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| Mount Desert and Adjacent Islands embracing the Towns of Eden, Mount Desert, Tremont and Cranberry Isles, Hancock County, Maine
Mount Desert Island and Adjacent Islands Geographical Map, 1887 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Mount Desert and Adjacent Islands embracing the Towns of Eden, Mount Desert, Tremont and Cranberry Isles, Hancock County, Maine
Mount Desert Island and Adjacent Islands Geographical Map, 1887 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Geographical map showing the locations of towns, landmarks, and geographical features of Mount Desert Island and the Cranberry Isles, ME. Lists of the heights of mountains peaks and the summer levels of lakes and ponds are also included. 1 in. = 1 mile |
| Stanley House Cabinet Card, c. 1880 Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Stanley House Cabinet Card, c. 1880 Tremont Historical Society Description: This is the first Stanley House hotel. The hotel was built in 1875 and burned in 1884. The hotel was rebuilt, but again burned in 1927. The Stanley House hotel in Manset, Southwest Harbor, Maine. People Depicted: Sans Stanley, Willette Mitchell Black and white |
| Photograph of Burnmouth Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Photograph of Burnmouth Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Black and white photograph of the entrance facade of Burnmouth. This cottage was designed by Boston architect William Ralph Emerson and built by contractor John E. Clark in the winter of 1885-86. The original owner was W.B. Walley. The house was located on Eden Street and was torn down in 1979. The cottage name is sometimes misspelled as Bournemouth. | ||
| Passenger Launch Steamer Agnes Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Passenger Launch Steamer Agnes Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Vessel Name - "Agnes" - later "G.T. Hadlock" ferry Class - Steam Passenger Launch Build date - 1888 Built by - W.R. Keene Built at - Manset, Maine Gross tons - 12.20 Length - 39’ Beam - 9’ Draught - 4.02’ She was powered by a Shipman Automatic engine by 1890. | ||
| Samuel Fessenden Clarke Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Samuel Fessenden Clarke Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| The Island House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Island House Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0021. This MHPC refers to the present house on the site of the Island House. Map 4 - Lot 102. |
| Painting of Brig Carrie F. Dix - Lisbon 1882 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Painting of Brig Carrie F. Dix - Lisbon 1882 Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The paper upon which the drawing was made seems to have been embossed with a cartouche encircling the word, "Evadne." "My [great] grandfather John Dix (1829-1858) was a sea captain, and my grandmother [Celestia Gertrude Dix] always said that he was once shipwrecked, but she didn’t know where. She was just a little girl at the time, and she couldn’t remember much about it. She thought it might have been “on the Jersey coast.” Anyway, he lost his ship, and it took him two years to get home. The story went that he had traded one vessel for another one at Blue Hill, and she almost sank before he got her home to Bartlett’s Island across the bay. She’d been down in the Caribbean and hadn’t been coppered, so she was worm-eaten. Even though she was a fairly new vessel, they had to fix her up before they could use her. I’m not sure whether this was the same ship he lost or not, but I’ve got a picture of a brig that was drawn by Fred W. Dix, who was lost at sea in 1886 and who was some kind of cousin to my great grandfather. It’s just a picture on a piece of lined paper, hand colored. On the back it says “Built in New Haven, 1882,” and it says “Carrie F. Dix” on the flag. [Frederick William Dix (1861-1886) was John Dix’ nephew, the son of John Dix’ brother, William Dix (1826-1910)] Now, Carrie F. Dix was my grandmother’s sister. Carrie married Dr. Joseph Dana Phillips, but she died in childbirth. Dr. Phillips sent my grandmother and her other sister, Vienna, to school at Coburn Classical Institute in Waterville. Then my grandmother taught school on Tinker’s Island for a time, and she also taught on Bartlett’s Island, where she lived. [Carrie Frances Dix (1863-1892), later Mrs. Joseph Dana Phillips, was the daughter of John Dix and the first cousin of Frederick William Dix] On the back of this picture of the brig it also says, “First trip to Faroe Isles and then to a place in Norway.” After that, the writing fades out, and the rest of it is illegible. I’ve tried using a black light to read it, but I can’t make it out. It says something about some port in Spain, so John Dix was probably bound down through the English Channel. Whether he was wrecked on the Channel Isles and spent some time on the island of Jersey, I don’t know. If the ship had been lost off New Jersey, it wouldn’t have taken him two years to get home. I do know that the whole crew was rescued by breeches buoy. But I bet my grandfather was shipwrecked on the Channel Isles, and he might have had to stay on the island of Jersey. Now, he might have been hurt or might have had a nervous breakdown over losing that vessel, because it took him two years to recover enough to get home. He had no money. When he got back to Maine, his spirit was broken and he never went to sea again. He had to run that little farm on Bartlett’s Island, and his family was very poor. When his daughter Emily Bartlett died, John Dix came off the island and lived in Southwest Harbor with another daughter, Vienna Lawler. When he died, they had Emily’s body brought over and buried with his, down at Mount Height Cemetery." - “Ralph Stanley : Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder” by Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine 2004, p. 136-137. [show more] |
| Postcard showing Green Mountain Railway, Mt. Desert, Maine and Sternwheel Steamer "Wauwinet" Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Postcard showing Green Mountain Railway, Mt. Desert, Maine and Sternwheel Steamer "Wauwinet" Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Joseph Warren Gilley Jr. and His Family on Baker Island - Circa 1917 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Joseph Warren Gilley Jr. and His Family on Baker Island - Circa 1917 Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Back Row – Left to Right: Harriet Gilley (1838-1930) – daughter of Joseph Warren Gilley (1813-1894) Alice E. Gilley (1856-1938) – daughter of Joseph Warren Gilley (1813-1894) William Frederick Stanley (1866-) – grandson of Joseph Warren Gilley (1813-1894) Carrie B. (Ober) Stanley (1862-1932) – Mrs. William Frederick Stanley Charles Adelbert Gilley (1847-1914) – son of Joseph Warren Gilley (1813-1894) Front Row – Left to Right: Joseph Warren Gilley Jr. (1859-1918) – son of Joseph Warren Gilley (1813-1894) Two sisters - archivists unsure which girl is which: Annie S. Allen (1879-1949) Eunice M. Allen (1886-) The girls, visiting the family on the island, were granddaughters of Oliver L. Allen and Matilda (Gilley) Allen. Matilda (Gilley) Allen (1817-1909) was the sister of Joseph Warren Gilley (1813-1894) [show more] | |
| Teacher's Certificate for Florence (Whelpley) Ober Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Teacher's Certificate for Florence (Whelpley) Ober Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Caroline Robinson Lawler Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Caroline Robinson Lawler Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Tag on the back of the picture says, "“Caroline Robinson Lawler – former teacher – mother of Christopher and Mark Lawler – date of picture late 18 hundreds – Trustee of Library for many years – one of first Trustees.” |
| 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 & |
| John Melbourne Rich House III - Original House Plans Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  John Melbourne Rich House III - Original House Plans Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: John Melbourne Rich took the design for his new house in Tremont from Design 24 in the 1888 version of Palliser's "New Cottage Homes and Details." The Pallisers showed two versions of Design 24. One, a modest house without a tower, and one, a showpiece with tower that could be built for a "cost of $1,700." For this amount one received, "plans, elevations, details and perspective view of a comfortable, convenient cottage home of six rooms, with tower which is designed to command a view of the surrounding country where erected." John Melbourne Rich chose the showy tower version with which to command a view of Tremont. He probably did not pay $1,700 for the plans, being an experienced builder, perfectly capable of building what he wanted by looking at the plans in the prospectus. John Melbourne Rich built his house in 1896. "John Rich [1853-1919] whose house was burnt a short time ago near Duck Cove, has bought a house-lot near the bridge on the west side [of Bass Harbor] and will build this fall. He is digging the cellar now." - The Ellsworth American, September 10, 1896. [show more] |
| Hand Drawn Map of Clark Point, Southwest Harbor, Maine, Circa 1885 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Hand Drawn Map of Clark Point, Southwest Harbor, Maine, Circa 1885 Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Adapted from a hand-drawn map of Clark Point, Southwest Harbor, drawn by a Parker family member. The original hand-written place names have been set in type for clarity. "In addition to the homestead property my father also owned an acre of farm land behind the hotel Dirigo…" - “Recollections of Southwest Harbor, Maine 1885-1894” by Jesse L. Parker, p. 10, manuscript, 1955 - Noted on map as "Parker One Acre Farm." | |
| Albert Wilson Bee, Stationery Stores, Bar Harbor, Maine 1887 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Albert Wilson Bee, Stationery Stores, Bar Harbor, Maine 1887 Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| 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 | |
| Lisa Caroline (Mayo) Wilkinson Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Lisa Caroline (Mayo) Wilkinson Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Simeon "Sim" Holden Mayo Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Simeon "Sim" Holden Mayo Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| View from Mt. Asticou Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| View South on Somes Sound Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  View South on Somes Sound Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| St. Saviour's Episcopal Church, Bar Harbor - After 1886 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  St. Saviour's Episcopal Church, Bar Harbor - After 1886 Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Camp Champlain - 1880 and 1881 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Camp Champlain - 1880 and 1881 Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: A drawing signed by Charles Eliot - probably drawn from Item 9615 photograph. |
| Green Mountain from Eagle Lake Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Green Mountain from Eagle Lake Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Illustration by William Henry Hyde and Harry Fenn, Engraved by Dakin, for Mrs. Burton Harrison's Novel, "Bar Harbor Days". "From Trenton Point we took by boat a tent and simple camp “outfit” to where Bar Harbor now stands; tied the boat in the bushes about where steamboat wharf is; and went some days exploring the island of Mount Desert, then very little known. We camped for the most of the time on Green Mountain, where boy-fashion, we amused ourselves by starting boulders down the steep to hear them crash into the woods below. Thence we went to Eagle Lake, built a raft and with our shelter tent managed to sail the length of it; but near the end of the voyage there came a stout wind, and the waves broke the raft to pieces, so that we lost our effects and had to swim ashore, and make our way ignominiously to our boat and back to our boarding-place. This trifling bit of a camp journey in Mount Desert [in 1860] was a great event in my life, for it brought my feet for the first time upon a mountain top. It is true that the height was trifling, - but a matter of fifteen hundred feet or so, - and I had seen greater elevations in the distance; but the way to experience a mountain is to climb it with a pack on your back; you then sense its mass in a way that sight does not enable you to do. I have never had this sense of mass so borne in upon me as in this climbing of Green Mountain…" - “The Autobiography of Nathaniel Southgate Shaler [Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1841-1906)] with a Supplementary Memoir by his Wife [Sophia Penn (Page) Shaler],” Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909, p. 134. [show more] |
| A Gala-Day at Bar Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  A Gala-Day at Bar Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: William Biscombe Gardner (1847–1919) may have done the wood engravings from Fenn's drawing. "A Gala-Day at Bar Harbor" - 1887 Illustration by William Henry Hyde and Harry Fenn, engraved by Gardener, for Mrs. Burton Harrison's Novel, "Bar Harbor Days". |
| The Porcupines Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Porcupines Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Illustration by William Henry Hyde and Harry Fenn, engraved by Pinrey, for Mrs. Burton Harrison's Novel, "Bar Harbor Days" |
