See “Bygone Bar Harbor: A Postcard Tour of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park” by Earl Brechlin, p. 29 - 2002 See online - “Blair Eyrie 1894-1917”, Garden Club of America Collection, Smithsonian Archives, July 2002, Accessed online 02/12/20010; http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!246644!0 See - “American Country Homes and Their Gardens” By John Cordis Baker, 1906, Chapter – “Garden at Blair Eyrie, The Estate of DeWitt Clinton Blair, Esq., Bar Harbor, Me. - Andrews Jaques & Rantoul Architects” - p. 13. Published for W.H. Sherman, Bar Harbor, Maine.
Description: See “Bygone Bar Harbor: A Postcard Tour of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park” by Earl Brechlin, p. 29 - 2002 See online - “Blair Eyrie 1894-1917”, Garden Club of America Collection, Smithsonian Archives, July 2002, Accessed online 02/12/20010; http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!246644!0 See - “American Country Homes and Their Gardens” By John Cordis Baker, 1906, Chapter – “Garden at Blair Eyrie, The Estate of DeWitt Clinton Blair, Esq., Bar Harbor, Me. - Andrews Jaques & Rantoul Architects” - p. 13. Published for W.H. Sherman, Bar Harbor, Maine. [show more]
William Francis Stanley was born to Sans and Lucy Dolliver (Getchell) Stanley in 1854 in Tremont, Maine. William married Estella Benson (1855-1940), daughter of William H. and Lucy Ann (Noonan) Benson, on December 9, 1879. William Francis Stanley died in October 1909. L.W. Cook, Photographer, 145 Tremont St. and 203 Washington St., Boston.
Collection of the Clark Family - Courtesy of Frances Eliot Foote Stehman
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Description: William Francis Stanley was born to Sans and Lucy Dolliver (Getchell) Stanley in 1854 in Tremont, Maine. William married Estella Benson (1855-1940), daughter of William H. and Lucy Ann (Noonan) Benson, on December 9, 1879. William Francis Stanley died in October 1909. L.W. Cook, Photographer, 145 Tremont St. and 203 Washington St., Boston.
The center vessel with the ornate trail board is a Friendship Sloop. A steam ferry lies at left and a motor yacht lies in front of the sardine factory.
Description: The center vessel with the ornate trail board is a Friendship Sloop. A steam ferry lies at left and a motor yacht lies in front of the sardine factory.
“As Americans developed a preference for fresh fish, demand for ice increased. Here, armed with a handsaw, ice chisel, and ice plow ...these ...men are harvesting ice, which rivaled granite in the 1890s as Maine’s prime export.” - “Mount Desert Island - Somesville, Southwest Harbor, and Northeast Harbor” by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. and Lydia B. Vandenbergh - Images of America Series, 2001, p. 42.
Description: “As Americans developed a preference for fresh fish, demand for ice increased. Here, armed with a handsaw, ice chisel, and ice plow ...these ...men are harvesting ice, which rivaled granite in the 1890s as Maine’s prime export.” - “Mount Desert Island - Somesville, Southwest Harbor, and Northeast Harbor” by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. and Lydia B. Vandenbergh - Images of America Series, 2001, p. 42.