Description: Three documents and one envelope (1888-1900). Two lists of boats to be taxed, one bill for taxes 1900, and one envelope 1888. See description of each document. Names mentioned include: Bunker, Bracy, Birlem, Campbell, Fernald, Gilley, Hadlock, Howard, Harding, Hamor, Joy, Jordan, Ladd, Lopaus, Main, Preble, Phippin, Pung, Rosebrook, Richardson, Rice, Spurling, Stanley, Sanford, Young, Mayo, Fernald, and Hadlock. One handwritten list of boats to be taxed 1885. [show more]
Description: Instruction sheet, immersion suit donning, found 25 Aug 2002 on shore near, and presumed to be from, the wreck of the Donbhe, which occurred 5 Mar 2002
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.
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.
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.
Description: 1. Schooners in winter 2. Sunbeam, schooner 3. Northeast Harbor marina 4. Northeast Harbor marina 5. Lobster boat in winter 6. Northeast Harbor marina 7. Northeast Harbor marina 8. View over Asticou dock along Peabody Drive 9. Little Long Pond in winter 10. View from Pervear's kitchen, Harborside Drive 11. Ice in the water at Northeast Harbor marina 12. Ice in the water at Northeast Harbor marina 13. Ice in the water at Northeast Harbor marina 14. Ice in the water at Northeast Harbor marina 15. Hopkins House 16-26. Northeast Harbor in winter 27. Cove End 28-47. Northeast Harbor in spring 48-59: Northeast Harbor in summer 60-79: Northeast Harbor in autumn 80-82: Exterior view of a house 83: Dock 84: Dock 85: View out to ocean 86-88: Northeast Harbor marina 89-90: View out to ocean 91-92: Boats in harbor 93: Yard in autumn 94: Boat on water 95: View out to ocean 96: Mount Desert Island landscape [show more]
Description: 72 B/W and sepia photographs of the Northeast Harbor Fleet around the clubhouse and under sail. Photographs of IOD's Collection brought to the library in 1998 and are listed as coming from the fleet and Joe Grant. See also item 5458 2: Aquila NEH #2 on mainsail only 4: The "30 M" clearly IDs this boat as a 30 sq m, but the M3 probably denotes it as NEH #3, which is Herman Hessenbruch's Agile 8: Three 30 sq m beating into the wind. Agile NEH #2, in the foreground, tacking to starboard while the other hulls are going to port. The left-most boat looks like NEH #6. The wake behind #2 suggest it had just turned smartly. Also note #2's conspicuous large donut life ring on the stern deck 9: see also photo 1156 q 11/55: Flying Cloud 10/49: Vixen III 16: Sagamore 18/42: Vayu 19: Light air amid a pre-race pileup of yacht racing classes, including Aquila NEH #2, and Nordic II NEH #4 23: Sagamore 26: Aquila NEH #2, probably taken minutes after Photo 1852 NEHF 43. Shows the slight curvature of the upper mast, a characteristic of square meter boats 29/30/37: Niliraga 41: Thistle 43: Aquila NEH #2. The much larger boat in the background (white hull) is not a 30 sq. m. 45: Nancy, Agile. Hessenbruch's jib-less Agile NEH #3 being passed by light-hull NEH #6 51: 30 M #5, with a white hull, running and leading NEH #2 Aquila 53: Another view at the race start of Photo 1852 NEHF 55, showing the same boats in the same order left to right. This would be the start of the big boats racing over the same course. It looks like three other 30 sq. m. are racing given the bent upper masts 55: X 42, 4th from left, is a sail number designation (with an X) that was common for 30 sq. m. boats imported from Germany during the early 1930s. X 42 could be (?) the Gluckauf, the boat purchased and renamed as US3 Visitor by L. Francis Herreshoff. Also in the starting line is the 40 sq. m. NEH #2 Tsana III (holding the actual floating line) 56: Malcom N. Stanley's boat, winner class B, August series 57: Blue Hill, 1933 58: Nymph 59: Old Mack B, 1933 62: Class B yachts approaching finish line 67-71: Start of a Northeast Harbor race in the Summer of 1958 [show more]
Description: Copy of R. Lunt article appearing in book "By Land and By Sea; Studies in the Folk-lore of Work and Leisure. ( R. D Abrahams, ed.) Dedicated to Horace Beck on his 65th birthday.
Description: Letter from Ben Spurling, Cranberry Isles, 17 Dec 1876 to Capt. Stanley, making arrangements to sell part of Spurling's vessel and to order coal
Description: Business receipt, 26 Oct 1898, Schooner S. L. Foster bought of Henry Clark, Southwest Harbor, 1 pair of 8 ft. oars, $1.12, signed H. Clark by hand of J. Parker
Description: Ted Spurling Sr. recounts sailing tales of Capt. Melitiah and Caroline (Stanley) Richardson of Great Cranberry Island. Son Peter continued sailing after his father's death. Cranberry Isles woman made a quilt for Caroline, now owned by Bobby Gray.
Description: Race entry information for the 1951, 1957, 1963, and 1965 races. Mentioned are the Hinckley yawls Nirvana (1951 race) and Valhalla as Mai Tai, Currytuck, and Janie C (all four races).
Description: Luder-16 racing on MDI makes a comeback after 30 years. Owners include Alec Goriansky, Jane Zirnkilton, and Alan McIlhenny. The boats were built in the 1930's by Luders Marine Construction Co. in CT.