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| Samuel Atkins Eliot I Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Samuel Atkins Eliot I Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Miers painted silhouette, probably by John Field | |
| Painting of Brig Carrie F. Dix - Lisbon 1882 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Painting of Brig Carrie F. Dix - Lisbon 1882 Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The paper upon which the drawing was made seems to have been embossed with a cartouche encircling the word, "Evadne." "My [great] grandfather John Dix (1829-1858) was a sea captain, and my grandmother [Celestia Gertrude Dix] always said that he was once shipwrecked, but she didn’t know where. She was just a little girl at the time, and she couldn’t remember much about it. She thought it might have been “on the Jersey coast.” Anyway, he lost his ship, and it took him two years to get home. The story went that he had traded one vessel for another one at Blue Hill, and she almost sank before he got her home to Bartlett’s Island across the bay. She’d been down in the Caribbean and hadn’t been coppered, so she was worm-eaten. Even though she was a fairly new vessel, they had to fix her up before they could use her. I’m not sure whether this was the same ship he lost or not, but I’ve got a picture of a brig that was drawn by Fred W. Dix, who was lost at sea in 1886 and who was some kind of cousin to my great grandfather. It’s just a picture on a piece of lined paper, hand colored. On the back it says “Built in New Haven, 1882,” and it says “Carrie F. Dix” on the flag. [Frederick William Dix (1861-1886) was John Dix’ nephew, the son of John Dix’ brother, William Dix (1826-1910)] Now, Carrie F. Dix was my grandmother’s sister. Carrie married Dr. Joseph Dana Phillips, but she died in childbirth. Dr. Phillips sent my grandmother and her other sister, Vienna, to school at Coburn Classical Institute in Waterville. Then my grandmother taught school on Tinker’s Island for a time, and she also taught on Bartlett’s Island, where she lived. [Carrie Frances Dix (1863-1892), later Mrs. Joseph Dana Phillips, was the daughter of John Dix and the first cousin of Frederick William Dix] On the back of this picture of the brig it also says, “First trip to Faroe Isles and then to a place in Norway.” After that, the writing fades out, and the rest of it is illegible. I’ve tried using a black light to read it, but I can’t make it out. It says something about some port in Spain, so John Dix was probably bound down through the English Channel. Whether he was wrecked on the Channel Isles and spent some time on the island of Jersey, I don’t know. If the ship had been lost off New Jersey, it wouldn’t have taken him two years to get home. I do know that the whole crew was rescued by breeches buoy. But I bet my grandfather was shipwrecked on the Channel Isles, and he might have had to stay on the island of Jersey. Now, he might have been hurt or might have had a nervous breakdown over losing that vessel, because it took him two years to recover enough to get home. He had no money. When he got back to Maine, his spirit was broken and he never went to sea again. He had to run that little farm on Bartlett’s Island, and his family was very poor. When his daughter Emily Bartlett died, John Dix came off the island and lived in Southwest Harbor with another daughter, Vienna Lawler. When he died, they had Emily’s body brought over and buried with his, down at Mount Height Cemetery." - “Ralph Stanley : Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder” by Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine 2004, p. 136-137. [show more] |
| Epidendrum atropurpureum var. Randi L. Lind. & Rod. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Epidendrum atropurpureum var. Randi L. Lind. & Rod. Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Lindenia Iconography of Orchids, Director: J. Linden, Editor-in-Chief, Lucien Linden & |
| Victoria Regia in the River Amazon Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Victoria Regia in the River Amazon Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Chromolithograph - Plate XI - Artist - Ernst Heign. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction and Distribution, by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Half Volume III, 1895. Printed in Leipzig by the Bibliographisches Institute . Image courtesy of ancestryimages.com - copyright free for non-commercial use. "Those running personal websites dealing with family history, genealogy, or other historical research etc. are most welcome to copy any of the map or print images for their own use, as are charity and non-profit organizations. 1898: "E.S. Rand, commemorated in Victoria Randi, died recently in Para, Brazil. He was an expert plantsman, a private gentleman, and wrote interestingly on various horticultural subjects." - American Gardening, Volume 19, 1898, p. 458. Victoria Regia, as shown in this illustration, does not purport to be variety Randi, but similar to that named for Edward S. Rand. "Victoria Randi, the new Crimson Victoria, is a variety of recent introduction ; very similar to the Victoria Regia, except the vertical edges of the leaves are broader, forming a deeper 'tray' and the flowers, opening white, soon change to a deep crimson." - "Botanical guide through the Phipps conservatories in Pittsburg and Allegheny" by Gustave Guttenbert, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 1894. [show more] |
| Cattleya Eldorado Lind. var Lindeni Hort. - Cattleya Eldorado Lind. var. Oweni Hort. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Cattleya Eldorado Lind. var Lindeni Hort. - Cattleya Eldorado Lind. var. Oweni Hort. Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Lindenia Iconography of Orchids, Director: J. Linden, Editor-in-Chief, Lucien Linden & |
| Indigenous Wigwams at Bras d'Or Lake Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Indigenous Wigwams at Bras d'Or Lake Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Indigenous Family at Wigwam Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Indigenous Family at Wigwam Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Sandstone Cliffs at Red Head Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Sandstone Cliffs at Red Head Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Sandstone Cliffs and Bell's Landing, Red Head Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Sandstone Cliffs and Bell's Landing, Red Head Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| From Rear of Bras D'Or House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  From Rear of Bras D'Or House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Indigenous Wigwams at Bras d'Or Lake Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Indigenous Wigwams at Bras d'Or Lake Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Indigenous Wigwams at Bras d'Or Lake Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Indigenous Wigwams at Bras d'Or Lake Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Near Baddeck Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Near Baddeck Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Old Houses on St. Anne's Road Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Old Houses on St. Anne's Road Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Old Houses and Gaelic Church on St. Anne's Road Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Old Houses and Gaelic Church on St. Anne's Road Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Baddeck from the Hill Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Baddeck from the Hill Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Baddeck from the Hill Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Baddeck from the Hill Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Baddeck from the Hill Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Baddeck from the Hill Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Baddeck Wharves from the Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Baddeck Wharves from the Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Port Tupper from the Ferry Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Port Tupper from the Ferry Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Old Houses at Halifax Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Old Houses at Halifax Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Schooner in Lenox Passage Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Schooner in Lenox Passage Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| St. Peter's Locks and Canal Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  St. Peter's Locks and Canal Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Railroad Bridge at Grand Narrows Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Railroad Bridge at Grand Narrows Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Kidston Island Light Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Kidston Island Light Southwest Harbor Public Library |