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| Item | Title | Type | Subject | Creator | Publisher | Date | Place | Address | Description | |
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| 10952 | Abner Pomroy House - Newel Post |
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| 10953 | Abner Pomroy House - Upstairs Bath |
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| 12496 | American Legion and Auxiliary, Eugene M. Norwood Post 69, Southwest Harbor |
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| 16385 | Art Kellam's Cartoon |
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| 16386 | Art Kellam's Valentine Cartoon |
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| 5039 | Bait for Sale |
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| "Bait for Sale" was Henry Rand's title for the photograph. Photograph may have been taken off Greening Island. | 
Description: "Bait for Sale" was Henry Rand's title for the photograph. Photograph may have been taken off Greening Island. | |||
| 7713 | Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Company and United States Post Office in the John Lawler Commercial Building |
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| On the left side is the Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Company - Southwest Harbor Branch. On the right side (to the right of the Post Office box is The United States Post Office at Southwest Harbor. "The Salisbury building which now houses the local branch of the Bar Harbor Banking and Trust Company, the post office and a plumbing shop, was built by the late Archie R. Salisbury in 1933-4." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 150. |  Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Company and United States Post Office in the John Lawler Commercial Building
Description: On the left side is the Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Company - Southwest Harbor Branch. On the right side (to the right of the Post Office box is The United States Post Office at Southwest Harbor. "The Salisbury building which now houses the local branch of the Bar Harbor Banking and Trust Company, the post office and a plumbing shop, was built by the late Archie R. Salisbury in 1933-4." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 150. [show more] | |
| 6619 | Bass Harbor Post Office |
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| 6981 | Bill Leading the Horses at Lawlor Ice Business |
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| 11531 | Boat Shop Selling Hartford Marine Gas Engines |
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| This boat shop, built behind the owner's house, complete with two elegant bird houses, could have belonged to any one of many boat builders on and around Mount Desert and its surrounding islands or perhaps have been somewhere else in Maine. It is typical of the way mechanization crept into the boat building and servicing industry. The sign on the roof of the shop says, "Hartford Marine Gas Engines For Sale." | 
Description: This boat shop, built behind the owner's house, complete with two elegant bird houses, could have belonged to any one of many boat builders on and around Mount Desert and its surrounding islands or perhaps have been somewhere else in Maine. It is typical of the way mechanization crept into the boat building and servicing industry. The sign on the roof of the shop says, "Hartford Marine Gas Engines For Sale." | |||||
| 7250 | Book Bound for the Southwest Harbor Public Library by Grace M. Simmons |
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| "The Country Doctor" by Honoré de Balzac published in 1887 | 
Description: "The Country Doctor" by Honoré de Balzac published in 1887 | ||
| 12786 | Botanical Specimen Boxes |
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| 5052 | Captain Franklin Leslie Stanley and Crew at the Cranberry Isles Life-Saving Station |
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| 12470 | Centennial Hall as Originally Built on Seawall Road, Manset, Maine |
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| 16663 | Central Filing Station |
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| 9122 | Chelsea Fire Ruins (Bellingham Hill from Chester Avenue) |
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| 6975 | Children at Lawlor Ice Business |
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| Joseph Christopher Lawlor in front William Joseph Lawlor in back | 
Description: Joseph Christopher Lawlor in front William Joseph Lawlor in back | |||
| 6976 | Children at the Lawlor Ice Business |
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| Joseph Lawlor on the left, Bill Lawlor on right. | 
Description: Joseph Lawlor on the left, Bill Lawlor on right. | ||
| 5057 | China Mill in Suncook Village, Pembroke NH |
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| 6945 | Christopher Wendell Lawlor Driving His Ice Wagon |
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| Left to Right: Unknown man Joseph Christopher Lawlor (1925-2002) Christopher Wendell Lawlor (1893-1956) Chris, like many people of his time, used the chassis or wheels or parts of a worn out Ford Model A automobiles or trucks as the base for his hay and ice wagons. The wagon shown here has Model A. wheels. | 
Description: Left to Right: Unknown man Joseph Christopher Lawlor (1925-2002) Christopher Wendell Lawlor (1893-1956) Chris, like many people of his time, used the chassis or wheels or parts of a worn out Ford Model A automobiles or trucks as the base for his hay and ice wagons. The wagon shown here has Model A. wheels. | |||
| 6944 | Christopher Wendell Lawlor Driving the Ice Wagon |
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| The woman in the wagon was an unknown Irish maid, a friend of Anne Coffey Lawlor. The horse was named "Dick". | 
Description: The woman in the wagon was an unknown Irish maid, a friend of Anne Coffey Lawlor. The horse was named "Dick". | ||
| 15653 | Chronometer from the Rebecca R. Douglas Schooner |
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| The photo above and the information that follows is from Andrew Baron of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The ship’s two survivors were rescued on May 2, while the boat went down on April 28 near Cape May New Jersey. Depending on the weather, this means the schooner would likely have sailed out of New York (where its chronometer was calibrated on April 16) on April 26 or 27, only a week and half or so after the chronometer’s certification. I have the ship's marine chronometer (precision ship's clock shown in the photo above) from the Rebecca R. Douglas, well preserved and working, along with a verified vintage calibration certificate (timekeeping accuracy tested, calibrated and certified by an established chronometer firm) dated April 16, 1943, only two weeks before this schooner went down. This would likely have been done in preparation for its last journey. It's a mystery how the clock and its certificate survived when the ship did not. Given the date of the demise of the Rebecca R. Douglas, I can only assume that it had more than one chronometer, leaving one behind in New York and sailing with another. There’s more I want to learn about this however; the need of the navigator to definitely have a chronometer on board, to plot longitude on a north-to-south passage through coastal waters, how long a chronometer would remain with the certifying company after certification, prior to boarding ship, whether a coastal schooner like the RR Douglas would have had more than one chronometer, the prevailing weather at the time of the accident, whether U-boats that were observed off US coasts were in the area at that time, and the names of the two survivors long with the names of those who perished when the schooner went down. This last detail might possibly make the survival of this artifact of some importance to descendants of the victims and survivors. If any of them had young children at that time, they may still be living. This unusual survivor may be all of significance that remains of the tangible material associated with that boat, apart from the photo in your library collections. During wartime every viable old chronometer that could be found was reconditioned and pressed into service for the Navy and Merchant Marine, to augment new ones made to meet the increased demand for navigational aids. When this chronometer, made by Thomas Porthouse, ca. 1850 in London, was assigned to the Rebecca R. Douglas, it was already close to a century old, and yet its accuracy could still be certified for ongoing service at sea. | 
Description: The photo above and the information that follows is from Andrew Baron of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The ship’s two survivors were rescued on May 2, while the boat went down on April 28 near Cape May New Jersey. Depending on the weather, this means the schooner would likely have sailed out of New York (where its chronometer was calibrated on April 16) on April 26 or 27, only a week and half or so after the chronometer’s certification. I have the ship's marine chronometer (precision ship's clock shown in the photo above) from the Rebecca R. Douglas, well preserved and working, along with a verified vintage calibration certificate (timekeeping accuracy tested, calibrated and certified by an established chronometer firm) dated April 16, 1943, only two weeks before this schooner went down. This would likely have been done in preparation for its last journey. It's a mystery how the clock and its certificate survived when the ship did not. Given the date of the demise of the Rebecca R. Douglas, I can only assume that it had more than one chronometer, leaving one behind in New York and sailing with another. There’s more I want to learn about this however; the need of the navigator to definitely have a chronometer on board, to plot longitude on a north-to-south passage through coastal waters, how long a chronometer would remain with the certifying company after certification, prior to boarding ship, whether a coastal schooner like the RR Douglas would have had more than one chronometer, the prevailing weather at the time of the accident, whether U-boats that were observed off US coasts were in the area at that time, and the names of the two survivors long with the names of those who perished when the schooner went down. This last detail might possibly make the survival of this artifact of some importance to descendants of the victims and survivors. If any of them had young children at that time, they may still be living. This unusual survivor may be all of significance that remains of the tangible material associated with that boat, apart from the photo in your library collections. During wartime every viable old chronometer that could be found was reconditioned and pressed into service for the Navy and Merchant Marine, to augment new ones made to meet the increased demand for navigational aids. When this chronometer, made by Thomas Porthouse, ca. 1850 in London, was assigned to the Rebecca R. Douglas, it was already close to a century old, and yet its accuracy could still be certified for ongoing service at sea. [show more] | |||||
| 6006 | Clock Given in Memory of Sarah Franklin Ripley Cutler - The Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| 8070 | Clouds in Western Sky |
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| 6561 | Coal Storage Plant |
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| In 2007 this was the site of Morris Yachts |
