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Various documents relating to the history of Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Uncurated Accession
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Articles, newspapers, and various other material mostly relating to Southwest Harbor.
Photographs and a brochure from Ralph Stanley
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Uncurated Accession
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Friendship Sloop
  • In Copyright
Photographs and a brochure from Ralph Stanley
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
See index file for a description of each item
John Williams and Lyford Stanley
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • In Copyright
John Williams and Lyford Stanley
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Photos of John “Jock” Williams and his partner Lyford Stanley. Also includes photos of lobster boats they built and an aerial view of the boatyard.
The Howe D. Higgins Collection of Documents
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Set
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
The Howe D. Higgins Collection of Documents
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
The Howe D. Higgins Collection contains Howe's collection of documents from his time spent as a customs officer on Mount Desert Island from 1921 to 1930, with some other documents spanning into the 1930s. The collection is sorted into several sets of documents including: letters and correspondence with Howe D. Higgins pertaining to information about rum running and bootleggers on the island; reports of seizures and related search warrants; documents containing information about rum runners in the area; Howe D. Higgins' Work Logs as customs officer from 1921 to 1922 and 1928 to 1930; and newspaper clippings pertaining to prohibition and rum running on Mount Desert Island. [show more]
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.
Harvesting Ice at Chris's Pond
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Harvesting Ice at Chris's Pond
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Harvesting Ice at Chris's Pond
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Harvesting Ice at Chris's Pond
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Lawler Ice Business, Harvesting Ice at Chris's Pond
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
D. Marino & Co's. Store, Hall Quarry, Me.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
  • Copyright Undetermined
D. Marino & Co's. Store, Hall Quarry, Me.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
The Underwood Canning Factory Crew at McKinley
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
The Underwood Canning Factory Crew at McKinley
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Drying Fish at J.L. Stanley & Sons, Manset, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Fred Sidney Mayo on Steps of Mayo's Ice Cream Parlor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Fred Mayo holding a wooden ice cream bucket. The building at the far right is the James A. Freeman House (the Inn at Southwest Harbor as of 2016).
Women Packing Sardine Cans in Maine - Probably Bass Harbor or Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Note the scissors hanging on the wall - typical in the old canning factories. The location of this photograph is unknown, but it was in a collection of pictures taken on Mount Desert and could very well have been taken in Bass Harbor, Southwest Harbor or Manset.
Herbert Guy La Count working on a Navy Yawl
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Herbert Guy La Count working on a Navy Yawl
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Left to Right: Herbert Guy La Count (1891-1958) Unknown man working on a Navy Yawl
The Henry R. Hinckley Company - Early Office
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
The Henry R. Hinckley Company - Early Office
Southwest Harbor Public Library
My Grandmother Lived for the Factory Whistle
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Memoir
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • Walsh - Carol Reed Walsh
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
My Grandmother Lived for the Factory Whistle
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
The story of Mary Louise Mitchell as told by her granddaught, Carol Reed Walsh
Ralph Merrill Grindle Working on a Lobster Boat
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
The Henry R. Hinckley Company - Southwest Boat Corporation - Howie Robinson in a Lobster Boat
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
The Sheet Metal shop is on the left and the Lower Shop is on the right. Howie Robinson at left.
Crew at Work in the Boat Shop at Rich & Grindle Boatbuilders
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Ralph Merrill Grindle is on the left.
William Patch Dickey at W.P. Dickey & Co., Bangor, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • Maine
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
William Patch Dickey is standing next to the desk in his prodigiously stocked hardware store on Broad Street in Bangor, Maine. Among the items shown for sale are: H & B pocket knives made by William L. Humason, Sr., who founded the Humason & Beckley Manufacturing Company of New Britain, Connecticut, in 1853. The company produced fine pocket cutlery, corkscrews and other hardware. Kerosene lamps of every description – hanging from the ceiling Chamois – hanging from the ceiling Many varieties of thermometers hanging in a row from the ceiling Shotguns and other knives Feather dusters String and a cast iron string holder A model of the Eiffel tower A small, portable steam engine, possibly a toy Chain and twine A beautiful wind-up alarm clock with a bell on top Cow bells Pratt & Lambert’s “Faultless Varnishes" Boxes of sleigh bells and shaft bells Glass. Mr. Dickey’s female clerk, carefully dressed in an apron with her hair put up in a bun, is standing at the desk. Items seen on the desk are: W.P. Dickey & Co. invoices neatly held by a painted tin box stenciled “Bill-Heads" Glass Ink pots Standard Liquid Glue A leather-bound ledger Steel-nibbed pens Rubber stamps [show more]
Lucy Ella Lawler Whitmore Feeding Chickens
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Farming
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Lucy Ella Lawler Whitmore Feeding Chickens
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Bill Leading the Horses at Lawlor Ice Business
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Bill Leading the Horses at Lawlor Ice Business
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Christopher Wendell Lawlor Driving His Ice Wagon
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Left to Right: Unknown man Joseph Christopher Lawlor (1925-2002) Christopher Wendell Lawlor (1893-1956) Chris, like many people of his time, used the chassis or wheels or parts of a worn out Ford Model A automobiles or trucks as the base for his hay and ice wagons. The wagon shown here has Model A. wheels.