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| 11217 | William Patch Dickey at W.P. Dickey & Co., Bangor, Maine |
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| William Patch Dickey is standing next to the desk in his prodigiously stocked hardware store on Broad Street in Bangor, Maine. Among the items shown for sale are: H & B pocket knives made by William L. Humason, Sr., who founded the Humason & Beckley Manufacturing Company of New Britain, Connecticut, in 1853. The company produced fine pocket cutlery, corkscrews and other hardware. Kerosene lamps of every description – hanging from the ceiling Chamois – hanging from the ceiling Many varieties of thermometers hanging in a row from the ceiling Shotguns and other knives Feather dusters String and a cast iron string holder A model of the Eiffel tower A small, portable steam engine, possibly a toy Chain and twine A beautiful wind-up alarm clock with a bell on top Cow bells Pratt & Lambert’s “Faultless Varnishes" Boxes of sleigh bells and shaft bells Glass. Mr. Dickey’s female clerk, carefully dressed in an apron with her hair put up in a bun, is standing at the desk. Items seen on the desk are: W.P. Dickey & Co. invoices neatly held by a painted tin box stenciled “Bill-Heads" Glass Ink pots Standard Liquid Glue A leather-bound ledger Steel-nibbed pens Rubber stamps | 
Description: William Patch Dickey is standing next to the desk in his prodigiously stocked hardware store on Broad Street in Bangor, Maine. Among the items shown for sale are: H & B pocket knives made by William L. Humason, Sr., who founded the Humason & Beckley Manufacturing Company of New Britain, Connecticut, in 1853. The company produced fine pocket cutlery, corkscrews and other hardware. Kerosene lamps of every description – hanging from the ceiling Chamois – hanging from the ceiling Many varieties of thermometers hanging in a row from the ceiling Shotguns and other knives Feather dusters String and a cast iron string holder A model of the Eiffel tower A small, portable steam engine, possibly a toy Chain and twine A beautiful wind-up alarm clock with a bell on top Cow bells Pratt & Lambert’s “Faultless Varnishes" Boxes of sleigh bells and shaft bells Glass. Mr. Dickey’s female clerk, carefully dressed in an apron with her hair put up in a bun, is standing at the desk. Items seen on the desk are: W.P. Dickey & Co. invoices neatly held by a painted tin box stenciled “Bill-Heads" Glass Ink pots Standard Liquid Glue A leather-bound ledger Steel-nibbed pens Rubber stamps [show more] | ||||
| 11853 | Haying on Great Cranberry Island |
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| Left to Right: "Kit" - the horse Charles Samuel Spurling (1880-1911) Viola Florence Joy (1887-1911) Bernice Spurling (1904-1929) Clarence Freeman Joy (1893-1988) In the wagon (tentative identification): Walter F. Joy (1891-1974) Clyde E. Spurling (1910-1934) | 
Description: Left to Right: "Kit" - the horse Charles Samuel Spurling (1880-1911) Viola Florence Joy (1887-1911) Bernice Spurling (1904-1929) Clarence Freeman Joy (1893-1988) In the wagon (tentative identification): Walter F. Joy (1891-1974) Clyde E. Spurling (1910-1934) | ||||
| 11855 | Haying on Great Cranberry Island |
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| Left to Right: Clarence Freeman Joy (1893-1988) Charles Samuel Spurling (1880-1911) Bernice Spurling (1904-1929) - died of TB in Arizona In the wagon (tentative identification): Walter F. Joy (1891-1974) Clyde E. Spurling (1910-1934) | 
Description: Left to Right: Clarence Freeman Joy (1893-1988) Charles Samuel Spurling (1880-1911) Bernice Spurling (1904-1929) - died of TB in Arizona In the wagon (tentative identification): Walter F. Joy (1891-1974) Clyde E. Spurling (1910-1934) | ||||
| 7622 | Men at Work at Hall Quarry |
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| 7755 | William Lukens Elkins Sinkler and Captain Francis Milton Spurling with Tuna at Beal's Fish Wharf |
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| From Left to Right: Richard K. Sinkler (1944-2007) - son of William Lukens Elkins Sinkler - or possibly Richard's brother, William L. Sinkler, Jr. - Richard would have been about 8 years old when this photograph was taken. People more informed than we may help us to positively identify this child. William Lukens Elkins Sinkler (1919-) Francis Milton Spurling (1896-1958) - sailed for the Sinkler family. The fish was a circa 500 lb. tuna (formerly called "Horse Mackerel" in these waters) - possibly the one described as being harpooned in “Leaves Folded Down” See: “Leaves Folded Down” by Louise E. [Elkins] Sinkler, privately published in a limited edition of 300 copies and a second edition of 500 copies of which the Southwest Harbor Public Library copy is number 228, Haverford House, Wayne, Pa., 1971, pages 109-110. | 
Description: From Left to Right: Richard K. Sinkler (1944-2007) - son of William Lukens Elkins Sinkler - or possibly Richard's brother, William L. Sinkler, Jr. - Richard would have been about 8 years old when this photograph was taken. People more informed than we may help us to positively identify this child. William Lukens Elkins Sinkler (1919-) Francis Milton Spurling (1896-1958) - sailed for the Sinkler family. The fish was a circa 500 lb. tuna (formerly called "Horse Mackerel" in these waters) - possibly the one described as being harpooned in “Leaves Folded Down” See: “Leaves Folded Down” by Louise E. [Elkins] Sinkler, privately published in a limited edition of 300 copies and a second edition of 500 copies of which the Southwest Harbor Public Library copy is number 228, Haverford House, Wayne, Pa., 1971, pages 109-110. [show more] | |
| 7822 | Robert Farnsworth Rich and Crew Lengthening a Boat at Southwest Harbor Boat Corporation |
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| 11164 | Ralph Warren Stanley and Marion Louise (Linscott) Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Warren Stanley and Children |
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| 6109 | Jessie C. Lawton Typing at the Seth W. Norwood Law Office in the First Odd Fellows Building, Southwest Harbor |
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| 6112 | Seth W. Norwood and Unknown Man at Norwood's Law Office, Southwest Harbor, Maine |
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| 11448 | David Brazer Benson at Dave's Dairy Delight, Southwest Harbor, Maine |
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| 11819 | Fred Sidney Mayo at F.S. Mayo Construction in the Herrick Building |
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| 12063 | Fred Sidney Mayo at F.S. Mayo Construction in the Herrick Building |
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| The house on the right with the peaked roof is the Edwin Leon Higgins House at 39 Clark Point Road, Tax Map 6 – Lot 105, built in 1884, Fred Sidney Mayo purchased the property at 45 Clark Point Road from George Harmon (1875-1942) in 1914 for $75. On it Mayo built the carpentry shop shown in the photograph. | 
Description: The house on the right with the peaked roof is the Edwin Leon Higgins House at 39 Clark Point Road, Tax Map 6 – Lot 105, built in 1884, Fred Sidney Mayo purchased the property at 45 Clark Point Road from George Harmon (1875-1942) in 1914 for $75. On it Mayo built the carpentry shop shown in the photograph. | |||
| 5971 | Raymond Percival Somes and his son-in-law, Russell Ernest Ball, in front of Raymond's store in the Second Odd Fellows Building |
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| 5972 | Arthur L. Somes on the Steps of his Store in the First Odd Fellows Building, Southwest Harbor - Before 1922 |
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| 5973 | Arthur L. Somes at the Counter of A.L. Somes & Son in the Second Odd Fellows Building, Southwest Harbor |
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| 6550 | Capt. William Bill Horace Herrick Leading John Whitmore's Fast Speed Horse To Be Shot |
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| Written on the back of the photograph: "Old Horse J. Sargent" One of the trees on the front lawn of the library and the library wall can just be seen over the back of the horse. The building visible beyond the library property is the Freeman J. Lurvey building. | 
Description: Written on the back of the photograph: "Old Horse J. Sargent" One of the trees on the front lawn of the library and the library wall can just be seen over the back of the horse. The building visible beyond the library property is the Freeman J. Lurvey building. | |||
| 6556 | Crew at the Old Factory of the William Underwood Company Lobster Cannery at Steamboat Wharf, Southwest Harbor |
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| In the photograph are: Alvin Lewis Norwood (1878-1956) Eugene "Gene" Hal Reed (1881-1957) John Thomas "Tom" Lawton (1854-1954) Wilder Reed - probably Wilda D. Reed (1886-1953), Mrs. Unknown Gray, Mrs. Leslie Elroy Hamblen and Mrs. Charles A. Gott Estelle "Stella" M. (Norwood) Latty (1876-1953), Mrs. Vernon H. Latty | 
Description: In the photograph are: Alvin Lewis Norwood (1878-1956) Eugene "Gene" Hal Reed (1881-1957) John Thomas "Tom" Lawton (1854-1954) Wilder Reed - probably Wilda D. Reed (1886-1953), Mrs. Unknown Gray, Mrs. Leslie Elroy Hamblen and Mrs. Charles A. Gott Estelle "Stella" M. (Norwood) Latty (1876-1953), Mrs. Vernon H. Latty | ||
| 6944 | Christopher Wendell Lawlor Driving the Ice Wagon |
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| The woman in the wagon was an unknown Irish maid, a friend of Anne Coffey Lawlor. The horse was named "Dick". | 
Description: The woman in the wagon was an unknown Irish maid, a friend of Anne Coffey Lawlor. The horse was named "Dick". | ||
| 6945 | Christopher Wendell Lawlor Driving His Ice Wagon |
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| Left to Right: Unknown man Joseph Christopher Lawlor (1925-2002) Christopher Wendell Lawlor (1893-1956) Chris, like many people of his time, used the chassis or wheels or parts of a worn out Ford Model A automobiles or trucks as the base for his hay and ice wagons. The wagon shown here has Model A. wheels. | 
Description: Left to Right: Unknown man Joseph Christopher Lawlor (1925-2002) Christopher Wendell Lawlor (1893-1956) Chris, like many people of his time, used the chassis or wheels or parts of a worn out Ford Model A automobiles or trucks as the base for his hay and ice wagons. The wagon shown here has Model A. wheels. | |||
| 6981 | Bill Leading the Horses at Lawlor Ice Business |
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| 7280 | Fred Sidney Mayo on Steps of Mayo's Ice Cream Parlor |
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| Fred Mayo holding a wooden ice cream bucket. The building at the far right is the James A. Freeman House (the Inn at Southwest Harbor as of 2016). | 
Description: Fred Mayo holding a wooden ice cream bucket. The building at the far right is the James A. Freeman House (the Inn at Southwest Harbor as of 2016). | |||
| 7331 | Capt. William Bill Horace Herrick Leading John Whitmore's Fast Speed Horse To Be Shot |
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| 7692 | Edwin L. Higgins at his Blacksmith Shop with Simeon Holden Mayo |
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| 8919 | Lucy Ella Lawler Whitmore Feeding Chickens |
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| 8949 | William Holden Whitmore Haying at the Whitmore Farm |
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