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1942 Map of a portion of Mount Desert Island
26 foot fishing vessel, Bass Harbor Boat Shop (4)
30 sq. Metre sail boat # 1 Valle
32' Boat for Vernon Dalzell, Frenchboro, boat at Southwest Harbor, Maine
34' Boat for Philip Bennett, Under construction
36' Fishing Boats, Webber's Cove (15)
92' dragger, Constance, under construction (2)
97' dragger under construction, Southwest Boat Corp. (2)
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A Boat # 27 Tsana (Morris) and A Boat # 43 Sammy West (Wilder)
A Boat # 38 and International Boat # 5
A Boat # 4, International # 7 and Sparrow
A Boats #35 Alanda or Vixen (Butler/Roberts) and # 40 Scud (Fox/Price)
A-Boat #50 Gull (Pew) undersail
A-Boats #1, Daffydil , #17 Kipper
A-Boats #22Aeolus (Lee), # 24 Last Chance (Sinkler) and #18 Sinbad (Thompson)
Alterations and Additions, Northeast Harbor Fleet, Tennis Club, and Swim Club, 1945-1970
Alterations for residence of Mr. and Mrs. A.P. Butler, Southwest Harbor
Alterations, Union Trust Company, Ellsworth, ME, 1949 (2)
American Red Cross Canteen Trucks
ANP account of weather conditions during Fire of 1947
Arthur H. Freeman to Raymond P. Somes (2)
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"Baby Rose" and "Horne", Fish Wharf
Ballard: Four Sardine Carriers-1946
Ballard: Sardine Boats off Clark Point Road
Bar Harbor Motor Co. (10)
Barbara Alberta Lanpher's Diploma, Mount Desert High School
Beal's Wharf #343 A "George Klink"
Bear Island Light with Sailboat
Between the Hills and Its 100 - Year Old Church
Birds of Mt. Desert Island Acadia National Park.
Block of ice moving up coveyor belt
Boat in Hoist at Bouchard Boat Shop Negative, 1948 (1)
Boat in Hoist at Bouchard Boat Shop Negative, 1948 (2)
Boat on Repairway, BassHarbor Boat Shop
Boat yard landing, SW Harbor, Maine
Boats about Town Landing, Southwest Harbor, Maine
Boats and Lobster Shack at Beal's Wharf Negative, 1940
Boats at Bass Harbor From Thurston’s Wharf (2)
Boats at Beal's Wharf, SW Harbor, Maine (2)
Boats at Beal's Wharf Negative, 1940
Boats at Manset Wharf Negative, 1948
Boats at Manset Wharf, SW Harbor, Maine
Boats at Southwest Harbor Town Landing Negative, 1945
Bobby Rich's Father's Boat yard
Borogare of the Bar Harbor Yacht Club (2)
Boston Sunday Advertiser Pictoral Review
Bottle Break at Launching of Vinalhaven II Negative, 1943
Bouchard Boat Shop, SW Harbor, Maine (2)
Branch with clusters of flowers.
Builder’s Model of Brig M.T. Rich
B&W photograph of 2-year-old John Wheeler Millard on a tricycle,1945
B&W photograph of 3 women and a young boy standing outside
B&W photograph of a small boy on the running boards of a white car, 1945
B&W photograph of a woman and small dog posed next to a car with houses in the background,1944
B&W photograph of a woman standing next to a car with a small dog to her right, 1949
B&W photograph of four women and three men in front of a house, 1947
By-Laws of Ocean Lodge, I.O.O.F. No. 140
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Campfield's Madeira Camera Shop Group
Certificates of Birth of Grace Sample and La Rue Spiker
Charles Butt Ballard Negative Collection
Chloe Hull, Bessie Hull Spiker, Sarah Spiker, Roy Spiker
Coast Guard Cutter "Kickap" off Otter Point, Mount Desert Island, Maine (2)
Construction at Davis Boat Yard, McKinley, Maine (3)
Construction at Davis Boat Yard Negative, 1948 (1)
Construction at Davis Boat Yard Negative, 1948 (2)
Construction of "Constance" Negative, 1942 (1)
Construction of "Constance" Negative, 1942 (2)
Construction Plan , Design No. 77
Construction view, exterior of hull, Bunker and Ellis
Construction view, interior of hull, Bunker and Ellis
Construction Workers Lifting Motor at Davis Boat Yard Negative, 1948
Copies of pics from Fire of 1947
Copy of Path and Road Map for the Eastern Part of Mount Desert Island 1941
Copy of Path and Road Map for the Western Part of Mount Desert Island
Cotton and lace cover for child's pillow
Cruise Schooners (5)
Cruiser (4)
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Dance Order, Second Annual Fishermen's Ball, 1949
Deck View of Vinalhaven II at Launch Negative, 1943
Deed: Elizabeth C. Gray to Raymond P. Somes
Deep cut on Cadillac Mountain Road
Diary and Notes on the 5 year diary of Minne (Mitchell) Dolliver
Diesel engine, aboard Irwin Spurling's boat
Discharge papers for Stuart J. Smith (2)
Dog in forest (2)
Dr. M. T. Mellon, at helm of motor boat.
Dragger C.R. & M. at Davis Boat Yard Negative, 1949 (1)
Dragger C.R. & M. at Davis Boat Yard Negative, 1949 (2)
Dragger C.R. & M. at Davis Boat Yard Negative, 1949 (3)
Dragger C.R. & M., Davis Boat Yard (6)
Dragger C.R. & M., Davis Boat Yard (4)
Dragger Rigging in Manset Negative, 1941 (1)
Dragger Rigging in Manset Negative, 1941 (2)
Dragger rigging, Manset, Maine
Dragger Rigging, Manset, Maine
Draggers at Beal's Wharf Negative, 1945
Draggers at Beal's Wharf, Southwest Harbor, Maine
Dragggers at Coast Guard Base, Southwest Harbor, Maine (2)
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Eagle Lake and Frenchman's Bay
Eastern Maine Championship Runner-Up 1949
Elva L. Beal on launching ways
Entrance to Somes Sound, Southwest Harbor, Maine
Envelope for discharge papers for Stuart J. Smith
Estate of Arthur L. Somes, Petition and Probate of Will
Evaluation of Defects (in cows competing for prizes)
Evergreen trees on rock outcropping.
Experts Plan Rebuilding of Bar Harbor: Lumber in Firs Area to be Salvaged
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Fire of 1974: letter to Elmer Cousins to pick up belongings
Fish handling, wharf at SW Harbor, Maine
Fish on the Wharf at Southwest Harbor Negative, 1945
fish Wharf and Dragger in Fog, SW Harbor, Maine
Fish Wharf and Dragger in Fog Negative, 1948
Fishing boats on shore, Davis Yard, Bass Harbor
Fishing Boats tied up at Manset Wharf (4)
Fishing vessel Bonaventure, underway
Fishing vessels: Whileaway and Dorothy & Edith
Fishing vessels at Coast Guard Base (2)
Fishing vessels, Town Landing, Southwest Harbor
Fleet off Hills (2)
Flowers sprouting from leaf littler
Fog at Boat Wharf Southwest Harbor
Fontaine Leval: A French Settlement on the Maine Coast, 1791
Fred Thurston with his traps, Bernard, Maine
Fred Thurston, with his traps, Bernard, Maine
Fred Thurston with His Traps Negative, 1946 (1)
Fred Thurston with His Traps Negative, 1946 (2)
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Gasoline carrier and fishing boat at Beal's Wharf, Southwest Harbor, Maine.
Gayle and Barbara, fishing vessel, on the Ways (3)
Gelouba of the Bar Harbor Yacht Club (4)
George Dorr in seashore cave, c. 1940
Gilmanac 1948 Gilman High School Yearbook
Grace and Lunette (#2 in series of this boat)
Grace and Lunette of Bar Harbor (3)
Group at Davis Boat Yard Negative, 1949
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Hallie and Raymond Somes 1940s
Hancock County Grammar School 1948 Trophy
Hancock County Grammar School Tournament 1949 Trophy
Hancock County Tournament Championship Trophy 1940
Harbor at Southwest Harbor, 1949
Harbor Ice from the Beal Fish Wharf, Southwest Harbor, Maine
Harbor Ice Off the Beal Fish Wharf Negative, 1943
Harbor Ice, Southwest Harbor Boat Corp Wharf
Harvesting Ice on Somes Pond, 1947
Health Measures after the Fire
Herring Boats off Seawall, Southwest Harbor, Maine (2)
Hoisting Ice aboard Hornet, Beal's Wharf, SW Harbor, Maine
Hoisting Ice Aboard "Hornet" Negative, 1945 (1)
Hoisting Ice Aboard "Hornet" Negative, 1945 (2)
Home for Mr. and Mrs. Gerrish H. Milliken, "The Haven", Northeast Harbor, Maine, 1948 (7)
Home for Mrs. Russell Wilson, Somesville, ME, 1949 (3)
Home of Mr. and Mrs. M.C. Kennedy, Northeast Harbor, Maine, 1948-1962
House and Guest House for Mr. and Mrs. R.A. Thorndike, Bar Harbor, ME, 1946
House and Guest House for Mr. and Mrs. R.A. Thorndike, Bar Harbor, ME, 1947 (3)
House and Guest House for Mr. and Mrs. R.A. Thorndike, Bar Harbor, ME, 1948
House for Antonio Y. Stewart, Bar Harbor, Hulls Cove, 1947 (7)
House for Antonio Y. Stewart, Bar Harbor, Hulls Cove, 1948 (7)
House for Miss Carolyn Trippe, "Wingwood" (Stotesbury), Bar Harbor, Maine, 1948 (6)
House for Mr. and Mrs. Donald N. Gilpin, Somesville, Maine, 1949-1952 (4)
House for Mr. and Mrs. F.B. Stimson, Mount Desert, ME, 1949 (9)
House for Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Jones, Castine, Maine, 1948 (15)
House for Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald, Somes Sound, Mount Desert, Maine, 1948 (13)
House for Mrs. Beatrix Farrand, Bar Harbor, Maine , sheet 2
House for Mrs. Beatrix Farrand, Bar Harbor, Maine, Sheet 3
House for Mrs. Louis Owens, Bar Harbor, Maine, 1948-1950
House for Mrs. Potter Palmer, Bar Harbor, Maine, 1948-1950 (45)
Howard J. Crafts' Wood shop Accounting Ledger
Hulls No. 553-77: Construction Plan
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Ice Harvesting, Somes Pond, 1947
Infant bonnet (3)
Infant jacket (2)
Infant shirt (2)
Information card for the U.S.S. Missouri visit to Bar Harbor
Internationals Behind Starting Line
Invitation to 100th Anniversary of the Congregational Religious Society of MDI (1940)
Invitation to the Forty Hayseeders Annual Ball, February 21, 1944
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Jarvis Newman's father's peapod and dragger built by Sim Davis
J.L. Stanley and Sons 58’ Dragger (5)
Joan and Tom, fishing vessel (2)
John D. Rockefeller 1839-1937 Industrial Pioneer and Man
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Kebo Valley Club, 60th Anniversary
Kimball House, Northeast Harbor, ME
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Land of Enchantment: The Penobscot Bay - Mount Desert Region of Maine.
LaRue Spiker and Francis Failing
Last Will & Testament of Hallie M. Somes
Last Will & Testament of Raymond P. Somes
Launching of Dorothy & Betty II (4)
Launching of Vinalhave II, SW Harbor, Maine (2)
Launching of Vinalhaven II Negative, 1943
Launching of Vinalhaven II, SW Harbor, Maine (6)
Launching ways in the ice, Southwest Boat Corp.
Laurence Wayne vessel, interior photos (8)
Letter of estimate of cost to Fred Smith (1946) from plumbing company
Letter to Jud ? from Don stationed in Italy
Letter to Maine State Publicity Bureau
Letter to Mr & Mrs Fred P. Smith from Cp Donald E. Smith
Letter to Mr. Eliot from E.A. Pettee
Letter to Robe from Joshua Grindle
Letters Pertaining to Somes Genealogy
Liberty National Bank, Ellsworth, Maine
Light Fog from Manset Shore, Southwest Harbor, Maine
Lobster Boat (4)
Lobster boat with traps at Beal's Wharf
Lobsters and Gasoline at Beal's
Looking at Phillips Lane, 1947
Lorine III (12)
Louine Lunt Peck aboard Army Hospital Ship
Luders Hulls 553-62: Sail Plan & Rigging Details
Luders Sail Plan, Hulls 553-62
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Maine Central Property, Perspective Sketch, Suggested Development, 1945
Maine Central Property, Plan, Suggested Development, 1945
Maine Central Property, Plan, Suggested Development, 1945, Sheet 1
Maine Province and Court Records Vol. 3
Malvern Flower Shop, Bar Harbor, details (2)
Malvern Flower Shop, Bar Harbor, Flower shop and potting shed, first floor plan and elevations
Malvern Flower Shop, Bar Harbor, Full size details, rafters
Map of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park
Map of Mt. Desert Island, Maine
Mary Rose, in Ice at Southwest Boat Corp., Fitting Wharf
"Mary Rose" in Ice Negative, 1943
Men working on boat, "Connecticut", Southwest Harbor, Maine
Men Working on "Connecticut" Negative, 1946
Men Working on "C.R. & M." Negative, 1946
Minutes of Meetings of Ocean Lodge #140 I.O.O.F. (2)
Misty Harbour, copyright image SW Harbor, Maine
Mitchell's Boat, Bass Harbor Boat Shop (5)
Mitchell's Boat (second in series)
Mixed Class of Larger Boats of Hills
Mixed Classes waiting for the gun (2)
More Vacation Days in Maine. Signed by the author.
Mount Desert Island Educational Survey
Mount Desert Island Educational Survey 1949
Mount Desert Island School Survey, Preliminary Report, December 1, 1948
Mount Desert Island's Worst Disaster
Mout Desert Deer Past and Present
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New Boat, Bass Harbor Boat Shop, Bernard
Newman 32' (2)
Newsletter of The Mount Desert Messenger (1945)
North Vista, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University, Washington, DC, gates
North Vista, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University, Washington, DC, north wall
North Vista, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University, Washington, DC, sketch of gates (2)
North Vista, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, Preliminary Plan
North Vista, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, Preliminary Plan, Details
North Vista, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, Preliminary Plans (2)
North Vista Finials for the two North Vista Corners, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, DC
North Vista Finials for two Center Piers, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, DC
North Vista Finials, One finial at each of Two Gates, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington DC
North Vista Gates, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, Sketch (2)
North Wall, North Vista, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, Sketch
Northeast Harbor Fleet Becalmed (2)
Northeast Harbor Fleet Headquarters (2)
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Pandora of the Bar Harbor Yacht Club
"Pansy L. Robbins" in Norwood Cove
Pansy L. Robbins, Southwest Harbor, Maine
Peliminary Report on the Town Plan Bar Harbor, Maine
Peter Benson & Johnathon Stewart Shop
Photo of Hamton (?) Combs 1941
Photo of Liberty National Bank, Ellsworth, Maine, 1949
photo of Miriam Thomas and Buster (?) 1941
Photo of Miriam Thomas and Elmer Marshall
Photo of Somesville High School children
Photo of Somesville school children 1941
Photo of Somesville School House 1941 (2)
Plans for T. Flynn, Long Pond, Town of Mount Desert, Maine, n.d.
Postcard of Eagle Lake from Cadilac Mountain Road
Postcard of Otter Cliff in Acadia National Park
Public School Teacher Contract
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Radio announcements about Fire of !947
Ralph Phippen's Boat at Beal's Wharf
Raymond and Hallie Somes, 1947
Regional Island High School formation papers
Registry of Probate re Estate of Barbara I. Somes
Repair Work on a Vessel at Southwest Boat Corporation
Request for bids of timber by ANP
"Rhode Island", Captain William Howell,
Rich - Grindle Shop; Dalzell Owner of Boat
Rich Brother and Man Working on a Boat Negative, 1949
Rich Brother, reading Maine Coast Fisherman, Bernard, Maine
Rich Brother Reading the Maine Coast Fisherman Negative 1949
Rich Brother Working on a Boat Negative, 1949
Rich Brother, working on boat, Bernard, Maine
Rich Brothers, working on boat building, Bernard, Maine
Rich-Grindle Boatyard, Construction, Southwest Harbor, Maine
Robert W. Patterson Letter regarding 1947 Fire
Rock Cut Ascending Cadillac Mountain Road
Roger Rich Shop: Clark Point Road
"Romance" in the Ice at Manset Negative, 1943
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Said the Bicycle to the Automobile
Sailboat 50 (3)
Sale of property to Harriet S. Sanderson
Salting Herring Net Negative, 1944
Sammy West (10)
Sandra & Jean vessel in and Duke vessel too
Sardine Boats at Southwest Boat Corp. Landing
Sardine Carriers at Southwest Harbor (20)
Schooner, Loading Schooner, Loading Fish Meal (2)
Schooner "William Keene" At the Stanley Fish Wharf
Schooner Yachts of Otter Creek (4)
Schooner Yachts racing off the hills
Scrapbook, newspaper clippings about 1947 Bar Harbor Fire
Scrapbook of clippings about Fire of 1947.
Seal Harbor Library War Hours Announcement
Seal Harbor Neighborhood Hall Association
Seat for the Box Terrace, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC Research Library, Preliminary Sketch
Seat, North Gate, Rose Garden, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC (3)
Seine Boat & Net Handlers--Harbor in Background
Seining at Southwest Harbor Negative, 1949 (1)
Seining at Southwest Harbor Negative, 1949 (2)
Seining at Southwest Harbor Negative, 1949 (3)
Seining at SW Harbor, Maine (3)
Shed or small boathouse on shore, winter, SW Harbor, Maine
Side View of Vinalhaven II at Launch Negative, 1943 (1)
Side View of Vinalhaven II at Launch Negative, 1943 (2)
Small Boats at Beal's Wharf Negative, 1948
Small Boats at Beals Wharf, SW Harbor, Maine
Small boats at fish wharf and town landing, Southwest Harbor, Maine
Small Boats at Southwest Harbor Negative, 1946
Small dog running through field
Society issues related to Fire
Somesville Grammar School, HMS Pinafore Program
Somesville Grammar School Yearbook 1941
Somesville High School Pet Show (2)
Somesville High School Pet Show photo
Somesville High School photo 1941
Somesville High School Photo 1941
Somesville High School photo school bus
Somesville High School playground photo 1941
Somesville School Photos, 1941
Southwest Harbor Boat Yard Landing Negative, 1944
Southwest Harbor Boathouse in Winter Negative, 1940
Southwest Harbor, Boats in the Fog
Southwest Harbor, view from Manset town landing (2)
Souvenir Photo (3)
Special Paper Maine Fire Disaster
Spread of 1947 Fire, East Side, MDI
St. Ignatius Church, Northeast Harbor
State Patrol Boat in Rich-Grindle Yard Negative, 1948 (1)
State Patrol Boat in Rich-Grindle Yard Negative, 1948 (2)
State Patrol Boat in Rich-Grindle Yard Negative, 1948 (3)
State Patrol Boat in Rich-Grindle Yard with Boy Negative, 1948 (1)
State Patrol Boat in Rich-Grindle Yard with Boy Negative, 1948 (2)
State patrol boat, Rich Grindle Yard (5)
Steping Stones, Sieur de Monts Tarn
Stowing Seine: Salting Herring Net
Summer Yesterdays in Maine: Memories of Boyhood Vacation Days
"Sunbeam II" or "Sunbeam III", "Elva Beal", and "Elin B."
Sunbeam, Sandra & Jean, and Hornet Rafted in SWH
Survey of Southwest Harbor, Manset, Sea Wall
Survey of Southwest Harbor, Manset, Seawall January 1942
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The 100th Anniversary Congregational Society of Mount Desert (2)
The Flower Guide: A Pocket Manual of the Wild Flowers East of the Rockies.
The Grange Initiate and Declarations of Purposes of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry.
The Mount Desert Messenger (2)
The One Hundredth Anniversary of the Congregational Society of Mount Desert
The Union Meeting House Worship Schedule (2)
Three Boats Beached on Shore at Head of the Harbor, SW Harbor, Maine
Three Boats Beached on Shore Negative, 1949
Three master at Southwest Harbor, George Klink
Three Master, George Klink (3)
Three-Masted Boat at Southwest Harbor Negative, 1940
Toronto (2)
Two Men at Launching of Vinalhaven II Negative, 1943
Typed excerpt of 'Along These Streets' by Struthers Burt, published 1942
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Uncashed Check from Maine Forestry District
Unidentified man working on exterior hull, Bunker and Ellis
Unidentified man working on exterior hull, Rich Brothers Boat Shop
Unidentified vessel, under construction, Robert Rich Boat Shop
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Vernon Dalzell Boat Negative, 1947
Vessel Romance in the Ice at Manset, SW Harbor, Maine
View from Northeast Harbor Fleet dock
View of McKinley From Thurston's Wharf
View of Northeast Harbor Fleet anchorage
Vinalhaven II in Open Water at Launch Negative, 1943
Vinalhaven II Leaving the Dock at Launch Negative, 1943
Virginia Somes Sanderson, Sheep Island, 1949
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Waterfront views from Southwest Harbor, Maine (4)
Waterfront at Southwest Harbor Negative, 1944 (1)
Waterfront at Southwest Harbor Negative, 1944 (2)
Waterfront Shot with Boats, Southwest Harbor, Maine (2)
Waterfront Views (2)
"Watermelon" sailboat for Mellon Family
Wharf and Skiffs at Low Tide, Bernard, Maine
Wharf and Skiffs at Low Tide Negative, 1945
Whitefish Point Coast Guard Station
WWII War Dept. recognition of Elmer Cousins
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Yawl Skylark (11)
Yellowed color photo of 8 people posed outside with cars in the background,1949
Yellowed color photograph of 3 people posed outside next to a car, 1949
Yellowed color photograph of three people posed outside near a car, 1949