Southwest Harbor lifelong summer resident Andrew McInnes sailing Venture in the 1930s. The sailboat, co-owned with his brother Robert, was a B.B. Corninshield B Boat. Andrew didn't know that Mr. Ballard had taken the photograph until he happened to be in Grand Central Station in New York City and saw an enormous print or projection of the image advertising Maine as a tourist destination. Mr. Ballard gave him the 8x10 glass negative when they next met.
Description: Southwest Harbor lifelong summer resident Andrew McInnes sailing Venture in the 1930s. The sailboat, co-owned with his brother Robert, was a B.B. Corninshield B Boat. Andrew didn't know that Mr. Ballard had taken the photograph until he happened to be in Grand Central Station in New York City and saw an enormous print or projection of the image advertising Maine as a tourist destination. Mr. Ballard gave him the 8x10 glass negative when they next met. [show more]
Ralph Warren Stanley built this 26' lobster boat, for Louise O’Brien at his 1st shop at 376 Main Street, Southwest Harbor. Mrs. O'Brien used the boat for her employees, Julius “Judy” E. Mitchell (1902-1982) and his brother, George A. Mitchell (1915-1998) to go back and forth from Cranberry Island to her yacht. The lobster boat was later owned by boat builder James “Jimmy” Harold Rich (1932-2010).
Description: Ralph Warren Stanley built this 26' lobster boat, for Louise O’Brien at his 1st shop at 376 Main Street, Southwest Harbor. Mrs. O'Brien used the boat for her employees, Julius “Judy” E. Mitchell (1902-1982) and his brother, George A. Mitchell (1915-1998) to go back and forth from Cranberry Island to her yacht. The lobster boat was later owned by boat builder James “Jimmy” Harold Rich (1932-2010).
Description: The coal wharf at Clark Point is visible in the background. Perry L. Lawson's dragger, "U and I" is just behind Black Ledge in the foreground.
The wooden comb below the tiller of Joseph Walter Cooper's Maine Sloop Boat was a device made so that the tiller could be dropped in between the teeth of the comb so that a set course would not alter. A comb was particularly useful for single handed sailors.
Description: The wooden comb below the tiller of Joseph Walter Cooper's Maine Sloop Boat was a device made so that the tiller could be dropped in between the teeth of the comb so that a set course would not alter. A comb was particularly useful for single handed sailors.
The weathervane is displayed here on the railing at the Anne Brimley Gould Cottage "TopGallant". It topped the flagpole at TopGallant and the occasion of the flag raising is described in Anne's account "Making Woods a Garden" (SWHPL 353) and in Tom Coleman's handwritten book "The House that Anne Built" (SWHPL 9979).
Description: The weathervane is displayed here on the railing at the Anne Brimley Gould Cottage "TopGallant". It topped the flagpole at TopGallant and the occasion of the flag raising is described in Anne's account "Making Woods a Garden" (SWHPL 353) and in Tom Coleman's handwritten book "The House that Anne Built" (SWHPL 9979).