Description: Waitresses from the Seaside Inn in Seal Harbor, Maine. Individuals have numbers written in blue pen on their arms. Identification for each individual is written on the back. People Depicted: Blanche Bates, Grace Coggins, Florence Cole, Marie Curtis, Virginia Drury, Winifred Gray, Dorothy Green, Isabella Harper, Rose Harvey, Neva Headley, Elizabeth Hinckley, Liola Hopkins, Lola Huntley, Louise Johnson, Florence Mason, Annie Richie, Annie Ryder, Mabel Snow, Ada Sproule, Thelma Thompson, Velma Wallace, Elsie Whitmore Black and white [show more]
Description: Sepia-toned Photograph of the exterior of the Elrie Holmes dry good store on Main Street, Northeast Harbor. In 2009, it is "McGrath's Variety Store."
Description: Interior (stocked shelves and display case) of the Elrie Holmes dry goods store on Main Street, Northeast Harbor. In 2009, the store is McGrath's run by the Renaults.
Description: Spurling & Ladd boat slip, later known as Clifton Dock, show people and horse-drawn carriage on the ramps. See also item 4865 (photo 1219)
Description: Length of dock with several delivery trucks and cars steamer J. T. Morse across head of dock. The dock later became the Acadia pier, restaurant run by George Hadlock. Eastern Steamship Co. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
Description: Mr. & Mrs. Ernest B. Dane's house in Seal Harbor. The name of home was "Glengariff ". This information came from Historical Society, Bar Harbor. Photograph is a photocopy.
Description: Looking easterly along road toward the church. Shows several houses southerly of road, and 3rd (final) school. Collected for "Mount Desert: an Informal History". Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
Description: Sepia Photograph of Edgecliff, Southwest Harbor, built in 1886-87 for Samuel and Annie Downes. Architect: William M. Bates. Owned between 1919 and 1960 by Schuyler & Gertrude Clark. Owned in 2011 by Jack Kelley.
Description: Paper booklets with photographs and narratives. (see also GEN 0786, BOX 24 - Item 2262) 1. Seaside Inn, Seal Harbor 2-3. Panoramic view of the East Side of Seal Harbor 4. Asticou Inn, Northeast Harbor 5. Summer homes at Seal Harbor 6. Pleasure boats near the Clifton Hotel 7. Hadlock Pond - the source of Northeast Harbor water supply 8. Swimming pool, Northeast Harbor 9. View of the harbor, showing on the left the home of a Philadelphia man 10. View from Schoolhouse Ledge, showing the Sound in the distance 11. Manchester Point, showing historical Fernald Point in the background 12. A few pleasure boats and float near Rock End Hotel 13. Bear Island and Lighthouse from Northeast Harbor 14. A mountain view 15. Edwin S. Atwood's Livery and boarding stable, Northeast Harbor 16. Jordan Pond, Seal Harbor - The home of the speckled beauties 17. The meadow in the Gorge 18. Maine Central R. R. Co.'s ferryboat from Mount Desert to Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor 19. Manchester Point and Flying Mountain, Northeast Harbor 20, Jordan Pond House, Seal Harbor 21. Congregational Church, Seal Harbor 22. Episcopal Church, Seal Harbor 23. Seal Harbor Public Library 24. Office of Geo. L. Stebbins, Seal Harbor 25. Panoramic view of Northeast Harbor from Bear Island Lighthouse 26. A shore view 27. The Gorge drive, between Seal Harbor and Bar Harbor 28. Anemone Cave near Seal Harbor 29. A group of summer homes 30. A day's catch of speckled trout at Echo Lake 31. Brook 32. Canyon 33. Episcopal Church, Northeast Harbor 34. Catholic Church, Northeast Harbor 35. Northeast Harbor Public Library 36. Union Church, Northeast Harbor 37. View of the Sound from the head 38. Robinson Mountain from Sargeant Drive - View of the Sound in the foreground 39. A summer cottage 40. Glencove Hotel, Seal Harbor 41. View from the Sea Cliff Drive, Seal Harbor 42. The "Arch" on Sea Cliff Drive, Seal Harbor 43. Road near Asticou Inn, Northeast Harbor 44. View of the islands from the Sea Cliff Drive, Seal Harbor 45, View along the shore of Hadlock Pond 46. View of Northeast Harbor by moonlight from the Asticou Inn 47. The swimming pool, Northeast Harbor 48, View showing Robinson and Brown Mountains, Rock End Hotel at right 49. View from Sea Cliff Drive overlooking steamboat wharf, Seal Harbor 50. The upper end of Long Pond 51. Surf at Northeast Harbor 52. Northeast Harbor and islands from Dog Moutain 53. Northeast Harbor winter scene 54. Flying and Dog Mountains, Valley Cove in foreground 55. View of cottages from the east end of Rock End Hotel, Northeast Harbor 56. View from the west plaza of the Rock End Hotel 57. On the Jordan Pond trail 58. Map of the southwestern part of Mount Desert Island [show more]
Description: Chiefs and radio operators of the Otter Cliffs Radio Station stand on and around the radio tower. Commanding Officer Lt. Alessandro Fabbri stands in the center in the bottom row. People Mentioned: Alessandro Fabbri Black and White
Description: Radio equipment at the Otter Cliffs Radio Station. Notes on the back of the photograph identify the station as the first of Arthur Lawford with the call letters 1AT. People Mentioned: Arthur Lawford Black and White
Description: Officers stand on the steps of the Otter Cliffs Radio Station. The photograph is signed by Commanding Officer Alessandro Fabbri to Chief Chisholm for his faithful and excellent service. People Mentioned: Alessandro Fabbri Black and White
Description: The building at the extreme left edge of this picture is St. John's Episcopal Church at 319 Main Street. Adelbert Alden Gilley built the house in the left rear of this photograph, now 12 Maple Lane. The Ladies Aid of the Congregational Church purchased it in 1914 for use as a parsonage. -Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 159 - 1938. The building second left, just visible behind the school, was built about 1905 and owned by Mr. and Mrs. G.D. Atherton. Peter T. Benson moved the buildings to a lot on Clark Point Road, now 57 Clark Point Road, in 1937 and sold them to Russell White. The town then purchased the Atherton lot to become part of the school lot and the site of the new [Pemetic] High School building of 1938. - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 159 - 1938. The house to the right rear next to the school, now 29 Clark Point Road, the Edwin Albert Lawler House. To the right of the Lawler House is a house built by William J. Tower for himself, now 38 Clark Point Road. Also visible is part of 30 Clark Point Road, also built by Mr. Tower, where he kept the post office for a number of years before selling it to E.S. Thurston when he became postmaster. - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 157 - 1938. After George Harmon bought the old wooden Southwest Harbor high school building in 1906 and moved it (see SWHPL 5680 for details), a new wooden high school was built on the schoolhouse lot, but further back from Main Street. This building later became Southwest Harbor's elementary school and is currently Harbor House. - 2007 Part of this building can be seen on the far right edge of this picture. Arthur T. Richardson was the architect and Henry Tracy the builder. R.M. Norwood built the additions. [show more]