Description: The story of how the image on a postage stamp and a Southwest Harbor Boat Builder led archivists to research the history of the Landing at Plymouth Rock.
Description: Date: Circa 1908 Media: Tinted collotype Title: Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth 1620 from the Mayflower Subject: Pilgrim Shallop Publisher: Published in Germany for G.W. Morris, Portland, Maine Postage: 1¢ for United States and Island Possessions, Cuba, Canada and Mexico, 2¢ for foreign. Number: 84972 Addressed to Mrs. Eliza S. Gott, McKinley, Maine, Box 22. Front message: "Send me a postcard from Grace E. Gott" Postcard from Grace E. Gott (1896-1920) to her grandmother, Eliza Sawyer Butler, Mrs. Israel Gott (1847-1924) Grace E. Gott married Charles Lewellyn McKay on December 16, 1915. She signed the postcard as Grace E. Gott so archivists conclude that it was sent before that date. Judging by her handwriting, it is probable that she wrote the card c. 1908-1910. G.W. Morris printed their tinted collotype postcards in Germany in the early years of their existence (1901-1922). Archivists have therefore date the postcard as c. 1908. [show more]
Description: Original Artist: Rothermel - Peter Frederick Rothermel (1817-1895) Engraver: Andrews - Joseph Andrews (1806-1873) Engraving Printer: Miller - William M. Miller (1824-after 1894) Digital copy of a print made from an etching and engraving on steel. Pilgrims shown in the engraving landing at Plymouth in November 1620, as described by Mantle Fielding: Myles Standish standing on the rock assisting his wife, Rose, about to step off the boat. Isaac Allerton standing in the center of the shallop grasping a long pole to steady the boat. Behind Allerton is William Bradford at the stern of the boat pulling the ropes that hold the boat. Edward Winslow next to Bradford is gazing at the scene before him. Mrs. Allerton and her daughter Mary are following Rose Standish off the boat. John Howland stands in the water at the foreground, holding the rope at the bow of the boat. Stephen Hopkins is at the stern of the boat taking a turn of the stern rope around a jutting point. Elder William Brewster is on the shore in an attitude of thanksgiving surrounded by Mrs. White holding her infant son, Peregrine, and Mary Chilton. See: "The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography," Volume 31, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1907, "Joseph Andrews," by Mantle Fielding, p. 110-112. Myles Standish (c.1584-1656) Rose (Unknown) Standish (-1621) Issac Allerton (c.1586-1658/9) William Bradford (c.1590-1657) Edward Winslow (1595-1655) Mary (Norris) Allerton (c.1590-1621) – Mrs. Isaac Allerton Mary Allerton (c.1616-1699) John Howland (c.1591-1672/3) Stephen Hopkins (1581-1644) William Brewster (c.1566-1644) Susannna (Unknown) White (c.1595-1654-1675) – Mrs. William White Peregrine White (1620-1704) Mary Chilton (1607-1679) See: The Mayflower and Mount Desert Island – Stanley.pdf [show more]
Description: Bureau of Engraving and Printing engraved vignette Landing of the Pilgrims. Digital copy of a print made from an etching and engraving on steel. Original Artist: White – Edwin White (1817-1877) Engraver: Burt – Charles Kennedy Burt (1823-1892) Engraving Printer: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Description: Reproduction of a map of the New Netherlands and New England in 1635, drawn by William Janszoon Blaeu. Reproduced by American Heritage, the Magazine of History, from an original print in its own collection.
Description: Titled "A Survey of Lake Champlain including Lake George, Crown Point and St. John, Surveyed by Order of His Excellency Major-General St. Jeffery Amherst, Knight of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Commander in Chief of His Majesty’s Forces in North America (now Lord Amherst)." Inset at lower right shows "A Particular Plan of Lake George. Surveyed in 1756 by Capt. Jackson."
Description: The Indian of New England and the North-Eastern Provinces. A sketch of the life of an Indian hunter, ancient traditions relating to the Etchemin Tribe, their modes of life, fishing, hunting etc.
Description: Booklet containing reminiscences of the Vaughan Family esp. Benjamin Vaughan, LL.D. Read before the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, August 2, 1865.
Description: This photograph is often misidentified as having been taken at Mount Desert Island. Archivists at the Southwest Harbor Public Library have researched the origin of the sitting and hope other copies will be correctly identified.
Description: "Love" is on the left. Frank M. Wakefield was Henry L. Rand's Cousin. Carrie has an artistic comb in her hair. The man in the center is wearing a snake ring on his left hand. The man leaning over the back of the group is wearing a watch fob just as Henry did.