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Valley Cove, picnic
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Vessels, Pleasure Craft, Yacht
  • 1898
  • Mount Desert Island
Valley Cove, picnic
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Shows sloop-rigged yacht anchored with bow to westward facing the cove's shore. Picnic goers (in long skirts and hats for the women) on coach and in cabin.
Edward Lothrop Rand and Group at High Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • People
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1890-09-01
  • Mount Desert Island
  • No Copyright - United States
Edward Lothrop Rand and Group at High Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Four men and four women are shown resting on a day's outing. The women are dressed for the country - complete with hats. Botanist, Edward Lathrop Rand, on the far right, is wearing elaborately buckled gaiters and carries his vasculum for collecting botanical specimens.
Edward Lothrop Rand and Buckboard Party on High Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1890-09-01
  • Mount Desert Island
  • No Copyright - United States
Description:
Four men and four women are shown off for a day's outing. The ninth man is the buckboard driver. Edward Lothrop Rand is standing by the buckboard carrying his vasculum for collecting botanicl specimens. vas·cu·lum n. (pl. -la ) Bot. a collecting box for plants, typically in the form of a flattened cylindrical metal case with a lengthwise opening, carried by a shoulder strap. - "vasculum." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (March 16, 2010). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-vasculum.html. [show more]
Mary F. Steenstra, Sixteen Years Old, Rowing a Boat
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1890
  • Mount Desert Island
  • No Copyright - United States
Description:
Mary F. Steenstra, 16 years old, wearing her eyeglasses, with her watch fob cord tucked through her button holes, her handkerchief neatly tucked into her sash and her hat at her feet seems relaxed at the oars of a rowboat, probably in the waters off Mount Desert Island.