Ocean House scrapbook and register 1895 Ocean House scrapbook and register

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Ocean House scrapbook and register 1895 Ocean House scrapbook and register

The Ocean House scrapbook and register is a repurposed guestbook from the Ocean House hotel in Old Orchard, Maine. The volume has a manuscript inventory of the hotel's furnishings and pasted-in newspaper clippings about Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and local political meetings.

1 volume

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6392676

William L. Clements Library

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Ocean House (Hotel : Old Orchard, Me.)

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In the late 19th century, John Lindsey was proprietor of Ocean House, a hotel in Old Orchard, Maine (now Old Orchard Beach). The hotel had guest rooms on three floors as well as parlors, dining rooms, and a music hall. From the guide to the Ocean House scrapbook and register, 1895, (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan) ...

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818. He barely knew his mother, who lived on a different plantation and died when he was a young child and never discovered the identity of his father. When he turned eight years old, his slaveowner hired him out to work as a body servant in Baltimore. At an early age, Frederick realized there was a connection between literacy and freedom. Not allowed to attend school, he taught himself to read and wr...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...