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You searched for: Date: 1930s✖Subject: Businesses✖Type: Image✖
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date Place Address Description
15486Thalia B. as Marmac
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1938-08-09
The negative sleeve for photo 1558-1 says Marmac was formerly the Thalia B.
Thalia B. as Marmac
Item:
  • 15486   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
Creator:
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
Date:
  • 1938-08-09
Source:
  • W.H. Ballard Collection
Description:
The negative sleeve for photo 1558-1 says Marmac was formerly the Thalia B.
15485Thalia B. - Cruiser
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1938-05
Thalia B. - Cruiser
Item:
  • 15485   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
Creator:
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
Date:
  • 1938-05
Source:
  • W.H. Ballard Collection
15484Sou'wester - Cruiser
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1939-11-16
Sou'wester - Cruiser
Item:
  • 15484   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
Creator:
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
Date:
  • 1939-11-16
Source:
  • W.H. Ballard Collection
15467Rachel - Cruiser
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1937-08
Rachel - Cruiser
Item:
  • 15467   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
Creator:
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
Date:
  • 1937-08
Source:
  • W.H. Ballard Collection
12518The Henry R. Hinckley Company - as Manset Boat Yard - Pouring the Lead Keel for Circumstance
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1938
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • 130 Shore Road
See item 15409 for many more images of Circumstance.
The Henry R. Hinckley Company - as Manset Boat Yard - Pouring the Lead Keel for Circumstance
Item:
  • 12518   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
Creator:
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
Date:
  • 1938
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 130 Shore Road
Source:
  • W.H. Ballard Collection
Description:
See item 15409 for many more images of Circumstance.
12372Clifton Melbourne Rich Garage
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • 1937 c.
  • Tremont, Bernard
Clifton Melbourne Rich Garage
Item:
  • 12372   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
Date:
  • 1937 c.
Place:
  • Tremont, Bernard
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Collection of Meredith Rich Hutchins
12340Southwest Boat Corporation - Aerial View
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • 1937
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 172 Clark Point Road
Shows Uncle Jimmy's store
Southwest Boat Corporation - Aerial View
Item:
  • 12340   
Accession #:
  • 1055
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
Date:
  • 1937
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 172 Clark Point Road
Source:
  • Collection of David Lennox Sargent
Description:
Shows Uncle Jimmy's store
12293Roger Clifton Rich's Capitol Corner Filling Station, Bernard, Maine
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Service Business
  • 1937 c.
  • Tremont, Bernard
Roger Clifton Rich's Capitol Corner Filling Station, Bernard, Maine
Item:
  • 12293   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Service Business
Date:
  • 1937 c.
Place:
  • Tremont, Bernard
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Collection of Meredith Rich Hutchins
12270Anna S. (Robinson) Hopkins Passing Boyington & Sons Market and Mayo & Stanley, Carpenters & Builders
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Businesses, Building Business
  • Businesses, Market Business
  • People
  • 1930 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 10 Clark Point Road
Back of photograph says “Anna Robinson worked in So West Hbr at same time Edna did as Telephone Operators.” Anna is passing the last shop on Clark Point Road that is part of the old Masonic Building (note granite base). The building is 353 Main Street. The building on the left, then T.W. Jackson's market is 10 Clark Point Road.
Anna S. (Robinson) Hopkins Passing Boyington & Sons Market and Mayo & Stanley, Carpenters & Builders
Item:
  • 12270   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
Subject:
  • Businesses, Building Business
  • Businesses, Market Business
  • People
Date:
  • 1930 c.
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 10 Clark Point Road
Source:
  • Collection of the Alton M. Billings Family
Tags:
masonic, woman, people
Description:
Back of photograph says “Anna Robinson worked in So West Hbr at same time Edna did as Telephone Operators.” Anna is passing the last shop on Clark Point Road that is part of the old Masonic Building (note granite base). The building is 353 Main Street. The building on the left, then T.W. Jackson's market is 10 Clark Point Road.
11747Moore's Garage Co. - After the Fire
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Automotive Repair Business
  • Structures, Commercial, Commercial Structures, Automotive Repair
  • 1933-01-21
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 19 Clark Point Road
Moore's Garage Co. - After the Fire
Item:
  • 11747   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Automotive Repair Business
  • Structures, Commercial, Commercial Structures, Automotive Repair
Date:
  • 1933-01-21
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 19 Clark Point Road
Source:
  • Collection of Eugene S. Thurston Family
Tags:
fire
11568Abel's Lobster Pound, Mount Desert, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Luther S. Phillips, Bangor, Maine
  • 1938 c.
  • Mount Desert
Abel's Lobster Pound, Mount Desert, Maine
Item:
  • 11568   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
Publisher:
  • Luther S. Phillips, Bangor, Maine
Date:
  • 1938 c.
Place:
  • Mount Desert
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Southwest Harbor Public Library Collection of Photographs
11465Raymond Adelbert Bunker at Work in the Hinckley Shop on Cruiser Patsy S.
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1938-04-20
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • 130 Shore Road
The photograph shows the use of spliced frames, "split frames." Split frames were sawed on the band saw. "Every boat around here was built that way." They would bend the frames in. "The timber goes down in the gain socket." - Ralph Stanley, March 4, 2013.
Raymond Adelbert Bunker at Work in the Hinckley Shop on Cruiser Patsy S.
Item:
  • 11465   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat
Creator:
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
Date:
  • 1938-04-20
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 130 Shore Road
Source:
  • W.H. Ballard Collection
Description:
The photograph shows the use of spliced frames, "split frames." Split frames were sawed on the band saw. "Every boat around here was built that way." They would bend the frames in. "The timber goes down in the gain socket." - Ralph Stanley, March 4, 2013.
11449Osmond Emery Harper with David B. Benson and Katherine Gertrude Benson and a Load of Hay at Seawall
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Businesses, Farming
  • People
  • 1938
  • Southwest Harbor, Seawall
It is unknown exactly where Osmond was picking up hay, but it is probable that he was on Peter Theodore Benson Jr.'s land and two of Peter's children were helping load the hay. The Harpers and the Bensons were neighbors at Seawall. Osmond built his house at 475 Seawall Road, Map 19 - Lot 48, MHPC #405-1016, across the road and several lots toward Southwest Harbor from the Benson's land, in 1917.
Osmond Emery Harper with David B. Benson and Katherine Gertrude Benson and a Load of Hay at Seawall
Item:
  • 11449   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
Subject:
  • Businesses, Farming
  • People
Date:
  • 1938
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor, Seawall
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Collection of the David B. Benson Family
Description:
It is unknown exactly where Osmond was picking up hay, but it is probable that he was on Peter Theodore Benson Jr.'s land and two of Peter's children were helping load the hay. The Harpers and the Bensons were neighbors at Seawall. Osmond built his house at 475 Seawall Road, Map 19 - Lot 48, MHPC #405-1016, across the road and several lots toward Southwest Harbor from the Benson's land, in 1917.
11245Cora Enola Mills and Jesse Newell Mills at J.N. Mills & Co. Cash Store
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • 1930-06
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 172 Clark Point Road
Cora Enola Mills and Jesse Newell Mills at J.N. Mills & Co. Cash Store
Item:
  • 11245   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
Date:
  • 1930-06
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 172 Clark Point Road
Source:
  • Collection of the Mills Family
10750J.W. Stinson & Son - Sardine Carrier Surfman at the Wharf
  • Image, Art, Painting, Oil Painting
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Higgins - Howe Dwain Higgins (1894-1974)
  • 1931
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 11 Apple Lane
J.W. Stinson & Son - Sardine Carrier Surfman at the Wharf
Item:
  • 10750   
Type:
  • Image, Art, Painting, Oil Painting
Subject:
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
Creator:
  • Higgins - Howe Dwain Higgins (1894-1974)
Date:
  • 1931
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 11 Apple Lane
Tags:
boat, building, wharf
10645The Henry R. Hinckley Company Yard
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • 1935-03
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
The Henry R. Hinckley Company Yard
Item:
  • 10645   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
Date:
  • 1935-03
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Collection of the Hinckley Family
10247Southwest Harbor Motor Co.
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Automotive Repair Business
  • Structures, Commercial, Commercial Structures, Automotive Repair
  • 1938 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 19 Clark Point Road
The tower at the top left of the photograph housed the fire whistle behind Gilley Plumbing building on the left. The fire truck was kept in a small building beside the whistle in a corner of the present [2010] Pemetic School playground. This was previously site of Moore's Garage Co. and is the site of the Post Office building today [2017]. "The Gilley and Salisbury plumbing shop was at first built by George H. Gilley on his lot near his home on the Main Road and was used there as a plumber's shop for some years. Then it was moved to its present situation and in 1929 it was moved to the rear of the lot and the show rooms and upstairs living apartment were built. Mr. Gilley's grandson, Wendell H. Gilley, now carries on the business." The automobiles Left to Right: 1938 Oldsmobile 4 Door Sedan 1938 Chevrolet 4 Door Sedan 1938 Chevrolet 4 Door Sedan
Southwest Harbor Motor Co.
Item:
  • 10247   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Automotive Repair Business
  • Structures, Commercial, Commercial Structures, Automotive Repair
Date:
  • 1938 c.
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 19 Clark Point Road
Description:
The tower at the top left of the photograph housed the fire whistle behind Gilley Plumbing building on the left. The fire truck was kept in a small building beside the whistle in a corner of the present [2010] Pemetic School playground. This was previously site of Moore's Garage Co. and is the site of the Post Office building today [2017]. "The Gilley and Salisbury plumbing shop was at first built by George H. Gilley on his lot near his home on the Main Road and was used there as a plumber's shop for some years. Then it was moved to its present situation and in 1929 it was moved to the rear of the lot and the show rooms and upstairs living apartment were built. Mr. Gilley's grandson, Wendell H. Gilley, now carries on the business." The automobiles Left to Right: 1938 Oldsmobile 4 Door Sedan 1938 Chevrolet 4 Door Sedan 1938 Chevrolet 4 Door Sedan [show more]
9312Abel's Lobster Pound, Bernard, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Places, Shore
  • 1930 c.
  • Tremont, Bernard
The gambrel roofed cottage just visible at the far right was the summer home of Paul Shields and his family. The cottage is at 41 Gunlow Road, Richtown, Maine - Map 3 - Lot 73 A.
Abel's Lobster Pound, Bernard, Maine
Item:
  • 9312   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Places, Shore
Date:
  • 1930 c.
Place:
  • Tremont, Bernard
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Southwest Harbor Public Library Collection of Photographs
Description:
The gambrel roofed cottage just visible at the far right was the summer home of Paul Shields and his family. The cottage is at 41 Gunlow Road, Richtown, Maine - Map 3 - Lot 73 A.
7756Southwest Harbor Motor Co.
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Automotive Repair Business
  • Structures, Commercial, Commercial Structures, Automotive Repair
  • 1938
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 19 Clark Point Road
Southwest Harbor Motor Co.
Item:
  • 7756   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Automotive Repair Business
  • Structures, Commercial, Commercial Structures, Automotive Repair
Date:
  • 1938
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 19 Clark Point Road
6976Children at the Lawlor Ice Business
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • 1930 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 17 Chris' Lane
Joseph Lawlor on the left, Bill Lawlor on right.
Children at the Lawlor Ice Business
Item:
  • 6976   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Other Business
Date:
  • 1930 c.
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 17 Chris' Lane
Description:
Joseph Lawlor on the left, Bill Lawlor on right.
6387Elmwood Cafe
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1939-07
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 366 Main Street
Lettering on a truck parked on Main Street says "E & M Ice Cream". The building across the street with striped awning is the present-day (2022) Davis Agency realty office.
Elmwood Cafe
Item:
  • 6387   
Accession #:
  • 1175
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
Subject:
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
Creator:
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
Date:
  • 1939-07
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 366 Main Street
Description:
Lettering on a truck parked on Main Street says "E & M Ice Cream". The building across the street with striped awning is the present-day (2022) Davis Agency realty office.
6385Interior of T.W. Jackson & Son's Market
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1939-09-24
  • Southwest Harbor
Richard Benson Jackson owned the store at the time this photograph was taken.
Interior of T.W. Jackson & Son's Market
Item:
  • 6385   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
Creator:
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
Date:
  • 1939-09-24
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • W.H. Ballard Collection
Tags:
zoomable
Description:
Richard Benson Jackson owned the store at the time this photograph was taken.
6384Interior of T.W. Jackson & Son's Market with Richard Benson Jackson at Work
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1937-09
  • Southwest Harbor
Richard Benson Jackson, Proprietor (1893-1959) at work in T.W. Jackson & Son, his IGA store.
Interior of T.W. Jackson & Son's Market with Richard Benson Jackson at Work
Item:
  • 6384   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
Creator:
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
Date:
  • 1937-09
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • W.H. Ballard Collection
Description:
Richard Benson Jackson, Proprietor (1893-1959) at work in T.W. Jackson & Son, his IGA store.
6383Interior of T.W. Jackson & Son's Market
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1937-09
  • Southwest Harbor
Interior of T.W. Jackson & Son's Market
Item:
  • 6383   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
Creator:
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
Date:
  • 1937-09
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • W.H. Ballard Collection
6369The Henry R. Hinckley Company Marine Store - III
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1938
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • 130 Shore Road
The Henry R. Hinckley Company Marine Store - III
Item:
  • 6369   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Businesses, Store Business
Creator:
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
Date:
  • 1938
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 130 Shore Road
Source:
  • W.H. Ballard Collection