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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date Place Address Description
13853Carroll - William Lloyd Carroll (1884-1971)
  • Reference
  • People
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12515Christening Cygnet II for Dr. Bill Swan of Brooksville, Maine
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1939-07-07
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
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14847Ulish - Eunice Elizabeth (Ulish) Fahey (1913-1992)
  • Reference
  • People
Eunice Elizabeth (Ulish) Fahey (1913-1992), the daughter of Charles Casper Ulish and Lucile E. (Tewes) Ulish was born in Monona, Iowa, on March 16, 1913. She married Francis Edward Fahey in 1954 in Maine. Eunice was the executive secretary to Earl L. Green (1913-1995), the directory of Jackson Laboratory in the 1950s and 1960s. Eunice Elizabeth (Ulish) Fahey died on November 21, 1992.
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Eunice Elizabeth (Ulish) Fahey (1913-1992), the daughter of Charles Casper Ulish and Lucile E. (Tewes) Ulish was born in Monona, Iowa, on March 16, 1913. She married Francis Edward Fahey in 1954 in Maine. Eunice was the executive secretary to Earl L. Green (1913-1995), the directory of Jackson Laboratory in the 1950s and 1960s. Eunice Elizabeth (Ulish) Fahey died on November 21, 1992.
3448Mayo - Fred Sidney Mayo (1877-1949)
  • Reference
  • People
F.S. Mayo advertised himself in 1931 as a “Carpenter and Builder, Fine Furniture Repairing, Woodworker and Cabinet Maker – We take the Machine to the Job – Electric Floor Finishing” – Tel. 9, Wesley Ave., Southwest Harbor.
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F.S. Mayo advertised himself in 1931 as a “Carpenter and Builder, Fine Furniture Repairing, Woodworker and Cabinet Maker – We take the Machine to the Job – Electric Floor Finishing” – Tel. 9, Wesley Ave., Southwest Harbor.
15054Dolliver - William H. Dolliver (1838-1923)
  • Reference
  • People
William H. Dolliver was born on June 21, 1838 in Tremont, Maine. William married Mary Alice Gilley (1838-1928), daughter of Justus Woods Gilley and Thankful Cousins (Higgins) Gilley on October 12, 1858. William H. Dolliver died on August 7, 1923 in Southwest Harbor, Maine.
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William H. Dolliver was born on June 21, 1838 in Tremont, Maine. William married Mary Alice Gilley (1838-1928), daughter of Justus Woods Gilley and Thankful Cousins (Higgins) Gilley on October 12, 1858. William H. Dolliver died on August 7, 1923 in Southwest Harbor, Maine.
10594Lieutenant Paul A. Harris, CCC Commander
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Organizations
  • 1933 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
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12585Edwin Leon Higgins House
  • Image, Photograph, Digital Photograph
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Soules - George John Soules
  • 2015-04-05
1st Location: W.L. Carroll’s Cash Market 2nd and Present Location: Edwin Leon Higgins House
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1st Location: W.L. Carroll’s Cash Market 2nd and Present Location: Edwin Leon Higgins House
10406Rebecca Whitmore Lurvey Carroll, Mrs. Jacob William Carroll with Children and Grandchildren
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Carroll - Nellie Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton (1871-1958)
  • Southwest Harbor
Back Row - Left to Right: Unknown boy Unknown man Carroll sister - Rebecca's daughter Front Row - Left to Right: Rebecca (Whitmore) Lurvey Carroll, Mrs. Jacob William Carroll (1844-1916) Gertrude Whitmore Carroll (1873-1917) - Rebecca's daughter Winifred Russell Carroll, later Mrs. Albanus Moulton Pottle (1897-1988) - Rebecca's granddaughter Nell Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton, Mrs. Seth Sprague Thornton (1871-1958) - Rebecca's daughter
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Back Row - Left to Right: Unknown boy Unknown man Carroll sister - Rebecca's daughter Front Row - Left to Right: Rebecca (Whitmore) Lurvey Carroll, Mrs. Jacob William Carroll (1844-1916) Gertrude Whitmore Carroll (1873-1917) - Rebecca's daughter Winifred Russell Carroll, later Mrs. Albanus Moulton Pottle (1897-1988) - Rebecca's granddaughter Nell Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton, Mrs. Seth Sprague Thornton (1871-1958) - Rebecca's daughter [show more]
11569Librarian Lorraine (Allen) Saunders with Staff and Children at the Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • 1991
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 338 Main Street
Back Row – Left to Right: Candyce Donahue (Keown) Emlen, Mrs. Jay Cooke Emlen Rae Chalmers, Mrs. Richard Vander Zanden Elizabeth "Betsy" Jackson, Mrs. John Hewlett Ann Moore Markham (1950-), Mrs. H. Lee Judd Ellen Mercer, Mrs. Victor Mercer Jane E. Tawney (1950-), then Mrs. Samuel A. Shaw Anne Elizabeth (LaHines) Wells, Mrs. Edward Randolph Welles III Loraine (Allen) Saunders, Mrs. Joseph G. Saunders (1933-) Front Row - Left to Right: Emily Henry? Lauren Vander Zanden Alison Vander Zanden Lucy Shaw Hannah Shaw
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Back Row – Left to Right: Candyce Donahue (Keown) Emlen, Mrs. Jay Cooke Emlen Rae Chalmers, Mrs. Richard Vander Zanden Elizabeth "Betsy" Jackson, Mrs. John Hewlett Ann Moore Markham (1950-), Mrs. H. Lee Judd Ellen Mercer, Mrs. Victor Mercer Jane E. Tawney (1950-), then Mrs. Samuel A. Shaw Anne Elizabeth (LaHines) Wells, Mrs. Edward Randolph Welles III Loraine (Allen) Saunders, Mrs. Joseph G. Saunders (1933-) Front Row - Left to Right: Emily Henry? Lauren Vander Zanden Alison Vander Zanden Lucy Shaw Hannah Shaw [show more]
9430View of Southwest Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Harbor
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1910
  • Southwest Harbor
Clark Point from Manset
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Clark Point from Manset
2719City of Ellsworth
  • Map, Base Map
  • Places
  • J.H. Stuart & Co. South Paris, Maine
  • 1894
  • Ellsworth ME
From "Stuart's atlas of the state of Maine. Including statistics and descriptions of its history, educational system, geology, rail roads, natural resources, summer resorts and manufacturing interests, compiled and drawn from official plans and actual surveys."
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From "Stuart's atlas of the state of Maine. Including statistics and descriptions of its history, educational system, geology, rail roads, natural resources, summer resorts and manufacturing interests, compiled and drawn from official plans and actual surveys."
12843J. T. R. Freeman House
Penury Hall
  • Reference
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 374 Main Street
J. T. R. Freeman purchased the discarded schoolhouse about 1865, moved it to his lot, remodeled and added to it as his residence. He built a small building to the north which was used for a long time as a post-office while Mr. Freeman was postmaster. This building is now a part of the Freeman Store. About 1887 he built the present store building and enlarged his business which is now [1938] carried on by his daughter, Mrs. Fred A. Walls.
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J. T. R. Freeman purchased the discarded schoolhouse about 1865, moved it to his lot, remodeled and added to it as his residence. He built a small building to the north which was used for a long time as a post-office while Mr. Freeman was postmaster. This building is now a part of the Freeman Store. About 1887 he built the present store building and enlarged his business which is now [1938] carried on by his daughter, Mrs. Fred A. Walls.
10623Ralph Warren Stanley with The Country Strummers
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Richardson - Charles Richardson
  • 1973 c.
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
Left to Right: Floyd Clayson Farley (1915-1990) - tenor banjo, guitar and mandolin Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) - fiddle and piano - holding his Spurling Violin Ruth J. (Gortner) Grierson, Mrs. Stanley O. Grierson - piano and fiddle Clarence G. Gott (1918-1981) - fiddle - not a regular member of the group Frederick M. Black (1926-1999) - guitar and vocals
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Left to Right: Floyd Clayson Farley (1915-1990) - tenor banjo, guitar and mandolin Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) - fiddle and piano - holding his Spurling Violin Ruth J. (Gortner) Grierson, Mrs. Stanley O. Grierson - piano and fiddle Clarence G. Gott (1918-1981) - fiddle - not a regular member of the group Frederick M. Black (1926-1999) - guitar and vocals
12981Painting of Clark's Wharf by Charles Morris Young
  • Reference
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Young - Charles Morris Young (1869-1964)
The painting. "Clark's Wharf" (Southwest Harbor) was given to the Library by Mr. Young and hangs above the fireplace in the Holmes Reading Room in the Southwest Harbor Public Library. It was painted in October 1923.
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The painting. "Clark's Wharf" (Southwest Harbor) was given to the Library by Mr. Young and hangs above the fireplace in the Holmes Reading Room in the Southwest Harbor Public Library. It was painted in October 1923.
8875Hannah Carroll - Later Mrs. John Dodge Lurvey
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • 1849 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
This photograph was probably taken just before her marriage to John Dodge Lurvey (1823-1893) at the age of 24 on March 15, 1849 in Tremont, Maine. She is not wearing a wedding ring.
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This photograph was probably taken just before her marriage to John Dodge Lurvey (1823-1893) at the age of 24 on March 15, 1849 in Tremont, Maine. She is not wearing a wedding ring.
7269Grace M. Simmons Children's Room
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • Rich - Meredith Adelle (Rich) Hutchins (1939-2016)
  • 1983-10
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 338 Main Street
"... it was 1955 before the library built its second addition. This was a room for the youngest children done in memory of Grace Simmons, who had rebound countless worn library books for the library."
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"... it was 1955 before the library built its second addition. This was a room for the youngest children done in memory of Grace Simmons, who had rebound countless worn library books for the library."
14844Isaac Marshall Lurvey House
  • Reference
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
"…the house on the corner [of Seal Cove Road and Main Street] was built by Marshall Lurvey, sold to Capt. Thomas Milan, who sold it to Ezra D. Lurvey, whose son, Ezra W. Lurvey, now owns it." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 140 - 1938
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"…the house on the corner [of Seal Cove Road and Main Street] was built by Marshall Lurvey, sold to Capt. Thomas Milan, who sold it to Ezra D. Lurvey, whose son, Ezra W. Lurvey, now owns it." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 140 - 1938
8095Design Influence for Southwest Boat Corporation Sou'wester Cruiser
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • The Ford Motor Company
  • 1937
  • Detroit MI
""Just as it had been Edsel's [Edsel Ford] idea to buy Lincoln to give the company an elegant car to match GM's Cadillac, so in the midthirties, as Ford's competitive position continued to slip, he tried to get a part of the middle-priced market through the Zephyr. The Zephyr began as the Briggs Manufacturing Company ""dream car."" which Edsel saw in prototype at the 1933 automobile show. He was excited by it, having wanted for some time a car in price and quality between the Ford and the Lincoln. He bought the rights from Briggs and then brought in Eugene T. Gregorie, a former boat designer, to carry out his vision of a sleek auto for the middle-class buyer."" - “The Fords: An American Epic” by Peter Collier and David Horowitz, p. 158-159 - illustration #40 - 1987 Apparently design direction worked both ways. ""The design (above the water line) of speed boats of the 30's, 40's and 50's was influenced by automobile design of that era."" - Interview with Charles Morrill - 10/20/08 Morrill - Charles Barrett Morrill (1934-) ""Bink was obsessed with Lincoln Zephyr cars. He stove up three within two weeks. They all had this streamlined look."" - Interview with Ralph Stanley October 20, 2008 A photograph of the Lincoln Zephyr that is supremely evocative of the design era that influenced Bink Sargent appears in “Photographs from the Collection of the Gilman Paper Company,” curated by Pierre Apraxine, with plates by Richard Benson, and notes to the plates by Lee Marks. 480 pp. 199 plates and a frontispiece. Large folio (16 by 18.25 inches), bound in original half maroon calf over linen covered boards, in a slipcase. [Verona: Stamperia Valdonega for] The White Oak Press, 1985. Limited edition of 1200. Copy Number 466 in the collection of the Southwest Harbor Public Library. See: Plate 188, Lincoln Zephyr 1936 by Grancel Fitz (1894–1963) The original photograph, ""Lincoln Zephyr with Graf Zeppelin,"" is in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987.
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""Just as it had been Edsel's [Edsel Ford] idea to buy Lincoln to give the company an elegant car to match GM's Cadillac, so in the midthirties, as Ford's competitive position continued to slip, he tried to get a part of the middle-priced market through the Zephyr. The Zephyr began as the Briggs Manufacturing Company ""dream car."" which Edsel saw in prototype at the 1933 automobile show. He was excited by it, having wanted for some time a car in price and quality between the Ford and the Lincoln. He bought the rights from Briggs and then brought in Eugene T. Gregorie, a former boat designer, to carry out his vision of a sleek auto for the middle-class buyer."" - “The Fords: An American Epic” by Peter Collier and David Horowitz, p. 158-159 - illustration #40 - 1987 Apparently design direction worked both ways. ""The design (above the water line) of speed boats of the 30's, 40's and 50's was influenced by automobile design of that era."" - Interview with Charles Morrill - 10/20/08 Morrill - Charles Barrett Morrill (1934-) ""Bink was obsessed with Lincoln Zephyr cars. He stove up three within two weeks. They all had this streamlined look."" - Interview with Ralph Stanley October 20, 2008 A photograph of the Lincoln Zephyr that is supremely evocative of the design era that influenced Bink Sargent appears in “Photographs from the Collection of the Gilman Paper Company,” curated by Pierre Apraxine, with plates by Richard Benson, and notes to the plates by Lee Marks. 480 pp. 199 plates and a frontispiece. Large folio (16 by 18.25 inches), bound in original half maroon calf over linen covered boards, in a slipcase. [Verona: Stamperia Valdonega for] The White Oak Press, 1985. Limited edition of 1200. Copy Number 466 in the collection of the Southwest Harbor Public Library. See: Plate 188, Lincoln Zephyr 1936 by Grancel Fitz (1894–1963) The original photograph, ""Lincoln Zephyr with Graf Zeppelin,"" is in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987. [show more]
11528Fishing Freighter Myra J. Wooster at a Wharf
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Boat
  • 1933
  • Tremont
"“Myra J. Wooster” was built in 1918 in Tremont, Maine. She was a gas screw freighter, Official Number 216241, 46 gross Tons, 17 net Tons, 63.5’ long, 16.2’ wide and 7.2’ deep. She carried a crew of one and home ported in Southwest Harbor. She ran for the Portland, Friendship & Thomaston Line. Myra J. Wooster was named for Myra Jane Thurston (1875-1945). Myra was born on September 16, 1875 to Solomon G. Thurston and Mary Gott (Webster) Thurston in Tremont, Maine. She married Joseph Estabrook Wooster (1873-1955), son of John Wooster Wooster and Eliza Perrigo, on August 25, 1894 in West Tremont. Myra Jane Thurston died on June 23, 1945 in Tremont, Maine. Myra is connected to several other people in the SWHPL database. Her brother, John Sullivan Thurston (1853-1927) married Datie R. Rich (1851-1927), a sister of John “Talking John” Melbourne Rich. Myra’s daughter, Eva Wooster (1899-1988), married Ralph Gardener Benson (1893-1975). ""The motor packet Myra J. Wooster, Capt. Robert Lash, has loaded general cargo at the wharf and will sail for Friendship this morning."" - Gloucester Daily Times, July 20, 1933. “Myra J. Wooster” was wrecked off Friendship, Maine in 1934. The wreck is documented in the Maine Historic Preservation Commission Inventory Data for Municipal Growth Management Plans, Historic Archaeological Sites, Friendship, Maine, March 2011."
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"“Myra J. Wooster” was built in 1918 in Tremont, Maine. She was a gas screw freighter, Official Number 216241, 46 gross Tons, 17 net Tons, 63.5’ long, 16.2’ wide and 7.2’ deep. She carried a crew of one and home ported in Southwest Harbor. She ran for the Portland, Friendship & Thomaston Line. Myra J. Wooster was named for Myra Jane Thurston (1875-1945). Myra was born on September 16, 1875 to Solomon G. Thurston and Mary Gott (Webster) Thurston in Tremont, Maine. She married Joseph Estabrook Wooster (1873-1955), son of John Wooster Wooster and Eliza Perrigo, on August 25, 1894 in West Tremont. Myra Jane Thurston died on June 23, 1945 in Tremont, Maine. Myra is connected to several other people in the SWHPL database. Her brother, John Sullivan Thurston (1853-1927) married Datie R. Rich (1851-1927), a sister of John “Talking John” Melbourne Rich. Myra’s daughter, Eva Wooster (1899-1988), married Ralph Gardener Benson (1893-1975). ""The motor packet Myra J. Wooster, Capt. Robert Lash, has loaded general cargo at the wharf and will sail for Friendship this morning."" - Gloucester Daily Times, July 20, 1933. “Myra J. Wooster” was wrecked off Friendship, Maine in 1934. The wreck is documented in the Maine Historic Preservation Commission Inventory Data for Municipal Growth Management Plans, Historic Archaeological Sites, Friendship, Maine, March 2011." [show more]
5665Steamer Pemaquid at the Edge of the Ice
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • Bradley - Henry Lee Bradley (1875-1940)
  • 1923-02-19
  • Bar Harbor
"“The Maine Central fleet expanded quickly from the turn of the century until 1913. “Pemaquid” was the first of the new ships, having been purchased from the Long Island Railroad in 1901. She was a 132-foot steel-hilled single-screw steamer built in 1893 by Neafie and Levy of Philadelphia, with the distinction of being the last of the fleet to carry the Maine Central flag… Maine Central’s ships were sold off one by one until by 1931 the reliable “Pemaquid”, which during her thirty years with the railroad was used year-round, filling in for the seasonal vessels on the Mt. Desert run, was the only ship left. She was sold south that year and eventually was re-engined with a diesel. She lasted a long time, operating in the New York area into the 1960’s. The Eastern [Steamship Lines] threw in the towel three years later, in 1934. Hereafter the Maine trains would stop in Ellsworth, and Mt. Desert Ferry, the great bustling rail and steamboat facility, would fall silent.” - Mount Desert - An Informal History Edited by Gunnar Hansen, Maritime Transportation section written by Peter B. Bell, p. 166-167, 169 - 1989 ""The steamer ""Pemaquid"" was built in 1893 as the ""Long Island."" Shortly after the turn of the century, she was placed in service on the Maine coast by the Maine Central Railroad. The vessel left Maine in 1931. [She operated on the Hudson River and last ran] as a dieselized ferry to Block Island."" - ""Steamboats On The Hudson River"" by William H. Ewen, Jr., Arcadia Publishing, May 30, 2011, p. 89."
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"“The Maine Central fleet expanded quickly from the turn of the century until 1913. “Pemaquid” was the first of the new ships, having been purchased from the Long Island Railroad in 1901. She was a 132-foot steel-hilled single-screw steamer built in 1893 by Neafie and Levy of Philadelphia, with the distinction of being the last of the fleet to carry the Maine Central flag… Maine Central’s ships were sold off one by one until by 1931 the reliable “Pemaquid”, which during her thirty years with the railroad was used year-round, filling in for the seasonal vessels on the Mt. Desert run, was the only ship left. She was sold south that year and eventually was re-engined with a diesel. She lasted a long time, operating in the New York area into the 1960’s. The Eastern [Steamship Lines] threw in the towel three years later, in 1934. Hereafter the Maine trains would stop in Ellsworth, and Mt. Desert Ferry, the great bustling rail and steamboat facility, would fall silent.” - Mount Desert - An Informal History Edited by Gunnar Hansen, Maritime Transportation section written by Peter B. Bell, p. 166-167, 169 - 1989 ""The steamer ""Pemaquid"" was built in 1893 as the ""Long Island."" Shortly after the turn of the century, she was placed in service on the Maine coast by the Maine Central Railroad. The vessel left Maine in 1931. [She operated on the Hudson River and last ran] as a dieselized ferry to Block Island."" - ""Steamboats On The Hudson River"" by William H. Ewen, Jr., Arcadia Publishing, May 30, 2011, p. 89." [show more]
9387Byron Bide Lewis Robinson and Walter Hill Walking to Greening Island on the Ice
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • 1934-02-11
  • Southwest Harbor
"A picture of Byron Robinson in plaid jacket and friend on ice in middle of Somes Sound, February 11, 1934. They were walking to Greenings Island where they shingled a farmhouse on the point at 34° below zero." - The Bar Harbor Times, January 29, 1981, p. 5.
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"A picture of Byron Robinson in plaid jacket and friend on ice in middle of Somes Sound, February 11, 1934. They were walking to Greenings Island where they shingled a farmhouse on the point at 34° below zero." - The Bar Harbor Times, January 29, 1981, p. 5.
2753American Art Post Card Co., Boston and Brookline, Mass.
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Publishing Business
"A publisher of black & white collotypes, and tinted halftone view-cards. They used the trade name Photolux on many cards. Most of their white border cards were contracted out to Curt Teich. These cards are often recognizable by their blocky titles and numbers." Information from “Publishers,” Metropolitan Postcard Club of New York, Accessed online 02/15/2014; http://www.metropostcard.com/publishersa1.html
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"A publisher of black & white collotypes, and tinted halftone view-cards. They used the trade name Photolux on many cards. Most of their white border cards were contracted out to Curt Teich. These cards are often recognizable by their blocky titles and numbers." Information from “Publishers,” Metropolitan Postcard Club of New York, Accessed online 02/15/2014; http://www.metropostcard.com/publishersa1.html
5774Crew Aboard Schooner Emma at Bernard
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939)
  • 1900 c.
  • Tremont, Bernard
"A typical Maine fishing crew. The men of the schooner "Emma" of Swan's Island gathered near the mainmast for a group portrait at Bernard Harbor in the town of Tremont, following a trip to the offshore grounds, c. 1900. Judging from the tubs of trawl along the port rail (center-right), they have been ground fishing. The "Emma" was an 81-ton (n.m.) vessel built at Bath in 1883. Note the crew's leather boots, standard fishing apparel throughout the nineteenth century." - "The Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry, 1830-1890" by Wayne M. O’Leary, 1996
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"A typical Maine fishing crew. The men of the schooner "Emma" of Swan's Island gathered near the mainmast for a group portrait at Bernard Harbor in the town of Tremont, following a trip to the offshore grounds, c. 1900. Judging from the tubs of trawl along the port rail (center-right), they have been ground fishing. The "Emma" was an 81-ton (n.m.) vessel built at Bath in 1883. Note the crew's leather boots, standard fishing apparel throughout the nineteenth century." - "The Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry, 1830-1890" by Wayne M. O’Leary, 1996 [show more]
15959Deacon Henry Higgins Clark Shipyard
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 152 Clark Point Road
"A workshop stood for many years on the shore side of the road almost opposite the above-mentioned house. Many different families occupied the living apartment on the second floor. Work for the shipyard was done in the shop on the first floor. The shipyard was a busy place for many years and many small vessels and boats were constructed there." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 167. The schooner “Kate Newman” was built at Clark’s Point, Southwest Harbor in 1874.
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"A workshop stood for many years on the shore side of the road almost opposite the above-mentioned house. Many different families occupied the living apartment on the second floor. Work for the shipyard was done in the shop on the first floor. The shipyard was a busy place for many years and many small vessels and boats were constructed there." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 167. The schooner “Kate Newman” was built at Clark’s Point, Southwest Harbor in 1874. [show more]
13021A. Bird Cough Store
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Bar Harbor
"A. Bird Cough [Adoniram Bird Cough] has opened a most attractive store at 26 Cottage Street. The store is stocked with a fine line of groceries and the usual vegetable lines." - The Bar Harbor Record, June 16, 1909 - quoted in The Bar Harbor Times, June 18, 2009, p. 34. A. Bird Cough was Daniel and Elvira's son Adoniram Bird Cough (1872-1949) who opened his store in Bar Harbor in the 6th building from Main Street on the south side of Cottage Street, a site occupied by Cadillac Mt. Sports in 2013.
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"A. Bird Cough [Adoniram Bird Cough] has opened a most attractive store at 26 Cottage Street. The store is stocked with a fine line of groceries and the usual vegetable lines." - The Bar Harbor Record, June 16, 1909 - quoted in The Bar Harbor Times, June 18, 2009, p. 34. A. Bird Cough was Daniel and Elvira's son Adoniram Bird Cough (1872-1949) who opened his store in Bar Harbor in the 6th building from Main Street on the south side of Cottage Street, a site occupied by Cadillac Mt. Sports in 2013. [show more]

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