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| 2753 | American Art Post Card Co., Boston and Brookline, Mass. |
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| "A publisher of black & white collotypes, and tinted halftone view-cards. They used the trade name Photolux on many cards. Most of their white border cards were contracted out to Curt Teich. These cards are often recognizable by their blocky titles and numbers." Information from “Publishers,” Metropolitan Postcard Club of New York, Accessed online 02/15/2014; http://www.metropostcard.com/publishersa1.html | 
Description: "A publisher of black & white collotypes, and tinted halftone view-cards. They used the trade name Photolux on many cards. Most of their white border cards were contracted out to Curt Teich. These cards are often recognizable by their blocky titles and numbers." Information from “Publishers,” Metropolitan Postcard Club of New York, Accessed online 02/15/2014; http://www.metropostcard.com/publishersa1.html | |||||
| 2754 | The Barque of Barque Beach in Bernard |
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| 3003 | Prince |
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| “Prince” was a horse that originally belonged to Nell (Carrroll) Thornton in Houlton, Maine. Prince apparently died while staying with the Carroll Family in Southwest Harbor. Archivists were surprised at the number of Carroll family photographs of or featuring the horse, each lovingly labeled with his name. This letter attests to the family’s attachment to Prince. | 
Description: “Prince” was a horse that originally belonged to Nell (Carrroll) Thornton in Houlton, Maine. Prince apparently died while staying with the Carroll Family in Southwest Harbor. Archivists were surprised at the number of Carroll family photographs of or featuring the horse, each lovingly labeled with his name. This letter attests to the family’s attachment to Prince. | |||||
| 3005 | The CCC in Acadia |
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| 3007 | The Champlain Society |
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| 3008 | Trailaway - Lobster Boat Maddy Sue - Pleasure Boat |
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| The second PDF contains an article about the Maddy Sue from various issues of Wooden Boat magazine. Following those articles are pages from what appears to be a Japanese magazine called Sea Dream "The Magazine for Your Marine Life" which contains some of the photos and content from the Wooden Boat articles. The third PDF contains an article from Douglas Brooks about the Maddy Sue. |  Trailaway - Lobster Boat Maddy Sue - Pleasure Boat
Description: The second PDF contains an article about the Maddy Sue from various issues of Wooden Boat magazine. Following those articles are pages from what appears to be a Japanese magazine called Sea Dream "The Magazine for Your Marine Life" which contains some of the photos and content from the Wooden Boat articles. The third PDF contains an article from Douglas Brooks about the Maddy Sue. | ||||
| 3009 | Cough - Bernard K. Cough (1927-2007) aka Sonny |
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| Bernard K. Cough (1927-2007) was born on July 12, 1927 to Bernard Ezra Cough and Helen Irene (Norton) Cough in Danbury, Connecticut. Bernard married Sylvia L. Young (1925-), daughter of Dana H. Young and Lillian S. (Johnston) Young on November 5, 1948 in Bar Harbor, Maine. Bernard K. Cough died on March 24, 2007 in Bar Harbor at age of 79. Bernard, a descendant of Daniel and Elvira Cough's son, Ezra Rafael Cough, was the great grandson of Daniel Cough of Bernard, first Chinese person to live in Maine. When Bernard died his obituary was headlined, "“Bernard 'Sonny' Cough Dies at 79 Bar Harbor 'Hotel Mogul' Helped Found Local Chamber, College of the Atlantic. | 
Description: Bernard K. Cough (1927-2007) was born on July 12, 1927 to Bernard Ezra Cough and Helen Irene (Norton) Cough in Danbury, Connecticut. Bernard married Sylvia L. Young (1925-), daughter of Dana H. Young and Lillian S. (Johnston) Young on November 5, 1948 in Bar Harbor, Maine. Bernard K. Cough died on March 24, 2007 in Bar Harbor at age of 79. Bernard, a descendant of Daniel and Elvira Cough's son, Ezra Rafael Cough, was the great grandson of Daniel Cough of Bernard, first Chinese person to live in Maine. When Bernard died his obituary was headlined, "“Bernard 'Sonny' Cough Dies at 79 Bar Harbor 'Hotel Mogul' Helped Found Local Chamber, College of the Atlantic. [show more] | |||||
| 3010 | Crayon Portraits |
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| We use the term "Crayon Portraits" for a particular type of early enlarged photograph, probably made with a solar enlarger, printed on paper and embellished with charcoal of crayon. There are many kinds of embellished photographs in the collection - everything from tinted tintypes to color postcards with people added to the scenes. It is common to find pencil marks on photographs to "improve" them (and also common to find the fingerprints of early photographers like Henry Rand who made their own prints(, but the term Crayon Portrait used here refers to one specific kind of print. To understand the history and techniques of crayon portaits and painted photographs see - "The Painted Photograph 1839-1914 – Origins, Techniques, Aspirations" by Heinz K. Henisch and Bridget A. Henisch, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. | 
Description: We use the term "Crayon Portraits" for a particular type of early enlarged photograph, probably made with a solar enlarger, printed on paper and embellished with charcoal of crayon. There are many kinds of embellished photographs in the collection - everything from tinted tintypes to color postcards with people added to the scenes. It is common to find pencil marks on photographs to "improve" them (and also common to find the fingerprints of early photographers like Henry Rand who made their own prints(, but the term Crayon Portrait used here refers to one specific kind of print. To understand the history and techniques of crayon portaits and painted photographs see - "The Painted Photograph 1839-1914 – Origins, Techniques, Aspirations" by Heinz K. Henisch and Bridget A. Henisch, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. [show more] | |||||
| 3033 | McCaslin - Mary Louise (McCaslin) Mitchell (1884-1975) aka Mae |
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| Mary Louis McCaslin was born in 1884 in Columbia Falls to Charles William McCaslin and Priscilla Ann (Tenny) McCaslin (previously married to Unknown White). She married Nathaniel Pinkham Mitchell Jr. on November 22, 1905 in Columbia Falls Maine. She died on October 19, 1975 in Southwest Harbor. | 
Description: Mary Louis McCaslin was born in 1884 in Columbia Falls to Charles William McCaslin and Priscilla Ann (Tenny) McCaslin (previously married to Unknown White). She married Nathaniel Pinkham Mitchell Jr. on November 22, 1905 in Columbia Falls Maine. She died on October 19, 1975 in Southwest Harbor. | |||||
| 3035 | The Whitmore Family and Pineapple Upside Down Cake |
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| The Whitmore and Dole families are both connected to Southwest Harbor, Maine. This is the story of what happened when archivists tried to connect them to Pineapple Upside Down Cake. | 
Description: The Whitmore and Dole families are both connected to Southwest Harbor, Maine. This is the story of what happened when archivists tried to connect them to Pineapple Upside Down Cake. | ||||
| 3041 | Endeavor - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat |
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| Ralph Stanley built the 25 foot open-cockpit Maine Sloop Boat “Endeavor” on speculation in 1979 at his boat shop on Clark Point Road. She originally had beach rocks as movable internal stone ballast, later replaced by lead. "The Friendship Sloop" videorecording, DVD, produced by The New Film Company, Inc. in 1986, featured Ralph Stanley building "Endeavor". Ralph sold the vessel to Shaw Mudge of Harrington, Maine in 1981 who later sold it to Ralph’s friend, Betsy Holtzmann of Southwest Harbor. | 
Description: Ralph Stanley built the 25 foot open-cockpit Maine Sloop Boat “Endeavor” on speculation in 1979 at his boat shop on Clark Point Road. She originally had beach rocks as movable internal stone ballast, later replaced by lead. "The Friendship Sloop" videorecording, DVD, produced by The New Film Company, Inc. in 1986, featured Ralph Stanley building "Endeavor". Ralph sold the vessel to Shaw Mudge of Harrington, Maine in 1981 who later sold it to Ralph’s friend, Betsy Holtzmann of Southwest Harbor. [show more] | |||||
| 3045 | El Placita - Schooner Steam Yacht |
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| El Placita was built for Abbott - John William Abbott (1834-1897) El Placita was owned at various times by: Abbott - John William Abbott (1834-1897) McCormick - Robert Hall McCormick Jr. (1878-1963) Jesup - Morris Ketchum Jesup (1830-1908) | 
Description: El Placita was built for Abbott - John William Abbott (1834-1897) El Placita was owned at various times by: Abbott - John William Abbott (1834-1897) McCormick - Robert Hall McCormick Jr. (1878-1963) Jesup - Morris Ketchum Jesup (1830-1908) | |||||
| 3049 | Acetylene Beacon Traffic Control Tower |
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| The traffic control tower at the junction of Main Street and Clark Point Road was an acetylene beacon made by the American Gas Accumulator Co. of Elizabeth, New Jersey | 
Description: The traffic control tower at the junction of Main Street and Clark Point Road was an acetylene beacon made by the American Gas Accumulator Co. of Elizabeth, New Jersey | |||||
| 3051 | Zora - Manuel Zora (1895-1979) |
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| Manuel Zora (1895-1979) was a colorful, cocky, dramatic man whose life story reflects his personality. Manuel Zora was born on October 4, 1895 in Olhao, Portugal. He left Portugal when very young, sailing on schooner, "Cabo Verde," as a cabin boy. The ship smuggled men out of Portugal to avoid army service. He settled in Providence, Rhode Island and married Judith "Judy" Greene Tobey (1907-1969), daughter of Laura Pyne Clark and Berkeley Greene Tobey. Judy seems to have come from a distinguished New England family. Her mother, Laura, graduated from Mount Holyoke College and become a teacher, her father, Berkeley, was the financial secretary of the Boy Scouts of America. His second wife was Esther McCoy, noted architectural historian and critic. Judy's stepfather, Effingham Cock "Top" Murray, also a descendant of the Pilgrims, graduated from Haverford College in 1905. Judy acted in a summer stock theater company in Providence in 1925 and she married fisherman Manuel Zora. Their daughter, Mary Ellen (1926-1991) was born on March 10, 1926 in Provincetown. Manny became Captain Manuel Zora and was a successful fisherman on his 38-foot fishing boat, "Mary Ellen." And, during Prohibition, 1919-1933, Manuel Zora became one of the most storied rum runners on the East Coast. Zora means "fox" in Portuguese. The Coast Guard nicknamed the elusive Manny, "The Sea Fox." | 
Description: Manuel Zora (1895-1979) was a colorful, cocky, dramatic man whose life story reflects his personality. Manuel Zora was born on October 4, 1895 in Olhao, Portugal. He left Portugal when very young, sailing on schooner, "Cabo Verde," as a cabin boy. The ship smuggled men out of Portugal to avoid army service. He settled in Providence, Rhode Island and married Judith "Judy" Greene Tobey (1907-1969), daughter of Laura Pyne Clark and Berkeley Greene Tobey. Judy seems to have come from a distinguished New England family. Her mother, Laura, graduated from Mount Holyoke College and become a teacher, her father, Berkeley, was the financial secretary of the Boy Scouts of America. His second wife was Esther McCoy, noted architectural historian and critic. Judy's stepfather, Effingham Cock "Top" Murray, also a descendant of the Pilgrims, graduated from Haverford College in 1905. Judy acted in a summer stock theater company in Providence in 1925 and she married fisherman Manuel Zora. Their daughter, Mary Ellen (1926-1991) was born on March 10, 1926 in Provincetown. Manny became Captain Manuel Zora and was a successful fisherman on his 38-foot fishing boat, "Mary Ellen." And, during Prohibition, 1919-1933, Manuel Zora became one of the most storied rum runners on the East Coast. Zora means "fox" in Portuguese. The Coast Guard nicknamed the elusive Manny, "The Sea Fox." [show more] | |||||
| 3441 | Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945) |
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| 3447 | Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980) |
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| 3448 | Mayo - Fred Sidney Mayo (1877-1949) |
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| F.S. Mayo advertised himself in 1931 as a “Carpenter and Builder, Fine Furniture Repairing, Woodworker and Cabinet Maker – We take the Machine to the Job – Electric Floor Finishing” – Tel. 9, Wesley Ave., Southwest Harbor. | 
Description: F.S. Mayo advertised himself in 1931 as a “Carpenter and Builder, Fine Furniture Repairing, Woodworker and Cabinet Maker – We take the Machine to the Job – Electric Floor Finishing” – Tel. 9, Wesley Ave., Southwest Harbor. | |||||
| 3454 | Moore - Ruth Moore (1903-1989) |
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| Ruth Moore was an important Maine author of the twentieth century. She is best known for her honest portrayals of Maine people and evocative descriptions of the state. Now primarily thought of as a regional writer, Moore was a significant literary figure on the national stage during her career. Her second novel Spoonhandle spent fourteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in the company of George Orwell, W. Somerset Maugham and Robert Penn Warren. In her time, Moore was hailed as "New England's only answer to Faulkner" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Moore). | 
Description: Ruth Moore was an important Maine author of the twentieth century. She is best known for her honest portrayals of Maine people and evocative descriptions of the state. Now primarily thought of as a regional writer, Moore was a significant literary figure on the national stage during her career. Her second novel Spoonhandle spent fourteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in the company of George Orwell, W. Somerset Maugham and Robert Penn Warren. In her time, Moore was hailed as "New England's only answer to Faulkner" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Moore). [show more] | |||||
| 3463 | Fred Mayo's Carpenter Shop - 2nd Location |
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| 3464 | Fred Mayo's Ice Cream Parlor |
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| 3465 | Three Brothers - Lobster Boat |
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| 3466 | George E. Klinck - Schooner |
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| George E. Klinck was a three masted schooner built at the Michael B. McDonald Shipyard in Mystic, Connecticut in 1904. She was a 152.6' centerboarder weighing 560 gross tons. "George E. Klinck" was a three masted [152.6' centerboarder, 560 gross tons] schooner built at [the Michael B. McDonald Shipyard in] Mystic, Connecticut in 1904. Lennox Ledyard "Bink" Sargent (1916-1989) [and Jay Bushway of Marblehead] acquired her circa 1937 when he found her laid up in Rockland. He brought her up to the coal dock on Clark Point in Southwest Harbor and restored her. They worked on her from a float in the water and replaced her transom, among other things. Ralph Merrill Grindle (1915-2005) spliced her rigging. [Ralph Merrill Grindle was later a partner with Roger C. Rich in the Rich & Grindle boat shop where he specialized in rigging.] Captain Lewis McFarland of Trenton took her down to Camden and from there she went south to pick up a load of hard pine. On her return north she took a pounding and a beating around Cape Hatteras in North Carolina and broke up. Her crew was rescued by the aircraft carrier "Wasp." - Ralph Warren Stanley 10/26/10 "George E. Klinck" had been in difficulties before "Bink" brought her back to life. “On April 15th, 1915 two three-masted vessels, the "George E. Klinck," bound from Long Cove, Me., for New York, with a cargo of stone, and the "Roger Drury," bound from St. John, N. B., for City Island and, with a cargo of laths, struck on Hawes shoal, in Nantucket sound, during heavy weather in the night, the latter being ashore only a short distance outside of Cape Poge. The crew from Muskeget station boarded both vessels early in the morning and later the coast guard cutter “Acushnet” came down and succeeded in floating the "Klinck." The "Drury" remained fast until the 17th, when a wrecking outfit from New London succeeded in floating her, after lightering several hundred bundles of laths.” – “Wrecks Around Nantucket Since The Settlement Of The Island, And The Incidents Connected Therewith, Embracing Over Seven Hundred Vessels” compiled by Arthur H. Gardner, published by the [Nantucket] Inquirer and Mirror Press, c. 1915 - First published in 1877 under the title: “A List Of The Wrecks Around Nantucket” This is the rescue Ralph Stanley describes: “During “USS Wasp’s” passage to Norfolk [Virginia] in 1941, heavy weather sprang up on the evening of 7 March. “Wasp” was steaming at standard speed, 17 knots. Off Cape Hatteras, a lookout spotted a red flare at 2245, then a second set of flares at 2259. At 2329, with the aid of her searchlights, “Wasp” located the stranger in trouble. She was the lumber schooner “George E. Klinck,” bound from Jacksonville, Florida, to Southwest Harbor, Maine. The sea, in the meantime, worsened from a state 5 to a state 7. “Wasp” lay to, maneuvering alongside at 0007 on 8 March. At that time, four men from the schooner clambered up a swaying “jacobs ladder” buffeted by gusts of wind. Then, despite the raging tempest, “Wasp” lowered a boat, at 0016, and brought the remaining four men aboard from the foundering 152-foot schooner. Later that day, “Wasp” disembarked her rescued mariners and immediately went into dry-dock at the Norfolk Navy Yard. The ship received vital repairs to her turbines. Port holes on the third deck were welded over to provide better watertight integrity, and steel splinter shielding around her 5-inch and 1.1-inch batteries was added.” - “USS Wasp (CV-7) – Definition”, WordiQ site, 2010, Accessed online 10/16/10; http://www.wordiq.com/definition/USS_Wasp_(CV-7) “A Jacobs ladder is a portable ladder used on ships and having, typically, wooden rungs and rope or wire sides” – YourDictionary.com 10/26/10. The ships plans for "George E. Klinck" are Mystic Seaport in the Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library, Miscellaneous Commercial Sail Collection. See Look Magazine, May 20, 1941 for a contemporary account of the rescue of the crew of "George E. Klinck." See page 93-96 “The Last Sail Downeast” by Giles M.S. Tod, published by Barre Publishers, Barre, Massachusetts, 1965 for more about “George E. Klinck.” | 
Description: George E. Klinck was a three masted schooner built at the Michael B. McDonald Shipyard in Mystic, Connecticut in 1904. She was a 152.6' centerboarder weighing 560 gross tons. "George E. Klinck" was a three masted [152.6' centerboarder, 560 gross tons] schooner built at [the Michael B. McDonald Shipyard in] Mystic, Connecticut in 1904. Lennox Ledyard "Bink" Sargent (1916-1989) [and Jay Bushway of Marblehead] acquired her circa 1937 when he found her laid up in Rockland. He brought her up to the coal dock on Clark Point in Southwest Harbor and restored her. They worked on her from a float in the water and replaced her transom, among other things. Ralph Merrill Grindle (1915-2005) spliced her rigging. [Ralph Merrill Grindle was later a partner with Roger C. Rich in the Rich & Grindle boat shop where he specialized in rigging.] Captain Lewis McFarland of Trenton took her down to Camden and from there she went south to pick up a load of hard pine. On her return north she took a pounding and a beating around Cape Hatteras in North Carolina and broke up. Her crew was rescued by the aircraft carrier "Wasp." - Ralph Warren Stanley 10/26/10 "George E. Klinck" had been in difficulties before "Bink" brought her back to life. “On April 15th, 1915 two three-masted vessels, the "George E. Klinck," bound from Long Cove, Me., for New York, with a cargo of stone, and the "Roger Drury," bound from St. John, N. B., for City Island and, with a cargo of laths, struck on Hawes shoal, in Nantucket sound, during heavy weather in the night, the latter being ashore only a short distance outside of Cape Poge. The crew from Muskeget station boarded both vessels early in the morning and later the coast guard cutter “Acushnet” came down and succeeded in floating the "Klinck." The "Drury" remained fast until the 17th, when a wrecking outfit from New London succeeded in floating her, after lightering several hundred bundles of laths.” – “Wrecks Around Nantucket Since The Settlement Of The Island, And The Incidents Connected Therewith, Embracing Over Seven Hundred Vessels” compiled by Arthur H. Gardner, published by the [Nantucket] Inquirer and Mirror Press, c. 1915 - First published in 1877 under the title: “A List Of The Wrecks Around Nantucket” This is the rescue Ralph Stanley describes: “During “USS Wasp’s” passage to Norfolk [Virginia] in 1941, heavy weather sprang up on the evening of 7 March. “Wasp” was steaming at standard speed, 17 knots. Off Cape Hatteras, a lookout spotted a red flare at 2245, then a second set of flares at 2259. At 2329, with the aid of her searchlights, “Wasp” located the stranger in trouble. She was the lumber schooner “George E. Klinck,” bound from Jacksonville, Florida, to Southwest Harbor, Maine. The sea, in the meantime, worsened from a state 5 to a state 7. “Wasp” lay to, maneuvering alongside at 0007 on 8 March. At that time, four men from the schooner clambered up a swaying “jacobs ladder” buffeted by gusts of wind. Then, despite the raging tempest, “Wasp” lowered a boat, at 0016, and brought the remaining four men aboard from the foundering 152-foot schooner. Later that day, “Wasp” disembarked her rescued mariners and immediately went into dry-dock at the Norfolk Navy Yard. The ship received vital repairs to her turbines. Port holes on the third deck were welded over to provide better watertight integrity, and steel splinter shielding around her 5-inch and 1.1-inch batteries was added.” - “USS Wasp (CV-7) – Definition”, WordiQ site, 2010, Accessed online 10/16/10; http://www.wordiq.com/definition/USS_Wasp_(CV-7) “A Jacobs ladder is a portable ladder used on ships and having, typically, wooden rungs and rope or wire sides” – YourDictionary.com 10/26/10. The ships plans for "George E. Klinck" are Mystic Seaport in the Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library, Miscellaneous Commercial Sail Collection. See Look Magazine, May 20, 1941 for a contemporary account of the rescue of the crew of "George E. Klinck." See page 93-96 “The Last Sail Downeast” by Giles M.S. Tod, published by Barre Publishers, Barre, Massachusetts, 1965 for more about “George E. Klinck.” [show more] | |||||
| 3468 | Three Sisters - Passenger Launch - Fishing Boat |
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| Named for his Three Daughters: Nettie F. (Beal) Vine Vera A. (Beal) Rich Bernice Mary (Beal) | 
Description: Named for his Three Daughters: Nettie F. (Beal) Vine Vera A. (Beal) Rich Bernice Mary (Beal) | |||||
| 3469 | Beal - Harvard Riley Beal (1897-1967) |
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| Harvard R. Beal was born to Vinal Osmond and Nettie Etta (Alley) Beal in 1897. Harvard married Elva Leone Spurling (1898-1980), daughter of Warren Adelbert and Ella Florence (Bulger) Spurling. Harvard R. Beal died in 1967. Elva Leone (Spurling) Beal died in 1980. | 
Description: Harvard R. Beal was born to Vinal Osmond and Nettie Etta (Alley) Beal in 1897. Harvard married Elva Leone Spurling (1898-1980), daughter of Warren Adelbert and Ella Florence (Bulger) Spurling. Harvard R. Beal died in 1967. Elva Leone (Spurling) Beal died in 1980. | |||||
| 3470 | Blood - Ralph Farnham Blood (1905-1972) |
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| Photographer Ralph Farnum Blood was a brother-in-law and mentor to Southwest Harbor photographer Willis Humphrey Ballard. | 
Description: Photographer Ralph Farnum Blood was a brother-in-law and mentor to Southwest Harbor photographer Willis Humphrey Ballard. |
