Chandlers RiverJonesboro · Maine

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A small museum from Jonesboro, Maine

Photographs, postcards, papers and a granite company’s store ledger, shared from Jonesboro, Maine for learning and enjoyment.

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Ledger page 256, the account of W. J. Mawhinney, with dated entries, columns of figures and several lines of Balance written in red ink.
Featured object: the Bodwell Granite Co. store ledger, spine and page 256.

Featured objectEarly 1900s, entries 1903 to 1907

Bodwell Granite Co. · Jonesboro Me.

The store ledger

A store ledger from Jonesboro, kept in a copperplate hand on pages ruled in red and blue.

Each customer has a page. Hose, sugar, shoes and gingham on the left; hauling, freight and cash on the right; and each balance carried forward in red ink.

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From the collection

All 15 objects
  1. Sepia photograph of a riverside mill with a tall chimney, a sawdust pile and a stone wall, seen across a shallow, rocky river.
    No. 1Photographic print, sepia

    Lawrence Lumber Co.’s mill

  2. Sepia real-photo postcard of an unpaved village street, with people gathered outside a building on the left, telegraph poles, and white clapboard houses on the right.
    No. 2Real-photo postcard

    View, Jonesboro, Me.

  3. Sepia group photograph of more than twenty men in work clothes, caps and hats, sitting and standing on and in front of a large riveted boiler on a grassy bank.
    No. 3Photographic print, sepia

    Boiler crew

  4. Faded sepia photograph of a baseball team on a hillside, most players in dark shirts lettered JONESBORO, with a man in a suit and straw hat among them.
    No. 4Photographic print, sepia

    Jonesboro baseball team

  5. Photograph of a man in a hat beside a flatbed truck stacked with bundles of sawn lumber, with a wooden building at the left; handwritten across the top: Our first order 1944.
    No. 5Photographic print

    Our first order, 1944

  6. A Look Brothers General Store envelope addressed to Mr. Geo. D. Perry, Machias, Maine, above a typed letter on Look Brothers letterhead dated April 23.
    No. 6Typed letter on letterhead, with envelope

    Look Brothers letter and envelope

Also in the collectionFamily history

Genealogy notebook

The Yellow Notebook

Lila Eunice (Mawhinney) Smith’s genealogy notebook

Family history written out by hand in blue ink on blue-ruled, red-margined loose-leaf pages, kept in a yellow Jewel theme book.

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Every object is photographed, captioned from what can be seen on it, and credited.