Description: The white house on the right at 29 Clark Point Road is the Edwin Albert Lawler House The men listed on the back of one copy of this photograph as being in the picture are: Warren Norwood, probably Warren M. Norwood (1889-1927) Harlan Harper, probably Harlan Page Harper (1884-1951) Everett Carson Murphy (1879-1958) - William E. Murphy's brother William E. Murphy (1877-?)
Description: Photographs 1875 a-d of a group of men and women on the lawn of the Henry Inman house in Southwest Harbor. The men are in casual suit jackets and hats and the women are in casual mid-ankle length dresses and wide-brimmed hats. Belle Smallidge Collection
Description: Captain Adoniram Judson Robinson was Ralph Warren Stanley's great grandfather. Ralph grew up in Adoniram's house and his first boat building workshop was behind that house.
Description: For a fascinating description of Deacon Clark and the Island House, written by a man who knew him as a child, see “Recollections of Southwest Harbor, Maine 1885-1894” by Jesse L. Parker, p. 29-32, manuscript, 1955 - Jesse Lindon Parker (1881-1966) This valuable manuscript is a narrative of the early history of the town by an eyewitness. There are largely unknown or unreported facts on almost every page. Deacon Clark was what has come to be called in the 21st Century an "Alpha Male." In 1871 in Southwest Harbor, Maine, he filled these functions: Insurance Agent, Steamboat Agent, Herring Dealer, Proprietor of the Island House Hotel, Owner of the Telegraph concession, Justice of the Peace. - Mount Desert Island and the Cranberry Isles, by Ezra A. Dodge, published by N.K. Sawyer, Printer in Ellsworth, p. 50-55 - 1871. [show more]
Description: The taller man is Eugene Sprague Robbins (1904-1994) SWH Fire Chief for many years and brother-in-law to Robert Malcolm Carter. The smaller man is Howard Ernest Robinson (1896-1972). The house in the background at far right in the photo of the men standing is house in background – 24 Forest Avenue, Map 6 – Lot 63.
Description: Nathan and Mercy are the patriarch and matriarch of the Clark family of the western half of Mount Desert Island. Archivists have found no images of them, but their second house, overlooking the harbor, represents them in Southwest Harbor today.
Description: Grace Darling Clark was born to Seth Higgins and Lucy Ward Clark in Tremont, Maine, in 1848. Grace married widower Jesse H. Pease, son of Seba and Mary C. Pease, on September 3, 1877, in Tremont, Maine. Jesse H. Pease was born in 1836 and died in 1901 in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Grace Darling Clark Pease died in 1917 in Belfast, Maine.
Description: Back Row - Left to Right: Brothers and first cousins once removed to the Robinson brothers through their great grandfather, Smith Robinson Sr: James F. Whitmore (1875-1951) John Lawler Whitmore (1879-1933) Front Row - Left to Right: Brothers and first cousins once removed to the Whitmore brothers through their grandfather, Smith Robinson Sr: Thomas A. Robinson (1878-) Lewis Kennison Robinson (1874-1958) Joseph Kelley Robinson (1880-1946) [show more]
Description: Ralph Warren Stanley on the left - Gunnar Milton Hansen on the right. The vessel in front of Ralph's shop is a gaff-rigged knockabout that belonged to Ed Elvidge. A knockabout is smaller than a A boat, a Manchester 13 or 14.
Description: Fred Mayo holding a wooden ice cream bucket. The building at the far right is the James A. Freeman House (the Inn at Southwest Harbor as of 2016).
Description: Photos taken around the Carter home at 27 Forest Avenue in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Above - Robert Malcolm Carter (1905-1975) and one of his cocker spaniels – all named Polly. The house had a wood furnace until c. 1963. March 1941 1 - William “Bill” Carter (1941-) next to a fish trap. 2 - Mildred G. Norwood Carter, Mrs. Robert Malcolm Carter (1910-1988), next to a Bleeding Heart plant – the photograph shows the location of the back door before the milk room was built. 3 - William “Bill” Carter next to the pen built to keep him safe from cars. Bill would get out and drag the pen around the yard. 4 - Elizabeth “Betty” Jane Carter (1944-) – Mrs. Albert M. Chipman, on back steps. 5 - Mildred Norwood Carter, Mrs. Robert Malcolm Carter, and child on back steps. 6 - William R. Carter – house in background is his uncle’s house Jasper Chamberlain Hutchins, 22 Forest Avenue. 7 - William Robert Carter and Robert Malcolm Carter on back porch with milk bottles. [show more]