Description: Business and town dignitaries pose with a boat captain on a dock. They are, from left to right: unidentified, Geddes Simpson, unidentified, Jim McLeod, and Sheldon Goldthwaite. Sticker on back identifies some of the individuals in the photograph. Inscription on the back of the photograph reads "Business + Town dignitaries/ 2 pix/ Spiker" in blue pen. People Depicted: Geddes Simpson, Jim McLeod, Sheldon Goldthwaite Black and white [show more]
Description: Report by the selectmen of Mount Desert, ME on the financial accounts of the town, including lists of expenditures and receipts, for the fiscal year ending January 31, 1905. There are also statements from the treasurer, auditor, road commissioner, and superintendent of schools. The report concludes with an annual town meeting warrant. People Mentioned: F. B. Aiken, James Allen, Annie Ash, Mrs. Robert Ash, Irving Ashley, George D. Atherton, Mae H. Atherton, Edward S. Atwood, Charles P. Babbage, S. W. Babbage, Seth Babbidge, Henry Barns, Fred Bartlett, George Bartlett, Millard Bartlett, N. L. Bartlett, Annie Batchelder, Walter D. Blake, Everett Blanchard, Charles G. Bordeaux, David Bracy, Shirley Bracy, J. H. Branscom, Arthur Brown, S. B. Brown, Charles D. Burr, Roy Burrill, Levi Butler, Charles Butterfield, Robert Campbell, Stuart Campbell, W. B. Campbell, B. W. Candage, A. J. Carter, Annie Carter, Charles Carter, Fronia Carter, Grace Carter, Harry Carter, Lewis Carter, Robert Carter, Benjamin Chittick, Eben B. Clark, A. E. Clement, Amos Clement, Charles H. Clement, James Clement, Ernest Cobb, Harry Conary, George B. Cooksey, Emma Coombs, Joseph Corson, Alice Cox, Palmer Crowley, Mrs. A. E. Danico, Ansel Davis, Charles Davis, Florentine Davis, Frank Davis, James A. Davis, Martin Davis, Cleo Dey, Edward Dickins, W. S. Dickins, Samuel J. Dodge, William H. Dodge, Batchie Dunbar, Leander B. Dyer, George S. Eddy, John E. Falt, H. B. Fernald, Charles Frazier, Howard Frazier, George H. Freeman, Emma W. Frost, Grace Frost, M. R. Frost, Charles W. Garland, Morrel Garland, C. L. Gaskel, John Gatcomb, Adelmar Gilkey, Hattie M. Gilley, Charles Gilpatrick, A. C. B. Gott, Mrs. A. C. B. Gott, D. W. Grace, B. C. Graves, Hattie L. Gray, Mark Gray, William Gray, Gage B. Grindle, R. L. Grindle, William Grindle, Carrie Gushee, George R. Hagerthy, Walter M. Hamor, Harry W. Haynes, Mrs. J. S. Heath, Clifford Herrick, I. W. Herrick, Annie M. Higgins, George F. Higgins, I. C. Higgins, Mrs. E. M. Higgins, Myrtle Higgins, Noreva Higgins, Olivia Higgins, Orrin Higgins, Rubie Higgins, Sidney Higgins, J. C. Hill, E. A. Hodgdon, G. H. Hodgdon, L. E. Holmes, Lawrie Holmes, A. O. Jacobson, Eva A. Jacobson, Edwin Jordan, Charles A. Kencher, Henry A. Keniston, George E. Kenny, E. H. Kimball, Gertrude Knowlton, Mary A. Langley, Charles P. Leland, Ida Leland, Ray Leland, T. E. Leland, Guy Leonard, S. G. Leonard, Mrs. George Lewis, F. H. Macomber, Chester A. Maddocks, A. M. Manchester, Frank Manchester, Mary E. Marshall, Ezra G. Mason, T. M. Mason, L. Laura McCarthy, Pat McComick, James McCrea, Kate Mitchell, C. E. Monohon, A. F. Moore, Robert A. Moore, George H. Morrill, Joseph R. Norwood, Roland Norwood, Daniel Nutter, Frank R. Ober, James W. Ober, Lorin Ober, Otis M. Ober, Cora E. Parker, Fred Parker, George S. Parker, William M. Peckham, H. L. Perkins, Mrs. H. L. Perkins, Arthur Pervear, J. D. Phillips, Nettie Pollard, Edward L. Pray, Fred H. Pray, Lester Pray, Vina Ray, Alvah L. Reed, Edward R. Reed, H. E. Reed, Jared R. Reed, Maynard Reed, Allie Reynolds, A. L. Richardson, Addie Richardson, Arthur Richardson, Benjamin Richardson, Clifford B. Richardson, Cynthia Richardson, David D. Richardson, Emma Richardson, Ezra G. Richardson, Gideon M. Richardson, John Richardson, Listen Richardson, Mrs. Austin Richardson, Mrs. Benjamin Richardson, O. W. Richardson, Olin Richardson, Shepard Richardson, T. M. Richardson, Winfield Richardson, E. C. Robbins, Elsie M. Robbins, Abbie Robinson, Everett Robinson, Howard Robinson, Joseph Robinson, Mary A. Robinson, Harvey Salisbury, Emily C. Sargent, George Sargent, Roderick Sargent, W. Sargent, John Savage, Lewis Seavey, William H. Sherman, Charles P. Simpson, H. L. Smallidge, N. C. Smallidge, Walter Smallidge, B. R. Smith, Bertha Smith, Cornelius B. Smith, Fred P. Smith, Hollis Smith, J. E. Smith, Julius Smith, R. L. Smith, Richmond Smith, S. D. Smith, Madison Snow, A. J. Somes, Alie Somes, Caro M. Somes, Fred H. Somes, George A. Somes, Georgia Somes, John J. Somes, Lewis Somes, J. H. Soulis, Ina M. Spurling, H. Edwin Stanley, George E. Stebbins, George L. Stebbins, F. H. Strickland, George E. Sturks, B. Sylvester, John L. Thompson, Charles Tracy, Mrs. Charles Tracy, S. R. Tracy, Seldon Tracy, Maud E. Trask, Edgar Tripp, Charles Turnbull, George E. Turner, James Varnum, I. E. Videtto, Starratt Videtto, R. W. Wakefield, Daniel Walls, E. G. Walls, Edgar Walls, Elbridge Walls, Luella Walls, Milton Walls, Ralph Walls, W. L. Warren, W. D. Wasgatt, S. Oscar Williams, Marion Wilson, Marion Wooster, Irving P. Young, Veazie Young [show more]
Description: Annual report for the town of Tremont, Maine. People Mentioned: William N. Abbott, A. J. Babbidge, Ida M. Bates, Josie E. Billings, Alice A. Brackett, A. J. Bunker, Nellie Rebecca Carroll, Albert J. Carver, Eben B. Clark, J. T. Clark, Georgie Devereux, Lucy M. Dodge, John Dolby, Clarence E. Dow, Mary L. Driscoll, Lucinda T. Ellis, James S. Fernald, J. W. Freeman, John T. R. Freeman, George R. Fuller, Minnie E. Geary, George H. Gilley, J. H. Gilley, Fred Gott, J. S. Gott, Roscoe Gott, Fanny Gross, Daniel Handy, Joseph Harmon, Albert Harper, H. P. Harper, Josie Harper, Fred W. Heath, William W. A. Heath, Maud Higgins, C. M. Holden, Sally Hopkins, Lelia Kelley, A. W. King, Frances E. King, Caroline R. Lawler, Lulu Mayo, Hattie Milan, William C. Moore, Mary Morris, Josie Murphy, Stillman Nutter, Mabel I. Ober, James S. Powers, Albion R. Pray, John Ralph, Grace M. Reed, M. R. Rich, Mary H. Rich, Mrs. W. W. Rich, Susie Rich, W. W. Rich, A. T. Richardson, Amanda E. Richardson, Herbert P. Richardson, Perry W. Richardson, Ellis Robinson, William A. Robinson, Gertie Rumill, Loren W. Rumill, Robie M. Rumill, Ella F. Smith, W. A. Spear, C. H. Stanley, Fanny Thurston, John V. Tinker, Lucy A. Titus, Vincie Torrey, Henry Tracy, A. Walls, John C. Walls, Josie H. Walls, Lydia Walls, Willis Watson, Joseph O. Whitcomb, John G. Wilson, Myra Wilson, Phebe F. Wilson, J. E. Wooster [show more]
Description: The John Lawson Stoddard Cottage - The Edward Wyatt Evans Cottage is visible on the opposite shore. Francis Milton Spurling (1896-1958) , in a white shirt, is standing on the lower dock next to his boat, "Trailaway," later Maddy Sue. "Trailaway" was built by Chester Eben Clement.
Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Net Fishing Vessel, Dragger
Creator:
Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
Date:
1946
Place:
Southwest Harbor
Description: George Benjamin Dolliver is in the center of the picture on the peaked hood lobster boat with a stay sail originally built by Charles Wesley Bracy for his son Wesley. Large vessels at the Southwest Boat dock in the background - from Left to Right: "Hornet" - sardine carrier, dragger, seiner - built in 1944 "Grace M. Cribby" - 49.8' lobster smack - built in 1914 "Elva L. Beal" - dragger, purse seiner - built in 1945 Unknown vessel "Sandra & Jean" - dragger - built in 1945 The Ballard photograph was taken as a black and white photograph and hand -tinted by Willis or one of his family. [show more]
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
Description: This item replaces item 6262. Written on back: "Steamboat Wharf - Clark Point Southwest Harbor Eastern Steamship Lines American Railway Express Agency always in Clark Family" Left to Right: Grace Clark (Carroll) Clark, Mrs. Roderick Pepper Clark (1882-1949) - in doorway Jesse Lyndon Parker (1881-1966) William Edwin Parker (1890-1962) Jack Cutter Parker (1887-1980) Roderick Pepper Clark (1880-1965) - Maine Central Railroad agent Probably George E. Dunton (1883-1969) - Eastern Steamship Company agent Unidentified man Probably Harold K. Parker (1901-) Lawrence S. Robinson (1897-1980) "Prince" at the delivery cart (horse) [show more]
Description: Left to right: George Dunton - Eastern Steamship Company agent Grace Clark (R.P. Clark's niece ?) Roderick Pepper Clark - Maine Central Railroad and American Express Company agent.
Description: This photograph was taken on Newport Avenue in Bar Harbor, slightly south of the present-day Agamont Park. Porcupine Island is in the background.
Description: Left to right: Fred Cutter Parker Melissa C. Lawton Jack Cutter Parker William Edwin Parker The little girl is Millie Lawton - she would have been about nine years old when this picture was taken.
Description: From Left to Right: Richard K. Sinkler (1944-2007) - son of William Lukens Elkins Sinkler - or possibly Richard's brother, William L. Sinkler, Jr. - Richard would have been about 8 years old when this photograph was taken. People more informed than we may help us to positively identify this child. William Lukens Elkins Sinkler (1919-) Francis Milton Spurling (1896-1958) - sailed for the Sinkler family. The fish was a circa 500 lb. tuna (formerly called "Horse Mackerel" in these waters) - possibly the one described as being harpooned in “Leaves Folded Down” See: “Leaves Folded Down” by Louise E. [Elkins] Sinkler, privately published in a limited edition of 300 copies and a second edition of 500 copies of which the Southwest Harbor Public Library copy is number 228, Haverford House, Wayne, Pa., 1971, pages 109-110. [show more]