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You searched for: Date: 1950sSubject: StructuresSubject: Transportation
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Hockamock Head Lighthouse
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Building
  • Other, Lighthouses
  • Other, Swans Island
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • LaRue Spiker
  • c 1950s
  • Swans Island, Maine
Hockamock Head Lighthouse
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Hockamock Head Lighthouse on Swans Island.
Model of Baker Island Lighthouse (from Great Harbor Maritime Museum collection)
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Model
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • 1950
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Description:
Model of Baker Island Lighthouse made ca. 1950; electric lights in keeper's house and lighthouse; heavy cement base, wooden keeper's house, metal Lionel train set tower (no longer in existence on Baker Island), connection between keeper's house and lighthouse (no longer in existence on Baker Island); roof lifts off keeper's house for storage of low voltage (14V) lights and access to ordinary 115V lamp and transformer. Loaned to GCIHS by Great Harbor Maritime Museum to ca. 2010 but remained in GCIHS collection for years. Photo 2013.215.1849C shows Great Harbor Maritime Museum curator Willie Granston with the lighthouse (photo dated 2008). Contact GHMM regarding this item. [show more]
Harbor Reconstruction
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Harbor
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • ca. 1950
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Harbor Reconstruction
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Roy Salisbury Collection Building the bulkhead at Sea Street before dredging the harbor.
Harbor reconstruction
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Harbor
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • Maitland Murphy
  • May-July 1954
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Harbor reconstruction
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Five B/W Photographs showing initial stages of the land-fill reconstruction project at the town dock.
Harbor Reconstruction
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events
  • Places, Harbor
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • William D. Hocker
  • circa 1950
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Harbor Reconstruction
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Land fill and reconstruction of Northeast Harbor's town dock and boat launch.
Winter Scene from Manset Fish Wharf Negative, 1956
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Nature, Seasons, Winter
  • Other
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Ballard, W. H.
  • 1956
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Winter Scene from Manset Fish Wharf Negative, 1956
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
View of the harbor from Manset Fish Wharf during the winter of 1956. Black and white
Southwest Harbor from Manset Shore Drive Negative, 1955 (2)
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Nature, Seasons, Winter
  • Other
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Pier
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Ballard, W. H.
  • 1955
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
View of Southwest Harbor from Manset Shore Drive during winter. Black and white
Draggers at Beal's Wharf Negative, 1950
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Other
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Net Fishing Vessel, Dragger
  • Ballard, W. H.
  • 1950
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Draggers at Beal's Wharf Negative, 1950
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Draggers docked at Beal's Wharf in Southwest Harbor, ME. Black and white
Southwest Harbor Lobster Boat and Wharf Negative, 1954
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Object, Fishing, Fish Trap, Lobster Trap
  • People
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Trapping Vessel, Lobsterboat
  • Ballard, W. H.
  • 1954
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Southwest Harbor Lobster Boat and Wharf Negative, 1954
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Lobster boat at the wharf in Southwest Harbor, ME. Black and white
Harbor reconstruction
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Harbor
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • William D. Hocker
  • circa 1950
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Harbor reconstruction
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Photograph of land fill and reconstruction of Northeast Harbor's town dock and boat launch. Dump truck drops boulders into water.
Araho at Southwest Harbor Negative, 1956 (1)
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Other
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Pier
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • Ballard, W. H.
  • 1956
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Araho at Southwest Harbor Negative, 1956 (1)
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
The Araho is lifted out of the water in Southwest Harbor, ME. Black and white
Araho at Southwest Harbor Negative, 1956 (2)
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Other
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Pier
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • Ballard, W. H.
  • 1956
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Araho at Southwest Harbor Negative, 1956 (2)
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
The Araho is lifted out of the water in Southwest Harbor, ME. Black and white
Wheelwright Dock on eastern shore of Northeast Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • Sterling Haskell
  • 1950's
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
View of western shore of Northeast Harbor with dock in foreground.
Opening Day at the Bar Harbor-Yarmouth Ferry Terminal, Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Transportation, Terminal, Marine Terminal
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1956-06-08
  • Bar Harbor
  • In Copyright
Description:
Automobiles along the road at front - Left to Right: The automobile with the hood open is a 1954 Ford Hardtop. 1948 Chrysler 1950-1951 Studebaker Behind tree - 1953 Ford station wagon. W.H. Ballard wrote this note on the negative sleeve for the photograph: "“Bluenose” Ferry Terminal, Bar Harbor, ME; taken the day the Bar Harbor-Yarmouth ferry was officially welcomed (service had been on since the early part of January). Blowing a hard SE gale, and I had to press down so hard on the camera that the tripod sagged. I was the only one who remained on the ridge." [show more]
Duck Brook Motor Bridge Under Construction
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Park
  • Structures, Transportation, Bridge
  • 1950 - 1951 c
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Duck Brook Motor Bridge Under Construction
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
Description:
Construction of the bridge, located on Paradise Hill Road, began in 1950 and was completed in 1952. A photocopy of a photograph of the Duck Brook Motor Bridge on Mount Desert Island, Maine, under construction. Black and White
Ralph Stanley's First Lobster Boat
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
  • 1953
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Ralph Stanley's First Lobster Boat
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Automobiles Left to Right: Unknown Unknown truck 1949-1950 Ford wood panelled station wagon 1950-1951 Pontiac sedan Unknown truck 1950 Plymouth 4-door sedan
Raymond Adelbert Bunker with tuna, Katherine Curtis (Gates) McCoy and sisters at Clifton House Dock
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • 1950 c.
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Raymond was Captain for Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr. (1906-1983) and his family at their cottage, "Jericho House" on Manchester Road, Northeast Harbor and famously built pleasure boat "Jericho" for him in 1950. Gates' three daughters: Gates - Millicent Anne (Gates) Ponce Gates - Patricia Sovereign (Gates) Norris Gates - Katherine Curtis (Gates) McCoy - standing next to the fish
Northeast Harbor Fleet Dock
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Harbor
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • 1952 PM
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Northeast Harbor Fleet Dock
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Lobster Boat Built for Oscar Ove Krantz - At the Wharf
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
  • 1957
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
The photograph was taken at the Stanley Fisheries wharf in Manset at the time the wharf was owned by Bill Sklaroff. He enlarged the wharf during his ownership. "At the fish wharf in Southwest Harbor where Ralph baited trawls as a boy - since burned."
Boats at Beal’s Fish Wharf
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Vessels, Boat
  • 1958-07
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Boats at Beal’s Fish Wharf
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
The boat leaving the dock is the Malesca and the Islesford Ferry is at the end of the dock.
The Henry Wilder Foote II Cottage - House of the Four Winds From the Dock
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • 1955 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Baker Island Light from the North
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1954-08-09
  • Cranberry Isles, Baker Island
  • In Copyright
Baker Island Light from the North
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Bridge at Head of Bass Harbor, The Osborne Milton Kittredge House and the Boulder on Marsh Creek
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Structures, Transportation, Bridge
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1950-09
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
  • In Copyright
Description:
Willis Ballard called the boulder he photographed "a Glacial Erratic."
Baker Island Light Station from the Garage Drive
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1955-08-09
  • Cranberry Isles, Baker Island
  • In Copyright
Baker Island Light Station From the Northeast
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1955-08-09
  • Cranberry Isles, Baker Island
  • In Copyright
Baker Island Light Station From the Northeast
Southwest Harbor Public Library