Description: Frank and Jenny Manchester in front of their home in McKinley (Bass Harbor), Maine. Inscription on back in blue pen reads "Frank and Jenny Manchester in front of their Home at McKinley. Donated by W. S. Reed" People Depicted: Jenny Manchester, Frank Manchester Black and white
Description: The Cimbria was coming to Bass Harbor from Southwest Harbor on October 14, 1898 when she ran aground on Tryhouse Point. The building in the background is the old Tryhouse. The steamboat "Cimbria" aground at Bass Harbor, Maine. Black and white
Description: Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #436-0001 This is the house that Ruth Moore and her partner Eleanor Ruth Mayo built together using found lumber including driftwood.
Description: The building with the tower in the distant background was the Charles B. Dix / Simeon Amassa Holden house and the stable (now moved) is the large building in the field behind it. The boathouse for that property, the Captain Charles B. Dix (1836-1906) Boat House, is on the white house directly on the shore next to the large clump of trees. It was the Lyle Arlington Reed house at the time the picture was taken - 143 Harbor Drive (Route 102A), Tremont, Maine. The building out on the spit is Little Island Marine, begun after WWII c. 1945-1946. The business on the shore just to the right of the wharf building was Lyle Arlington Reed’s store - 35 Shore Road, Bass Harbor (formerly McKinley), Maine. The small brown house in the middle of the large lot at the right, almost at the corner of McMullen Avenue and the Shore Road belonged to George Al Lovejoy (1903-1964). The house is now gone. It probably sat on the 9 McMullen Avenue property, Map 12 – Lot 44. The large building in the right foreground was owned by H.G. Reed and housed the Post Office on the ground floor facing the Shore Road – 45 Shore Road, Bass Harbor, Maine – Map 12 – Lot 43 The building at the left foreground was W.H. Thurston's General Store – later the Seafood Ketch restaurant – 47 Shore Road – Map 12 – Lot 42. [show more]