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| 1688 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. Image shows view looking out over the ledges with many sea birds visible. To the left the power launch sits on the wooden ramp, and to the right two men are visible. Written on negative envelope: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Aug. 1907 Gulls, Boat-house, Will and Mr. Newman Copies | |
| 1690 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, June 1908. Image shows the view looking back toward the light station, with the wooden bell tower in the foreground, and the lighthouse and keepers' dwellings visible beyond. Written on negative envelope: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. June 1908 Bell Tower and Station | |
| 1689 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, June 1908. Image shows the view looking back toward the light station, with the wooden bell tower in the foreground, and the lighthouse and keepers' dwellings visible beyond. Written on negative envelope: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. June 1908 Bell Tower and Station | |
| 1687 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, September 1907. This image has not yet (August 2021) been digitized. Written on negative envelope: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Sept. 1907 Sitting Room Right Hand Side Corner North House L.M. Dodge | |
| 1686 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. Image shows the view looking out from the ledges of Mount Desert Rock, with a sailing vessel, identified as Minerva, not far from shore. Written on negative envelope: Mt. Desert Rk. Lt. Sta. Aug. 1907 No. 5a. Mooring Minerva, Looking N.W. | |
| 1685 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View shows the end of the double house, with a clothes tree and outbuilding (perhaps an outhouse) behind. In the foreground are broken ledges piled up on one another. Written on negative envelope: Mt. Desert R. Lt. Sta. No. 5. h. Double-house, Looking South. | |
| 1684 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View looks back toward the double house, with the single house next door to the right. Broken granite ledges are piled up in the foreground and a boy, Kaspar Murphy, looks at the photographer. On the porch a man sits in the corner, identified on the envelope as Will (Dodge). Written on negative envelope: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Aug. 1907 No. 5. i. Double-house Looking E.S.E. Kaspar + Will [show more] | |
| 1683 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View shows the interior of Kaspar Murphy's bedroom, with a chagrin the corner, and flags on the shelf behind a souvenir plate showing the Liberty Bell. Also on the shelf is a toy gun, a telescope, and a 1906 copy of the Minuteman Calendar issued by The Youth's Companion. A toy animal stands on the floor, and a flower grows in the window. Written on the negative envelope: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Aug. 1907 Kaspar's Room [show more] | |
| 1682 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock. As of July 2021 this negative is still being digitized. Negative envelope is blank, with nothing written on it. | |
| 1681 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock. This negative is still (July 2021) being digitized. Negative envelope is blank, with nothing written on it. | |
| 1680 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock. This negative is still being digitized (July 2021). Negative envelope is blank, with nothing written on it. | |
| 1679 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1906. View shows the light tower to the right, with the keepers' dwellings beyond, and the oil house to the left. Between the oil house and the tower is a small wooden building, with two boys on the roof and one standing in front. Written on negative envelope: Tower Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Tower Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Aug. 1906 | |
| 1678 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View shows the space between the tower and the keepers' houses, including thee fenced area and the covered walkway. Near the top of the tower, the fog horn is visible. Written on negative envelope: Aug. 1907 Disfigured Tower + House Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. | |
| 1677 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View shows the the light tower and the single dwelling house. Written on negative envelope: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Aug. 1907 Looking N.E. from S.W. Derrick | |
| 1676 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View shows the buildings of the light station, with the brick oil house to the left, the light tower in the foreground, and the keepers' dwellings behind. Written on negative envelope Aug. 1907 Mt. Desert Lt. Tower No. 1 Taken from South: | |
| 1675 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, May 11, 1908. View shows the light staton, with the top of the tower cropped by the frame of the photograph. In front of the tower the oil house is visible. Behind the tower the keepers' houses are visible. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. May 11, 1908 S.W. of Double Tenement Topless Tower N.G. Taken by Lucy M. Dodge Devel. Prof. Cyko 1 oz. 5. 5m. | |
| 1674 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, October 1908. View shows a man in the foreground, with the boom of the derrick next to him. In the background the light tower and keepers' dwellings are visible. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Oct. 1908 Mr. Frank Dewyea South Portland, Mee. | |
| 1673 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, 1906. View shows the lighthouse tender Lilac at anchor off Mount Desert Rock, the shoreline of which is visible to the right. Written on negative envelope: No. 2 Lilac 1906 Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. | |
| 1672 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, October 29, 1908. View shows the addition to the double house (noted in one negative as an addition to the kitchen). This negative notes the addition was built as a dining room. Four men stand in the foreground, identified as: Mr. Orn, Mr. F. Orn, Mr. Foster, and Mr. Rand, all of whom worked as builders., The negative also lists Mr. Murphy and Mr. Dewyea, who worked as builders. Written on negative envelope: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Oct. 29. 1908 No. 2 Messrs. Orn, F. Orn, Foster, Rand Builders of Dining-room Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Murphy + Dewyea also builders not in negative Simplex Plate Devel. Hydro Metol Lumiere [show more] | |
| 1668 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, likely in the fall of 1908 (a related negative is dated October 1908). View shows the extension to the kitchen of the double house. Workmen are positioned around the rear of the house, while a rack of fish dries in the foreground. Negative envelope reads: No. 3 | |
| 1669 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1908. View shows two men, standing on the granite ledges behind a building, with the ocean visible behind them. On the ledges in the foreground, the shadows of two people are visible, one of whom is the photographer. From the envelope the identities of these two men are known: Mr. Dorgan and Mr. Brewer, likely men employed by the lighthouse service to tend to matters at Maine's light stations. Written on negative envelope: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Aug. 1908 Mr. Dorgan + Mr. Brewer [show more] | |
| 1667 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, October 1908. View shows the extension built onto the kitchen of the double house, where a flat-roofed section extends beyond the original rear wall. Men stand on the roof and on a wooden scaffold, and one sits on the roof dormer. Toward the left of the photo a large pile of trash wood is visible, and in the foreground fish are laid on wooden racks drying. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Oct. 1908 No. 4. Repairing Station Building New Kitchen [show more] | |
| 1666 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View depicts the double house, seen from the front side. In the foreground are large broken ledges, and the house fills the background. A boy sits on the porch. Written on the negative envelope: Mt. Desert Rk. Lt. Sta. Aug 1907 No. 5 | ||
| 1664 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View looks toward the ocean across the granite ledges of Mount Desert Rock. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Aug. 1907 No. 7. a. Looking N.E. | |
| 1663 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View looks toward the ocean across the granite ledges of Mount Desert Rock. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Aug. 1907 No. 7. b. Looking N.E. |
