Description: A color negative of a painting of a glass vase with flowers. . Appears to be a portrait done by artist: Mrs. John Melcher, Rock End Road, Northeast Harbor, ME. Phone listed as 276-3340.
Description: Color negative of a glass vase with flowers. Probably a painting done by artist: Mrs. John Melcher, Northeast Harbor, Maine. Negative found in a Ballard envelope with a color negative of a clown, also probably a painting done by artist: Mrs. John Melcher
Description: Eight negatives of goose model, likely carved by Wendell Gilley for Zantzinger family of Southwest Harbor. Date on original envelope: Sept. 11, 1963
Description: One of three color negatives of a white frame house, and sign Leonard Motel Annes. Used for postcards, early 1966. Postcards published by Dexter Press. Annex is located on Holland Avenue, second home down from Mount Desert Street. Across Holland Avenue from the original Leonard Motel building.
Description: One of three color negatives showing motel, sign, and brick telephone building in background, used for postcards to advertise Leonard's Motel, Bar Harbor, Maine, published Nov. 1963. Motel located at the corner of Mount Desert Street and Holland Avenue.
Description: One of a set of 13 Photo. negatives of (a)letter to Sen. Smith requesting change of mail delivery to Swan's and Long Islands from Stonington boat to "Sea Wind" out of McKinley [Bass Harbor] . Letter is accompanied by two petitions, one each from the citizens of Swan's Island and Frenchboro. The photos inclue signature pages of the petitions that accompanied the letter. Full text of the letter is included on the Notes field in this record. Negative of letter is 008.073.20-12 Good source of names of residents living on Swan's and Frenchboro in 1951. [show more]
Description: One of 10 4x5 color negatives showing two- story, wooden structure with cars and parking lot. Another negative shows a white frame, two-story house. Note gives name of Monty and Doris Young. The Higgins Holiday Motel was located on Holland Avenue, Bar Harbor, ME This negative was probably a crop photo used in a brochure for advertising the motel in 1975 c.
Description: Color negative (s) of a studio oil painting by Mrs. John Melcher, Northeast Harbor. Two children sitting in a chair. One negative has black photo album paper attached with scotch tape at two edges of negative. Sleeve contains two negatives.
Description: A color negative of a portrait of two children. Appears to be a portrait done by artist: Mrs. John Melcher, Rock End Road, Northeast Harbor, ME. Phone listed as 276-3340.
Description: Color negative of a clown painting. Probably a painting done by artist: Mrs. John Melcher, Northeast Harbor, Maine. Negative found in a Ballard envelope with a color negative of a glass vase of flowers, also probably a painting done by artist: Mrs. John Melcher
Description: Black and white negative of print that is referred to as "Lunts Hauling Seine at Cranberry Isles". Further identified as hauling seine nets in Southwest Harbor. This is a negative of a print in the Paul Stubing Ballard Print Collection: 007.19.3 Refer to description on this record for further identification information. Note other related images on Relations record herein. Actuall identity of people and place needs to be established. [show more]
Description: A negative of five men working with a seine net. Hauling net from a boat. One man seated on a barrel on the dock, three working on the net, and one watching from the side. A negative not originally accessioned when collection was purchased. Found in collection and accessioned in 2014
Description: A set of 470 black and white negatives that are part of the Charles Butt Ballard Negative Collection, purchased from Paul Stubing in 1998-99. All of the negatives in this accession are related to the Webber's Cove Boat Yard, East Blue Hill, Maine. These negatives were never catalogued when the original purchase came to the historical society. It was decided on 10/21/2014 to keep these negatives as a part of the W.H. Ballard collection but that each negative would not be given an object id. If there is further interest in any of the detailed negatives, further work will be needed to identify and catalogue each distinct image. Boat names and other identifying labels have been listed in the People-Subjects Classification Tab of this record. [show more]
Description: Color negative of stereopticon card of Somesville Harbor Cove. Mount Desert, Me. Date estimated at 1880. Schooner Federal in foreground. Label on card: 157. Somesville, Mt. Desert, Me. Copy made in 1963.