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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: Four photographs of boats (A-D) with unidentified men and boys aboard. (A) unidentified dory. (B) and (D) may be the same vessel, probably one of the mackerel schooners owned by Benjamin Harley Spurling whose wife was Frances Almira Preble (donor Louise Marr's grandparents.) C: The steamer may have been one owned by Hanson B. Joyce of Swan's Island engaged in the mackerel fishery. Joyce owned significant shares in several Cranberry Island vessels, possibly shares in Benjamin Spurling's vessels. (D): information from Ralph Stanley and Bar Harbor Record. [show more] | |||
Man with Lobster Trap Photograph Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Man with Lobster Trap Photograph Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: An elderly fisherman lifts a lobster trap. Black and white |