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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date Place Address Description
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]
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)
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)
11453Children Cutting Sardines at the Fish Factory, Echo Bluffs, Maine
  • Image, Art, Drawing
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • People
  • Brand - Edith Browning (Brand) Hannah (1875-1947)
  • 1904
  • Echo Bluffs ME
The illustration by Edith Brand appears on page 110 in "A Case of Sardines: A Story of the Maine Coast" by Charles Poole Cleaves, The Pilgrim Press, 1904. A sentimental novel that includes descriptions of the lives of those employed by sardine factories on the coast of Maine. The town of Echo Bluffs is fictional.
Children Cutting Sardines at the Fish Factory, Echo Bluffs, Maine
Item:
  • 11453   
Type:
  • Image, Art, Drawing
Subject:
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • People
Creator:
  • Brand - Edith Browning (Brand) Hannah (1875-1947)
Date:
  • 1904
Place:
  • Echo Bluffs ME
State:
  • ME
Tags:
child, people, fish
Description:
The illustration by Edith Brand appears on page 110 in "A Case of Sardines: A Story of the Maine Coast" by Charles Poole Cleaves, The Pilgrim Press, 1904. A sentimental novel that includes descriptions of the lives of those employed by sardine factories on the coast of Maine. The town of Echo Bluffs is fictional.
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
16089D. Marino & Co's. Store, Hall Quarry, Me.
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
D. Marino & Co's. Store, Hall Quarry, Me.
Item:
  • 16089   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • The Ward Family Collection
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
9214Crew at the Addison Packing Company, Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • Transportation, Cycle, Bicycle
  • 1914
  • Southwest Harbor
The young man at the right of the photograph is probably holding a c. 1914 Sears & Roebuck Peerless bicycle with pneumatic tires.
Crew at the Addison Packing Company, Southwest Harbor
Item:
  • 9214   
Accession #:
  • 1014
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • Transportation, Cycle, Bicycle
Date:
  • 1914
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Tags:
man, zoomable, woman, apparel, group, bicycle, people
Description:
The young man at the right of the photograph is probably holding a c. 1914 Sears & Roebuck Peerless bicycle with pneumatic tires.
5970Arthur L. Somes at the Wheel of his Automobile at the First Odd Fellows Building, Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • Malden Art Co. Cin. O
  • 1915 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 357 Main Street
Arthur L. Somes at the Wheel of his Automobile at the First Odd Fellows Building, Southwest Harbor
Item:
  • 5970   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
Creator:
  • Malden Art Co. Cin. O
Date:
  • 1915 c.
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 357 Main Street
Tags:
people, hat, automobile, building, man
5971Raymond Percival Somes and his son-in-law, Russell Ernest Ball, in front of Raymond's store in the Second Odd Fellows Building
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • 1963
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 357 Main Street
Raymond Percival Somes and his son-in-law, Russell Ernest Ball, in front of Raymond's store in the Second Odd Fellows Building
Item:
  • 5971   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
Date:
  • 1963
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 357 Main Street
5972Arthur L. Somes on the Steps of his Store in the First Odd Fellows Building, Southwest Harbor - Before 1922
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • 1922 before
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 357 Main Street
Arthur L. Somes on the Steps of his Store in the First Odd Fellows Building, Southwest Harbor - Before 1922
Item:
  • 5972   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
Date:
  • 1922 before
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 357 Main Street
5973Arthur L. Somes at the Counter of A.L. Somes & Son in the Second Odd Fellows Building, Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • 1935 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 357 Main Street
Arthur L. Somes at the Counter of A.L. Somes & Son in the Second Odd Fellows Building, Southwest Harbor
Item:
  • 5973   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
Date:
  • 1935 c.
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 357 Main Street
Tags:
zoomable
6550Capt. William Bill Horace Herrick Leading John Whitmore's Fast Speed Horse To Be Shot
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • 1898 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
Written on the back of the photograph: "Old Horse J. Sargent" One of the trees on the front lawn of the library and the library wall can just be seen over the back of the horse. The building visible beyond the library property is the Freeman J. Lurvey building.
Capt. William Bill Horace Herrick Leading John Whitmore's Fast Speed Horse To Be Shot
Item:
  • 6550   
Accession #:
  • 1023
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
Date:
  • 1898 c.
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Eleanor R. Mayo Collection
Description:
Written on the back of the photograph: "Old Horse J. Sargent" One of the trees on the front lawn of the library and the library wall can just be seen over the back of the horse. The building visible beyond the library property is the Freeman J. Lurvey building.
6556Crew at the Old Factory of the William Underwood Company Lobster Cannery at Steamboat Wharf, Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • 1912 before
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 184 Clark Point Road
In the photograph are: Alvin Lewis Norwood (1878-1956) Eugene "Gene" Hal Reed (1881-1957) John Thomas "Tom" Lawton (1854-1954) Wilder Reed - probably Wilda D. Reed (1886-1953), Mrs. Unknown Gray, Mrs. Leslie Elroy Hamblen and Mrs. Charles A. Gott Estelle "Stella" M. (Norwood) Latty (1876-1953), Mrs. Vernon H. Latty
Crew at the Old Factory of the William Underwood Company Lobster Cannery at Steamboat Wharf, Southwest Harbor
Item:
  • 6556   
Accession #:
  • 1023
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
Date:
  • 1912 before
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 184 Clark Point Road
Source:
  • Eleanor R. Mayo Collection
Description:
In the photograph are: Alvin Lewis Norwood (1878-1956) Eugene "Gene" Hal Reed (1881-1957) John Thomas "Tom" Lawton (1854-1954) Wilder Reed - probably Wilda D. Reed (1886-1953), Mrs. Unknown Gray, Mrs. Leslie Elroy Hamblen and Mrs. Charles A. Gott Estelle "Stella" M. (Norwood) Latty (1876-1953), Mrs. Vernon H. Latty
6944Christopher Wendell Lawlor Driving the Ice Wagon
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
  • 1922 c.-1923
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 17 Chris' Lane
The woman in the wagon was an unknown Irish maid, a friend of Anne Coffey Lawlor. The horse was named "Dick".
Christopher Wendell Lawlor Driving the Ice Wagon
Item:
  • 6944   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
Date:
  • 1922 c.-1923
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 17 Chris' Lane
Source:
  • Collection of William J. Lawlor
Description:
The woman in the wagon was an unknown Irish maid, a friend of Anne Coffey Lawlor. The horse was named "Dick".
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).
7331Capt. William Bill Horace Herrick Leading John Whitmore's Fast Speed Horse To Be Shot
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • 1898 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
Capt. William Bill Horace Herrick Leading John Whitmore's Fast Speed Horse To Be Shot
Item:
  • 7331   
Accession #:
  • 1023
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
Date:
  • 1898 c.
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Eleanor R. Mayo Collection
7692Edwin L. Higgins at his Blacksmith Shop with Simeon Holden Mayo
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Blacksmith Business
  • People
  • 1880 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 46 Clark Point Road
Edwin L. Higgins at his Blacksmith Shop with Simeon Holden Mayo
Item:
  • 7692   
Accession #:
  • 1132
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Blacksmith Business
  • People
Date:
  • 1880 c.
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 46 Clark Point Road
Source:
  • Collection of the Mayo Family
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
8949William Holden Whitmore Haying at the Whitmore Farm
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Farming
  • People
  • 1903 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 30 Bass Harbor Road
William Holden Whitmore Haying at the Whitmore Farm
Item:
  • 8949   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Farming
  • People
Date:
  • 1903 c.
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 30 Bass Harbor Road
Source:
  • Collection of Gladys E. Whitmore Family
11179Loading Washing Machines at Benson's Laundromat
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Laundromat Business
  • People
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1960-08-01
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 297 Main Street
Left to Right: Anne B. (Foster) Benson - co-owner William Benson - son of David and Anne Benson Eleanor Hancock - wife of a Coast Guardsman. She worked for the Bensons.
Loading Washing Machines at Benson's Laundromat
Item:
  • 11179   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Laundromat Business
  • People
Creator:
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
Date:
  • 1960-08-01
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 297 Main Street
Source:
  • W.H. Ballard Collection
Description:
Left to Right: Anne B. (Foster) Benson - co-owner William Benson - son of David and Anne Benson Eleanor Hancock - wife of a Coast Guardsman. She worked for the Bensons.
6109Jessie C. Lawton Typing at the Seth W. Norwood Law Office in the First Odd Fellows Building, Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Service Business
  • People
  • Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939)
  • 1907 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
Jessie C. Lawton Typing at the Seth W. Norwood Law Office in the First Odd Fellows Building, Southwest Harbor
Item:
  • 6109   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Service Business
  • People
Creator:
  • Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939)
Date:
  • 1907 c.
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • George A. Neal Collection
6112Seth W. Norwood and Unknown Man at Norwood's Law Office, Southwest Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Service Business
  • People
  • Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939)
  • 1907 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
Seth W. Norwood and Unknown Man at Norwood's Law Office, Southwest Harbor, Maine
Item:
  • 6112   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Service Business
  • People
Creator:
  • Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939)
Date:
  • 1907 c.
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • George A. Neal Collection