Description: “Maine – McKinley - The McKinley Fish & Freezer Co., recently organized, with S.S. Nickerson, president, is building a modern fish freezing and cold storage plant, the latter to have storage space for about 10,000 barrels of fish. Two 30-ton Palson absorption refrigerating machines will be installed. The sharp freezer, with capacity for about 200 barrels of fish per day, will be located on the third floor, all of which it will occupy, and will be piped with 25,000 feet of 1¼-inch d.e. piping. The two lower floors will be cooled by air circulation from the sharp freezer. A small ice making system will also be added. Plant is to be ready for operation in May. 1911.” – “Ice and Refrigeration” Vol. 39, by Southern Ice Exchange, published by H.S. Rich & Co., p. 317, 1910. The building, always known simply as the "Cold Storage," became Sim Davis' boat shop, later was owned by the Hinckley Co., part of the Morris Yachts property in 2008. Perry Warrington Richardson (1839-1918) was an early President (1915) of the McKinley Fish & Freezer Co. His son, Herbert Perry Richardson (1863-1938) was the Treasurer. [show more]
Description: Listed as being in McKinley, Maine - now Bass Harbor. 1999 property is now a bed and breakfast. Photo 1061 a: Southern exposure Photo 1061 b: View taken from point near shore, looking east Photo 1061 d: View toward the west showing Bass Harbor. Photo taken from west lawn
Description: "From left to right: Back row: Beatrice A. (Trask) Wilson (1902-1983) - Mrs. Sherril Stenmore Wilson Eunice Edna (Reed) Harris (1914-1996) - Mrs. Wallace H. Harris Annie M. (Gott) Ingalls (1911-2002) - Mrs. Edwin E. Ingalls and Mrs. Carl Silverstone Mildred E. (Nice) Young (1915-2006) - Mrs. Manuel L. Young Thelma (Gott) Dornfeld (1905-1995) - Mrs. Frederick W. Dornfeld Charlotte Frances (Reed) Robbins (1910-2006) - Mrs. Colson J. Robbins Front row: Genevieve Leighton (1903-1970) Kathlyn Laurie (Murphy) Reed (1882-1965) - Mrs. Edmund Blanchard Reed II Sara ""Sadie"" J. (Hallowell) Wilson (1909-1992) - Mrs. Eugene Woodbury Wilson - partial view" [show more]
Description: "Back row - Right to Left: John Thomas Lawton (1854-1954) Lowell Alton Bunker (1875-) Unknown Unknown Carl Weston Pettigrove (1878-1923) Unknown Frank L. Manchester (1873-1957) Unknown Fred W. Lawton (1863-1947) Unknown William Herbert Thurston (1886-1957) Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Factory Manager - possibly Alton E. Farnsworth Middle Row - Left to Right: Unknown girl Unknown woman Datie R. Rich (1851-1927) - Mrs. John Sullivan Thurston Linda Myra Robinson (1860-1929) - Mrs. Millard F. Albee Unknown woman Ada Martin - Mrs. Cummings Martin Maud A. Closson (1888-1957) - Later Mrs. Harry Burnham Greenlaw Unknown woman Unknown woman Unknown woman Cora Lavinia Galley (1889-1971) - Mrs. Clarence Homer Pettigrove Lucretia S. Hamblen (1879-1937) - Mrs. Holsey Sidney Galley Unknown woman Unknown woman Unknown woman Unknown woman Zelma Thurston (1892-) - Mrs. Michael John Dyer Jr. Front Row - Left to Right: Eva Martin Unknown girl Unknown boy Unknown boy Charles Everett Holmes (1890-) Unknown boy Charles Edwin Hamblen (1889-1952) Lewis Arthur Norwood (1893-1988) or Arthur J. Norwood (1889-1943 Unknown boy Unknown boy Lila Madeline Thurston (1897-1996) - Later Mrs. Ralph Richardson Sawyer Unknown girl" [show more]