apparatus has been put in at a cost of six hundred dollars; and here we wish to publicly acknowledge the gift of one hundred dollars from Mrs. G. S. C. Dow of Bangor, generously and promptly Bent in response to the appeal in our last report in which this new need was presented.
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Fire Service of Bangor
Bangor, Maine, Fire department
A brief history of the Bangor Fire department from the beginnings to 1890.
Subtitled: A Souvenir Containing an account of the service from leather bucket times to the present fire department.
The proceeds to be donated for the benefit of Disabled Members of the Bangor Fire Department.
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8th Annual Report of the Temporary Home for Women and Children of Maine
Temporary Home for Women and Children of Maine
The State Institution known as the Temporary Home for Women and Children, although now eight years established, is yet in its infancy as to strength and capacity, because comparatively few people are fully aware of the good work being done and of the great need of money to carry on the same.
Great misunderstanding of the character of this Home has been widespread, but those who have been conversant with its workings from the first, with others more recently connected with the management, unhesitatingly say that no more worthy charity exists in this State.
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Bunker's text book of political deviltry. A record of Maine's small bore politicians and political bosses
Benjamin Bunker
Introduction
There seems to be an honest difference of opinion among politicians of both parties, as to what constitutes political deviltry. As a Maine Republican as to the deviltry of his party, and before he has talked sixty seconds he will give you a complete account of all the crimes and deviltry ever committed by Democrats, from a culler of staves in a small town to the Governor last elected by the Democrats. Ask a Maine Democrat about Republican deviltry, and he will cautiously ask if you were "born a Democrat," and before he settles down to facts, he will prove that he voted for Jackson, refused to vote for Horace Greeley, and finally wind up with a confession that Republican deviltry has been offset by Democratic blunders and stupidity.
For the purpose of setting the public right on these matters, and placing the deviltry where it belongs, the author has concluded to publish some facts that are matters of history in this State.
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7th Annual Report of the Temporary Home for Women and Children of Maine
Temporary Home for Women and Children of Maine
Though the "circle of seasons" has been seven times completed since we began the work of the Temporary Home for Women and Children we have nothing new to offer to its untiring and ever-hopeful workers, but make our most earnest appeal to those who know little of us except through these yearly statements of facts.
The young girl sent to us by her mother for safety from the evil surroundings of her home, the baby needing the care which its sick mother cannot give, gladly left with us for a small sum by its father, and the poor young girls who are brought to our refuge where they are helped to resist their many temptations are all strong witnesses of the need of our labors.
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The Ramona Mission and The Mission Indians
Women's National Indian Association
Introduction
"Ramona," the fascinating Indian story by "H.H. " -- Mrs. H.H. Jackson -- the scenes of which are laid in Southern California, is based upon facts learned and reported by the author on an official inspection of the Mission Indians there in 1883, and it very truthfully and graphically reveals the present condition and hardships, as well as the past sufferings, of those tribes.
The story is one of the saddest of many sad records of the race, and is in itself a most moving plea for whatever atonement it is now possible to make to that long-suffering people. But direct appeals for aid in their behalf have also come to The Women's National Indian Association, first, from "H. H." herself, and since then from others.
In response to these calls a mission is now to be opened by the Association, among the Coahuillas in the village of that name, extending later, it is hoped, to others of the about twenty villages occupied by these Mission Indians. From the official report of Mrs. Jackson, and from later official and other sources, the facts herein presented are taken. But in order to convey an intelligent, general view of the character and circumstances of these Indians, and in response to many requests, these facts are prefaced by a brief historical sketch, and a glance at their present general condition.
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The City of Bangor "Queen City of the East"
Bangor Board of Trade
Bangor is the easternmost city of its size in the United States. It is distant about 250 miles northeast from Boston, either by land or water, and west from St. John, N. B., a little more than 200 miles. It is reached from western points by both day and night train service from Boston and Portland, over one of the best railway systems of New England, and by a line of first-class passenger steamers making daily trips between Boston and Bangor during the summer months, and from two to four trips weekly the remainder of the year. Three trains daily the year round furnish Eastern connections with St. John, Halifax and all points in the Maritime Provinces of Canada. The train known as the "Flying Yankee" makes the run between Boston and St. John, upwards of 450 miles, in less than fifteen hours, thus bringing Bangor within eight hours of Boston, and seven hours from St. John. There is also from Boston during the season of summer travel the famous vestibuled train known as the "Bar Harbor Limited," which makes exceptionally fast time, is elegantly equipped, and runs via Bangor through to Bar Harbor, Mount Desert. Soon, however, Bangor's facilities for intercourse with the central districts of the country and the Great West will be greatly increased, by the completion of the Canadian Pacific's eastern extension to connections with the railway systems of Maine, thereby securing an outlet to the various important winter ports of Maine and New Brunswick.
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Message of the president of the United States communicated to the two houses of Congress at the beginning of the first session of the Fiftieth Congress and interview of Hon. James G. Blaine upon the message
Grover Cleveland
An address concerning trade and tariffs of President Grover Cleveland presented to the 50th Congress on December 6, 1887, followed by an interview of James Gillespie Blaine in Paris which was critical of Cleveland's address.
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Leading Business Men of Bangor, Rockland and Vicinity: Embracing Ellsworth, Bucksport, Belfast, Camden, Rockport, Thomaston, Oldtown, Orono, Brewer, Maine 1888
Mercantile Publishing Company
Provides a sketch of each town listed, as well as extensive biographies of many of the leading businesses/businessmen of each town.
Book is 262 pages. Bangor consists of pages 1-123. Rockland is pages 124-160. Thomaston 161-167. Ellsworth 168-188. Old Town 188-203. Camden 204-213. Rockport 213-216. Bucksport 217-225. Brewer 225-230. Orono 231-234. Belfast 235-256. Last six pages are advertisements for primarily Bangor businesses.
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6th Annual Report of the Temporary Home for Women and Children of Maine
Temporary Home for Women and Children of Maine
It has been said that "crime is the product of a defective character under given temptation, and the defective character has often an ancestral basis." In some cases which have come under their care, the Managers of the Temporary Home for Women and Children have found it too late to eradicate hereditary vices: shall we, because disappointments have come, class all unfortunates, who seek our home and aid, as beings without a spark of the true womanhood?
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Address at the Annual Meeting of the Maine Branch of the Women's National Indian Association: Portland, Maine, January 24, 1887
Dr. George D.B. Pepper and Women's National Indian Association
Ladies of the Association, and friends:
This meeting is at once the result and the evidence of a deep and abiding interest in the American Indians. Of these, there are now, within the limits of the United States, exclusive of Alaska, about 260,000, a quarter of a million, enough to make seven or eight cities of the size of Portland. They are mainly in our western interior, driven very far back from the Atlantic coast, and being also pressed back from the Pacific coast. Almost infinitesimal are the living fragments that have been broken off from the tribes, and have a place among the whites. Asked to speak of these people, this evening, I consented gladly, but timidly, gladly because of my sympathy with the cause, timidly, because of my lack of any special and intimate knowledge of Indian affairs, and of the Indian question. And when I considered what to say, my mind at once put to me this question, Why, with your merely general knowledge of this matter, do you feel such keen interest, and such readiness to assert it? I began to look around for the reasons and seemed to myself to have found some of them. I have written them out, and decided to bring them here this evening, as my contribution to this feast.
Rev. Dr. George D.B. Pepper
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