Description: Books, collection of four. (A) List of Merchant Vessels of the United States 1893 with illustrations and excellent information. (B) List of Merchant Vessels of the United States 1887. (C) The Island of Mount Desert Register - no date visible, but probably 1910. Book includes a chapter of history of Cranberry Isles, page 97. Many newspaper clippings from 1930s to 1960s glued to inside front book jacket and initial pages including obituaries, Cranberry Isles and Mount Desert news, shipwrecks and life savers, the firebug article etc. One black and white photo of the Mountain house before the fire. Obituary clippings include: Clara S. Alley Feb. 26, 1965; Gilbert Hadlock; Wilbert Rice; Mrs. Herbert Bell; Almenia Lurvey; Thomas M. Stanley; Charles Hulbert; Capt. William Bulger dies eleven days after his brother 1927; Mary Ann Carroll; Sim H. Mayo; Oscar Jarvis; Fred Phippen; Capt. Thomas Newman; Mrs. John Carroll; Otis Sawtelle; and Harvey Stanley; Also a handwritten list of the John Stanley, Jr. and wife Margaret family starting 1789 through 1842. Receipt from Strawbridge & Clothier for Mrs. Mabel Stanley no year. Info on Ellen Maria Spurling b. 1842 died 1929 and children. Note about Sam Chapman b. 1868 and Cora Chapman b. 1863. (Color photocopies made of articles and stored with book (C).) (D) "At Mount Desert: A Summer's Sowing" by Mildred Fairfax, copyright Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society, 1893. “At Mount Desert,” by Mildred Fairfax, is in many respects a peculiarly attractive book. A defect of many stories is that they almost leave out the scenery, but it is not so in this instance. The tale itself is deeply interesting, with its young man gone astray, its good-angel sister, and its fortune lost and plotted for, but the writer is evidently in love with all the scenic effects of sea and sky and land along the rugged Maine coast, and at Mount Desert. There would be almost too much word-painting if it were not for the admirable half-tone photographic views which serve as illustrations. They become part of the narrative, and give it a realism not otherwise attainable.” (See www.ebay.com/itm/1893-At-Mount-Desert-Island-by-Mildred-Fairfax-A-Summers-Sowing-8-Plates-/322180352978). [show more]
Description: Photo of 8 racing I.O.D.s (International One Design sloops); approximately 5" x 8" black & white, in a wood frame. Caption taped to back of frame: "Full or Collapsed, Spinnakers Reveal Skippers' Skill and Luck in Catching Light Breeze off Mount Desert Island, Maine. One sail (third from left) droops while a rival, 100 feet directly ahead, balloons with a fortunate puff. Hand on sheet, a crew member (second yacht from right) jockeys his sail as he would a horse's reins. Compact and sturdy, these are International Class sloops all built in Norway before the war. Here the Northeast Harbor fleet nears the finish line after an eight mile race. Four years of war have not stopped such races. (Courtesy Main Development Commission)" No date. [show more]
Description: Electroplated two-handled silver cup with gilt interior, on varnished wooden base. Inscription reads as follows. __________ Blue Hill Bay Cruise 1925 Northeast Harbor Fleet B Class WON BY "ACE" on the back side inscriptions record later winners : 1976 - Deux Belles - John R. Robinson 1978 - Deux Belles - John R. Robinson 1980 - Watermelon - Dr. Henry Stebbins 1984 - Octet - S. Whitney Dickey 1987 - Oh Promise Me - Burnham Litchfield 1995 - Rarefish - Mark Cluett 1996 - Larkspur - Bruce Smart 1997 - Elizabeth - Wallace C. Tobin 1998 - Elizabeth - Wallace C. Tobin 1999 - Larkspur - Bruce Smart 2000 - Crackerjack - Alan Krulisch 2001 - Monarch - Roger Howell 2002 - Crackerjack - Alan Krulisch 2003 - Ariana - Jeffrey C. Becton This trophy has historically been called The Ace Cup [show more]
Description: Half model on varnished teak board of the 1995 America's Cup yacht Young America. The hull of the boat is decorated with a mermaid swimming in the ocean, which replicates the decorative scheme of the original boat. An engraved plaque on the backboard reads: Young America USA 36 Diana Wister With thanks and sincere appreciation for your generous contribution and support throughout the PACT95 Young America campaign. Young America was built by the PACT95 Syndicate, which hired the American artist Roy Lichtenstein to develop the distinctive exterior paint scheme. The original boat is now on display at the Storm King Art Center in Windsor, New York. [show more]
Description: B/W Photocopies of members of the Doane/Gardiner families et al. at "Ye Haven," sailing, going on picnics, hiking, and mountain climbing on and around MDI. Several pictures of the Northeast Harbor visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury & Mrs. Davidson in 1904. Photocopies of the members and friends of the Doane family sailing, hiking, having picnics, at the swimming club, on horseback and with horse & buggy. Views of the S. S. Kearsarge off Bar Harbor. Views of the rehearsals and performance of Univ. Neurasthenia at "Ye Haven" Photocopies of Doane family and friends on horseback and aboard yacht. Photocopies of Doane family & friends sailing, having picnics, hiking, riding, and at the swimming club. Photocopies of the Doane family sailing to nearby islands and having picnics with British Ambassador and Mrs. Bryce. Photocopies of family picnics, sailing trips, family time at Ye Haven, Anne Doane/Roy Pier wedding party at Magnum Donum, interior Photographs of "Ye Haven" and views of "Mount Desert", the cabin at Little Long Pond, Seal Harbor. Frazier and Pier families, the boat "Only", Amb. & Mrs. Bryce aboard "Kiawa" and on Gotts Island picnic, and hike up Blue Hill. Original Photographs from Doane Family Albums A, B, E, F, H, I, and X. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions. [show more]
Description: Report. Acadia Maritime Cultural Resources Inventory Final Report, funded by an LL Bean Acadia Research Fellowship, Submitted January 2009, by Franklin H. Price, Joshua Daniel, Kristen Chasse, and John Stallings. Emailed to GCIHS September 2014. A brief overview and assessment project reviewing maritime disaster and vessel abandonment near Acadia National Park. Provides a synopsis of known ship wrecks, a GIS database with geospatial information, and a model of where maritime cultural resources might be found. Field interviews, archaeologically corroborated known ship wrecks, photographs of wreck remains, references, bibliography. Field interviews include Charlene Allen, Sheldon Goldthwaite, Ralph Stanley, Mike Pinkham, and Phil Whitney among others. Report was sent via -email as part of an e-mail exchange between Price and GCIHS September 4, 2014. [show more]
Description: An unidentified man breaks a bottle against the hull of Vinalhaven II at the boat's launching in 1943 at Southwest Harbor, ME. Black and white
Description: Copy of article about the salvage of cargo from the schooner "Emily F. Northam" wrecked on the mudflats off Cranberry Island December 2, 1926. Capts. Hadlock and Jarvis organized a salvage crew of Fernalds, Stanleys, and Spurlings.
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: A booklet about daily life and activities on Cranberry Island with some illustrations. Property of Hugh L. Dwelley, Islesford, Maine. Acw. #0316 Date 03/06 People Mentioned: Hugh L. Dwelley, Lura Bodwell, Tinker Colby, Charles Rice, Steve Spurling, Lynn Colby, Winslow Bunker, Maggie Denver, Gary Allen, Norma Bunker, Kenneth Lemoine, David Lemoine, Joyce Forsyte, Edith Cunningham, Dick McFalls, Gail Colby, Sonja Colby, David Westphal, Louise Sorenson, Beverly Sanborn, Wendy Sundstrom, Carl Nelson, Barbara Brooks, Charles E. Harwood, Charles N. Davie, Alexander P. MacDonald, J. W. Tingley, A. D. Knight, Daniel E. Fox, James B. Ford, Melvin Hutchins, Charles Gordon Cumming, Howard N. Bacon, Sarah Fraley, Wilfred Bunker, Amaziah Alley, Margie Phippin, Donald Allen, Julius Luck, Lyndon Colby, Robert Alley, Tud Bunker, Lil Samenfeld, Mark Samenfeld, Jack Helliker, Mickey MacFarlan, Gretna Finkelstein, Chuck Liebow, Don Hagberg, Helena Hagberg, Keith Wedge, Carl Fernald, Ada Rice, Marilyn Peterson, Irene Bartlett, Carl Brooks, Frances Bartlett, Cathy Poulin, Karen Bunker, Polly Storey, Betty Sprague, Elmer Hadlock, Polly Bunker, Ruth Stanley, Timmy Savage, Blair Colby, Ginna Murray, Lionel Sundstrom, Norman Sanborn, Ed Gray, Willie Wellman, Herman Savage, William Preble, George V. Spurling, George W. Colby, Abraham C. Fernald, W. M. Richardson [show more]
Smillie - George Frederick Cumming Smillie (1854-1924)
Weeks - Edward Mitchell Weeks (1866-1959)
Publisher:
United States Postal Service
Date:
1920
Place:
New England
Description: Engraved postage stamp Vessel: Pilgrim Shallop - Shallop Title: Pilgrim Tercentenary 1620-1920 – Landing of the Pilgrims Scott Cat. Number: 549 Subject: Pilgrim Landing 1620 Media: Flat plate engraving Designer: Huston - Clair Aubrey Huston (1857-1938) Design Inspiration - art: White – Edwin White (1817-1877) Design Inspiration – engraving: Burt – Charles Kennedy Burt (1823-1892) Vignette Engraver: Smillie – George Frederick Cumming Smillie (1854-1924) Letter Engraver: Edward Mitchell Weeks (1866-1959) Frame Engraver: Louis Sartain Schofield (1868-1938) Printer: United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing Color: Carmine Rose Size: 1” x 1.25” Country: United States Postage Value: 2 cents Issue Series: 2nd in the Pilgrim Tercentennial Series. Issue Origin: The Pilgrim Tercentennial was a national celebration from December 1920 to the summer of 1921. Issue Date: December 21, 1920 Issue Location: Plymouth, Massachusetts Issue Size: 196,037,327 See Also: "The Engraver’s Line: An Encyclopedia of Paper Money & Postage Stamp Art" by Gene Hessler, BNR Press, Port Clinton, Ohio, 1993. Page 4 and 5 explain the production steps taken to turn original art into an engraved postage stamp. Worth reading as the engraver works from the beginning on a plate of about 3.5” x 4,” engraving a stamp at its finished size. Engraving is used for very few stamps today and, when one reads about the process, one can understand why. The author even provides particular engraver’s recipes for the acid they used, including that of James Smillie, the famous landscape engraver. Smillie - James Smillie (1807-1885) [show more]
Description: The Friendship sloop Endeavor sunk off Rockland Harbor on July 24, 2001 while racing in the three-day Friendship Sloop Days Annual Homecoming. Divers searched for the wreck for a month until she was found 70 feet down on the bottom of the harbor by using sidescan SONAR on August 18th a short distance from where she went down. Efforts to raise “Endeavor” were unsuccessful until Southwest Harbor captain Douglas E. Beal Jr. (1952-), aboard his “Salvage III” brought her up on Friday, August 24 and brought her back home. This sequential set of photos shows the process of Endeavor being lifted out of the water by Salvage III and brought back to Southwest Harbor for inspection and repair. The photos also show the damage to the boat after a month under water. [show more]