| The Davistown Museum Library |
| Ephemera and Documents |
| We have hundreds of unlisted tool catalogs and reference books and dozens of pictures for the Davistown History |
| Project that remain uncataloged due to a lack of funding. |
| | Status | Location |
| Catalogs |
| 32802TC | Tool catalog | DTM |
| Paperback, 297 pages, , Copyright 1924. |
| The front photograph of a store entrance is interesting as it contains many of the tools sold at the Liberty Tool Co. |
| 32602E1 | Waller, C. W. | DTM |
| Paperback, 200 pgs., , 1952. |
| 061303E1 | Wolf-Gordon sample books (2) | DTM |
| Paper and string, 8 1/2" wide, 6" high, signed "WOLF-GORDON'. |
| Two sample "books" of Wolf-Gordon wall coverings, wood veneer colors and grains. www.wolf-gordon.com. |
| Davistown History Project |
| 72202E1 | Photographs (6) | DTM | MH |
| b/w, One is 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" and the other five are 2 1/4" x 3 1/2", , early 20th century. |
| These six photographs were given to the Museum by Pauline Phinney Thomas. She came to Liberty around 1940 to nurse her aunt, Bertha |
| Sylvester. Bertha gave her these old photographs of herself and Clarence Sylvester when they were young. They include a photo of the |
| Sylvester home and the shingle mill next door, which was also owned by the Sylvesters. The information written on the backs was placed there |
| by Mrs. Thomas and states: |
| (image of two women with rifles or shotguns, one with a dead partridge [?], and a hunting hound) "Bertha Sylvester; My mom was named for |
| her. She was Mom's aunt was a Thompson; And Edna Downer Walker; Aunt Ora's daughter" |
| (image of a man and woman with rifles or shotguns, the woman holding a stick from which hang several small dead animals, and a hunting |
| hound) |
| "Aunt Bertha & husband; Clarence Sylvester" |
| (image of two women by a horse-drawn cart, and a man in the cart) |
| "Aunt Bert on left; Aunt Ora on right; Don't know who's in the wagon; Ora Thompson Downer; Bertha Thompson Sylvester" |
| (image of house on dirt road, people gathered on porch) [Mrs. Thomas says this house is still standing on Rt 3] |
| "House in Liberty side of shingle mill Aunt Berts; They didn't have any children; on Rt 3; Sylvester" |
| (image of huge old shingle mill) |
| "Shingle mill side of Aunt Berts in Liberty; her husband Clarence Sylvester owned it." |
| (image of man with rifle or shotgun and stick from which hang various dead animals, and hunting hound) |
| "Uncle Clarence Sylvester; with his bird dog; He owned the shinglemill in Liberty.; Husband of Bertha" |
| 10203E1 | Post card reproduction | photo | DTM |
| Black & white photograph, 10" wide by 6 1/2" high, unsigned, 1916. |
| This is a reproduction of an old post card of Liberty, Maine. It shows the four story building currently housing the Liberty Tool Co. in the |
| center. |
| 10203E2 | Post card reproduction | photo | DTM |
| Black & white photograph, 10" wide by 6 1/2" high, unsigned, 1914. |
| This is a reproduction of an old post card of Liberty, Maine. It shows the view of Liberty, Maine, from Haystack Mountain. Georges Lake is in |
| the foreground. |
| 10203E3 | Post card reproduction | photo | DTM |
| Black & white photograph, 10" wide by 6 1/2" high, unsigned, 1916. |
| This is a reproduction of an old post card of Liberty, Maine. It shows the four story building currently housing the Liberty Tool Co. in the |
| center left side. The Prescott Block where the Davistown Museum is located is the center building on the right side. |
| 12801T18 | Road map | DTM |
| Paper, , 1938. |
| A Standard Oil Co. of New York map of Maine. Its great significance lies in illustrating the presence of a dirt road (Plains Rd.) as still being |
| in use as a third class road at this late date. The Plains Rd. is one of Maine's most historic (now unused and impassable) ancient Indian |
| pathways (the Cushnoc Trail). It was the first colonial road from Ducktrap (the north branch ran from Belfast) to Searsmont, thence through |
| W. Appleton to S. Liberty. Today the stone boundaries of this colonial era highway can still be seen just west of its intersection with the |
| Collinsville Rd., and still can be accessed from Burketville. How quickly our historic past is forgotten, with only old road maps and ancient |
| stone walls to remind us of our passing history. |
| Documents |
| 30701E3 | Debtor summons to John Tinkum | bio | DTM |
| Paper item floating in glass, 8" wide, 9" high, . |
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