Description: John and John A. Somes pose outside a house. Inscription on the back reads "R. H. Hyson" in blue pen. People Depicted: John Somes, John A. Somes Black and white
Description: A letter from the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association president Gist Blair, stating his support for an expanded road network on Mount Desert Island. However, Mr. Blair believes that the National Park Service should allow the permanent and summer residents an opportunity to discuss the issue before the government makes any decisions regarding new road construction. People Mentioned: George B. Dorr, John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Description: Mount Desert Island has inspired artists of all kinds for centuries. These are some of the painters, print makers, engravers and others who have created many of the wonderful images in the Digital Archive.
Description: Four men and four women are shown resting on a day's outing. The women are dressed for the country - complete with hats. Botanist, Edward Lathrop Rand, on the far right, is wearing elaborately buckled gaiters and carries his vasculum for collecting botanical specimens.
Description: Four men and four women are shown off for a day's outing. The ninth man is the buckboard driver. Edward Lothrop Rand is standing by the buckboard carrying his vasculum for collecting botanicl specimens. vas·cu·lum n. (pl. -la ) Bot. a collecting box for plants, typically in the form of a flattened cylindrical metal case with a lengthwise opening, carried by a shoulder strap. - "vasculum." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (March 16, 2010). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-vasculum.html. [show more]
Description: Mary F. Steenstra, 16 years old, wearing her eyeglasses, with her watch fob cord tucked through her button holes, her handkerchief neatly tucked into her sash and her hat at her feet seems relaxed at the oars of a rowboat, probably in the waters off Mount Desert Island.
Description: Ralph is shown using a winch head to haul his traps. Robert Crowe had not yet developed the east coast Hydro-Slave pot hauler. He did so in 1964 thereby making it much easier to lift the heavy, water sodden pots from the sea.
Description: Ralph is shown using a winch head to haul his traps. Robert Crowe had not yet developed the east coast Hydro-Slave pot hauler. Compare this photograph to Item 12443 that shows Gary Parsons hauling lobsters with a Hydro-Slave in 1985.