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16424Katheryne "Carrie" Winstead Page at 17 years old
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • 1899 c.
Caption on back reads: "Speaking of hats"
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Caption on back reads: "Speaking of hats"
16419Roberta Burns Wemmert and Lorena Burns
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • 1890 c.
Leone Marie (Wemmert) Kellam's mother and aunt, Roberta Burns Wemmert and Lorena Burns.
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Leone Marie (Wemmert) Kellam's mother and aunt, Roberta Burns Wemmert and Lorena Burns.
16370Unknown Man
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Cabinet Photograph
  • People
  • Barlow, Hatch & Co., Photographers
  • 1895
This man has yet to be identified, although archivists are led to believe that he is a relative of Leone Marie (Wemmert) Kellam on her father's side.
Description:
This man has yet to be identified, although archivists are led to believe that he is a relative of Leone Marie (Wemmert) Kellam on her father's side.
16346Mabel duPont Colvin
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Butler, Brooklyn, NY
  • 1890 c.
  • Brooklyn NY
16299Steamer Cimbria Aground at Bass Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • 1898 c.
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
16184Looking South on Main Street, Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Places, Town
  • 1898 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
“Another view of Main Street about the turn of the century.” The building on the right is J.C. Ralph's Studio - Optician and Jeweler - and the Post Office. The photograph shows a man standing in the door of the Post Office. Note the street lamp in front of Ralph's Studio. Several carriages can be seen in the photograph, including one from Birch Tree Farm in Lamoine, Maine. Clark Point Road goes off to the left. The building with the overhang beyond it on the left side is the Odd Fellows building.
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“Another view of Main Street about the turn of the century.” The building on the right is J.C. Ralph's Studio - Optician and Jeweler - and the Post Office. The photograph shows a man standing in the door of the Post Office. Note the street lamp in front of Ralph's Studio. Several carriages can be seen in the photograph, including one from Birch Tree Farm in Lamoine, Maine. Clark Point Road goes off to the left. The building with the overhang beyond it on the left side is the Odd Fellows building. [show more]
16073Bass Harbor Head Light, Southwest Harbor, ME
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • Willis Watson, Tremont, Me.
  • 1896-03-26
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
Mailed to: Mr. Lewis C. Gott McKinley, Me. Text reads: "How do you like housekeeping?"
Description:
Mailed to: Mr. Lewis C. Gott McKinley, Me. Text reads: "How do you like housekeeping?"
16072Boulder on Marsh Creek, Head of Bass Harbor, ME
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Landscape
  • C.E. Cook, Bangor, Maine
  • 1896-11-09
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
Mailed to: Miss Alice G. Pettee, Foxboro 88 Main Street, Mass.
Description:
Mailed to: Miss Alice G. Pettee, Foxboro 88 Main Street, Mass.
15522Eliza S. Robbins House
Fred M. Robbins House
  • Reference
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Rea - William H. Rea
  • 1895
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 225 Main Street
"Fred Robbins had his house built by William H. Rea. During the years that Mr, Robbins was employed as a lighthouse keeper, the house was rented and so he built the small cottage to the south of his home as a place where he and his wife could spend their annual vacations." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 143.
Eliza S. Robbins House
Fred M. Robbins House
Description:
"Fred Robbins had his house built by William H. Rea. During the years that Mr, Robbins was employed as a lighthouse keeper, the house was rented and so he built the small cottage to the south of his home as a place where he and his wife could spend their annual vacations." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 143.
13473"Humorous Poems" by Thomas Hood
  • Publication, Book
  • People
  • Hood - Thomas Hood
  • 1893
13450Advertisement for Mrs. Tom Thumb
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Events
  • Bar Harbor Record
  • 1896-07-29
Mrs. Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump, aka Lavinia Warren, the wife of General Tom Thumb, continued to tour after her husband's death. In this advertisement, the newspaper misprinted her name as Gevena in the announcement for her visit to Bar Harbor in 1896.
Description:
Mrs. Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump, aka Lavinia Warren, the wife of General Tom Thumb, continued to tour after her husband's death. In this advertisement, the newspaper misprinted her name as Gevena in the announcement for her visit to Bar Harbor in 1896.
134461898 $20 Liberty Head Gold Coin
  • Object, Money, Coin
  • 1898
The coin is one of the largest issue coins produced (1850-1933) by the U.S. Mint for general coinage. Measuring 1.34” in diameter, the coins weigh 33.436 grams each, are alloys of 90% gold and 10% copper. Each coin contains .9675 ounce of gold. Lura Belle (Haynes) Dolliver can be seen wearing a coin like this at her neck as jewelry in related item #9538.
Description:
The coin is one of the largest issue coins produced (1850-1933) by the U.S. Mint for general coinage. Measuring 1.34” in diameter, the coins weigh 33.436 grams each, are alloys of 90% gold and 10% copper. Each coin contains .9675 ounce of gold. Lura Belle (Haynes) Dolliver can be seen wearing a coin like this at her neck as jewelry in related item #9538.
13166Musgrave v. Farren
  • Document, Legal, Legal Documents
  • People
  • 1898-12-01
13165Musgrave's Unique Suit: What Wall Street Knows of the Father's Business Career
  • Publication, Clipping
  • People
  • The New York Times
  • 1896-11-20
13164Eden Hall: Summer Home of T.B. Musgrave
  • Publication, Clipping
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • 1895-06-18
  • Bar Harbor
12822Edith Gilman at Tent - Saranac Lake
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • People
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1897-08-19
  • Saranac Lake NY
12715Victoria Regia in the River Amazon
  • Image, Print, Planographic Print, Lithograph
  • Places, Landscape
  • von Marilaun - Anton Kerner von Marilaun
  • 1892 c.
  • Germany, Leipzig
Chromolithograph - Plate XI - Artist - Ernst Heign. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction and Distribution, by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Half Volume III, 1895. Printed in Leipzig by the Bibliographisches Institute . Image courtesy of ancestryimages.com - copyright free for non-commercial use. "Those running personal websites dealing with family history, genealogy, or other historical research etc. are most welcome to copy any of the map or print images for their own use, as are charity and non-profit organizations. 1898: "E.S. Rand, commemorated in Victoria Randi, died recently in Para, Brazil. He was an expert plantsman, a private gentleman, and wrote interestingly on various horticultural subjects." - American Gardening, Volume 19, 1898, p. 458. Victoria Regia, as shown in this illustration, does not purport to be variety Randi, but similar to that named for Edward S. Rand. "Victoria Randi, the new Crimson Victoria, is a variety of recent introduction ; very similar to the Victoria Regia, except the vertical edges of the leaves are broader, forming a deeper 'tray' and the flowers, opening white, soon change to a deep crimson." - "Botanical guide through the Phipps conservatories in Pittsburg and Allegheny" by Gustave Guttenbert, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 1894.
Description:
Chromolithograph - Plate XI - Artist - Ernst Heign. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction and Distribution, by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Half Volume III, 1895. Printed in Leipzig by the Bibliographisches Institute . Image courtesy of ancestryimages.com - copyright free for non-commercial use. "Those running personal websites dealing with family history, genealogy, or other historical research etc. are most welcome to copy any of the map or print images for their own use, as are charity and non-profit organizations. 1898: "E.S. Rand, commemorated in Victoria Randi, died recently in Para, Brazil. He was an expert plantsman, a private gentleman, and wrote interestingly on various horticultural subjects." - American Gardening, Volume 19, 1898, p. 458. Victoria Regia, as shown in this illustration, does not purport to be variety Randi, but similar to that named for Edward S. Rand. "Victoria Randi, the new Crimson Victoria, is a variety of recent introduction ; very similar to the Victoria Regia, except the vertical edges of the leaves are broader, forming a deeper 'tray' and the flowers, opening white, soon change to a deep crimson." - "Botanical guide through the Phipps conservatories in Pittsburg and Allegheny" by Gustave Guttenbert, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 1894. [show more]
12714Cattleya Eldorado Lind. var Lindeni Hort. - Cattleya Eldorado Lind. var. Oweni Hort.
  • Image, Art, Illustration
  • Nature, Plants
  • Linden - J. Linden
  • 1893
  • Belgium, Ghent
Lindenia Iconography of Orchids, Director: J. Linden, Editor-in-Chief, Lucien Linden &
Description:
Lindenia Iconography of Orchids, Director: J. Linden, Editor-in-Chief, Lucien Linden &
12705The Old Cambridge Photographic Club
  • Reference
  • Organizations
  • Wells - James A. Wells
  • Unpublished manuscript 2016
  • 1892 c.
  • Boston MA area, Cambridge
The parts played in the formation and activities of the Old Cambridge Photography Club by those who summered or designed cottages in Southwest Harbor, Maine: Alice Carpenter Allyn, Henry Lathrop Rand, and other Southwest Harborians
Description:
The parts played in the formation and activities of the Old Cambridge Photography Club by those who summered or designed cottages in Southwest Harbor, Maine: Alice Carpenter Allyn, Henry Lathrop Rand, and other Southwest Harborians
12668Family
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Cabinet Photograph
  • People
  • Cook - Charles Edward Cook Sr. (1840-1927)
  • 1892 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
12498Porcupine Islands from Green Mountain - Magic Lantern Slide - Maine Coast at Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Mountain
  • 1895 c.
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
This magic lantern slide, “Maine Coast at Bar Harbor,” is an example of slides used as education tools by universities, The University of the State of New York in this case. Photograph was taken from the top of Cadillac Mountain.
Description:
This magic lantern slide, “Maine Coast at Bar Harbor,” is an example of slides used as education tools by universities, The University of the State of New York in this case. Photograph was taken from the top of Cadillac Mountain.
12475Eldora Flye (Dolliver) Ward, Mrs. William Henry Ward Jr.
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • 1897 c.
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
12470Centennial Hall as Originally Built on Seawall Road, Manset, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Structures, Other Structures, Civic Structures
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1890
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
12438Linus the Long-Haired Wonder Horse Advertising Card
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • I.L. Hammond and Co., Lewiston, Maine
  • 1892 c.
  • Lewiston ME
12430Teacher Emma J. (Coggins) Norwood and Students of the Norwood Cove School at a Valley Cove Picnic
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Places
  • 1891 c.
  • Southwest Harbor