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| Item | Title | Type | Subject | Creator | Publisher | Date | Place | Address | Description | |
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| 13546 | Objects of the Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| 14445 | Ralph Stanley's Albino Violin |
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| Ralph built his third violin, the “Albino Violin” in 2009. As with his first two violins, Ralph carved a Lion’s Head scroll for it. He says this violin is the “best so far.” The top is carved (not steamed) cedar wood and the bottom is carved poplar wood. He carved the lower block and top nut from old ebony piano keys. Vittoria (Vitelli) McIlhenny, Mrs. Alan McIlhenny of Northeast Harbor, purchased the “White Violin” for her collection in 2010. | 
Description: Ralph built his third violin, the “Albino Violin” in 2009. As with his first two violins, Ralph carved a Lion’s Head scroll for it. He says this violin is the “best so far.” The top is carved (not steamed) cedar wood and the bottom is carved poplar wood. He carved the lower block and top nut from old ebony piano keys. Vittoria (Vitelli) McIlhenny, Mrs. Alan McIlhenny of Northeast Harbor, purchased the “White Violin” for her collection in 2010. [show more] | ||||
| 14450 | Ralph Stanley's Secundo Violin |
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| Ralph built his second violin, “Secundo”, in 2008. Ralph had made a Lion’s Head scroll for his first violin and he did it again when designing Secundo. | 
Description: Ralph built his second violin, “Secundo”, in 2008. Ralph had made a Lion’s Head scroll for his first violin and he did it again when designing Secundo. | |||||
| 13554 | Philip Clifton Rich Desk |
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| Philip Clifton Rich built this desk and chair using wood from the last of the original trees at the Southwest Harbor Library. The trees were removed in 2006. | 
Description: Philip Clifton Rich built this desk and chair using wood from the last of the original trees at the Southwest Harbor Library. The trees were removed in 2006. | |||||
| 14107 | Hinckley Hardware Photographs Produced by Willis Ballard |
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| The Manset Boatyard, and later as the Henry R. Hinckley Company, made most of the hardware for their vessels in their own shop. Willis Ballard produced illustrations of their hardware the old fashioned way too. Working in the days before computer generated or touched up images, Ballard photographed hundreds of hardware pieces and then painstakingly isolated each item against a white background by hand, using a brush dipped in white paint. However imperfect the images seem in their original size, they were beautiful when the photographs were reduced to produce catalogue pages. Some of the hardware was used just on Hinckley boats and some was sold at the company’s Manset Marine Supply Company in the old Clark and Parker store building on Clark Point. The library has 60 Ballard negatives illustrating Hinckley hardware. "1940 - Henry [Henry R. Hinckley (1907-1980)] starts the Manset Marine Supply Company to distribute marine supplies, engines and equipment to the many small yards springing up along the coast, as well as to his own boatyards. Dissatisfied with the quality of some commercial fittings, Hinckley designs many fittings that are still used by the company today. Among these items are fuel tanks, stanchions, deck plates, bow and stern chocks, pulpits and lead keels." - “The Hinckley Company History,” The Hinckley Company web site, 2000, Accessed online 11/20/2010; http://www.hinckleyyachts.com/employment/about_us2.html | 
Description: The Manset Boatyard, and later as the Henry R. Hinckley Company, made most of the hardware for their vessels in their own shop. Willis Ballard produced illustrations of their hardware the old fashioned way too. Working in the days before computer generated or touched up images, Ballard photographed hundreds of hardware pieces and then painstakingly isolated each item against a white background by hand, using a brush dipped in white paint. However imperfect the images seem in their original size, they were beautiful when the photographs were reduced to produce catalogue pages. Some of the hardware was used just on Hinckley boats and some was sold at the company’s Manset Marine Supply Company in the old Clark and Parker store building on Clark Point. The library has 60 Ballard negatives illustrating Hinckley hardware. "1940 - Henry [Henry R. Hinckley (1907-1980)] starts the Manset Marine Supply Company to distribute marine supplies, engines and equipment to the many small yards springing up along the coast, as well as to his own boatyards. Dissatisfied with the quality of some commercial fittings, Hinckley designs many fittings that are still used by the company today. Among these items are fuel tanks, stanchions, deck plates, bow and stern chocks, pulpits and lead keels." - “The Hinckley Company History,” The Hinckley Company web site, 2000, Accessed online 11/20/2010; http://www.hinckleyyachts.com/employment/about_us2.html [show more] | |||||
| 14447 | Spurling Violin |
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| "Meanwhile I played a violin that I had bought from Millard Spurling. This violin had a mother of pearl inlay on the back. Millard had bought the violin from George Joy [George Jacob Joy (1861-1936)], who I believe taught school at Great Cranberry Island. Millard had intentions of learning to play but never did. After his wife died he had a lady friend at Ellsworth who had a daughter going to school who wanted to take violin lessons so he let her borrow it. When he got it back it was damaged. He had it for a number of years before he sold it to me. I repaired it and that gave me something to play while I scraped the varnish off the one I made. I intended to re-varnish but didn’t get to it so it set around in this condition for years. While playing at the Grange Hall at Northport I miss-stepped and fell off the stage with the Spurling violin in my hand. I was not hurt but the top was in splinters." - "Fiddle Making" by Ralph Warren Stanley, 2010. Ralph has since repaired the "Spurling Violin." | 
Description: "Meanwhile I played a violin that I had bought from Millard Spurling. This violin had a mother of pearl inlay on the back. Millard had bought the violin from George Joy [George Jacob Joy (1861-1936)], who I believe taught school at Great Cranberry Island. Millard had intentions of learning to play but never did. After his wife died he had a lady friend at Ellsworth who had a daughter going to school who wanted to take violin lessons so he let her borrow it. When he got it back it was damaged. He had it for a number of years before he sold it to me. I repaired it and that gave me something to play while I scraped the varnish off the one I made. I intended to re-varnish but didn’t get to it so it set around in this condition for years. While playing at the Grange Hall at Northport I miss-stepped and fell off the stage with the Spurling violin in my hand. I was not hurt but the top was in splinters." - "Fiddle Making" by Ralph Warren Stanley, 2010. Ralph has since repaired the "Spurling Violin." [show more] | ||||
| 14449 | Ralph Stanley's Underwood Violin |
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| Ralph built his first violin, the “Underwood” violin, in 1955 using a birch stair tread from the demolished Underwood cottage, “Squirrelhurst.” | 
Description: Ralph built his first violin, the “Underwood” violin, in 1955 using a birch stair tread from the demolished Underwood cottage, “Squirrelhurst.” | |||||
| 13444 | Advertisement for Hartford Marine Engines |
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| 12786 | Botanical Specimen Boxes |
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| 3049 | Acetylene Beacon Traffic Control Tower |
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| The traffic control tower at the junction of Main Street and Clark Point Road was an acetylene beacon made by the American Gas Accumulator Co. of Elizabeth, New Jersey | 
Description: The traffic control tower at the junction of Main Street and Clark Point Road was an acetylene beacon made by the American Gas Accumulator Co. of Elizabeth, New Jersey | |||||
| 7347 | Milk Bottle (Raw Milk) from Nelson Herrick's Farm, McKinley, Maine |
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| 10177 | W.H. Ballard Anchor Light Studio - Studio Sign |
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| 9990 | The Douglas Coleman Family at TopGallant |
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| Left to right: Bev Coleman Tom Coleman David Coleman Doug Coleman | 
Description: Left to right: Bev Coleman Tom Coleman David Coleman Doug Coleman | |||
| 9991 | John Caston and the Flagpole Topped with Byron Lewis Robinson's Ship Model |
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| John Caston was visiting from Cleveland. The occasion of the flag raising is described in Anne's account "Making Woods a Garden" (SWHPL 353) and in Tom Coleman's handwritten book "The House that Anne Built" (SWHPL 9979). | 
Description: John Caston was visiting from Cleveland. The occasion of the flag raising is described in Anne's account "Making Woods a Garden" (SWHPL 353) and in Tom Coleman's handwritten book "The House that Anne Built" (SWHPL 9979). | |||
| 9992 | Plaque on Anne's Rock |
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| The inscription reads: ANNE BRIMLEY GOULD Jan. 30, 1928 "We conclude that primary hypertension is a blood-vessel adaptation in response to a renal energy need that may require additional oxygen." Can. J. Physiol. Pharmacol. 72:679-686, 1994. | 
Description: The inscription reads: ANNE BRIMLEY GOULD Jan. 30, 1928 "We conclude that primary hypertension is a blood-vessel adaptation in response to a renal energy need that may require additional oxygen." Can. J. Physiol. Pharmacol. 72:679-686, 1994. | |||
| 5976 | The Southwest Harbor Public Library Tea Cup & Saucer |
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