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Harbor Brook
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Stream
  • Samuel A. Eliot
  • 1881
  • Mount Desert
Harbor Brook
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. "I am not sure whether this is what is now called Little Harbor Brook on Peabody Drive, or what is called Asticou Stream, which feeds through what is now the Azalea Garden." Tom Eliot
Head of Somes Sound
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Sound
  • Samuel A. Eliot
  • 1881
  • Mount Desert
Head of Somes Sound
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. "As far as I am able to tell by carrying the picture to the site, a combination of reforestation and the cutting down of a hill to make the intersection of routes 3 and 233, this photo is not quite possible to replicate. The poles carried telegraph wires." Tom Eliot
Road on east side of Somes Sound
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Road
  • Samuel A. Eliot
  • 1881
  • Mount Desert
Road on east side of Somes Sound
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. "Today called Sound Drive, route 3/198. This view is no longer possible because of reforestation." Tom Eliot Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
At Hadlock Pond
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Lake
  • 1888-07-14
  • Mount Desert
  • No Copyright - United States
At Hadlock Pond
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Champlain Society - Visitors at Camp Pemetic on Somes Sound
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations
  • People
  • Places, Camp
  • 1880
  • Mount Desert
  • No Copyright - United States
Description:
Note on the back of identical photograph MDI P 005.17.9 - "S.A.E. must have held the camera for he is not in the group and the usual photographer (Slade) is." Seated at back on Fence - From Left to Right: Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown - Edward Lothrop Rand? Unknown - Charles Eliot? Unknown Unknown Seated on Ground - Left to Right: Unknown - Charles Wendell Townsend? Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown - Frank Mortimer Wakefield? Unknown - John Lathrop Wakefield? Unknown Unknown Unknown Seated at Right Front - Left to Right: Unknown Unknown Unknown - Henry Lathrop Rand? [show more]
Champlain Society - Visitors at Camp Pemetic on Somes Sound
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Places, Camp
  • Slade - Marshall Perry Slade (1861-1950)
  • 1880
  • Mount Desert
  • In Copyright
Champlain Society - View of Camp Pemetic from the Hill to the East
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Camp
  • Slade - Marshall Perry Slade (1861-1950)
  • 1881
  • Mount Desert
  • In Copyright
Description:
Three Champlain Society members are sitting at the opening of the fourth tent from the left, the Parlor Tent. Steward William Bryant stands in front of the Pantry Tent at the far right in back. The round tent just in front of the Pantry Tent is the Kitchen Tent. The small tent, front center, is William Bryant's tent.
Sloop Yacht "Sunshine" off High Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Shore
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Sloop
  • Slade - Marshall Perry Slade (1861-1950)
  • 1881
  • Mount Desert
  • In Copyright
Sloop Yacht "Sunshine" off High Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Champlain Society Members at Camp Pemetic
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Places, Camp
  • Slade - Marshall Perry Slade (1861-1950)
  • 1880
  • Mount Desert
  • In Copyright
Champlain Society Members at Camp Pemetic
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
From Left to Right: Samuel Atkins Eliot II (1862-1950) - Meteorologist & "Hunter" - 17 years old in 1880. Samuel was the brother of Charles Eliot George Bradford Dunbar (1860-1929) - "Hunter" - 20 years old in 1880 - holding saw and hatchet. George was brother to William Dunbar. John Lathrop Wakefield (1859-1949) - Botanist - 20 years old in 1880. John was brother to Frank Mortimer Wakefield and a first cousin of Edward and Henry Rand. Charles Eliot (1859-1897) - Director - 20 years old in 1880 - with sunglasses. William Harrison Dunbar (1862-?) - "Hunter"- 17 years old in 1880. William and George Dunbar were brothers. William is carrying a vasculum for collecting botanical specimens. Orrin A. Donnell (1859-1942) - Seaman - 21 years old in 1880 - standing with oar. Ernest Lovering (1859-1932) - "Hunter"- 20 years old in 1880. vas·cu·lum n. (pl. -la ) Bot. a collecting box for plants, typically in the form of a flattened cylindrical metal case with a lengthwise opening, carried by a shoulder strap. - "vasculum." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (March 16, 2010). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-vasculum.html. To see what a vasculum looks like see Item 5316. [show more]
Champlain Society at Hadlock Pond Brook in 1881
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Places, Stream
  • Slade - Marshall Perry Slade (1861-1950)
  • 1881
  • Mount Desert
  • In Copyright
Description:
Edward Lothrop Rand (1859-1924) - Botanist - 20 years old in 1880 - holding ferns Edward was the older brother to photographer Henry Lathrop Rand Henry Mascarene Hubbard (1860-1917) - 21 years old in 1881 - holding rock hammer Frank Mortimer Wakefield (1862-1932) - 18 years old in 1881 John was brother to John Wakefield and a first cousin of Edward and Henry Rand Charles Eliot (1859-1897) - Director - 20 years old in 1880 Ernest Lovering (1859-1932) - "Hunter"- 20 years old in 1880 William Harrison Dunbar (1862-?) - "Hunter"- 17 years old in 1880 Henry Munson Spelman (1861-1946) - 19 years old in 1881 Samuel Atkins Eliot II (1862-1950) - Meteorologist & "Hunter" - 17 years old in 1880 - holding telescope Samuel was the brother of Charles Eliot [show more]
Champlain Society - In the Parlor Tent at Camp Pemetic
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Places, Camp
  • Slade - Marshall Perry Slade (1861-1950)
  • 1881-07-27
  • Mount Desert
  • In Copyright
Description:
Left to Right: John Lathrop Wakefield (1859-1949) - Botanist - 21 years old in 1881 John was brother to Frank Mortimer Wakefield and a first cousin of Edward and Henry Rand Henry Munson Spelman (1861-1946) - 19 years old in 1881 Samuel Atkins Eliot II (1862-1950) - Meteorologist & "Hunter" - 17 years old in 1880 Samuel was the brother of Charles Eliot Edward Lathrop Rand (1859-1924) - Botanist - 21 years old in 1881 - holding a fern or leaf to a page for study Edward was the older brother to photographer Henry Lathrop Rand Charles Eliot (1859-1897) - Director - 21 years old in 1881 Ernest Lovering (1859-1932) - "Hunter"- 21 years old in 1881 Note the ornate wood stove at the left front of the photograph with wood stacked beside it for cold mornings. [show more]
Champlain Society Members at Camp Pemetic - Group at the Fence Overlooking Somes Sound
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Places, Camp
  • Slade - Marshall Perry Slade (1861-1950)
  • 1880
  • Mount Desert
  • In Copyright
Description:
Standing Left to Right: Orrin A. Donnell (1859-1942) - Seaman - holding oar - 21 years old in 1880 Charles Eliot (1859-1897) - Director - 20 years old in 1880 Heyliger Adams de Windt (1858-1941) - Geologist - 22 years old in 1880 Samuel Atkins Eliot II (1862-1950) - Meteorologist & "Hunter" - holding telescope - 17 years old in 1880 Samuel was the brother of Charles Eliot Professor William Morris Davis of Harvard (1850 - 1934) - Consultant - 30 years old in 1880 Edward Lothrop Rand (1859-1924) - Botanist - holding flag, with a pitcher of flowers at his feet - 20 years old in 1880 Edward was the older brother to photographer Henry Lathrop Rand William Bryant - Steward - holding a milk or water can Seated Left to Right: Charles Wendell Townsend (1859-1934) - Ornithologist - holding gun - 20 years old in 1880 John Lathrop Wakefield (1859-1949) - Botanist - holding a can of flowers - 20 years old in 1880 John was brother to Frank Mortimer Wakefield and a first cousin of Edward and Henry Rand President Charles W. Eliot's yacht, "Sunshine" can be seen anchored in Somes Sound (under the tree branch) to the left of Orrin Donnell. [show more]
Camp Champlain - 1880 and 1881
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Art, Drawing
  • Places, Camp
  • Eliot - Charles Eliot (1859-1897)
  • 1880
  • Mount Desert
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Camp Champlain - 1880 and 1881
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
A drawing signed by Charles Eliot - probably drawn from Item 9615 photograph.
Rocking at Mount Desert
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Art, Drawing
  • People
  • Places
  • Hyde - William Henry Hyde (1858-1943)
  • 1887
  • Mount Desert
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Rocking at Mount Desert
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Illustration by William Henry Hyde for Mrs. Burton Harrison's Novel, "Bar Harbor Days".