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16689Photographs and a brochure from Ralph Stanley
  • Uncurated Accession
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Friendship Sloop
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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]
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]
13791Casco Bay Steamship Company
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Transportation Business
  • Vessels, Steamboat
11652R-Class Racing Sloop Jack Tar Stripped to the Timbers
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Sloop
  • Westphal - David Westphal
  • 1978
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 102 Clark Point Road
6366The Henry R. Hinckley Company as Manset Boat Yard - Boats in Storage Outside - II
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1938
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • 130 Shore Road
7822Robert Farnsworth Rich and Crew Lengthening a Boat at Southwest Harbor Boat Corporation
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1943
  • Southwest Harbor
7823Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1943-03-04
  • Southwest Harbor
7824Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1943-03-04
  • Southwest Harbor
7825Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1943-03-04
  • Southwest Harbor
7826Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1943-03-04
  • Southwest Harbor
7827Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1943-03-04
  • Southwest Harbor
Robert Farnsworth Rich in overalls.
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Robert Farnsworth Rich in overalls.
7869Sardine Carrier Continental and Others at the J.W. Stinson and Son in Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Vessels, Ship
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1957-10
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 11 Apple Lane
10725Yawl, Venturer - Coming Out of the Shed
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1956-05-14
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • 130 Shore Road
The automobile to the right of the vessel is a circa 1948 Jeep CJ (Civilian Jeep) Note the peavey stuck into the ground (above the “O” on the “DETOUR” sign). A peavey is a logging tool with a wooden shaft and metal hook invented in 1857 by blacksmith Joseph Daniel Peavey (1799-1873) of Stillwater, Maine, as a refinement to the cant hook to manhandle logs on logging runs. The Peavey Manufacturing Co. is still located in Maine (Eddington, Maine) and manufactures several variations.
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The automobile to the right of the vessel is a circa 1948 Jeep CJ (Civilian Jeep) Note the peavey stuck into the ground (above the “O” on the “DETOUR” sign). A peavey is a logging tool with a wooden shaft and metal hook invented in 1857 by blacksmith Joseph Daniel Peavey (1799-1873) of Stillwater, Maine, as a refinement to the cant hook to manhandle logs on logging runs. The Peavey Manufacturing Co. is still located in Maine (Eddington, Maine) and manufactures several variations. [show more]
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.
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.
11461Launching Mary Rose
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat
11612Friendship Sloop Dictator Before Restoration
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Friendship Sloop
  • 1972-12-29
  • Stonington ME
12333Unknown Boat Under Construction at Southwest Boat Corporation
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat
6139Isabel B. Wiley and the Bloomer Loading Granite at Hall Quarry - After 1906
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • 1906 after
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
8088Lennox L. Bink Sargent and Chester Warren Stanley with Framework for a Mine Yawl at Southwest Boat Corporation
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
  • 1944 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 168 Clark Point Road
Mine Yawls were built for the army during World War II for laying and tending mines. This one could have been either a tow yawl or a mine yawl.
Description:
Mine Yawls were built for the army during World War II for laying and tending mines. This one could have been either a tow yawl or a mine yawl.
9831Hauling a Ronald Dean Rich boat at Rich & Grindle Boat Shop
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
  • Rich - Roger Clifton Rich (1913-1996)
  • 1962
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 50 Clark Point Road
The man on the tractor may have been Kenneth E. Billings (1915-2002) of Billings & Hamblen Construction. The vessel may be the "Carolyn J." built for Arnold Jenks and launched in the spring of 1962.
Description:
The man on the tractor may have been Kenneth E. Billings (1915-2002) of Billings & Hamblen Construction. The vessel may be the "Carolyn J." built for Arnold Jenks and launched in the spring of 1962.
12534Freedom Molds Set Up and the Ribbands Going On
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Friendship Sloop
  • Milner - Craig Milner
  • 1976
  • Southwest Harbor
12535Freedom - Putting On the Cabin.
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Friendship Sloop
  • Milner - Craig Milner
  • 1976
  • Southwest Harbor
"Morning Star" can be seen in the left corner.
Description:
"Morning Star" can be seen in the left corner.
12536Timbering Freedom
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Friendship Sloop
  • Milner - Craig Milner
  • 1976
  • Southwest Harbor
Jeff Gold (wearing the 69 tee shirt) is taking timber out of the steamer.
Description:
Jeff Gold (wearing the 69 tee shirt) is taking timber out of the steamer.
12538Ralph Stanley fitting a deck plank on Freedom
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Friendship Sloop
  • Milner - Craig Milner
  • 1976
  • Southwest Harbor