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| 1661 | 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 with broken ledges in the foreground, work buildings to the right, and the back of the boathouse, with its metal chimney in the center. To the right of the boathouse the top of the derrick is visible. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Aug. 1907 No. 7g. Derrick + Boat House, Looking North. | |
| 1660 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View looks across open granite ledges toward the bell tower, with the davit and ocean visible to the right. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Aug. 1907 No. 7.d. Bell-tower, Looking S. | |
| 1659 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, circa 1908. Image looks across broken granite ledges toward an open ocean. At the far left a building is visible, and wooden racks (perhaps for drying fish) sit on the ledges. The negative envelope for this image seems to have been reused, and the writing does not seem to refer to this image. It reads: Mt. Desert Lt. July 27, 1908 Gladys Simmons Devel. Di. S. Plate | |
| 1658 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, June 1908. Image shows a view of the light station and the landscape at Mount Desert. In the foreground piles of broken granite lay across the ledges, with the oil house and tower visible to the right. In the center of the image the double house is visible, and the top of the davit may be seen to the left. The negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. June 1908 S.W. view of Station. | |
| 1657 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. This negative is badly damaged and has not been digitized. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Tower No. 2 Taken from South | |
| 1656 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass plate negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View looks up toward the light station, with the boathouse and davit visible to the left, work buildings in the center, and the double house and tower to the right. In the foreground the rocks are covered with seaweed and a man, identified as Will [Dodge] on the negative envelope stands just beyond it. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Rk. Lt. Sta. Aug. 1907 No. 6.a Not Complete. Looking S.E. Will 50 sec. [show more] | |
| 1655 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View is taken from the water, with a ledge visible in the foreground, the light station visible beyond. Visible buildings include the boathouse, the bell tower, and the light tower. | |
| 1654 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative for photograph taken at Mount Desert Rock, June 1908. Image shows the light station buildings as seen from the water including the boathouse, double house, single dwelling, tower, oil house, and bell tower. Image was taken from the water and is very crooked. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. June 1908 No. 6, View from the water. Ortho. A. Non. Hal. Plate | |
| 1653 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative for photograph taken at Mount Desert Rock, October 1907. Image shows the light station buildings as seen from the water including the boathouse, double house, single dwelling, tower, oil house, and bell tower. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Oct. 1907 P.M. 4 o'clock Taken from water Print 2m Distance 15m Special valve | |
| 1652 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative for image taken at Mount Desert Rock, June 1908. Image shows Lawrence Newman on the rocks at Mount Desert Rock, with a toy boat at his feet. Laundry hangs in the background between the work buildings. Negative envelope reads: Written on negative envelope: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. June. 1908 Lawrence Newman. | |
| 1651 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative for image taken at Mount Desert Rock, June 1908. Image shows Charles Newman, with his motor boat, on the wooden ramp, posing with his sons, Arthur and Lawrence. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. June 1908 Mr. Newman Arthur and Lawrence in Mr. Newman’s Boat. | |
| 1650 | E. Farnham Butler in his office |
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Description: Photograph of E. Farnham Butler in his office at Mount Desert Yacht Yard, circa 2003. On the table in front of him are photographs of boats built by Butler at his yard over the course of his career. | ||
| 1649 | Collection of Documents |
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Description: Collection of five documents, largely connected with the Clark family of Southwest Harbor. Copy of a charter document, dated 1864, between Nathan Clark and William Underwood, to charter the Schooner Loochoo. Letter from Railway Express Agency, August 16, 1946, to R.P. Clark thanking him for his long service. Letter from Maine Central Railroad, January 29, 1911, to R.P. Clark discussing the terms of his employment as express agent. Telegraph Blank (jokingly?) written for Grace Carroll from the Associated Press, August 6, 1903, warning her of hostile warships in Somes Sound. Receipt for goods purchased by Nathan Clark of Eaton & Lane, Boston, August 15, 1865. Goods include: flour, sugar, rum, good whiskey, butter, ticking, matches [show more] | |||
| 1648 | Photographs of Main Street Northeast Harbor, circa 1935 |
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Description: 6 modern reproduction photographs showing Main Street, Northeast Harbor, circa 1935. Four views show the Municipal Building/Firehouse, and three show fire engines parked in front of the building, including the 1927 American LaFrance Ladder Truck "William S. Grant." Another photograph shows buses parked to the south of the municipal building, belong to Maine Transportation (?), a subsidiary of the Maine Central Railroad Company. Another photograph shows two buses belonging to the Boston & Maine Transportation Company parked behind Manchester Bros. Garage. Another photograph shows the steamer J.T. Morse landing at the steamboat wharf in Northeast Harbor [show more] | ||
| 1647 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative for image taken at Mount Desert Rock, Sept. 1907. View shows three young boys in a garden, decorated with several flags, and with a picket fence behind them. The negative envelope notes this garden belongs to Mrs. Newman. Using the other negatives in this collection, the boy in the dark hat has been indentified as Kaspar Murphy, with Lawrence and Arthur Newman to his right. Negative Envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Sept. 1907 Garden Single Tenement, Mrs. Newman's. [show more] | |
| 1646 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative for image taken from Mount Desert Rock. View looks out toward sea from the land, with ledges visible in the foreground, and a three-masted schooner, perhaps called Robert D. Spear, visible in the distance. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Oct. 1907 Robert D. Spear Taken from Mt. Desert Rock | |
| 1645 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative for image taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View looks across the ledges toward the light station, with the double house and tower in the center and to the left. To the right the oil house and bell tower are visible. The negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Aug. 1907 No. 1 b. House, Tower, Oil-house + Bell Tower Looking E.S.E. Not complete | |
| 1644 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative for image taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View looks up from below tideline, with seaweed visible in the foreground. In the center of the image are the tower and double house, with the roof of the oil house to the right, and the bell tower nearby. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Aug 1907 No. 2A. Derrick, Boat House + Shop Looking E.S.E. Not complete (It appears that this envelope was reused) | |
| 1643 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative for image taken at Mount Desert Rock, November 1907. View looks back toward the light station, across the ledges. In the center of the image is the tower, with the oil house to the left. Behind the tower the single house is visible to the right, and the double house to the left. The negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Nov. 1907 Lucy M. Dodge Taken S.W. of Tower Opposite Bluff. Developed with Dianol. | |
| 1642 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative for image taken at Mount Desert Rock, June 1908. Image shows the view of Mount Desert Rock, with the light station buildings, as seen from the water. The boathouse and derrick is visible to the left, while the keepers' houses are visible near the tower. To the right the oil house and bell tower may be seen. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. June 1908 No. 2. View from water Dev. with Si. S. Plate written vertically in pencil: print - 3 m. [show more] | |
| 1641 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative for image taken at Mount Desert Rock, September 1907. View shows the interior of the boathouse, with two men standing alongside the steam engine used to haul boats out of the water. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Sept. 1907 Steam Engine Boat House. Mr. Dorgan Mr. Brewer | |
| 1640 | Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock |
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Description: Glass negative for image taken at Mount Desert Rock. Shows view toward light tower with single dwelling visible to the left. Roof of the double-house is visible beyond. This negative is slightly unfocused, and uneven. The negative envelope has nothing written on it | |
| 1638 | N.E. Harbor Authority, View from South West |
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Description: Photograph of painting signed MBG July 1938 showing the proposed redevelopment of the Sea Street area in Northeast Harbor as planned by Griswold & Gulick, architects of Boston. This proposal was ultimately unrealized, though the Sea Street dock area was redeveloped in the 1950s. | |
| 1637 | Motor Boating Magazine, February 1954 |
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Description: Motor Boating Magazine, February 1954 Volume 93, no. 2 Lester Fagans At the Change of the Watch Know Your Rights A Surgeon’s Log (Part One) Manu Kai Beats Them All Nine New Models For 1954 A Woman Skipper Orange Bowl Regatta Jungle Cruise North From Trinidad (Part Two) Movies Princess Finds a Sister Ship Mexico to New York (Part Eight) The Braggart Single-Handed Cruising at 60 Safe Moorings for Extreme Tides Little Maid of Kent What’s New? Underway with the USPS With the Windjammers With the Outboarders Westward Ho! North Florida Notes Under the Blue Ensign Aerojet, a V- Drive Power Unit Sixteen Elected to Gulf Hall of Fame Advertising Index Selected Photographs include: Cover; Table of Contents page 15; Scott-Atwater ad: boat-bailing engine, page 79; a Vinylon ad with Guy Lombardo, page 81; North from Trinidad (a beautiful drawing of a squall), page 34; “Novies” page 37 [show more] | ||
| 1636 | Yachting Magazine, March 1944 |
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Description: Yachting Magazine, March 1944 Vol. LXXV No. 3 Table of Contents: Cover, “Men Aloft” From a painting by Gordon Grant Frontispiece, “In the Caribbean” Kodachrome by Three Lions Sheets and Halliards, Gone to War, By Rufus G. Smith, Lieut., USCGR The Outboard Has Gone to War, By Crichell Rimington Racing the Sun, By W. C. Keil Pre-Tank Model Testing, by A. E. Luders Workhorse of the Chesapeake, By J. A. Emmett Why Not Try the West Indies? By Herbert L. Stone The Post-War Yacht Keep that Bottom Smooth! By Charles Fisk Sails and Sailmaking, By W. H. de Fontaine The Biography of a Design, By Graham Cameron, Lieut, USNR Design for Dinghy Sailing, By C. Leslie Lewis Plans The Month in Yachting Gadgets and Gilhickies Selected images include: Cover; Table of Contents, page 21; Ad for Evinrude Outboard Motors (“’Rugged’ is the word … for countless wartime jobs Evinrudes are doing”), page 81; Ad for Henry R. Hinckley & Company in Southwest Harbor (for “post-war boat values”), page 96 [show more] |
