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You searched for: Date: 1890sSubject: Businesses
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Pierce's Memorandum and Account Book 1898
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Businesses, Farming
  • 1898
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Pierce's Memorandum and Account Book 1898
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Booklet, "Pierce's Memorandum and Account Book, Designed for Farmers, Mechanics, and All People", for taking daily notes, with quaint information
Proposal for Cranberry Club wharf 1899
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Government, Government Records
  • Businesses, Lodging Business
  • 1899
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Proposal for Cranberry Club wharf 1899
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Document, 1 sheet, Public Notice, handwritten draft, Selectmen William E. Hadlock and W.A. Spurling propose to consider Cranberry Club's application to build 219-foot Wharf on Fish Point, 25 Mar 1899. It was later approved, obviously. This item has penciled draft on one side, and identical pen draft on the other. Transcribed as: "Notice is hereby given that it is the intention of the Municipal Officers (Selectmen) of Cranberry Isles, upon the application in writing of the President and Others of the Cranberry Club , (so called) for License to Erect and Extend a Wharf, off Land leased of William Stanley at the Fish Point, (so called) on Great Cranberry Island. Said proposed Wharf to extend into tide waters Two Hundred and nineteen feet from low water mark, at low tide; and that they will meet for the purpose of examining the location proposed at said Fish Point on Saturday the twenty fifth day of March, A.D. 1899, at three o'clock in the afternoon, and all persons interested will govern themselves accordingly. Given under our hand, this 20th. day of March, A.D. 1899. William E. Hadlock, Municipal Officers W.A. Spurling Cranberry Isles." (Above is text of the blue ink version. The pencil version on the back seems to be identical.) [show more]
Capt. William Bill Horace Herrick Leading John Whitmore's Fast Speed Horse To Be Shot
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • 1898 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • No Copyright - United States
Freeman's Wharf, Southwest Harbor - Farnsworth's Lobster, Clam and Sardine factory
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Worth
  • 1891
  • Southwest Harbor
  • No Copyright - United States
The Quarries
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1890
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
  • No Copyright - United States
The Quarries
Southwest Harbor Public Library
"The Village Blacksmith" - Edwin L. Higgins
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Businesses, Blacksmith Business
  • People
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1895-09-05
  • Southwest Harbor
  • No Copyright - United States
"The Village Blacksmith" - Edwin L. Higgins
Southwest Harbor Public Library
"The Village Blacksmith" - Edwin L. Higgins
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Businesses, Blacksmith Business
  • People
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1894-08
  • Southwest Harbor
  • No Copyright - United States
"The Village Blacksmith" - Edwin L. Higgins
Southwest Harbor Public Library
"The Village Blacksmith" - Edwin Lemuel Higgins - III
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Businesses, Blacksmith Business
  • People
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1895-09-05
  • Southwest Harbor
  • No Copyright - United States
Description:
The title was given by Henry L. Rand when he catalogued the photograph. Clearly visible on Mr. Higgins’ anvil is the distinctive eagle and anchor mark that distinguishes it as a Fisher & Norris Eagle Anvil. Mark Fisher founded the company in Newport, Maine in 1843. The company later moved to New Jersey. Mr. Higgins left hand is on the lever that controls the air coming into the fire. And a bucket of water stands nearby.
William Underwood Company Lobster Cannery at Steamboat Wharf on Clark Point
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1890
  • Southwest Harbor
  • No Copyright - United States
Fish Flakes at Manset, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1892-08-11
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • No Copyright - United States
Fish Flakes at Manset, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
The photograph also shows 4 fishing schooners in the harbor at Manset, Maine.
Clark's Wharf and Lobster Factory
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1895-09-05
  • Southwest Harbor
  • No Copyright - United States
Clark's Wharf and Lobster Factory
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Fish Flakes at a Codfish Station at Manset
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • 1891 c.
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Fish Flakes at a Codfish Station at Manset
Southwest Harbor Public Library