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12204Vessel Under Construction
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Stereograph
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Heywood - John D. Heywood
  • American Stereoscopic Co.
  • 1815 c.
  • Mount Desert
12279USS Constitution - Outboard Profile with Sail Plan
  • Image, Art, Drawing
  • Vessels, Naval Vessel, Warship, Frigate
  • 1817
  • Boston MA
From Architectural and Engineering Drawings in the National Archives.
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From Architectural and Engineering Drawings in the National Archives.
6148Sidewheel Steamer John Brooks
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • 1844 c.
Heading out of Southwest Harbor by the Manset shore. The Nathaniel Gott house on Greening Island is visible off the stern of the vessels as is the Gott barn before it was moved further away from the shore.
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Heading out of Southwest Harbor by the Manset shore. The Nathaniel Gott house on Greening Island is visible off the stern of the vessels as is the Gott barn before it was moved further away from the shore.
12637Entrance of Somes Sound from Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Art, Painting
  • Places, Harbor
  • Places, Sound
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • Lane - Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865)
  • 1852
  • Southwest Harbor
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 William Witherle Diary (unpublished manuscript) (August 16–21, 1852).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).
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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). [show more]
10194Sidewheel Steamer Rockland
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • 1856
12494U.S. Revenue Cutter, Levi Woodbury - Between 1864 and 1900
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Boat
  • 1864 c.
Vessel Name – Mahoning – renamed Levi Woodbury “Woodbury” April 1898 – renamed Laksco after 1915 Class – Topsail Schooner / Steamer – Pawtuxet-class tender Hull – wood – oak, locust and white oak w. iron diagonal bracing Masts - 2 Rig – topsail schooner Build date – 1863 Commissioned – July 18, 1864 Built by – J.W. Lynn & Sons Built at – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Built for – U.S. Revenue Service Named for – Mahoning creek and valley, Pennsylvania – 1898 for Levi Woodbury (1789-1851), U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy, Supreme Court Justice Power – steam engine with 2 oscillating cylinders; single 8’ screw Displacement – 350 tons Length – 138’ Beam – 26’6” Draft – 11’ Crew – 7 officers, 34 enlisted Armament – 1 x 30-pound Parrott rifle; 5 x 24-pound howitzers Number – Disposition – By 1913, Woodbury was not only the Coast Guard's oldest cutter, she was the oldest active-duty vessel in U.S. government service, as well as being the only ship to have seen active service in both the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War. Decommissioned by Coast Guard, July 19, 1915, Portland, Maine. Sold to Thomas Butler & Co., Boston, Massachusetts August 10, 1915. Woodbury's decommission ended 51 years with the Revenue Cutter Service, making her one of the longest serving cutters in the organization's history. After her final decommission in 1915, Levi Woodbury was placed into service as the merchant Laksco. She disappears from shipping records in 1932.
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Vessel Name – Mahoning – renamed Levi Woodbury “Woodbury” April 1898 – renamed Laksco after 1915 Class – Topsail Schooner / Steamer – Pawtuxet-class tender Hull – wood – oak, locust and white oak w. iron diagonal bracing Masts - 2 Rig – topsail schooner Build date – 1863 Commissioned – July 18, 1864 Built by – J.W. Lynn & Sons Built at – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Built for – U.S. Revenue Service Named for – Mahoning creek and valley, Pennsylvania – 1898 for Levi Woodbury (1789-1851), U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy, Supreme Court Justice Power – steam engine with 2 oscillating cylinders; single 8’ screw Displacement – 350 tons Length – 138’ Beam – 26’6” Draft – 11’ Crew – 7 officers, 34 enlisted Armament – 1 x 30-pound Parrott rifle; 5 x 24-pound howitzers Number – Disposition – By 1913, Woodbury was not only the Coast Guard's oldest cutter, she was the oldest active-duty vessel in U.S. government service, as well as being the only ship to have seen active service in both the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War. Decommissioned by Coast Guard, July 19, 1915, Portland, Maine. Sold to Thomas Butler & Co., Boston, Massachusetts August 10, 1915. Woodbury's decommission ended 51 years with the Revenue Cutter Service, making her one of the longest serving cutters in the organization's history. After her final decommission in 1915, Levi Woodbury was placed into service as the merchant Laksco. She disappears from shipping records in 1932. [show more]
6806Steamship Cimbria in Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Stereograph
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • Bradley - Bryant Bradley (1838-1890)
  • Photographed and Published by B. Bradley, Bar Harbor, Mt. Desert, Me.
  • 1878
  • Southwest Harbor
Bradley's title was, "Steamship "Cimbria" - S.W. Harbor, Mt. Desert, Me."
Description:
Bradley's title was, "Steamship "Cimbria" - S.W. Harbor, Mt. Desert, Me."
6902Steamship Cimbria
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • 1878-07-04
  • Southwest Harbor
6906Party on the Deck of the S.S. Cimbria at Southwest Harbor, Maine - 1878
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • 1878-07-09
Handwritten inscription says "View on the after deck of Steamer 'Cimbria' on an excursion visit of Steamer 'May Field' July 9, 1878".
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Handwritten inscription says "View on the after deck of Steamer 'Cimbria' on an excursion visit of Steamer 'May Field' July 9, 1878".
9623Sloop Yacht "Sunshine" off High Head
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Shore
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Sloop
  • Slade - Marshall Perry Slade (1861-1950)
  • 1881
  • Mount Desert
9198Indians and Canoes on the Shore at Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat, Canoe
  • Kilburn - Benjamin West Kilburn (1827-1909)
  • B.W. Kilburn, Littleton, N.H.
  • 1881
  • Bar Harbor
10769Painting of Brig Carrie F. Dix - Lisbon 1882
  • Image, Art, Painting
  • Vessels, Ship
  • Dix - Frederick William Dix (1861-1886)
  • 1882
  • Portugal, Lisbon
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.
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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. [show more]
5530Green Mountain Railway Excursion Steamer Wauwinet on Eagle Lake
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • 1883 c.
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
6138Pinky Schooner off the Manset Shore
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • 1885 after
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
This photograph was taken off the Manset Shore.
Description:
This photograph was taken off the Manset Shore.
6147Native American Camp at Bar Harbor - "Indian Village" First Location
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Places, Camp
  • Vessels, Boat, Canoe
  • 1885 c.
  • Bar Harbor
6308Sidewheel Steamer Mount Desert in Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • 1886
  • Bar Harbor
5800Steamer Sappho at Steamer Wharf in Southwest Harbor - Between 1886 and 1911
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Harbor
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • 1886 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
6320Steamer Sappho at Steamboat Wharf in Southwest Harbor - Between 1886 and 1911
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Harbor
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • 1886 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
The steamer, "Sappho," of the Maine Central Railroad, is at the Steamboat Wharf.
Description:
The steamer, "Sappho," of the Maine Central Railroad, is at the Steamboat Wharf.
10972A Gala-Day at Bar Harbor
  • Image, Art, Drawing
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
  • Hyde - William Henry Hyde (1858-1943)
  • 1887
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
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".
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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".
5525Schooner Palestine in Deacon's Harbor, Clark Point
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • 1888 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
Schooner "Palestine" in foreground. The Indian camps (during the summers) at Indian Lot may be seen over the bowsprit in background. Beyond the foremast a rental building owned by Deacon Henry Clark is visible. The white house at the center was the residence of Henry Clark - built for him in 1871. The large house and barn at the left was the residence of William G. Parker - built for him in about 1868. The building with a dormer was a workshop in Deacon Clark's shipyard. There was an apartment upstairs. "The schooner Palestine, deserted here in Deacon's Harbor, was painted repeatedly by visitors. Behind the hull can be seen the workshops for Deacon Clark's shipyard business and Henry Clark and William Parker Chandlery. High on the hill are the houses of the deacon's children: daughter Ada, her husband William Parker (left), and son Henry. Each summer, Native Americans would return to their camping spot on the ridge, visible above the bow sprit." - Mount Desert Island - Somesville, Southwest Harbor, and Northeast Harbor by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. and Lydia B. Vandenbergh - Images of America Series, p. 50 - 2001
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Schooner "Palestine" in foreground. The Indian camps (during the summers) at Indian Lot may be seen over the bowsprit in background. Beyond the foremast a rental building owned by Deacon Henry Clark is visible. The white house at the center was the residence of Henry Clark - built for him in 1871. The large house and barn at the left was the residence of William G. Parker - built for him in about 1868. The building with a dormer was a workshop in Deacon Clark's shipyard. There was an apartment upstairs. "The schooner Palestine, deserted here in Deacon's Harbor, was painted repeatedly by visitors. Behind the hull can be seen the workshops for Deacon Clark's shipyard business and Henry Clark and William Parker Chandlery. High on the hill are the houses of the deacon's children: daughter Ada, her husband William Parker (left), and son Henry. Each summer, Native Americans would return to their camping spot on the ridge, visible above the bow sprit." - Mount Desert Island - Somesville, Southwest Harbor, and Northeast Harbor by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. and Lydia B. Vandenbergh - Images of America Series, p. 50 - 2001 [show more]
5876Schooner Palestine in Deacon's Harbor and Indian Lot
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Camp
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • 1888 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
11863Passenger Launch Steamer Agnes
  • Image, Photograph, Transparency, Slide Transparency
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • 1888 c.
Vessel Name - "Agnes" - later "G.T. Hadlock" ferry Class - Steam Passenger Launch Build date - 1888 Built by - W.R. Keene Built at - Manset, Maine Gross tons - 12.20 Length - 39’ Beam - 9’ Draught - 4.02’ She was powered by a Shipman Automatic engine by 1890.
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Vessel Name - "Agnes" - later "G.T. Hadlock" ferry Class - Steam Passenger Launch Build date - 1888 Built by - W.R. Keene Built at - Manset, Maine Gross tons - 12.20 Length - 39’ Beam - 9’ Draught - 4.02’ She was powered by a Shipman Automatic engine by 1890.
6086The Claremont House Slip with Sailboats
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
  • Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939)
  • 1888-07-14
  • Southwest Harbor
7786View of Unknown Boat from Deck of Sidewheel Steamer Mount Desert
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Boat
  • 1888-07-14
5845Schooner E.T. Hamor in Somes Cove
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • 1889 after
  • Mount Desert, Somesville
The white building to the right was the Mount Desert House. There are three men on the boat, a man with a horse and buggy, and another team with a wagon. Wood is stacked on the shore. Onc caption for this picture says, "After discharging at the store in Somesville."
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The white building to the right was the Mount Desert House. There are three men on the boat, a man with a horse and buggy, and another team with a wagon. Wood is stacked on the shore. Onc caption for this picture says, "After discharging at the store in Somesville."