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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
1116Island Steamboat Company, Steamer "Golden Rod" timetable
  • Document, Advertising, Poster
  • Businesses, Transportation Business
  • Island Steamboat Company
Description:
Framed poster with timetable for the steamer "Golden Rod" traveling between Southwest Harbor, Somesville, Northeast Harbor, and Seal Harbor. Captain William M. Crosby. Also mentions Somes House, George A. Somes, proprietor
1060Angela C. Kaufman to Mildred Morrison Letter, July 15, 1935
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Businesses, Liquor Serving Businesses
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Kaufman, Angela C.
  • 1935-07-15
Description:
Angela C. Kaufman sends a check for $71 and requests a receipt. Mildred Morrison acknowledges the receipt on the same paper. Letter is written on stationary from The Sunset Hotel in Bar Harbor, ME.
1061Robert B. Williamson to Norman Shaw Letter, November 5, 1938
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Businesses, Liquor Serving Businesses
  • Williamson, Robert B.
  • 1938-11-05
Description:
Robert B. Williamson acknowledges the receipt of a letter from Norman Shaw dated November 4 regarding Angela C. Kaufman. People Mentioned: Angela C. Kaufman, William R. Pattangall, Ernest L. Goodspeed, Lois H. Birkenwald
1063Roland A. Scribner to Applicants for Part Time and Summer Licenses Letter, March 28, 1938
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Businesses, Liquor Serving Businesses
  • Scribner, Roland A.
  • 1938-03-28
Description:
Roland A. Scribner, the Chief Clerk of the State of Maine Liquor Commission, provides information about part-time and summer malt liquor licenses. The letterhead includes the Maine state seal. People Mentioned: Harold S. Boardman, Thomas F. Locke, Raymond E. Thurston
1064Roland A. Scribner to Applicants for Summer Malt Liquor Licenses Letter, March 28, 1938
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Businesses, Liquor Serving Businesses
  • Scribner, Roland A.
  • 1938-03-28
Description:
Roland A. Scribner, the Chief Clerk of the State of Maine Liquor Commission, provides details and application instructions for obtaining summer malt liquor licenses. The letterhead includes the Maine state seal.
1065Roland A. Scribner to Applicants for Part-Time Malt Liquor Licenses Letter, March 28, 1938
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Businesses, Liquor Serving Businesses
  • Scribner, Roland A.
  • 1938-03-28
Description:
Roland A. Scribner, the Chief Clerk of the State of Maine Liquor Commission, provides details and application instructions for obtaining part-time malt liquor licenses. The letterhead includes the Maine state seal.
1066From William W. Gallagher Letter, 1938
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Businesses, Liquor Serving Businesses
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Gallagher, William W.
  • 1938
Description:
William W. Gallagher, Assistant Attorney General and Counsel for the State of Maine Liquor Commission, provides information regarding the requirements of hotel and club licenses to sell spirituous and vinous liquors.
1067William W. Gallagher to R.C. Masterman Letter, June 22, 1938
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Businesses, Liquor Serving Businesses
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • Gallagher, William W.
  • 1938-06-22
Description:
William W. Gallagher, Assistant Attorney General and Counsel for the State of Maine Liquor Commission, informs R.C. Masterman that the application and bond for a summer spirituous and vinous liquor license for The Sunset Hotel and Restaurant in Bar Harbor, ME was not in the proper form. The letterhead includes the Maine state seal. People Mentioned: Harold S. Boardman, Thomas F. Locke, Raymond E. Thurston
1633W.S. Brown Account Book
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Maritime Business
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • Brown - W.S.
  • 1890 c.
Description:
Account book kept by W.S. Brown, master of the schooner J.S. Butler, and other vessels. Includes references to cargoes carried, ports visited, and men employed on the schooner. Also includes records of expenditures, mostly for food, but some references to items like knives. Brown may be William Sheldon Brown but additional research is needed. The book may have been used at an earlier time, as several pages have be ripped out, and Brown's name is found in pencil with the date of 1880 near the beginning [show more]
1649Collection of Documents
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • Businesses, Maritime Business
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]
1638N.E. Harbor Authority, View from South West
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Businesses, Maritime Business
  • Gulick - Millard B. Gulick
  • 1938-07
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.
1388Painting "Village Smithy" Copy
  • Image, Art, Painting
  • Businesses, Blacksmith Business
1270Photograph Haynes Express Truck with 4 men and luggage
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Transportation Business
  • People
Description:
Photograph copied and original returned
1271Haynes Express Truck with Man
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Transportation Business
  • People
Description:
Copy of original. Original returned to owner.
1277Photograph Northeast Livery
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Transportation Business, Livery Business
  • Structures, Commercial, Livery Stable
1282Aerial View Hall Quarry with Houses and Ship at Dock
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation Business
1283Hall Quarry in Snow
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation Business
Description:
Copy. Original returned to owner.
1284Hall Quarry with 11 Men in Summer Sunday Dress Posed on Quarry Stones
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation Business
  • People
Description:
Copy. Original returned to owner.
1285Hall Quarry Close-Up of Crane
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation Business
Description:
Negative returned to owner.
1698View looking toward the Wedge and the Rock End Hotel, Northeast Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Businesses, Lodging Business, Hotel & Motel Business
  • 1886 c.
Description:
Photograph taken from the area of the Samuel Gilpatrick Homestead looking toward the Rock End Hotel, near Gilpatrick Cove Northeast Harbor. In the foreground is Herman Savage's cottage, "The Wedge," designed by his architect brother, Fred L. Savage, in 1885. Two children stand on the side of the road, and an unidentified structure is visible beyond the hotel. In the distance, the northern shores of Great Cranberry Island can be seen. The Rock End Hotel was originally called the Revere House and was opened by Herman L. Savage in the summer of 1884. The Wedge was built by A. Torrey, a contractor from Southwest Harbor, in the winter of 1885-1886. The Rock End Hotel burned in March, 1942. The Wedge was purchased by the Roberts family and remodeled in 1944-45, following plans by Philadelphia architect Edmund Gilchrist. It remains a private residence today. [show more]
1587Fire trucks parked in front of the Municipal Building, Northeast Harbor, circa 1935
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Organizations, Fire Protection
  • 1935
Description:
Two fire engines parked in front of the Municipal Building, Northeast Harbor. A bus is parked the left of the Municipal Building, parked closer to Manchester Brothers' Garage. The truck on the left may be the Northeast Harbor Fire Company's 1926 Maxim Pumper, while that on the right is the ladder truck W.S. Grant, a 1927 American La France. This photograph was taken following the remodeling of the the Municipal Building, which was completed in 1934. [show more]
1588Carlton Taylor outside of the Municipal Building with the Fire Company Vehicles, circa 1955
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Organizations, Fire Protection
  • Chase - Ronald Chase
  • 1955
Description:
Carlton Taylor standing in front of the Municipal Building, Northeast Harbor, with the vehicles of the Northeast Harbor Fire Company lined up.
1648Photographs of Main Street Northeast Harbor, circa 1935
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Businesses, Transportation Business
  • Organizations, Municipal
  • 1935 c.
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]
1562Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
  • Dodge - Lucy McMullin Dodge
  • 1908-08
Description:
Photograph taken at Mount Desert Rock Light Station of Capt. Van Norden's friendship sloop sailing near the shore. On the sloop four men are visible, and a dory appears to be on the deck of the boat as well. Written on the negative envelope is "No. 1. Capt. Van Norden's Boat"
1563Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • Dodge - Lucy McMullin Dodge
  • 1907-08
Description:
Two sailing vessels and a rowboat seining shad off Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. To the left, the two masted schooner is Capt. Robinson, while the Friendship sloop to the right is Capt. Van Norden, who appears with his boat in other photographs. The smaller boat in front of Capt. Van Norden is identified as Willard K. Osier This negative is damaged across the center. Written on the negative envelope is "Capt. Robinson and Capt. Van Norden Seining Shad. Small boat Willard K. Osier. [show more]