Judging from the date of the patent on the photograph envelope, image was probably taken at about the time of her marriage to Charles Luther Wittaker in 1868. The tintype is held by a Potter's Patent Picture-Card frame.
Description: Judging from the date of the patent on the photograph envelope, image was probably taken at about the time of her marriage to Charles Luther Wittaker in 1868. The tintype is held by a Potter's Patent Picture-Card frame.
Archivists surmise that this photograph is Florence Clark from a comparison of this image with others of her and from the fact that the photograph was in an old collection of Clark family photographs from this branch of the family. The photograph was probably taken near the time of her marriage to Clarence.
Description: Archivists surmise that this photograph is Florence Clark from a comparison of this image with others of her and from the fact that the photograph was in an old collection of Clark family photographs from this branch of the family. The photograph was probably taken near the time of her marriage to Clarence.
Rebecca, matriarch of the Carroll family of Southwest Harbor, dressed in her best, stands at the corner of her property, at 7 High Road, the Levi Robinson / James Long / Rebecca Carroll House. Several of Rebecca’s children built houses that later filled the open fields between where she stands and the Congregational Church at 29 High Road.
Description: Rebecca, matriarch of the Carroll family of Southwest Harbor, dressed in her best, stands at the corner of her property, at 7 High Road, the Levi Robinson / James Long / Rebecca Carroll House. Several of Rebecca’s children built houses that later filled the open fields between where she stands and the Congregational Church at 29 High Road.
The large cottage in the background is "Wild Cliff" at Seal Harbor designed and built for Alexander MacKay-Smith (1850-1911) by Charles A. Candage (1851-1912), a local builder, in 1901-1902. Bishop MacKay-Smith was head of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania. He donated the “Morning Star” to the Maine Seacoast Mission as their second mission boat.
Description: The large cottage in the background is "Wild Cliff" at Seal Harbor designed and built for Alexander MacKay-Smith (1850-1911) by Charles A. Candage (1851-1912), a local builder, in 1901-1902. Bishop MacKay-Smith was head of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania. He donated the “Morning Star” to the Maine Seacoast Mission as their second mission boat.
Annie Downs Clark is in the center - just left of doorway. The sign on the building announcing “Beautiful Stereopticon Views” does not refer to stereograph or stereoscopic views, viewed through a viewer held in one’s hand. "Beautiful Stereopticon Views" - "The word "stereopticon" is frequently confused with "stereograph" and "stereoscope," but has nothing to do with either. The "Stereopticon" was a single lensed device to project lantern slides - transparent pictures on glass used for public lectures - we know it as a "slide show" in the Kodachrome era. The powerful light to project the image was generated by the same type of gas as miners used for their lamps. The event being advertised was an educational event probably showing slides of exotic places that most people from Southwest Harbor would never see except in pictures." - Weston J. Naef - August 2008.
Description: Annie Downs Clark is in the center - just left of doorway. The sign on the building announcing “Beautiful Stereopticon Views” does not refer to stereograph or stereoscopic views, viewed through a viewer held in one’s hand. "Beautiful Stereopticon Views" - "The word "stereopticon" is frequently confused with "stereograph" and "stereoscope," but has nothing to do with either. The "Stereopticon" was a single lensed device to project lantern slides - transparent pictures on glass used for public lectures - we know it as a "slide show" in the Kodachrome era. The powerful light to project the image was generated by the same type of gas as miners used for their lamps. The event being advertised was an educational event probably showing slides of exotic places that most people from Southwest Harbor would never see except in pictures." - Weston J. Naef - August 2008. [show more]
Nellie is remembered with love and gratitude by generations of Southwest Harbor and Mount Desert Island residents, genealogists and historians from here and "from away" for her complete and detailed record of the history of the people and places in the town of her birth.
Description: Nellie is remembered with love and gratitude by generations of Southwest Harbor and Mount Desert Island residents, genealogists and historians from here and "from away" for her complete and detailed record of the history of the people and places in the town of her birth.
Back Row - Left to Right: Unknown Teacher Third Row - Left to Right: Unknown Hope Norwood (1904-1987) - Mrs. Frank Cecil Bannister Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Lester Leighton Wass (1905-1987) - below teacher Unknown Marion Clark Unknown First & Second Rows Unknown
Description: Back Row - Left to Right: Unknown Teacher Third Row - Left to Right: Unknown Hope Norwood (1904-1987) - Mrs. Frank Cecil Bannister Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Lester Leighton Wass (1905-1987) - below teacher Unknown Marion Clark Unknown First & Second Rows Unknown