Description: 2.5” x 4.25” card with a map of Mount Desert Island, advertising the Somes House, Somesville. “Telephone in advance for celebrated Chicken Dinners”. On the back is a “Perpetual Time Table” for a boat making stops at Somesville, Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor, and Bar Harbor.
Description: Picturesque Bar Harbor. Souvenir booklet given out to patrons of the Providence Line steamship, “Dedicated to the “Reader” by the Passenger Department Providence & Stonington S.S. Co.” 8 pages. Previously archived as object id 016.FIC.001.25
Description: Mount Desert Yacht Club Annual 1951-1952. white booklet with flag on the cover. includes photographs, members, treasurer’s report, standing
Description: Robert Lincoln, Eddie Davis, Davis Irvin, Daniel McLauhlin - Boat Builders” by LaRue Spiker. 6 pages. Wooden canoe building Previously archived as object id 012.FIC.065.07
Description: Ready for the finishing touches.S.S. Acadia of the Eastern Steamship Lines being towed to her outfitting berth after the launching at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. This ship was in service between New York and Yarmouth. It became a hospital ship during World War II. Local woman, Louine Lunt Peck, Army Nurse served on the Acadia. .
Description: The last brush of paint. Workmen putting finishing touches to the S.S. Acadia, the new Eastern Steamship liner, just before launching at he Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, Virginia on Saturday last, February 13, 1932. Note the giant blades and shaft projecting from the hull of one of the twin screws.
Description: Small steamboat with canopy towing small skiff in Somes Harbor. American flag flying aft. Note on back of photo remarks the man at the helm is Capt. Lester Pray. Back of Somesville Library to the left. Two and one-half story building above boat no longer standing. Peak of blacksmith’s shop visible over canopy of boat. To the right, Fernald’s store (purchased from A.J. Whiting in 1887), later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore, still later, an art gallery. Large smudge in upper right corner of photo. This is also a slide (97-701-871) used in the Somesville Bicentenial it is found on Row 2 Unit 2 Shelf 4 Slide Box 1 [show more]
Description: Dragger Tipsy Parson built by Sim Davis of Bass Harbor. Smaller boat in foreground. Three larger boats in background tied to wharf, Hornert, Sandi and Jean, Sunbeam.. Negative in possession of donor.
Description: Small steamboat with canopy towing small skiff in Somes Harbor. American flag flying aft. Note on back of photo remarks the man at the helm is Capt. Lester Pray. Back of Somesville Library to the left. Two and one-half story building above boat no longer standing. Peak of blacksmith’s shop visible over canopy of boat. To the right, Fernald’s store (purchased from A.J. Whiting in 1887) later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore, then art gallery. Large smudge in upper right corner of photo. [show more]
Description: Fishing boats tied to floats off Clark Point. Head of the harbor in the distance. Negative in possession of donor. This photo is not located in Photo Album #3. This may be a duplicate of 997-635-805 and not a separate print after all.
Description: Steamboat Norma. Built by Lawley of Boston, early 1890s. Purchased in late 1890s by Dwight Blaney of Ironbound Island of Bar Harbor. Sold to Captain Fred Haynes (Hays) of Bar Harbor for use as a sightseeing boat in the 1940s. Steam powered launch. Carried captain, engineer, and mate. Captain Sargent wintered in South Gouldsboro.
Description: Lobsterman, holds large lobster. Standing on float next to lobster boat. NOTE: original title in data base was "Cunningham Grins Over a Big One." Martha Dudman says this is Warren Fernald. According to Paul Fernald, Warren Fernald's son, this man is not his father. Seems the original title is likely correct. Paul did not recognize this lobsterman. (R. Rea 5/14/2015)
Description: Ellsworth American “Computer and Tradition Meeting in Boatyard” April 28, 1977 by LaRue Spiker. John Williams boatyard. Previously accessioned as **0786, Object Id 012.FIC.022.3
Description: Newsclipping - “Deck of Schooner crimson with blood mutiny aboard four masted Harry A. Berwind." Murder of Capt. Edwin Rumill. Previously accessioned as **0762, Object Id 011.FIC.84.2
Description: Newsclipping - “Sailing a business enterprise not an adventure for sailors of Eden” by LaRue Spiker. Previously accessioned as **0761, Object Id 011.FIC.84.1
Description: Newsclipping - Lewiston Journal “Schooner Catherine, sketched by John Sargent, famous painter, now stranded hulk on Somes Sound”. Previously accessioned as **0757, Object Id 011.FIC.84.1