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 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.
Description: Glass negative for image taken at Mount Desert Rock, Sept. 1907. View shows three young boys in a garden, decorated with several flags, and with a picket fence behind them. The negative envelope notes this garden belongs to Mrs. Newman. Using the other negatives in this collection, the boy in the dark hat has been indentified as Kaspar Murphy, with Lawrence and Arthur Newman to his right. Negative Envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Sept. 1907 Garden Single Tenement, Mrs. Newman's. [show more]
Description: Glass negative for image taken from Mount Desert Rock. View looks out toward sea from the land, with ledges visible in the foreground, and a three-masted schooner, perhaps called Robert D. Spear, visible in the distance. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Oct. 1907 Robert D. Spear Taken from Mt. Desert Rock
Description: Glass negative for image taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View looks across the ledges toward the light station, with the double house and tower in the center and to the left. To the right the oil house and bell tower are visible. The negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Aug. 1907 No. 1 b. House, Tower, Oil-house + Bell Tower Looking E.S.E. Not complete
Description: Glass negative for image taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View looks up from below tideline, with seaweed visible in the foreground. In the center of the image are the tower and double house, with the roof of the oil house to the right, and the bell tower nearby. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Aug 1907 No. 2A. Derrick, Boat House + Shop Looking E.S.E. Not complete (It appears that this envelope was reused)
Description: Glass negative for image taken at Mount Desert Rock, November 1907. View looks back toward the light station, across the ledges. In the center of the image is the tower, with the oil house to the left. Behind the tower the single house is visible to the right, and the double house to the left. The negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Nov. 1907 Lucy M. Dodge Taken S.W. of Tower Opposite Bluff. Developed with Dianol.
Description: Glass negative for image taken at Mount Desert Rock, June 1908. Image shows the view of Mount Desert Rock, with the light station buildings, as seen from the water. The boathouse and derrick is visible to the left, while the keepers' houses are visible near the tower. To the right the oil house and bell tower may be seen. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. June 1908 No. 2. View from water Dev. with Si. S. Plate written vertically in pencil: print - 3 m. [show more]
Description: Glass negative for image taken at Mount Desert Rock, September 1907. View shows the interior of the boathouse, with two men standing alongside the steam engine used to haul boats out of the water. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Sept. 1907 Steam Engine Boat House. Mr. Dorgan Mr. Brewer
Description: Glass negative for image taken at Mount Desert Rock. Shows view toward light tower with single dwelling visible to the left. Roof of the double-house is visible beyond. This negative is slightly unfocused, and uneven. The negative envelope has nothing written on it