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Shipbuilding on Mount Desert Island
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Ship
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • Ralph Stanley
  • 2010
  • Mount Desert Island
Shipbuilding on Mount Desert Island
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Copy of Stanley's "History of Shipbuilding on MDI "with a list of vessels built between 1782 and 1902. Several photographs of the boats were added by R. Pyle at the Northeast Harbor library.
W.S. Brown Account Book
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • Brown - W.S.
  • 1890 c.
  • Mount Desert Island
  • No Known Copyright
W.S. Brown Account Book
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
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]