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| 13648 | The Resurrection of the Sloop Endeavor |
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| The Friendship sloop Endeavor sunk off Rockland Harbor on July 24, 2001 while racing in the three-day Friendship Sloop Days Annual Homecoming. Divers searched for the wreck for a month until she was found 70 feet down on the bottom of the harbor by using sidescan SONAR on August 18th a short distance from where she went down. Efforts to raise “Endeavor” were unsuccessful until Southwest Harbor captain Douglas E. Beal Jr. (1952-), aboard his “Salvage III” brought her up on Friday, August 24 and brought her back home. This sequential set of photos shows the process of Endeavor being lifted out of the water by Salvage III and brought back to Southwest Harbor for inspection and repair. The photos also show the damage to the boat after a month under water. | 
Description: The Friendship sloop Endeavor sunk off Rockland Harbor on July 24, 2001 while racing in the three-day Friendship Sloop Days Annual Homecoming. Divers searched for the wreck for a month until she was found 70 feet down on the bottom of the harbor by using sidescan SONAR on August 18th a short distance from where she went down. Efforts to raise “Endeavor” were unsuccessful until Southwest Harbor captain Douglas E. Beal Jr. (1952-), aboard his “Salvage III” brought her up on Friday, August 24 and brought her back home. This sequential set of photos shows the process of Endeavor being lifted out of the water by Salvage III and brought back to Southwest Harbor for inspection and repair. The photos also show the damage to the boat after a month under water. [show more] | |||
| 13690 | Hurricane Edna - 1954 |
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| 13693 | Way Back - Gay Nineties Balls |
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| The Way Back Balls were held between 1948 and 1957, and possibly before. SWHPL #14597 shows a ticket to the Way Bak Ball in 1928 - note the different spelling. The twenty-five Sou'Westers held a Way Back (gay nineties) ball in the spring of each year during the 1950's at the VIA (Village Improvement Association) hall in Manset (the Thibodeau home in 2006). Miles Grindle talks about Wayback Balls in his recount of growing up in Northeast Harbor in the 1930's: “’Wayback Balls’ were held, when everyone dressed in old fashioned clothes, tux and top hats, long dresses, or overalls with plaid shirts. These dances were by invitation only, restricted to voting age, by a member of chartered ‘Waybackers’. The main snack, provided during intermission, was dry fish. Probably most people reading this journal have not experienced the joy of occasionally eating a piece of dry fish. The local fishermen would catch small codfish, and let the wind dry them on their boats, then strip the fish off the skin, and put them in jars. Alcohol was not allowed on the premises, but those who indulged kept their bottles in their cars.” - “The Local Boy: Growing up in Northeast Harbor, Maine in the 1930’s” by Miles Grindle, p. 29 – n.d. [2006] – Privately published – in the collection of the Southwest Harbor Public Library. | 
Description: The Way Back Balls were held between 1948 and 1957, and possibly before. SWHPL #14597 shows a ticket to the Way Bak Ball in 1928 - note the different spelling. The twenty-five Sou'Westers held a Way Back (gay nineties) ball in the spring of each year during the 1950's at the VIA (Village Improvement Association) hall in Manset (the Thibodeau home in 2006). Miles Grindle talks about Wayback Balls in his recount of growing up in Northeast Harbor in the 1930's: “’Wayback Balls’ were held, when everyone dressed in old fashioned clothes, tux and top hats, long dresses, or overalls with plaid shirts. These dances were by invitation only, restricted to voting age, by a member of chartered ‘Waybackers’. The main snack, provided during intermission, was dry fish. Probably most people reading this journal have not experienced the joy of occasionally eating a piece of dry fish. The local fishermen would catch small codfish, and let the wind dry them on their boats, then strip the fish off the skin, and put them in jars. Alcohol was not allowed on the premises, but those who indulged kept their bottles in their cars.” - “The Local Boy: Growing up in Northeast Harbor, Maine in the 1930’s” by Miles Grindle, p. 29 – n.d. [2006] – Privately published – in the collection of the Southwest Harbor Public Library. [show more] | |||
| 13707 | WWII War Bond Drive |
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| 13839 | Henry Lathrop Rand's European Trip in 1896 |
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| Photographer Henry L. Rand and his cousin Julius Ross Wakefield traveled to Europe together in the summer and fall of 1896. Henry, as usual, documented the trip with a map and 87 photographs, found principally in Volume 10 of the Henry L. Rand Collection. The photographs are numbered in their titles in the order in which they appear in Rand's album. Henry drew the Continental Route of the trip, as evidenced by his distinctive handwriting, and then photographed the map and pasted it into Volume 10 as his number 1143. He probably copied the map from a printed one and added the longitude and latitude lines that can faintly be seen in the photograph. Henry and Julius took the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II to Naples, Italy and then proceeded by water to Genoa. From there they went to Milan and took a side trip to Verona and Venice, returning to Milan. From Milan they went to Lake Como, Italy staying at the Grand Hotel Bellagio and on to Lake Lugano at the border between Italy and Switzerland, to Brieg by way of Simplon and over the Rhone Glacier to Lake Lucerne, Switzerland. They parted at Lucerne as can be seen from Henry’s tiny arrows and initials on the route from there. Julius went to Zurich, Lake Constance, and to Munich, Nuremberg and Frankfort, Germany to meet Henry in the old city of Mainz, Germany. Henry went from Lucerne to Basel, Switzerland and up the Rhine River to Heidelberg to meet Julius in Mainz. They continued up the Rhine together to Cologne. Julius headed through Belgium toward Paris from Cologne, meeting Henry over the border in France. Henry went from Cologne to Amsterdam, Holland to Haarlem and Katwyn on the North Sea and then down to the Hague by way of Leyden. He then went inland to Rotterdam and Brussels on his way to their rendezvous in France where they both continued to Paris. Henry at least then visited and photographed Salisbury, England before returning home. Henry Lathrop Rand arrived in New York aboard "Columbia" on August 21, 1896 from Southampton, England. | 
Description: Photographer Henry L. Rand and his cousin Julius Ross Wakefield traveled to Europe together in the summer and fall of 1896. Henry, as usual, documented the trip with a map and 87 photographs, found principally in Volume 10 of the Henry L. Rand Collection. The photographs are numbered in their titles in the order in which they appear in Rand's album. Henry drew the Continental Route of the trip, as evidenced by his distinctive handwriting, and then photographed the map and pasted it into Volume 10 as his number 1143. He probably copied the map from a printed one and added the longitude and latitude lines that can faintly be seen in the photograph. Henry and Julius took the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II to Naples, Italy and then proceeded by water to Genoa. From there they went to Milan and took a side trip to Verona and Venice, returning to Milan. From Milan they went to Lake Como, Italy staying at the Grand Hotel Bellagio and on to Lake Lugano at the border between Italy and Switzerland, to Brieg by way of Simplon and over the Rhone Glacier to Lake Lucerne, Switzerland. They parted at Lucerne as can be seen from Henry’s tiny arrows and initials on the route from there. Julius went to Zurich, Lake Constance, and to Munich, Nuremberg and Frankfort, Germany to meet Henry in the old city of Mainz, Germany. Henry went from Lucerne to Basel, Switzerland and up the Rhine River to Heidelberg to meet Julius in Mainz. They continued up the Rhine together to Cologne. Julius headed through Belgium toward Paris from Cologne, meeting Henry over the border in France. Henry went from Cologne to Amsterdam, Holland to Haarlem and Katwyn on the North Sea and then down to the Hague by way of Leyden. He then went inland to Rotterdam and Brussels on his way to their rendezvous in France where they both continued to Paris. Henry at least then visited and photographed Salisbury, England before returning home. Henry Lathrop Rand arrived in New York aboard "Columbia" on August 21, 1896 from Southampton, England. [show more] | |||||
| 14636 | 1955 Southwest Harbor Lemont Building Fire |
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| 14685 | Southwest Harbor Then & Now 2015 Exhibit |
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| The July 2015 Show at the Southwest Harbor Public Library presented a visual stroll down Main Street and Clark Point Road composed of photographs from the Digital Archive - historical photographs contrasted with new images of the same places as they are today. The 100 photographs combine to tell part of the history of the town. Each building or location in the show is illustrated by at least one historic photograph and the closest possible replica of the same location in 2015. The town has changed in 127 years. | 
Description: The July 2015 Show at the Southwest Harbor Public Library presented a visual stroll down Main Street and Clark Point Road composed of photographs from the Digital Archive - historical photographs contrasted with new images of the same places as they are today. The 100 photographs combine to tell part of the history of the town. Each building or location in the show is illustrated by at least one historic photograph and the closest possible replica of the same location in 2015. The town has changed in 127 years. [show more] | ||||
| 14688 | 1922 Southwest Harbor Fire |
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| Main Street in Southwest Harbor was devastated by fire on March 27, 1922. Newspaper accounts of the fire reported estimated losses of $150,000 and that the Southwest Harbor Volunteer Fire Company, “did remarkable work, considering the limited equipment with which they had to work.” Bar Harbor and Northeast Harbor firemen also responded, but the roads were considerably different from today and it took the Bar Harbor department, “four hours over difficult spring roads.” Apparently their “combination truck…was making some 40 miles an hour near Burns’ Corner when it was stuck in a bad hole in the muddy road” and “between Somesville and Southwest they were mired time after time and horses that were sent to assist them…had to drag the big steamer” [weighing almost six tons] out of the holes in the road. In spite of these delays the truck arrived finally…in about three hours, too late to do any good. “Had the roads been in anything like fair condition it is the unanimous opinion that the truck from Bar Harbor would have been able to save the Odd Fellows building.” | 
Description: Main Street in Southwest Harbor was devastated by fire on March 27, 1922. Newspaper accounts of the fire reported estimated losses of $150,000 and that the Southwest Harbor Volunteer Fire Company, “did remarkable work, considering the limited equipment with which they had to work.” Bar Harbor and Northeast Harbor firemen also responded, but the roads were considerably different from today and it took the Bar Harbor department, “four hours over difficult spring roads.” Apparently their “combination truck…was making some 40 miles an hour near Burns’ Corner when it was stuck in a bad hole in the muddy road” and “between Somesville and Southwest they were mired time after time and horses that were sent to assist them…had to drag the big steamer” [weighing almost six tons] out of the holes in the road. In spite of these delays the truck arrived finally…in about three hours, too late to do any good. “Had the roads been in anything like fair condition it is the unanimous opinion that the truck from Bar Harbor would have been able to save the Odd Fellows building.” [show more] | ||||
| 14974 | Southwest Harbor Flamingo Festival |
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| The annual Harbor House Flamingo Festival is whimsical, lighthearted and decidedly pink, this fun filled family festival truly has something for everyone. The four day festival celebrates the plastic flamingo lawn ornament and features flocks of residents and visitors decked out in pink. The event kicks off with a lobster dinner on Friday evening. Saturday starts with a pancake breakfast prepared by volunteers from the U.S. Coast Guard followed by the Flamingo Parade down Main Street. Other activities include a craft fair and kids carnival, open house at the Coast Guard Station, and a 4 mile fun run. | 
Description: The annual Harbor House Flamingo Festival is whimsical, lighthearted and decidedly pink, this fun filled family festival truly has something for everyone. The four day festival celebrates the plastic flamingo lawn ornament and features flocks of residents and visitors decked out in pink. The event kicks off with a lobster dinner on Friday evening. Saturday starts with a pancake breakfast prepared by volunteers from the U.S. Coast Guard followed by the Flamingo Parade down Main Street. Other activities include a craft fair and kids carnival, open house at the Coast Guard Station, and a 4 mile fun run. [show more] | ||||
| 15570 | 400th Anniversary of MDI's First European Settlement |
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| 11999 | Ralph Warren Stanley and Marion Louise (Linscott) Stanley on their Wedding Day |
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| 12084 | Scott Allen Worcester Winning the Southwest Harbor Public Library Auction |
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| "Landing The Prize… Scott Worcester of Southwest Harbor receives congratulations from Sallie Hinckley of the Southwest Harbor [Public] Library after winning an acre of land in the recent fund-raising effort of the library and the Harbor House. The 20-year old business administration student at University of Maine at Orono says he plans to hang onto the land, which was donated by Conley Worcester of Southwest Harbor. Margo Stanley, at left, holds the copy of Thornton’s History of Somesville and Southwest Harbor that was won by the Southwest Harbor branch of the First National Bank of Bar Harbor. The second prize, a free, round-trip on Bar Harbor Airlines was won by Vaughn Marshall of Machias. The raffle raised $9,400 to be divided between the Harbor House and the library." – The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, September 8, 1983, Sec. 1, p. 13. | 
Description: "Landing The Prize… Scott Worcester of Southwest Harbor receives congratulations from Sallie Hinckley of the Southwest Harbor [Public] Library after winning an acre of land in the recent fund-raising effort of the library and the Harbor House. The 20-year old business administration student at University of Maine at Orono says he plans to hang onto the land, which was donated by Conley Worcester of Southwest Harbor. Margo Stanley, at left, holds the copy of Thornton’s History of Somesville and Southwest Harbor that was won by the Southwest Harbor branch of the First National Bank of Bar Harbor. The second prize, a free, round-trip on Bar Harbor Airlines was won by Vaughn Marshall of Machias. The raffle raised $9,400 to be divided between the Harbor House and the library." – The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, September 8, 1983, Sec. 1, p. 13. [show more] | ||
| 10697 | Invitation to a Conundrum Social for the Benefit of the Seal Cove Cemetery Fence Fund |
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| The ladies probably served: Corn Chowder - "Husked Common Affliction, Lacteal Fluid" Cake - "You can't eat it and have it too." Cherry Pie - "Berries from a Tree" Apple Pie - "Eve's Temptation" Coffee - "Milkman's Friend" | 
Description: The ladies probably served: Corn Chowder - "Husked Common Affliction, Lacteal Fluid" Cake - "You can't eat it and have it too." Cherry Pie - "Berries from a Tree" Apple Pie - "Eve's Temptation" Coffee - "Milkman's Friend" | |||
| 12692 | The Mayflower and Mount Desert Island |
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| Ralph Stanley has researched the people he knew on Mount Desert Island and their common ancestors who were Mayflower passengers and their descendents. | 
Description: Ralph Stanley has researched the people he knew on Mount Desert Island and their common ancestors who were Mayflower passengers and their descendents. | |||
| 5504 | 20th Anniversary of the Southwest Harbor Town Band at Dr. R.J. Lemont's Drug Store |
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| The building was Dr. Lemont's office and store on the south side of Clark Point Road leaving Main Street. The building, then Cuz's Café, burned on January 30, 1955. It is the site of the Red Sky Restaurant in 2008. The Southwest Harbor band was formed in 1892. This 1912 photograph shows these members: Front Row - left to right: Ralph Judson Robinson (1870-1923) Everton Livingston Gott (1875-1954) - brother of Clyde Smith Gott Frank L. Gilley (1880-1920) Henry Loren Gray (1881-1947) Simeon J. Marshall (1874-1962) Earl Gott (1889-1950) Franze Earl "Wimpy" Walls (1890-1964) Edwin "Ed" George Lord (1878-1955) Note: The name of one person in the front row is missing. Archivists hope a viewer may know who it is and where he is standing. Middle - left to right: H. Chase Bickford (1887-1960) Fred A. Walls (1888-1949) James Crockett (1864-1941) Artemus Jean Haines Richardson (1893-1958) Edward Harold Bennett (1890-1965) - later a band leader, as was his son, Charlie Bennett (1922-1984) (not in photograph) Saunders Ward Newman (1852-1949) Fred Sydney Mayo (1877-1949) - behind drum Back Row - left to right: Clyde Smith Gott (1893-) - brother of Everton Livingston Gott Clifton Robie Foss (1890-1937) Raymond C. Whitmore (1889-1971) Standing on the porch - left to right: The girl to the left of Dr. Lemont, leaning on the rail, is Elsie Phillips - later Mrs. Roscoe C. Marshall (1905-1988) Dr. Robert James Lemont (1842-1926) Elizabeth Lawler (1903-1975) Bertha Robinson - later Mrs. Chester Warren Stanley (1901-1968) | 
Description: The building was Dr. Lemont's office and store on the south side of Clark Point Road leaving Main Street. The building, then Cuz's Café, burned on January 30, 1955. It is the site of the Red Sky Restaurant in 2008. The Southwest Harbor band was formed in 1892. This 1912 photograph shows these members: Front Row - left to right: Ralph Judson Robinson (1870-1923) Everton Livingston Gott (1875-1954) - brother of Clyde Smith Gott Frank L. Gilley (1880-1920) Henry Loren Gray (1881-1947) Simeon J. Marshall (1874-1962) Earl Gott (1889-1950) Franze Earl "Wimpy" Walls (1890-1964) Edwin "Ed" George Lord (1878-1955) Note: The name of one person in the front row is missing. Archivists hope a viewer may know who it is and where he is standing. Middle - left to right: H. Chase Bickford (1887-1960) Fred A. Walls (1888-1949) James Crockett (1864-1941) Artemus Jean Haines Richardson (1893-1958) Edward Harold Bennett (1890-1965) - later a band leader, as was his son, Charlie Bennett (1922-1984) (not in photograph) Saunders Ward Newman (1852-1949) Fred Sydney Mayo (1877-1949) - behind drum Back Row - left to right: Clyde Smith Gott (1893-) - brother of Everton Livingston Gott Clifton Robie Foss (1890-1937) Raymond C. Whitmore (1889-1971) Standing on the porch - left to right: The girl to the left of Dr. Lemont, leaning on the rail, is Elsie Phillips - later Mrs. Roscoe C. Marshall (1905-1988) Dr. Robert James Lemont (1842-1926) Elizabeth Lawler (1903-1975) Bertha Robinson - later Mrs. Chester Warren Stanley (1901-1968) [show more] | |||
| 5507 | The Sou'Westers Way Back Ball - 1954 |
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| Left to right: Fannie S. (Savage) Bennett - Mrs. Edward Harry Bennett (1894-1964) Edward Harold "Harry" Bennett (1890-1965) Myra "Midie" (Gilley) Stanley - Mrs. Burnham Manchester Stanley (1909-2001) Burnham "Ham" Manchester Stanley (1903-1970) |
Description: Left to right: Fannie S. (Savage) Bennett - Mrs. Edward Harry Bennett (1894-1964) Edward Harold "Harry" Bennett (1890-1965) Myra "Midie" (Gilley) Stanley - Mrs. Burnham Manchester Stanley (1909-2001) Burnham "Ham" Manchester Stanley (1903-1970) | ||
| 5508 | The Sou'Westers Way Back Ball - 1954 |
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| Mildred S. (Savage) Whitmore - Mrs. Raymond C. Whitmore (1892-1987) Raymond C. Whitmore (1889-1971) | 
Description: Mildred S. (Savage) Whitmore - Mrs. Raymond C. Whitmore (1892-1987) Raymond C. Whitmore (1889-1971) | ||
| 5516 | The Sou'Westers Way Back Ball - 1954 |
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| 5517 | The Sou'Westers Way Back Ball - 1954 |
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| 5518 | The Sou'Westers Way Back Ball - 1954 |
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| Facing lady left of center: Eunice (Palmer) Gilley - Mrs. Philip Frederick Morse Gilley (1897-1987) Couple at right: Eva M. (Thurston) Reed - Mrs. Ralph D. Reed (1919-2006) Ralph D. Reed (1915-1997) | 
Description: Facing lady left of center: Eunice (Palmer) Gilley - Mrs. Philip Frederick Morse Gilley (1897-1987) Couple at right: Eva M. (Thurston) Reed - Mrs. Ralph D. Reed (1919-2006) Ralph D. Reed (1915-1997) | ||
| 5541 | Odd Fellows Building Cellar Hole |
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| The east side of Main Street looking toward the west side of the street. Shows the Southwest Harbor Public Library in the background, just to the left of the scaffolding | 
Description: The east side of Main Street looking toward the west side of the street. Shows the Southwest Harbor Public Library in the background, just to the left of the scaffolding | |||
| 5542 | Odd Fellows Building Cellar Hole |
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| The east side of Main Street looking towards the west side of the street. | 
Description: The east side of Main Street looking towards the west side of the street. | |||
| 5543 | Odd Fellows Building Cellar Hole |
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| The east side of Main Street looking toward the west side of the street. | 
Description: The east side of Main Street looking toward the west side of the street. | |||
| 5544 | Odd Fellows Building Cellar Hole |
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| The east side of Main Street looking toward the west side of the street. Probably shows furnace and sewer pipes | 
Description: The east side of Main Street looking toward the west side of the street. Probably shows furnace and sewer pipes | |||
| 5545 | Odd Fellows Building Space & Old Masonic Hall |
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| Shows the damage to the Masonic Hall |
