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| Contract: John C. Ralph with Frances Scott, 1917 Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Contract: John C. Ralph with Frances Scott, 1917 Northeast Harbor Library | |
| Rebecca Carroll's Dolls Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Rebecca Carroll's Dolls Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: A collection of photographs taken of three rag dolls that Rebecca Carroll made for her granddaughters. | ||
| Gordon and White Garage Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Gordon and White Garage Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Gordon and White Garage with Exxon pump. |
| Andrew McInnes sailing Venture Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Andrew McInnes sailing Venture Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Southwest Harbor lifelong summer resident Andrew McInnes sailing Venture in the 1930s. The sailboat, co-owned with his brother Robert, was a B.B. Corninshield B Boat. Andrew didn't know that Mr. Ballard had taken the photograph until he happened to be in Grand Central Station in New York City and saw an enormous print or projection of the image advertising Maine as a tourist destination. Mr. Ballard gave him the 8x10 glass negative when they next met. [show more] | |
| Southwest Harbor Grammar School Teacher and Students Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Southwest Harbor Grammar School Teacher and Students Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Front Row - Left to Right: Andrew Donald Berry (1918-1968) Malcolm I. Bennett (1916-1976) Clinton D. Foss (1916-1999) Cecil Edwin Dorr (1917-1995) William Wescott Billings (1916-2000) Arthur L. Mitchell (1918-2003) Lawrence Berry (1920-1996) Second Row - Left to Right: Gilbert Finney Hall (1918-1998) Wesley Candage Roberts (1917-1988) Wilder S. Hamblen (1917-1957) Cecil E. Reed (1918-1998) Arlington H. Bickford (1918-1983) Back Row - Left to Right: Rebecca K. Dunbar (1918-1978) - later Mrs. Almon Frank Ramsdell Jr. Madeline Louise Norwood (1917-2000) - later Mrs. Raleigh Edgar Stanwood Vesta Harriet Lord (1916-) - later Mrs. Malcolm Wade Clough and Mrs. Unknown Goodwin and Mrs. Hoyt Ashton Stanley Priscilla Mitchell (1918-2010) - later Mrs. Joseph Calvin Trafton Dorothy Barbara Nason (1919-) Marjorie F. White (1917-1998) - later Mrs. Irving W. Parritt Enola Madeline Gilley (1920-2003) - later Mrs. Bertram E. Farmer Alice L. Mitchell (1918-1972) - later Mrs. Normand Joseph Bouchard [show more] | |
| Warren Bartlett Walsh Cottage Leza and James R. Colquhoun House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| The Chester Warren Stanley and Philip Tracy Carroll Children Looking Across Main Street Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Chester Warren Stanley and Philip Tracy Carroll Children Looking Across Main Street Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Left to Right: Judith “Judy” May Carroll (1935-), later Mrs. Joseph T. Stockbridge Jr. Nancy Eleanor Stanley (1934-2022), later Mrs. Raymond Eugene Robbins, Jr. Irene Mabel Stanley (1933-), later Mrs. Carol Carter Murphy Myrna Lorraine Stanley (1942-2022), later Mrs. Karl Julius Ritterskamp Sally Camilla Carroll (1933-), later Mrs. Harold Alan Fernald Jr. Nancy Jane Carroll (1936-), later Mrs. Joseph Mello Cynthia Farnham Carroll (1937-2005), later Mrs. Robert Allen Aikman III Esther Laverne Stanley (1936-1984), later Mrs. Michael Willis The children are sitting on the lawn of the Adoniram Judson Robinson house at 376 Main Street, Southwest Harbor, watching a moving van at the Arthur L. Somes house across the street. [show more] | |
| Southwest Harbor Revisited: Times Writer Reports on 1922 Fire Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Southwest Harbor Revisited: Times Writer Reports on 1922 Fire Northeast Harbor Library Description: Bar Harbor Times article about the 1922 fire that burned the business district. (January 7, 1965). | |
| Sidewheel Steamer Forest City and Steamer Florence at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Sidewheel Steamer Forest City and Steamer Florence at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: WRITTEN ON BACK: "Clark Point Wharf Southwest Harbor, Me Forest City (sister ship Lewiston) built in New York - 1854 - Boston - Bango route in 1880's Florence - small steamer in foreground - Blue Hill territory - chartered by Capt. Crockett Sign on a building at right - "International Express" | |
| View from the Marina Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Freight Bill from the Sidewheel Steamer Rockland Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Freight Bill from the Sidewheel Steamer Rockland Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: A freight bill for 3 casks of lime for Capt. James Long (1814-1895) signed by Jo. R. Freeman [John T.R. Freeman (1838-1916)] and paid at Mt. Desert on November 2, 1853. As can be seen from the account below, "Rockland" was supposed to have been built in 1853 and to have gone into service in 1854, but this bill of lading clearly shows that she was working in the Mt. Desert area as early as November 1853. She may have gone on the water in 1853 and done some freight work in the area before she started her career on the passenger route in 1854. The 1857 date may just be an error. [show more] | |
| Timetable for Sidewheel Steamer Rockland Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Timetable for Sidewheel Steamer Rockland Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The timetable is signed by J.R. Freeman at Southwest Harbor. | |
| View from Manset to Clark Point - Tinted Photograph Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  View from Manset to Clark Point - Tinted Photograph Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Fleet of Offshore Fishing Schooners - Mackerel Fleet Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Fleet of Offshore Fishing Schooners - Mackerel Fleet Southwest Harbor Public Library 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] |
| Interview of Ralph Benson Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Interview of Ralph Benson Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: A man interviewing Ralph Benson, though the audio recording is of poor quality. The tape is about 0:30 in length. | |
| Interview of Eleanor Gilley Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Eleanor Gilley Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Eleanor Hadlock Gilley, born at Seawall, talks about growing up on the island and her family's history in the area. She walked to school and says it wasn't too bad until she had to go to Southwest Harbor for high school; she remembers getting caught in a blizzard in during a commute in 1922. She stopped at a friends home in Manset and was stuck for two days. Growing up, her father had a penchant for travelling and the family often lost track of him. After high school, Eleanor would go on to teach in the area, spending a total of seventeen years between Trenton, Tremont, and Southwest Harbor. Her husband, who she met in high school, was a lifelong basketball fan and worked for the Hinckley company as a painter. Her grandmother worked in the Manset hotels doing laundry. She also talks about her great-great grandfather who was married to "The Prussian Lady" and would later die at sea. She tells stories from the Great Depression and eating "salmon loaf," as it was the only food available. [show more] | |
| Interview of Irma Gott Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Irma Gott Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: David Spurling interviews Irma Gott and discusses her parents. Earl Williams Gott was her father, and her mother came to Southwest Harbor one summer to work in the sardine factory and never got around to leaving. Irma was married three times, outlived them all, and eventually changed back to her maiden name. After high school, she went right to work at the post office where her father was the Postmaster. After her father passed away, she took over as Postmaster and retired in 1975. She talks about her pets that keep her busy in retirement-cats and dogs and birds. During the Great Depression she learned to play the piano, and later the organ. She would play at churches and local events, and even for the USO during World War Two. Music was a big theme for her, as her father and uncles played in the Southwest Harbor town band who played at the Blue Hill Fair, 4th of July events, and the retirement of steamship "JT Morris" [show more] | ||
| Interview of Ruth Grindle Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Ruth Grindle Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Esther Rodick interviews Ruth Grindle who talks about her life in Southwest Harbor. Neither of her parents were originally from the area, but her father moved to Bar Harbor to work in a jewelry story before moving to Southwest Harbor to open his own store. In 1921, he became the town Postmaster, but was dismissed in 1933 when FDR was elected-back then, the Postmaster was tied to the political party in power. Ruth talks about how she loved watching the JT Morris steamship come to town and seeing the workers running on and off with the freight. She remembers fires in town, and horse stable, and ice storage. Ruth met her husband at Echo Lake, where she went for recreation. She worked at the Dirigo Hotel and her husband worked as a boatbuilder. After recovering from Guillan-Barre syndrome, the two opened a store in the 1950s which sold a wide variety of things. Finally, she tells of how she finagled her way into meeting FDR when he visited Southwest Harbor. [show more] | |
| Interview of Henry and Elizabeth Guthrie Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Henry and Elizabeth Guthrie Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Esther Rodick interviews Henry and Elizabeth Guthrie. Originally, the couple lived together in New York City where Henry worked as a lawyer at a very big firm. They came to MDI in 1933 after being invited to the house party of a friend, and soon began coming regularly. They usually chartered a boat from Farnham Butler, but eventually bought the boat "Snowflake" outright after enjoying it so much. Elizabeth recalled a conversation between Farnham Butler and Henry Hinckley about the future of boatbuilding. She also talks about taking the "Bar Harbor Express," a train from Washington D.C. up to a ferry which would complete the journey to Bar Harbor. The Guthries were always just summer people, but felt that they belonged in Southwest Harbor and were very complimentary of the people they met in town. They talk about how they would spend time in SWH every summer because of the great dancing and restaurants. She talks about sailing up and down the coast of Maine, her love of ecology, donating land to the local college for research and studies, and their extensive travelling. They took the first passenger ship to England after World War Two ended. She finishes by telling a story of a passenger fixing a Douglass DC-3 plane with a screwdriver; he was an expert mechanic after working on them during World War Two. [show more] | |
| Interview of Marguerite Hancock Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Marguerite Hancock Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: In this interview, Carol Hall talks to Marguerite Hamblen Hancock about some family history and how, among others, her grandfather "went to sea." She talks about the houses she grew up in, attending grammar school in Southwest Harbor, and playing basketball in school. The winter games between the three high schools on the island were a source of entertainment for everyone. During summer, she would go camping at Long Pond in cabins. She mentions how there are fewer grocery stores in Southwest Harbor now then there used to be. After high school, she got married to her husband Teddie who was stationed at the Navy Radio Station in Seawall. After getting married, the two returned back to Teddie's home in Illinois for a year. Afterwards, they permanently settled in Southwest Harbor. She remembers the fires of 1922 and the flu epidemic of 1918, but also talks about the 4th of July celebrations in McKinley. She also talks about Wabanaki people(Indians) trading their beautiful baskets in town. [show more] | |
| Interview of Andrew Herrick Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Andrew Herrick Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: A woman interviews Andrew Herrick, who begins by listing off al his male ancestors from memory. The earliest Herrick came to America around the Revolutionary War and built a log cabin at the head of Somes Sound, but he did not stay. The first Herrick to stay was Isaac who ran a tide mill in Southwest Harbor. Andrew grew up in the house that Isaac built. He served in the Army during the first World War for the final 18 days of the war, though even those were grueling and horrifying. After service, he returned to marry Hulda Hodgkins, with whom he had a daughter. Andrew drove a truck for a gas company, living in Bar Harbor and Ellsworth but was forced to stop that work in 1952 following a shoulder injury. He has many stories from his time in Southwest Harbor; the first car in the town, Beech Mountain priginally being called Herrick Mountain, finding bootleg booze in Summer People's houses. He talks about his ancestor William Herrick who was feared by the British. Andrew also had several stories about Billy Tot, a man who worked as a cabin boy for Captain Norwood and eventually lived a primitive life on the edges of society near Southwest Harbor. [show more] | |
| Interview of Nelson Herrick Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Interview of Nelson Herrick Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: In the second part of this interview, Nelson Herrick continues to talk about being a draftee during World War One but being saved from service by the signing of the armistice. He tells the story of meeting his wife by giving her a ride in his truck. At the time she was a widow with two children and he was delivering milk and farm products. Nelson tells the story of a carnival coming to town and offering $300 to a farmer for his land, not telling him what they planned to use it for. He also claims that he was the first volunteer firefighter after the town acquired a fire engine. Reluctant to tell more, he admits to remembering rum running during Prohibition. Many locals took part and kids found booze in the cellars of Summer People's homes. He also remembers Wabanaki people(Indians) living in a village at the Somesville end of Long Pond and harvesting materials to make baskets. He talks about clamming on the island, how they were processed, and how they were used to help people walk across muddy ground in the spring. He answers questions about his ancestors during the Civil War, telling the story of an ancestor who hired a Russian to take his place in the Army. Then he talks about his time as a teamster working with horses and wagons delivering hay to Ellsworth. He also tells a story about delivering old stones to be used as garden decorations. [show more] | |
| Interview of Athol Higgins Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Athol Higgins Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Ralph Stanley interviews Athol Higgins, who talks about her husband, Howe Higgins, and his jobs. Before World War One, he worked in the Post Office in Bar Harbor and saw the switch from horses to automobiles. After World War One, he worked in the customs office in Southwest Harbor for twelve years. His duties as customs officer got in the way of some friendships. He talks of sardine boats that went herring fishing in bad weather and fog. The sardine factory was a busy place during the Spring and Summer as it was the main source of employment. Howe helped start the fire department after the fire of 1922; his office was in the Odd Fellows Hall and he carried out a lot of files to prevent them from burning. Athol talks about walking out to "the small island in the middle of the harbor" for picnics, and having to be careful of the tide. [show more] | |
| Interview of Mildred Hill Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Mildred Hill Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: This interview consists of Mildred Hill talking about her life. She was born in Hawaii after her father was "imported" to the Dole plantation for his canning knowledge. Some of her mother's family came from Germany. Her family moved back from Hawaii to Southwest Harbor while she was two years old and lived at Seawall and then Manset. She talks about having well water, but using "town water" in the summer. The main industry in Manset was fishing or processing fish, as well as hotels and ice storage. He also talks about the Seawall radio station around World War One which communicated with ships and mainland Europe. Many sailors stationed there married local girls or stayed in the area after the war ended. Mildred's husband Carleton worked as a civilian for the Coast Guard, in the houses of Summer People, and in local hotels. She also recounts stories about issue with the mail and how boys made pocket money baiting trawl lines after school. [show more] | ||
| Interview of Laurence Newman Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Laurence Newman Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: In this interview, Laurence talks about being born and raised in Manset. His grandfather has a store there, though his grandmother was the one who really ran it. She also worked at the Post Office in Manset. She talks about the "Prussian Women," and Capt. Samuel Hadlock's relationship with her. He would sail into the Northern waters and bring back mementos for her; he once brought back Eskimos with sleds and dogs. Capt. Hadlock died on one such voyage and was found frozen onboard his ship. Laurence's father was a fisherman, and Laurence stayed in that line of work, even as he wont off to MIT for school. He met his wife at a dance that he was playing saxophone for. After a long time working as an engineer in Connecticut, he moved back to Southwest Harbor to be a fisherman again. He tells many stories of his time fishing; great catches, salting and drying the fish on the beach, and selling to processors. He would run fishing parties on the weekends for people, and had people booking their spots a year in advance. He preferred going out in the dense fog, as others would not venture out and he got all the good spots to himself. Laurence laments the overfishing and destructive techniques (gill netting and bottom trawling) that caused the collapse of the cod fishery in New England. [show more] | ||
| Mary Jones Interviews with Ralph Stanley and Eric Henry about SWH Buildings - Oral History Tapes Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Mary Jones Interviews with Ralph Stanley and Eric Henry about SWH Buildings - Oral History Tapes Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Select Southwest Harbor Annual Reports Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Select Southwest Harbor Annual Reports Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Annual reports for the years 1964 and 1972 as well as a Warrant report for 1965, all for the town of Southwest Harbor | ||
| Gott and Craig Family Photos Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Gott and Craig Family Photos Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Toxic Manufacturing Plants in the United States College of the Atlantic |
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|  Toxic Manufacturing Plants in the United States College of the Atlantic Description: This story map explores toxic manufacturing plants within the United States and how these plants affect the human communities that surround them. It was created in collaboration with Material Research , a low profit organization which provides affordable contract research to mostly non-profit organizations. |
| Photos from the making of Stephen King's Storm of the Century Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Photos from the making of Stephen King's Storm of the Century Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Anny Seavey who took these photographs said “The film crew was here in Jan of ’98. It was a lot of fun for all of us.” In the main image above, notice the 55 lb bags of Canadian instant mashed potato flakes used to make snow. This item contains 44 of the 55 snapshots Anny took. Images that were nearly identical to others have been omitted. |
| Main Street, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Main Street, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: View of stores Somes and Whitneys taken from the Post Office in August 1973. | |
| Main Street, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Main Street, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: View of Sawyer's Market, Post Office, and Bar Harbor Bank taken from Whitneys in August 1973. | |
| E.A. Lawler Paint Company Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  E.A. Lawler Paint Company Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Smuggler's Den Campground Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Smuggler's Den Campground Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| View Toward Mill Dam from Winifred Mann's Summer Home Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  View Toward Mill Dam from Winifred Mann's Summer Home Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Librarian Meredith Hutchins in the Southwest Harbor Public Library Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Librarian Meredith Hutchins in the Southwest Harbor Public Library Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: This photograph shows the back of the library before the expansion of the building in 1984. | |
| Shoes in the kitchen at the Charles Wallace Birlem house Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Shoes in the kitchen at the Charles Wallace Birlem house Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Charles Wallace Birlem House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Charles Wallace Birlem House Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The view of Charles Wallace Birlem's house from Carroll Drug Store | |
| Milton Norwood in front of R.M. Norwood Company Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Milton Norwood in front of R.M. Norwood Company Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Milton Norwood standing in front of his uncle, Robie Melvin Norwood's carpenter shop. | |
| The Charles Wallace Birlem House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Charles Wallace Birlem House Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Head on view of the Birlem house. | |
| School buses outside St. John's Episcopal Church Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  School buses outside St. John's Episcopal Church Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Southwest Harbor School Department school buses parked outside St. John's Episcopal Church | |
| View from Jess (Hogdgon) Getchell's Lawn Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  View from Jess (Hogdgon) Getchell's Lawn Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| View of Main Street featuring Carroll's Drug Store Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  View of Main Street featuring Carroll's Drug Store Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: View of Main Street with Carroll's Drug Store, the A&P Food Store, and Willey's store all visible. | |
| Beal's Wharf Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Smuggler's Den Campground Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Smuggler's Den Campground Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Children swinging on a playset at Smuggler's Den Campground | |
| View up Maple Lane Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  View up Maple Lane Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| View of the Charles Wallace Birlem House from Spofford's Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  View of the Charles Wallace Birlem House from Spofford's Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| View of Clark Point Road Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  View of Clark Point Road Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: View of Clark Point Road with Southwest Motor and Gilley Plumbing visible | |
| Central Filing Station Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Central Filing Station Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Photograph of the Central Filing Station and school house | |
| View Down Clark Point Road Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  View Down Clark Point Road Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: View down Clark Point Road from Southwest Motor | |
| Addison Packing Company Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Addison Packing Company Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: View from up the road of the Addison Packing Company | |
| View up Main Street Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  View up Main Street Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: View up Maine Street from Gordon and White's garage | |
| View on Clark Point Road toward Main Street Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  View on Clark Point Road toward Main Street Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: View on Clark Point Road toward Main Street, Lawler Paint visible | |
| View of Carroll Drug Store Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  View of Carroll Drug Store Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: View of Carroll Drugstore taken from Harbor Light Inn | |
| View of the Odd Fellow's Hall, Vines Electric, and Some's Store from Main Street Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  View of the Odd Fellow's Hall, Vines Electric, and Some's Store from Main Street Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Newspaper Clippings featuring the Claremont Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Newspaper Clippings featuring the Claremont Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: "At inn overlooking the sea, tradition has a capital T" from The Globe and Mail - September 21, 1994 "Claremont spruces up for another century" from The Bar Harbor Times - August 18, 1994 "Visitor's guide to a lush Maine isle" from The New York Sunday Times -August 9, 1989 A write up by Charles C. Calhoun in MAINE - 1994 "An escape to Acadia Park when the crowds have gone" in The Inquirer "Edwardian Elegance, Regal Comfort" in The Times Record - August 30, 2002 [show more] | |
| Elmwood Cafe Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Elmwood Cafe Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Elmwood Cafe Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Elmwood Cafe Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Lettering on a truck parked on Main Street says "E & M Ice Cream". The building across the street with striped awning is the present-day (2022) Davis Agency realty office. |
| The Causeway Club salt water swimming pool Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Causeway Club salt water swimming pool Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| The Causeway Club salt water swimming pool Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Causeway Club salt water swimming pool Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| The Causeway Club salt water swimming pool Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Causeway Club salt water swimming pool Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| The Causeway Club salt water swimming pool Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Causeway Club salt water swimming pool Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| The Causeway Club salt water swimming pool Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Causeway Club salt water swimming pool Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| The Causeway Club salt water swimming pool Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Causeway Club salt water swimming pool Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Geo. A. Lurvey, Justice of the Peace, Southwest Harbor Records and Index Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Geo. A. Lurvey, Justice of the Peace, Southwest Harbor Records and Index Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: This index was kept by Geo. A. Lurvey, Justice of the Peace. Included are records of marriages, weddings, and other town records from Southwest Harbor, Maine from approximately 1878 to 1907. | |
| Teacher's Convention at the Southwest Harbor Congregational Church Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Teacher's Convention at the Southwest Harbor Congregational Church Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: “Teacher’s convention in the early days of the new church building.” | ||
| Lennox Ledyard Sargent - Design for a Christmas Card as Bing Sargent Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Lennox Ledyard Sargent - Design for a Christmas Card as Bing Sargent Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Morris Boat Yard Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Morris Boat Yard Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| View of Beal's Fish Wharf Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  View of Beal's Fish Wharf Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Photographs of Beal's Fish Wharf Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Photographs of Beal's Fish Wharf Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Beals Lobster Wharf Photographs Above - Beals Lobster Wharf – probably new 1932-1935 construction Three Sisters with staysail? Other Images: 1 - 36’ Newman 5 - Town Dock – Bait truck backed over the edge 6 - Doug Sr. 8 - Sandy Sandra Jellison Sullivan and Rosie 9 - Left to right: Sandra Sullivan, Elmer Buzzy Beal, Harold Beal, Douggy Beal, Sam Beal, unknown man in back. 10 - Vessel MS4909W – Raymond Bunker boat? 11 - Crew 1996 – includes Patti Tinker, Danielle Pelletier, Rose Gray. Photographer: Robin Farrin 12 - Carlton Smith photograph 18 - Samuel Wayne Beal aka Sam (1945-2011) and Molly shoveling snow Winter 2000-2001 19 - August 1998 29 - Sam Beal and aftermath of the truck accident at the wharf. The green gray boat is the “The Lost Airman” belongs to Andy May Barge behind is the "Charles Bradley" Bass Harbor owned by Wilfred M. Minctons (1962-). Charles Bradley Construction Company barge Capt. "Wid" Minctons. He specializes in Marine Construction and repair. 30 - Phase I almost completed 31 - Phase I completed – view from Coast Guard side 32 - Phase I completed – Shows “The Gangplank” & Coast Guard housing 33 - Phase I completed – Shows “The Gangplank” & Coast Guard housing 34 - August 1998 – beginning Phase I 35 - Harbor side before remodel 36 - Phase I completed. Summer 2000 “A hole like a missing tooth. Buildings built in 1932-1935 are gone.” – Sam Beal 37 - Phase II - Beginning demolition 38 - Phase II - Beginning demolition 39 - Phase I completed – shows new harbor side landing 40 - Phase I – end completed – tearing up the wharf for the restaurant pavilion 41 - Winter 2000-2001 – remodel half done – looking toward Clark Point Road – new restaurant pavilion on left – old bldg on right 42 - Maggie Dalzell and Bud Higgins in the kitchen – c. 1983-1986 43 - Wendy Dolliver – Melissa and Don Walls – 1985 Wendy P. Dolliver (1967-) ? Donald W. Walls (1953-) ? Melissa Walls – daughter ? 44 - Beals Wharf – c. 1981 45 - Beals Wharf – c. 1981 46 - 715 lb Tuna, Caught July 29, 1955, Francis Fernald and son Jerry, Francis Griffen Fernald (1909-1999) ?Gerard F. Fernald (1937-) ? Photographer W.H. Ballard 47-51 - 1992 – Moving Captain’s Galley and other bldg 52-53 - 1992 – Extending and rebuilding the wharf 54 - 1997 – sent a trap to this child’s school class 55 - Harold Beal 56 - August 1972 58 - Mac Pettigrow, Thurman Berry on left, Buzz Beal in back 59 - Buzz Beal 60 - Thurman Berry 61 - Thurman Berry older 62 - Shirley Phippen 63 - Retail sales – September 1988 65 - 1977 – Remodel 66 - 1977 – Coast Guard side 1932-1935 building – ready for hot top 67 - 1977 – Remodel 1932-1935 building racks on rough are fish flake 68 - Sunday, August 1977 – Minutes after opening, 1932-1935 building rebuilt 69 - 1977 remodel 72 - Stephen Brooks - 1997 73 - Ronald Warren’s boats at float, Mike Gilley on ramp, Summer 1982 74 - Bookkeeper Helen 75 - Sam Beal 80 - Edward M. – Bass Harbor – Old Underwood factory? 81 - Medric at SW Boat – Hornet at end of dock, Buzz Beal in rowboat? 83 - Picking shrimp 84-87 - 1932-1935 building goes down Phase I Construction – end of dock – probably 1998 Phase II Construction – restaurant and sales area - 2002 [show more] | ||
| Addison Packing Company Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Addison Packing Company Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Ralph Stanley and Edward Stanley at the Computer Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Ralph Stanley and Edward Stanley at the Computer Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Edward Stanley played a critical role in helping to digitize some of the design work done by Ralph and Richard. | ||
| Richard Stanley Clamping Ribbands on Freedom Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Richard Stanley Clamping Ribbands on Freedom Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Richard Lewis Stanley clamping ribbands on Freedom. | |
| Ralph Warren Stanley Planing Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Ralph Warren Stanley Planing Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Ralph Warren Stanley planing the garboard plank for the Freedom. | |
| Samuel Champion Cooper Cottage The Larches Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Ralph Warren Stanley and Wilbur Wolf playing together Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Ralph Warren Stanley and Wilbur Wolf playing together Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Ralph Warren Stanley and Wilbur Wolf would play together, Ralph on the fiddle and Wilbur on the piano, after Ralph's band the Country Strummers disbanded. | ||
| Jarvis Ward Newman at his shop in Manset Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Jarvis Ward Newman at his shop in Manset Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Sawyer's Market Window Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Sawyer's Market Window Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: View into Sawyer's Market form the front window. | |
| Interview of Elene Dolliver Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Elene Dolliver Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The beginning of the tape (up until minute 2:30) includes Esther Rodick interviewing Ralph Stanley about lost graveyard. The rest centers on Elene Dolliver talking about growing up in Southwest Harbor, steamboat journeys, the life of her mother and grandfather on Mt Desert Rock (he was an assistant lighthouse keeper), her husband and children, seeing Wabanaki making and selling baskets, and war veterans returning home. | |
| Interview of Arthur and Fredrica Black Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Arthur and Fredrica Black Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Black #1: Arthur and Fredrica Black speaking about a family house which was moved several times, catching flounders from shore, salting fish to transport to Gloucestor and beyond. Black #2: Arthur and Fredrica Black speaking about old houses, discussing old photographs they are looking at, critique some park acquisition, tell a story about the hot pursuit of a robber, and discuss treatment of robbers and honesty of Southwest Harbor people. | |
| Launch day for Endeavor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Launch day for Endeavor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Endeavor being prepared for launch with Freedom alongside. Endeavor was the first Friendship sloop Ralph Stanley built for himself and not for an order. | |
| Ralph Warren Stanley and Richard Stanley aboard the newly launched Morning Star Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Ralph Warren Stanley and Richard Stanley aboard the newly launched Morning Star Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Ralph Warren Stanley and Richard Stanley aboard the newly launched Morning Star, rebuilt in 1976 for Robert Wolfe. | |
| The Morning Star is launched Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Morning Star is launched Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Ralph Warren Stanley and Richard Stanley aboard the Morning Star as it is being launched. | |
| Ralph Warren Stanley putting the "fashion piece" in place on the Morning Star Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Ralph Warren Stanley putting the "fashion piece" in place on the Morning Star Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Ralph Warren Stanley putting the "fashion piece" in place on the Morning Star as the planking nears completion. | |
| Morning Star with alternate planks removed during rebuild Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Morning Star with alternate planks removed during rebuild Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The Morning Star with alternate planks removed during rebuilding. Ralph Warren Stanley rebuilt this Friendship sloop for Robert Wolfe in 1976. Just about all of the original materials of the sloop were replaced during the rebuild. | |
| Ralph Warren Stanley and Richard Stanley loading rock ballast Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Ralph Warren Stanley and Richard Stanley loading rock ballast Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Ralph Warren Stanley and Richard Stanley load rock ballast into the Endeavor, a Friendship sloop Ralph built between 1979-1980. The beach rocks that were originally loaded into the open cockpit have since been replaced with lead. | |
| Judith "Judy" (Rhoades) Obard and William "Billy" Evans Rhoades Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Judith "Judy" (Rhoades) Obard and William "Billy" Evans Rhoades Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Judith "Judy" (Rhoades) Obard and William "Billy" Evans Rhoades aboard a sailboat in Southwest Harbor | |
| Nancy (Dunbar) Bulger interviewed by David Spurling Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Nancy (Dunbar) Bulger interviewed by David Spurling Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: In the interview Nancy (Dunbar) Bulger talks about her uncle, Wendel Gilley, stories of waitressing at a local restaurant, the fire at the fish wharf, and a series of pranks against her Crosley automobile. | |
| Beatrice M. Seavey Black interviewed by David Spurling Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Beatrice M. Seavey Black interviewed by David Spurling Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: In this interview Beatrice M. Seavey Black talks about her personal history working at a fish canning factory and living before automobiles were in use. | |
| Carl Bennett interviewed by David Spurling Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Carl Bennett interviewed by David Spurling Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: In this interview, Carl Bennet describes his early family life, painting buildings in Southwest Harbor and on Cranberry Island, and rum running. | |
| George Ripley Fuller House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  George Ripley Fuller House Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Moore's Garage Southwest Harbor Motor Company Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: In 1940 Southwest Harbor Motor Co. was the only AAA filling station in Southwest Harbor. Their phone number was 51-2. The brick building was converted to offices to rent in 1986-1987. The U.S. Post Office opened in the building on June 2, 1987. Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) attended school in the elementary school on the present ellipse (behind the Gilley Plumbing building on the left of this photograph) before it was moved across the street to become a fire station and now [2011] the police station/town office. When the bank was housed at the Southwest Harbor Motor Co. Ralph would take his penny bank there to be unlocked and have the money deposited in his bank account. The lady in the bank would show him the big safe where is money would be kept. – Ralph Warren Stanley 01/17/11 Marion E. Newman (1890-1976), Mrs. Frederick Walter Wescott at the time, owned a yellow Stutz Bearcat that was destroyed in the fire. Marion was known for having invested in Coca Cola stock and holding on to it when others thought it worthless and sold their stock. – Ralph Warren Stanley, 03/31/14 [show more] | ||
| William Gilman Parker House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  William Gilman Parker House Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: William Gilman Parker (1832-1890) built his house in 1869. | ||
| Freeman Cottage Freeman Annex Ashmont Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Southwest Harbor Fire Department Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| George A. Neal House James Lawton House Danforth Marcyes House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: This was originally the site of the James Lawton house built by Danforth Marcyes. In 2017 this was the site of the Bar Harbor Bank and Trust Building. | ||
| The Cedars Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Main Street Looking North Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Main Street Looking North Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| The Cedars circa 1900 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Cedars circa 1900 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| A.I. Holmes Stores The A&P - The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  A.I. Holmes Stores The A&P - The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Ross House and Store as Cedarcroft James Francis Ross House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Anson Irving Holmes House Kingsleigh Inn Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Adelbert Alden Gilley House Congregational Church Parsonage Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Jackson Market T.W. Jackson & Son Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: The store, on Clark Point Road, was T.W. Jackson & Son, an IGA store. “R.B. Jackson [Richard Benson Jackson (1893-1959)] is having a building erected on his lot lately purchased from P.L. Sargent. A filling station and other conveniences will be established there, and the extensive grounds opened as a parking place. This will be a great convenience to the customers of the Jackson market.” – The Ellsworth American, Wednesday, April 15, 1936. "In the 1930s and 40s, Jackson's Market of Southwest Harbor sent a boat and operated a weekly market on the old steamboat wharf [on Little Cranberry Island] during the summer. In addition to meat and vegetables, a youthful stamp collector could find a small envelope of stamps inside each package of Brookfield butter." - “A History of Little Cranberry Island, Maine” by Hugh L. Dwelley, published by Isleford Historical Society, 1990, p. 114. In 2017, Christina's Gallery & Past Treasures, was located in the building once occupied by the Jackson Market. [show more] | ||
| Sim Mayo's Garage Southwest Harbor Motor Company Garage Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Harold R. Beal Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Harold R. Beal Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: In this interview Harold R. Beal talks about the early history of the Beal family, his experience in the U.S. Navy during World War II (including stories about the preparation and invasion of Omaha Beach), and life in Southwest Harbor before and after World War II. | |
| Interview of Elmer "Buzzy" Lawrence Beal Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Elmer "Buzzy" Lawrence Beal Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: In this interview, Elmer "Buzzy" Lawrence Beal talks about his family history on Cranberry and Manset islands, fishing, steam ship service, working at a Coast Guard station, the beginning of Beal's Lobster Warf, his grandparents life on Mt. Desert Rock, and life during World War II in Southwest Harbor. | |
| Gladys Butler (Whitmore) interviewed by Alice Long Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Gladys Butler (Whitmore) interviewed by Alice Long Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: In this interview Gladys Butler describes her family history, connections to other families in Southwest Harbor, her father's involvement in helping the Dole company set up canning in Hawaii where Gladys and all her siblings were born, the journey to Mount Desert Island from Hawaii, and of meeting her husband, Farnham Butler, and starting a family. | |
| Interview of Calvin and Edna Alley Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Calvin and Edna Alley Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: In this interview Calvin Carroll Alley and Edna E. (Bagley) Alley speak about their early life (without electric power) in Jonesport, Southwest Harbor, Ilseford (Little Cranberry Island), life on their farm, a career in the Coast Guard, and running a restaurant together in Southwest Harbor. | |
| A series of interviews of Ralph Stanley conducted by David Spurling Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| A series of interviews of Ralph Stanley conducted by David Spurling Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: David Spurling interviewing Ralph Stanley about his life. Interview 1: Stories of boatbuilding, family life, voyages, and historical events. Interview 2: Details of shipbuilding, historic events, details of lost seamen, and Southwest Harbor specific historical events. Interview 3A: Stanley family history, details of other Southwest Harbor families, specific vessel details, and stories of foreign voyages including being on the pepper trade from India. Interview 3B: Stories of sailing, navigating a dangerous rock at Cranberry Island using dories, stories about Admiral Byrd of Arctic exploring fame, stories of rum running, and a story about Christopher Lawler. Interview 4: Stories of the Robinson and Nickerson families, a story about Emily Robinson. Interview 4: A story about a Cole Robinson sailing disaster and reading of several newspaper accounts of Mount Desert Island citizens. [show more] | |
| Interviews of Richard Carroll about the Carroll family Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interviews of Richard Carroll about the Carroll family Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: In these interviews, Richard Carroll recollects his own childhood on the Carroll homestead as well as describes the Carroll family's journey from Ireland and their establishment in Southwest Harbor. | |
| Dr. George Arthur Neal Residence Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Dr. George Arthur Neal Residence Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Note the board sidewalks on Main Street and the manure in the road. There are several pieces of Adirondack furniture on Dr. Neal's lawn. A man driving a horse and buggy is just emerging from his drive (perhaps Dr. George Neal?). |
| Main Street, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Main Street, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: “In 1897, the different societies in the village combined to raise funds for street lights. The lamps were bought and placed near those houses whose owners were willing to furnish the kerosene and keep the lamps trimmed and lighted. These lamps did duty until the installation of electricity in the summer of 1917.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 124. [show more] | ||
| Indian Lot Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Indian Lot Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Now the site of "Indian Lot Cottage" built in 1927 by the Norwoods for George Ashbridge Rhoads and still owned, in 2007, by Rhoads descendents, the Obbard family. "I think it was the same year (1847) that fifteen or twenty Indians from Oldtown camped on the salt water shore opposite Parkers. The chief said they had been rehearsing their old customs and would like the right to give an exhibition if a hall could be found that was large enough. The woolen factory was not in use at that time so it was opened for the purpose…The Indians dressed in their war paint and feathers and gave their dances with flourishing tomahawks and blood-curdling yells. One of the tribe could play the violin with considerable skill…" - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 255 - 1938. "For many years Indians from Oldtown came every summer and encamped on the rocky lot across from the Parker property. They pitched their tents and remained for the summer, selling their baskets. The men roamed the woods gathering sweet grass and occasionally cutting an ash tree, which right they were vouchsafed by the owners of the land as it was an unwritten law that the Indians could have an occasional tree to use in their work from the land that, not so long before, had belonged entirely to them. They were quiet, law-abiding neighbors and the encampment was one of the picturesque sights of the town. When in 1925 George A. Rhoads of Wilmington, Delaware, built his house on the camp site, he called it Indian Lot.” - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 167. "Indians from Oldtown, Maine camped on the rocks across [Clark Point Road] from our house [the Parker house at 143 Clark Point Road] each summer. They lived in tents and sold baskets, moccasins and small birch bark canoes. Some of the baskets were made of wood and some almost entirely of sweetgrass which had a very pleasant odor. This grass was secured from the marshes at Bass Harbor and would be cured by being hung up in large bunches. They also cut some ash wood for use in making the wooden baskets. As the same Indians returned year after year we became well acquainted with them. In later years the older Indian boys played baseball with us." - “Recollections of Southwest Harbor, Maine 1885-1894” by Jesse L. Parker, p. 40, manuscript, 1955. This valuable manuscript is a narrative of the early history of the town by an eyewitness. There are largely unknown or unreported facts on almost every page. See “Indians in Eden: Wabanakis and Rusticators on Maine’s Mount Desert Island, 1840s-1920’s” by Bunny McBride and Harlod E. L. Prins. [show more] | ||
| Deacon's Cove, Southwest Harbor Clark's Cove, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: The cove was named for Deacon Henry Higgins Clark. | ||
| Island House Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Island House Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: "The Island House, owned by Deacon Henry H. Clark, was the first summer hotel on Mount Desert Island. Deacon Clark began the hotel business by taking into his hospitable home the first occasional tourists who came to the island for a short stay. He gradually enlarged his house until in 1885 it was entirely remodeled and did a thriving business, employing many of the townspeople during the summer season." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 174 - 1938. [show more] | ||
| Samuel Watson Herrick House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Samuel Watson Herrick House Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| William I. Mayo and Annie E. Mayo House Eugene S. Thurston House Central House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  William I. Mayo and Annie E. Mayo House Eugene S. Thurston House Central House Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: William was an enterprising man. He built the Central House, sometime in the 1880s – before 1894, and lived there on land across the street and a few lots toward town from his father’s land. The house known as "The Central House" was sold to William's sister, Sarah Frances Mayo and her husband Willard Wycliff Rich in 1905 and occupied by them as early as 1903. | ||
| Simeon Holden Mayo's Blacksmith and Bicycle Shop William Lloyd Carroll's Cash Market Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Simeon Holden Mayo's Blacksmith and Bicycle Shop William Lloyd Carroll's Cash Market Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Higgins Blacksmith Shop Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Higgins Blacksmith Shop Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Southwest Harbor Post Office at 30 Clark Point Road Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Southwest Harbor Post Office at 30 Clark Point Road Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: "At Southwest Harbor after J. T. R. Freeman, Mrs. Emily Robinson Farnsworth had the [post] office for some time; then J. A. Freeman and William J. Tower held it alternately according to change of political administration for several terms. Then E. S. Thurston was appointed and held office for twelve years until Earll W. Gott was appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. The office has changed location with every new postmaster…" - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 105. "William J. Tower built the building east of the Jackson lot and he kept the post-office there for a number of years. He sold to E. S. Thurston when Mr. Thurston took over the duties of postmaster and after his services of twelve years were past, the property was sold in 1936 to Mrs. Fred A. Birlem whose son, Wallace Birlem, built the double garage behind it with living rooms above which he occupies [1938]." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 157. [show more] | ||
| Clark Point Road Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Masonic Hall Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Masonic Hall Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The “Masonic Hall was built in 1875 by a stock company formed for the purpose. John D. Lurvey was the builder. The land was purchased from the Freeman family and John T.R. Freeman held the majority of the shares. In 1881 the building was sold to the Masonic lodge and the name of Tremont Hall changed to Masonic Hall. The lodge had the building raised and stores made in the basement with other additions and improvements.” - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton p. 151 - 1938. The front entrance was on Main Street. A lobby and auditorium with stage were on that floor. Town meetings and other gatherings were held in the auditorium for many years. The top floor held the lodge hall. The Old Masonic Hall, then known as Tremont Hall, appears in the History of the Southwest Harbor Public Library in 1895. After the dedication of the new (first) Library building the attendees repaired to Tremont Hall for supper. September 1, 1916 - Grace Clark Carroll Clark noted in the Baby Book for her new daughter, Rebecca Carroll Clark, that Rebecca's aunt, Anna Beatrice (Carroll) Kelley, stayed with Rebecca while Grace "went out to hear Fritz Kreisler at the Masonic Hall." Thornton goes on to say that Masonic Hall “was saved during the fire of 1922 by almost superhuman efforts of the young men who fought the flames from the roof until the danger was past.” The Old Masonic Hall burned on January 27, 1939 and a new building was erected in 1940. R.M. Norwood was the builder. “The [Freeman J.] Lurvey building was built as a general store and was conducted by Liston F. Smith for some years. Mr. Smith came to this vicinity some years previous and went over Mount Desert Island with a pedlar’s cart, calling himself “The Live Yankee.” When he settled down to storekeeping this was on his sign and by this cognomen he was known to most of the people. [Later Arther Allen purchased the store. Mr. Smith] moved his goods to one of the stores in the basement of the Masonic Hall where he was in business until failing health forced him to retire.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 148-149 – 1938 The Hall, built c. 1877 as Tremont Hall, was sold to the Masonic lodge around 1902. The lodge members renamed the building, raised it, and rebuilt the first and second floors to achieve the building shown here. – See the Bar Harbor Times, April 20, 1927, p. 7. [show more] | ||
| Joseph Dana Phillips House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Joseph Dana Phillips House Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: According to Elizabeth (Marshall) Klausky Mills, Joseph Dana Phillips’ granddaughter, Joseph built the house on Phillips Lane as a wedding present for his bride, Clara Adelaide Driscoll, at the time of their marriage in April 1901. Nell Thornton says that he bought the land in 1900. Construction was probably done between then and the wedding. - Elizabeth to archivist at the library, September 2013. | ||
| Bryon Heman Mayo House Henry Rose Hinckley II House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: The building fronted on Main Street and would probably have had a Main Street address at the time. The property is now [2017] the Western Way Condominium complex. | ||
| James E. Robinson House Harbor Woods Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Farnsworth's Millinery Shop and Post Office Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| J. T. R. Freeman House Penury Hall Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: J. T. R. Freeman purchased the discarded schoolhouse about 1865, moved it to his lot, remodeled and added to it as his residence. He built a small building to the north which was used for a long time as a post-office while Mr. Freeman was postmaster. This building is now a part of the Freeman Store. About 1887 he built the present store building and enlarged his business which is now [1938] carried on by his daughter, Mrs. Fred A. Walls. | ||
| Freeman Store Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| 363 Main Street, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| The Cedars The Sylvester B. Brown House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Description: "The Cedars was built by Sylvester Brown, who lived there for some time before moving to Northeast Harbor and selling to Thomas Savage, who sold to James Scott." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 151-152 – 1938. The Browns built their house, later called “The Cedars”, before 1900. Sylvester’s father-in-law, John T.R. Freeman had his store just around the corner on Main Street and owned the land from there to what was later called Freeman Ridge so it is probable that he gave or sold the land to the Browns at about the time of their marriage. Nell Thornton says that Sylvester Brown sold the property to Thomas Savage. Thomas was apparently a farmer or farm gardener. The twice widowed Myra Ellen (Barrett) Lord Dresser purchased the house from Thomas and Nellie Savage on March 24, 1904. Nell Thornton’s account of the history of the house omitted Myra’s ownership. She may or may not have lived in the house. Myra sold the house to her daughter and son-in-law, James H. and Lizzie Lord Scott on July 7, 1908. James H. Scott was born to John J. and Rachel K. Scott in January 1872 in Ellsworth, Maine. James married Lizzie J. Lord (1869-1956), daughter of Seth R. and Myra Ellen (Barrett) Lord on December 31, 1900 in Ellsworth, Maine. The property at 7 Wesley Avenue was devised to Lizzie J. (Lord) Scott on September 28, 1921. 7 Wesley Avenue is called “The Cedars” on the Sanborn 1921 map. James H. Scott died in September 1929 and Lizzie, the manager of a “rooming house” in 1930, kept “The Cedars” for thirty-five years. It is reasonable to assume that Lizzie turned the house into a rooming house and named it “The Cedars” as everyone else before Lizzie had other professions. “Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Toomey of Boston have rented furnished housekeeping apartments at The Cedars. Mr. Toomey is employed at the Seawall radio station. Mrs. Scott will continue to let the remainder of her rooms to transients as usual.” – The Bar Harbor Times, Wednesday, June 10, 1925. “Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Harding and children of Gott's Island have taken housekeeping apartments in the garage building belonging to Mrs. James Scott of The Cedars.” – The Bar Harbor Times, Wednesday, June 17, 1925 “Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Robinson have taken rooms at the Cedars for the remainder of the summer.” – The Bar Harbor Times, Wednesday, August 19, 1925 Lizzie Lord sold “The Cedars” to Richard G. and Barbara Wallace Robinson on July 10, 1956. Brendon Herbert Thurston was born on July 10, 1915 to Herbert W. and Gertrude E. (Kelley) Thurston in Tremont, Maine. Brendon married Effie Florence Murphy (1921-1988), daughter of Forest Emery and Lottie Frances (Conary) Murphy, on October 15, 1935 in Maine. Brendon Herbert Thurston died on October 31, 1980 in Seal Cove, Maine. “The Cedars” was sold to Juanita Dorr Wilson on August 8, 1967. Juanita Esther Dorr was born on July 19, 1929 to Sylvester Warren and Nellie Myra (Robinson) Dorr in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Juanita married Howard Edwin Wilson (1928-1966). “The Cedars” was devised to Juanita’s son, Michael E. Wilson on November 27, 1995. Juanita Esther (Dorr) Wilson died on December 18, 1997 in Southwest Harbor, Maine. [show more] | ||
| Elisha Crane House Thomas Clark House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: The house had been moved from a property just south of 21 Forest Avenue. Archivists are researching the original site. | ||
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|  Southwest Harbor Public Library Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Nell Thornton famously said, in her book, The Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor, “The Southwest Harbor Public Library had its beginning [as the Tremont Public Library] in 1884 when Mrs. Annie Sawyer Downs gathered a number of discarded books from the hotels, mostly paper covered volumes, and placed them on a shelf in one corner of Dr. R. J. Lemont's drug store…” The library was, as were many small libraries on the coast of Maine, started by “people from away,” in other words, summer people. This small library, however, was quickly adopted by native Southwest Harborians, and has grown, in the almost one and a half centuries since its founding, to be one of Maine’s very few five-star libraries, according to the Library Journal Index of Public Library Service. Thornton, Nellie C., Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine (Merrill & Webber Company, 1938, The Southwest Harbor Public Library, 1988) [show more] | ||
| Southwest Harbor Primary School Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Southwest Harbor Primary School Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Gordon & White Garage Howard E. Robinson Garage Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: Howard Ernest Robinson (1896-1972) purchased site for the garage from Isaac F. Stanley in 1924. Howard built a garage there in 1928. He sold the garage and property to Earl Gordon (1893-1964) and Leslie Frank White (1891-1967) in 1929. They established the Gordon & White Garage. The Gordon & White garage, on Main Street in Southwest Harbor, was an Esso station and sold Fords, Mercurys and Kiekhaefer Mercury outboard motors. The gas pumps were removed in 1985 by the new owner, Tom Landers, who renamed the business Landers Ford. [show more] | ||
| Cove's End - The John C. Harmon House - The Grace M. Simmons House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Cove's End - The John C. Harmon House - The Grace M. Simmons House Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Eugene M. Norwood Square Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Eugene M. Norwood Square Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The square is at the junction of Main Street and Seal Cove Road, Southwest Harbor, Maine. | ||
| Joseph Dana Phillips House Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Joseph Dana Phillips House Northeast Harbor Library Description: Identified by Willie Granston. See also Item 2583. | |||
| Dr. J. D. Phillips Cottage Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Dr. J. D. Phillips Cottage Northeast Harbor Library Description: Stock drawings of three-level floor plan of residence of J. D. Phillips. See also Item 5805. | |||
| Howard Robinson’s Boat Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Howard Robinson’s Boat Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Man in lobster boat in harbor facing camera. Boat # “1M12”. Starboard view. Other boats and houses in background. The Charles Butt Collection | |
| Wharfs at Southwest Harbor Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Wharfs at Southwest Harbor Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Lobsterboats docked, most have canvas tents in front of shelter. Front to back: “1-D-791”, IC528”, “1-B-731”, “C-364”, “1-F-907”. Man on one in back with sail up. Building on dock to left, seagulls overhead. Ballard Neg. #2-250 B (not marked on neg.) The Charles Butt Collection | |
| Howard Robinson’s Boat Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Howard Robinson’s Boat Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Man in lobster boat in harbor facing camera. Boat # “1M12”. Starboard view. Other boats and houses in background. The Charles Butt Collection | |
| Postcard from A.L. Somes to son Raymond P Somes Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Postcard from A.L. Somes to son Raymond P Somes Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Post card from Arthur Lewis Somes to his son, Raymond Percival Somes (b 4 Nov 1893 in Tremont; d 20 Apr 1983) who was at the University of Maine, Orono, in Phi Kappa Sigma Raymond was also known as Raym and Pete Ma and I plan to go to Portland this afternoon on the "Morse" The sun is out this morning the first time this month. Shall come back via of Bangor either Wed. or Thursday. Will let you know so that you can come down. What do you think of this card? Found it in my desk. It must be 5 years old (so picture on the back is of AL Somes Store and would be from 1908) [show more] | ||
| Barbara Somes age 1 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Barbara Somes age 1 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Barbara Somes not quite 1 Her handwriting as an adult on the back, daughter of Raymond Somes | |||
| Barbara Somes with her doll Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Barbara Somes with her doll Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Barbara Somes, age 3 with her doll Main Street Southwest Harbor | |||
| Claremont Hotel Staff Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Claremont Hotel Staff Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Claremont Hotel Staff, probably 1914-1917 when Raymond Somes was about to go to college and going to college. Raymond is front row left | ||
| Southwest Harbor in winter Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Southwest Harbor in winter Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: View of Southwest Harbor covered in snow with Acadia National Park in the background Note on back-Southwest Harbor | ||
| Cattails blowing in the wind Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Cattails blowing in the wind Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Reeds in a marsh. Note on the back -Cattails stand in | ||
| William Doane Stanley House Ralph Warren Stanley House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Ralph Stanley Inc. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Ralph Stanley Inc. Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: After earning an associate's degree from a college in northern Maine, Stanley returned to Southwest Harbor. Not sure what occupation he wanted to pursue, he decided to try to build a boat. So he earned the money he needed to buy wood and other construction materials and, during the winter of 1951-1952, he built a 28-foot lobster boat. The boat turned out well and a local person bought it. This led to orders for other boats. "I've been building (boats) ever since," he said. Stanley learned how to build boats not by apprenticing himself to another boatbuilder but mainly by keenly observing and using boats and by observing the activities of several professional boatbuilders who specialized in the Mt. Desert Island version of the Maine lobster boat. [show more] | ||
| Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Ralph Stanley, boat builder, sailor, raconteur, genealogist, historian, musician, violin maker and beloved mentor to all who share these interests, has been recognized by the government of the United States, the State of Maine and the citizens of Southwest Harbor as a veritable Living Treasure. | ||
| Lobster Yacht Built for Lloyd Deming Yates Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Lobster Yacht Built for Lloyd Deming Yates Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Lobster Yacht Built for Lloyd Deming Yates Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Lobster Yacht Built for Lloyd Deming Yates Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Boats at Low Tide - Head of the Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Boats at Low Tide - Head of the Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The boat on the left (#1 L 148) was owned by Carleton Barron Gilley (1921-2001) and was built by Paul Patton in Ellsworth. The boat in the middle (#1 M 551) is the 1st boat Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) built for himself in 1951. At the time this photograph was taken in 1960 Charles “Charlie” Montriville Gilley (1924-2006), leaning against it, was the owner. The boat on the right (#1 L 256), built by Robert “Bobby” Farnsworth Rich at his Bass Harbor Boat Shop was owned by Harold Edward Alley (1924-2004) , shown in the photograph working on the boat. The factory wharf in the back with white sardine carrier visible was the Addison Packing Company. [show more] |
| Pemetic High School - Student Council Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Pemetic High School - Student Council Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Back Row – Left to Right: Myrna Elisabeth Fahey (1933-1973) Walter John Norwood (1933-) Ben Worcester Long (1935-2001) Middle Row – Left to Right: Betty F. (Rice) King (1934-) Melvin Dana Phillips (1931-2011) Ann M. (Moore) Rich (1932-1984) Nancy Dunbar Bulger (1935-2004), later Mrs. Richard H. Bulger Galen S. Wilson (1931-1996) Teacher - Marion (Waterman) Meyer (1921-), later John Austin Meyer Front Row – Left to Right: Billy Ray Griffin (1931-2008) Vance Robert Frost (1930-) Ruth Celestia (Stanley) Holmes (1931-2014) Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Barbara A. (Kenney) Moser (1930-), later Mrs. Earl R. Moser Jr. [show more] |
| Pemetic High School - National Honor Society Members Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Pemetic High School - National Honor Society Members Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Back Row – Left to Right: Lawrence Eaton Sinclair (1930-) Jean (Boomer) Emerson (1930-), later Mrs. Charles W. Emerson Ruth Celestia (Stanley) Holmes (1931-2014) Edith (Worcester) Radcliffe (1930-), later Mrs. Lester H. Radcliffe Jr. Clarence Herbert LaCount (1930-2001) Pemetic School Principal – Carroll B. Ronco (1914-2003) Front Row – Left to Right: Richard E. Allen (1930-) William Thomas Searls II (1930-1951) Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Vance Robert Frost (1930-) [show more] |
| Launching Friendship Sloop Freedom Built for Richard Beebe Dudman Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Launching Friendship Sloop Freedom Built for Richard Beebe Dudman Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Left to Right: Dudman - Richard Beebe Dudman (1918-) Sloane - Helen R. (Sloane) Dudman (1918-) Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Two unknown workmen | |
| Ralph Warren Stanley Tying Up Lobster Boat Seven Girls Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Ralph Warren Stanley Tying Up Lobster Boat Seven Girls Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The lobster yacht at the end of the dock is the “Sarah Holloway” built in 2004-2005 for Tom Chappell, founder of “Toms of Maine.” She was designed by Ralph Warren Stanley and his son, Edward Warren Stanley, and built by Ralph’s son Richard Lewis Stanley. “Sarah Holloway” is 36’ and has a 465 HP Yanmar diesel. |
| Ralph Warren Stanley and Marion Louise (Linscott) Stanley on their 50th Wedding Anniversary with Children Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Ralph Warren Stanley and Marion Louise (Linscott) Stanley on their 50th Wedding Anniversary with Children Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Back Row - Left to Right: Nadine Marie Stanley – born June 18, 1957 - Mrs. Timothy Wayne Goodwin Margery Ann Stanley – born June 21, 1959 - Mrs. Robert Lee Rankin Richard Lewis Stanley – born March 14, 1962 Edward Warren Stanley – born November 15, 1963 Front Row - Left to Right: Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Marion Louise (Linscott) Stanley, Mrs. Ralph Warren Stanley (1933-) This photograph was taken at Demuro's Top of the Hill Restaurant, 1 Main Street (Route 102), Southwest Harbor, Maine. [show more] | |
| Second Cousins Ralph Warren Stanley and Robert Warren Peacor with Marion Linscott Stanley Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Second Cousins Ralph Warren Stanley and Robert Warren Peacor with Marion Linscott Stanley Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Aboard Seven Girls, Ralph's Lobster Boat Left to Right: Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Linscott - Marion Louise (Linscott) Stanley (1933-) Peacor – Robert Warren Peacor (1928-) Ralph Warren Stanley and Robert Warren Peacor are Second Cousins as they share a great-grandfather: Dix - John Dix (1829-1910). | |
| Chester Warren Stanley and Bertha Emily (Robinson) Stanley with their First Child - Ralph Warren Stanley Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Chester Warren Stanley and Bertha Emily (Robinson) Stanley with their First Child - Ralph Warren Stanley Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Chester Warren Stanley (1900-1971) Bertha Emily (Robinson) Stanley (1901-1968) Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) | |
| Ruth Celestia Stanley, Ralph Warren Stanley and Barbara I. Somes Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Ruth Celestia Stanley, Ralph Warren Stanley and Barbara I. Somes Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Ruth Celestia Stanley (1931-2014) Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Barbara I. Somes (1925-2010) The house visible just above Barbara Somes’ left shoulder was Dr. Joseph Dana Phillips’ house | |
| Ralph Warren Stanley's Childhood Drawing of a 67' Dragger Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Ralph Warren Stanley's Childhood Drawing of a 67' Dragger Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Residence of Abby Fulton Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Residence of Abby Fulton Northeast Harbor Library Description: Parchment drawing of floor plan of house of Abby Fulton, "Alexandra", in Southwest Harbor. | |||
| MacKay Residence Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  MacKay Residence Northeast Harbor Library Description: Nine blueprints (several duplicates) and three parchment tracings, 23x17", of multilevel floor plans of the MacKay house, "Tide Bell" at Hancock Point. | |
| Bar Harbor Times article, July 3, 1980. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bar Harbor Times article, July 3, 1980. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Describes the removal of the George Ripley Fuller House, located at the current Wendell Gilley Museum site (the corner of Rte. 102 and Herrick Rd., Southwest Harbor) prior to the museum's construction. | |
| Wendell H. Gilley outside his workshop, fall 1981 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell H. Gilley outside his workshop, fall 1981 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Snapshot of Wendell Gilley standing at the door of his workshop ; photographer unknown | ||
| Addie and Wendell Gilley with Barn Owl, Shorebirds and Ducks, Opening Day Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Addie and Wendell Gilley with Barn Owl, Shorebirds and Ducks, Opening Day Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Addie and Wendell Gilley passing display cases at the museum's opening day. | |
| Wendell and Addie Gilley at the Gilley Museum on opening day Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell and Addie Gilley at the Gilley Museum on opening day Wendell Gilley Museum Description: The Gilleys viewing exhibits followed by Steven Rockefeller | |
| Samuel Watson Herrick and Hannah (Harper) Herrick 50th Wedding Anniversary Invitation Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Samuel Watson Herrick and Hannah (Harper) Herrick 50th Wedding Anniversary Invitation Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Mariner Notes & Antiques Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Mariner Notes & Antiques Northeast Harbor Library Description: Editor: Ted Welles Published and Copyrighted by the Antique Boat Society, Inc., Manset, Maine. Volume 1, No. 2, 1976 Volume 1, No. 4, 1977 Scan: Cover, first pages only | ||
| Lynne Marie Birlem Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Lynne Marie Birlem Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Left to Right: Frederick Leigh White, Lynne Marie Birlem, Carl Ronco | ||
| Steamship Cimbria in Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Steamship Cimbria in Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Bradley's title was, "Steamship "Cimbria" - S.W. Harbor, Mt. Desert, Me." |
| Southwest Harbor - View from Manset to Clark Point Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Southwest Harbor - View from Manset to Clark Point Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Southwest Harbor - View from Manset to Clark Point Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Southwest Harbor - View from Manset to Clark Point Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Wendell and Addie Gilley at the Gilley Museum on opening day Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell and Addie Gilley at the Gilley Museum on opening day Wendell Gilley Museum Description: The Gilleys with Steven Rockefeller looking at miniature carvings in a round display case | |
| Addie Gilley with Herons, Opening Day Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Addie Gilley with Herons, Opening Day Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Addie Gilley examines carving of herons in display case at the museum's opening day. | |
| Ribbon Cutting at Wendell Gilley Museum, July 12, 1981 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Ribbon Cutting at Wendell Gilley Museum, July 12, 1981 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Guests of honor, Wendell and Addie Gilley cut the ribbon on the museum's opening day. | |
| Wendell and Addie Gilley at Opening Day of Gilley Museum Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell and Addie Gilley at Opening Day of Gilley Museum Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Wendell Gilley waves as Addie enters the front door of the new museum | |
| Wendell and Addie Gilley Entering the Gilley Museum on Opening Day Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell and Addie Gilley Entering the Gilley Museum on Opening Day Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Wendell and Addie Gilley, guests of honor at the museum's opening day, walk up the front walk | |
| Freighter Unloading Coal at the J.T.R. FreemanCoal Wharf, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Freighter Unloading Coal at the J.T.R. FreemanCoal Wharf, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Vessel's name appears to be Tohickon, named after Tohickon Creek in Pennsylvania. This vessel was built in 1913 in Philadephia, PA. | |
| Hinckley Family Party at the Petit Chalet Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Hinckley Family Party at the Petit Chalet Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: At Left: Carol (Roberts) Pendergrass In Center: Mary Anne (Hinckley) Mead, Yardley (Roberts) Jenkins | ||
| Children at Native American Camp in Southwest Harbor - "Indian Lot" Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Children at Native American Camp in Southwest Harbor - "Indian Lot" Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Site Where Indigenous Peoples Were Sitting in Photographs of Indian Lot Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Site Where Indigenous Peoples Were Sitting in Photographs of Indian Lot Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: George Ashbridge Rhoads (1860-1935) built Indian Lot Cottage in 1927. Three Chimneys, 141 Clark Point Road, is visible behind and to the left of the trees. With all the visual aids from SWHPL 5525, and repeated searches, archivists could not locate the rocks in the old photographs or find the exact place where the people were sitting. The rocks were probably covered or removed when the land was cleared for the cottage and drive. |
| Native American Camp at Southwest Harbor - "Indian Lot" Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Native American Camp at Southwest Harbor - "Indian Lot" Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| James Robinson House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| The Mt. Mansell Museum Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Mt. Mansell Museum Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Samuel Watson Herrick House as the Mt. Mansell Museum Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Samuel Watson Herrick House as the Mt. Mansell Museum Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Noble - Katherine Noble (1880-1971) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Noble - Katherine Noble (1880-1971) Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Katherine Noble was born on April 10, 1880 to Palmer and Martha (Libby) Noble in Calais, Maine. She graduated from Brattleboro Memorial Hospital in 1911 and spent six years doing private nursing. She then became District Nurse of Worcester, Massachusetts for about six years. She came to Southwest Harbor, Maine in September 1933 as Director of the Tremont / Southwest Harbor Nursing Service. She retired in May 1950 and died on March 18, 1971 in Calais, Maine. [show more] | ||
| Melissa Carroll, Rosemary Lawler Theriault, and Meda Norwood at Mary Emma Wamsley (Lenhard) Coates' Art Show Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Melissa Carroll, Rosemary Lawler Theriault, and Meda Norwood at Mary Emma Wamsley (Lenhard) Coates' Art Show Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Anna Johnston at Mary Emma Wamsley (Lenhard) Coates' Art Show Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Anna Johnston at Mary Emma Wamsley (Lenhard) Coates' Art Show Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Tom Ann and Penny Schenck at Mary Emma Wamsley (Lenhard) Coates' Art Show Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Tom Ann and Penny Schenck at Mary Emma Wamsley (Lenhard) Coates' Art Show Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Mary Emma Wamsley (Lenhard) Coates' Art Show Catalogue Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Mary Emma Wamsley (Lenhard) Coates' Art Show Catalogue Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| View of Norwood Cove from The Charlotte Rhoades House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  View of Norwood Cove from The Charlotte Rhoades House Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| View of Norwood Cove from The Charlotte Rhoades House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  View of Norwood Cove from The Charlotte Rhoades House Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| The Benjamin Herrick Dodge House The Charlotte Rhoades House and Park Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| The Charlotte Rhoades House aka The Benjamin Herrick Dodge House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| The Charlotte Rhoades House aka The Benjamin Herrick Dodge House Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Property of Mrs. J. A. Scott Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Property of Mrs. J. A. Scott Northeast Harbor Library Description: Blueprint, 13z24", of land in Southwest Harbor conveyed to Mrs. J. A. Scott by the heirs of Oliver Fernald. | |
| Plan of House Lots on the Herrick Property Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Plan of House Lots on the Herrick Property Northeast Harbor Library Description: Blueprint, 28.5x11.5", of division of the Herrick property off Clark Point Rd. in SW Harbor into house lots. Adjoining properties of M. Carroll, W. Carroll, and R. White. |
