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| Edwin L. Higgins at his Blacksmith Shop with Simeon Holden Mayo Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Edwin L. Higgins at his Blacksmith Shop with Simeon Holden Mayo Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The barn on the left, with the scaffolding, is the Jacob Schoppy Mayo house and, then, farm at 60 Clark Point Road. | |
| William R. Keene Boat Builder Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  William R. Keene Boat Builder Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Letter to Stanley re: vessels for sale Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Letter to Stanley re: vessels for sale Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter and envelope, handwritten, from John D. Snow, Wellfleet MA, 4 Nov 1882, to Enoch.B. Stanley, offering vessels for sale per Stanley's request (no stamps -- letter not mailed, but rather handed on) | ||
| Octavia Fifield Millinery, Bernard, Maine - I - Between 1887 and 1896 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Octavia Fifield Millinery, Bernard, Maine - I - Between 1887 and 1896 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Octavia Fifield Millinery, Bernard, Maine - II - Between 1887 and 1896 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Octavia Fifield Millinery, Bernard, Maine - II - Between 1887 and 1896 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Receipt made out to Mrs. Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Receipt made out to Mrs. Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Business receipt. Itemized purchases dated May 4, 5, 11, 18, and 25,188(?). Company name appears as 'Jewett and Brower', at Portland Maine. Made out to Mrs. Spurling. Total amount is for $121. Lines 1, 3, and 5 appear to be haddock. | ||
| Receipt for Preble's purchase of netting Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Receipt for Preble's purchase of netting Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Business receipt. "Portland, Feb 19th, 1880, Mr. W.P. Preble, A.M. Nickerson & Co, Dealers in All Kinds of Seines, &c., Also Seines Tarred, Hung and Repaired at Shortest Notice. Long Wharf, Portland, ME." Item bought: "100 Lbs Porgie Netting $20.00" Handwritten note "Rev'd Pay't A.M. Nickerson & Co." Further note: "Paid: March 22nd 1880" | ||
| Letter to Enoch Stanley re: fish sales Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Letter to Enoch Stanley re: fish sales Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter from Potter and Wrightington, Boston, to Enoch Stanley, 2 Aug 1881, complaining that Enoch sent fish to them without notice and thus they had to sell at poor market. | ||
| Letter from Small to Preble re: weir Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Letter from Small to Preble re: weir Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, 2 sheets, 4 sides, handwritten letter from E.E. Small, fish dealer, to William B. Preble, 9 Feb 1882, about not going into partnership with Preble but instead taking on by himself the plan to build a weir and fish business in the Cranberry Isles. Transcribed. | ||
| View looking toward the Wedge and the Rock End Hotel, Northeast Harbor Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  View looking toward the Wedge and the Rock End Hotel, Northeast Harbor Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Photograph taken from the area of the Samuel Gilpatrick Homestead looking toward the Rock End Hotel, near Gilpatrick Cove Northeast Harbor. In the foreground is Herman Savage's cottage, "The Wedge," designed by his architect brother, Fred L. Savage, in 1885. Two children stand on the side of the road, and an unidentified structure is visible beyond the hotel. In the distance, the northern shores of Great Cranberry Island can be seen. The Rock End Hotel was originally called the Revere House and was opened by Herman L. Savage in the summer of 1884. The Wedge was built by A. Torrey, a contractor from Southwest Harbor, in the winter of 1885-1886. The Rock End Hotel burned in March, 1942. The Wedge was purchased by the Roberts family and remodeled in 1944-45, following plans by Philadelphia architect Edmund Gilchrist. It remains a private residence today. [show more] | |
| Receipt for Schooner Lizzie Maud payment Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Receipt for Schooner Lizzie Maud payment Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Business receipt. "Portland, Me Feb 10th, 1885. Received of Benj. N. Spurling Two hundred Dollars on acct of payment of Sch[ooner] Lizzie Maud. $200.00." Appears to be signed by J.P. Nordstrom. Handwriten on back in ink: "Receipt on acct vessel. I. and Y. P. Hodgdon Jr" | ||
| Telegram to Enoch Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Telegram to Enoch Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Telegram from Potter and Wrightington, Boston, 20 Jan 1880, to Capt. Enoch Stanley, care of Perley Russell & Co., Portland, advising of sale at 40 cents per hundred count | ||
| Logo of B.F.Joy's Photographic Art Studio on the reserve of a cabinet photo Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Logo of B.F.Joy's Photographic Art Studio on the reserve of a cabinet photo Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Logo on reverse of a cabinet photo of an unknown man. |
| Nubble Quarry Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Nubble Quarry Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Index Running of Seal Harbor Realty Company Half Acre Lot, also Hoe-Dakin Lot Jesup Memorial Library |
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| Index Running of Seal Harbor Realty Company Half Acre Lot, also Hoe-Dakin Lot Jesup Memorial Library Description: Handwritten index of Seal Harbor Realty Company Half Acre Lot, includes notes on Hoe- Dakin Lot. 8 pages. | ||
| Receipts and notes Preble and Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Receipts and notes Preble and Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Four documnts 1880-1892. 1. 1880 (Dec. 13) Receipt on store ledger page. Samuel Sanford paid $1.65 to Sargent, Lord & Skillin, Ship Chandlery, Groceries, Fishermen’s outfits and Fishing Supplies, Nos. 8 & 12 Commercial Wharf, Portland, for an illegible item. 2. [undated] Handwritten description of area near Stanley weir, paper was torn and mended at some point. “54 running yards between [Mayos?] and [J. G.?] Stanleys weir. Commencing at J. G. Stanley’s [Bxxxx Pxxx?] or weir and run E. by North 175 yards leaving a boat way between the Thumb and suitable for boats passage in towards the shore and not to extend over 1/3 of the width of passage between the Thrumb Cap & May Pole Point.” Reverse side shows calculations. 3. 1881 (August 16- September 24) handwritten list of quantities [barrels?] of mackerel, herring, and other fish. Reverse shows Graham Co received payment from William Preble Nov. 18, 1881. 4. 1889 (Sept 1889-Oct1890). Handwritten notebook page with header: Estate of Thomas Stanley to William Preble. Lists expenses incurred managing Stanley estate, totaling $906.44. On the reverse side are two seemingly unrelated handwritten notes, written in different directions on the paper. One is a statement signed by William P. Preble July 6, 1892 that someone has been trespassing and taking berries without permission; and that after this date, nothing should be removed from his lands or property without consent. The second is a statement listing the value of personal property and homestead for the estate of Thomas Stanley 2nd. [show more] | ||
| William P. Preble ledgers (1873-1890s) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  William P. Preble ledgers (1873-1890s) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Two ledgers (A-B) 1873-1890s of a collection of 18 small, 19th-century ledgers or account journals belonging to William P. Preble; very difficult to decipher, many entries not in chronological order, often several years of entries not made in sequential order. (Only exterior and one page of each ledger scanned. ) A= 1873-1893 long narrow store ledger with a general mish-mash of stuff…some in chronological order some not. 1873 list of cash and credit, purchases, school items. 1872 herring shipped, 1890, 1893. Small folded note inserted in middle of this ledger signed by William P. Preble, dated Jan 23rd 1891 that “parties having friends buried in the Burying Yard [cemetery] that they are requested to contribute towards the bill for labor and materials for fencing and painting the same”. Charges for services to the Town of CI [no year]. 1876 Town of CI charges, 1877 Charges for handling the estate of G. H. Gilley, 1878 and 1880 Meeting House expenses [church?], various 1881 records, 1881-1886 various entries. B= Small tan notebook “Pierce’s memorandum and Account Book designed for Farmers, Mechanics and all people”. 1893 January expenses for various jobs including “hauling weir stuff”. List of payments to S.C. Sanford (“Sammy” Samuel Sanford, Preble’s step son), and others. [show more] | ||
| Receipt for a ton of coal Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Receipt for a ton of coal Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Business receipt, on Gilbert Graves paper, from Henry Clark, 10 Dec 1887, to Asa D. Stanley, for a ton of coal, $5.50 | ||
| Advertisement for Albert W. Bee, Stationer, Bar Harbor, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Advertisement for Albert W. Bee, Stationer, Bar Harbor, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Ernest E. Emery's Photography Studio Logo - Reverse of a Cabinet Card Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Ernest E. Emery's Photography Studio Logo - Reverse of a Cabinet Card Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Freeman Store, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Freeman Store, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: This photo was probably taken soon after the store was built about 1887. The back part had not been added at this time. At the far left of the photograph one of the twin rusticator cottages, either the A. B. Farnham Cottage or the W. P. Dickey Cottage, is visible. |
| William H. Ward Sr. Approval for Wharf Extension by the Selectmen of Tremont Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  William H. Ward Sr. Approval for Wharf Extension by the Selectmen of Tremont Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: "The Selectmen of the Town of Tremont, upon the application of William H. Ward of said Tremont for license to extend his wharf into the tide-waters of S.W. Harbor, within his limit of said Town, having given lawful notices of their meeting to examine the premises and give a hearing to all parties interested therein, and having met at this time and place appointed and for the purposes named in said notice, and having decided that the extension asked for would not be an obstruction to navigation nor an injury to the rights of others, in accordance with the Statutes of this State, do hereby issue this license unto the said William H. Ward authorizing him to extend his wharf into the tide-waters of said SouthWest Harbor; said extension not to exceed one hundred feet in width and three hundred feet in length, in a northeasterly direction from the pier now standing on said Ward's Shore, on the southwesterly side of said S.W. Harbor. Given under our hands at said Tremont this 29th of Sept. A. D. 1884" Signed: William Heath Perry W. Richardson Caleb H. Sawyer Selectmen of Tremont [show more] | |
| Northeast Harbor Livery Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Northeast Harbor Livery Northeast Harbor Library Description: B/W, 14x12' Photograph of Rogers and Atwood Livery barn. Photograph shows many people aboard buggies tethered to horses. | ||
| Nests and eggs of the birds of the United States Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Nests and eggs of the birds of the United States Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published by J. A. Wagenseller | ||
| Epidendrum atropurpureum var. Randi L. Lind. & Rod. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Epidendrum atropurpureum var. Randi L. Lind. & Rod. Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Lindenia Iconography of Orchids, Director: J. Linden, Editor-in-Chief, Lucien Linden & |