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| 10972 | A Gala-Day at Bar Harbor |
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| William Biscombe Gardner (1847–1919) may have done the wood engravings from Fenn's drawing. "A Gala-Day at Bar Harbor" - 1887 Illustration by William Henry Hyde and Harry Fenn, engraved by Gardener, for Mrs. Burton Harrison's Novel, "Bar Harbor Days". | 
Description: William Biscombe Gardner (1847–1919) may have done the wood engravings from Fenn's drawing. "A Gala-Day at Bar Harbor" - 1887 Illustration by William Henry Hyde and Harry Fenn, engraved by Gardener, for Mrs. Burton Harrison's Novel, "Bar Harbor Days". | ||
| 8630 | S.S. Kaiser Wilham II |
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| Vessel Name - S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm II Renamed 1900 - Hohenzollern Class – Passenger Steamship Hull - Steel Masts - 4 Designed by – Build date – 1889 Launched – April 23, 1889 Built by – A.G. Vulcan Built at – Stettin, Germany Built for – North American Lloyd Steamship Company Named for – Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht von Preußen; Frederick William Victor Albert of Prussia (1859-1941) Power – Steam – Triple expansion engines, 1 screw, 2 funnels – 16 knots Gross tons – 4,773 – after 1892 rebuild – 6,661 Capacity – 1,200 passengers Length – 450’ Beam – 51’ Draught - Crew – Grounded on May 10, 1908 at Alghero, Sardinia. Refloated and sold for scrap in Italy. | 
Description: Vessel Name - S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm II Renamed 1900 - Hohenzollern Class – Passenger Steamship Hull - Steel Masts - 4 Designed by – Build date – 1889 Launched – April 23, 1889 Built by – A.G. Vulcan Built at – Stettin, Germany Built for – North American Lloyd Steamship Company Named for – Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht von Preußen; Frederick William Victor Albert of Prussia (1859-1941) Power – Steam – Triple expansion engines, 1 screw, 2 funnels – 16 knots Gross tons – 4,773 – after 1892 rebuild – 6,661 Capacity – 1,200 passengers Length – 450’ Beam – 51’ Draught - Crew – Grounded on May 10, 1908 at Alghero, Sardinia. Refloated and sold for scrap in Italy. [show more] | ||||
| 11452 | Fish Factory and Wharf at Echo Bluffs, Maine |
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| The illustration by Edith Brand appears on page 7 in "A Case of Sardines: A Story of the Maine Coast" by Charles Poole Cleaves, The Pilgrim Press, 1904. A sentimental novel that includes descriptions of the lives of those employed by sardine factories on the coast of Maine. | 
Description: The illustration by Edith Brand appears on page 7 in "A Case of Sardines: A Story of the Maine Coast" by Charles Poole Cleaves, The Pilgrim Press, 1904. A sentimental novel that includes descriptions of the lives of those employed by sardine factories on the coast of Maine. | |||
| 12382 | Replica of Samuel de Champlain's Vessel, Le Don de Dieu of 1604 |
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| 11311 | Stanley 19 - Friendship Influenced Open Sailboat |
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| 12192 | Ralph Warren Stanley's Childhood Drawing of a 67' Dragger |
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| 12279 | USS Constitution - Outboard Profile with Sail Plan |
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| From Architectural and Engineering Drawings in the National Archives. | 
Description: From Architectural and Engineering Drawings in the National Archives. | |||
| 15518 | Nirvana - 1st Owner's Flag |
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| 15519 | Valhalla - 1st Owner's Flag |
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| 11685 | Schooner Robert A. Snyder |
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| The "Robert A. Snyder" was built for and owned by Capt. Eugene Tinker of Deer Island, Maine – later captain of the "Lois M. Candage," out of Camden running as an excursion boat. | 
Description: The "Robert A. Snyder" was built for and owned by Capt. Eugene Tinker of Deer Island, Maine – later captain of the "Lois M. Candage," out of Camden running as an excursion boat. | ||||
| 10769 | Painting of Brig Carrie F. Dix - Lisbon 1882 |
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| The paper upon which the drawing was made seems to have been embossed with a cartouche encircling the word, "Evadne." "My [great] grandfather John Dix (1829-1858) was a sea captain, and my grandmother [Celestia Gertrude Dix] always said that he was once shipwrecked, but she didn’t know where. She was just a little girl at the time, and she couldn’t remember much about it. She thought it might have been “on the Jersey coast.” Anyway, he lost his ship, and it took him two years to get home. The story went that he had traded one vessel for another one at Blue Hill, and she almost sank before he got her home to Bartlett’s Island across the bay. She’d been down in the Caribbean and hadn’t been coppered, so she was worm-eaten. Even though she was a fairly new vessel, they had to fix her up before they could use her. I’m not sure whether this was the same ship he lost or not, but I’ve got a picture of a brig that was drawn by Fred W. Dix, who was lost at sea in 1886 and who was some kind of cousin to my great grandfather. It’s just a picture on a piece of lined paper, hand colored. On the back it says “Built in New Haven, 1882,” and it says “Carrie F. Dix” on the flag. [Frederick William Dix (1861-1886) was John Dix’ nephew, the son of John Dix’ brother, William Dix (1826-1910)] Now, Carrie F. Dix was my grandmother’s sister. Carrie married Dr. Joseph Dana Phillips, but she died in childbirth. Dr. Phillips sent my grandmother and her other sister, Vienna, to school at Coburn Classical Institute in Waterville. Then my grandmother taught school on Tinker’s Island for a time, and she also taught on Bartlett’s Island, where she lived. [Carrie Frances Dix (1863-1892), later Mrs. Joseph Dana Phillips, was the daughter of John Dix and the first cousin of Frederick William Dix] On the back of this picture of the brig it also says, “First trip to Faroe Isles and then to a place in Norway.” After that, the writing fades out, and the rest of it is illegible. I’ve tried using a black light to read it, but I can’t make it out. It says something about some port in Spain, so John Dix was probably bound down through the English Channel. Whether he was wrecked on the Channel Isles and spent some time on the island of Jersey, I don’t know. If the ship had been lost off New Jersey, it wouldn’t have taken him two years to get home. I do know that the whole crew was rescued by breeches buoy. But I bet my grandfather was shipwrecked on the Channel Isles, and he might have had to stay on the island of Jersey. Now, he might have been hurt or might have had a nervous breakdown over losing that vessel, because it took him two years to recover enough to get home. He had no money. When he got back to Maine, his spirit was broken and he never went to sea again. He had to run that little farm on Bartlett’s Island, and his family was very poor. When his daughter Emily Bartlett died, John Dix came off the island and lived in Southwest Harbor with another daughter, Vienna Lawler. When he died, they had Emily’s body brought over and buried with his, down at Mount Height Cemetery." - “Ralph Stanley : Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder” by Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine 2004, p. 136-137. | 
Description: The paper upon which the drawing was made seems to have been embossed with a cartouche encircling the word, "Evadne." "My [great] grandfather John Dix (1829-1858) was a sea captain, and my grandmother [Celestia Gertrude Dix] always said that he was once shipwrecked, but she didn’t know where. She was just a little girl at the time, and she couldn’t remember much about it. She thought it might have been “on the Jersey coast.” Anyway, he lost his ship, and it took him two years to get home. The story went that he had traded one vessel for another one at Blue Hill, and she almost sank before he got her home to Bartlett’s Island across the bay. She’d been down in the Caribbean and hadn’t been coppered, so she was worm-eaten. Even though she was a fairly new vessel, they had to fix her up before they could use her. I’m not sure whether this was the same ship he lost or not, but I’ve got a picture of a brig that was drawn by Fred W. Dix, who was lost at sea in 1886 and who was some kind of cousin to my great grandfather. It’s just a picture on a piece of lined paper, hand colored. On the back it says “Built in New Haven, 1882,” and it says “Carrie F. Dix” on the flag. [Frederick William Dix (1861-1886) was John Dix’ nephew, the son of John Dix’ brother, William Dix (1826-1910)] Now, Carrie F. Dix was my grandmother’s sister. Carrie married Dr. Joseph Dana Phillips, but she died in childbirth. Dr. Phillips sent my grandmother and her other sister, Vienna, to school at Coburn Classical Institute in Waterville. Then my grandmother taught school on Tinker’s Island for a time, and she also taught on Bartlett’s Island, where she lived. [Carrie Frances Dix (1863-1892), later Mrs. Joseph Dana Phillips, was the daughter of John Dix and the first cousin of Frederick William Dix] On the back of this picture of the brig it also says, “First trip to Faroe Isles and then to a place in Norway.” After that, the writing fades out, and the rest of it is illegible. I’ve tried using a black light to read it, but I can’t make it out. It says something about some port in Spain, so John Dix was probably bound down through the English Channel. Whether he was wrecked on the Channel Isles and spent some time on the island of Jersey, I don’t know. If the ship had been lost off New Jersey, it wouldn’t have taken him two years to get home. I do know that the whole crew was rescued by breeches buoy. But I bet my grandfather was shipwrecked on the Channel Isles, and he might have had to stay on the island of Jersey. Now, he might have been hurt or might have had a nervous breakdown over losing that vessel, because it took him two years to recover enough to get home. He had no money. When he got back to Maine, his spirit was broken and he never went to sea again. He had to run that little farm on Bartlett’s Island, and his family was very poor. When his daughter Emily Bartlett died, John Dix came off the island and lived in Southwest Harbor with another daughter, Vienna Lawler. When he died, they had Emily’s body brought over and buried with his, down at Mount Height Cemetery." - “Ralph Stanley : Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder” by Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine 2004, p. 136-137. [show more] | ||
| 12637 | Entrance of Somes Sound from Southwest Harbor |
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| Fitz Henry Lane painted one of the earliest views of Southwest Harbor, and seems to have studied the shore carefully. The view shows a lumber schooner loading its long cargo through a port in the bow of the vessel. The white house immediately to the left of the vessel probably shows an early version of the Seth Higgins Clark House. The white house at the center of the shore is the Nathan Clark II House. The white building at the far left is Deacon Henry Higgins Clark's Island House Hotel, early in its career, before it was expanded into several stories with a mansard roof. Clark descendants, and their houses, are still in Southwest Harbor. William Howe Witherle (1821–1906) accompanied Lane on his trip around Mount Desert Island and recorded many of their adventures in his diary. On August 21 he wrote, "… George, Joe & myself took breakfast this morning at the Island House – and a fine one it was – price 25 cts – Mr. Lane took 2 sketches here…” The sketches referred to were of the shore and harbor, not the hotel. See: Witherle, William Howe. William Witherle Diary (unpublished manuscript) (August 16–21, 1852). Personal diary in the collection of the Wilson Museum, Castine, Maine (A00060-1a-1h). | 
Description: Fitz Henry Lane painted one of the earliest views of Southwest Harbor, and seems to have studied the shore carefully. The view shows a lumber schooner loading its long cargo through a port in the bow of the vessel. The white house immediately to the left of the vessel probably shows an early version of the Seth Higgins Clark House. The white house at the center of the shore is the Nathan Clark II House. The white building at the far left is Deacon Henry Higgins Clark's Island House Hotel, early in its career, before it was expanded into several stories with a mansard roof. Clark descendants, and their houses, are still in Southwest Harbor. William Howe Witherle (1821–1906) accompanied Lane on his trip around Mount Desert Island and recorded many of their adventures in his diary. On August 21 he wrote, "… George, Joe & myself took breakfast this morning at the Island House – and a fine one it was – price 25 cts – Mr. Lane took 2 sketches here…” The sketches referred to were of the shore and harbor, not the hotel. See: Witherle, William Howe. William Witherle Diary (unpublished manuscript) (August 16–21, 1852). Personal diary in the collection of the Wilson Museum, Castine, Maine (A00060-1a-1h). [show more] | ||
| 16481 | The Connecticut at the Southwest Boat Corporation |
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| 13328 | Painting of a gaff rigged sailboat by Howe D. Higgins |
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| 14995 | Painting of Dock and Harbor Scene |
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| 12106 | Torpedo Destroyer |
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| 11610 | Lobster Boat Lida Mae II Built for Carol Pearl Chapin - Owned by Paul Veino |
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| 11664 | Maine Sloop Boat (Friendship Sloop) Endeavor - Richard Lewis Stanley Aboard |
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| 8021 | Schooner Sylvina W. Beal, Dragger Baby Rose and lobster boat Hobo |
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| This image is thought to be by George W. Corkum. | 
Description: This image is thought to be by George W. Corkum. | ||||
| 5070 | Deck of S.S. Yarmouth |
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| 11533 | William L. Howell on His Fishing Vessel |
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| 11674 | Ralph Stanley Sailing Schooner Equinox Built for Henry Sage Goodwin |
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| 11675 | Ralph Stanley Sailing Schooner Equinox Built for Henry Sage Goodwin |
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| 9826 | Lobster Boat at the Charles Henry Rich & Company Wharf, Southwest Harbor |
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| 9829 | Lobster Boat - Meredith II |
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| built by Ronald Dean Rich for his twin, Roger Clifton Rich | 
Description: built by Ronald Dean Rich for his twin, Roger Clifton Rich |
