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15404Maine Yard Building Sixty-Foot Yachts
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • The New York Times
  • 1950-02-11
The clipping reads: "MANSET, Me., Feb. 10 (AP) Yacht builders of Manset have resumed an art dormant since pre-war days, the fashioning of king-sized pleasure craft on Mount Desert Island. Of "two sixty-footers now building, one is a future. Bermuda race contender ordered by Harry G. Haskell Jr. of Wilmington, Del. and Northeast Harbor. The other will fly the flag of Cummins Catherwood of Philadelphia. The yachts are. on ways of Henry R. Hinckley & Co. Shipwrights expect Mr. Haskell's craft will be launched in April or May. The tentative date for the other launching is June 17." The Catherwood boat was the Valhalla. The Haskell boat was the Nirvana.
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The clipping reads: "MANSET, Me., Feb. 10 (AP) Yacht builders of Manset have resumed an art dormant since pre-war days, the fashioning of king-sized pleasure craft on Mount Desert Island. Of "two sixty-footers now building, one is a future. Bermuda race contender ordered by Harry G. Haskell Jr. of Wilmington, Del. and Northeast Harbor. The other will fly the flag of Cummins Catherwood of Philadelphia. The yachts are. on ways of Henry R. Hinckley & Co. Shipwrights expect Mr. Haskell's craft will be launched in April or May. The tentative date for the other launching is June 17." The Catherwood boat was the Valhalla. The Haskell boat was the Nirvana. [show more]
15405Alden Yawls Nirvana and Valhalla
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • 1951
Floor and sail plans for two yawls, the Nirvana and the Valhalla, designed by John G. Alden in 1948 and built by the Henry R. Hinckley company in 1949-1950.
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Floor and sail plans for two yawls, the Nirvana and the Valhalla, designed by John G. Alden in 1948 and built by the Henry R. Hinckley company in 1949-1950.
15456Bounder II
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1956-01-18
15500Hinckley at the New York Boat Show - 1959
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • 1959
The Henry R. Hinckley Company booth at the 1959 New York Boat Show. There are also photos of the Maine Boat Builders 7 Repairers Association.
Description:
The Henry R. Hinckley Company booth at the 1959 New York Boat Show. There are also photos of the Maine Boat Builders 7 Repairers Association.
11881Ralph Warren Stanley's First Lion's Head Violin Scroll
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Musical, Stringed Instrument, Fiddle, Violin
  • 1955
Ralph built his first violin, the “Underwood” violin, in 1955 using a birch stair tread from the demolished Underwood cottage, “Squirrelhurst.” The tradition of Lion’s Head scrolls goes as far back as at least the 17th Century when Austrian Jakob Stainer, “one of the great violin makers of all times” made his Lion’s Head scroll violins.
Description:
Ralph built his first violin, the “Underwood” violin, in 1955 using a birch stair tread from the demolished Underwood cottage, “Squirrelhurst.” The tradition of Lion’s Head scrolls goes as far back as at least the 17th Century when Austrian Jakob Stainer, “one of the great violin makers of all times” made his Lion’s Head scroll violins.
11848Pemetic High School Band Marching
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • 1958 c.
9339Vera Somerville and William John Ritchie at The Tweed Shop, Southwest Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Gilchrist - Edmund Beaman Gilchrist (1885-1953)
  • 1951
From indications in various sources, archivists are assuming until more information is available, that those in the photograph are probably Vera Somerville and possibly Edith Ritchie's uncle William John Ritchie.
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From indications in various sources, archivists are assuming until more information is available, that those in the photograph are probably Vera Somerville and possibly Edith Ritchie's uncle William John Ritchie.
11852Charles Wallace Birlem and Margaret (Mulholland) Birlem with F. Dwight and Adella H. (Ames) Perkins Celebrating their Mutual Wedding Anniversary.
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • 1950-12
Left to Right: F. Dwight Perkins (1902-1981) Adella H. (Ames) Perkins (1905-2000) Margaret (Mulholland) Birlem (1910-1989) Charles Wallace Birlem (1914-1975) Both couples were married on December 25, nine years apart. The Perkins in 1926 and the Birlems in 1935. That year, after the Birlem wedding, they shared expenses and went on a "honeymoon" to Washington, D.C. together.
Description:
Left to Right: F. Dwight Perkins (1902-1981) Adella H. (Ames) Perkins (1905-2000) Margaret (Mulholland) Birlem (1910-1989) Charles Wallace Birlem (1914-1975) Both couples were married on December 25, nine years apart. The Perkins in 1926 and the Birlems in 1935. That year, after the Birlem wedding, they shared expenses and went on a "honeymoon" to Washington, D.C. together.
11925Esther A. (Thurston) Williams and William G. Williams Jr., Mr. And Mrs. William G. Williams Jr.
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • 1950 c.
11973Ruth's Wedding - Ralph and Six Sisters
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • 1952-03
11983Ralph Warren Stanley and Celestia Gertrude (Dix) Robinson
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • 1952-11
The photograph was taken at Irene Mabel (Stanley) Murphy's wedding.
Description:
The photograph was taken at Irene Mabel (Stanley) Murphy's wedding.
12004Ralph at Work in His Barn
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • 1957-11-24
12005Marion Stanley Holding Nadine with Ralph Stanley
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • 1957-10
12214Peter Theodore Benson Jr. and Gertrude Katherine (Gatcomb) Benson with William Benson
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • 1958-12-24
7473Elvira "Vira" Jane (Robinson) Mayo and Lisa Caroline (Mayo) Wilkinson
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • 1950 c.
7474Elvira "Vira" Jane (Robinson) Mayo, Lisa Caroline (Mayo) Wilkinson, Jane (Wilkinson) Morehouse, and Sally Morehouse - Four Generations
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • 1951
7475Holley Albert Wilkinson, Lisa Caroline (Mayo) Wilkinson with Walter Atherton and Marjorie (Frank) Fuller
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • 1952
7590Lawrence Dudley Mayo and Michael Mayo
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • 1959
6581Henry Wilder Foote II and Eleanor Tyson (Cope) Foote
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • 1956
6952Christopher Wendell Lawlor with Work Horse "General"
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • 1955-09
3015Dunn - Gano Sillick Dunn
  • Publication, Literary, Memoir
  • People
  • Bush - Vannevar Bush
  • 1954
14018Free Rides to See Mayflower Thrills Provincetown Youth
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events
  • People
  • Boston Globe
  • 1957-06-13
14994Article and Photograph About Howe D. Higgins' Hobby Business
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • People
  • Newman - Eleanor Newman
  • Bangor Daily News
  • 1951-07-29
12782Paintings of the Late Philip Lyford on Display at Westport
  • Publication, Clipping
  • People
  • 1950-07-06
12803Resolution On The Retirement Of Edith Hamilton Lanman
  • Document, Resolution
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • People
  • 1958