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| Woolies Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Woolies Northeast Harbor Library Description: Spiral bound book of Susan Dillon's history of her "Woolie" collection with 23 Photographs and identification of the embroideries Photographs by Pete Travers. See Item 3503 | ||
| Northeast Harbor Fleet Annual Reports 1932-2000 Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Northeast Harbor Fleet Annual Reports 1932-2000 Northeast Harbor Library Description: Collection of Northeast Harbor Fleet Annual Reports (1932-2000) donated by David Crofoot. Missing years: 1973, 1980, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993 (see item 6118), 1995, 1996 (see item 6117), 1997, 1998 Update Nov. 2022: Donated by Northeast Harbor Fleet: 1980, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1998 | ||
| Racing Instructions Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Racing Instructions Northeast Harbor Library Description: Fleet manual with racing instructions, schedules, charts, and racing boat specifications. | ||
| Northeast Harbor Fleet Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Northeast Harbor Fleet Northeast Harbor Library Description: The Northeast Harbor Fleet was formed in 1923 to vigorously promote recreational boating and sailboat racing off the coast of Mount Desert Island. They have two locations: The Fleet House at Gilpatrick Cove built in 1945, and Clifton Dock in Northeast Harbor, added in 1946 to provide additional moorings, dinghy tie-up, and fuel for boats. (Taken form the NEHF website) | |||
| Racing records Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Mary Cabot Wheelwright Scrapbook Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Mary Cabot Wheelwright Scrapbook Northeast Harbor Library Description: Photographs of Old Ships from Collection of Miss Mary Wheelwright. Scrapbook with photographs of yachts and sailboats and photocopy of "Early Yachting Days at Northeast Harbor" written by Miss Mary Cabot Wheelwright. Shows family and friends aboard the Hesper, trips to islands, the Cranberry Club, scenes of the harbor in Northeast Harbor. 1. M. C. Wheelwright at age 17 2. M. C. Wheelwright at age 21 3. Captain Stanley 5. Mary Wheelwright 9-10: Northeast Harbor, 1894 13-16: Aboard "HESPER" 22: Steamboat 23-24: HESPER 25: Branscom's Wharf 26: Tennis Club 28: Teakettle Party aboard HESPER; from left to right: C. Hemenway, L. Stevenson, A. Greenough, C. Hardy, Mary Wheelwright, K. Thompson, G. W. Peabody, M. Scull 29: Bear Island from Clifton Dock; HESPER in background 30: Dirt trails through woods; goats in pasture 31: Bottom center: Hamor Home, Cranberry Isle, as seen from the Cranberry Club 32, 34: HESPER 35: Probably NORDICA 37-39: Gott's Island 40: Woman on boat 41: Young child 42, 44: Wheelwright float 43: Cranberry Club, 1896 45: Landing in Cranberry Pool for a picnic at the Club, 1896 53-56: R.K.R., K.T., Northeast Harbor to Long Island, 1913 58-61: Penobscot River, 1902 62-66: Yacht ALOHA 67: Mackerel Fleet in Cranberry or Southwest Harbor 69-71: Coaster "Fannie Earl" 74: Wheelwright Point seen from Clifton Dock. Bear Island is center right, c. 1884. 75: Probably the Corning's sloop HARRIET 77: Boothbay 79: HESPER 82: North Haven 83-86: Boothbay, September 1903 87, 88: Portland 89: September cruise off Beverly Islands 90: Southwest Harbor [show more] | ||
| Roy Salisbury Collection - Northeast Harbor (1) Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Roy Salisbury Collection - Northeast Harbor (1) Northeast Harbor Library Description: BW photographs of Northeast Harbor, sailboats, schooners, carriage roads, cottages etc. 5. Schooner MATTIE 7. View from Flying Mounting looking SE 8. - 9. Sergeant Drive 10. Asticou Inn in background 12. Harry Haskell Cottage, "The Anchorage", built for Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Havemeyer, where Tennis Court is now. Burned down (1950's/1960's) 13. Looking across the harbor at Sea Street 14. - 17. Carriage Roads in winter 18. Pathway at Asticou in winter 21. St. Mary's Church 23. Steamboat Wharf (with one of the Maine Central Railroad boats) [show more] | ||
| Oceanus Dolphins Club’s L. Francis Herreshoff Rule for measuring and rating racing sail boats Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Oceanus Dolphins Club’s L. Francis Herreshoff Rule for measuring and rating racing sail boats Northeast Harbor Library | |||
| Northeast Harbor Fleet Annual Report Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Northeast Harbor Fleet Annual Report Northeast Harbor Library | ||
| Northeast Harbor Fleet Annual Report Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Northeast Harbor Fleet Annual Report Northeast Harbor Library | ||
| Mariner Notes & Antiques Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Mariner Notes & Antiques Northeast Harbor Library Description: Editor: Ted Welles Published and Copyrighted by the Antique Boat Society, Inc., Manset, Maine. Volume 1, No. 2, 1976 Volume 1, No. 4, 1977 Scan: Cover, first pages only | ||
| Woolies, Sailors' Embroidered Folk Art, tapestry Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Woolies, Sailors' Embroidered Folk Art, tapestry Northeast Harbor Library Description: This magnificent gift of twenty-four English sailors' embroideries - Woolies - was presented by Mrs Douglas Dillon to honor the new Northeast Harbor Library in 2007. These unique pieces of nineteenth century mariner's folk art were souvenirs of the sailors' world-wide journeys and were embroidered in wool on sailcloth. Mrs. Dillon began a half-century ago to develop this unique and wonderful collection and continued until presenting them to the Library. Woolie 1: Doris 27 1/2" high by 48" wide, British Flagship, unusual harlequin background Woolie 2: Black hull ship, British Ensign under sail, sea gulls flying overhead, three other ships in foreground, lifeboat swung up on davit Woolie 3: Sailor's Adieu, ship's dory waiting to take him to his three-masted warship, and gulls flying overhead, 18" high by 26" wide Woolie 4: Seventy-two gun warship at sea full sail, 23" high by 27" wide, British Ensign Woolie 5: Tugboat bringing large three-masted sailboat (sails furled) home from the sea, crewelwork stitches in silk, cotton and wool, 22" high by 30" wide Woolie 6: Gunboat under sail, lighthouse and small photo of Captain in oval at center of Woolie at base Woolie 7: H.M.S. Terrible bombarding Odessa, only battle scene known to me, ironclad H.M.S. Terrible facing away, huge clouds of smoke, green sea, 17 1/2" high by 28 1/2" wide Woolie 8: Two-decked gunship, captain with spyglass, ship dressed all over, with crew standing on spars, over 100 men, perhaps Royal Review at Cowes Woolie 9: Warship under sail, depicted with life preserver and laurel leaf enclosure and flags, a small gold and pearl navy brooch is pinned below crown added by me when woolly was moth-proofed, 31 1/2" wide by 35" high Woolie 10: Three-masted warship under sail, from porthole surrounded by Union Jack and other flags in laurel wreath Woolie 11: Ice-breaker prow on three-masted and steam-powered gunboat with lighthouse and man on shore Woolie 12: H.M.S. Lether, British three-masted ship under sail hoisted a very large anchor at prow, 16" high by 26" wide Woolie 13: Largest of Woolies, 30 1/2" high by 44" wide, depicting Rock of Gibraltar and McKinley's Great White Fleet gunboat and a British streamer and French gunboat, Spain on left, Morocco on right Woolie 14: H.M.S. Hero, ninety-one guns three-masted gunboat, British Flag, smokestack with grey smoke puff Woolie 15: Three-masted black hull British Flag, initialed at bottom F.D. and 91 Woolie 16: Choppy blue and white sea, seven gunboats, sails furled, small bronze guns attached by wool, over-sized sailors on ships, 22" high by 25" wide Woolie 17: Duke of Wellington three-masted, three-decked gunship dressed all over, flags strum from stem to stern - my finest Woolie - purchased in Brighton, England in 1950, rigging of wool - usually they used string for tautness and lasting qualities - Flagship, Admiral's gig at side, probably a Royal Review for Queen Victoria memorialized by artist Woolie 18: Silver framed three-masted gunship with gold steam stacks mid-ship, British flags, 30 1/2" wide by 21" high Woolie 19: Silk-work ship (faded) with Cliffs of Dover, 16" wide by 13 1/2" high Woolie 20: White Ensign British warship entering harbor, small fort on left, lighthouse on right, 12 1/2" high by 15" wide Woolie 21: Three-decker gunship entering harbor, sailing straight at us, British saluting or being fired on by entrance fort Woolie 22: Small-sized gold framed three-masted gunship under sail, blue and White Sea, 12" high by 16" wide Woolie 23: Three-masted British ship at sea approaching white lighthouse (looks like a milk bottle) interesting sky, 51" wide by 24" high Woolie 24: Paddle steamship, 20 1/2" high by 27" wide [show more] | ||||
| Coaster, Clifton Dock Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Sailing Past Flying Mountain Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Sailing Past Flying Mountain Northeast Harbor Library | |
| Clifton Dock Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Clifton Dock Northeast Harbor Library Description: Three sloops under sail in background. Looking toward Asticou Inn. | ||
| Northeast Harbor Fleet Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Northeast Harbor Fleet Northeast Harbor Library Description: 72 B/W and sepia photographs of the Northeast Harbor Fleet around the clubhouse and under sail. Photographs of IOD's Collection brought to the library in 1998 and are listed as coming from the fleet and Joe Grant. See also item 5458 2: Aquila NEH #2 on mainsail only 4: The "30 M" clearly IDs this boat as a 30 sq m, but the M3 probably denotes it as NEH #3, which is Herman Hessenbruch's Agile 8: Three 30 sq m beating into the wind. Agile NEH #2, in the foreground, tacking to starboard while the other hulls are going to port. The left-most boat looks like NEH #6. The wake behind #2 suggest it had just turned smartly. Also note #2's conspicuous large donut life ring on the stern deck 9: see also photo 1156 q 11/55: Flying Cloud 10/49: Vixen III 16: Sagamore 18/42: Vayu 19: Light air amid a pre-race pileup of yacht racing classes, including Aquila NEH #2, and Nordic II NEH #4 23: Sagamore 26: Aquila NEH #2, probably taken minutes after Photo 1852 NEHF 43. Shows the slight curvature of the upper mast, a characteristic of square meter boats 29/30/37: Niliraga 41: Thistle 43: Aquila NEH #2. The much larger boat in the background (white hull) is not a 30 sq. m. 45: Nancy, Agile. Hessenbruch's jib-less Agile NEH #3 being passed by light-hull NEH #6 51: 30 M #5, with a white hull, running and leading NEH #2 Aquila 53: Another view at the race start of Photo 1852 NEHF 55, showing the same boats in the same order left to right. This would be the start of the big boats racing over the same course. It looks like three other 30 sq. m. are racing given the bent upper masts 55: X 42, 4th from left, is a sail number designation (with an X) that was common for 30 sq. m. boats imported from Germany during the early 1930s. X 42 could be (?) the Gluckauf, the boat purchased and renamed as US3 Visitor by L. Francis Herreshoff. Also in the starting line is the 40 sq. m. NEH #2 Tsana III (holding the actual floating line) 56: Malcom N. Stanley's boat, winner class B, August series 57: Blue Hill, 1933 58: Nymph 59: Old Mack B, 1933 62: Class B yachts approaching finish line 67-71: Start of a Northeast Harbor race in the Summer of 1958 [show more] | ||
| Northeast Harbor Marina Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Northeast Harbor Marina Northeast Harbor Library Description: On the back: "Northeast Harbor Marina, Acadia National Park, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. One of the most picturesque harbors in the United States." Black hull with blue cabin, LePage boat, "Northwind II" (Bunker & Ellis); to the left, with the white hull and varnished top is the Moorhead Kennedy boat, "Saga" (Bunker & Ellis); to the left, with the white hull, white cabin, and buff cabin top is the Hawtin boat, "Sirius" (Robert Rich). [show more] | ||
| Haven Haps, & Mishaps Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Sail Boat Races at Northeast Harbor, Maine Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Sail Boat Races at Northeast Harbor, Maine Northeast Harbor Library | |||
| A Boat Named Freedom Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  A Boat Named Freedom Northeast Harbor Library Description: Richard Dudman writes of his sailing adventures with his first Friendship sloop built by Ralph Stanley. | ||
| Rock End Hotel Dock, Gilpatrick Cove Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Rock End Hotel Dock, Gilpatrick Cove Northeast Harbor Library Description: Great Cranberry Island in background. Boats are Rice-built B boats and Friendship sloops. | |
| Northeast Harbor Fleet Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Northeast Harbor Fleet Northeast Harbor Library Description: 8 B/W and sepia photographs of the Northeast Harbor Fleet around the clubhouse and under sail. Photographs of IOD's Collection brought to the library in 1998 and are listed as coming from the fleet and Joe Grant. See also item 6966 | ||
| Northeast Harbor Fleet Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Northeast Harbor Fleet Northeast Harbor Library Description: a: Labor Day Regatta, Somes Sound, 1948 b: Sailing Class, 1950 c: Sailing Class, 1949 d: July Regatta at Bar Harbor, 1948 e: July 1949 | ||
| View from Lippincott house Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  View from Lippincott house Northeast Harbor Library Description: Southwest Harbor in the distance. Sailboats are leaving the Northeast Harbor Fleet. | |
| Sailboats on Water Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Sailboats on Water Northeast Harbor Library Description: Clifton Dock area. Looking up the passage between Mount Desert Island and Bear Island. Two schooners a yawl, two sloops, a cutter, and a motor launch. |
