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Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Walls Garage, Seal Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Automotive Repair Business
  • ca. 1940
  • Mount Desert, Seal Harbor
Walls Garage, Seal Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Walls Garage in Seal Harbor, subsequently Robert DeRevere became owner.
Gordon & White Garage with Gas Pumps
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Automotive Repair Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1948-02
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Gordon & White Garage with Gas Pumps
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Gordon & White Garage with Five Taxis and their Drivers
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Automotive Repair Business
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1945-04-18
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Description:
The taxis are from Left to Right: 1941 Ford 1941 Ford 1941 Ford 1937 Buick Sedan 1937 Packard Formal Sedan
Letter to Captain Lew Stanley from Barbara Donald.
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • 1949
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
  • No Copyright - United States
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.
26-foot motor tow yawl under construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1943-03-12
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • In Copyright
26-foot motor tow yawl under construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
The photograph shows a 26-foot motor tow yawl under construction.
The Henry R. Hinckley Company - Manset - Six Boats Under Construction at the Main Shop
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1945-11-25
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • In Copyright
Description:
According to Nick Voulgaris, author of "Hinckley Yachts: An American Icon" published by Rizzoli in 2014, page 32, "this is one of the earliest photographs of a Hinckley using the now iconic Talaria logo on its hulls (seen on the boat to the far right)." The boat is shown with its number, I-K-277. Talaria Noun: (In Roman mythology) winged sandals as worn by certain gods and goddesses, especially Mercury. Origin: Latin, neuter plural of talaris, from talus "ankle" - “talaria,” Oxford Dictionaries, 2014, Accessed online 09/06/2014; http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/talaria The best known image of Mercury wearing talaria is Winged Mercury, one of four sculptures done by Gian Bologna, born as Jean Boulogne (1529-1608), the most famous of which is in the Bargello National Museum in Florence, Italy. [show more]
Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1943-03-04
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1943-03-04
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1943-03-04
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1943-03-04
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1943-03-04
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Robert Farnsworth Rich in overalls.
The Henry R. Hinckley Company - Manset Boat Sheds from the Water - Janusary 12, 1944
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Places, Shore
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1944-01-12
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • In Copyright
The Henry R. Hinckley Company - Main Shed at the Manset Boat Yard
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1945-02-20
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • In Copyright
The Henry R. Hinckley Company - Shop Construction at Manset Boat Yard
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1943-02-22
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • In Copyright
Open Streamlined Boat
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
  • 1948
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Open Streamlined Boat
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Open Streamlined Boat
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
  • 1948
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Open Streamlined Boat
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Open Streamlined Boat
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
  • 1948
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Open Streamlined Boat
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Yard and Shop of the Henry R. Hinckley Company
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1943
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • In Copyright
Yard and Shop of the Henry R. Hinckley Company
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Southwest Boat Corporation - 20' Navy Lifeboats LB 90
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1943
  • In Copyright
Description:
Photographs: 01-15 – life boats – George C. Gilley (1913-2000) on the right 01-16, 01-17 – building life boats at SW Boat 02-93 - George C. Gilley is the man on the top of the boats Most of these photographs were taken on April 6th, 1943. Moving the boats was taken on July 20, 1943 The rustic derrick pole was cut by Chris Lawlor as a replacement for a broken one. Chris cut it on his “uncle’s back lot” his way of saying that he cut it on Acadia National Park land (Uncle Sam’s land) somewhere on the back side of Freeman Ridge with a two-man cross-cut saw; Chester Warren Stanley and Chris Lawlor cut it. Chris’ horses hauled it out. Built by Henry R. Hinckley Company as Southwest Boat Corporation [show more]
303 Cruiser
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1948-09-26
  • In Copyright
303 Cruiser
Southwest Harbor Public Library
309 Cruiser
Hinckley Sport Cruiser 30
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1947-01-07
  • In Copyright
309 Cruiser
Hinckley Sport Cruiser 30
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
"This picture is of a prototype for a production model design by Henry Hinckley to be known as the Hinckley Sport Cruiser 30 built in 1940. Production was postponed because of the war, but it is interesting to note her lines compared to the Picnic Boat. This could have been a very popular boat had it ever gone into production." -- The Hinckley Story (p.89).
Five 32' boats
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1946-09
  • In Copyright
Five 32' boats
Southwest Harbor Public Library
44' Seine Boat Launching
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1944-10-16
  • In Copyright
44' Seine Boat Launching
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Southwest Boat Corporation - A.T. Haynes
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1945-02-20
  • In Copyright
Southwest Boat Corporation - A.T. Haynes
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Photographs of boats under repair at Southwest Boat Corporation taken from the deck of North Star: A.T. Haynes (Helen McColl); Woiee; Surfman. Notice Beals Fish Wharf in the background and Manset Marine Supply Company at far left.
Baby Rose - Dragger
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1944-08-05
  • In Copyright
Baby Rose - Dragger
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
“Baby Rose” was built in Thomaston and taken over by the government during WWII. After the war she was refitted at Southwest Boat Corporation for the Ciamentaro family of Gloucester, Massachusetts.