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| 12691 | Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine |
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| Nellie Carroll Thornton descended from early settlers of Southwest Harbor and was related, in one way or another, to practically all of her neighbors. She inherited her aunt Mary Ann Carroll’s notes for a planned history of the town. Nellie was the author of the SWH social column in the Bar Harbor Times from c. 1921 until c. 1958. She combined her notes from the Times with those from Mary Ann and a good deal of scholarship to produce a very complete history of the town, full of opinion, local mythology and history. She was an astute observer and made a laudable effort to distinguish mythology from history. She left the town she loved its most valuable gift. Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton (Nellie C. Thornton) was originally published by Merrill & Webber Company in 1938. It was reproduced in 1988 by the Southwest Harbor Public Library and digitized in 2010. | 
Description: Nellie Carroll Thornton descended from early settlers of Southwest Harbor and was related, in one way or another, to practically all of her neighbors. She inherited her aunt Mary Ann Carroll’s notes for a planned history of the town. Nellie was the author of the SWH social column in the Bar Harbor Times from c. 1921 until c. 1958. She combined her notes from the Times with those from Mary Ann and a good deal of scholarship to produce a very complete history of the town, full of opinion, local mythology and history. She was an astute observer and made a laudable effort to distinguish mythology from history. She left the town she loved its most valuable gift. Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton (Nellie C. Thornton) was originally published by Merrill & Webber Company in 1938. It was reproduced in 1988 by the Southwest Harbor Public Library and digitized in 2010. [show more] | ||
| 10680 | Article from Happy Days - Civilian Conservation Camp Newspaper |
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| Text of article reads: "BELIEVE IT OR NOT - but Co. 158, Great Pond Camp, Southwest Harbor, Maine: Is located on an island in the Atlantic ocean - Mountains, lakes and sea surround it - Fishing and swimming are to be enjoyed in the summer - Hunting in the fall and skating, skiing, snowshoeing, basketball and dancing in the winter - Has had no casualties since its origin - Has a CCC member 75 years old - Has a "dream-walking" who usually is picking himself up all day long - Has curtains (given by C.O.'s wife) a fireplace, orange and brown furniture and games in its attractive Recreation Room - Has a radio in each barracks - Has city water and lights - Has constructed fish pools where trout are being raised for the state - Has the prettiest log cabin ever built for the C.O. and his family - Has mass said on Saturdays until the boys didn't know whether they were Jewish or Catholic - Has been running itself for three months without help of regular army soldiers - Has First Lieutenant P.A. Harris, C.A.C. for a C.O. Take a look at our fireplace, barracks and our beautiful company street. What do you think? - The Boss Reporter" | 
Description: Text of article reads: "BELIEVE IT OR NOT - but Co. 158, Great Pond Camp, Southwest Harbor, Maine: Is located on an island in the Atlantic ocean - Mountains, lakes and sea surround it - Fishing and swimming are to be enjoyed in the summer - Hunting in the fall and skating, skiing, snowshoeing, basketball and dancing in the winter - Has had no casualties since its origin - Has a CCC member 75 years old - Has a "dream-walking" who usually is picking himself up all day long - Has curtains (given by C.O.'s wife) a fireplace, orange and brown furniture and games in its attractive Recreation Room - Has a radio in each barracks - Has city water and lights - Has constructed fish pools where trout are being raised for the state - Has the prettiest log cabin ever built for the C.O. and his family - Has mass said on Saturdays until the boys didn't know whether they were Jewish or Catholic - Has been running itself for three months without help of regular army soldiers - Has First Lieutenant P.A. Harris, C.A.C. for a C.O. Take a look at our fireplace, barracks and our beautiful company street. What do you think? - The Boss Reporter" [show more] |
| 6235 | Echo Lake Camp - Appalachian Mountain Club - Southwest Harbor, Maine |
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| "The Appalachian Mountain Camp at Echo Lake was established in 1922..." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 126 - 1938. Ralph Stanley says that the Appalachian Mountain Club tents were stored in the sheds behind his house at 102-104 Clark Point Road in the 1930s. He remembers watching them hauled out of the sheds that later became his boat building shop, every Spring. | 
Description: "The Appalachian Mountain Camp at Echo Lake was established in 1922..." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 126 - 1938. Ralph Stanley says that the Appalachian Mountain Club tents were stored in the sheds behind his house at 102-104 Clark Point Road in the 1930s. He remembers watching them hauled out of the sheds that later became his boat building shop, every Spring. [show more] | ||
| 10287 | Summit of Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park |
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| 10933 | Fernald's Store, Library and Somes Cottage, Somesville, Maine |
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| Published by Georgia Somes Smith, Mt. Desert, Me. | 
Description: Published by Georgia Somes Smith, Mt. Desert, Me. | ||
| 2685 | 1934 Map of Mount Dessert Island, Maine, Showing Acadia National Park |
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| 10430 | View of Clark Point in Southwest Harbor from Manset |
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| Postcard written to Miss Ruth Nibblelink 178 W. 12th St. Holland, Michigan "July 3, '35 Sunny Meadow Cottage Sea Wall, Me. Thank you for your card received some months ago. Papa, Aunt E. Abie Gifford & I drove down here the 17th. We are getting on nicely - I hope you are well and your mother. Do write me when you feel like it. Lovingly, Edith Grandgent" Printed for Carroll's Drug Store, Southwest Harbor, Maine | 
Description: Postcard written to Miss Ruth Nibblelink 178 W. 12th St. Holland, Michigan "July 3, '35 Sunny Meadow Cottage Sea Wall, Me. Thank you for your card received some months ago. Papa, Aunt E. Abie Gifford & I drove down here the 17th. We are getting on nicely - I hope you are well and your mother. Do write me when you feel like it. Lovingly, Edith Grandgent" Printed for Carroll's Drug Store, Southwest Harbor, Maine [show more] | ||
| 12726 | Hunters Beach Head |
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| 12453 | United States Stamp - Great Head at Acadia National Park - Issued October 2, 1934 |
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| 2628 | 1930 Path Map of the Eastern Part of Mount Desert Island, Maine |
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| 10083 | Mount Desert Island - Mountain and Stream in Winter |
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| 10084 | Stream and Mountain in Winter, Mount Desert Island |
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| 6813 | Schooner Theoline in Somes Sound |
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| 9337 | View of Bass Harbor from the Underwood Water Tower |
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| The building with the tower in the distant background was the Charles B. Dix / Simeon Amassa Holden house and the stable (now moved) is the large building in the field behind it. The boathouse for that property, the Captain Charles B. Dix (1836-1906) Boat House, is on the white house directly on the shore next to the large clump of trees. It was the Lyle Arlington Reed house at the time the picture was taken - 143 Harbor Drive (Route 102A), Tremont, Maine. The building out on the spit is Little Island Marine, begun after WWII c. 1945-1946. The business on the shore just to the right of the wharf building was Lyle Arlington Reed’s store - 35 Shore Road, Bass Harbor (formerly McKinley), Maine. The small brown house in the middle of the large lot at the right, almost at the corner of McMullen Avenue and the Shore Road belonged to George Al Lovejoy (1903-1964). The house is now gone. It probably sat on the 9 McMullen Avenue property, Map 12 – Lot 44. The large building in the right foreground was owned by H.G. Reed and housed the Post Office on the ground floor facing the Shore Road – 45 Shore Road, Bass Harbor, Maine – Map 12 – Lot 43 The building at the left foreground was W.H. Thurston's General Store – later the Seafood Ketch restaurant – 47 Shore Road – Map 12 – Lot 42. | 
Description: The building with the tower in the distant background was the Charles B. Dix / Simeon Amassa Holden house and the stable (now moved) is the large building in the field behind it. The boathouse for that property, the Captain Charles B. Dix (1836-1906) Boat House, is on the white house directly on the shore next to the large clump of trees. It was the Lyle Arlington Reed house at the time the picture was taken - 143 Harbor Drive (Route 102A), Tremont, Maine. The building out on the spit is Little Island Marine, begun after WWII c. 1945-1946. The business on the shore just to the right of the wharf building was Lyle Arlington Reed’s store - 35 Shore Road, Bass Harbor (formerly McKinley), Maine. The small brown house in the middle of the large lot at the right, almost at the corner of McMullen Avenue and the Shore Road belonged to George Al Lovejoy (1903-1964). The house is now gone. It probably sat on the 9 McMullen Avenue property, Map 12 – Lot 44. The large building in the right foreground was owned by H.G. Reed and housed the Post Office on the ground floor facing the Shore Road – 45 Shore Road, Bass Harbor, Maine – Map 12 – Lot 43 The building at the left foreground was W.H. Thurston's General Store – later the Seafood Ketch restaurant – 47 Shore Road – Map 12 – Lot 42. [show more] | ||
| 9954 | View of Main Street, Southwest Harbor Looking South from Dr. George Neal's Garden |
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| The back of the photograph says "Grades 1 - 2 - 3 and High School" | 
Description: The back of the photograph says "Grades 1 - 2 - 3 and High School" | |
| 6626 | Elias Heavenly Crown Rich - Tombstone - Reverse |
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| 11830 | Clark Point Road Looking West Toward Main Street |
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| Notable buildings Left to Right: E.A. Lawler Paint Company, 40 Clark Point Road, Map 3 - Lot 108, MHPC #405-0165. William Joseph Tower house (roof peak only), 38 Clark Point Road, Map 3 - Lot 106, MHPC #405-0164. Masonic Hall - 353 Main Street, Map 3 - Lot 96, MHPC #405-0161 - just visible as the large peaked roof on the left at the end of Clark Point Road. The American Gas Accumulator Company Acetylene Traffic Beacon, or "Silent Policeman," is just visible in the center of the photograph at the junction of Clark Point Road and Main Street with the town bandstand behind it. Perry "Ped" L. Sargent's Livery Stable - 7-19 Clark Point Road, Map 6 - Lot 99 - visible as the small building near the right corner of Clark Point Road and Main Street. Gilley Plumbing Company - 21 Clark Point Road, Map 6 - Lot 99 - both the livery stable and the plumbing shop were later subsumed into the later Post Office parking lot. Wilbur C. Wallace house, 29 Clark Point Road, Map 6 - Lot 100, MHPC #405-0083. | 
Description: Notable buildings Left to Right: E.A. Lawler Paint Company, 40 Clark Point Road, Map 3 - Lot 108, MHPC #405-0165. William Joseph Tower house (roof peak only), 38 Clark Point Road, Map 3 - Lot 106, MHPC #405-0164. Masonic Hall - 353 Main Street, Map 3 - Lot 96, MHPC #405-0161 - just visible as the large peaked roof on the left at the end of Clark Point Road. The American Gas Accumulator Company Acetylene Traffic Beacon, or "Silent Policeman," is just visible in the center of the photograph at the junction of Clark Point Road and Main Street with the town bandstand behind it. Perry "Ped" L. Sargent's Livery Stable - 7-19 Clark Point Road, Map 6 - Lot 99 - visible as the small building near the right corner of Clark Point Road and Main Street. Gilley Plumbing Company - 21 Clark Point Road, Map 6 - Lot 99 - both the livery stable and the plumbing shop were later subsumed into the later Post Office parking lot. Wilbur C. Wallace house, 29 Clark Point Road, Map 6 - Lot 100, MHPC #405-0083. [show more] | ||
| 11831 | Clark Point Road Looking West Toward Main Street |
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| The American Gas Accumulator Company Acetylene Traffic Beacon, or "Silent Policeman" is just visible in the center of the photograph at the junction of Clark Point Road and Main Street with the town bandstand behind it. | 
Description: The American Gas Accumulator Company Acetylene Traffic Beacon, or "Silent Policeman" is just visible in the center of the photograph at the junction of Clark Point Road and Main Street with the town bandstand behind it. | |||
| 11579 | Clark Point Road From Three Chimneys to the James Francis Ross House |
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| 11617 | View of the High Road and the Southwest Harbor Congregational Church |
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| 11771 | The Wreck of the Schooner Catherine in Somes Harbor |
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| Remains of schooner "Catherine" in Fernald Cove, Somesville, 1935. A few years later a storm shifted the hulk to the shore at right where surviving frames and timbers could be seen for some years at low tide. After the wreck and before this photograph was taken, salvagers cut a hole through the side of the vessel to allow the mast to fall into the water and be salvaged. The hole, near the bow. is visible in this photograph. SWHPL 9500 was a duplicate of this item and has been removed. | 
Description: Remains of schooner "Catherine" in Fernald Cove, Somesville, 1935. A few years later a storm shifted the hulk to the shore at right where surviving frames and timbers could be seen for some years at low tide. After the wreck and before this photograph was taken, salvagers cut a hole through the side of the vessel to allow the mast to fall into the water and be salvaged. The hole, near the bow. is visible in this photograph. SWHPL 9500 was a duplicate of this item and has been removed. [show more] | |||
| 2608 | 1931 Topographic Map of Acadia National Park, Hancock County, Maine |
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| Prepared in cooperation with the National Park Service from U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps Surveyed in 1901 and 1902 | 
Description: Prepared in cooperation with the National Park Service from U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps Surveyed in 1901 and 1902 | ||
| 2609 | 1935 Map of Acadia National Park and Vicinity, Maine |
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| A printed note in the upper right section of page, outside the map area reads "Advanced sheet. Subject to correction." | 
Description: A printed note in the upper right section of page, outside the map area reads "Advanced sheet. Subject to correction." | ||
| 2629 | 1930 Path Map of the Western Part of Mount Desert Island, Maine |
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| 9312 | Abel's Lobster Pound, Bernard, Maine |
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| 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. | 
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. |
