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You searched for: Date: [blank]Subject: BusinessesSubject: Other BusinessType: Object
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Sign for Pine Bough Antiques
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Object, Sign, Identification Sign, Signboard
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Sign for Pine Bough Antiques
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Description:
Wooden sign for Pine Bough Antiques, an antiques and rare book shop operated by Rick and JoAnne Fuerst from 1976-2018. The store was located at 117 Main Street, Northeast Harbor. This sign hung off the front of the building and is therefore double sided. Looking at the two sides, green painted frame on one side is more weathered than the other. The two-sided sign has green lettering and a green frame, and pine bough is painted in the upper left corner. [show more]
Sign for Wikhegan Old Books
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Object, Sign, Identification Sign, Signboard
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Sign for Wikhegan Old Books
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Description:
Wooden sign for Wikhegan Old Books, a rare book shop operated by Rick and JoAnne Fuerst from 1976-2018. The store was located at 117 Main Street, Northeast Harbor. This sign was removed from the building before the business closed, when books were sold from Pine Bough Antiques The sign is two sided and appears to have had a brown frame, which no longer survives. Brown paint appears beneath where the frame would have been.
Hand painted sign, "LOBSTERS LIVE OR BOILED"
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Object, Sign, Informational Sign
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Hand painted sign reading "LOBSTERS LIVE OR BOILED" Sign was used in the window of Stanley's Fish Market, Main Street, Northeast Harbor, operated by David L. Stanley. The sign consists of painted wood, with black letters on a white background. It is heavily abraded but still legible. There are visible screw holes on the front, with two vertical braces on the back. To see a photograph of this sign in the fish market go to: https://nehl.digitalarchive.us/items/show/6266 [show more]
Shoemaker's last
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Last, Shoe Last
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Shoemaker's last
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool, Shoemaker's Last used to make and mend shoes. Found in the old Lewis Ladd barn, a.k.a. Spurling home, and Freeman home (across from donor's home). Lewis Ladd died in 1912 at 88 years old.
Shoemaker's last
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Last, Shoe Last
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Shoemaker's last
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Shoemaker's Last used in making and mending shoes. Found in the old Lewis Ladd barn, a.k.a. Spurling home, and Freeman home (across from donor's home). Lewis Ladd died in 1912 at 88 years old.
Shoemaker's last, approx. 6"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Last, Shoe Last
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Shoemaker's last, approx. 6"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool, Shoemaker's Last, approx. 6". Found in the old Lewis Ladd barn, a.k.a. Spurling home, and Freeman home (across from donor's home). Lewis Ladd died in 1912 at 88 years old. (See also items 1240-1245.)
Shoemaker's lasts with cast iron support post
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Last, Shoe Last
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Shoemaker's lasts with cast iron support post
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Two Shoemaker's Lasts with cast iron post to support lasts as cobbler works on them (one 9" and one 5"). Found in the old Lewis Ladd barn, a.k.a. Spurling home, and Freeman home (across from donor's home). Lewis Ladd died in 1912 at 88 years old.
Shoemaker's hammer
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Leatherworking Hammer, Shoemaker's Hammer
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Shoemaker's hammer
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool. Shoemaker's hammer 8.5". See also 2002.20.42 patent for this type of hammer. Hammer recovered from Captain Bert's house - Bert Spurling, a.k.a. Freeman home (across from donor's home). (This is the same house where the shoe lasts were found - see items 1240, 1242-1245.)
Part of a balance weighing scale
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Scale
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Object, Other Object
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Part of a balance weighing scale
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Scale, the arms part of a balance weighing scale. Item was dug up close to Mickey Macfarlan's shed (the old Post Office in Preble's time) ca. 1970
Broad ax
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Object, Woodworking, Ax, Broadax
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Broad ax
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
C.E. Marcyes & Co. Envelope
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Object, Writing, Envelope
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Businesses, Real Estate Business
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
C.E. Marcyes & Co. Envelope
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Description:
Envelope with the return address for C.E. Marcyes & Co. with a note regarding Mr. Jerome Goodwin and Bernard Cough, c. 1930s. People Mentioned: Jerome Goodwin, Bernard Cough, C. E. Marcyes
Oil Drum, Socony
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Object, Containers, Barrel
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Oil Drum, Socony
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Northeast Harbor Grain Store
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Object, Sign, Identification Sign, Signboard
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Northeast Harbor Grain Store
Great Harbor Maritime Museum