Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, September 1907. View depicts a Friendship sloop, identified as belonging to Captain Van Norden, towing two smaller boats. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Sept. 1907 No. 1 Capt. Van Norden's Boat
Description: Glass negative taken off Mount Desert Rock, circa 1907. View shows a Friendship sloop under sail with the light station visible in the background. This negative envelope may actually belong with 1988.19.72; as that envelope has the name of a boat, the Gladys Simmons.
Description: A Gloucester fishing schooner sails not far from Mount Desert Rock under partial sail. A number of people are visible on the deck, and a stack of dories can be seen between the masts. A large flag has the name of the vessel, which appears to be two words, though only Frances P. M______ is visible. William H. Bunting has (July 2021) identified this schooner as the Frances P. Mesquita, of Gloucester. Built in Gloucester in 1905, she was owned and commanded by Capt. Joseph Mesquita, and was both a successful fishing and racing vessel. She was sold in 1918 to owners from Newfoundland, and sunk by a U-boat that year. The envelope with this negative reads: No. 7 f., Tower, Single Tenement + Double Tenement, Looking N.W." and is likely an envelope reused from another negative. [show more]
Description: Mount Desert Rock Light Station, August 1908 - "Capt. Van Norden's Boat" - A Friendship sloop sails in front of the light station at Mount Desert Rock
Description: B/W Photocopies of members of the Doane/Gardiner families et al. at "Ye Haven," sailing, going on picnics, hiking, and mountain climbing on and around MDI. Several pictures of the Northeast Harbor visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury & Mrs. Davidson in 1904. Photocopies of the members and friends of the Doane family sailing, hiking, having picnics, at the swimming club, on horseback and with horse & buggy. Views of the S. S. Kearsarge off Bar Harbor. Views of the rehearsals and performance of Univ. Neurasthenia at "Ye Haven" Photocopies of Doane family and friends on horseback and aboard yacht. Photocopies of Doane family & friends sailing, having picnics, hiking, riding, and at the swimming club. Photocopies of the Doane family sailing to nearby islands and having picnics with British Ambassador and Mrs. Bryce. Photocopies of family picnics, sailing trips, family time at Ye Haven, Anne Doane/Roy Pier wedding party at Magnum Donum, interior Photographs of "Ye Haven" and views of "Mount Desert", the cabin at Little Long Pond, Seal Harbor. Frazier and Pier families, the boat "Only", Amb. & Mrs. Bryce aboard "Kiawa" and on Gotts Island picnic, and hike up Blue Hill. Original Photographs from Doane Family Albums A, B, E, F, H, I, and X. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions. [show more]
Description: Small brochure from the Rock End Hotel following enlargement. Scenes of the south from the hotel porch, two Maine Central Ferry Boats passing in front of hotel, and row boats on the shore of Jordan Pond. Belle Smallidge Collection
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]
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"
Description: "Capt. Van Norden's Boat" - A friendship sloop sails off the waters of Mount Desert Rock with four men aboard. To the right a spar buoy leans is visible
Description: Shows J. P. Morgan's yacht CORSAIR in front of the Cromwell House ("Rosserne"). View across Somes Sound to Fernald Point and Flying Mountain. Attached to 15x18" mountboard
Description: The illustration by Edith Brand appears on page 7 in "A Case of Sardines: A Story of the Maine Coast" by Charles Poole Cleaves, The Pilgrim Press, 1904. A sentimental novel that includes descriptions of the lives of those employed by sardine factories on the coast of Maine.
Description: Handwritten notes of Frank Spurling recounting his life as a fisherman beginning when he was 9 years old. He writes of sailing the Wheelwright yacht for many years.
Description: "Merry Wing" was a Maine Sloop Boat, a centerboard sloop because Lewis Freeman Gott was from Gotts Island and he needed to be able to raise the centerboard to get into the Pool there. Lewis Freeman Gott won a cup for winning the Eagle Island Races three years in a row with "Merry Wing". The cup may be seen in the Tremont Historical Society Museum. "Local lore has it that she was the fastest sailboat in the area, and from time to time was entered in the early races held in the Great Harbor (Southwest Harbor - Northeast Harbor - Cranberry Isles neighborhood) under the auspices of the Northeast Harbor Fleet, and there proved her merit by beating everybody!" - The Newsletter of the Tremont Historical Society, Vol. 15, No. 1, Summer 2012, p. 1. [show more]