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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date Place Address Description
10114Certificate to Neal L. Murphy From Louise M. Heath
  • Document, Certificate
  • Nature, Animals, Cats
  • People
The unusual image on this certificate from the South Seal Cove School depicts a little girl lighting a flame under two kittens in a chaffing dish. The original notes on this item say: - Schools - Tremont - Seal Cove - South Seal Cove School - Certificate to Neal L. Murphy From Louise M. Heath. - Neal L. Murphy (1898-) son of John T. and Viola A. (Marshall) Murphy - Louise M. Heath (1872-1958), daughter of William Webster Allen and Alvena D. (McKenzie) Heath
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The unusual image on this certificate from the South Seal Cove School depicts a little girl lighting a flame under two kittens in a chaffing dish. The original notes on this item say: - Schools - Tremont - Seal Cove - South Seal Cove School - Certificate to Neal L. Murphy From Louise M. Heath. - Neal L. Murphy (1898-) son of John T. and Viola A. (Marshall) Murphy - Louise M. Heath (1872-1958), daughter of William Webster Allen and Alvena D. (McKenzie) Heath [show more]
12670Edward Sprague Rand III's Horticultural Background
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Nature, Plants
  • People
Additional research material concerning the plants and gardens of Rand - Edward Sprague Rand III (1834-1897) aka Edward Sprague Rand Jr.
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Additional research material concerning the plants and gardens of Rand - Edward Sprague Rand III (1834-1897) aka Edward Sprague Rand Jr.
12713Epidendrum atropurpureum var. Randi L. Lind. & Rod.
  • Image, Art, Illustration
  • Nature, Plants
  • Linden - J. Linden
  • 1886
  • Belgium, Ghent
Lindenia Iconography of Orchids, Director: J. Linden, Editor-in-Chief, Lucien Linden &
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Lindenia Iconography of Orchids, Director: J. Linden, Editor-in-Chief, Lucien Linden &
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 &
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Lindenia Iconography of Orchids, Director: J. Linden, Editor-in-Chief, Lucien Linden &
12754Audubon Boy
  • Image, Art, Illustration
  • Nature, Animals
Audubon Boy Number: 41471 Foaled: 1897 Sire: J.J. Audubon Dam: Flaxy by Bourbon Wilkes Bred by: E.P. Weathers of Avon, Kentucky Sold to: James Y. Gatcomb, Concord, New Hampshire Pacing Record: 1:59¼ From Wallace’s American Trotting Register containing the pedigrees of Standard Bred Trotters and Pacers and an Appendix of Non-Standard Animals, by The American Trotting Register Association, Volume XVII, Chicago, 1907, Standard Stallions, p. 153.
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Audubon Boy Number: 41471 Foaled: 1897 Sire: J.J. Audubon Dam: Flaxy by Bourbon Wilkes Bred by: E.P. Weathers of Avon, Kentucky Sold to: James Y. Gatcomb, Concord, New Hampshire Pacing Record: 1:59¼ From Wallace’s American Trotting Register containing the pedigrees of Standard Bred Trotters and Pacers and an Appendix of Non-Standard Animals, by The American Trotting Register Association, Volume XVII, Chicago, 1907, Standard Stallions, p. 153. [show more]
5879Grading the Dirt Road in front of the Benson House - The Home of Dr. Elias C. Neal, Tremont, Maine - After 1888
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939)
  • 1888 after
  • Tremont, Bernard
The sign beside the front door says, "Elias C. Neal, M.D." Two men and four horses are shown grading the dirt road in front of the house. The end of a board sidewalk is just visible on the right.
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The sign beside the front door says, "Elias C. Neal, M.D." Two men and four horses are shown grading the dirt road in front of the house. The end of a board sidewalk is just visible on the right.
6191Ice Harvest on Mt. Desert, Maine
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939)
“As Americans developed a preference for fresh fish, demand for ice increased. Here, armed with a handsaw, ice chisel, and ice plow ...these ...men are harvesting ice, which rivaled granite in the 1890s as Maine’s prime export.” - “Mount Desert Island - Somesville, Southwest Harbor, and Northeast Harbor” by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. and Lydia B. Vandenbergh - Images of America Series, 2001, p. 42.
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“As Americans developed a preference for fresh fish, demand for ice increased. Here, armed with a handsaw, ice chisel, and ice plow ...these ...men are harvesting ice, which rivaled granite in the 1890s as Maine’s prime export.” - “Mount Desert Island - Somesville, Southwest Harbor, and Northeast Harbor” by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. and Lydia B. Vandenbergh - Images of America Series, 2001, p. 42.
7681Emily Robinson Farnsworth, Mrs. Alton E. Farnsworth, on a Donkey
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • 1890 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
9957Dr. George Arthur Neal with Horse and Sleigh
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • 1910 c.
Unknown man in spats on the left is possibly Ebed Wilder Neal (1879-1950) Dr. Neal's brother. Dr. George Arthur Neal with mustache is on the right.
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Unknown man in spats on the left is possibly Ebed Wilder Neal (1879-1950) Dr. Neal's brother. Dr. George Arthur Neal with mustache is on the right.
11019Horses at Top of Sluice
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
11118Centennial Hall - As W.H. Ward Jr. Store
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • Structures, Commercial, Store
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
5817Seagulls on the Wharf
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1944-06
  • Southwest Harbor
7598The Wary Gull
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1944-09-02
  • Southwest Harbor
7835A Gull From Maine
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1946-03-26
7848Gulls Feeding
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1946-08
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
7901Mary "May" Melissa (Norwood) Davis Carter Feeding a Young Bald Eagle
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • People
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1949-10-28
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
9465Seagulls on the Wharf at Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • Southwest Harbor
12153Iced Birches at Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Plants
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1935-03
  • 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.
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"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.
12186A Gull From Maine
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1946-03-26
  • Southwest Harbor
6550Capt. William Bill Horace Herrick Leading John Whitmore's Fast Speed Horse To Be Shot
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • 1898 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
Written on the back of the photograph: "Old Horse J. Sargent" One of the trees on the front lawn of the library and the library wall can just be seen over the back of the horse. The building visible beyond the library property is the Freeman J. Lurvey building.
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Written on the back of the photograph: "Old Horse J. Sargent" One of the trees on the front lawn of the library and the library wall can just be seen over the back of the horse. The building visible beyond the library property is the Freeman J. Lurvey building.
6632Frank Leslie Hodgdon's Horses Drinking from the Frog Pond Below the Old Center Meeting House
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • Structures, Other Structures, Civic Structures
  • 1910 c.
  • Tremont, Center
7331Capt. William Bill Horace Herrick Leading John Whitmore's Fast Speed Horse To Be Shot
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • 1898 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
7344William Wiggy Edgar Herrick and Children with Horse and Buggy on Maple Lane
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • Transportation, Carriage
  • 1938 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
The brick building in the background is Pemetic High School on Main Street. The shed or barn at the left of the photograph, no longer standing, belonged to the Wilbur C. Wallace House on Clark Point Road at the corner of Maple Lane. William Edgar Herrick is driving the buggy. The children from Left to Right are: Richard Wilbur Herrick, William's grandson Gail Edith Perkins, later Mrs. David King Yvonne Marie Gallant, later Mrs. Norman N. Lambert
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The brick building in the background is Pemetic High School on Main Street. The shed or barn at the left of the photograph, no longer standing, belonged to the Wilbur C. Wallace House on Clark Point Road at the corner of Maple Lane. William Edgar Herrick is driving the buggy. The children from Left to Right are: Richard Wilbur Herrick, William's grandson Gail Edith Perkins, later Mrs. David King Yvonne Marie Gallant, later Mrs. Norman N. Lambert [show more]
8917Lucy Ella Lawler Whitmore and Family Dog, "Pat"
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 30 Bass Harbor Road