Description: An unaddressed letter by Harold Peabody regarding a hearing in Washington, D.C. about road construction in Lafayette National Park. Peabody believes further development of the park should be prohibited and is discouraged by proposals for carriage roads through the Bubble Pond Valley. People Mentioned: George Wharton Pepper
Description: Left to Right: Alfred Gilley Stanley (1879-1950) - seated Marion E. Stanley (1913-) - on her father's lap Mabel Florence (Moore) Stanley (1888-1939) - standing Charles Warren Stanley (1920-) - held by his mother
Description: Marion is on the right. “This is Marion and Lonny Stanley as she calls herself when she gets her rompers on. The day before this was taken they would not pick up the apples off the ground so Alfred would not let them have any applesauce for supper. In the morning they filled the basket and had their pictures taken.”
Description: Left to Right: Mabel Florence (Moore) Stanley, Mrs. Alfred Gilley Stanley (1888-1939) Mable Florence Stanley (1915-) Two neighbor children Marion E. Stanley (1913-) “Here we have the noisy four sitting on an old horse out in the yard. Marion is in front and two of one of our neighbors who took the picture is next to her and Florence has a big hole in her stocking. Florence does not want me to send you this with the hole. By the pleased look on Mabel’s face you would think all these kids belonged to her.” [show more]
Description: Left to Right: First Lady Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (1947-) Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Governor John Elias Baldacci of Maine (1955-) On September 28, 1999 the Folk & Traditional Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts recognized Ralph W. Stanley as a Master Artist “who has contributed to the shaping of our artistic traditions and to preserving the cultural diversity of the United States” and gave him a National Heritage Fellowship at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. attended by First Lady Hillary Clinton. [show more]
Description: Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh are standing at the side of Lockheed Vega Model 5 Executive NC395H airplane while stopping at Bolling Field, Washington, D.C. en route to South America. The five-place monoplane was manufactured during August 1929 by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, California. It left the factory with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp B engine (S/N 1815) of 450 HP. The aircraft was loaned to Col. Lindbergh by Morgan Belmont (1892–1953), the son of August Belmont Jr. who built the Belmont Park Racetrack in New York, for Lindbergh’s 7000 mile South American trip. The Lindberghs took off from Bolling Field, the first stop on their trip (which had begun at Roosevelt Field on Long Island) on September 18, 1929. The Lockheed Vega model was designed by John Knudsen Northrop (1895-1981) and Gerard Freebairn Vultee (1900-1938) and manufactured by Lockheed Aircraft Limited and first flown on July 4, 1927. Lockheed delivered the Vega 5 in 1929." [show more]
Description: ""Just as it had been Edsel's [Edsel Ford] idea to buy Lincoln to give the company an elegant car to match GM's Cadillac, so in the midthirties, as Ford's competitive position continued to slip, he tried to get a part of the middle-priced market through the Zephyr. The Zephyr began as the Briggs Manufacturing Company ""dream car."" which Edsel saw in prototype at the 1933 automobile show. He was excited by it, having wanted for some time a car in price and quality between the Ford and the Lincoln. He bought the rights from Briggs and then brought in Eugene T. Gregorie, a former boat designer, to carry out his vision of a sleek auto for the middle-class buyer."" - “The Fords: An American Epic” by Peter Collier and David Horowitz, p. 158-159 - illustration #40 - 1987 Apparently design direction worked both ways. ""The design (above the water line) of speed boats of the 30's, 40's and 50's was influenced by automobile design of that era."" - Interview with Charles Morrill - 10/20/08 Morrill - Charles Barrett Morrill (1934-) ""Bink was obsessed with Lincoln Zephyr cars. He stove up three within two weeks. They all had this streamlined look."" - Interview with Ralph Stanley October 20, 2008 A photograph of the Lincoln Zephyr that is supremely evocative of the design era that influenced Bink Sargent appears in “Photographs from the Collection of the Gilman Paper Company,” curated by Pierre Apraxine, with plates by Richard Benson, and notes to the plates by Lee Marks. 480 pp. 199 plates and a frontispiece. Large folio (16 by 18.25 inches), bound in original half maroon calf over linen covered boards, in a slipcase. [Verona: Stamperia Valdonega for] The White Oak Press, 1985. Limited edition of 1200. Copy Number 466 in the collection of the Southwest Harbor Public Library. See: Plate 188, Lincoln Zephyr 1936 by Grancel Fitz (1894–1963) The original photograph, ""Lincoln Zephyr with Graf Zeppelin,"" is in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987. [show more]