Description: Ralph Warren Stanley (on the left) and Craig Milner (on the right) stand together at a table displaying an image of Ralph's boat Acadia, the first two violins he built, and "Ralph Stanley: Tales of a Maine Boat Builder." They are at Mystic Seaport, the maritime museum in Connecticut.
Description: From left to right: Robert Rankin, Kyle Rankin, Marjorie Rankin, Marion Stanley, Ralph Warren Stanley. Ralph is holding the first violin he ever built and the violin on the table is the second one he built. The boat pictured is Acadia.
Description: Left to Right: Laurie Hinckley Towers, Mary Anne Hinckley Mead, John Ferguson, Aunt Rose, Pete Crafts, Penelope Hinckley, George Lyman Hinckley
Description: This photograph originally belonged to Captain Adoniram Judson Robinson (1834-1912). It was taken in Stonington, Connecticut in the early 1900s while she was there for repairs after a collision. Damage to the hull can be seen below the first mast.
Description: In 1890 the office listing for Frank T. Dwinell in the Boston Directory was 50 State Street, Room 17, Boston, Massachusetts. This was also Henry L. Rand’s office circa 1903-1906 when he was Treasurer of Stark Cotton Mills. The Dwinell family had been early settlers in the towns associated with those mills.
Description: Date: Circa 1908 Media: Tinted collotype Title: Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth 1620 from the Mayflower Subject: Pilgrim Shallop Publisher: Published in Germany for G.W. Morris, Portland, Maine Postage: 1¢ for United States and Island Possessions, Cuba, Canada and Mexico, 2¢ for foreign. Number: 84972 Addressed to Mrs. Eliza S. Gott, McKinley, Maine, Box 22. Front message: "Send me a postcard from Grace E. Gott" Postcard from Grace E. Gott (1896-1920) to her grandmother, Eliza Sawyer Butler, Mrs. Israel Gott (1847-1924) Grace E. Gott married Charles Lewellyn McKay on December 16, 1915. She signed the postcard as Grace E. Gott so archivists conclude that it was sent before that date. Judging by her handwriting, it is probable that she wrote the card c. 1908-1910. G.W. Morris printed their tinted collotype postcards in Germany in the early years of their existence (1901-1922). Archivists have therefore date the postcard as c. 1908. [show more]
Description: Jane Maria Perry Wakefield was a half-sister to Henry Lathrop Rand's Wakefield cousins...and in Henry's world that made them part of a close family unit.
Description: The house in the background is now the Nieman Foundation’s Walter Lippmann House at One Francis Street. It was built in 1836 by Ebenezer Francis, a carpenter and Harvard custodian. The street, of course, was named for him. In 1892, when Henry Lathrop Rand took the photograph while living at his mother’s house across Francis Street on the corner at 49 Kirkland Street, the Francis Street house was still listed on maps as the Eben Francis House. Harvard University bought the Francis property in 1974 and gave it to the Nieman Foundation. It was Christened as the Walter Lippmann house on September 23, 1979 with much fanfare attended by a raft of famous journalists and political persons. They celebrated by breaking a bottle of champagne on its front steps. Henry would have been fascinated. [show more]
Description: This photograph was taken in c.1903 before Mysie's marriage to Arthur Pope. The photograph, one of two, was in the collection of photographer, Henry L. Rand,, but not taken by him. This indicates to archivists familiar with his life that Mysie was a friend. The unknown photographer of the portraits, someone named McCormick, may have been a fellow amateur photographer. Mysie's biography is interesting as it illustrates both the later life of this young girl and the social life in Cambridge of which Rand was a part. [show more]