Four men and four women are shown off for a day's outing. The ninth man is the buckboard driver. Edward Lothrop Rand is standing by the buckboard carrying his vasculum for collecting botanicl specimens. vas·cu·lum n. (pl. -la ) Bot. a collecting box for plants, typically in the form of a flattened cylindrical metal case with a lengthwise opening, carried by a shoulder strap. - "vasculum." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (March 16, 2010). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-vasculum.html.
Description: Four men and four women are shown off for a day's outing. The ninth man is the buckboard driver. Edward Lothrop Rand is standing by the buckboard carrying his vasculum for collecting botanicl specimens. vas·cu·lum n. (pl. -la ) Bot. a collecting box for plants, typically in the form of a flattened cylindrical metal case with a lengthwise opening, carried by a shoulder strap. - "vasculum." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (March 16, 2010). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-vasculum.html. [show more]
Description: This is one of locations frequented by the Champlain Society. See item 9607 for view of members of the Champlain Society in this same location.
Henry L. Rand probably photographed schooner "Puritan" while sailing in Somes Sound aboard his catboat, "Lanita." The photograph was taken in Somes Sound between Halls Quarry behind the camera and Brown Mountain, later Norumbega Mountain in the East behind the schooner.
Description: Henry L. Rand probably photographed schooner "Puritan" while sailing in Somes Sound aboard his catboat, "Lanita." The photograph was taken in Somes Sound between Halls Quarry behind the camera and Brown Mountain, later Norumbega Mountain in the East behind the schooner.
Mary F. Steenstra, 16 years old, wearing her eyeglasses, with her watch fob cord tucked through her button holes, her handkerchief neatly tucked into her sash and her hat at her feet seems relaxed at the oars of a rowboat, probably in the waters off Mount Desert Island.
Description: Mary F. Steenstra, 16 years old, wearing her eyeglasses, with her watch fob cord tucked through her button holes, her handkerchief neatly tucked into her sash and her hat at her feet seems relaxed at the oars of a rowboat, probably in the waters off Mount Desert Island.