Description: George and Sam Gilley haying on Little Cranberry Island. [THIS MAY BE an NPS ACADIA PHOTOGRAPH.] Notes on reverse: "Janice Murch 7/000 Cat. No. 548, Acadia Ex. 705 George & Sam Gilley haying."
Description: Four small black and white photos and one tintype framed in a wood/glass frame. Bayview Farm owned and operated by Jim Crosby in modern times "The Red House" owned by Judi Towns Lim and Chong Lim, a.k.a. the Towns house. James C. Crosby and Cora Almeda (Pressey) Crosby are the couple in the tintype. Their son, Clarence, is shown in the photo with the barn. The houses seen in the background of the geese photo are "Haydy's house & Arno Stanley's" per donor. (See scans in 2000\photos\dorothy towns and note explaining images.) [show more]
Description: Drawing by S.G. Easter or Caster? pencil sketch of the Hamor Tea House; some water staining on the edges. Painting removed from original frame (a glass pane with metal rosettes securing it to a wood board back). Original sketch stored separately; scanned print of the drawing is in frame.
Description: Four photographs of boats (A-D) with unidentified men and boys aboard. (A) unidentified dory. (B) and (D) may be the same vessel, probably one of the mackerel schooners owned by Benjamin Harley Spurling whose wife was Frances Almira Preble (donor Louise Marr's grandparents.) C: The steamer may have been one owned by Hanson B. Joyce of Swan's Island engaged in the mackerel fishery. Joyce owned significant shares in several Cranberry Island vessels, possibly shares in Benjamin Spurling's vessels. (D): information from Ralph Stanley and Bar Harbor Record. [show more]
Description: Photos of John “Jock” Williams and his partner Lyford Stanley. Also includes photos of lobster boats they built and an aerial view of the boatyard.
Description: Note the scissors hanging on the wall - typical in the old canning factories. The location of this photograph is unknown, but it was in a collection of pictures taken on Mount Desert and could very well have been taken in Bass Harbor, Southwest Harbor or Manset.
Description: September 13, 1990 Photograph of man and woman standing in front of a store called W. H. Whitemore needing identification and the responses from the public about the store and the brother-sister duo in front: Emma and Warren Whitemore.
Description: Left to Right: "Kit" - the horse Charles Samuel Spurling (1880-1911) Mary "Mamie" Frances Spurling (1877-1965) Bernice Spurling (1904-1929) - died of TB in Arizona Clarence Freeman Joy (1893-1988) In the wagon (tentative identification): Walter F. Joy (1891-1974)
Description: Haying on Fernald Point in the Jesuit field at the base of Flying Mountain. The hay was for horse feed. Unknown waitress on the left. Chris Lawlor on right in front of horses. Bill Lawlor is between the horses and Joe Lawlor is at the far right.
Description: Chris Lawlor in in the front of the wagon. Bill Lawlor is on the left, behind, Joe Lawlor is on the right, the woman in the center on the hay is unknown.