Description: Color slide oil blobs on a beach. Notation on slide reads: MIssion Creek, Estuary near pier and oil globbed East Beach, 2/16/69, SES-N.Fortney From folder: Oil Spill loose slides
Description: Color slide of oil covered bird on laying in the sand on a beach. Notation on slide reads: Oily bird on S.B. Beach Feb. 1969, Pby N. Fortney From folder: Oil Spill loose slides
Description: Color slide of a man holdng a surfboard covered in oil on his board and legs. Traffic moves on the road behind him. Notation on slide reads: Oily surfer and board Taken in Dec. 1969, BB-SH-N-Fortney From folder: Oil Spill loose slides
Description: Color slide of footprints in the mud. Water fills in the prints. Notation on slide reads: Wild Harbor River, Oil Stirred up from bottom. From folder: Oil Spill loose slides
Description: Color slide of a tuggboat towing an oil boom across the water. Notation on slide reads: Oil slick container booms and tug- effective only in calm water. From folder: Oil Spill loose slides
Description: Color slide of a sea bird swimming across the water. Notation on slide reads: Oily bird inside breakwater sinking in oil. 11Am From folder: Oil Spill loose slides
Description: Color slide of dead and dying polychaetes, dead crabs, dead fish under the water. Notation on slide reads: Sept. 19, 1969 From folder: Oil Spill loose slides
Description: Color slide of a gull sinking in the oil on the water. Notation on slide reads: Inside Breakwater-gull sinking in oil, 11Am, Feb 4, 1969 From folder: Oil Spill loose slides
Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View looks toward the ocean across the granite ledges of Mount Desert Rock. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Aug. 1907 No. 7. b. Looking N.E.
Description: Glass negative for photograph taken at Mount Desert Rock, June 1908. Image shows the light station buildings as seen from the water including the boathouse, double house, single dwelling, tower, oil house, and bell tower. Image was taken from the water and is very crooked. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. June 1908 No. 6, View from the water. Ortho. A. Non. Hal. Plate
Description: Glass negative for image taken at Mount Desert Rock, Sept. 1907. View shows three young boys in a garden, decorated with several flags, and with a picket fence behind them. The negative envelope notes this garden belongs to Mrs. Newman. Using the other negatives in this collection, the boy in the dark hat has been indentified as Kaspar Murphy, with Lawrence and Arthur Newman to his right. Negative Envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Sept. 1907 Garden Single Tenement, Mrs. Newman's. [show more]
Description: A Gloucester fishing schooner sails not far from Mount Desert Rock under partial sail. A number of people are visible on the deck, and a stack of dories can be seen between the masts. A large flag has the name of the vessel, which appears to be two words, though only Frances P. M______ is visible. William H. Bunting has (July 2021) identified this schooner as the Frances P. Mesquita, of Gloucester. Built in Gloucester in 1905, she was owned and commanded by Capt. Joseph Mesquita, and was both a successful fishing and racing vessel. She was sold in 1918 to owners from Newfoundland, and sunk by a U-boat that year. The envelope with this negative reads: No. 7 f., Tower, Single Tenement + Double Tenement, Looking N.W." and is likely an envelope reused from another negative. [show more]
Description: Glass plate negative taken at Mount Desert Rock. View shows the granite tower, with broken ledges in the foreground, and the single dwelling to the right. The roof of the double tenement is slightly visible.
Description: Glass plate negative taken at Mount Desert Rock. View looking at light station buildings, with brick oil house in the foreground, and granite tower to the right. Behind these structures, the double house is visible. In the distance, to the left, the derrick of the boat slip is visible Negative envelope is blank.