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| Harborside Industries Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Harborside Industries Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Howe D. Higgins turned a hobby into a profitable business making plaster figurines and souvenirs of the state of Maine. | ||
| The Oceanarium Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Lawlor Ice Business Benjamin M. Robinson Ice Pond Henry E. Tracy Ice Pond Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Lawlor Ice Business Benjamin M. Robinson Ice Pond Henry E. Tracy Ice Pond Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: In the 21st Century we may think of ice as something that comes out of the doors of our refrigerator or a nice skating surface in an indoor rink, but, in the 18th and early 19th centuries the ice business produced a very necessary product and employed many people. See: “Ice Harvesting Sampler” DVD, produced by Northeast Historic Film, Black & White, NTSC, 33 minutes - 1994. This “compilation of newsreel and amateur footage of ice harvesting operations in Maine includes ice-house interiors with massive ice blocks being maneuvered at high speed, and horse teams delivering ice to brownstones in Boston.” “America’s Icemen: An Illustrative History of the United States Natural Ice Industry 1665-1925” by Joseph C. Jones Jr., published by Jobeco Books, 1984. “The American Ice Harvests: A Historical Study in Technology, 1800-1918” by Richard O. Cummings, published by the University of Calfornia Press, 1949. [show more] | ||
| Jackson Laboratory Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Alden Designs Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Stanley Dry Plate Company Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Stanley Dry Plate Company Southwest Harbor Public Library | |||
| Sawin's Cambridge Express Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Sawin's Cambridge Express Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Moses Morse Sawin bought Buck's Express on August 14, 1860, "He conducted this business several years under its old name, then changed it to Sawin’s Express, which became one of the best known and most flourishing of the suburban express lines about Boston. His business was in transporting baggage and merchandise between Boston and Cambridge. He continued business until 1905, when he sold out to the Boston & Suburban Express Company, and retired from active business." - A History of Cambridge, Massachusetts (1630-1913) by Samuel Atkins Eliot, A.M., D.D. Together With Biographies of Cambridge People – The Cambridge Tribune, p. 243-4 – 1913 Sawin's Express was such a fixture of life at Harvard, transporting students' luggage to and from school, that it appeared often in jokes, skits and in Harvard alumnae publications. [show more] | |||
| Henry C. Rand & Co. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Henry C. Rand & Co. Southwest Harbor Public Library |