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You searched for: Subject: BusinessesSubject: VesselsSubject: Other BusinessType: Document
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
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
Description:
Lists of ships, tonnages and owners in Mount Desert 10 pages stapled or taped with 2 loose sheets
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
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"
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
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
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
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.