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Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Three Postcards of Bear Island Lighthouse
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • 1945
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Three Postcards of Bear Island Lighthouse
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Description:
Three real photo postcards of Bear Island Lighthouse affixed to a repurposed envelope. On all of the postcards the lighthouse is identified using blue ink. One postcard bears the additional inscription: "Our view from the point." The backside of this paper was at one time the exterior of envelope sent on June 4, 1945. Information about the sender and recipient can still be read. The return address has been cut, but the envelope was sent to Mrs. Edwin Corning, Northeast Harbor, Maine. Mrs. Corning spent her summers on a point at the mouth of Northeast Harbor [show more]
Wooden laundry agitator stick
Tremont Historical Society
  • Object, Maintenance, Laundry Agitator
  • Other, Household items
  • Structures, Commercial, Shop, Laundry
  • 1940s
Wooden laundry agitator stick
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Wooden forked stick used for stirring or agitating laundry in a laundry bucket.
Photograph of The Briars
Bar Harbor Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • 1940 c.
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Photograph of The Briars
Bar Harbor Historical Society
Description:
Black and white photograph of the water-facing elevation of The Briars, a summer cottage located along the Shore Path. The Briars was built in 1881 and was designed by architect William Ralph Emerson. The original owner was J. Montgomery Sears, but it was later owned by Evalyn Walsh McLean.
Macfarlan/Preble house renovation
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • 1944
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Macfarlan/Preble house renovation
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Renovation of the Macfarlan house ca. 1947. The woman on the left is Robin Freeman’s grandmother, Dorothy Macfarlan, the woman with the dog leash is unknown, Mickey Macfarlan with the necktie, and then Robin’s mother, Dorothy Freeman. Rose Wedge’s house is hidden in the shadows on the right.
Postcard of Preble house 1947
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • 1947
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Postcard of Preble house 1947
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Photo (postcard), Old Preble House -Cranberry Isles, postmarked Cranberry Isles 22 July 1947, 1 cent stamp, postcard reads "This is the house mentioned in "In God's Pocket" by Rachel Field. We must get the book & read it. 7/22/47" sent to Mrs. John E. Nichols, Route 3, Quakertown, PA.