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: A letter from Louise Marr about the estate of a man named Bill Chamberlin. She compares this to the managing of her sisters estate, and says "nothing the courts and lawyers do is done in a hurry." She then goes into farther detail with the pieces of property and how they will manage this. She ends the letter with a quote from the lawyers, and then adds her availability for the summer to manage this estate.
Description: A letter from Louise Marr about the estate of a man named Bill Chamberlin. She compares this to the managing of her sisters estate, and says "nothing the courts and lawyers do is done in a hurry." She then goes into farther detail with the pieces of property and how they will manage this. She ends the letter with a quote from the lawyers, and then adds her availability for the summer to manage this estate.
Description: A receipt for the work done on Ben Spurling's home. Some examples of the work he had done was shingles, painting, papering. He also had to pay for labor worked. This note also mentions that he ways $2.50 in rent per month, and that the rent is due in nine months. This item is not signed or dated, but Ben Spurling was alive during the late 1800's so the date can be assumed to be around that time.
Description: Photographs. Digital copies of 41 color slides made in April 2015. They were loaned to Phil Whitney by Charles 'Chip' Sheppard following Phil Whitney's interview of him in Pennsylvania December 2014. Some slides are undated and some noted in ballpoint pen as years: 1947, 1948, 1950 and 1952. An e-mail from Melen Boothby identified Slide 296, taken in August of 1950, as "shot from my grandparents' house near Thrumcap and shows the wreck of a Canadian lumber schooner that ran aground during a storm in the '30s. Apparently people on the island were told to help themselves to the lumber as the ship wasn't going anywhere!" (Not sure if this means 1830s or 1930s?) Slides were scanned and returned to donor. Scenery, family and friends: Carl and Winston Sheppard's boat Kiri III, a B class Boat (slide 379); Emerson Ham (slide 38); fishing weir (slide 386); fishing, picnic, old cars, docks, and a blue lobster. [show more]