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| Shipyard and Mill at Somesville Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Shipyard and Mill at Somesville Northeast Harbor Library Description: B/W stereoview of a saw mill and shipyard (with schooner being built) in Somesville Harbor. Parker Farm is left center behind schooner. | |
| Letter to Captain Lew Stanley from Barbara Donald. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Letter to Captain Lew Stanley from Barbara Donald. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A letter to Lew Stanley from Barbara Donald. This letter basically says that Barbara is going to Europe for the summer and won't be going to Cranberry. She also mentions some oars, and owing Lew money. | |
| Ledgers from Lewis Stanley boatyard, 19th century Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ledgers from Lewis Stanley boatyard, 19th century Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of three scanned ledger account books originally from the Lewis Stanley boatyard. Ledgers were inherited by donor from his great uncle Lewis Stanley. (See scans on gcihs-nas\photo\Museum Photos\2015.316.2077_SchmidtLedgers and on DVD; ledgers were originally returned to donor August 2015; then all were donated to museum June 2017). Ledger A1: Measures 8.25H x 7: W x .5” thick. First page: George N. Spurling, Cranberry Isles; and [unreadable name below Spurling] Machias Port. Entries run from 1855-1870, with the last four pages dated 1855 pertaining to WatterWitch (Water Witch, Waterwitch, spelling and capitalization varies) stocks and specifics. Account entries recorded for the WatterWitch, Schooner Rozella, and Schooner Caressa. Names mentioned: Walton, Guptill, Haynes, Stanley, Spurling, Ferrin, Wentworth, Young, Saddler, Ladd. Commodities: fish and oil mostly; stocks and figuring notations in pen and pencil by different hands. First page states Schooner Hannah & Abigail bought in Boston May 6th, 1849. First entry is “E.B. Stanley, Cranberry Isles Oct. 9th, 1858 for $21 dollars on account of my share of fish bought on board Sch. WatterWitch this season. Asa [D?] Stanley.” Ledger B2: Measures 8”H x 6.75” W x .5” thick. Inside front cover is written: “Jonas Blood born April 15th, 1774.” First page begins with January 1st 1859 listing sale of butter, pork, and eggs. Ledger records expenses and sales of produce and other items through April 1862 and appears to be written by all the same hand. [For some info on Jonas Blood: probably born New Hampshire. http://gen.plagge.org/individual.php?pid=I16094&ged=plagge.ged Jonas Blood:b..c1774 d.5/21/1870, age 96 By genealogy.com.] Ledger C3: 14" H x 3.75" W x 1" thick. Label on front cover: Sanborn & Carter, Publishers, Booksellers and Blank Book Manufacturers, No. 55 Exchange Street, Portland, Maine. Small envelope and letter addressed to Mrs. E. B. Stanley, Cranberry Isles, Maine, postmarked Waltham MA, Nov 17/12M/1908 (03?) with 2 cent stamp. Reverse postmark is Cranberry Isles 1908(3)? Begins "North East Harbor, Lindsay,” ends: "Hastily, Carol(?)" Many pages have been cut out from the beginning of this ledger. First entry, is on page 85 and starts: “Boston Dec. 6th 1879 Sch. S.L. Foster. Page 93 is “Boston Dec 14, 1885.” Page 98 deals with the estate of Enoch B. Stanley and Lewis B. Stanley 1903 and continues with various documents and deeds to 1908 (to page 151). Then returns to accounts for the S. L. Foster 1889. Page 176 begins accounts for the Schooner Rozella 1882, then to 1881, and goes back to deeds and correspondence p. 196 for 1908. P. 198 goes back to the Sch. Foster and alternates between accounts re: Foster and Rozella. Two small loose account papers between p. 212 and 213. The ledger goes back and forth between years and schooners and deeds throughout the book. Last pages of ledger date Jan 18, 1913 and begin with “I expressly forbade Lewis to connect the new building with the original fish house of the heirs of E. B. Stanley…..” (See also 2017.389.2164 and 2017.388.2163) See also notes from Charles Liebow email 2019 re: boat builders with this ledger. [show more] | ||
| Negative and print of Lewis Stanley boatyard in winter Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Negative and print of Lewis Stanley boatyard in winter Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo. Negative and 11"x14" photo of Lewis (Lew) Stanley's boatyard located on the pool during the wintertime with the pool frozen. The boatyard was later sold to Heliker and LaHotan and they tore it down because it was a hazard and in rough shape. Mickey Macfarlan who said that towards the end of his life Lew Stanley was hard up for money and could no longer repair the boatyard. Mickey said Lew was always complaining that people were stealing from the boatyard - the second floor of it was chock full of all sorts of things. Mickey mentioned that the boatyard itself was "tremendously large" [show more] | |||
| "Cranberry Island Notes" by Charles 'Chuck' Liebow Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "Cranberry Island Notes" by Charles 'Chuck' Liebow Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Boats. Looseleaf Binder, "Cranberry Island Notes" by Charles Liebow. Contains maps 1607-1881, "List of Vessels From Notes made by Chuck Liebow (Typed & some notes added by Hugh Dwelley 11/1994" (also on cranberryisles.com website), 1912 petition to establish boundaries of roads, census data 1839-1860, the cranberry register 1909-1910, boat building, Liebow's notes on books and articles, miscellaneous, photos, houses showing owners then and now, families, deeds. [show more] | |||
| William P. Preble receipts Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  William P. Preble receipts Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Two receipts: (A) Tremont March 10th, 1852, Received of William P. Preble seventy three dollars 80/100 in full payment for ballance doo me for wooden materials to build new Brig Abigail Maria of, furnished by me the last season as per agreement dated at Tremont December 5th, 1850. Signed by Henry W. [xxxx?]. And (B): William P. Preble's taxes 1878 = $1.10. | ||
| Repairs to the Brig Factor March 13, 1854 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Repairs to the Brig Factor March 13, 1854 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Certificate for repairs to the Factor (three pages), a ship built on GCI 1832, in for repairs in South Carolina in 1854, with cargo of molasses and other items, with transcription by donor. | ||
| Southwest Boat Corporation vessel photographs Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Southwest Boat Corporation vessel photographs Southwest Harbor Public Library | |||
| Southwest Boat Company Photos Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Southwest Boat Company Photos Southwest Harbor Public Library | |||
| Aerial photos of the Hinckley Company boatyard in Manset Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Aerial photos of the Hinckley Company boatyard in Manset Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The aerial photograph above appears to have been taken in the mid 1970s, but no earlier than 1974 because of the presence of a 1974 Pontiac Trans Am and what looks like a 1974 VW Super Beetle in the parking areas. The other photo is older, possibly late 1950s, as is evidenced by the cars and the absence of some of the newer building in the first photograph. In the older image, The Moorings is clearly visible in the upper right portion of the photo. [show more] | |||
| Photographs and a brochure from Ralph Stanley Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Photographs and a brochure from Ralph Stanley Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: See index file for a description of each item | |||
| Henry R. Hinckley's Boatyard Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Henry R. Hinckley's Boatyard Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Hinckley US MTLs - Motor Towing Launches (MTLs) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Hinckley US MTLs - Motor Towing Launches (MTLs) Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: A collection of yet to be curated photographs of boats built by Hinckley for the military during WWII. 36 foot motor towing launches, powered with 125 horse-power engines, and draw five and one-half feet of water. Cummins 3370 AEL in a diamond YR00. | |
| Benjamin Barret Hinckley, Jr. photographs and documents Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Benjamin Barret Hinckley, Jr. photographs and documents Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: This item contains a number of photographs and documents that came from Benjamin Barret Hinckley, Jr. that were given to the Library by his family. Many of the materials are related to his book "The Hinckley Story". See the index files for details about the images in the contact sheets. | |||
| John Williams and Lyford Stanley Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  John Williams and Lyford Stanley Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Photos of John “Jock” Williams and his partner Lyford Stanley. Also includes photos of lobster boats they built and an aerial view of the boatyard. | |||
| Morris Boat Yard Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Morris Boat Yard Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Ellis Boat photographs Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Ellis Boat photographs Southwest Harbor Public Library | |||
| Shipbuilding on Mount Desert Island Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Shipbuilding on Mount Desert Island Northeast Harbor Library Description: Copy of Stanley's "History of Shipbuilding on MDI "with a list of vessels built between 1782 and 1902. Several photographs of the boats were added by R. Pyle at the Northeast Harbor library. | |
| Ralph Stanley Inc. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Ralph Stanley Inc. Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: After earning an associate's degree from a college in northern Maine, Stanley returned to Southwest Harbor. Not sure what occupation he wanted to pursue, he decided to try to build a boat. So he earned the money he needed to buy wood and other construction materials and, during the winter of 1951-1952, he built a 28-foot lobster boat. The boat turned out well and a local person bought it. This led to orders for other boats. "I've been building (boats) ever since," he said. Stanley learned how to build boats not by apprenticing himself to another boatbuilder but mainly by keenly observing and using boats and by observing the activities of several professional boatbuilders who specialized in the Mt. Desert Island version of the Maine lobster boat. [show more] | ||
| The Henry R. Hinckley Company - as Manset Boat Yard - Coast Guard Boats on the Old Shore Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Henry R. Hinckley Company - as Manset Boat Yard - Coast Guard Boats on the Old Shore Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: This photograph was taken before the Manset shore was filled in. – According to Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021), the White boat hauled up on shore in front of the William Spurling Newman house at 102 Shore Road, Map 17 – Lot 100 – was probably built by Leslie “Les” M. Rice (1883-1966) on Great Cranberry Island for William “Uncle Jimmy” Doane Stanley (1855-1950). She was built as a double ender. Someone bought her and put a square stern on her. Work was slow at Hinckleys for awhile so Bill Dunham (Wilfred Manson Dunham (1918-2001) and Lewis Tapley (Lewis Merton Tapley (1916-1985) bought her and went fishing, though not for long. Work picked up at the Hinckley yard soon afterward. The vessel was then bought by Abner W. Lunt (1908-1975), then she was bought by Luther C. Faulkingham (1901-1993) of Prospect Harbor, where she was the last time Ralph saw her. The wharf building with the false front was the building that Francis “Frank” Thompson Chalmers Sr. (1893-1985), F. Dwight Perkins (1902-1981) and Merton S. Alley (1904-1985) had a car dealership in. Almon Frank Ramsdell Sr’s (1873-1946) garage was there later. Hinckley may have owned the building when this picture was taken. James “Jim” M. Willis (1919-2006) later ran “The Boathouse” there. See SWHPL 9363 [show more] |
| Launching Friendship Sloop Freedom Built for Richard Beebe Dudman Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Launching Friendship Sloop Freedom Built for Richard Beebe Dudman Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Left to Right: Dudman - Richard Beebe Dudman (1918-) Sloane - Helen R. (Sloane) Dudman (1918-) Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Two unknown workmen | |
| Building in the winter. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Building in the winter. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Constructing the first floor of the three-story addition to Cranberry House. First floor will be the environmentally controlled archive addition. |
| The Connecticut at the Southwest Boat Corporation Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Connecticut at the Southwest Boat Corporation Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Ralph Stanley's boat yard late 1980's Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Ralph Stanley's boat yard late 1980's Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: A contact sheet of 2 1/4 x 2 1/14 color negatives taken, developed, and printed by Ronald Monteleon |
| Tax form for vessel Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Tax form for vessel Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Tax form, blank, for vessels |