Postage Stamp Title: Jack London Scott Cat. Number: 2182 Subject: London - John Griffith London (1876-1916) Design: Richard Sparks of Norwalk, Connecticut, under the direction of Howard Paine, a design coordinator for the Citizens’ Advisory Committee. Artist – vignette: Sharpe - Jim Sharpe (1936-2005) Typographer: Bradbury Thompson Engraver - vignette: Hipschen – Thomas R. Hipschen (1950-) Engraver – lettering and numerals: Dennis Brown Media: Intaglio Printer: Bureau of Engraving and Printing Color: Blue Size: 18.03 mm x 20.82 mm Country: United States Postage Value: 25 cents Issue Series: 27th in the Great American Series Issue Origin: Jack London’s 110th birthday Issue Date: January 11, 1988 Issue Location: Glen Ellen, California – location of London’s Wolf House estate, now the Jack London State Historic Park. Issue Size: 59,850,000 Richard Sparks based his design on a photograph of London taken in 1914 by the author’s wife, Charmian. Kittredge – Charmian (Kittredge) London (1871-1955) See: "The Engraver’s Line: An Encyclopedia of Paper Money & Postage Stamp Art" by Gene Hessler, BNR Press, Port Clinton, Ohio, 1993. Page 4 and 5 explain the production steps taken to turn original art into an engraved postage stamp. Worth reading as the engraver works from the beginning on a plate of about 3.5” x 4,” engraving a stamp at its finished size. Engraving is used for very few stamps today and, when one reads about the process, one can understand why. The author even provides particular engraver’s recipes for the acid they used, including that of James Smillie, the famous landscape engraver. Smillie - James Smillie (1807-1885).
Description: Postage Stamp Title: Jack London Scott Cat. Number: 2182 Subject: London - John Griffith London (1876-1916) Design: Richard Sparks of Norwalk, Connecticut, under the direction of Howard Paine, a design coordinator for the Citizens’ Advisory Committee. Artist – vignette: Sharpe - Jim Sharpe (1936-2005) Typographer: Bradbury Thompson Engraver - vignette: Hipschen – Thomas R. Hipschen (1950-) Engraver – lettering and numerals: Dennis Brown Media: Intaglio Printer: Bureau of Engraving and Printing Color: Blue Size: 18.03 mm x 20.82 mm Country: United States Postage Value: 25 cents Issue Series: 27th in the Great American Series Issue Origin: Jack London’s 110th birthday Issue Date: January 11, 1988 Issue Location: Glen Ellen, California – location of London’s Wolf House estate, now the Jack London State Historic Park. Issue Size: 59,850,000 Richard Sparks based his design on a photograph of London taken in 1914 by the author’s wife, Charmian. Kittredge – Charmian (Kittredge) London (1871-1955) See: "The Engraver’s Line: An Encyclopedia of Paper Money & Postage Stamp Art" by Gene Hessler, BNR Press, Port Clinton, Ohio, 1993. Page 4 and 5 explain the production steps taken to turn original art into an engraved postage stamp. Worth reading as the engraver works from the beginning on a plate of about 3.5” x 4,” engraving a stamp at its finished size. Engraving is used for very few stamps today and, when one reads about the process, one can understand why. The author even provides particular engraver’s recipes for the acid they used, including that of James Smillie, the famous landscape engraver. Smillie - James Smillie (1807-1885). [show more]
Amanda E. Crafts was born to Lewis Griffin Crafts and Shirley A. Worcester of Southwest Harbor. This photo was taken at the Grand March at the Boothbay Regional Highschool. She is seen here with Robert Arthur Dyer, who was at one time the principal of the Pemetic Highschool.
Description: Amanda E. Crafts was born to Lewis Griffin Crafts and Shirley A. Worcester of Southwest Harbor. This photo was taken at the Grand March at the Boothbay Regional Highschool. She is seen here with Robert Arthur Dyer, who was at one time the principal of the Pemetic Highschool.
Back Row - Left to Right: Adelaide (Newcomb) Cairns (1921-2005) - Home Economics Teacher - Mrs. Gordon Freeland Cairns Marian (Waterman) Meyer, Mrs. John Austin Meyer (1921-) - Teacher Vivian A. (Newman) Gonzales (1927-) - Mrs. Paul A. Gonzales Thelma (Lawson) Harper (1928-1995) - Mrs. James W. Harper Sr. Eva Mae (Staples) Wheaton (1928-) - Mrs. Burton E. Wheaton Gladys E. (Dornfeld) Sawyer (1927-) - Mrs. Lawrence B. Sawyer Juanita Foss (Hodgdon) Stanley (1927-) - Mrs. Perley Lyman Stanley Rosemarie (Kelley) Matthews (1928-before 2007) - Mrs. Cliff Matthews Elaine B. (Pettigrove) Lawson (1929-) - Mrs. Edwin W. Lawson Jr. Arlene (Dolliver) Spurling (1928-) - Mrs. Stephen Stanley Spurling Gaynell F. (Pomroy) Sumner (1927-1997) - Mrs. Earl J. Sumner Front Row - Left to Right: Philip A. Moore (1927-2003) Stanwood Neal Hamblen (1926-1987) Raymond Eugene Robbins Jr. (1928-) Winfield Perry Murphy (1927-2009) Lester H. Radcliffe Jr. (1926-2008) David B. Benson (1928-)
Description: Back Row - Left to Right: Adelaide (Newcomb) Cairns (1921-2005) - Home Economics Teacher - Mrs. Gordon Freeland Cairns Marian (Waterman) Meyer, Mrs. John Austin Meyer (1921-) - Teacher Vivian A. (Newman) Gonzales (1927-) - Mrs. Paul A. Gonzales Thelma (Lawson) Harper (1928-1995) - Mrs. James W. Harper Sr. Eva Mae (Staples) Wheaton (1928-) - Mrs. Burton E. Wheaton Gladys E. (Dornfeld) Sawyer (1927-) - Mrs. Lawrence B. Sawyer Juanita Foss (Hodgdon) Stanley (1927-) - Mrs. Perley Lyman Stanley Rosemarie (Kelley) Matthews (1928-before 2007) - Mrs. Cliff Matthews Elaine B. (Pettigrove) Lawson (1929-) - Mrs. Edwin W. Lawson Jr. Arlene (Dolliver) Spurling (1928-) - Mrs. Stephen Stanley Spurling Gaynell F. (Pomroy) Sumner (1927-1997) - Mrs. Earl J. Sumner Front Row - Left to Right: Philip A. Moore (1927-2003) Stanwood Neal Hamblen (1926-1987) Raymond Eugene Robbins Jr. (1928-) Winfield Perry Murphy (1927-2009) Lester H. Radcliffe Jr. (1926-2008) David B. Benson (1928-) [show more]
Robert A. Dyer (1942-1992) and Amanda E. Crafts, later Mrs. Duncan Bowen, are shown dancing at her high school graduation in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Robert Dyer was Amanda's stepfather.
Description: Robert A. Dyer (1942-1992) and Amanda E. Crafts, later Mrs. Duncan Bowen, are shown dancing at her high school graduation in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Robert Dyer was Amanda's stepfather.
A collection of photographs taken at the 1984 Claremont Hotel 100th Anniversary Party. Individuals in these photographs have not yet been identified, please contact archivists at the SWHPL if you have information regarding people in these photographs.
The Claremont Hotel Collection courtesy of the McCue Family
Description: A collection of photographs taken at the 1984 Claremont Hotel 100th Anniversary Party. Individuals in these photographs have not yet been identified, please contact archivists at the SWHPL if you have information regarding people in these photographs.
In this interview Gladys Butler describes her family history, connections to other families in Southwest Harbor, her father's involvement in helping the Dole company set up canning in Hawaii where Gladys and all her siblings were born, the journey to Mount Desert Island from Hawaii, and of meeting her husband, Farnham Butler, and starting a family.
Description: In this interview Gladys Butler describes her family history, connections to other families in Southwest Harbor, her father's involvement in helping the Dole company set up canning in Hawaii where Gladys and all her siblings were born, the journey to Mount Desert Island from Hawaii, and of meeting her husband, Farnham Butler, and starting a family.
Ralph Warren Stanley and Richard Stanley load rock ballast into the Endeavor, a Friendship sloop Ralph built between 1979-1980. The beach rocks that were originally loaded into the open cockpit have since been replaced with lead.
Description: Ralph Warren Stanley and Richard Stanley load rock ballast into the Endeavor, a Friendship sloop Ralph built between 1979-1980. The beach rocks that were originally loaded into the open cockpit have since been replaced with lead.