Description: This photo is of a dragger which was lengthened to add 20 ft. Ralph Stanley indicated that it's difficult to see how many feet she was lengthened in this photo. He thinks it may be 10 ft. rather than 20 ft. She was cut in the middle. Southwest Boat Corporation did the work. The large raised deck was Southwest Boat's style. Part of its name is visible on the stern but Ralph Stanley identified her as the "Joseph S. Mattos". There is a collie dog in the foreground. [show more]
Description: A digital .tif image of the schooner, William Keene, unloading at the Manset dock. This photo was found in the collection, on a CD --01/28/2014. Source and provenance are unknown. Two images are attached to this record: smaller jpg file and .tif in the Larger Image data folder.
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: Black and white image. Two pleasure sailboats, heeled over , sailing alongside each other. One dark, one light hull. Ketch on left. Sailing in Western Way, off Manset shore. W.H.B. indicia in lower right hand corner of print. Print not matted. Back: Anchor Light Studio, W.H. Ballard, Southwest Harbor, Maine. Small blue studio sticker affixed.
Description: Black and white image. Salting a seining net that is in a boat. Five men in photo, one seated on the left on the dock, on a barrell. Title on lower left Stowing Seine. Lower right pencil script Ballard. Photo affixed to matte board with narrow pencil border around photo. Back: Salting Down a Herring Net, Southwest Harbor, ME, #2-215, Anchor Light Studio, W.H. Ballard, Southwest Harbor, Maine Note relation tab for negative of this image. [show more]
Description: Black and white image. Affixed to matte board and small pencil border around image. Signed Ballard, lower right hand corner. Title on lower left, Bass Harbor Head. Shrink wrapped. Back: Bass Harbor Lighthouse, Mt. Desert Island, Maine, Copyright, Anchor Light Studio, No. 167-A, 1935. Anchor Light Studio, W.H. Ballard, Southwest Harbor, Maine
Description: 14 black and white photos by W. H. Ballard of launching day for "Venturer" at Henry Hinckley Co., May 14, 1956. Mounted on cardboard with hand lettering. Venturer was launched for Harry Haskell, Jr. E. Wesley Reed is listed as Master. Back: Anchor Light Studio, W.H. Ballard, Southwest Harbor, Maine
Description: Black and white photo of a winter scene of two light colored buildings next to an unfrozen river. Notation on the back reads: The Old Woolen Mill. Somesville
Description: Black and white photo of a snow covered pier with four cars and trucks parked in the plowed area. Small building to the left of the frame. Islands can be seen in the background. Winter's Day. Bar Harbor pier The back of the photograph is marked: "How does it look in the winter."
Description: Black and white photo of a shed with a pier leading out the back. On the pier there is a stack of lobster traps. There are houses, grass and trees in the background. Notation on back reads: Frenchboro. On back "The Mission Arrives"
Description: Black and white photo pf a rocky beach. On the left side of the frame is rock pilings and to the right is a floating dock with a dingy on top. Photo was taken a low tide. Notation on back reads: The Bar Harbor Drainage.
Description: Black and white photo of a stack of used tires in the foreground, an older model truck in the background next to a stack of either wood or metal beams. To the right of the frame there is a person looking down at a pile of unknown items with a car near by with its trunk open. Notation on back reads: The open dump at Tremont.
Description: Black and white photo of a Grtchell Mill on the right with a bridge passing over the river to the left of the mill. Telephone pole in front of the mill. Labled Getchell Mill, Machias on back.
Description: Black and white photo of a man sitting under a winch system at the end of the dock. The roof of a building can be seen in the baclkground. Waterfront, Southwest Harbor. Unknown man
Description: Figures seated on a stone wall. MDI League of Women Voters celebrated the Year of the Coast with an informal picnic and hike to Bar Island on August 23, 1980. Seated left to right: Louise Gilbert, Hollis Piatt, Helen Douglas, Bob, Chris and Ben Diebold from the Bangor-Brewer League.
Description: Black and white photo, mounted on heavy paper board, showing an small low island with mountains far off in the distance. Notation on back reads: Goerge Neal Contact T-34-23, John's Island, Bass Harbor
Description: Black and white photo of a single story house next to the beach. There is a green piece of paper taped to the back which reads: Harvard House was built by Albion Moore in 1854. Notations on back of photo read: Harvard House, Mag 8 Suttons Island NEH
Description: Black and white photo of on of the Hinkley buildings at the shipyard with rigging near it. Photo taken in winter. Notation on back reads: Hinkley May 1 Manset 2 WLS "C", Crop