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You searched for: Date: 1940sSubject: People
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date Place Address Description
3458Well-Known Women Novelists Build Own Home Of CCC Camp Lumber
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Jarvis - Eleanor Jarvis Newman (1909-2006)
  • Newman - Mrs. Laurence S. Newman
  • Bangor Daily News
  • 1947-12-09
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
12826J.I. Simmons Ends Life in Home in Montclair
  • Publication, Clipping
  • People
  • 1940-02-01
  • Montclair NJ
Article about John Irving Simmons ending his life following the death of his wife, Elizabeth Febiger Simmons
Description:
Article about John Irving Simmons ending his life following the death of his wife, Elizabeth Febiger Simmons
12570United States Stamp - Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) - Issued March 28, 1940
  • Object, Stamp, Postage Stamp
  • People
  • Arlt - Carl Theodore Arlt (1883-1958)
  • Roach - William A. Roach (1888-1969)
  • Roberts - Gilroy Roberts (1905-1992)
  • Vail - James T. Vail (1907-)
  • Wells - William B. Wells (1874-1942)
  • United States Postal Service
  • 1940
  • Boston MA area, Cambridge
Postage Stamp Title: Charles W. Eliot Scott Cat. Number: 871 Subject: Eliot – Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) Design: William A. Roach (1888-1969) Engravers - Lettering: William B. Wells (1874-1942) and James T. Vail (1907-) Engraver – Portrait: Roberts - Gilroy Roberts (1905-1992) Engraver – Frame: Arlt - Carl Theodore Arlt (1883-1958) Media: Rotary Press Printer: United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing Color: Bright red violet Size: 1” x 1.0625” Country: United States Postage Value: 3 cents Issue Series: Famous American Educators Issue Origin: American educators Issue Date: March 28, 1940 Issue Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts Issue Size: 51,636,270 The third group in the Famous Americans Series honors five American educators — Horace Mann, Mark Hopkins, Charles W. Eliot, Frances E. Willard, and Booker T. Washington. The issues appeared between March 14 and April 7, 1940. The five stamps were issued in the birth order of their honorees. The “Lamp of Knowledge” shown on the stamp was the symbol designated by the United States Postal Service to indicate an educator.
Description:
Postage Stamp Title: Charles W. Eliot Scott Cat. Number: 871 Subject: Eliot – Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) Design: William A. Roach (1888-1969) Engravers - Lettering: William B. Wells (1874-1942) and James T. Vail (1907-) Engraver – Portrait: Roberts - Gilroy Roberts (1905-1992) Engraver – Frame: Arlt - Carl Theodore Arlt (1883-1958) Media: Rotary Press Printer: United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing Color: Bright red violet Size: 1” x 1.0625” Country: United States Postage Value: 3 cents Issue Series: Famous American Educators Issue Origin: American educators Issue Date: March 28, 1940 Issue Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts Issue Size: 51,636,270 The third group in the Famous Americans Series honors five American educators — Horace Mann, Mark Hopkins, Charles W. Eliot, Frances E. Willard, and Booker T. Washington. The issues appeared between March 14 and April 7, 1940. The five stamps were issued in the birth order of their honorees. The “Lamp of Knowledge” shown on the stamp was the symbol designated by the United States Postal Service to indicate an educator. [show more]
10053Isaac Ike F. Stanley in his Antique Shop
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Dunbar
  • Bangor Daily News
  • 1948-03-17
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
11517Neil Stanley Peterson and Norman Kimball Wedge
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • 1945 c.
Neil Stanley "Doc" Peterson (1917-1979) Norman Kimball Wedge (1919-1995)
Description:
Neil Stanley "Doc" Peterson (1917-1979) Norman Kimball Wedge (1919-1995)
11522Sheila Mavis Spurling on Cranberry Island
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • 1941 c.
  • Cranberry Isles
11838Fred Alberton "Bert" Birlem (1876-1950)
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • 1941-08
12636Grace L. Lunt Clement, Mrs. Chester Eben Clement
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Loring Studios Inc.
  • 1948
  • Southwest Harbor
9391Harold Newman, Byron Lewis, and Howard Ernest Robinson
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • 1942 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
Left to Right: Harold Newman Robinson (1909-1987) Byron Lewis Robinson (1899-1971) Howard Ernest Robinson (1896-1972) Harold, Byron and Howard were the sons of Lewis Kennison and Agnes M. (Newman) Robinson of Southwest Harbor, Maine.
Description:
Left to Right: Harold Newman Robinson (1909-1987) Byron Lewis Robinson (1899-1971) Howard Ernest Robinson (1896-1972) Harold, Byron and Howard were the sons of Lewis Kennison and Agnes M. (Newman) Robinson of Southwest Harbor, Maine.
9549Lewis Kennison Robinson and Son Byron Lewis Robinson
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • 1946 c.
1005420th New England Regional Girl Scout Meeting
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Akeroyd - Bangor Daily News
  • 1948-10-11
  • Swampscott MA
Eleanor Jarvis Newman is shown in the center and was a delegate to the New England Regional Girl Scout Meeting
Description:
Eleanor Jarvis Newman is shown in the center and was a delegate to the New England Regional Girl Scout Meeting
10055Eastern Maine Class M Basket Ball Championship - Pemetic High School Team and Cheerleaders
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Bangor Daily News
  • 1948-03
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 329 Main Street
10056Fred Eaton Young in his Blacksmith Shop, Main Street, Southwest Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Bangor Daily News
  • 1948-05-02
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 397 Main Street
The shop, now gone, was located at 397 Main Street, on the north side of the property, Southwest Harbor, Maine.
Description:
The shop, now gone, was located at 397 Main Street, on the north side of the property, Southwest Harbor, Maine.
16173Cora Myrtle (Hamblen) Ward with Grandson Rodney Franklin Ward at Home
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • 1949 c.
16274Art Kellam Building Homewood on Placentia Island
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • 1949 c.
  • Frenchboro, Placentia Island
Caption on back: “Main timbers fastened with ½” machine bolts here resting from boring holes for same”
Description:
Caption on back: “Main timbers fastened with ½” machine bolts here resting from boring holes for same”
16279The Kellam's First Landing at Placentia Island with Cliff Rich and the BLB
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Vessels, Boat
  • 1949-06-08
  • Frenchboro, Placentia Island
Caption reads: “June 8, 1949. First landing. Cliff Rich at R.”
Description:
Caption reads: “June 8, 1949. First landing. Cliff Rich at R.”
16284Nan Kellam in a Hammock on Placentia Island
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • 1949 c.
  • Frenchboro, Placentia Island
Caption reads: "Refuge from the roundhouse ledge"
Description:
Caption reads: "Refuge from the roundhouse ledge"
16372Marjorie Ellen (Page) Copeland
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • 1947
Marjorie was 17 in this photograph, which she had given out as Christmas presents to friends and family, including to her first cousin Arthur Millis Kellam.
Description:
Marjorie was 17 in this photograph, which she had given out as Christmas presents to friends and family, including to her first cousin Arthur Millis Kellam.
16373Elizabeth "Betsy" Winstead (Garrison) Barton
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Lorey - Gustave Lorey
  • 1944 c.
Betsy was a first cousin to Arthur Millis Kellam. This photograph was a senior picture taken c. 1944.
Description:
Betsy was a first cousin to Arthur Millis Kellam. This photograph was a senior picture taken c. 1944.
16377Art and his wife Leone
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • 1940 c.
16378Possibly Arthur Garfield Kellam
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • 1940 c.
Archivists have identified this photograph as possibly the father of Arthur Millis Kellam. Viewers more informed than Southwest Harbor Public Library archivists are invited to correct mistakes about this photograph.
Description:
Archivists have identified this photograph as possibly the father of Arthur Millis Kellam. Viewers more informed than Southwest Harbor Public Library archivists are invited to correct mistakes about this photograph.
16383Art Kellam on Placentia Island
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • 1949 c.
  • Frenchboro, Placentia Island
16384Unknown Man at Sawmill on Placentia Island
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • 1949 c.
  • Frenchboro, Placentia Island
16401Nan Kellam in the Spizzler
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • 1940 c.
The Spizzler was Art and Nan Kellam's 1936 Ford Coupe.
Description:
The Spizzler was Art and Nan Kellam's 1936 Ford Coupe.
16402Leone Marie (Wemmert) Kellam
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • 1940 c.