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| Construction at Davis Boat Yard Negative, 1948 (2) Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Construction at Davis Boat Yard Negative, 1948 (2) Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Construction workers at Davis Boat Yard in McKinley, ME. Black and white |
| Construction Workers Lifting Motor at Davis Boat Yard Negative, 1948 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Construction Workers Lifting Motor at Davis Boat Yard Negative, 1948 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Construction workers lift a motor at Davis Boat Yard in McKinley, ME. Black and white |
| Construction at Davis Boat Yard Negative, 1948 (1) Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Construction at Davis Boat Yard Negative, 1948 (1) Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Construction workers at Davis Boat Yard in McKinley, ME. Black and white |
| C.M. Rich Boat Shop Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  C.M. Rich Boat Shop Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The boatshop of Clifton Melbourne Rich. C.M. Rich built the Dory BLB for the Kellams. His sons Robert (Bobby) and Roger also became boat builders, starting their own shops, the Bass Harbor Boat Shop and Rich and Grindle Boatbuilders, respectively. | ||
| H.G. Reed Store McMullin Store Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: "H.G. Reed, Inc., Maine's most diversified General Store. Since 1907 under two generations of the same family management. A store keeping pace with modern living in this changing world. Everything from the usual general store items to a Radar for your boat. They service everything they sell." | ||
| Winter View of the Underwood Factory in Bass Harbor from Bernard Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Winter View of the Underwood Factory in Bass Harbor from Bernard Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The cannery was housed in the brick building at left (now Hopkins Landing condominiums). |
| The Underwood Canning Factory Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Underwood Canning Factory Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Lyle Arlington Reed Store Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Lyle Arlington Reed Store Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Lyle Arlington Reed's store was opened in about 1945 in Bass Harbor. It was a general grocery and meat store and, later, a small lunch area for the nearby factory workers was added. Lyle sold the building to Dr. Channing H. Washburn of Bass Harbor who turned the building into a residence. - Information from Elsie V. (Reed) Lunt, Mrs. Clarence L. Lunt - Interview 09/22/10. "McKinley – The building on the Shore Road owned by Lyle Reed has been completed and the store will be opened in connection with his taxi business." The Ellsworth American, Wednesday, May 28, 1947. [show more] | ||
| Machiasport Canning Company McKinley Canning Company C.H. Rich & Co. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: "The first owners of the McKinley Canning Company were William "Bill" Herbert Thurston (1886-1957), Henry Bucknam Wass (1906-1986), his brother, Lester Leighton Wass (1905-1987) and their father, Jones Everett Wass (1881-1956). The company later became the Machiasport Canning Company owned by Henry Bucknam Wass and Charles Henry Rich (1892-1967)." - Interview with Elsie (Reed) Lunt, bookkeeper there for many years - 2008. "The building on the south side of the C.H. Rich & Co. property was the McKinley Canning Co. sardine packing factory, a branch of the Machiasport Canning Co., which was owned by Lester Leighton Wass (1905-1987), brother to Henry Bucknam Wass (1906-1986) who was probably involved in the business too. C.H. Rich & Co. bought the building for their lobster dealership and crab picking operation. They later expanded by building on the north side of the property." - Information from Elsie V. (Reed) Lunt, Mrs. Clarence L. Lunt, who was a bookkeeper for C.H. Rich until the business closed in 1963 - Interview 09/22/10 It was a sardine factory and during WWII hake and mackerel were canned there. C.H. Rich bought lobsters and fish. Wass canned sardines, mackerel and hake. [show more] | ||
| Perry Warrington Richardson Store Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Perry Warrington Richardson Store Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Swans Island / McKinley Bass Harbor Ferry Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Swans Island / McKinley Bass Harbor Ferry Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Nelson Herrick Farm Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Nelson Herrick Farm Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: In 1936, Nelson Herrick bought 140 acres of land in Tremont and 18 cows and following in his father's footsteps, began dairy farming. When the children got old enough they helped run the milk route and do other chores | ||
| Power and Robinson Machine Shop Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Power and Robinson Machine Shop Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Women Packing Sardines at the Machiasport Canning Company, Bass Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Women Packing Sardines at the Machiasport Canning Company, Bass Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Interior of the Machiasport Canning Company Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Interior of the Machiasport Canning Company Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Interior of the Machiasport Canning Company Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Interior of the Machiasport Canning Company Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Inside the Machiasport Canning Company Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Inside the Machiasport Canning Company Southwest Harbor Public Library |