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You searched for: Date: 1860sType: Image
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Photo of the Steamer "Lewiston"
Bar Harbor Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Vessels, Boat
  • 1868 c.
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Undetermined
Photo of the Steamer "Lewiston"
Bar Harbor Historical Society
Description:
Black and white image of the steamer paddle wheel boat "Lewiston" docked at Bar Harbor wharf. The Lewiston was the first passenger boat to make regular trips to Bar Harbor's wharf.
Bunker Family Photo Album tintypes
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • 1862
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Bunker Family Photo Album tintypes
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Photo album, miniature, clasp closure, with metal tintype photos, Inscription on first page: "Presented to Sarah M. Bunker by her brother Thomas J. Bunker 1862", some photos labeled with names.including: George Bulger, George Bunker, Clara Richardson, Harriet Bunker, Julia Bunker. Last page, handwritten: Joanha, Joanah, Johana"
Chauncy Noyes?
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Portrait
  • John A. Heard
  • c 1860s
Chauncy Noyes?
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Chauncy Noyes [leland boy]. Also 3 cent George Washington stamp on back. Unclear if photo was mailed to Chauncy Noyes or if he is subject of photo. Also marked, “John A. Heard 10 Tremont Row Boston. Man dressed in uniform. Balding with long sideburns. Seated with arm on table, curtain to left.
Harriett Noyes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Portrait
  • B. F. George
  • c 1860s
Harriett Noyes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Harriett Noyes age 50-70. Hair parted in middle and pulled back. Ribbons worn at back of head. Full skirt with belt at waist. Buttons down center of bodice, lace collar and small black bow at neck. Trim runs down length of sleeve and around cufs. Seated in chair with arm on covered table. Marked on back, “B.F. George, Photographist, 140 Court Street Boston.
Laura or Sue Cushman
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Portrait
  • Unknown
  • c 1860s
Laura or Sue Cushman
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Marked Sue Cushman written on front, Laura Cushman written on reverse.Woman age 18-30 standing, hand on pedestal in photographer’s studio. Wearing full dress with hope skirt. Dark fabric with full sleeves. Black decorative trim runing down each side of skirt fron and joining row of points along hem. Trim also on cuff and upper arm. White collar and black bow at neck. Hair parted in middle and pulled back. Wearing small hat or ribbon on back of head. [show more]
Adaline Clark
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • People
  • Unknown
  • 1860-1868
Adaline Clark
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
portrait of woman in long dark, full skirt (possibly hoopskirt) with edging at trim and dark cape-type top. Dark hair pulled back into snood. Holding onto back of wooden chair with right hand. Inscription on back reads “Adaline Clark.”
Emilie Clarissa Meynell Somes, 1867
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Direct Positive, Tintype
  • Other, Portrait
  • 1867
Emilie Clarissa Meynell Somes, 1867
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Emilie Clarissa Meynell Somes, wife of Thaddeus Shepley Somes. Seated turned to left. Dark hair pulled back into large bun at back of head. Wears band in hair and long beaded earrings. Black fitted dress with simple white collar. Holds book, perhaps photo album.
Thaddeus Shepley Somes, tintype
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Direct Positive, Tintype
  • Other, Portrait
  • 1868
Thaddeus Shepley Somes, tintype
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Thaddeus Shepley Somes age 40-50. Hairline receding, hair brushed back. Neatly trimmed beard and mustache. Wears heavy dark coat unbuttoned with dark vest underneath buttoned to top and white collar. One hand on knee the other on table. Color added to cheeks. Emulsion pealing from edges.
Unknown Woman
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Direct Positive, Tintype
  • Other, Portrait
  • 1860's
Unknown Woman
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Unknown woman with hair parted in middle and pulled back. Wears dark shawl or cape and white blouse. Marked on frame: "Potter’s Patent March 7, 1865."
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.
Daisy Kittredge and Civil War Soldier Holmes
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Other
  • People
  • 1860's
Description:
B/W wallet-size photographs of Daisy Kittredge and ? Holmes in Civil War uniform. Contained in small leather photograph frame
Local Civil War Soldiers
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Other
  • People
  • 1842-1860's
  • Mount Desert Island
Local Civil War Soldiers
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Scanned photographs of area Maine Militia and Civil War soldiers. Photo 1829 a: Colonel William Edwin Hadlock, Little Cranberry Isle Photo 1829 b: Samuel T. Savage, enlisted 8-21-1862 Photo 1829 c: Augustus Chase Savage, Acting Lieutenant, US Navy 1864-1865 Photo 1829 d: Thomas Savage, 1842-1865 (from a tintype) See item 2051/GEN 0565
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
Freeman House with Buggy Stereograph
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Recreation
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Allen
  • 1865 c.
  • Mount Desert Island
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Freeman House with Buggy Stereograph
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Freeman House with a buggy in the driveway, in Southwest Harbor, ME, c. 1860s. Inscription on the back reads "R. H. Hyson" in blue pen. Black and white
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