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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date Place Address Description
16339Correspondence with Howe D. Higgins as Customs Officer
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
This collection contains letters sent to and from Howe D. Higgins between 1921 and 1933 pertaining to information about prohibition and rum runners on Mount Desert Island. These letters have been indexed with their dates and the vessels or people they reference.
Correspondence with Howe D. Higgins as Customs Officer
Item:
  • 16339   
Accession #:
  • 2000
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
Subject:
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
Source:
  • The Howe D. Higgins Collection
Description:
This collection contains letters sent to and from Howe D. Higgins between 1921 and 1933 pertaining to information about prohibition and rum runners on Mount Desert Island. These letters have been indexed with their dates and the vessels or people they reference.
16341Howe D. Higgins' Reports of Seizures and Related Documents
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
This collection of documents contains Howe D. Higgins' reports of seizures as collector of customs, as well as the related documents for those seizures, including search warrants and documents containing information about liquor smuggling.
Howe D. Higgins' Reports of Seizures and Related Documents
Item:
  • 16341   
Accession #:
  • 2000
Type:
  • Document, Other Documents
Subject:
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
Source:
  • The Howe D. Higgins Collection
Description:
This collection of documents contains Howe D. Higgins' reports of seizures as collector of customs, as well as the related documents for those seizures, including search warrants and documents containing information about liquor smuggling.
16342Howe D. Higgins' Documents Containing Information on Rum Running
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
This collection of documents contains letters and information about rum running, bootleggers, and their vessels, sent to and from Howe D. Higgins during his time as a customs officer. These documents have been indexed with their dates and the vessels or people they reference.
Howe D. Higgins' Documents Containing Information on Rum Running
Item:
  • 16342   
Accession #:
  • 2000
Type:
  • Document, Other Documents
Subject:
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
Source:
  • The Howe D. Higgins Collection
Description:
This collection of documents contains letters and information about rum running, bootleggers, and their vessels, sent to and from Howe D. Higgins during his time as a customs officer. These documents have been indexed with their dates and the vessels or people they reference.
11114Drying Fish at J.L. Stanley & Sons, Manset, Maine
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
Drying Fish at J.L. Stanley & Sons, Manset, Maine
Item:
  • 11114   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • People
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • The Ward Family Collection
11217William Patch Dickey at W.P. Dickey & Co., Bangor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • Bangor ME
William Patch Dickey is standing next to the desk in his prodigiously stocked hardware store on Broad Street in Bangor, Maine. Among the items shown for sale are: H & B pocket knives made by William L. Humason, Sr., who founded the Humason & Beckley Manufacturing Company of New Britain, Connecticut, in 1853. The company produced fine pocket cutlery, corkscrews and other hardware. Kerosene lamps of every description – hanging from the ceiling Chamois – hanging from the ceiling Many varieties of thermometers hanging in a row from the ceiling Shotguns and other knives Feather dusters String and a cast iron string holder A model of the Eiffel tower A small, portable steam engine, possibly a toy Chain and twine A beautiful wind-up alarm clock with a bell on top Cow bells Pratt & Lambert’s “Faultless Varnishes" Boxes of sleigh bells and shaft bells Glass. Mr. Dickey’s female clerk, carefully dressed in an apron with her hair put up in a bun, is standing at the desk. Items seen on the desk are: W.P. Dickey & Co. invoices neatly held by a painted tin box stenciled “Bill-Heads" Glass Ink pots Standard Liquid Glue A leather-bound ledger Steel-nibbed pens Rubber stamps
William Patch Dickey at W.P. Dickey & Co., Bangor, Maine
Item:
  • 11217   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
Place:
  • Bangor ME
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Collection of the Bangor Historical Society
Description:
William Patch Dickey is standing next to the desk in his prodigiously stocked hardware store on Broad Street in Bangor, Maine. Among the items shown for sale are: H & B pocket knives made by William L. Humason, Sr., who founded the Humason & Beckley Manufacturing Company of New Britain, Connecticut, in 1853. The company produced fine pocket cutlery, corkscrews and other hardware. Kerosene lamps of every description – hanging from the ceiling Chamois – hanging from the ceiling Many varieties of thermometers hanging in a row from the ceiling Shotguns and other knives Feather dusters String and a cast iron string holder A model of the Eiffel tower A small, portable steam engine, possibly a toy Chain and twine A beautiful wind-up alarm clock with a bell on top Cow bells Pratt & Lambert’s “Faultless Varnishes" Boxes of sleigh bells and shaft bells Glass. Mr. Dickey’s female clerk, carefully dressed in an apron with her hair put up in a bun, is standing at the desk. Items seen on the desk are: W.P. Dickey & Co. invoices neatly held by a painted tin box stenciled “Bill-Heads" Glass Ink pots Standard Liquid Glue A leather-bound ledger Steel-nibbed pens Rubber stamps [show more]
11373Crew at Work in the Boat Shop at Rich & Grindle Boatbuilders
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 50 Clark Point Road
Ralph Merrill Grindle is on the left.
Crew at Work in the Boat Shop at Rich & Grindle Boatbuilders
Item:
  • 11373   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 50 Clark Point Road
Source:
  • Collection of Meredith Rich Hutchins
Description:
Ralph Merrill Grindle is on the left.
11492The Henry R. Hinckley Company - Southwest Boat Corporation - Howie Robinson in a Lobster Boat
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 168 Clark Point Road
The Sheet Metal shop is on the left and the Lower Shop is on the right. Howie Robinson at left.
The Henry R. Hinckley Company - Southwest Boat Corporation - Howie Robinson in a Lobster Boat
Item:
  • 11492   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 168 Clark Point Road
Source:
  • Collection of Margo Harkins Stanley
Description:
The Sheet Metal shop is on the left and the Lower Shop is on the right. Howie Robinson at left.
11967Ralph Merrill Grindle Working on a Lobster Boat
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
Ralph Merrill Grindle Working on a Lobster Boat
Item:
  • 11967   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Collection of RuthAnn Grindle Fenton
6563Packing Room at the Underwood Factory, McKinley, Maine
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
Packing Room at the Underwood Factory, McKinley, Maine
Item:
  • 6563   
Accession #:
  • 1023
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
Place:
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Eleanor R. Mayo Collection
5921Workers Drying Fish at Stanley Fisheries
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
Workers Drying Fish at Stanley Fisheries
Item:
  • 5921   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • People
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
State:
  • ME
6529Unloading Herring Next to the Joyce Marie at the Underwood Wharf, McKinley, Maine
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
Unloading Herring Next to the Joyce Marie at the Underwood Wharf, McKinley, Maine
Item:
  • 6529   
Accession #:
  • 1023
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
Place:
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Eleanor R. Mayo Collection
6541Workers at the Underwood Factory, McKinley, Maine
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
  • 5 Granville Road
Lawrence Carter - facing camera Mitch Gordius - back to camera Unknown person in back
Workers at the Underwood Factory, McKinley, Maine
Item:
  • 6541   
Accession #:
  • 1023
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
Place:
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 5 Granville Road
Source:
  • Eleanor R. Mayo Collection
Description:
Lawrence Carter - facing camera Mitch Gordius - back to camera Unknown person in back
6555Frying Fish at the Underwood Factory, McKinley, Maine
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
Frying Fish at the Underwood Factory, McKinley, Maine
Item:
  • 6555   
Accession #:
  • 1023
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
Place:
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Eleanor R. Mayo Collection
6945Christopher Wendell Lawlor Driving His Ice Wagon
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 17 Chris' Lane
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.
Christopher Wendell Lawlor Driving His Ice Wagon
Item:
  • 6945   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 17 Chris' Lane
Source:
  • Collection of William J. Lawlor
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.
6981Bill Leading the Horses at Lawlor Ice Business
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 17 Chris' Lane
Bill Leading the Horses at Lawlor Ice Business
Item:
  • 6981   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 17 Chris' Lane
Source:
  • Collection of William J. Lawlor
7280Fred Sidney Mayo on Steps of Mayo's Ice Cream Parlor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 363 Main Street
Fred Mayo holding a wooden ice cream bucket. The building at the far right is the James A. Freeman House (the Inn at Southwest Harbor as of 2016).
Fred Sidney Mayo on Steps of Mayo's Ice Cream Parlor
Item:
  • 7280   
Accession #:
  • 1023
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • People
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 363 Main Street
Source:
  • Eleanor R. Mayo Collection
Description:
Fred Mayo holding a wooden ice cream bucket. The building at the far right is the James A. Freeman House (the Inn at Southwest Harbor as of 2016).
8919Lucy Ella Lawler Whitmore Feeding Chickens
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Farming
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 30 Bass Harbor Road
Lucy Ella Lawler Whitmore Feeding Chickens
Item:
  • 8919   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Farming
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 30 Bass Harbor Road
Source:
  • Collection of Gladys E. Whitmore Family
10657The Henry R. Hinckley Company - Early Office
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
The Henry R. Hinckley Company - Early Office
Item:
  • 10657   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Collection of the Hinckley Family
11022The Underwood Canning Factory Crew at McKinley
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
The Underwood Canning Factory Crew at McKinley
Item:
  • 11022   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
Place:
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • The Ward Family Collection
11796Herbert Guy La Count working on a Navy Yawl
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
Left to Right: Herbert Guy La Count (1891-1958) Unknown man working on a Navy Yawl
Herbert Guy La Count working on a Navy Yawl
Item:
  • 11796   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Ralph Warren Stanley Collection
Description:
Left to Right: Herbert Guy La Count (1891-1958) Unknown man working on a Navy Yawl
11853Haying on Great Cranberry Island
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Farming
  • People
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
Left to Right: "Kit" - the horse Charles Samuel Spurling (1880-1911) Viola Florence Joy (1887-1911) Bernice Spurling (1904-1929) Clarence Freeman Joy (1893-1988) In the wagon (tentative identification): Walter F. Joy (1891-1974) Clyde E. Spurling (1910-1934)
Haying on Great Cranberry Island
Item:
  • 11853   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Farming
  • People
Place:
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Collection of the Birlem Family
Description:
Left to Right: "Kit" - the horse Charles Samuel Spurling (1880-1911) Viola Florence Joy (1887-1911) Bernice Spurling (1904-1929) Clarence Freeman Joy (1893-1988) In the wagon (tentative identification): Walter F. Joy (1891-1974) Clyde E. Spurling (1910-1934)
11854Haying on Great Cranberry Island
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Farming
  • People
Left to Right: "Kit" - the horse Charles Samuel Spurling (1880-1911) Mary "Mamie" Frances Spurling (1877-1965) Bernice Spurling (1904-1929) - died of TB in Arizona Clarence Freeman Joy (1893-1988) In the wagon (tentative identification): Walter F. Joy (1891-1974)
Haying on Great Cranberry Island
Item:
  • 11854   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Farming
  • People
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Collection of the Birlem Family
Description:
Left to Right: "Kit" - the horse Charles Samuel Spurling (1880-1911) Mary "Mamie" Frances Spurling (1877-1965) Bernice Spurling (1904-1929) - died of TB in Arizona Clarence Freeman Joy (1893-1988) In the wagon (tentative identification): Walter F. Joy (1891-1974)
11855Haying on Great Cranberry Island
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Farming
  • People
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
Left to Right: Clarence Freeman Joy (1893-1988) Charles Samuel Spurling (1880-1911) Bernice Spurling (1904-1929) - died of TB in Arizona In the wagon (tentative identification): Walter F. Joy (1891-1974) Clyde E. Spurling (1910-1934)
Haying on Great Cranberry Island
Item:
  • 11855   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Farming
  • People
Place:
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Collection of the Birlem Family
Description:
Left to Right: Clarence Freeman Joy (1893-1988) Charles Samuel Spurling (1880-1911) Bernice Spurling (1904-1929) - died of TB in Arizona In the wagon (tentative identification): Walter F. Joy (1891-1974) Clyde E. Spurling (1910-1934)
7622Men at Work at Hall Quarry
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • People
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Men at Work at Hall Quarry
Item:
  • 7622   
Accession #:
  • 1023
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • People
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Eleanor R. Mayo Collection
6601Henry W. Sawyer Working a Yoke of Oxen on Ann's Point
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Farming
  • People
  • Tremont
  • 179 Tremont Road
Henry W. Sawyer Working a Yoke of Oxen on Ann's Point
Item:
  • 6601   
Accession #:
  • 1023
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Farming
  • People
Place:
  • Tremont
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 179 Tremont Road
Source:
  • Eleanor R. Mayo Collection