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| Mary Ward Dorr Portrait Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Mary Ward Dorr Portrait Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Charcoal and pencil portrait of Mary Ward Dorr (George B. Dorr's mother). | |
| Dagurreotype photograph of William Pitt Preble ca.1850-1855 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Dagurreotype photograph of William Pitt Preble ca.1850-1855 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photograph. Dagurreotype of man believed to be William Pitt Preble ca.1850-1855, in hinged, gilt-edged, leatherbound, wood case. Plush green velvet with impressed scroll design lines the interior of the cover; thin brass/metal mat has green corrosion spots. From the Louise Marr collection of items recovered from the Preble House. William Pitt Preble (1811-1905) was the second owner of GCI's historic Preble house. He exemplified the industrious ingenuity needed to succeed in homesteading and developing a community on this rugged island in the early 19th century. Preble was the son of the Mount Desert Rock lighthouse keeper, a descendant of an influential Portland family. He came to Great Cranberry as a teacher, and became a church elder, selectman, justice of the peace, tax appraiser, postmaster, storekeeper, shipbuilder, and shipwreck appraiser. He outlived both his wives and raised nine children. [show more] | ||
| Sidewheel Steamer Rockland Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Sidewheel Steamer Rockland Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Main Street, Somesville Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Main Street, Somesville Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Main Street Somesville. Trees line street. Board sidewalk visible on right near picket fenced yards. Fernald’s Store (later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore) hidden by trees. Historic Lewis Somes House on right hidden by trees. Telephone poles line street. Man stands on grass near road in distance. Marked on back, “W.H. Ballard Collection Southwest Harbor, Maine. From a B. Bradley Stereo circa 1855." 8x10 | ||
| Abraham Somes III Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Abraham Somes III Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Copy of tintype of ambro type of Abraham Somes III. Dark hair parted on one side and brushed down. Beard from ears below chin, not on chin (plain folks style). Heavy black coat over double breasted vest, white shirt with black silk tie. Image appears to be scratched at bottom. | |||
| Willis Humphries Ballard Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Willis Humphries Ballard Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Willis Humphries Ballard at Popham Beach. | |
| Maria Merritt Beckwith, Age 6 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Maria Merritt Beckwith, Age 6 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Maria Merritt Beckwith Age 6 in 1850. Seated in Rocking Chair. Grandmother of donor, Robert Harris of Oak Hill Road, Mt. Desert. Hair parted in middle, pulled back behind ears. Wearing necklaces and possibly pocket watch around neck. Plaid dress with flounces in skirt. Narrow white lace collar. | |||
| Grave of Brother Du Thet & Ruins of St. Savior's Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Grave of Brother Du Thet & Ruins of St. Savior's Northeast Harbor Library Description: Lithograph of grave on the southeast side of MDI, site of a mission founded A.D. 1613 by Father Biard destroyed by Argall of Virginia. | |
| Tintype of Anne E. Smedley Carried by her Husband, Charles F. Hallock During the Civil War Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Tintype of Anne E. Smedley Carried by her Husband, Charles F. Hallock During the Civil War Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: A note in the front half of the case reads, “Anne Smedley - carried all thru Civil War by Chas. F. Hallock - They married @ end of war” |
| Description and scans of images of 1850s wet-plate postive photographs Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Description and scans of images of 1850s wet-plate postive photographs Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Documents. Two documents: (A) The first is an undated note entitled "Early pictures made at 'The Ways' " (home of the Lea family 1960s) written by George Vaux in which he describes two ca. 1850 "wet-plate positives, backed by metal plates." Two digital images in GCIHS collection, the first (D) of the ship "Express, Cranberry Isles," and the second, a wide landscape view of the Thomas Bunker wharves (C), both taken from The Ways property, may be the photos described in Vaux's note. The scans were made from photos provided by Nancy Lea ca. 2000. (2013 correspondence re: unsuccessful investigation into the whereabouts of the two original wet-plate positives was saved.) Vaux also explains that they called the house The Ways "because timbers for ships' ways were found when excavating for the basement." 2014 email from Chuck Liebow explain the photos: "Zooming in you can see another vessel "Harriett", a pinky or near double ender which Victor claimed was built by Thomas Bunker (Harriet was Thomas Bunker's wife). A 2000 email from Liebow indicates he thinks the photo shows the Thomas Bunker wharves on the site where Mrs. Lea's house is, with the Richman house with the roof half covered in snow. Liebow adds: George Vaux dated the photo to about 1852 based on the ship "Express" at the same wharf. Islesford looks funny but the Fish Point house is right where it ought to be." The second document (B) is an undated copy of a plat map (with ball point pen marks) showing the George Vaux and Robert Lea properties, Lots #30 and 31 respectively. (See also 2013.257.1987 re: modern photos of The Ways.) [show more] | ||
| Mount Desert from Bar Harbor, watercolor Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Mount Desert from Bar Harbor, watercolor Northeast Harbor Library Description: Came from the old library. | ||
| Mary Hadlock Manchester Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Mary Hadlock Manchester Northeast Harbor Library Description: B/W 9.5 x 13" photograph of Mary Hadlock Manchester from a daguerreotype. | |||
| William Lawler (1817-1892) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  William Lawler (1817-1892) Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Mary Ann Carroll Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Mary Ann Carroll Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Captain James E. Robinson Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Captain James E. Robinson Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Whitmore - Abigail "Argo" (Whitmore) Robinson (1829-1906) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Whitmore - Abigail "Argo" (Whitmore) Robinson (1829-1906) Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Mrs. James E. Robinson | |
| Elizabeth Cook Carroll Lawler Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Elizabeth Cook Carroll Lawler Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Entrance of Somes Sound from Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Entrance of Somes Sound from Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Fitz Henry Lane painted one of the earliest views of Southwest Harbor, and seems to have studied the shore carefully. The view shows a lumber schooner loading its long cargo through a port in the bow of the vessel. The white house immediately to the left of the vessel probably shows an early version of the Seth Higgins Clark House. The white house at the center of the shore is the Nathan Clark II House. The white building at the far left is Deacon Henry Higgins Clark's Island House Hotel, early in its career, before it was expanded into several stories with a mansard roof. Clark descendants, and their houses, are still in Southwest Harbor. William Howe Witherle (1821–1906) accompanied Lane on his trip around Mount Desert Island and recorded many of their adventures in his diary. On August 21 he wrote, "… George, Joe & myself took breakfast this morning at the Island House – and a fine one it was – price 25 cts – Mr. Lane took 2 sketches here…” The sketches referred to were of the shore and harbor, not the hotel. See: Witherle, William Howe. William Witherle Diary (unpublished manuscript) (August 16–21, 1852). Personal diary in the collection of the Wilson Museum, Castine, Maine (A00060-1a-1h). [show more] |
| Almira or Elmira Myra C. Gott Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Almira or Elmira Myra C. Gott Southwest Harbor Public Library |