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: The view is from the Pemetic Hotel (The Castle) and, on the Southwest Harbor side, shows the Clarence Clark (Ellsbert/Heilaka) house left foreground. The long roofed building in the center, next to the harbor, a bowling alley after World War II - currently the Hamilton Marine building. The building on the right with the striped roof is the firm of Clark & Parker/Manset Marine Supply Co./ and the Oceanarium since 1979. The Oceanarium is the oldest commercial building on Clark Point - the only one extant except the Clarence Clark House. The Manset shore is in the background with discernible landmarks, including the Manset Union Church, the Stanley wharf, the early Stanley House and numerous commercial buildings on the Shore Road. There are about 30 schooners visible in the harbor and tied up at the wharves. - Identifications by Meredith Hutchins - 2006 [show more]
Description: "Fishing Schooner ""Rover's Bride"" and Iron Turbine Windmill at the Newman Wharf in Manset. "Rover's Bride" is at the left at the Newman wharf. The windpump on the roof of the wharf is an Iron Turbine manufactured by Mast Foos & Co, of Springfield, Ohio.
Description: Yampa was owned by Chester Williams Chapin, Jr. when this photograph was taken. She was later purchased by Kaiser Wilhelm II for his wife, Auguste Viktoria Friederike Luise Feodora Jenny of Schleswig-Holstein (1858-1921), the last German empress and queen of Prussia.
Description: Henry L. Rand probably photographed schooner "Puritan" while sailing in Somes Sound aboard his catboat, "Lanita." The photograph was taken in Somes Sound between Halls Quarry behind the camera and Brown Mountain, later Norumbega Mountain in the East behind the schooner.