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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
1533Maddy Sue boat model
  • Object, Model
  • Duane Muzzy
  • 2015
Maddy Sue boat model
Item:
  • 1533   
Type:
  • Object, Model
Creator:
  • Duane Muzzy
Date:
  • 2015
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
Description:
Boat model of Maddy Sue, 2015. Original boat built in 1932 by Chester E. Clement, Southwest Harbor, called Trailaway and built for Francis Spurling. Later sold to Marvin Harris and renamed Maddy Sue.
1609Model, Bunker & Ellis "Serendipity".
  • Object, Model
  • Recreation, Boating
  • Recreation, Yachting
  • Muzzy - Duane Muzzy
  • 2013
Model, Bunker & Ellis "Serendipity".
Item:
  • 1609   
Type:
  • Object, Model
Subject:
  • Recreation, Boating
  • Recreation, Yachting
Creator:
  • Muzzy - Duane Muzzy
Date:
  • 2013
Description:
Model of 1962 Bunker & Ellis lobsteryacht "Serendipity," built by Duane Muzzy in 2013. The actual boat was constructed by Bunker & Ellis of Manset, Maine, and measured 39 feet long and was constructed in 1962 for John Simonds, a summer resident of Northeast Harbor.
1605Boat Model, Luders 16 Sturgis R. Haskins
  • Object, Model
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
  • Muzzy - Duane Muzzy
  • 2012
Boat Model, Luders 16 Sturgis R. Haskins
Item:
  • 1605   
Type:
  • Object, Model
Subject:
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
Creator:
  • Muzzy - Duane Muzzy
Date:
  • 2012
Description:
Luders 16 model in 1:16 scale made by Duane Muzzy, 2012. Boat is named in honor of Sturgis R. Haskins, a longtime board member of the Great Harbor Maritime Museum, who was very involved in the revitalization of the Mount Desert Island fleet of Luders 16 sloops.
1610Model, Controversy 36', "Constellation"
  • Object, Model
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Yawl
  • Muzzy - Duane Muzzy
  • 2012
Model, Controversy 36', "Constellation"
Item:
  • 1610   
Type:
  • Object, Model
Subject:
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Yawl
Creator:
  • Muzzy - Duane Muzzy
Date:
  • 2012
Description:
Model of Controversy 36' Constellation built by Duane Muzzy in 2012. A pram, called "Little Dipper" was added to this model by Duane Muzzy as a bit of a whimsy, playing off the name of the boat, but was never on the original boat. The original Constellation was built by Mount Desert Yacht Yard and was owned yard owner, E. Farnham Butler.
1606Model, International Class sloop, Auriga
  • Object, Model
  • Recreation, Sailing
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
  • Muzzy - Duane Muzzy
  • 2010
Model, International Class sloop, Auriga
Item:
  • 1606   
Type:
  • Object, Model
Subject:
  • Recreation, Sailing
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
Creator:
  • Muzzy - Duane Muzzy
Date:
  • 2010
Description:
Scale model of International Class (also called International One Design) sloop AURIGA. Auriga was among the original Internationals to arrive in the Great Harbor, in 1938. Model made by Duane Muzzy in 2010
1621Model of MDI Class Sloop, Rugosa, Construction Photographs
  • Reference
  • Object, Model, Ship Model
  • Muzzy - Duane Muzzy
  • 2008 c.
Model of MDI Class Sloop, Rugosa, Construction Photographs
Item:
  • 1621   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Object, Model, Ship Model
Creator:
  • Muzzy - Duane Muzzy
Date:
  • 2008 c.
Description:
Series of photographs documenting the construction of the model of the MDI Class Sloop, Rugosa, taken by Duane Muzzy
1607Model of MDI Class Sloop, Rugosa
  • Object, Model
  • Recreation, Sailing
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
  • Muzzy - Duane Muzzy
  • 2008
Model of MDI Class Sloop, Rugosa
Item:
  • 1607   
Type:
  • Object, Model
Subject:
  • Recreation, Sailing
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
Creator:
  • Muzzy - Duane Muzzy
Date:
  • 2008
Description:
Scale model of MDI Class sloop #16, Rugosa, made in 2008 by Duane Muzzy. The MDI Class Sloops were designed by Ralph Winslow in 1924 and 16 were constructed to teach the children of Mount Desert Island summer residents to sail. The full sized boats were: 21' 8" LOA 16' 5" LWL 4' Draft 6' 8" Beam 260.00 sq ft sail area 4,428.00 lbs Displacement
1650E. Farnham Butler in his office
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Events, Personal Milestones
  • 2003 c.
E. Farnham Butler in his office
Item:
  • 1650   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Events, Personal Milestones
Date:
  • 2003 c.
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Sound
Description:
Photograph of E. Farnham Butler in his office at Mount Desert Yacht Yard, circa 2003. On the table in front of him are photographs of boats built by Butler at his yard over the course of his career.
1717Sign for Island Lady Charters
  • Object, Sign, Informational Sign
  • Businesses, Maritime Business
  • 2000 c.
Sign for Island Lady Charters
Item:
  • 1717   
Type:
  • Object, Sign, Informational Sign
Subject:
  • Businesses, Maritime Business
Date:
  • 2000 c.
Description:
Sign advertising Island Lady Charters, a charter boat and water taxi business operated by Rhonda Lee Soucie of Seal Harbor, Maine The sign advertises suggested tours and offerings
1002Newspaper article commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Eastern Maine Basketball Champions of 1924
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Object, Clothing, Uniform, Sports Uniform
  • Organzations, School Institution, High Schools
  • People
  • Recreation, Sports, Basketball
  • 1984
Newspaper article commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Eastern Maine Basketball Champions of 1924
Item:
  • 1002   
Type:
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
Subject:
  • Object, Clothing, Uniform, Sports Uniform
  • Organzations, School Institution, High Schools
  • People
  • Recreation, Sports, Basketball
Date:
  • 1984
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Tags:
zoomable
Description:
The photograph is a newspaper clipping (text on reverse) from April 12, 1984 that describes 1924 championship team. The Gilman High School of Northeast Harbor basketball team and their coach Stanley Week posed outside after winning the Eastern Maine basketball tournament at the University of Maine at Orono in 1924. The players are in uniform, and Week holds the plaque they won. People Depicted: Stanley Week, Burton Seavey, Edward Ralph, Albert Manchester, Stuart Branscom, Horace Bucklin, Francis Atwood, Jerome Knowles, Merrill Whitmore and Paul Bucklin. Also mentioned in the article are Douglas Driscoll, Carl Kelley Black and white [show more]
1595Hanging the new sign at the Great Harbor Collection
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Organizations, Museum
  • 1982
Hanging the new sign at the Great Harbor Collection
Item:
  • 1595   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Organizations, Museum
Date:
  • 1982
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
Men gathered in front of the former municipal building on Main Street, hanging the sign for the Great Harbor Collection, later renamed the Great Harbor Maritime Museum. Identified are: Peter Bell, at left, in a v-neck sweater Bob Hamlin on the left-hand ladder Curtis Phelps between the two ladders
1005Bangor Daily News, September 9, 1974
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Businesses, Milling Business
  • Finance
  • Legislation
  • People
  • Politics
  • Recreation
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Bangor Daily NewsAley, Jack
  • Beal, Clayton
  • Bombeck, Erma
  • Buckley Jr., William F.
  • Buckley, Ken
  • Bush, Grace
  • Clifton
  • Crandall, Esther
  • Daniel
  • Devereaux, Richard A.
  • Dugan, Sally
  • Frederick, Arthur
  • Leavitt, Bud
  • Mahoney, Larry
  • Newall, Robert H.
  • Osborne, Owen
  • Porter, Sylvia
  • Reston, James
  • Sheinwold, Alfred
  • Storey, John
  • Sylvester, Ted
  • Weaver, Peter
  • 1974-09-09
Bangor Daily News, September 9, 1974
Item:
  • 1005   
Type:
  • Publication, Newspaper
Subject:
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Businesses, Milling Business
  • Finance
  • Legislation
  • People
  • Politics
  • Recreation
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
Creator:
  • Bangor Daily NewsAley, Jack
  • Beal, Clayton
  • Bombeck, Erma
  • Buckley Jr., William F.
  • Buckley, Ken
  • Bush, Grace
  • Clifton
  • Crandall, Esther
  • Daniel
  • Devereaux, Richard A.
  • Dugan, Sally
  • Frederick, Arthur
  • Leavitt, Bud
  • Mahoney, Larry
  • Newall, Robert H.
  • Osborne, Owen
  • Porter, Sylvia
  • Reston, James
  • Sheinwold, Alfred
  • Storey, John
  • Sylvester, Ted
  • Weaver, Peter
Date:
  • 1974-09-09
Description:
Issue of the Bangor Daily News from Monday, September 9, 1974 (vol. 86, no. 72). Major stories include President Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon, Hurricane Carmen in Louisiana, the TWA airplane crash in the Ionian Sea off the coast of Greece, and Evel Knievel's failed attempt to rocket across the Snake River Canyon in Idaho. Other state and local news is included as well. There are also wedding announcements, sports, an op-ed page, obituaries, classified advertisements, and comics. People Mentioned: Gerald R. Ford, Richard M. Nixon, Philip W. Buchen, Evel Knievel, Stephen Katz, Archibald Cox, Barry Goldwater, Spiro T. Agnew, Nelson Rockefeller, George H. W. Bush, Robert Strauss, Eugenio Martinez, William Cohen, William D. Hathaway, Edmund S. Muskie, Edwin Edwards, Gilbert Durbin, Robert Truax, Donald Branker, Bernard Barker, Baruch Korff, Chesterield Smith, Joseph Rauh, W. Clement Stone, Frederick Hare, Peggy Hare, Jerald F. TerHorst, Jon Lund, James Erwin, George Mitchell, Leon Jaworski, Arthur F. Sampson, J. Herbert Miller, Ronald L. Ziegler, Edward Brooke, Mike Mansfield, Robert C. Byrd, George McGovern, Lloyd M. Bentsen, William E. Brock, John Tower, Jacob Javits, Creighton Abrams, Creighton Abrams Jr., Mrs. William L. James, Mrs. Creighton Abrams, H. R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, John N. Mitchell, Gordon Strachan, Robert C. Mardian, Kenneth W. Parkinson, John J. Sirica, Warren E. Burger, William O. Douglas, Clarence L. VerSteeg, Paul Mishkin, Peter N. Kyros, James Longley, John Barker, William Cohen, Charles J. Ramsberger, Stanley Leen Jr., John J. Rhodes, Luis Echeverria, Jose Guadalupe Zuno Hernandez, Ann Mackay, Anna McCloskey, Bill Smith, Michael Allen, Kathy Allen, David Grant, Arthur Poulin, Lizette Breton, Judy Rynne, Jeannette Thibodeau, Robert Cloutier, Jane Lowell, Anthony Betts, Kathleen Lord, Steve Curtis, Rena Rodgerson, Sharon S. Espling, Peter E. Espling, Roger B. Kelley, Bernard Kelley, Paul Gleichman, Ellen Espling, James Coulter, Carole Jane Noddin, Barry Lewis, Lewis Beckford, Charles Davidson, Lawrence Noddin, Lawrence Lewis, Nancy E. McCann, Jonathan Spatt, Keith Ingraham, Albert Murch, Loretta Kay Boyer, Merle O. Boyer, James Albert Pickard Jr., Agnes Pickard, James A. Pickard Sr., George Gray, Karen Palmiter, Asa Pickard, Merle O. Boyer Jr., Alan Stubbs, Sally Worster, Dale Porter, Kenneth Foss, Paul Worcester, Ronald Porter, Lois Senter, Debbie Hartt, Roxanna Gould, Marlana Cumming, Lorraine Charloux, Karla Jo Senter, Michael Porter, Audie Gould, Keith Thompson, Michael Littlefield, Raymond Charloux, Camille Lynn Cushman, David Louis Eddy, Hartland Cushman, George Eddy, Robert Sterling, Lisa Cushman, Mary Ellen Connell, Barbara Ingraham, Dale Hartford, Kerry Connell, Craig Gray, Rachel Brudnoy, Stephen Green, Kassel Abelson, David Silverman, David Brudnoy, Simon Brudnoy, Edward Green, Mrs. David Brudnoy, Howard Stanley, Jerry Darsie, Ira Isbin, Barbara Eleanor Mealey, Robert W. Mealey, Joseph Wayne Morin, Francis E. Morin, Norman Young, William Greene, Mrs. Robert I. Mealey, Mrs. Daniel J. Brooker, Mrs. Brian L. Lowell, Mrs. Scott A. Giroux, Debbie deGroff, Carol L. Belanger, Charles F. Giberson, Daniel J. Brooker, Brian L. Lowell, Robert I. Mealey, Michael D. Mealey, Dave Cannon, Steve Bull, Ernie Hardy, Alan Armstrong, Gary Burley, Don Rock, Rod Pace, Russ Fox, Mike Bolt, Tom Pinto, Marc Katz, Jack Leggett, Danny Rhino, Randy Rhino, Steve Boxer, Dave Buck, Mike Axe, Glen Cutting, George Stout, Bill Hohl, Rich Diggs, Danny Buggs, Tim Felt, Art Bent, Sandy Hertz, Sam Blood, Jegg Gray, Scott Blackburn, Brian White, Jim Tann, Pat Green, Dave Brown, Randy Pass, Brian Book, Jim Fish, Ed Walz, Bruce Salmon, Ed Szcerba, Steve Krychomski, Andy Zdobylak, Nick Tarabacchia, Steve Szewczuk, George Mattyasovszky, Jimmy Jimenez, Mike Hart, Jim Soule, Jim Shook, Forrest Fezler, Bruce Crampton, J. C. Snead, Gary Player, Mike Hill, Tommy Aaron, Ben Crenshaw, Phil Rodgers, Jim Ferriell, Richie Hebner, Dick Pole, Doug Griffin, Mario Guerrero, Dwight Evans, Juan Marichal, Tim Johnson, Pedro Garcia, Cecil Cooper, Juan Beniquez, Tim McCarver, Doug Griffin, Tommy Harper, Bernie Carbo, Rico Petrocelli, Ken Berry, George Scott, Johnny Briggs, Darrell Porter, Gorman Thomas, Bill Freehan, Al Kaline, Joe Coleman, Dick Tidrow, Ron LeFlore, Gary Sutherland, Ben Oglivie, Chris Chambliss, Roy White, Walt Abbott, Steve Vance, Chris Alyward, Kevin Foley, Russ McDonald, Mike Gries, Gerry Shea, Mike Budrowe, Rudy DiPietro, Mark DiGregorio, Rich Prior, Mickey McGuire, Mike Wallace, Kirk Douglass, Roger Dalton, Bill Hilster, Phil Cameron, Mike Drouin, Tim Labbe, Ferguson Jenkins, Ken Holtzman, George Hendrick, Tom McCraw, Charlie Spikes, Jim Perry, Enos Cabell, Don Baylor, Ellie Hendricks, Mark Belanger, Frank Duffy, Luis Alvarado, Bill Buckner, Mike Marshall, Jack Billingham, Dave Lopes, Pedro Borbon, Manny Mota, Pete Rose, Brian Butterfield, Ben Tibbetts, Ben Corbett, Andy Sturgeon, Rich Pullen, Neil Prendergast, Hans Antonsen, Eddie Miller, Ronnie Gordon, Bert Philbrick, Rick Albert, Dennis Jewell, Lin Hindshaw, Brian Perkins, Ken Topel, Kevin Butler, Cliff Reuter, Howard Weldon, Matt Hackett, Gary Perry, Matt Keller, Wilbur Howard, Randy Jones, Steve Rogers, Lou Brock, Wayne Garrett, Maury Wills, Jimmy Connors, Ken Rosewall, John Newcombe, Margaret Court, Billie Jean King, Evonne Goolagong, Chris Evert, Bill Battle, Condredge Holloway, Ricky Townsend, Dick Vermeil, John Sciarra, Brett White, Dave Buckey, Bob Boone, Arthur Winslow, Robbie Dickinson, Joel Cormier, Rodger Geren, Mark Armstrong, Robbie Emerson, Aaron Boynton, Brian Morrow, Scott Mountford, Lance Gallant, Jeff Dunn, Jeff Brown, Tim King, Peter Gordon, David Ingraham, Dale Stone, Leo Trevino, Bobby Nichols, Hale Irwin, Jim Plunkett, Randy Vataha, Earl Morrall, Bob Griese, Howard Twilley, Marlin Briscoe, Bob Berry, Fran Tarkenton, Jim Lash, John Gilliam, John Holland, Chuck Foreman, Jimmie Jones, Wayne Fiegenbaum, Bert Roberge, Ed Flaherty, Galen Workman, Tony DiBiase, Steve Conley, John Sawyer, Russ Quetti, David W. Bustin, Joseph Kozak, Franklin A. Peters, Edward Kennedy, Michael J. Harrington, Salvador Allende Gossens, Henry A. Kissinger, William E. Colby, Norman Lodow, Lawrence Greenlaw, Eddie Rickenbacker, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Zane Grey, Minnie Henderson, Val Vardamis, Roger Lyford, Lorraine Cote, Gerard Cyr, Jack Anderson, John Lennon, Abigail Van Buren, Bob King, Jim Stanko, Joanne Stanko, Lucius H. Dwelley, Harold Kilbreth, James Bush, Oscar R. Hahnel, Mrs. Donald W. McIntosh, Mark Gartley, Eugene Richardson, Scott Ireland, Frank Jordan, Mrs. Richard Dill, Kenneth M. Curtis, Hal Murray, William Leahy, William Schulz Jr., Bruce Douglas, Gail Galeditz, John Morey, Louis Garibaldi, Ernest Smith, Richard Coffin, Arthur West, Spencer Appollonio, Lisa Flaherty, George Berry, Harold Keezer, Rosaire Sirois, Wilbur Nedeau, Mrs. Wayne Mallar, Marion Thurston, Warren Charles, Paul Chabonneau, Paul Bird, Hollis Fickett, Donna Allen, Katherine Williams, Norman Autotte, Jane Downey, Henry Noonan, William Vasquez, William F. Leary, Robert Kiley, Robert diGrazia, Carl B. Sterzing Jr., Frederic C. Dumaine Jr., Nelson L. Clark, Doris Withee, Stella Stafford, Ellen G. Brooks, Esther Nickerson, Ann Caswell, Patsy Hughey, John W. Meisner, Sarah Colson, Mrs. Ralph E. Grant, Marion Marden, Arline Locke, Charles Perkins, George Perkins, Mrs. Douglas M. Holmes, Celia Thomas, Gary Gould, Beth Griffin, Stanley Griffin, Mrs. Richard Sawyer, Bob Turner, C. Peters, Marjorie Tilley, George Holman, Violet Chasse, Carl Snow, Sally Snow, Jennie Snow, Grace Rideout, Mrs. Ronald Bell, Mrs. Kenneth Glidden, G. Read, Mary Chase, Wally Wilbur, William Kerr, Emmy L. McCarthy, Sterling Ellingwood, Joseph L. Stover, Rodman Logan, Waye Estey, Leona A. Gillis, Arthur R. Fish Jr., Albert J. Clukey, Harold Carpenter, John Houghton, Evelyn R. Ross, Gertrude Strout, Lionel L. Moore, Senja S. Kanerva, Ernestine Roe Hedrick, Earl R. Dempsey, Helen Gilman Davis, Elizabeth L. Martin, Myra F. Downing, Marie Helena Carney, Mattie Jollotta, Laura B. Reed, John N. McDonnell, Helen Dube, Leona Lamarre, Eddie Jalbert, Joseph Gould, Alton Lyons, Rose Anna Cyr, Mrs. Oildred Johnson, Prentiss Larrabee, John Dean, Kenneth Murphy, Frank Blanchard, Walter E. Washington, Clifford L. Alexander, Shirley Cothran, Henry LaBree, Myrtle Hadley, Eddie Albert, Dan Boober, Beverly Ayer, Mrs. Kelsey E. Patten, Ola I. Meade, Carolyn Harlow, Robert E. Morris, Rebecca Ann King, Betty Ford, Cornelia Wallace, George Wallace, Kolbjorn Varman, Gordon Ritchie, Valentin Hernandez, Harold Wilson, Arthur Ashely [show more]
1703Life ring from Daybreak
  • Object
  • Recreation, Sailing
  • 1970 c.
Life ring from Daybreak
Item:
  • 1703   
Type:
  • Object
Subject:
  • Recreation, Sailing
Date:
  • 1970 c.
Description:
Horse-shoe life ring from Daybreak, a Hinckley sailboat owned by Harry R. Madeira, and sailed out of Northeast Harbor. The boat's name "Daybreak" is painted on the front in gold paint, and the Madeira signal flag and Northeast Harbor Fleet burgee appear below. On the edge of the buoy is a stamped label with the brand "Horseshoe Jim-Buoy", and other illegible information. The back is unadorned
1634Yachting Magazine, April 1959
  • Publication
  • Recreation, Yachting
  • Yachting
  • 1959-04
Yachting Magazine, April 1959
Item:
  • 1634   
Type:
  • Publication
Subject:
  • Recreation, Yachting
Publisher:
  • Yachting
Date:
  • 1959-04
Description:
April 1959 issue of Yachting Magazine. Volume 105, no. 4 Contents include: The SCYA Midwinter Regatta,  Late Racing News Yachting’s One-of-a-kind Regatta, By Bill Robinson Fitting Out, By J. Kenneth Whitteker One Learns So Much From Boating, By Les. T. Ordeman Handling Powerboats Alongside, By Alex W. Moffat Current Effects in Piloting Contests, By M. L. Hersey “Fuego” Ballard Photos In Racing Trim, By Bill Robinson Outboard Yachting: Outboard Commissioning, By Bob Whittier On the Use of the Trysail, By John C. Cooley The Buenos-Aires-Rio Race, By David Zingg Three Score and Ten, By Sam C. Slaughter One Porpoise-Power! By E. L. Bubb With My Eyes Wide Open, By Gloria Berry Rendezvous, By Robert W. Chase Ladies of the Bridges, By Gordon Grant Waterway Magic, By Irvin Anthony Under the Lee of the Longboat Design Section Month In Yachting Waterfront News Gadgets & Gilhickies More Power to You The Gam News from Yachting Centers With the Racing Classes Selected photographs from this issue include: Cover, Table of Contents (page 3), Article on A.E. Luders 40' Sloop (page 90), Article on Mount Desert Yacht Yard Controversy 28, with references to Farnham Butler. [show more]
1588Carlton Taylor outside of the Municipal Building with the Fire Company Vehicles, circa 1955
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Organizations, Fire Protection
  • Chase - Ronald Chase
  • 1955
Carlton Taylor outside of the Municipal Building with the Fire Company Vehicles, circa 1955
Item:
  • 1588   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Organizations, Fire Protection
Creator:
  • Chase - Ronald Chase
Date:
  • 1955
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
Carlton Taylor standing in front of the Municipal Building, Northeast Harbor, with the vehicles of the Northeast Harbor Fire Company lined up.
1637Motor Boating Magazine, February 1954
  • Publication
  • Recreation, Yachting
  • 1954-02
Motor Boating Magazine, February 1954
Item:
  • 1637   
Type:
  • Publication
Subject:
  • Recreation, Yachting
Date:
  • 1954-02
Description:
Motor Boating Magazine, February 1954 Volume 93, no. 2 Lester Fagans At the Change of the Watch Know Your Rights A Surgeon’s Log (Part One) Manu Kai Beats Them All Nine New Models For 1954 A Woman Skipper Orange Bowl Regatta Jungle Cruise North From Trinidad (Part Two) Movies Princess Finds a Sister Ship Mexico to New York (Part Eight) The Braggart Single-Handed Cruising at 60 Safe Moorings for Extreme Tides Little Maid of Kent What’s New? Underway with the USPS With the Windjammers With the Outboarders Westward Ho! North Florida Notes Under the Blue Ensign Aerojet, a V- Drive Power Unit Sixteen Elected to Gulf Hall of Fame Advertising Index Selected Photographs include: Cover; Table of Contents page 15; Scott-Atwater ad: boat-bailing engine, page 79; a Vinylon ad with Guy Lombardo, page 81; North from Trinidad (a beautiful drawing of a squall), page 34; “Novies” page 37 [show more]
1585Northeast Harbor Fire House, Winter of 1954
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Public Safety, Fire Station
  • Transportation, Truck, Fire Truck
  • Chase - Ronald Chase
  • 1954
Northeast Harbor Fire House, Winter of 1954
Item:
  • 1585   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Public Safety, Fire Station
  • Transportation, Truck, Fire Truck
Creator:
  • Chase - Ronald Chase
Date:
  • 1954
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
Town of Mount Desert Municipal Building and Northeast Harbor Firehouse, winter of 1954. Two fire engines are visible through the windows of the doors. The sign over the left door reads "W.S. Grant, Jr., Ladder No. 1" and over the right reads "Engine No. 1" Photograph by Ronald Chase
1584Christmas Decorations at the Municipal Building, Northeast Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations, Municipal
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Public Safety, Fire Station
  • Fennelley - George F. Fennelley
  • 1950
Christmas Decorations at the Municipal Building, Northeast Harbor
Item:
  • 1584   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Organizations, Municipal
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Public Safety, Fire Station
Creator:
  • Fennelley - George F. Fennelley
Date:
  • 1950
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
Mount Desert Town Office, and Northeast Harbor Fire Station decorated for Christmas, circa 1950. The car to the left has been identified as a 1949-1951-era Ford.
1003Oliver Wagstaff to Northeast Harbor Fire Department Chief Letter and Envelope, October 29, 1947
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Organizations, Fire Protection
  • Wagstaff, Oliver
  • 1947-10-29
Oliver Wagstaff to Northeast Harbor Fire Department Chief Letter and Envelope, October 29, 1947
Item:
  • 1003   
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
Subject:
  • Organizations, Fire Protection
Creator:
  • Wagstaff, Oliver
Date:
  • 1947-10-29
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
Oliver Wagstaff thanks the Northeast Harbor Fire Department for transporting him from his home to the hospital at no charge. To express his appreciation, he encloses a check for $25 to be used for equipment maintenance. Letter is written on stationery labeled Overfloat, Northeast Harbor, Maine. Overfloat was located on Harborside Road, Northeast Harbor.
1718Three Postcards of Bear Island Lighthouse
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • 1945
Three Postcards of Bear Island Lighthouse
Item:
  • 1718   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
Date:
  • 1945
Description:
Three real photo postcards of Bear Island Lighthouse affixed to a repurposed envelope. On all of the postcards the lighthouse is identified using blue ink. One postcard bears the additional inscription: "Our view from the point." The backside of this paper was at one time the exterior of envelope sent on June 4, 1945. Information about the sender and recipient can still be read. The return address has been cut, but the envelope was sent to Mrs. Edwin Corning, Northeast Harbor, Maine. Mrs. Corning spent her summers on a point at the mouth of Northeast Harbor [show more]
1636Yachting Magazine, March 1944
  • Publication
  • Recreation, Yachting
  • 1944-03
Yachting Magazine, March 1944
Item:
  • 1636   
Type:
  • Publication
Subject:
  • Recreation, Yachting
Date:
  • 1944-03
Description:
Yachting Magazine, March 1944 Vol. LXXV No. 3 Table of Contents: Cover, “Men Aloft” From a painting by Gordon Grant Frontispiece, “In the Caribbean” Kodachrome by Three Lions Sheets and Halliards, Gone to War, By Rufus G. Smith, Lieut., USCGR The Outboard Has Gone to War, By Crichell Rimington Racing the Sun, By W. C. Keil Pre-Tank Model Testing, by A. E. Luders Workhorse of the Chesapeake, By J. A. Emmett Why Not Try the West Indies? By Herbert L. Stone The Post-War Yacht Keep that Bottom Smooth! By Charles Fisk Sails and Sailmaking, By W. H. de Fontaine The Biography of a Design, By Graham Cameron, Lieut, USNR Design for Dinghy Sailing, By C. Leslie Lewis Plans The Month in Yachting Gadgets and Gilhickies  Selected images include: Cover; Table of Contents, page 21; Ad for Evinrude Outboard Motors (“’Rugged’ is the word … for countless wartime jobs Evinrudes are doing”), page 81; Ad for Henry R. Hinckley & Company in Southwest Harbor (for “post-war boat values”), page 96 [show more]
1004Mount Desert Deer, Past and Present, 1944
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Concept, Conservation
  • Legislation
  • Local History
  • Natural History
  • Nature
  • Nature, Animals
  • Nature, Animals, Deer
  • Nature, Seasons, Winter
  • Holmes, Lawrie
  • 1944
Mount Desert Deer, Past and Present, 1944
Item:
  • 1004   
Type:
  • Publication, Booklet
Subject:
  • Concept, Conservation
  • Legislation
  • Local History
  • Natural History
  • Nature
  • Nature, Animals
  • Nature, Animals, Deer
  • Nature, Seasons, Winter
Creator:
  • Holmes, Lawrie
Date:
  • 1944
Place:
  • Mount Desert Island
Description:
Second edition of a booklet on the management of deer herds on Mount Desert Island written by Lawrie Holmes. Holmes writes about the history of wildlife management and legislation on Mount Desert Island, characteristics of the deer population, how to determine the age of a deer using bone tests, and game management techniques that have been attempted in other locations. A bibliography of sources and photographs of other deer control activities are included as well. People Mentioned: Maurice Sullivan, Marvin Frost, C. C. Little, George Washington, Ira N. Gabrielson, George Shiras III, Peter Kalm, H. L. Shantz, George E. Street, Thomas Cobbet Jr., Ernest O. Porrell, H. D. Ruhl, G. M. Haskell, I. H. Bartlett, Bill Nye, Shaler B. Aldous, C. M. Aldous, John Pearce, Earl Atwood, W. J. Banks, Bob Bush, Victor H. Cahalane, W. Conklin, E. L. Cheatum, Glenn H. Morton, E. C. Cross, Ruth Drummond, W. S. Feeney, F. B. Forbs, L. F. Marcy, A. Leroy Vorhis, C. E. French, C. C. Furnas, S. M. Furnas, Richard Gerstell, Paul H. Hickie, Fred W. Johnson, Ralph T. King, Aldo Leopold, S. B. Locke, Walter Mann, Merwin A. Marston, L. A. Maynard, Gardener Bump, Robert Darrow, J. C. Woodward, Jack Miner, Glenn H. Morton, Donald McBeath, A. E. Porsild, Earl Saunders, C. J. Spiker, George M. Sutton, E. T. Seton, Harold Titus [show more]
1586Northeast Harbor Fire Company's First Ambulance in Front of the Municipal Building
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • People
  • Transportation, Automobile, Motor Ambulance
  • Chase - Ronald Chase
  • 1939
Northeast Harbor Fire Company's First Ambulance in Front of the Municipal Building
Item:
  • 1586   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • People
  • Transportation, Automobile, Motor Ambulance
Creator:
  • Chase - Ronald Chase
Date:
  • 1939
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
Two photos of the Northeast Harbor Fire Company's first ambulance, a 1939 Packard, in front of the Municipal Building, Main Street. In one photograph three men stand in front of the ambulance. They are identified as: Fred Kimball, Larry Wass, and Elliott Kimball Copy of photograph taken by Ronald Chase
1045Sunset Hotel and Restaurant Transfer of Goods to Mark Perlinsky Legal Notice, November 22, 1938
  • Document, Announcement, Legal Notice
  • Legal Process
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • Sunset Hotel and Restaurant, Inc.
  • 1938-11-22
Sunset Hotel and Restaurant Transfer of Goods to Mark Perlinsky Legal Notice, November 22, 1938
Item:
  • 1045   
Type:
  • Document, Announcement, Legal Notice
Subject:
  • Legal Process
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
Creator:
  • Sunset Hotel and Restaurant, Inc.
Date:
  • 1938-11-22
Place:
  • Mount Desert Island
Description:
Legal notice of the transfer of goods and chattels from The Sunset Hotel and Restaurant to Mark Perlinsky. Includes the terms of the sale and a list of items per room. People Mentioned: Mark Perlinsky, Angela C. Kaufman
1046Angela C. Kaufman Transfer of Goods to Mark Perlinsky Legal Notice, November 22, 1938
  • Document, Announcement, Legal Notice
  • Legal Process
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • Kaufman, Angela C.
  • 1938-11-22
Angela C. Kaufman Transfer of Goods to Mark Perlinsky Legal Notice, November 22, 1938
Item:
  • 1046   
Type:
  • Document, Announcement, Legal Notice
Subject:
  • Legal Process
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
Creator:
  • Kaufman, Angela C.
Date:
  • 1938-11-22
Place:
  • Mount Desert Island
Description:
Legal notice of the transfer of goods and chattels from the second and third floors of The Sunset Hotel and Restaurant to Mark Perlinsky. Includes the terms of the sale and a list of items per room. People Mentioned: Mark Perlinsky, Angela C. Kaufman