1 - 8 of 8 results

You searched for:

Title	Type	Subject	Creator	Date	Place	Rights
W.S. Brown Account Book Great Harbor Maritime Museum	Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger	Businesses, Other Business Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner	Brown - W.S.	1890 c.	Mount Desert Island	No Known Copyright	W.S. Brown Account Book Great Harbor Maritime Museum Identifier: ghmm-1633 Type: Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger Subject: Businesses, Other Business Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner Creator: Brown - W.S. Date: 1890 c. Place: Mount Desert Island Description: Account book kept by W.S. Brown, master of the schooner J.S. Butler, and other vessels. Includes references to cargoes carried, ports visited, and men employed on the schooner. Also includes records of expenditures, mostly for food, but some references to items like knives. Brown may be William Sheldon Brown but additional research is needed. The book may have been used at an earlier time, as several pages have be ripped out, and Brown's name is found in pencil with the date of 1880 near the beginning [show more]
Mount Desert Shipping Northeast Harbor Library	Document, Administrative Records	Businesses, Other Business Vessels, Ship			Mount Desert		Mount Desert Shipping Northeast Harbor Library Identifier: nehl-6190 Type: Document, Administrative Records Subject: Businesses, Other Business Vessels, Ship Place: Mount Desert Description: Lists of ships, tonnages and owners in Mount Desert 10 pages stapled or taped with 2 loose sheets
The Howe D. Higgins Collection of Documents Southwest Harbor Public Library	Set	Businesses, Other Business People Vessels, Boat				In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	The Howe D. Higgins Collection of Documents Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-16338 Type: Set Subject: Businesses, Other Business People Vessels, Boat Description: The Howe D. Higgins Collection contains Howe's collection of documents from his time spent as a customs officer on Mount Desert Island from 1921 to 1930, with some other documents spanning into the 1930s. The collection is sorted into several sets of documents including: letters and correspondence with Howe D. Higgins pertaining to information about rum running and bootleggers on the island; reports of seizures and related search warrants; documents containing information about rum runners in the area; Howe D. Higgins' Work Logs as customs officer from 1921 to 1922 and 1928 to 1930; and newspaper clippings pertaining to prohibition and rum running on Mount Desert Island. [show more]
Receipt for Schooner Lizzie Maud payment Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Financial, Receipt	Businesses, Other Business Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner		1885		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Receipt for Schooner Lizzie Maud payment Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2010.152.1155 Type: Document, Financial, Receipt Subject: Businesses, Other Business Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner Date: 1885 Description: Business receipt. "Portland, Me Feb 10th, 1885. Received of Benj. N. Spurling Two hundred Dollars on acct of payment of Sch[ooner] Lizzie Maud. $200.00." Appears to be signed by J.P. Nordstrom. Handwriten on back in ink: "Receipt on acct vessel. I. and Y. P. Hodgdon Jr"
Photo-Essay of Last (1942) Voyage of Coal Schooner "Rebecca R. Douglas" Great Harbor Maritime Museum	Publication, Literary, Essay	Businesses, Other Business Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner	Chanler - Bronson W.			Copyright Not Evaluated	Photo-Essay of Last (1942) Voyage of Coal Schooner "Rebecca R. Douglas" Great Harbor Maritime Museum Identifier: ghmm-1147 Type: Publication, Literary, Essay Subject: Businesses, Other Business Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner Creator: Chanler - Bronson W. Description: Photo-Essay by Bronson W. Chanler detailing a trip aboard the coal schooner "Rebecca R. Douglas" between Northeast Harbor and New York City. Note: As originally displayed in the museum, copies of the photographs taken by Chanler were mounted alongside excerpts and quotes. Around 2015 the photographs were removed from the 1984 posters so they could be scanned and better protected. They are uploaded here, as is the complete text by Bronson W. Chanler. [show more]
Howe D. Higgins' Documents Containing Information on Rum Running Southwest Harbor Public Library	Document, Other Documents	Businesses, Other Business People Vessels, Boat				In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Howe D. Higgins' Documents Containing Information on Rum Running Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-16342 Type: Document, Other Documents Subject: Businesses, Other Business People Vessels, Boat Description: This collection of documents contains letters and information about rum running, bootleggers, and their vessels, sent to and from Howe D. Higgins during his time as a customs officer. These documents have been indexed with their dates and the vessels or people they reference.
Howe D. Higgins' Reports of Seizures and Related Documents Southwest Harbor Public Library	Document, Other Documents	Businesses, Other Business People Vessels, Boat				In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Howe D. Higgins' Reports of Seizures and Related Documents Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-16341 Type: Document, Other Documents Subject: Businesses, Other Business People Vessels, Boat Description: This collection of documents contains Howe D. Higgins' reports of seizures as collector of customs, as well as the related documents for those seizures, including search warrants and documents containing information about liquor smuggling.
Correspondence with Howe D. Higgins as Customs Officer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Document, Correspondence, Letter	Businesses, Other Business People Vessels, Boat				In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Correspondence with Howe D. Higgins as Customs Officer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-16339 Type: Document, Correspondence, Letter Subject: Businesses, Other Business People Vessels, Boat Description: This collection contains letters sent to and from Howe D. Higgins between 1921 and 1933 pertaining to information about prohibition and rum runners on Mount Desert Island. These letters have been indexed with their dates and the vessels or people they reference.

Save these search results as a PDF file