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12501 | Schooner Head |
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| Size – 6.875” x 3.125” Media – Albumen print - sepia Title – Schooner Head, Mt. Desert, Me – hand written in ink on the reverse | Description: Size – 6.875” x 3.125” Media – Albumen print - sepia Title – Schooner Head, Mt. Desert, Me – hand written in ink on the reverse | |
12748 | The “Spouting Horn” in a Storm |
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| "Even more dramatic is Fenn’s view of the Maine coast, ‘The Spouting Horn’ in a Storm,” with the mast of a wrecked ship, an example of the sublime associated with danger and man’s weakness in face of nature’s power. The metaphor of battle to describe the confrontation of sea and rocky coast had become a literary convention used by several Picturesque America writers." – Part of the author’s discussion of 19th century artists who added drama to what they saw when illustrating it, before the advent of photography. - "Creating picturesque America: Monument to the Natural and Cultural Landscape" by Sue Rainey, Vanderbilt University Press, 1994, p. 215. Drawn by Harry Fenn Wood Engraving by William James Linton | Description: "Even more dramatic is Fenn’s view of the Maine coast, ‘The Spouting Horn’ in a Storm,” with the mast of a wrecked ship, an example of the sublime associated with danger and man’s weakness in face of nature’s power. The metaphor of battle to describe the confrontation of sea and rocky coast had become a literary convention used by several Picturesque America writers." – Part of the author’s discussion of 19th century artists who added drama to what they saw when illustrating it, before the advent of photography. - "Creating picturesque America: Monument to the Natural and Cultural Landscape" by Sue Rainey, Vanderbilt University Press, 1994, p. 215. Drawn by Harry Fenn Wood Engraving by William James Linton [show more] | ||
12749 | Thunder Cave |
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| Drawn by Harry Fenn Wood Engraving by John Filmer | ||||
12751 | Great Head |
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| Drawn by Harry Fenn Wood Engraving by H. Linton | |||
12733 | View on the Ocean Drive, Bar Harbor, Me. Before Paving |
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| Size: 5.4375” x 3.4375” Media: Color collotype? Title: View on the Ocean Drive, Bar Harbor, Me. Subject: Ocean Drive – Acadia National Park Photographer: Unknown Publisher: A.H. [Sic] Bee, Bar Harbor, Me. – A.W. Bee – Bee’s Stationery shop Printed in Germany | Description: Size: 5.4375” x 3.4375” Media: Color collotype? Title: View on the Ocean Drive, Bar Harbor, Me. Subject: Ocean Drive – Acadia National Park Photographer: Unknown Publisher: A.H. [Sic] Bee, Bar Harbor, Me. – A.W. Bee – Bee’s Stationery shop Printed in Germany | ||||
12735 | Rusticators Above Spouting Horn |
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| Plate 13 from: Allen, Warren P. Mount Desert Souvenir : Fifteenth annual excursion of the Massachusetts Press Association, July 5-9, 1884 (Charles W. Eddy, Ware, Massachusetts, 1884). | Description: Plate 13 from: Allen, Warren P. Mount Desert Souvenir : Fifteenth annual excursion of the Massachusetts Press Association, July 5-9, 1884 (Charles W. Eddy, Ware, Massachusetts, 1884). | |
12737 | Devil’s Den and Schooner Head - 1872 |
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| Wood Engraving by an unknown artist - from "Mount Desert" by George Ward Nichols Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, No. CCLXVII, August, 1872, Vol. XLV, p. 332. | Description: Wood Engraving by an unknown artist - from "Mount Desert" by George Ward Nichols Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, No. CCLXVII, August, 1872, Vol. XLV, p. 332. | ||
12738 | Castle Head, Mount Desert - 1872 |
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| From Picturesque America, Volume I Drawn by Harry Fenn Wood Engraving by Frederick William Quarterly | Description: From Picturesque America, Volume I Drawn by Harry Fenn Wood Engraving by Frederick William Quarterly | |
12739 | Otter Cliffs |
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| From Townsend 5x7 Glass Plate negative. | ||
12747 | Buckboard Party Passing Sand Beach |
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| From July 12 to July 24, 1888 a party of twenty young people who attended Westtown [Quaker] School vacationed on Mount Desert Island. The young people stayed at The Roberts House hotel in Northeast Harbor from July 14, 1888 to July 23, 1888. They wrote and privately published a journal of their adventures, with one person writing each chapter. The journal was illustrated with photographs hand tipped in to the pages. Judy and Peter Obbard, longtime summer residents of Southwest Harbor, have kindly loaned their copy of “Mount Desert Memories” to the Southwest Harbor Public Library to study. Here in the Tenth Day Chapter, written by Anna Helena Goodwin, the young people, aboard a buckboard, passed Sand Beach on July 21, 1888 Goodwin – Anna Helena Goodwin (1862-1958) | Description: From July 12 to July 24, 1888 a party of twenty young people who attended Westtown [Quaker] School vacationed on Mount Desert Island. The young people stayed at The Roberts House hotel in Northeast Harbor from July 14, 1888 to July 23, 1888. They wrote and privately published a journal of their adventures, with one person writing each chapter. The journal was illustrated with photographs hand tipped in to the pages. Judy and Peter Obbard, longtime summer residents of Southwest Harbor, have kindly loaned their copy of “Mount Desert Memories” to the Southwest Harbor Public Library to study. Here in the Tenth Day Chapter, written by Anna Helena Goodwin, the young people, aboard a buckboard, passed Sand Beach on July 21, 1888 Goodwin – Anna Helena Goodwin (1862-1958) [show more] | ||
12729 | Cave of the Sea, Schooner Head |
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| Wood Engraving by an unknown artist - from "Mount Desert" by George Ward Nichols, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, No. CCLXVII, August, 1872, Vol. XLV, p. 321. The illustrations in the Harper's article, with one exception, are those used again in “Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast” by Samuel Adams Drake, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1875. “Superbly illustrated by eminent American artists.” – From an advertisement by Harper & Brothers – The Nation, July 15, 1875, p. 47. | Description: Wood Engraving by an unknown artist - from "Mount Desert" by George Ward Nichols, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, No. CCLXVII, August, 1872, Vol. XLV, p. 321. The illustrations in the Harper's article, with one exception, are those used again in “Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast” by Samuel Adams Drake, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1875. “Superbly illustrated by eminent American artists.” – From an advertisement by Harper & Brothers – The Nation, July 15, 1875, p. 47. [show more] | ||
12446 | Otter Cliff - Before 1905 |
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9524 | Spouting Horn |
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5313 | In Valley Cove |
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9602 | Hunters Beach Head |
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| Hunter Beach Head - 1912 - before creation of Sieur de Monts National Monument | Description: Hunter Beach Head - 1912 - before creation of Sieur de Monts National Monument | |
9606 | Hunters Beach Shore |
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| Hunter Beach Shore - 1914 - before creation of Sieur de Monts National Monument - and Ocean Drive | Description: Hunter Beach Shore - 1914 - before creation of Sieur de Monts National Monument - and Ocean Drive | ||
12378 | Schooner Head from Anemone Cave |
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9569 | Hunters Beach Point |
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9579 | Valley Cove |
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9586 | Otter Cliff |
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6997 | Hunters Beach Head |
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