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| Item | Title | Type | Subject | Creator | Publisher | Date | Place | Address | Description | |
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| 12602 | Main Street Looking North |
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| 9214 | Crew at the Addison Packing Company, Southwest Harbor |
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| The young man at the right of the photograph is probably holding a c. 1914 Sears & Roebuck Peerless bicycle with pneumatic tires. | 
Description: The young man at the right of the photograph is probably holding a c. 1914 Sears & Roebuck Peerless bicycle with pneumatic tires. | |||
| 15384 | Ralph Stanley's boat yard late 1980's |
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| A contact sheet of 2 1/4 x 2 1/14 color negatives taken, developed, and printed by Ronald Monteleon | 
Description: A contact sheet of 2 1/4 x 2 1/14 color negatives taken, developed, and printed by Ronald Monteleon | ||
| 5288 | Sightseeing Boat at Beal's Fish Wharf, Southwest Harbor |
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| The John Lawson Stoddard Cottage - The Edward Wyatt Evans Cottage is visible on the opposite shore. Francis Milton Spurling (1896-1958) , in a white shirt, is standing on the lower dock next to his boat, "Trailaway," later Maddy Sue. "Trailaway" was built by Chester Eben Clement. | 
Description: The John Lawson Stoddard Cottage - The Edward Wyatt Evans Cottage is visible on the opposite shore. Francis Milton Spurling (1896-1958) , in a white shirt, is standing on the lower dock next to his boat, "Trailaway," later Maddy Sue. "Trailaway" was built by Chester Eben Clement. | ||
| 11919 | George Benjamin Dolliver Aboard His No-Name Wesley Bracy Boat at Beal's Fish Wharf |
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| George Benjamin Dolliver is in the center of the picture on the peaked hood lobster boat with a stay sail originally built by Charles Wesley Bracy for his son Wesley. Large vessels at the Southwest Boat dock in the background - from Left to Right: "Hornet" - sardine carrier, dragger, seiner - built in 1944 "Grace M. Cribby" - 49.8' lobster smack - built in 1914 "Elva L. Beal" - dragger, purse seiner - built in 1945 Unknown vessel "Sandra & Jean" - dragger - built in 1945 The Ballard photograph was taken as a black and white photograph and hand -tinted by Willis or one of his family. | 
Description: George Benjamin Dolliver is in the center of the picture on the peaked hood lobster boat with a stay sail originally built by Charles Wesley Bracy for his son Wesley. Large vessels at the Southwest Boat dock in the background - from Left to Right: "Hornet" - sardine carrier, dragger, seiner - built in 1944 "Grace M. Cribby" - 49.8' lobster smack - built in 1914 "Elva L. Beal" - dragger, purse seiner - built in 1945 Unknown vessel "Sandra & Jean" - dragger - built in 1945 The Ballard photograph was taken as a black and white photograph and hand -tinted by Willis or one of his family. [show more] | ||
| 5126 | Two Men at J.C. Ralph's Studio & Post Office |
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| There are several street lamps visible in the photograph - the one on the right is different from the others. The lamp post on the left is at the corner of Clark Point Road. The building with the overhang beyond it is the Odd Fellows building. The building on the right is J.C. Ralph's Studio - Optician and Jeweler - and the Post Office. A man is standing in the door of the Post Office and a man standing in front of Ralph's Studio. The photograph was taken soon after John Ralph moved his store and expanded it. “In 1897, the different societies in the village combined to raise funds for street lights. The lamps were bought and placed near those houses whose owners were willing to furnish the kerosene and keep the lamps trimmed and lighted. These lamps did duty until the installation of electricity in the summer of 1917.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 124. | 
Description: There are several street lamps visible in the photograph - the one on the right is different from the others. The lamp post on the left is at the corner of Clark Point Road. The building with the overhang beyond it is the Odd Fellows building. The building on the right is J.C. Ralph's Studio - Optician and Jeweler - and the Post Office. A man is standing in the door of the Post Office and a man standing in front of Ralph's Studio. The photograph was taken soon after John Ralph moved his store and expanded it. “In 1897, the different societies in the village combined to raise funds for street lights. The lamps were bought and placed near those houses whose owners were willing to furnish the kerosene and keep the lamps trimmed and lighted. These lamps did duty until the installation of electricity in the summer of 1917.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 124. [show more] | |||
| 5220 | The Clark Point Area and Greening Island from Freeman Ridge |
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| "From high on Freeman's Hill, one can view the development on Clark Point, an area once owned by the island's first minister, Ebinazer Eaton. Deacon Clark's hostelry and the William Underwood & Company spurred development on this point. Many of the residences belong to Clark family members. Storekeepers and tradesmen drawn to the area for work were settling here as well. Far off in the distance, the towers of Robert Kaighn's elaborate 1892 summer cottage signal the beginnings of the summer colony." - Mount Desert Island - Somesville, Southwest Harbor, and Northeast Harbor by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. and Lydia B. Vandenbergh - Images of America Series, p. 52 - 2001 Compare this image to item 12583 for a contemporary view of the same scene. | 
Description: "From high on Freeman's Hill, one can view the development on Clark Point, an area once owned by the island's first minister, Ebinazer Eaton. Deacon Clark's hostelry and the William Underwood & Company spurred development on this point. Many of the residences belong to Clark family members. Storekeepers and tradesmen drawn to the area for work were settling here as well. Far off in the distance, the towers of Robert Kaighn's elaborate 1892 summer cottage signal the beginnings of the summer colony." - Mount Desert Island - Somesville, Southwest Harbor, and Northeast Harbor by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. and Lydia B. Vandenbergh - Images of America Series, p. 52 - 2001 Compare this image to item 12583 for a contemporary view of the same scene. [show more] | |||
| 11917 | Southwest Harbor School Basketball Team 1920-1921 |
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| Front Row - Left to Right: Kenneth V. Watson (1905-1994) Ralph Earl Wooster (1903-1979) Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983) Back Row - Left to Right: Joseph L. Trask (1904-1988) Lindsay Jackson March (1897-1985) - Principal Charles Bradley Carroll (1902-1983) Jones Everett Wass (1881-1956) - father of Lester Lester Leighton Wass (1905-1987) | 
Description: Front Row - Left to Right: Kenneth V. Watson (1905-1994) Ralph Earl Wooster (1903-1979) Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983) Back Row - Left to Right: Joseph L. Trask (1904-1988) Lindsay Jackson March (1897-1985) - Principal Charles Bradley Carroll (1902-1983) Jones Everett Wass (1881-1956) - father of Lester Lester Leighton Wass (1905-1987) | ||
| 11234 | Freeman Grammar Students - 5th and 6th Grade |
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| "This is a picture of the 5th and 6th graders at the Freeman Grammar School taken in 1916. It appears to be a special occasion with the flowers on the desk and the students all looking so serious as their photograph is being taken. This room is located upstairs at Harbor House on the side of the building next to the Lawrence S. Robinson Co. I attended the 4th and 5th grades in that room. It was sunnier than the rooms on the north side of the building, so when my fourth grade teacher, Gladys Whitmore, retired the fifth grade teacher, Bertha Reed, seized the opportunity to move the fifth grade across the hall. I recall feeling a bit disappointed at first that I would not get to be in a different room in the fifth grade, but as I like lots of sun, I think overall I lucked out after all." - Meredith Hutchins 01/24/2012 | 
Description: "This is a picture of the 5th and 6th graders at the Freeman Grammar School taken in 1916. It appears to be a special occasion with the flowers on the desk and the students all looking so serious as their photograph is being taken. This room is located upstairs at Harbor House on the side of the building next to the Lawrence S. Robinson Co. I attended the 4th and 5th grades in that room. It was sunnier than the rooms on the north side of the building, so when my fourth grade teacher, Gladys Whitmore, retired the fifth grade teacher, Bertha Reed, seized the opportunity to move the fifth grade across the hall. I recall feeling a bit disappointed at first that I would not get to be in a different room in the fifth grade, but as I like lots of sun, I think overall I lucked out after all." - Meredith Hutchins 01/24/2012 [show more] | |
| 11272 | Students of the Southwest Harbor High School |
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| Back Row - Left to Right: Christopher Wendell Lawlor (1893-1956) Daniel Edwin Lawton (1894-1954) Mr. Corson - teacher - Linwood Ernest Corson (1879-1941) John Ward (1892-1963) - graduated in 1912 Elmer Stanley Marshall (1894-1969) - graduated in 1912 Reginald Albertie King (1894-1931) Third Row - Left to Right: Jesse Newell Mills (1894-1972) Paul Alger Sawyer (1891-1971) Artemus Jean Haines Richardson (1893-1958) Edward Harold "Harry" Bennett (1890-1965) Gladys I. Higgins (1893-1972) - later Mrs. Jesse Ulmont Mayo Earle Frank Morrison (1892-1965) Clyde Smith Gott (1893-) Clarence Everett Norwood (1891-1955) Second Row - Left to Right: Andrew Walter Bennett (1892-1972) Louise Smallidge Johnson (1892-1963) - later Mrs. Herbert Guy LaCount - graduated in 1912 Hattie J. Mayo (1893-1947) - later Mrs. Lowell Arlington Bickford Martha T. Mayo (1891-1972) - later Mrs. Artemus Jean Haines Richardson Grace L. Lunt (1890-1987) - later Mrs. Chester Eben Clement Lula H. Newman (1894-) - later Mrs. Raymond G. Kent Carrie Evelyn Ralph (1894-1965) - later Mrs. Andrew Walter Bennett Edward E. Sawyer (1895-1917) - graduated in 1912 Raymond Percival Somes (1893-1983) - graduated in 1912 First Row - Left to Right: Blanche Dolliver (1892-1909) Florence Parker (1894-1988) - later Mrs. Clarence Freeman Joy - graduated in 1912 Uldene V. Fernald (1891-1984) - later Mrs. Millard Fillmore Farrar Thelma Dolliver (1891-1973) - later Mrs. George A. Ward Mary Lena Bennett (1894-1977) - later Mrs. Charles Henry Rich - graduated in 1912 Marion Frances Clark (1893-1973) Mildred Marion Savage (1892-1987) - later Mrs. Raymond Charles Whitmore Etta Lunt (1893-) - later Mrs. Everett C. Robinson Marguerite Neola Gilley (1891-1956) - later Mrs. William Frank Perkins Nellie Myra Robinson (1894-1991) - later Mrs. Sylvester Warren Dorr - graduated in 1912 Florence E. Knowles (1892-1957) - later Mrs. Frank Harvard Bonsey - graduated in 1912 | 
Description: Back Row - Left to Right: Christopher Wendell Lawlor (1893-1956) Daniel Edwin Lawton (1894-1954) Mr. Corson - teacher - Linwood Ernest Corson (1879-1941) John Ward (1892-1963) - graduated in 1912 Elmer Stanley Marshall (1894-1969) - graduated in 1912 Reginald Albertie King (1894-1931) Third Row - Left to Right: Jesse Newell Mills (1894-1972) Paul Alger Sawyer (1891-1971) Artemus Jean Haines Richardson (1893-1958) Edward Harold "Harry" Bennett (1890-1965) Gladys I. Higgins (1893-1972) - later Mrs. Jesse Ulmont Mayo Earle Frank Morrison (1892-1965) Clyde Smith Gott (1893-) Clarence Everett Norwood (1891-1955) Second Row - Left to Right: Andrew Walter Bennett (1892-1972) Louise Smallidge Johnson (1892-1963) - later Mrs. Herbert Guy LaCount - graduated in 1912 Hattie J. Mayo (1893-1947) - later Mrs. Lowell Arlington Bickford Martha T. Mayo (1891-1972) - later Mrs. Artemus Jean Haines Richardson Grace L. Lunt (1890-1987) - later Mrs. Chester Eben Clement Lula H. Newman (1894-) - later Mrs. Raymond G. Kent Carrie Evelyn Ralph (1894-1965) - later Mrs. Andrew Walter Bennett Edward E. Sawyer (1895-1917) - graduated in 1912 Raymond Percival Somes (1893-1983) - graduated in 1912 First Row - Left to Right: Blanche Dolliver (1892-1909) Florence Parker (1894-1988) - later Mrs. Clarence Freeman Joy - graduated in 1912 Uldene V. Fernald (1891-1984) - later Mrs. Millard Fillmore Farrar Thelma Dolliver (1891-1973) - later Mrs. George A. Ward Mary Lena Bennett (1894-1977) - later Mrs. Charles Henry Rich - graduated in 1912 Marion Frances Clark (1893-1973) Mildred Marion Savage (1892-1987) - later Mrs. Raymond Charles Whitmore Etta Lunt (1893-) - later Mrs. Everett C. Robinson Marguerite Neola Gilley (1891-1956) - later Mrs. William Frank Perkins Nellie Myra Robinson (1894-1991) - later Mrs. Sylvester Warren Dorr - graduated in 1912 Florence E. Knowles (1892-1957) - later Mrs. Frank Harvard Bonsey - graduated in 1912 [show more] | ||
| 5506 | View from Manset Town Dock to Clark Point |
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| The house on the left is the Tyson-Madeira house and dock. | 
Description: The house on the left is the Tyson-Madeira house and dock. | ||
| 9247 | Staff of the Claremont Hotel |
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| Fifth from left in the front row, counting the young boy - Lena in short skirt: Lena G. (Norwood) Mitchell (1897-1992) | 
Description: Fifth from left in the front row, counting the young boy - Lena in short skirt: Lena G. (Norwood) Mitchell (1897-1992) | ||
| 15222 | Panorama of Southwest Harbor in Winter |
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| "I captured this scene from the end of the Manset Town dock. Though the view appears very wide, it's only about 90° from end to end. It seems wider because I shot it with a 200mm lens to get the detail along the shore with minimal water and sky. I stitched the panorama from 17 separate images taken left to right, each frame rotated 5° to the right of the previous one. Yesterday I saw this same scene while driving around to take the pictures posted here, but when I arrived at this spot the sun was too high and I didn't have my tripod with me. This morning I got up before dawn and set up my tripod on the snow-covered dock at 6:15 AM. Then I waited in the bitter cold for the sun to rise. Fresh snow that fell last night made the scene even better than it was yesterday. Sometimes it just works out that way. " -- George Soules | 
Description: "I captured this scene from the end of the Manset Town dock. Though the view appears very wide, it's only about 90° from end to end. It seems wider because I shot it with a 200mm lens to get the detail along the shore with minimal water and sky. I stitched the panorama from 17 separate images taken left to right, each frame rotated 5° to the right of the previous one. Yesterday I saw this same scene while driving around to take the pictures posted here, but when I arrived at this spot the sun was too high and I didn't have my tripod with me. This morning I got up before dawn and set up my tripod on the snow-covered dock at 6:15 AM. Then I waited in the bitter cold for the sun to rise. Fresh snow that fell last night made the scene even better than it was yesterday. Sometimes it just works out that way. " -- George Soules [show more] | ||
| 13326 | Harborside Studio - Lamps, Souvenirs, Frames, Novelties Howe D. Higgins House |
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| Notice the oil paintings along the road. The sign on the ground leaning against the signpost reads in all capital letters "These pictures are all paintings finished with damar varnish. All are washable. Price includes frame & sales tax." "Aug 1974" is written on the back of the photo. |  Harborside Studio - Lamps, Souvenirs, Frames, Novelties Howe D. Higgins House
Description: Notice the oil paintings along the road. The sign on the ground leaning against the signpost reads in all capital letters "These pictures are all paintings finished with damar varnish. All are washable. Price includes frame & sales tax." "Aug 1974" is written on the back of the photo. | ||
| 5906 | The Mountain House - Jacob and Rebecca Carroll and their Children, Southwest Harbor |
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| The only known photograph of Jacob and Rebecca Carroll and their family. "July 18, 1888…Pepper came up here [to the Mountain House] Sunday and took a picture of our family group…" - The Gertrude Whitmore Carroll Journal, Researched and Compiled by Ralph W. Stanley, p. 11 - 1888-1917. Left to right: Sarah Tenney Carroll (1880-1960) - later Mrs. Wilford Howard Kittredge Nell Rebecca Carroll (1871-1958) - later Mrs. Seth Sprague Thornton Father - Jacob William Carroll - seated (1830-1899) William Lloyd Carroll - on Jacob's lap (1884-1971) - later married Margaret Ellen McManus Grace Clark Carroll (1882-1949) - later Mrs. Roderick Pepper Clark Gertrude Whitmore Carroll (1873-1917) John Carroll (1875-1964) - later married Viola Benson Tracy Fannie "Fan" Edith Carroll (1874-1890) Alice Carroll (1879-1964) - later Mrs. Fred Eaton Young Katherine "Kate" Carroll (1877-?) - later Mrs. George Edwin Bacon Mother - Rebecca Whitmore Lurvey Carroll - seated (1844-1916) Anna Beatrice Carroll - on Rebecca's lap (1887-1974) - later Mrs. Carl Edward Kelley Enoch "Ene" Edwin Lurvey - seated (1868-1929) - later married Lena E. Bridges Enoch Edwin Lurvey was the son of Rebecca Whitmore Lurvey Carroll and her first husband, Enoch Lurvey Jr. | 
Description: The only known photograph of Jacob and Rebecca Carroll and their family. "July 18, 1888…Pepper came up here [to the Mountain House] Sunday and took a picture of our family group…" - The Gertrude Whitmore Carroll Journal, Researched and Compiled by Ralph W. Stanley, p. 11 - 1888-1917. Left to right: Sarah Tenney Carroll (1880-1960) - later Mrs. Wilford Howard Kittredge Nell Rebecca Carroll (1871-1958) - later Mrs. Seth Sprague Thornton Father - Jacob William Carroll - seated (1830-1899) William Lloyd Carroll - on Jacob's lap (1884-1971) - later married Margaret Ellen McManus Grace Clark Carroll (1882-1949) - later Mrs. Roderick Pepper Clark Gertrude Whitmore Carroll (1873-1917) John Carroll (1875-1964) - later married Viola Benson Tracy Fannie "Fan" Edith Carroll (1874-1890) Alice Carroll (1879-1964) - later Mrs. Fred Eaton Young Katherine "Kate" Carroll (1877-?) - later Mrs. George Edwin Bacon Mother - Rebecca Whitmore Lurvey Carroll - seated (1844-1916) Anna Beatrice Carroll - on Rebecca's lap (1887-1974) - later Mrs. Carl Edward Kelley Enoch "Ene" Edwin Lurvey - seated (1868-1929) - later married Lena E. Bridges Enoch Edwin Lurvey was the son of Rebecca Whitmore Lurvey Carroll and her first husband, Enoch Lurvey Jr. [show more] | ||
| 2711 | 1921 Sanborn Map Sheet 3 of Clark Point, Southwest Harbor, Maine |
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| 2709 | 1921 Sanborn Map Sheet 1 of Manset Shore and Southwest Harbor, Maine |
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| 2710 | 1921 Sanborn Map Sheet 2 of Downtown Southwest Harbor, Maine |
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| 2448 | 1951 Map and Cottage Directory of Southwest Harbor, Maine |
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| Directory of Southwest Harbor, Maine compliments of L.S. Robinson Co. Real Estate - Insurance. The numbered locations on this map are index numbers which are explained on the reverse side of the map (the second image of this item). | 
Description: Directory of Southwest Harbor, Maine compliments of L.S. Robinson Co. Real Estate - Insurance. The numbered locations on this map are index numbers which are explained on the reverse side of the map (the second image of this item). | ||
| 12400 | Students at the Freeman Grammar School |
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| The teacher appears to be the same teacher as shown in SWHPL 11903 – with Freeman Grammar School 1926 students. She may have been either Feodora Woodworth or Doris Motz both of whom taught in the "common school" in 1925-1926 and 1926-1927. Doris Motz's husband, Ralph Motz, also taught at the Freeman Grammar School. | 
Description: The teacher appears to be the same teacher as shown in SWHPL 11903 – with Freeman Grammar School 1926 students. She may have been either Feodora Woodworth or Doris Motz both of whom taught in the "common school" in 1925-1926 and 1926-1927. Doris Motz's husband, Ralph Motz, also taught at the Freeman Grammar School. | ||
| 11933 | Southwest Harbor School Championship Basketball Team 1921-1922 |
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| Back Row - Standing Left to Right: Mr. Jones Everett Wass (1881-1956) Leslie Victor Stanley (1905-1995) Harold Linwood Trundy (1905-) Francis Carroll Young (1903-1984) Mr. Faulkingham - Coach Middle Row - Sitting Left to Right: Ferdinand Moore Dolliver (1905-1984) Kenneth V. Watson (1905-1994) Charles Bradley Carroll (1902-1983) - Captain Clifford F. Robbins (1904-1978) Joseph W. Trask (1904-1988) Front Row - Sitting Left to Right: Lester Leighton Wass (1905-1987) Henry Bucknam Wass (1906-1986) | 
Description: Back Row - Standing Left to Right: Mr. Jones Everett Wass (1881-1956) Leslie Victor Stanley (1905-1995) Harold Linwood Trundy (1905-) Francis Carroll Young (1903-1984) Mr. Faulkingham - Coach Middle Row - Sitting Left to Right: Ferdinand Moore Dolliver (1905-1984) Kenneth V. Watson (1905-1994) Charles Bradley Carroll (1902-1983) - Captain Clifford F. Robbins (1904-1978) Joseph W. Trask (1904-1988) Front Row - Sitting Left to Right: Lester Leighton Wass (1905-1987) Henry Bucknam Wass (1906-1986) [show more] | ||
| 11828 | Group Photo of Teacher and Students, Including Seven Carroll Children, at the Norwood Cove School |
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| 11155 | Washing the Bottom of Dragger Rhode Island at Southwest Harbor Town Dock |
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| 11156 | Washing the Bottom of Dragger Rhode Island at Southwest Harbor Town Dock |
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| 11033 | Southwest Harbor Grammar School Students - 5th and 6th Grade |
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