Four Standing Men in Back Row - Left to Right: Sullivan Edgar Gilley - later married Louise Amelia Sachs Eben Hodgkins Admiral Unknown or Unknown Admiral Eben Richardson (1863-1940) - later married Elminia Mariah Savage Nine Standing Women in Middle Row - Left to Right: Unknown Lida Ellen (Clark) Cousins - Mrs. Osborne W. Cousins (1864-1951) Unknown Unknown Unknown Lena A. Tinker - later Mrs. Wilder Blanchard Robbins (1866-1926) - in sixth place Unknown Unknown Unknown Nine Seated Women and Children in Front Row: Elizabeth Belle [Jacob Schoppy Mayo dau.] Holmes - Mrs. William Herbert Holmes (1860-1930) - Island House cook Unknown Unknown Probably Ada Eldora (Clark) Parker - Mrs. William Gilman Parker (1850-1917), daughter of Deacon Clark Unknown Josephine (Clark) Stanley - Mrs. Charles E. Stanley (1848-1926), daughter of Deacon Clark Unknown Unknown Unknown Deacon Henry Higgins Clark (1811-1897), wearing a hat, is seated in front of the group with his arms crossed.
Description: Four Standing Men in Back Row - Left to Right: Sullivan Edgar Gilley - later married Louise Amelia Sachs Eben Hodgkins Admiral Unknown or Unknown Admiral Eben Richardson (1863-1940) - later married Elminia Mariah Savage Nine Standing Women in Middle Row - Left to Right: Unknown Lida Ellen (Clark) Cousins - Mrs. Osborne W. Cousins (1864-1951) Unknown Unknown Unknown Lena A. Tinker - later Mrs. Wilder Blanchard Robbins (1866-1926) - in sixth place Unknown Unknown Unknown Nine Seated Women and Children in Front Row: Elizabeth Belle [Jacob Schoppy Mayo dau.] Holmes - Mrs. William Herbert Holmes (1860-1930) - Island House cook Unknown Unknown Probably Ada Eldora (Clark) Parker - Mrs. William Gilman Parker (1850-1917), daughter of Deacon Clark Unknown Josephine (Clark) Stanley - Mrs. Charles E. Stanley (1848-1926), daughter of Deacon Clark Unknown Unknown Unknown Deacon Henry Higgins Clark (1811-1897), wearing a hat, is seated in front of the group with his arms crossed. [show more]
The building on the left: Site of John Thompson Crockett House The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. - 1st Location Carroll Building Carroll’s Drug Store - 1st Location at 360 Main Street The building on the right: A.I. Holmes Store - present address is 26 Village Green Way - the original address would have been Main Street The automobile probably has a Massachusetts plate, possibly a Reo. The man on the right, in front of the automobile, was James North Stanley, a Southwest Harbor summer resident from Brookline, Massachusetts.
Description: The building on the left: Site of John Thompson Crockett House The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. - 1st Location Carroll Building Carroll’s Drug Store - 1st Location at 360 Main Street The building on the right: A.I. Holmes Store - present address is 26 Village Green Way - the original address would have been Main Street The automobile probably has a Massachusetts plate, possibly a Reo. The man on the right, in front of the automobile, was James North Stanley, a Southwest Harbor summer resident from Brookline, Massachusetts. [show more]
While the photograph is old and in disrepair, up close the desks and chairs can be seen to shine indicating that, if not new, they were at least kept very clean. The side wall on the left of this old school was constructed of boards tightly nailed together. The back wall was painted brick. The drawings of children with pinafores, pinned to the left wall, were done by the children and in crayon. We know that the photograph was taken in October from the owls and black cats and autumn leaf décor, still universally used in school rooms around Halloween. Students Rows Left to Right - Front to Back: First Row on Left: Unknown girl Unknown girl Unknown girl Unknown girl Teacher - standing Second Row: Marian F. Clark (1893-1973) Unknown boy Unknown girl Unknown girl Unknown boy Third Row: Unknown girl Unknown girl Unknown boy Unknown girl Unknown girl Fourth Row Far Right: Unknown boy Unknown boy Unknown girl Unknown boy Unknown boy Unknown boy
Description: While the photograph is old and in disrepair, up close the desks and chairs can be seen to shine indicating that, if not new, they were at least kept very clean. The side wall on the left of this old school was constructed of boards tightly nailed together. The back wall was painted brick. The drawings of children with pinafores, pinned to the left wall, were done by the children and in crayon. We know that the photograph was taken in October from the owls and black cats and autumn leaf décor, still universally used in school rooms around Halloween. Students Rows Left to Right - Front to Back: First Row on Left: Unknown girl Unknown girl Unknown girl Unknown girl Teacher - standing Second Row: Marian F. Clark (1893-1973) Unknown boy Unknown girl Unknown girl Unknown boy Third Row: Unknown girl Unknown girl Unknown boy Unknown girl Unknown girl Fourth Row Far Right: Unknown boy Unknown boy Unknown girl Unknown boy Unknown boy Unknown boy [show more]
Ralph Warren Stanley on the left - Gunnar Milton Hansen on the right. The vessel in front of Ralph's shop is a gaff-rigged knockabout that belonged to Ed Elvidge. A knockabout is smaller than a A boat, a Manchester 13 or 14.
Description: Ralph Warren Stanley on the left - Gunnar Milton Hansen on the right. The vessel in front of Ralph's shop is a gaff-rigged knockabout that belonged to Ed Elvidge. A knockabout is smaller than a A boat, a Manchester 13 or 14.
Left to Right: Judith “Judy” May Carroll (1935-), later Mrs. Joseph T. Stockbridge Jr. Nancy Eleanor Stanley (1934-2022), later Mrs. Raymond Eugene Robbins, Jr. Irene Mabel Stanley (1933-), later Mrs. Carol Carter Murphy Myrna Lorraine Stanley (1942-2022), later Mrs. Karl Julius Ritterskamp Sally Camilla Carroll (1933-), later Mrs. Harold Alan Fernald Jr. Nancy Jane Carroll (1936-), later Mrs. Joseph Mello Cynthia Farnham Carroll (1937-2005), later Mrs. Robert Allen Aikman III Esther Laverne Stanley (1936-1984), later Mrs. Michael Willis The children are sitting on the lawn of the Adoniram Judson Robinson house at 376 Main Street, Southwest Harbor, watching a moving van at the Arthur L. Somes house across the street.
Description: Left to Right: Judith “Judy” May Carroll (1935-), later Mrs. Joseph T. Stockbridge Jr. Nancy Eleanor Stanley (1934-2022), later Mrs. Raymond Eugene Robbins, Jr. Irene Mabel Stanley (1933-), later Mrs. Carol Carter Murphy Myrna Lorraine Stanley (1942-2022), later Mrs. Karl Julius Ritterskamp Sally Camilla Carroll (1933-), later Mrs. Harold Alan Fernald Jr. Nancy Jane Carroll (1936-), later Mrs. Joseph Mello Cynthia Farnham Carroll (1937-2005), later Mrs. Robert Allen Aikman III Esther Laverne Stanley (1936-1984), later Mrs. Michael Willis The children are sitting on the lawn of the Adoniram Judson Robinson house at 376 Main Street, Southwest Harbor, watching a moving van at the Arthur L. Somes house across the street. [show more]
Left to Right: Dudman - Richard Beebe Dudman (1918-) Sloane - Helen R. (Sloane) Dudman (1918-) Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Two unknown workmen
Description: Left to Right: Dudman - Richard Beebe Dudman (1918-) Sloane - Helen R. (Sloane) Dudman (1918-) Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Two unknown workmen
Tim Kleinschmidt gave Ralph the logs shown in this photograph. The trees were cut down in Otis, Maine, to make room for the new hydroelectric station. As Ralph remembers it, the wood shown in the picture became the horn timber for "Endeavor."
Description: Tim Kleinschmidt gave Ralph the logs shown in this photograph. The trees were cut down in Otis, Maine, to make room for the new hydroelectric station. As Ralph remembers it, the wood shown in the picture became the horn timber for "Endeavor."
"Practically every town in Victorian America boasted a photography studio. The proprietor, whether he knew it or not, was an early chronicler of family life. Newborns, graduates, brides, grooms, and entire families posed for the camera – alongside wicker props. Ornate wicker furniture made its debut in photography studios during the 1870s. Light, airy and noticeably three-dimensional in photographs, wicker props made greater headway in studios during the 1880s and early 1900s. Because it was so inexpensive and easy to store, photographers and the public took wicker to their hearts. In fact, fancy wicker pieces became known as “photographer’s chairs.” Wicker’s popularity in studios created a new market; Heywood Brothers and Wakefield Company featured in their 1898 catalogue an extremely ornate five-legged “posing chair” specifically designed as a photographer’s prop." - "Collector’s Guide to American Wicker Furniture," by Richard Saunders, published by Hearst Books, New York, 1983, p. 43. The following pages contain photographs showing various ornate wicker chairs that were used by photographers. The chair shown in this photograph appears on pages 47 and 57. The same chair, obviously used by Southwest Harbor photographer. J.C. Ralph, appears in other photographs in the library collection.
Description: "Practically every town in Victorian America boasted a photography studio. The proprietor, whether he knew it or not, was an early chronicler of family life. Newborns, graduates, brides, grooms, and entire families posed for the camera – alongside wicker props. Ornate wicker furniture made its debut in photography studios during the 1870s. Light, airy and noticeably three-dimensional in photographs, wicker props made greater headway in studios during the 1880s and early 1900s. Because it was so inexpensive and easy to store, photographers and the public took wicker to their hearts. In fact, fancy wicker pieces became known as “photographer’s chairs.” Wicker’s popularity in studios created a new market; Heywood Brothers and Wakefield Company featured in their 1898 catalogue an extremely ornate five-legged “posing chair” specifically designed as a photographer’s prop." - "Collector’s Guide to American Wicker Furniture," by Richard Saunders, published by Hearst Books, New York, 1983, p. 43. The following pages contain photographs showing various ornate wicker chairs that were used by photographers. The chair shown in this photograph appears on pages 47 and 57. The same chair, obviously used by Southwest Harbor photographer. J.C. Ralph, appears in other photographs in the library collection. [show more]