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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date Place Address Description
13124Champlain Monument
  • Reference
  • Object, Site Marker, Monument
  • Acadia National Park
11764Acadia National Park - Champlain Monument
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Site Marker, Monument
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1936-08
  • Acadia National Park
The photograph was taken when the monument was on Seacliff Drive, its original position in the park,
Description:
The photograph was taken when the monument was on Seacliff Drive, its original position in the park,
11765Acadia National Park - Champlain Monument
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Site Marker, Monument
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1936-08
  • Acadia National Park
9573Acadia National Park - Champlain Monument
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Site Marker, Monument
  • Townsend - Charles A. Townsend (1871-1932)
  • 1908-10-03
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
The photograph was taken when the monument was on Seacliff Drive, its original position in the park, .
Description:
The photograph was taken when the monument was on Seacliff Drive, its original position in the park, .
13049Soldiers Monument, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Reference
  • Object, Site Marker, Monument
  • Boston MA area, Cambridge
8161Soldier's Monument, Cambridge Common, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Object, Site Marker, Monument
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1891-09-12
  • Boston MA area, Cambridge
13332The Boiler, Great Cranberry Island
  • Reference
  • Object, Other Object
  • Places, Shore
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
The huge 11 ton boulder the local fishermen called “The Boiler” had been lodged in the mud just off Fish Point at the entrance to the Pool or harbor on Great Cranberry Island. The Pool, a good sheltered harbor for schooners, is shallow with a 2-foot draft at low tide, rising to an 8 to 10 foot draft when the tide is in. Vessels kept in the Pool were deep draft vessels and only came in and went out at high tide. There was an area called the "Deep Hole" in the Pool where six or more vessels could anchor. “The Boiler,” about 6 feet wide and 4 feet above the bottom, was not visible when the tide was in and, therefore, a hazard to navigation in the narrow channel. It was called "The Boiler" because the water "boiled" around it when the tide came and went. Samuel Newman Bulger (1835-1919) caught his boat on it one time. Enoch Boynton Stanley (1820-1903), “Uncle Jimmy’s” father, told Sam to turn his vessel around and it would come off the rock. The tide came in, the boat spun around and floated off the rock. Ralph Warren Stanley remembers his great uncle, Lewis Gilley Stanley (1869-1957), William Doane “Uncle Jimmy” Stanley’s brother, telling him about the enormous effort it took to move “The Boiler.” “First the group of men went out on several low drain tides to dig around the rock to break the suction. When they finally got enough dug away, they put an iron eye bolt into the rock, put a big log across two dories and tied a line to the rock. When the tide came in it sank both dories. They worked for months on the project. Next time they tried to move ‘the boiler’ they used four dories and just barely floated the rock. The dories were down to the gunnels. With a line on the dories, eight or nine men stood on the shore where they wanted it and hauled it hand over hand about 80 yards toward them, but before the rock reached its destination, the eyebolt [which had been welted into the top of the rock] came out and the dories popped out of the water. They just left the rock there where it sank on the north side of the Stanley wharf (E.B. Stanley & Sons - the Stanley wharf - on the map - now gone). ‘The Boiler’ is still there. “William D. Stanley and others have at last accomplished their long cherished wish to remove the rock designated as “the Boiler” from the channel near the Fish Point. After much hard labor, they succeeded, by the help of 4 dories in raising, floating and dragging it across to the flats, owned by the late Capt. John Stanley, when it struck a rock and in hauling on it caused the welted iron bolts to pull out, and “the Boiler” was anchored somewhat sooner than had been bargained for, but as it is now safely landed it will probably be allowed to remain where it is. It is very doubtful if any further attempt will be made to change its position, and as it is estimated to weigh 11 tons, it will be the cause of much comment for years to come. Wm. D. Stanley is very elated the he with a few others, should have accomplished the feat of removing the rock, which during the last 140 years has been in the way, and a menace to all boats coming in and going out from all parts of the creek, and they are to be congratulated for having removed the dangerous obstruction.” The Bar Harbor Record, February 23, 1900 - Cranberry Island.
Description:
The huge 11 ton boulder the local fishermen called “The Boiler” had been lodged in the mud just off Fish Point at the entrance to the Pool or harbor on Great Cranberry Island. The Pool, a good sheltered harbor for schooners, is shallow with a 2-foot draft at low tide, rising to an 8 to 10 foot draft when the tide is in. Vessels kept in the Pool were deep draft vessels and only came in and went out at high tide. There was an area called the "Deep Hole" in the Pool where six or more vessels could anchor. “The Boiler,” about 6 feet wide and 4 feet above the bottom, was not visible when the tide was in and, therefore, a hazard to navigation in the narrow channel. It was called "The Boiler" because the water "boiled" around it when the tide came and went. Samuel Newman Bulger (1835-1919) caught his boat on it one time. Enoch Boynton Stanley (1820-1903), “Uncle Jimmy’s” father, told Sam to turn his vessel around and it would come off the rock. The tide came in, the boat spun around and floated off the rock. Ralph Warren Stanley remembers his great uncle, Lewis Gilley Stanley (1869-1957), William Doane “Uncle Jimmy” Stanley’s brother, telling him about the enormous effort it took to move “The Boiler.” “First the group of men went out on several low drain tides to dig around the rock to break the suction. When they finally got enough dug away, they put an iron eye bolt into the rock, put a big log across two dories and tied a line to the rock. When the tide came in it sank both dories. They worked for months on the project. Next time they tried to move ‘the boiler’ they used four dories and just barely floated the rock. The dories were down to the gunnels. With a line on the dories, eight or nine men stood on the shore where they wanted it and hauled it hand over hand about 80 yards toward them, but before the rock reached its destination, the eyebolt [which had been welted into the top of the rock] came out and the dories popped out of the water. They just left the rock there where it sank on the north side of the Stanley wharf (E.B. Stanley & Sons - the Stanley wharf - on the map - now gone). ‘The Boiler’ is still there. “William D. Stanley and others have at last accomplished their long cherished wish to remove the rock designated as “the Boiler” from the channel near the Fish Point. After much hard labor, they succeeded, by the help of 4 dories in raising, floating and dragging it across to the flats, owned by the late Capt. John Stanley, when it struck a rock and in hauling on it caused the welted iron bolts to pull out, and “the Boiler” was anchored somewhat sooner than had been bargained for, but as it is now safely landed it will probably be allowed to remain where it is. It is very doubtful if any further attempt will be made to change its position, and as it is estimated to weigh 11 tons, it will be the cause of much comment for years to come. Wm. D. Stanley is very elated the he with a few others, should have accomplished the feat of removing the rock, which during the last 140 years has been in the way, and a menace to all boats coming in and going out from all parts of the creek, and they are to be congratulated for having removed the dangerous obstruction.” The Bar Harbor Record, February 23, 1900 - Cranberry Island. [show more]
5171Net Reel at Preble's Cove
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Object, Other Object
  • Places, Shore
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1890
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
6927Mount Desert Rock Light Station
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Site Marker, Monument
  • Frenchboro
  • Mount Desert Rock
16325Plaque at the Site of the Arthur Millis and Leone Marie (Wemmert) Kellam Home
  • Image, Photograph, Digital Photograph
  • Object, Other Object
  • Soules - George John Soules
  • 2015-09
  • Frenchboro, Placentia Island
12443Gary A. Parsons Hauls One of his New Wire Lobster Traps
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Object, Fishing, Fish Trap, Lobster Trap
  • People
  • Cameron - Gary A. Cameron
  • The Washington Post
  • 1985-05-27
  • Mount Desert
Compare this photograph to Item 6207 that shows Ralph Ober Phippen hauling lobsters in a wooden trap with a rope and pulley in 1937.
Description:
Compare this photograph to Item 6207 that shows Ralph Ober Phippen hauling lobsters in a wooden trap with a rope and pulley in 1937.
6207Ralph Ober Phippen Hauling Traps
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Fishing, Fish Trap, Lobster Trap
  • People
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1937-08
  • Mount Desert Island
Ralph is shown using a winch head to haul his traps. Robert Crowe had not yet developed the east coast Hydro-Slave pot hauler. Compare this photograph to Item 12443 that shows Gary Parsons hauling lobsters with a Hydro-Slave in 1985.
Description:
Ralph is shown using a winch head to haul his traps. Robert Crowe had not yet developed the east coast Hydro-Slave pot hauler. Compare this photograph to Item 12443 that shows Gary Parsons hauling lobsters with a Hydro-Slave in 1985.
9360Ralph Ober Phippen Hauling Traps
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Fishing, Fish Trap, Lobster Trap
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1937-08
  • Mount Desert Island
Ralph is shown using a winch head to haul his traps. Robert Crowe had not yet developed the east coast Hydro-Slave pot hauler. He did so in 1964 thereby making it much easier to lift the heavy, water sodden pots from the sea.
Description:
Ralph is shown using a winch head to haul his traps. Robert Crowe had not yet developed the east coast Hydro-Slave pot hauler. He did so in 1964 thereby making it much easier to lift the heavy, water sodden pots from the sea.
5352Lobster Traps at the Narrows
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Object, Fishing, Fish Trap, Lobster Trap
  • Places, Sound
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1891
  • Mount Desert Island
12099Southwest Harbor Public Library - The Philip Clifton Rich Desk
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Furnishings, Desk
  • 2008
  • Southwest Harbor
12100Southwest Harbor Public Library - The Philip Clifton Rich Desk
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Furnishings, Desk
  • 2008
  • Southwest Harbor
12426Wooden Lobster Trap at Lower Town Dock, Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Fishing, Fish Trap, Lobster Trap
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 178 Clark Point Road
The J.N. Mills Coal wharf is visible in the right background and the kiosk for the town landing is in the left background.
Description:
The J.N. Mills Coal wharf is visible in the right background and the kiosk for the town landing is in the left background.
5976The Southwest Harbor Public Library Tea Cup & Saucer
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Other Object
  • Southwest Harbor
12163The Snow Owl - Stuffed Owl in Collection of Wendell Holmes Gilley
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • Object, Other Object
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1938-03
  • Southwest Harbor
"An attraction in the window of the Gilley Plumbing Co. is a tree branch on which are perched three beautifully mounted owls, the work of Wendell Gilley, who has made a study of taxidermy and has done excellent work in that line. The owls are very lifelike in their positions and the display is very interesting." – Bar Harbor Times, February, 1931.
Description:
"An attraction in the window of the Gilley Plumbing Co. is a tree branch on which are perched three beautifully mounted owls, the work of Wendell Gilley, who has made a study of taxidermy and has done excellent work in that line. The owls are very lifelike in their positions and the display is very interesting." – Bar Harbor Times, February, 1931.
5138"Leopard" at Fox Dens
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Object, Other Object
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1904-09-02
  • Southwest Harbor
9084"Mr. Fox" at Fox Dens
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Object, Other Object
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1905-09-08
  • Southwest Harbor
6006Clock Given in Memory of Sarah Franklin Ripley Cutler - The Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Other Object
  • Riebel - Charlotte Helen (Riebel) Morrill
  • 1943
  • Southwest Harbor
7250Book Bound for the Southwest Harbor Public Library by Grace M. Simmons
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Other Object
  • Riebel - Charlotte Helen (Riebel) Morrill
  • 2007
  • Southwest Harbor
"The Country Doctor" by Honoré de Balzac published in 1887
Description:
"The Country Doctor" by Honoré de Balzac published in 1887
10742Ralph Warren Stanley with his Spurling Violin
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Other Object
  • People
  • Riebel - Charlotte Helen (Riebel) Morrill
  • 2011-01-05
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 102 Clark Point Road
10939W.H. Ballard Anchor Light Studio Sign Display
  • Object, Sign
  • Object, Sign
  • Riebel - Charlotte Helen (Riebel) Morrill
  • 2011-05-15
  • Southwest Harbor