Description: The Arts & Sciences Building, then called the 'new building' was attached to some portions of Kaelber Hall that survived the 1983 fire. The building opened in time for fall term of 1985.
Description: The Arts & Sciences Building, then called the 'new building' was attached to some portions of Kaelber Hall that survived the 1983 fire. The building opened in time for fall term of 1985.
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: Plan showing proposed development of Northeast Harbor Marina, October 1937. Plans by Prentiss & Carlisle Co., Inc. of Bangor. Plans suggest the construction of a bulkhead across the area known as Frazier's Cove, with the filling of this area with fill taken from the dredging process. The plan also includes parking areas, new docks, a restroom, club, and shop building, and storage areas. This redevelopment plan was not realized, but the Sea Street are was rebuilt in the 1950s. [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.
Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock. This appears to be the earliest negative in the series. July 2021: this negative is being digitized
Description: Glass plate negative, Mount Desert Rock. Image shows a man standing up and rowing in a double-ended boat. Two additional rowboats are visible in the background. The negative is stored in an envelope that appears to have once been used for another negative. It reads Mt. Desert Lt. Sta., Aug. 1907 No. 7.e. Oil-House, S.W. Derrick, Capt. J. Robinson's vessel. Looking West.
Description: Post card, Here are two of the floats at the MARINA, at Northeast Harbor, Maine. Beyond the wharf at left, are the finger floats. Photo by A.D. Phillips (circa 1970s).Item #1600a is the other side of this post card.
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]
Description: Four insurance policies 1850-1860s.[See web link below for info on Schooners mentioned in policies.] Policy 1 = 1850 Lexington Fire, Life and Marine Insurance for William P. Preble $1500 on Schooner Zulma for six months from October 26, 1850 at noon, vessel valued at $3,000. [Zulma was the name of one of Preble's adopted daughters.] Policy 2 = 1854 Hancock Mutual Insurance Company William P. Preble $400 on Schooner Sea Flower and $700 on outfits for a fishing voyage from Tremont to the Magdalen Islands [Quebec] and back to port of discharge commencing the week May 2, 1854. Policy 3 = 1864 Penobscot Mutual Fire Insurance Company Joseph Bunker dwelling house for $250. Policy 4 = 1867 Ocean Insurance Company Perley S. Russell $1200 on charter of Schooner Transfer at and from Boston to one or more ports in the Bahama Isles and from thence to Port of discharge in the United States. [show more]
Description: Photographs. Digital copies of 41 color slides made in April 2015. They were loaned to Phil Whitney by Charles 'Chip' Sheppard following Phil Whitney's interview of him in Pennsylvania December 2014. Some slides are undated and some noted in ballpoint pen as years: 1947, 1948, 1950 and 1952. An e-mail from Melen Boothby identified Slide 296, taken in August of 1950, as "shot from my grandparents' house near Thrumcap and shows the wreck of a Canadian lumber schooner that ran aground during a storm in the '30s. Apparently people on the island were told to help themselves to the lumber as the ship wasn't going anywhere!" (Not sure if this means 1830s or 1930s?) Slides were scanned and returned to donor. Scenery, family and friends: Carl and Winston Sheppard's boat Kiri III, a B class Boat (slide 379); Emerson Ham (slide 38); fishing weir (slide 386); fishing, picnic, old cars, docks, and a blue lobster. [show more]