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| 9418 | Water Pitcher from the Island House |
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| Gift to Deacon Henry Higgins Clark from Guests - August 3, 1861. This silver plated water pitcher is typical of its era. It probably had an inner air jacket to keep the iced water cold. The inscription reads: "Henry H. Clark from the Guests of the Island House August 3rd, 1861" | 
Description: Gift to Deacon Henry Higgins Clark from Guests - August 3, 1861. This silver plated water pitcher is typical of its era. It probably had an inner air jacket to keep the iced water cold. The inscription reads: "Henry H. Clark from the Guests of the Island House August 3rd, 1861" | |||
| 6803 | Sailor's Valentine Made for Amanda (Robinson) Richardson, Mrs. Abraham Richardson, by Captain E.H. Pray |
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| “Some interesting valentines even come up for sale on eBay. A great friend of mine, Pippa Vlasov, who generously lent me a portion of her collection for this book, is an avid and determined collector who has been known to stay up all night at her computer waiting for an auction to close. One of her eBay treasures came from a hairdresser in Portland, Oregon, who found the Valentine in her grandfather’s attic, took it to an antiques dealer, and asked him to sell it for her. The dealer placed the Valentine on eBay with a reserve price of $50. It sold for almost $7,000 and is a wonderful piece…with an elaborate hand inscription on the back of the box. The inscription reads: ‘Presented to Mrs. A. Richardson by Captn. E.H. Pray, Schr Abraham Richardson, from Barbadoes, W.I. 1875.’” The Valentine is a Double 13” with pattern of flowers on left and star on right. - Photograph and information about the Sailor's Valentine made for Amanda (Robinson) Richardson, Mrs. Abraham Richardson, by Captain E.H. Pray. - “Sailors’ Valentines” by John Fondas, published by Rizzoli International Publications, p. 14, 15, 19, 72, 73, 91 - 2002 Captain E. H. Pray was Ephraim H. Pray, born to Ephraim and Rebecca P. (Norton) Pray on May 14, 1842. Ephraim married Vandora Carver, daughter of Wills and Nancy (Flye) Carver (born 1847), on December 25, 1864, in Tremont, Maine. The schooner ""Abraham Richardson"" was built in Bass Harbor (Tremont) by William S. Newman in 1874. She was 154.38 tons - 99.0 - 27.0 - 9.0. Thirty-two people owned shares with the largest number of shares (4) owned by Abraham Richardson of Tremont in 1880. Her master, in 1880, was Nathan A. Reed when she hailed from Boston, Massachusetts. - List of Vessels Built on Mount Desert, Cranberry, Tinker’s, Thompson’s and Long Island (Frenchboro) Compiled by Ralph Stanley, p. 76 - 2003 The schooner’s builder, William Spurling Newman, was born to Jonathan and Sarah Spurling Newman on May 10, 1825. He married Lydia Jordan Stanley who was born to Sans (Jr.) and Fanny Guptill Spurling Stanley on February 2, 1828 in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Lydia died on April 19, 1867 in Southwest Harbor. William Spurling Newman died on October 16, 1901. The “Abraham Richardson” was named for her largest shareholder, Abraham Richardson, born to Abraham and Mercy Wormell Richardson on February 3, 1809. Abraham first married Deborah N. Burnam who was born about 1809, on December 21, 1830. Deborah N. Burnam Richardson died on March 31, 1859. Abraham then married Amanda Robinson, daughter of Levi and Lavinia Savage Robinson on September 27, 1862. Amanda was born on February 21, 1836, the sister of Capt. Adoniram Judson Robinson. She was, therefore, the great grand aunt of 20th Century Southwest Harbor boat builder, violin maker, genealogist and story teller, Ralph Warren Stanley. Abraham Richardson died on August 31, 1878 in Tremont, Maine. Amanda (Robinson) Richardson died on April 14, 1914. Capt. Pray made the valentine for the wife of the owner of his schooner. “Sailors’ Valentines – Their Journey Through Time” by Grace L. Madeira, Constance Marshall Miller, Mary S. Page and Ann T. Schutt – 2006 - An update on the art of the valentines with good photographs." | 
Description: “Some interesting valentines even come up for sale on eBay. A great friend of mine, Pippa Vlasov, who generously lent me a portion of her collection for this book, is an avid and determined collector who has been known to stay up all night at her computer waiting for an auction to close. One of her eBay treasures came from a hairdresser in Portland, Oregon, who found the Valentine in her grandfather’s attic, took it to an antiques dealer, and asked him to sell it for her. The dealer placed the Valentine on eBay with a reserve price of $50. It sold for almost $7,000 and is a wonderful piece…with an elaborate hand inscription on the back of the box. The inscription reads: ‘Presented to Mrs. A. Richardson by Captn. E.H. Pray, Schr Abraham Richardson, from Barbadoes, W.I. 1875.’” The Valentine is a Double 13” with pattern of flowers on left and star on right. - Photograph and information about the Sailor's Valentine made for Amanda (Robinson) Richardson, Mrs. Abraham Richardson, by Captain E.H. Pray. - “Sailors’ Valentines” by John Fondas, published by Rizzoli International Publications, p. 14, 15, 19, 72, 73, 91 - 2002 Captain E. H. Pray was Ephraim H. Pray, born to Ephraim and Rebecca P. (Norton) Pray on May 14, 1842. Ephraim married Vandora Carver, daughter of Wills and Nancy (Flye) Carver (born 1847), on December 25, 1864, in Tremont, Maine. The schooner ""Abraham Richardson"" was built in Bass Harbor (Tremont) by William S. Newman in 1874. She was 154.38 tons - 99.0 - 27.0 - 9.0. Thirty-two people owned shares with the largest number of shares (4) owned by Abraham Richardson of Tremont in 1880. Her master, in 1880, was Nathan A. Reed when she hailed from Boston, Massachusetts. - List of Vessels Built on Mount Desert, Cranberry, Tinker’s, Thompson’s and Long Island (Frenchboro) Compiled by Ralph Stanley, p. 76 - 2003 The schooner’s builder, William Spurling Newman, was born to Jonathan and Sarah Spurling Newman on May 10, 1825. He married Lydia Jordan Stanley who was born to Sans (Jr.) and Fanny Guptill Spurling Stanley on February 2, 1828 in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Lydia died on April 19, 1867 in Southwest Harbor. William Spurling Newman died on October 16, 1901. The “Abraham Richardson” was named for her largest shareholder, Abraham Richardson, born to Abraham and Mercy Wormell Richardson on February 3, 1809. Abraham first married Deborah N. Burnam who was born about 1809, on December 21, 1830. Deborah N. Burnam Richardson died on March 31, 1859. Abraham then married Amanda Robinson, daughter of Levi and Lavinia Savage Robinson on September 27, 1862. Amanda was born on February 21, 1836, the sister of Capt. Adoniram Judson Robinson. She was, therefore, the great grand aunt of 20th Century Southwest Harbor boat builder, violin maker, genealogist and story teller, Ralph Warren Stanley. Abraham Richardson died on August 31, 1878 in Tremont, Maine. Amanda (Robinson) Richardson died on April 14, 1914. Capt. Pray made the valentine for the wife of the owner of his schooner. “Sailors’ Valentines – Their Journey Through Time” by Grace L. Madeira, Constance Marshall Miller, Mary S. Page and Ann T. Schutt – 2006 - An update on the art of the valentines with good photographs." [show more] | ||||
| 9573 | Acadia National Park - Champlain Monument |
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| The photograph was taken when the monument was on Seacliff Drive, its original position in the park, . | 
Description: The photograph was taken when the monument was on Seacliff Drive, its original position in the park, . | ||
| 11764 | Acadia National Park - Champlain Monument |
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| The photograph was taken when the monument was on Seacliff Drive, its original position in the park, | 
Description: The photograph was taken when the monument was on Seacliff Drive, its original position in the park, | ||
| 11765 | Acadia National Park - Champlain Monument |
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| 6207 | Ralph Ober Phippen Hauling Traps |
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| Ralph is shown using a winch head to haul his traps. Robert Crowe had not yet developed the east coast Hydro-Slave pot hauler. Compare this photograph to Item 12443 that shows Gary Parsons hauling lobsters with a Hydro-Slave in 1985. | 
Description: Ralph is shown using a winch head to haul his traps. Robert Crowe had not yet developed the east coast Hydro-Slave pot hauler. Compare this photograph to Item 12443 that shows Gary Parsons hauling lobsters with a Hydro-Slave in 1985. | ||
| 9360 | Ralph Ober Phippen Hauling Traps |
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| Ralph is shown using a winch head to haul his traps. Robert Crowe had not yet developed the east coast Hydro-Slave pot hauler. He did so in 1964 thereby making it much easier to lift the heavy, water sodden pots from the sea. | 
Description: Ralph is shown using a winch head to haul his traps. Robert Crowe had not yet developed the east coast Hydro-Slave pot hauler. He did so in 1964 thereby making it much easier to lift the heavy, water sodden pots from the sea. | ||
| 12163 | The Snow Owl - Stuffed Owl in Collection of Wendell Holmes Gilley |
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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. | 
Description: "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. | ||
| 7270 | Richard Black and Wilder Dolliver With Lobster Traps |
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| Wilder Dolliver (1898-1994) - on left Richard A. Black (1920-2007) - on right | 
Description: Wilder Dolliver (1898-1994) - on left Richard A. Black (1920-2007) - on right | |||
| 11915 | The Henry R. Hinckley Company - Army-Navy E Award Presentation to Southwest Boat Corp/Manset Boat Corporation |
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| The award consisted of a pennant for the plant and emblems for all employees in the plant at the time the award was made. The pennant was triangular swallowtail with a white border, with a capital E within a yellow wreath of oak and laurel leaves on a vertical divided blue and red background. ARMY is on the red background and NAVY on the blue background. | 
Description: The award consisted of a pennant for the plant and emblems for all employees in the plant at the time the award was made. The pennant was triangular swallowtail with a white border, with a capital E within a yellow wreath of oak and laurel leaves on a vertical divided blue and red background. ARMY is on the red background and NAVY on the blue background. | |
| 6006 | Clock Given in Memory of Sarah Franklin Ripley Cutler - The Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| 7831 | Lobster Traps on Wharf in Bernard, Maine |
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| 7832 | Lobster Traps on Wharf in Bernard, Maine |
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| 6824 | Harvey A. Moore Working on Traps - A Maine Lobster Fisherman's Workshop |
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| W.H. Ballard took the photograph of Harvey Moore and used it as the image for a postcard titled, "Lobster Fisherman's Workshop" that became popular on Mount Desert Island. SWHPL 9472 was a duplicate of this item and has been removed. | 
Description: W.H. Ballard took the photograph of Harvey Moore and used it as the image for a postcard titled, "Lobster Fisherman's Workshop" that became popular on Mount Desert Island. SWHPL 9472 was a duplicate of this item and has been removed. | ||
| 7895 | Lobster Shack in Bernard |
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| 5834 | Lobster Pots in the Snow - Thurston's Wharf, Bernard |
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| 11881 | Ralph Warren Stanley's First Lion's Head Violin Scroll |
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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.” The tradition of Lion’s Head scrolls goes as far back as at least the 17th Century when Austrian Jakob Stainer, “one of the great violin makers of all times” made his Lion’s Head scroll violins. | 
Description: Ralph built his first violin, the “Underwood” violin, in 1955 using a birch stair tread from the demolished Underwood cottage, “Squirrelhurst.” The tradition of Lion’s Head scrolls goes as far back as at least the 17th Century when Austrian Jakob Stainer, “one of the great violin makers of all times” made his Lion’s Head scroll violins. | ||||
| 7914 | Lobster Wharf at Goose Cove, Tremont, Maine |
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| 7915 | Lobster Wharf at Goose Cove, Tremont, Maine |
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| 9986 | First Flag Raising - Flag Going Up |
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| 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). The ship model weathervane is shown atop the flagpole. | 
Description: 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). The ship model weathervane is shown atop the flagpole. | ||
| 14992 | Harding's Wharf |
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| William "Bill" Harding's boat the Martha David is visible next to the dock. | 
Description: William "Bill" Harding's boat the Martha David is visible next to the dock. | ||
| 9977 | Raising the Flagpole With Byron Lewis Robinson Ship Model |
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| 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: 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). | ||
| 6104 | Ralph Warren Stanley Playing his Spurling Violin at the Library |
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| 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 | ||
| 12099 | Southwest Harbor Public Library - The Philip Clifton Rich Desk |
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