Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, May 11, 1908. View shows the light staton, with the top of the tower cropped by the frame of the photograph. In front of the tower the oil house is visible. Behind the tower the keepers' houses are visible. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. May 11, 1908 S.W. of Double Tenement Topless Tower N.G. Taken by Lucy M. Dodge Devel. Prof. Cyko 1 oz. 5. 5m.
Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, October 1908. View shows a man in the foreground, with the boom of the derrick next to him. In the background the light tower and keepers' dwellings are visible. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Oct. 1908 Mr. Frank Dewyea South Portland, Mee.
Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, 1906. View shows the lighthouse tender Lilac at anchor off Mount Desert Rock, the shoreline of which is visible to the right. Written on negative envelope: No. 2 Lilac 1906 Mt. Desert Lt. Sta.
Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, October 29, 1908. View shows the addition to the double house (noted in one negative as an addition to the kitchen). This negative notes the addition was built as a dining room. Four men stand in the foreground, identified as: Mr. Orn, Mr. F. Orn, Mr. Foster, and Mr. Rand, all of whom worked as builders., The negative also lists Mr. Murphy and Mr. Dewyea, who worked as builders. Written on negative envelope: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Oct. 29. 1908 No. 2 Messrs. Orn, F. Orn, Foster, Rand Builders of Dining-room Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Murphy + Dewyea also builders not in negative Simplex Plate Devel. Hydro Metol Lumiere [show more]
Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, September 1907. View depicts a Friendship sloop, identified as belonging to Captain Van Norden, towing two smaller boats. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Sept. 1907 No. 1 Capt. Van Norden's Boat
Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1908. View shows at least four boats not far from shore fishing. To the far left is a two-masted schooner and in the center is a Friendship sloop. In front of the sloop, and to the right, are at least two smaller boats. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Aug. 1908 Capt. John Robinson seining
Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, likely in the fall of 1908 (a related negative is dated October 1908). View shows the extension to the kitchen of the double house. Workmen are positioned around the rear of the house, while a rack of fish dries in the foreground. Negative envelope reads: No. 3
Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1908. View shows two men, standing on the granite ledges behind a building, with the ocean visible behind them. On the ledges in the foreground, the shadows of two people are visible, one of whom is the photographer. From the envelope the identities of these two men are known: Mr. Dorgan and Mr. Brewer, likely men employed by the lighthouse service to tend to matters at Maine's light stations. Written on negative envelope: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Aug. 1908 Mr. Dorgan + Mr. Brewer [show more]
Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, October 1908. View shows the extension built onto the kitchen of the double house, where a flat-roofed section extends beyond the original rear wall. Men stand on the roof and on a wooden scaffold, and one sits on the roof dormer. Toward the left of the photo a large pile of trash wood is visible, and in the foreground fish are laid on wooden racks drying. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Oct. 1908 No. 4. Repairing Station Building New Kitchen [show more]
Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View depicts the double house, seen from the front side. In the foreground are large broken ledges, and the house fills the background. A boy sits on the porch. Written on the negative envelope: Mt. Desert Rk. Lt. Sta. Aug 1907 No. 5
Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View shows side of the boathouse, looking southeast. A weathervane is visible on top of the boathouse, and an exhaust pipe for the steam engine that hauled boats. A walkway extends to the right, and another building is visible near the right edge of the negative. In the distance the ocean may be seen with a vessel near the horizon line. Written on negative envelope: Mt. Desert Rk. Lt. Sta. Aug. 1907 No. 5. d. boat-house. Looking S.E. [show more]
Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View looks toward the ocean across the granite ledges of Mount Desert Rock. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Aug. 1907 No. 7. a. Looking N.E.
Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View looks toward the ocean across the granite ledges of Mount Desert Rock. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Aug. 1907 No. 7. b. Looking N.E.
Description: Glass negative taken off Mount Desert Rock, circa 1907. View shows a Friendship sloop under sail with the light station visible in the background. This negative envelope may actually belong with 1988.19.72; as that envelope has the name of a boat, the Gladys Simmons.
Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View looks toward the ocean with broken ledges in the foreground, work buildings to the right, and the back of the boathouse, with its metal chimney in the center. To the right of the boathouse the top of the derrick is visible. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Aug. 1907 No. 7g. Derrick + Boat House, Looking North.
Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View looks across open granite ledges toward the bell tower, with the davit and ocean visible to the right. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Aug. 1907 No. 7.d. Bell-tower, Looking S.
Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, circa 1908. Image looks across broken granite ledges toward an open ocean. At the far left a building is visible, and wooden racks (perhaps for drying fish) sit on the ledges. The negative envelope for this image seems to have been reused, and the writing does not seem to refer to this image. It reads: Mt. Desert Lt. July 27, 1908 Gladys Simmons Devel. Di. S. Plate
Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, June 1908. Image shows a view of the light station and the landscape at Mount Desert. In the foreground piles of broken granite lay across the ledges, with the oil house and tower visible to the right. In the center of the image the double house is visible, and the top of the davit may be seen to the left. The negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. June 1908 S.W. view of Station.
Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. This negative is badly damaged and has not been digitized. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Tower No. 2 Taken from South
Description: Glass plate negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View looks up toward the light station, with the boathouse and davit visible to the left, work buildings in the center, and the double house and tower to the right. In the foreground the rocks are covered with seaweed and a man, identified as Will [Dodge] on the negative envelope stands just beyond it. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Rk. Lt. Sta. Aug. 1907 No. 6.a Not Complete. Looking S.E. Will 50 sec. [show more]
Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View is taken from the water, with a ledge visible in the foreground, the light station visible beyond. Visible buildings include the boathouse, the bell tower, and the light tower.
Description: Glass negative for photograph taken at Mount Desert Rock, June 1908. Image shows the light station buildings as seen from the water including the boathouse, double house, single dwelling, tower, oil house, and bell tower. Image was taken from the water and is very crooked. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. June 1908 No. 6, View from the water. Ortho. A. Non. Hal. Plate
Description: Glass negative for photograph taken at Mount Desert Rock, October 1907. Image shows the light station buildings as seen from the water including the boathouse, double house, single dwelling, tower, oil house, and bell tower. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Oct. 1907 P.M. 4 o'clock Taken from water Print 2m Distance 15m Special valve
Description: Glass negative for image taken at Mount Desert Rock, June 1908. Image shows Lawrence Newman on the rocks at Mount Desert Rock, with a toy boat at his feet. Laundry hangs in the background between the work buildings. Negative envelope reads: Written on negative envelope: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. June. 1908 Lawrence Newman.
Description: Glass negative for image taken at Mount Desert Rock, June 1908. Image shows Charles Newman, with his motor boat, on the wooden ramp, posing with his sons, Arthur and Lawrence. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. June 1908 Mr. Newman Arthur and Lawrence in Mr. Newman’s Boat.