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| Photographs of dory, schooner, and steamer boats Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photographs of dory, schooner, and steamer boats Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...(D): information from Ralph Stanley and Bar Harbor Record... File Attachment: 2013.246.2366D.pdf …Here are some items from the Bar Harbor Record: July 6, 1888, Cranberry Isles, Capt. …Benjamin Spurling, in the schooner Lizzie Maud, is in the harbor now. He has bought his father's place, the George N. Spurling homestead. …Spurling and wife of Boothbay Harbor, arrived at the house of Wm. P. Preble last Wednesday for a visit of a few weeks. Capt. | |||
| Sinking Barge Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Sinking Barge Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Bar Harbor Times article about the Beal and Bunker Barge, the Moleska, sinking just off of Islesford... | ||
| Silver Crest - Steam Passenger Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Silver Crest - Steam Passenger Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Silver Crest – Steam Passenger Launch.pdf …The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, February 9, 1888. "W.R. …The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, May 10, 1888. "W.R. …The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, June 7, 1888. "Messrs. Pollister and Merritt, U.S. …[Industrial Journal]." - The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, September 6, 1888. | |||
| Select Wooden Boat and Down East Magazines Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Select Wooden Boat and Down East Magazines Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Clippings from issues of Wooden Boat and Down East Magazines featuring boats and boatbuilders located in or near Southwest Harbor... File Attachment: accession-index-2060.pdf …Down East Magazine August 1974 feature on Southwest Harbor. …Down East Magazine October 1975 feature on Tom Schenk, artist living in Southwest Harbor. …Down East Magazine June 1973 feature on Bar Harbor s famous Cottages. Down East Magazine July 1969 feature on old Bar Harbor. …PO Box 157, Southwest Harbor, ME 04679 ~ www.swhplibrary.net ~ archivist@swhplibrary.org | |||
| S.V.A. Hunter - Passenger Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  S.V.A. Hunter - Passenger Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: S.V.A. Hunter – Passenger Launch.pdf …Keene Boatbuilder (1851-1933) Built at: Southwest Harbor, Maine (Manset) Built for or probable first owner: Ladd Lewis E. …Wheelwright s little steamer at Northeast Harbor." Bar Harbor Record, June 15, 1895 1910: "Northeast Harbor - The many friends of Capt. …Ladd is working about his place on Cranberry Isles." - Bar Harbor Record, August 3, 1910. Author: Charlotte R. Morrill Date: 2017 | |||
| Wilderedge II - Power Cruiser Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Wilderedge II - Power Cruiser Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Wilderedge II - Power Cruiser.pdf …Builders Built at: ME - SWH Clark Point Road 168 Built for: Wilder Milo West Wilder Jr. (1879-1955) Named for: Milo s cottage at Southwest Harbor …Sinclair of Northeast Harbor Summer colony. He also built a tender for Mr. …Bar Harbor Times, April 20, 1927. | |||
| Meredith II - Lobster Boat Mum's Mink Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: Built by Ronald Dean Rich for his twin brother Roger Clifton Rich in 1959. The boat was named for Roger's daughter Meredith. The boat was later sold to Sheldon "Snicker" Damon, who renamed it "Mum's Mink." The boat was restored by Damon's sons after Ronald, Roger, and Sheldon had all passed away. File Attachment: Meredith II - Lobster Boat.pdf …After he gave up lobstering the boat was sold to Northeast Harbor fisherman Sheldon Snicker Damon, who renamed it Mum s Mink. …Whenever I went to his market in Bar Harbor to buy fish, Snicker would ask after my father and I never told him I wasn t quite reconciled to the name …They would have been delighted with the new Meredith II /Mum s Mink." - "Rich & Grindle Boatbuilders, Southwest Harbor, Maine," adapted from an …Labor of Love - Bert Damon of Northeast Harbor paints his father s old fishing boat, Mum s Mink, in anticipation of the coming fishing season. | |||
| Amos Swan - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Amos Swan - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Amos Swan - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat.pdf …He was president of the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, and he had bought this old twenty-six-footer sloop called the Amos Swan. …In the fall I brought her across the harbor, and we finished her in the storage building behind my house on Clark Point Road. …The shop on Clark Point Road was Ralph s great uncle Jimmy s house and shed at 102 Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor, Maine. | |||
| No-Name - Lobster Boat - Built for Joseph Elwood Spurling Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  No-Name - Lobster Boat - Built for Joseph Elwood Spurling Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: This no-name spray hood lobster boat was originally owned by Joseph Elwood Spurling. The vessel had been brought up to Maine by summer people and so started out life as being slightly more elegant than the common fishing boat. She was planked with southern cedar and copper fastened. Elwood used her for weir fishing. He later sold it to Henry Lewis Linscott. When Ralph Ober Phippen owned the vessel he used it for lobster fishing. – Ralph Warren Stanley, 2009. [show more] File Attachment: No-Name - Lobster Boat – Built for Joseph Elwood Spurling.pdf …Clement is an expert boat builder and this product of his skill has brought him much praise from those who understand seagoing craft. " Bar Harbor | |||
| Betty Lou - Lobster Boat Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Betty Lou - Lobster Boat Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Betty Lou - Lobster Boat.pdf …The theory was that he and Fred ran out of gas outside of Baker s Island somewhere, and they drifted across the Bass Harbor bar. | |||
| Photos of a dirigible and boats Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photos of a dirigible and boats Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...anchored to a navy ship with Coast Guard vessel in front July 4, 1925, Bar Harbor Maine. C= Postcard of [illegible] yacht wrecked on Duck island... | |||
| Doane Family Photographs Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Doane Family Photographs Northeast Harbor Library Description: ...Several pictures of the Northeast Harbor visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury & Mrs. Davidson in 1904...Kearsarge off Bar Harbor. Views of the rehearsals and performance of Univ...Anne Doane/Roy Pier wedding party at Magnum Donum, interior Photographs of "Ye Haven" and views of "Mount Desert", the cabin at Little Long Pond, Seal Harbor... | ||
| Eagle Lake from Currens Cove Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Eagle Lake from Currens Cove Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...." - “Bygone Bar Harbor: A Postcard Tour of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park” by Earl Brechlin, 2002, p. 58... | ||
| Larry Wescott Postcard Collection Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Larry Wescott Postcard Collection Northeast Harbor Library Description: ...Beyond Steel Harbor and Head Harbor Islands is Englishman Bay. 5...Highway One, this view across Frenchman Bay shows part of the Mount Desert Hills. 1532 foot Cadillac Mountain, center, in Bar Harbor, is the highest land...Harbor, Maine...To the west is Cadillac Mountain in Bar Harbor. Aerial photograph. 44... | ||
| Safe Haven (Kronprinzessin Cecilie) Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Safe Haven (Kronprinzessin Cecilie) Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Safe Haven-uncompressed.pdf …Bar Harbor, on Mount Desert Island. …Was Bar Harbor to come under blockade? …Bar Harbor was delighted to keep both. …the Bar Harbor Times. | |||
| A Tragedy at Mt. Desert Ferry Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  A Tragedy at Mt. Desert Ferry Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: A Tragedy at Mount Desert Ferry-uncompressed.pdf …PAGE TWENTY-TWO - The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, September 1, 1977 Yesterday A Tragedy At Mt. …Desert Ferry to take the steamer Sappho across the bay to Bar Harbor. …The Sebenoa finally made the trip to Bar Harbor where anxious friends and relatives were waiting. …Bar Harbor filled with thousands of excursionists by this time. Fog shrouded Ships Harbor. | |||
| High and Dry Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  High and Dry Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: High And Dry-uncompressed.pdf …MOORE High and Dry A liner s captain underestimated Frenchman s Bay in 1936. isitors to Bar Harbor are used to seeing passenger liners, whether it …Soon the rapidly falling tide put the ship high and dry just a half-mile from downtown Bar Harbor, despite Hammond s desperate blasts for help on his | |||
| Photographs and a brochure from Ralph Stanley Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Photographs and a brochure from Ralph Stanley Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: See index file for a description of each item File Attachments: accession-contact-sheet-2014.pdf …FOR RESEARCH ONLY ~ Page 1 of 1 ~ Southwest Harbor Public Library Digital Archive ~ Accession 2014 2014 2014-001.tif (5985x4716) 2014-002.jpg (1455x2148 accession-index-2014.pdf …Accession Index Southwest Harbor Public Library Digital Archive Accession #: 2014 Title: Photographs and a brochure from Ralph Stanley Archivist: George …Photos 013 018 are from an album of about 40 photos taken at what appears to be a Friendship Sloop race around Greening Island, outside of Southwest Harbor …Joy, Ellsworth. 2014-002 Print and CD image of Balance Rock on the shore path in Bar Harbor, July1885. 2014-003 2014-008 Eight-page brochure titled …PO Box 157, Southwest Harbor, ME 04679 ~ www.swhplibrary.org ~ archivist@swhplibrary.org stanley-wind-wood.pdf …Boat Building Clark Point Road Southwest Harbor; Maine 04679 207-244- 3795 i . …s outhwest Harbor, Maine has a long history in the boat building industry. | |||
| Unknown Vessel Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Howe D. Higgins' Reports of Seizures and Related Documents Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Howe D. Higgins' Reports of Seizures and Related Documents Southwest Harbor Public Library 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. File Attachments: Reports of Seizure and Related Documents.pdf …Jellison Apartment over Franklin s Dry Goods Store in Bar Harbor HDH 080 10/15/1923 Duplicates of HDH 079 HDH 081 10/31/1923 11/1/1923 Mr. and Mrs …John Burns HDH 082 11/27/1923 Bar Harbor Banking and Trust HDH 083 11/27/1923 Bar Harbor Banking and Trust HDH 084 11/27/1923 Mrs. …Joseph Pulitzer Bar Harbor Banking and Trust HDH 085 11/27/1923 Bar Harbor Banking and Trust HDH 086 11/27/1923 Bar Harbor Banking and Trust HDH 087 …Malvern Hotel HDH 100 7/12/1924 7/19/1924 Mary Coles Bar Harbor Banking and Trust HDH 101 9/3/1924 American Express Company L. | |||
| Correspondence with Howe D. Higgins as Customs Officer Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Correspondence with Howe D. Higgins as Customs Officer Southwest Harbor Public Library 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. File Attachments: Correspondence with Howe D. Higgins.pdf …Higgins (1894-1974) HDH 001 7/18/1921 Sheldrake A-5709 Information about owner of vessel and cargo at Bar Harbor HDH 002 7/27/1921 Winfield Strout | |||
| Photo album from 1930s with pictures of the Niliraga and Moose Island. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Photo album from 1930s with pictures of the Niliraga and Moose Island. Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: See the index for a description of each photograph. Moose Island is located on the western side of MDI. File Attachments: accession-index-1071.pdf …[Piero semi] PO Box 157, Southwest Harbor, ME 04679 ~ www.swhplibrary.org ~ archivist@swhplibrary.org Accession Index Southwest Harbor Public Library …Caption says Ellen Paine . 1071-009 upper right High view toward Moose Island looking at house and lagpole at high tide (sand bar is covered). …Caption says Moose Island . 1071-010 upper left Women next to carving of The Captain and the lagpole on Paine property across the bar to Moose …Index Southwest Harbor Public Library Digital Archive background. | ||
| Vanda, the Most Luxurious Yacht Ever Built In New England Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Vanda, the Most Luxurious Yacht Ever Built In New England Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Three articles in the Thursday, October 4, 1928 edition of The Bath Independent (price three cents) about the luxury yacht Vanda. The main article is about the boat's launching, the second is about its brass fittings, and the third is about its comfort. The third article continues on page three which was not available from the source. Also attached to this item is what appears to be an advertisement from Bath Iron Works which includes a photo of Vanda in the upper right. [show more] File Attachment: The Bath Independent 1928 - Yacht Vanda.pdf …decision in tne Teapot Dome appeal last year, id each year he bring to Maine much of his work and enjoys the hospttaUty of the Sagadahoc county bar …Carl Lodge, a proposed hotel. w orthy m aster, Leland Plum m er, and w hich exem pts the use of wheel bar- T. Keller, Brookline; Mr. and Mrs. EdM. H. …Bar C harles ^ r c has recently his recent v^iTi^^r o T frle A d rin T o w ^ .............Sum m er home and returned to O ak- H arbor; Mr. and Mrs. …Sanborn, C e n -1 whilc ___ _ W alter R rcd of Richm ond passed the ter Harbor. N, H Mr. and Mrs. E d flag was suspend^ed. | ||
| Better Boats for a Better Clientele Capt. Jordan Benson Jesup Memorial Library |
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| Unknown Yacht with USS Philadelphia in Background Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Unknown Yacht with USS Philadelphia in Background Southwest Harbor Public Library |