Description: Model of Baker Island Lighthouse made ca. 1950; electric lights in keeper's house and lighthouse; heavy cement base, wooden keeper's house, metal Lionel train set tower (no longer in existence on Baker Island), connection between keeper's house and lighthouse (no longer in existence on Baker Island); roof lifts off keeper's house for storage of low voltage (14V) lights and access to ordinary 115V lamp and transformer. Loaned to GCIHS by Great Harbor Maritime Museum to ca. 2010 but remained in GCIHS collection for years. Photo 2013.215.1849C shows Great Harbor Maritime Museum curator Willie Granston with the lighthouse (photo dated 2008). Contact GHMM regarding this item. [show more]
Description: Automobiles along the road at front - Left to Right: The automobile with the hood open is a 1954 Ford Hardtop. 1948 Chrysler 1950-1951 Studebaker Behind tree - 1953 Ford station wagon. W.H. Ballard wrote this note on the negative sleeve for the photograph: "“Bluenose” Ferry Terminal, Bar Harbor, ME; taken the day the Bar Harbor-Yarmouth ferry was officially welcomed (service had been on since the early part of January). Blowing a hard SE gale, and I had to press down so hard on the camera that the tripod sagged. I was the only one who remained on the ridge." [show more]
Description: Construction of the bridge, located on Paradise Hill Road, began in 1950 and was completed in 1952. A photocopy of a photograph of the Duck Brook Motor Bridge on Mount Desert Island, Maine, under construction. Black and White
Description: Automobiles Left to Right: Unknown Unknown truck 1949-1950 Ford wood panelled station wagon 1950-1951 Pontiac sedan Unknown truck 1950 Plymouth 4-door sedan
Description: Raymond was Captain for Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr. (1906-1983) and his family at their cottage, "Jericho House" on Manchester Road, Northeast Harbor and famously built pleasure boat "Jericho" for him in 1950. Gates' three daughters: Gates - Millicent Anne (Gates) Ponce Gates - Patricia Sovereign (Gates) Norris Gates - Katherine Curtis (Gates) McCoy - standing next to the fish
Description: The photograph was taken at the Stanley Fisheries wharf in Manset at the time the wharf was owned by Bill Sklaroff. He enlarged the wharf during his ownership. "At the fish wharf in Southwest Harbor where Ralph baited trawls as a boy - since burned."