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Wilson Hall, East Maine Conference Seminary
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • Tuttle - W.C. Tuttle, Belfast, Maine
  • 1860 c.
  • Maine
  • No Copyright - United States
Wilson Hall, East Maine Conference Seminary
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
The building on the right was Wilson Hall. The large building on the left was the dormitory.
The Freeman House with Buggy
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Stereograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Allen - Edward Lowe Allen (c. 1830-1914)
  • 1865 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • No Copyright - United States
The Freeman House with Buggy
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Eben Fernald and Aaron Ross on Flying Mountain Looking South to Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Stereograph
  • Places, Mountain
  • Bradley - Bryant Bradley (1838-1890)
  • 1868
  • Southwest Harbor
  • No Copyright - United States
Letter Written by Nathan Clark III to His Father, Seth Higgins Clark
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • People
  • 1867-01-01
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
The text of the letter is as follows: Boston, Jan. 1, 1867 Dear Father, I arrived hear [sic] last Friday all right at last we had rather a hard chance round. I don't know what I shall do with all my money this time I have made so much of this trip we shall be ready to leave Saterday [sic] if it don't storm. from Nate
Letter from Jacob William Carroll to Mr. Clark
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Carroll - Jacob William Carroll (1830-1899)
  • 1865-12-23
  • United States
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Letter from Jacob William Carroll to Mr. Clark
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
This letter was written to Mr. Clark in 1865, while Jacob was at sea, five years before his marriage. The letter says: Philadelphia, Dec 23/65 Mr. Clark Sir What money you have for me from the Schr [Schooner?] please pay it over toward my Taxes. I am loading general cargo for Savannah. I got a fair Freight, but business is very dull & I shall be a long time loading. Coal to Boston is $3.00 & very scarce. There is a great deal of ice in the river. I am afraid it will close before I get out. Res. yours J.W. Carroll [show more]
William H. Benson House - Dr. Elias Craig Neal House
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939)
  • 1867 c.
  • Tremont, Bernard
  • No Copyright - United States
Joanna Whitmore Whittaker, Mrs. Charles Luther Whittaker
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Direct Positive, Tintype
  • People
  • 1865 c.
  • No Copyright - United States
Description:
Judging from the date of the patent on the photograph envelope, image was probably taken at about the time of her marriage to Charles Luther Wittaker in 1868. The tintype is held by a Potter's Patent Picture-Card frame.
J.T.R. Freeman's House and Post Office
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Art, Painting
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • 1865 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
J.T.R. Freeman's House and Post Office
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
The white building with the staircase at the left of the watercolor is the building where John Richardson conducted his tailoring business with the Customs House on the second floor. The building in the center of the painting is part of the discarded South Norwood Cove school, presumably now J.T.R. Freeman's home. (It should be noted that what is now the village of Southwest Harbor used to be called South Norwood's Cove.) The little white building to the right would be the post office, probably with people playing croquet in front of it. [show more]
The Mill Race at Schooner Head
Waterfall at Schooner Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Allen - Edward Lowe Allen (c. 1830-1914)
  • 1865 c.
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
  • No Copyright - United States
The Mill Race at Schooner Head
Waterfall at Schooner Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Stereograph sometimes listed as "Waterfall at Schooner Head" and other times as "Mill Race at Schooner Head", Probably at the William Lynam Homestead, Eden, Maine.
U.S. Revenue Cutter, Levi Woodbury - Between 1864 and 1900
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Boat
  • 1864 c.
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Vessel Name – Mahoning – renamed Levi Woodbury “Woodbury” April 1898 – renamed Laksco after 1915 Class – Topsail Schooner / Steamer – Pawtuxet-class tender Hull – wood – oak, locust and white oak w. iron diagonal bracing Masts - 2 Rig – topsail schooner Build date – 1863 Commissioned – July 18, 1864 Built by – J.W. Lynn & Sons Built at – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Built for – U.S. Revenue Service Named for – Mahoning creek and valley, Pennsylvania – 1898 for Levi Woodbury (1789-1851), U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy, Supreme Court Justice Power – steam engine with 2 oscillating cylinders; single 8’ screw Displacement – 350 tons Length – 138’ Beam – 26’6” Draft – 11’ Crew – 7 officers, 34 enlisted Armament – 1 x 30-pound Parrott rifle; 5 x 24-pound howitzers Number – Disposition – By 1913, Woodbury was not only the Coast Guard's oldest cutter, she was the oldest active-duty vessel in U.S. government service, as well as being the only ship to have seen active service in both the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War. Decommissioned by Coast Guard, July 19, 1915, Portland, Maine. Sold to Thomas Butler & Co., Boston, Massachusetts August 10, 1915. Woodbury's decommission ended 51 years with the Revenue Cutter Service, making her one of the longest serving cutters in the organization's history. After her final decommission in 1915, Levi Woodbury was placed into service as the merchant Laksco. She disappears from shipping records in 1932. [show more]
Schooner Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Stereograph
  • Places, Shore
  • Allen - Edward Lowe Allen (c. 1830-1914)
  • 1865 c.
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
  • No Copyright - United States
Schooner Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Size – 6.875” x 3.125” Media – Albumen print - sepia Title – Schooner Head, Mt. Desert, Me – hand written in ink on the reverse
View at Mt. Desert, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Stereograph
  • People
  • Places, Landscape
  • 1865 c.
  • Mount Desert
  • No Copyright - United States
View at Mt. Desert, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Man wearing straw hat leaning on a long pole or rake - view over harbor.
The Artist Sketching at Mount Desert, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Art, Painting
  • Places, Landscape
  • Gifford - Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880)
  • 1864 c.
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
The Artist Sketching at Mount Desert, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Augustus Clark (1846-1938)
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Osgood - Irving Osgood (1845-1914)
  • 1865 c.
  • No Copyright - United States
Augustus Clark (1846-1938)
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Augustus Clark (1846-1938)
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Osgood - Irving Osgood (1845-1914)
  • 1865 c.
  • No Copyright - United States
Augustus Clark (1846-1938)
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Inlet to Echo Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Stereograph
  • Places, Lake
  • Heywood - John D. Heywood
  • 1860 c.
  • Acadia National Park
  • No Copyright - United States
Inlet to Echo Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
A Sketch at Mount Desert, Maine, 1864
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Art, Painting
  • Places, Landscape
  • Gifford - Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880)
  • 1864
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
A Sketch at Mount Desert, Maine, 1864
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Letter from Antoinette (Brown) Harmon, Mrs. John Cummins Harmon to her Husband
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Correspondence
  • People
  • 1864-10-25
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Map of the City of Cambridge
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Map
  • Places
  • Chase - J.G. Chase
  • 1865
  • New England
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Map of the City of Cambridge
Southwest Harbor Public Library
The Hadlock Family at the Epps L. Hadlock House
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • 1864 c.
  • Southwest Harbor, Seawall
  • No Copyright - United States
Frances Fannie Newell (Walls) Wasgatt Leighton Greening Savage - Probably as Mrs. James Greening
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • 1860 c.
  • Southwest Harbor, Greening Island
  • No Copyright - United States
Ezra Herrick Dodge III
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • 1863 c.
  • Tremont
  • No Copyright - United States
Ezra Herrick Dodge III
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Peter Dolliver IV
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • 1865 c.
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • No Copyright - United States
Peter Dolliver IV
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Water Pitcher from the Island House
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Other Object
  • 1861
  • Southwest Harbor
  • No Copyright - United States
Water Pitcher from the Island House
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Gift to Deacon Henry Higgins Clark from Guests - August 3, 1861. This silver plated water pitcher is typical of its era. It probably had an inner air jacket to keep the iced water cold. The inscription reads: "Henry H. Clark from the Guests of the Island House August 3rd, 1861"
Frances Fannie Newell (Walls) Wasgatt Leighton Greening Savage - Probably as Mrs. James Greening
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • 1860 c.
  • Southwest Harbor, Greening Island
  • No Copyright - United States