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| Trailaway - Lobster Boat Maddy Sue - Pleasure Boat Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: The second PDF contains an article about the Maddy Sue from various issues of Wooden Boat magazine. Following those articles are pages from what appears to be a Japanese magazine called Sea Dream "The Magazine for Your Marine Life" which contains some of the photos and content from the Wooden Boat articles. The third PDF contains an article from Douglas Brooks about the Maddy Sue. | ||
| Photo album from 1930s with pictures of the Niliraga and Moose Island. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Photo album from 1930s with pictures of the Niliraga and Moose Island. Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: See the index for a description of each photograph. Moose Island is located on the western side of MDI. | ||
| Cora Myrtle (Hamblen) Ward with William Eugene Ward and Leslie Hamblen Ward on Unknown Boat Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Cora Myrtle (Hamblen) Ward with William Eugene Ward and Leslie Hamblen Ward on Unknown Boat Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Sightseeing Boat at Beal's Fish Wharf, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Sightseeing Boat at Beal's Fish Wharf, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The John Lawson Stoddard Cottage - The Edward Wyatt Evans Cottage is visible on the opposite shore. Francis Milton Spurling (1896-1958) , in a white shirt, is standing on the lower dock next to his boat, "Trailaway," later Maddy Sue. "Trailaway" was built by Chester Eben Clement. |
| Three Masted Schooner Frances Parsons Aground at King's Point, Manset Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Three Masted Schooner Frances Parsons Aground at King's Point, Manset Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Schooner Lillian in Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Schooner Lillian in Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The boathouse just visible over "Lillian's" bowsprit belonged to William Doane Stanley (1855-1932), "Uncle Jimmy." His Chester Clement built passenger launch, "Leader" is on the shore to the right of the boathouse. Jimmy used her to carry summer people in the summer. In the winter he took off the wicker chairs etc. and used her to carry sardines to the factories. |
| Sweet Pea and Electron II at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Sweet Pea and Electron II at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The boat in front is the "Sweet Pea'' owned by "Peter" Richardson, Great Cranberry Island. Lewis Gilley Stanley was sailing her the day the picture was taken. The yawl behind "Sweet Pea" is "Electron II" owned by Professor Holmes of the University of Vermont Physics department. He adjusted and fixed compasses for fishermen for free. |
| The Henry R. Hinckley Company - Yacht Off Shore Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Henry R. Hinckley Company - Yacht Off Shore Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Fishing Freighter Myra J. Wooster at a Wharf Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Fishing Freighter Myra J. Wooster at a Wharf Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: "“Myra J. Wooster” was built in 1918 in Tremont, Maine. She was a gas screw freighter, Official Number 216241, 46 gross Tons, 17 net Tons, 63.5’ long, 16.2’ wide and 7.2’ deep. She carried a crew of one and home ported in Southwest Harbor. She ran for the Portland, Friendship & Thomaston Line. Myra J. Wooster was named for Myra Jane Thurston (1875-1945). Myra was born on September 16, 1875 to Solomon G. Thurston and Mary Gott (Webster) Thurston in Tremont, Maine. She married Joseph Estabrook Wooster (1873-1955), son of John Wooster Wooster and Eliza Perrigo, on August 25, 1894 in West Tremont. Myra Jane Thurston died on June 23, 1945 in Tremont, Maine. Myra is connected to several other people in the SWHPL database. Her brother, John Sullivan Thurston (1853-1927) married Datie R. Rich (1851-1927), a sister of John “Talking John” Melbourne Rich. Myra’s daughter, Eva Wooster (1899-1988), married Ralph Gardener Benson (1893-1975). ""The motor packet Myra J. Wooster, Capt. Robert Lash, has loaded general cargo at the wharf and will sail for Friendship this morning."" - Gloucester Daily Times, July 20, 1933. “Myra J. Wooster” was wrecked off Friendship, Maine in 1934. The wreck is documented in the Maine Historic Preservation Commission Inventory Data for Municipal Growth Management Plans, Historic Archaeological Sites, Friendship, Maine, March 2011." [show more] | |
| Crosby Greening Mills Looking at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Crosby Greening Mills Looking at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: "Harvard Riley Beal’s (1897-1967) bait scow is at the far left. The fully canvassed boat behind the rigging on the left was “Frolic,” Harold L. Wedge’s (1912-1986) passenger launch. The dark boat in the right middle belonged to Leslie Stanwood King (1879-1936) who ran fish and rum in it. Spray hood boat on the far right, partly out of the picture, was Grover Ambrose Morse’s (1885-1960) boat, built by Lewis Melvin Candage (1867-1950)." [show more] | |
| Rachel - Cruiser Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Marmac Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Marmac Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: All photos taken August 3, 1939 except 1788 which was taken on September 18, 1939. | |
| Christening Cygnet II for Dr. Bill Swan of Brooksville, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Christening Cygnet II for Dr. Bill Swan of Brooksville, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: |
| Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Clark Holden off the Claremont Hotel in their Cruiser, Rachel Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Clark Holden off the Claremont Hotel in their Cruiser, Rachel Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Clark Holden off the Claremont Hotel in their Cruiser, Rachel Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Clark Holden off the Claremont Hotel in their Cruiser, Rachel Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Clark Holden off the Claremont Hotel in their Cruiser, Rachel Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Clark Holden off the Claremont Hotel in their Cruiser, Rachel Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Thistle Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Circumstance - Sloop Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Circumstance - Sloop Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Built by Henry R. Hinckley Company at the Manset Yard during April - June 1938 Owned by Dexter Lewis This item has construction photos including pouring/laying of the keel and stepping the mast, and sea trial photos. | |
| Carol Anne - Cruiser Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Carol Anne - Cruiser Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Interior and exterior images of the Carol Anne built by the Henry R. Hinckley Company | |
| Bobill II - Sloop Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Bobill II - Sloop Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Sparkman-Stephens Design Built by Henry R. Hinckley Company Owned by Carl Crook | |
| Boat Storage at Henry R. Hinckley Company as Manset Boat Yard Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Boat Storage at Henry R. Hinckley Company as Manset Boat Yard Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Hinckley Boat Yard. Inside storage shed with international class sloops shown. Outside storage of boats. Two launches-commuter type in shed. |
| The Henry R. Hinckley Company as Manset Boat Yard - Boats in Storage Outside - II Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Henry R. Hinckley Company as Manset Boat Yard - Boats in Storage Outside - II Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| The Henry R. Hinckley Company as Manset Boat Yard - Boats in Storage Shed - II Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Henry R. Hinckley Company as Manset Boat Yard - Boats in Storage Shed - II Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Capt. Thurston's Death Recalls Old Shipwreck Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Capt. Thurston's Death Recalls Old Shipwreck Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The Ellsworth American | |
| Sunbeam II Sigma Kappa Sorority Fundraising Card Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Sunbeam II Sigma Kappa Sorority Fundraising Card Southwest Harbor Public Library |
