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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date Place Address Description
16643Ellis Boat photographs
  • Uncurated Accession
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
16675Bee family photographs and postcards
  • Uncurated Accession
  • Businesses, Store Business
16689Photographs and a brochure from Ralph Stanley
  • Uncurated Accession
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Friendship Sloop
See index file for a description of each item
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16694Benjamin Barret Hinckley, Jr. photographs and documents
  • Uncurated Accession
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
This item contains a number of photographs and documents that came from Benjamin Barret Hinckley, Jr. that were given to the Library by his family. Many of the materials are related to his book "The Hinckley Story". See the index files for details about the images in the contact sheets.
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This item contains a number of photographs and documents that came from Benjamin Barret Hinckley, Jr. that were given to the Library by his family. Many of the materials are related to his book "The Hinckley Story". See the index files for details about the images in the contact sheets.
16724Southwest Boat Company Photos
  • Uncurated Accession
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
16725Photos from Searls' 5 & 10 store and 1962 Gay Nineties Ball
  • Uncurated Accession
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Events
16729Southwest Boat Corporation vessel photographs
  • Uncurated Accession
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
16732Various documents relating to the history of Southwest Harbor
  • Uncurated Accession
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
Articles, newspapers, and various other material mostly relating to Southwest Harbor.
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Articles, newspapers, and various other material mostly relating to Southwest Harbor.
4002Unknown Businesses
  • Set
  • Businesses, Other Business
These images depict businesses that archivists have not yet identified. Please let us know if you know anything about these businesses or the photos.
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These images depict businesses that archivists have not yet identified. Please let us know if you know anything about these businesses or the photos.
14812Postcard Publishers
  • Set
  • Businesses, Publishing Business
14815Granite Quarries of Mount Desert Island
  • Set
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
16338The Howe D. Higgins Collection of Documents
  • Set
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
The Howe D. Higgins Collection contains Howe's collection of documents from his time spent as a customs officer on Mount Desert Island from 1921 to 1930, with some other documents spanning into the 1930s. The collection is sorted into several sets of documents including: letters and correspondence with Howe D. Higgins pertaining to information about rum running and bootleggers on the island; reports of seizures and related search warrants; documents containing information about rum runners in the area; Howe D. Higgins' Work Logs as customs officer from 1921 to 1922 and 1928 to 1930; and newspaper clippings pertaining to prohibition and rum running on Mount Desert Island.
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The Howe D. Higgins Collection contains Howe's collection of documents from his time spent as a customs officer on Mount Desert Island from 1921 to 1930, with some other documents spanning into the 1930s. The collection is sorted into several sets of documents including: letters and correspondence with Howe D. Higgins pertaining to information about rum running and bootleggers on the island; reports of seizures and related search warrants; documents containing information about rum runners in the area; Howe D. Higgins' Work Logs as customs officer from 1921 to 1922 and 1928 to 1930; and newspaper clippings pertaining to prohibition and rum running on Mount Desert Island. [show more]
15395Hinckley Marketing
  • Set
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
15399Hinckley Boatyard and Facilities
  • Set
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
15400Hinckley Pleasure Boats
  • Set
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
The boats in this set were built by and/or worked on by the Henry R. Hinckley Company or Southwest Boat Corporation.
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The boats in this set were built by and/or worked on by the Henry R. Hinckley Company or Southwest Boat Corporation.
15401Hinckley Boat Production and Construction
  • Set
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
3653Mrs. Lawton's Tea Room and Candy Shop
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
Mrs. Lawton's Tea Room and Gift Shop offered souvenirs, post cards, home made ice cream and "all kinds of cut flowers in season."
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Mrs. Lawton's Tea Room and Gift Shop offered souvenirs, post cards, home made ice cream and "all kinds of cut flowers in season."
15807George R. Fuller Law Office
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Service Business
  • 357 Main Street
15814Loring Studios Inc.
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Photography Business
13878The Cheese House
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Structures, Commercial, Store
"The Cheese House was part of the Cheese House chain which had 18 cheese-shaped locations in New England. Apparently, there are only … two buildings left. The stores were built in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were constructed of wood with a cut-out wedge for the entrance and windows. They are 9' tall and 40' in diameter. In the late 1970s, the chain disbanded due to financial problems." - “Giant Food: Misc. Food” by Debra Jane Seltzer, Roadside Architecture.com, Accessed online 11/12/13; http://www.agilitynut.com/food/other.html The postcards for all the Cheeses Houses appear to be the same photograph. The store in Trenton was owned by Alex A. Albin and Bernice E. Albin. It closed in 1984 and the building has been for sale almost all the time since. Collectors of architectural oddities are always looking for such buildings, originally built as cheese wheels, hot dogs, clam boxes or loaves of bread.
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"The Cheese House was part of the Cheese House chain which had 18 cheese-shaped locations in New England. Apparently, there are only … two buildings left. The stores were built in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were constructed of wood with a cut-out wedge for the entrance and windows. They are 9' tall and 40' in diameter. In the late 1970s, the chain disbanded due to financial problems." - “Giant Food: Misc. Food” by Debra Jane Seltzer, Roadside Architecture.com, Accessed online 11/12/13; http://www.agilitynut.com/food/other.html The postcards for all the Cheeses Houses appear to be the same photograph. The store in Trenton was owned by Alex A. Albin and Bernice E. Albin. It closed in 1984 and the building has been for sale almost all the time since. Collectors of architectural oddities are always looking for such buildings, originally built as cheese wheels, hot dogs, clam boxes or loaves of bread. [show more]
13883Sawin's Cambridge Express
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Other Business
Moses Morse Sawin bought Buck's Express on August 14, 1860, "He conducted this business several years under its old name, then changed it to Sawin’s Express, which became one of the best known and most flourishing of the suburban express lines about Boston. His business was in transporting baggage and merchandise between Boston and Cambridge. He continued business until 1905, when he sold out to the Boston & Suburban Express Company, and retired from active business." - A History of Cambridge, Massachusetts (1630-1913) by Samuel Atkins Eliot, A.M., D.D. Together With Biographies of Cambridge People – The Cambridge Tribune, p. 243-4 – 1913 Sawin's Express was such a fixture of life at Harvard, transporting students' luggage to and from school, that it appeared often in jokes, skits and in Harvard alumnae publications.
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Moses Morse Sawin bought Buck's Express on August 14, 1860, "He conducted this business several years under its old name, then changed it to Sawin’s Express, which became one of the best known and most flourishing of the suburban express lines about Boston. His business was in transporting baggage and merchandise between Boston and Cambridge. He continued business until 1905, when he sold out to the Boston & Suburban Express Company, and retired from active business." - A History of Cambridge, Massachusetts (1630-1913) by Samuel Atkins Eliot, A.M., D.D. Together With Biographies of Cambridge People – The Cambridge Tribune, p. 243-4 – 1913 Sawin's Express was such a fixture of life at Harvard, transporting students' luggage to and from school, that it appeared often in jokes, skits and in Harvard alumnae publications. [show more]
13912Vinalhaven II - Ferry
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
For over a year [after the start of WWII] the Penobscot Bay islands had no regular ferry service. Local fishermen and boat owners filled in as best they could. Then, at a special town meeting in August 1942, Vinalhaven voted to raise $55,000 to build a powerboat. The result was a sixty-five-foot, diesel-powered “motorship” named “Vinalhaven II,” built in Southwest Harbor, Maine. The boat went into service in July 1943, and Charles Philbrook was her captain…” – “Stories from the Maine Coast: Skppers, Ships and Storms” by Harry Gratwick, The History Press, 2012, p. 54-55. "The “Vinalhaven II”, 57 gross tons owned by the Vinalhaven Port District, Inc. of Rockland was built [by Southwest Boat Corporation] in 1943 to serve the island of Vinalhaven with passenger and freight service to Rockland." - "Boatbuilding During World War II: MDI, Ellsworth, Stonington and Bluehill" by Ralph W. Stanley, p. 10 - 1997. “Vinalhaven II” was designed by Cyrus “Cy” Hamlin. “Clarence” Bennett, a fisherman, was one of the group that raised the money to build “Vinalhaven II.” – Ralph W. Stanley 2011.
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For over a year [after the start of WWII] the Penobscot Bay islands had no regular ferry service. Local fishermen and boat owners filled in as best they could. Then, at a special town meeting in August 1942, Vinalhaven voted to raise $55,000 to build a powerboat. The result was a sixty-five-foot, diesel-powered “motorship” named “Vinalhaven II,” built in Southwest Harbor, Maine. The boat went into service in July 1943, and Charles Philbrook was her captain…” – “Stories from the Maine Coast: Skppers, Ships and Storms” by Harry Gratwick, The History Press, 2012, p. 54-55. "The “Vinalhaven II”, 57 gross tons owned by the Vinalhaven Port District, Inc. of Rockland was built [by Southwest Boat Corporation] in 1943 to serve the island of Vinalhaven with passenger and freight service to Rockland." - "Boatbuilding During World War II: MDI, Ellsworth, Stonington and Bluehill" by Ralph W. Stanley, p. 10 - 1997. “Vinalhaven II” was designed by Cyrus “Cy” Hamlin. “Clarence” Bennett, a fisherman, was one of the group that raised the money to build “Vinalhaven II.” – Ralph W. Stanley 2011. [show more]
14141F.C. Weston Photography Studio
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Photography Business
Weston advertised providing instantaneous frames for all styles, copying of all kinds, crayon portraits and negatives preserved for future orders.
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Weston advertised providing instantaneous frames for all styles, copying of all kinds, crayon portraits and negatives preserved for future orders.
14238Bunker and Ellis Boat Company
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
Founded by Ralph Ellis and Raymound Adelbert Bunker in 1947 The company passed to Ralph Ellis' son Don and continues today as Ellis Boats
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Founded by Ralph Ellis and Raymound Adelbert Bunker in 1947 The company passed to Ralph Ellis' son Don and continues today as Ellis Boats
14265Stanley Dry Plate Company
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Other Business