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, Chandler & Farquhar Company, 250-260 Devonshire St. in Winthrop Square, Boston, MA, 297 pages, Copyright
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, Ariel Motor Cycles: A Practical Guide Covering all Models from 1933, Floyd Clymer, 1268 South Alvarado St.,
Los Angeles, CA, 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 wallcoverings, wood veneer colors and grains. www.wolf-gordon.com.
Davistown History Project
72202E1 Photographs (6) DTM MH
b/w, Bertha and Clarence Sylvester, their home and shingle mill next door, 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, Downtown Liberty Maine, 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, Liberty Maine and Georges Lake, 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, Downtown Liberty Maine, 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

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