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| 12382 | Replica of Samuel de Champlain's Vessel, Le Don de Dieu of 1604 |
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| 11685 | Schooner Robert A. Snyder |
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| The "Robert A. Snyder" was built for and owned by Capt. Eugene Tinker of Deer Island, Maine – later captain of the "Lois M. Candage," out of Camden running as an excursion boat. | 
Description: The "Robert A. Snyder" was built for and owned by Capt. Eugene Tinker of Deer Island, Maine – later captain of the "Lois M. Candage," out of Camden running as an excursion boat. | ||||
| 10769 | Painting of Brig Carrie F. Dix - Lisbon 1882 |
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| The paper upon which the drawing was made seems to have been embossed with a cartouche encircling the word, "Evadne." "My [great] grandfather John Dix (1829-1858) was a sea captain, and my grandmother [Celestia Gertrude Dix] always said that he was once shipwrecked, but she didn’t know where. She was just a little girl at the time, and she couldn’t remember much about it. She thought it might have been “on the Jersey coast.” Anyway, he lost his ship, and it took him two years to get home. The story went that he had traded one vessel for another one at Blue Hill, and she almost sank before he got her home to Bartlett’s Island across the bay. She’d been down in the Caribbean and hadn’t been coppered, so she was worm-eaten. Even though she was a fairly new vessel, they had to fix her up before they could use her. I’m not sure whether this was the same ship he lost or not, but I’ve got a picture of a brig that was drawn by Fred W. Dix, who was lost at sea in 1886 and who was some kind of cousin to my great grandfather. It’s just a picture on a piece of lined paper, hand colored. On the back it says “Built in New Haven, 1882,” and it says “Carrie F. Dix” on the flag. [Frederick William Dix (1861-1886) was John Dix’ nephew, the son of John Dix’ brother, William Dix (1826-1910)] Now, Carrie F. Dix was my grandmother’s sister. Carrie married Dr. Joseph Dana Phillips, but she died in childbirth. Dr. Phillips sent my grandmother and her other sister, Vienna, to school at Coburn Classical Institute in Waterville. Then my grandmother taught school on Tinker’s Island for a time, and she also taught on Bartlett’s Island, where she lived. [Carrie Frances Dix (1863-1892), later Mrs. Joseph Dana Phillips, was the daughter of John Dix and the first cousin of Frederick William Dix] On the back of this picture of the brig it also says, “First trip to Faroe Isles and then to a place in Norway.” After that, the writing fades out, and the rest of it is illegible. I’ve tried using a black light to read it, but I can’t make it out. It says something about some port in Spain, so John Dix was probably bound down through the English Channel. Whether he was wrecked on the Channel Isles and spent some time on the island of Jersey, I don’t know. If the ship had been lost off New Jersey, it wouldn’t have taken him two years to get home. I do know that the whole crew was rescued by breeches buoy. But I bet my grandfather was shipwrecked on the Channel Isles, and he might have had to stay on the island of Jersey. Now, he might have been hurt or might have had a nervous breakdown over losing that vessel, because it took him two years to recover enough to get home. He had no money. When he got back to Maine, his spirit was broken and he never went to sea again. He had to run that little farm on Bartlett’s Island, and his family was very poor. When his daughter Emily Bartlett died, John Dix came off the island and lived in Southwest Harbor with another daughter, Vienna Lawler. When he died, they had Emily’s body brought over and buried with his, down at Mount Height Cemetery." - “Ralph Stanley : Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder” by Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine 2004, p. 136-137. | 
Description: The paper upon which the drawing was made seems to have been embossed with a cartouche encircling the word, "Evadne." "My [great] grandfather John Dix (1829-1858) was a sea captain, and my grandmother [Celestia Gertrude Dix] always said that he was once shipwrecked, but she didn’t know where. She was just a little girl at the time, and she couldn’t remember much about it. She thought it might have been “on the Jersey coast.” Anyway, he lost his ship, and it took him two years to get home. The story went that he had traded one vessel for another one at Blue Hill, and she almost sank before he got her home to Bartlett’s Island across the bay. She’d been down in the Caribbean and hadn’t been coppered, so she was worm-eaten. Even though she was a fairly new vessel, they had to fix her up before they could use her. I’m not sure whether this was the same ship he lost or not, but I’ve got a picture of a brig that was drawn by Fred W. Dix, who was lost at sea in 1886 and who was some kind of cousin to my great grandfather. It’s just a picture on a piece of lined paper, hand colored. On the back it says “Built in New Haven, 1882,” and it says “Carrie F. Dix” on the flag. [Frederick William Dix (1861-1886) was John Dix’ nephew, the son of John Dix’ brother, William Dix (1826-1910)] Now, Carrie F. Dix was my grandmother’s sister. Carrie married Dr. Joseph Dana Phillips, but she died in childbirth. Dr. Phillips sent my grandmother and her other sister, Vienna, to school at Coburn Classical Institute in Waterville. Then my grandmother taught school on Tinker’s Island for a time, and she also taught on Bartlett’s Island, where she lived. [Carrie Frances Dix (1863-1892), later Mrs. Joseph Dana Phillips, was the daughter of John Dix and the first cousin of Frederick William Dix] On the back of this picture of the brig it also says, “First trip to Faroe Isles and then to a place in Norway.” After that, the writing fades out, and the rest of it is illegible. I’ve tried using a black light to read it, but I can’t make it out. It says something about some port in Spain, so John Dix was probably bound down through the English Channel. Whether he was wrecked on the Channel Isles and spent some time on the island of Jersey, I don’t know. If the ship had been lost off New Jersey, it wouldn’t have taken him two years to get home. I do know that the whole crew was rescued by breeches buoy. But I bet my grandfather was shipwrecked on the Channel Isles, and he might have had to stay on the island of Jersey. Now, he might have been hurt or might have had a nervous breakdown over losing that vessel, because it took him two years to recover enough to get home. He had no money. When he got back to Maine, his spirit was broken and he never went to sea again. He had to run that little farm on Bartlett’s Island, and his family was very poor. When his daughter Emily Bartlett died, John Dix came off the island and lived in Southwest Harbor with another daughter, Vienna Lawler. When he died, they had Emily’s body brought over and buried with his, down at Mount Height Cemetery." - “Ralph Stanley : Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder” by Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine 2004, p. 136-137. [show more] | ||
| 12637 | Entrance of Somes Sound from Southwest Harbor |
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| Fitz Henry Lane painted one of the earliest views of Southwest Harbor, and seems to have studied the shore carefully. The view shows a lumber schooner loading its long cargo through a port in the bow of the vessel. The white house immediately to the left of the vessel probably shows an early version of the Seth Higgins Clark House. The white house at the center of the shore is the Nathan Clark II House. The white building at the far left is Deacon Henry Higgins Clark's Island House Hotel, early in its career, before it was expanded into several stories with a mansard roof. Clark descendants, and their houses, are still in Southwest Harbor. William Howe Witherle (1821–1906) accompanied Lane on his trip around Mount Desert Island and recorded many of their adventures in his diary. On August 21 he wrote, "… George, Joe & myself took breakfast this morning at the Island House – and a fine one it was – price 25 cts – Mr. Lane took 2 sketches here…” The sketches referred to were of the shore and harbor, not the hotel. See: Witherle, William Howe. William Witherle Diary (unpublished manuscript) (August 16–21, 1852). Personal diary in the collection of the Wilson Museum, Castine, Maine (A00060-1a-1h). | 
Description: Fitz Henry Lane painted one of the earliest views of Southwest Harbor, and seems to have studied the shore carefully. The view shows a lumber schooner loading its long cargo through a port in the bow of the vessel. The white house immediately to the left of the vessel probably shows an early version of the Seth Higgins Clark House. The white house at the center of the shore is the Nathan Clark II House. The white building at the far left is Deacon Henry Higgins Clark's Island House Hotel, early in its career, before it was expanded into several stories with a mansard roof. Clark descendants, and their houses, are still in Southwest Harbor. William Howe Witherle (1821–1906) accompanied Lane on his trip around Mount Desert Island and recorded many of their adventures in his diary. On August 21 he wrote, "… George, Joe & myself took breakfast this morning at the Island House – and a fine one it was – price 25 cts – Mr. Lane took 2 sketches here…” The sketches referred to were of the shore and harbor, not the hotel. See: Witherle, William Howe. William Witherle Diary (unpublished manuscript) (August 16–21, 1852). Personal diary in the collection of the Wilson Museum, Castine, Maine (A00060-1a-1h). [show more] | ||
| 12106 | Torpedo Destroyer |
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| 8021 | Schooner Sylvina W. Beal, Dragger Baby Rose and lobster boat Hobo |
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| This image is thought to be by George W. Corkum. | 
Description: This image is thought to be by George W. Corkum. | ||||
| 11674 | Ralph Stanley Sailing Schooner Equinox Built for Henry Sage Goodwin |
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| 11675 | Ralph Stanley Sailing Schooner Equinox Built for Henry Sage Goodwin |
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| 9427 | The Mackerel Fleet in Southwest Harbor |
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| View probably from the Pemetic Hotel Shows: Clarence Clark House, later Ellsberrg house, left foreground Long roof of the bowling alley at center Clark and Parker store with striped roof Above are all on Clark Point Across the harbor in Manset: Manset Union Church Stanley Wharf Early Stanley House Printed in Germany | 
Description: View probably from the Pemetic Hotel Shows: Clarence Clark House, later Ellsberrg house, left foreground Long roof of the bowling alley at center Clark and Parker store with striped roof Above are all on Clark Point Across the harbor in Manset: Manset Union Church Stanley Wharf Early Stanley House Printed in Germany | ||
| 9597 | Seal Harbor View from the Cooksey Estate |
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| 6136 | Schooner Northern Light Wrecked on Rockland Breakwater |
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| "Northern Light" was wrecked on the Rockland Breakwater in 1926. The photograph shows two schooners - a smaller one, a wrecking schooner, with another two masts, is behind and to the right of "Northern Light." On board "Northern Light" one can see at least one man in the crow's nest, one on board and two men hanging off the bowsprit. The vessel is being stripped of anything salvageable. | 
Description: "Northern Light" was wrecked on the Rockland Breakwater in 1926. The photograph shows two schooners - a smaller one, a wrecking schooner, with another two masts, is behind and to the right of "Northern Light." On board "Northern Light" one can see at least one man in the crow's nest, one on board and two men hanging off the bowsprit. The vessel is being stripped of anything salvageable. | |||
| 11537 | Sara Jeanette (Yocum) Homer, Mrs. Arthur Bartlett Homer About to Christen Steamer Arthur B. Homer |
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| 11538 | Sara Jeanette (Yocum) Homer (Mrs. Arthur Bartlett Homer) Christening the Steamer Arthur B. Homer |
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| 11539 | Steamer Arthur B. Homer |
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| 11540 | Steamer Arthur B. Homer |
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| 11541 | Steamer Arthur B. Homer in Drydock |
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| 11542 | Steamer Arthur B. Homer in Drydock |
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| 11825 | Launching Steamer Arthur B. Homer |
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| 12394 | Schooner Theoline at the Entrance to Somes Sound |
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Description: The photograph was taken from the shore at "The Larches," the Samuel Champion Cooper cottage. | |
| 6812 | View of Schooner Theoline off the Back Shore, Looking to Northeast Harbor |
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| 7869 | Sardine Carrier Continental and Others at the J.W. Stinson and Son in Southwest Harbor |
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| 8542 | Niligraga Drying Her Sails |
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| "Niligraga" was drying her sails after a regatta in Northeast Harbor. | 
Description: "Niligraga" was drying her sails after a regatta in Northeast Harbor. | ||
| 8543 | Niligraga Drying Her Sails |
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| "Niligraga" was drying her sails after a regatta in Northeast Harbor. | 
Description: "Niligraga" was drying her sails after a regatta in Northeast Harbor. | ||
| 8544 | Schooner Niliraga Coming in to Southwest Harbor |
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| Right to Left: Harvey Sherman Stanley (1889-1942), grandson of Enoch Boynton Stanley (1820-1903) at the helm. Dunn - Gano Sillick Dunn (1870-1953) Unknown teenager. Unknown teenager. Anne Milliken (1919-), later Baronessa Mario Franchetti | 
Description: Right to Left: Harvey Sherman Stanley (1889-1942), grandson of Enoch Boynton Stanley (1820-1903) at the helm. Dunn - Gano Sillick Dunn (1870-1953) Unknown teenager. Unknown teenager. Anne Milliken (1919-), later Baronessa Mario Franchetti | ||
| 11275 | Schooner William Keene Loaded with Salt, Passing Steamboat Wharf in Southwest Harbor |
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| There is a Coast Guard Cutter at the dock, a buoy depot or lighthouse depot at the time this photograph was taken. Later the Coast Guard Station. | 
Description: There is a Coast Guard Cutter at the dock, a buoy depot or lighthouse depot at the time this photograph was taken. Later the Coast Guard Station. |
