Description: Black and white sepia tone publicity still for the 1918 Fox Film production "The Queen of the Sea" which was filmed on Mount Desert Island. Featured in the photo are five actors dressed in vaguely viking costumes with furs, horned or winged helmets, roman sandals, and carrying staffs, swords, crossbow and sheilds. Standing in the center with a lighter fur tunic, metal studded belt, large helmet, and holding a sword up is actor Walter Law portraying King Boreas. [show more]
Description: Black and white sepia tone photograph depicting the entire cast and crew of the 1918 Fox Film production "The Queen of the Sea" which starred Annette Kellerman and was filmed on Mount Desert Island.
Description: Black and white publicity still for the movie "The Queen of the Sea". Depicts two actresses, Annette Kellerman and Beth Ivins. Annette Kellerman is dressed as a mermaid sitting on rocks and Beth Ivins is on the sand below, holding Kellerman's hand. A thirds child actor dressed as a mermaid sits next to Kellerman. "The Queen of the Sea" was released in 1918 and was filmed on Mount Desert Island. It starred Annette Kellerman as Merilla the Queen of the Sea. [show more]
Description: Collection consisting of two 3"x5" photographs and 14 color slides in Kodak slide box. All taken between 1976 and circa 1980 The items in this collection are: 2023.03.001 - 3"x5" photograph of Mercury #10 sailing 2023.03.002 - 3"x5" photograph of race committee boat Shearwater rafted with three sailboats 2023.03.003 - Kodak slide box 2023.03.004 - Slide showing blue Hinckley sailboat, sail 555, under sail 2023.03.005 - Sailboats racing in front of Bear Island 2023.03.006 - International Class race, #3 on left, #2 (Auriga) on right, off Gilpatrick Cove 2023.03.007 - International Class #2 (Auriga) under sail off Gilpatrick Ledge 2023.03.008 - International Class #2 (Auriga) under sail off Bear Island 2023.03.009 - 3 Mercuries racing close together, 2 boats visible in distance 2023.03.010 - 3 Mercuries racing close together, 2 boats in distance overlapping 2023.03.011 - 3 Mercuries racing close together, 1 boat visible in distance 2023.03.012 - International Class #1 (Firefly), close up, two people aboard, man at helm is wearing a hat 2023.03.013 - International Class #1 (Firefly) from stern; Great Cranberry Island in background 2023.03.014 - Stern of dark blue sailboat, Pirate, #13560 2023.03.015 - Dark blue sailboat, Pirate, #13560, from boat 2023.03.016 - Two Solings racing #412 and #312; Bunker & Ellis in distance, with Bear Island beyond 2023.03.017 - Solings racing downwind in front of Branscom's Coal Wharf; the closer boat is #554, and the boat behind has a striped spinnaker [show more]
Description: Oil on board portrait of James G. Ducey (1918-1958) and accompanying plaque. Portrait shows Ducey seated in an International One Design sailboat wearing a blazer, white sweater, and red shirt. His right hand is placed on the deck of the boat, next to a winch. In the background, the mountains of Mount Desert Island are visible. The portrait is signed "Dwight Shepler 1960" in the lower left corner. The brass plaque under this portrait reads: James G. Ducey 1918-1958 Rear Commodore - 1943, 1951 Secretary - 1943-1945, 1951-1959 Founder of the Sailing Class [show more]
Description: Black and white image of two men in t-shirts, hats, and trousers outside of a tent at a CCC camp on Mount Desert Island. None of the men are identified. Warm weather season.
Description: Black and white image of twelve men and two large buildings that were at a CCC camp on Mount Desert Island. None of the men are identified. Each man has an axe or other tool in hand. Winter
Description: Sunny snow covered field with shrubs in the foreground and on the left handside center a sluice gate. Further back a forest and snow capped mountains
Description: Snow covered bushes in foreground then trees with Somes Sound peeking through in the background. Note-Fernald Point Featured page March 3 90%
Description: Snow covered field in the foreground with a reflection of a tree with Somes Sound boardered by snow covered mountains on both sides in the background. Also in the background on the right a snow covered house.
Description: A CD that contains large file images of thirteen Ballard photos from the MDIHS collection. Images on the disc are large TIF photos (with 3 exceptions which are JPG). These images were probably digitized into large format files for publication or reproduction. Images from the disc were converted into JPG format, smaller files, to link to this record. For use in publications, it is recommended to use files from this disc rather than from the Past Perfect data images. Not known which Ballard collection of photos these images are in. Needs to be checked prior to publication. [show more]