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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
1633W.S. Brown Account Book
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Maritime Business
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • Brown - W.S.
  • 1890 c.
W.S. Brown Account Book
Item:
  • 1633   
Type:
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
Subject:
  • Businesses, Maritime Business
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
Creator:
  • Brown - W.S.
Date:
  • 1890 c.
Place:
  • Mount Desert Island
Description:
Account book kept by W.S. Brown, master of the schooner J.S. Butler, and other vessels. Includes references to cargoes carried, ports visited, and men employed on the schooner. Also includes records of expenditures, mostly for food, but some references to items like knives. Brown may be William Sheldon Brown but additional research is needed. The book may have been used at an earlier time, as several pages have be ripped out, and Brown's name is found in pencil with the date of 1880 near the beginning [show more]
1715Wooden Lobster Buoy
  • Object
  • Businesses, Fishing Business, Lobstering Business
Wooden Lobster Buoy
Item:
  • 1715   
Type:
  • Object
Subject:
  • Businesses, Fishing Business, Lobstering Business
Description:
Wooden Lobster Buoy, painted green and orange. The buoy is somewhat conical in shape, and has a hole through the center of it for a rope. The broader part (the top when floating in the water) is painted green, and the lower part is orange. Carving in the outer edge of the buoy reads: NEW 1400
1716Wooden Lobster Buoy
  • Object
  • Businesses, Fishing Business, Lobstering Business
  • Lawson - Russell Lawson
Wooden Lobster Buoy
Item:
  • 1716   
Type:
  • Object
Subject:
  • Businesses, Fishing Business, Lobstering Business
Creator:
  • Lawson - Russell Lawson
Description:
Wooden Lobster Buoy carved by Russell Lawson. The body of the buoy is a deep orange color and the handle is white. A rope loop extends from the end.
1719Wooden box and six quart bottles from Mt. Desert Island Dairy
  • Object
  • Businesses, Dairy Farming Business
Wooden box and six quart bottles from Mt. Desert Island Dairy
Item:
  • 1719   
Type:
  • Object
Subject:
  • Businesses, Dairy Farming Business
Description:
Wooden box with lid and handle containing six glass milk bottles from Mt. Desert Island Dairy The box has a lid and lock, and is painted dark green. Writing on the outside appears to be stenciled in a pale yellow color. The interior is unpainted Writing on the lid reads: "Mt. Desert Island" and "Mt. Desert Island Dairy, Bar Harbor, Maine" is written on the front. The ends are labeled 6 QT. Six glass quart bottles are stored inside the box [show more]
1067William W. Gallagher to R.C. Masterman Letter, June 22, 1938
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Businesses, Liquor Serving Businesses
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • Gallagher, William W.
  • 1938-06-22
William W. Gallagher to R.C. Masterman Letter, June 22, 1938
Item:
  • 1067   
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
Subject:
  • Businesses, Liquor Serving Businesses
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
Creator:
  • Gallagher, William W.
Date:
  • 1938-06-22
Place:
  • Mount Desert Island
Description:
William W. Gallagher, Assistant Attorney General and Counsel for the State of Maine Liquor Commission, informs R.C. Masterman that the application and bond for a summer spirituous and vinous liquor license for The Sunset Hotel and Restaurant in Bar Harbor, ME was not in the proper form. The letterhead includes the Maine state seal. People Mentioned: Harold S. Boardman, Thomas F. Locke, Raymond E. Thurston
1138Wedge, Splitting
  • Object, Masonry & Stoneworking, Stone Chisel
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation Business
Wedge, Splitting
Item:
  • 1138   
Type:
  • Object, Masonry & Stoneworking, Stone Chisel
Subject:
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation Business
1698View looking toward the Wedge and the Rock End Hotel, Northeast Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Businesses, Lodging Business, Hotel & Motel Business
  • 1886 c.
View looking toward the Wedge and the Rock End Hotel, Northeast Harbor
Item:
  • 1698   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Lodging Business, Hotel & Motel Business
Date:
  • 1886 c.
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
Photograph taken from the area of the Samuel Gilpatrick Homestead looking toward the Rock End Hotel, near Gilpatrick Cove Northeast Harbor. In the foreground is Herman Savage's cottage, "The Wedge," designed by his architect brother, Fred L. Savage, in 1885. Two children stand on the side of the road, and an unidentified structure is visible beyond the hotel. In the distance, the northern shores of Great Cranberry Island can be seen. The Rock End Hotel was originally called the Revere House and was opened by Herman L. Savage in the summer of 1884. The Wedge was built by A. Torrey, a contractor from Southwest Harbor, in the winter of 1885-1886. The Rock End Hotel burned in March, 1942. The Wedge was purchased by the Roberts family and remodeled in 1944-45, following plans by Philadelphia architect Edmund Gilchrist. It remains a private residence today. [show more]
1711Sign for Wikhegan Old Books
  • Object, Sign, Identification Sign, Signboard
  • Businesses, Other Business
Sign for Wikhegan Old Books
Item:
  • 1711   
Type:
  • Object, Sign, Identification Sign, Signboard
Subject:
  • Businesses, Other Business
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
Wooden sign for Wikhegan Old Books, a rare book shop operated by Rick and JoAnne Fuerst from 1976-2018. The store was located at 117 Main Street, Northeast Harbor. This sign was removed from the building before the business closed, when books were sold from Pine Bough Antiques The sign is two sided and appears to have had a brown frame, which no longer survives. Brown paint appears beneath where the frame would have been.
1712Sign for Pine Bough Antiques
  • Object, Sign, Identification Sign, Signboard
  • Businesses, Other Business
Sign for Pine Bough Antiques
Item:
  • 1712   
Type:
  • Object, Sign, Identification Sign, Signboard
Subject:
  • Businesses, Other Business
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
Wooden sign for Pine Bough Antiques, an antiques and rare book shop operated by Rick and JoAnne Fuerst from 1976-2018. The store was located at 117 Main Street, Northeast Harbor. This sign hung off the front of the building and is therefore double sided. Looking at the two sides, green painted frame on one side is more weathered than the other. The two-sided sign has green lettering and a green frame, and pine bough is painted in the upper left corner. [show more]
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
1714Shipping box lid
  • Object
  • Businesses, Other Business
Shipping box lid
Item:
  • 1714   
Type:
  • Object
Subject:
  • Businesses, Other Business
Description:
Lid from a wooden shipping box sent to F.E. Manchester, an electrician, in Northeast Harbor. The lid consists of four planks and two crosspieces. Written in back ink is information about the recipient: F.E. Manchester Northeast Harbor Maine Ex Paid - refers the the cost of express shipping being paid Stenciled text reads: Sunbeam - Tungsten Glass Handle-With-Care don't-Drop The crate likely contained a tungsten lamp or fixture. Affixed to the front of the crate are two paper labels. One reads is from American Express and contains the shipping cost that appears to be $.95 or $9.5 The other is from Earle and Prew's Express from Pawtucket R.I. [show more]
1064Roland A. Scribner to Applicants for Summer Malt Liquor Licenses Letter, March 28, 1938
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Businesses, Liquor Serving Businesses
  • Scribner, Roland A.
  • 1938-03-28
Roland A. Scribner to Applicants for Summer Malt Liquor Licenses Letter, March 28, 1938
Item:
  • 1064   
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
Subject:
  • Businesses, Liquor Serving Businesses
Creator:
  • Scribner, Roland A.
Date:
  • 1938-03-28
Description:
Roland A. Scribner, the Chief Clerk of the State of Maine Liquor Commission, provides details and application instructions for obtaining summer malt liquor licenses. The letterhead includes the Maine state seal.
1065Roland A. Scribner to Applicants for Part-Time Malt Liquor Licenses Letter, March 28, 1938
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Businesses, Liquor Serving Businesses
  • Scribner, Roland A.
  • 1938-03-28
Roland A. Scribner to Applicants for Part-Time Malt Liquor Licenses Letter, March 28, 1938
Item:
  • 1065   
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
Subject:
  • Businesses, Liquor Serving Businesses
Creator:
  • Scribner, Roland A.
Date:
  • 1938-03-28
Description:
Roland A. Scribner, the Chief Clerk of the State of Maine Liquor Commission, provides details and application instructions for obtaining part-time malt liquor licenses. The letterhead includes the Maine state seal.
1063Roland A. Scribner to Applicants for Part Time and Summer Licenses Letter, March 28, 1938
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Businesses, Liquor Serving Businesses
  • Scribner, Roland A.
  • 1938-03-28
Roland A. Scribner to Applicants for Part Time and Summer Licenses Letter, March 28, 1938
Item:
  • 1063   
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
Subject:
  • Businesses, Liquor Serving Businesses
Creator:
  • Scribner, Roland A.
Date:
  • 1938-03-28
Description:
Roland A. Scribner, the Chief Clerk of the State of Maine Liquor Commission, provides information about part-time and summer malt liquor licenses. The letterhead includes the Maine state seal. People Mentioned: Harold S. Boardman, Thomas F. Locke, Raymond E. Thurston
1061Robert B. Williamson to Norman Shaw Letter, November 5, 1938
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Businesses, Liquor Serving Businesses
  • Williamson, Robert B.
  • 1938-11-05
Robert B. Williamson to Norman Shaw Letter, November 5, 1938
Item:
  • 1061   
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
Subject:
  • Businesses, Liquor Serving Businesses
Creator:
  • Williamson, Robert B.
Date:
  • 1938-11-05
Description:
Robert B. Williamson acknowledges the receipt of a letter from Norman Shaw dated November 4 regarding Angela C. Kaufman. People Mentioned: Angela C. Kaufman, William R. Pattangall, Ernest L. Goodspeed, Lois H. Birkenwald
1290Quarrying Tongs
  • Object, Masonry & Stoneworking, Quarry Tongs
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation Business
Quarrying Tongs
Item:
  • 1290   
Type:
  • Object, Masonry & Stoneworking, Quarry Tongs
Subject:
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
Description:
Quarry tongs donated to museum.
1124Quarrying Hammer.
  • Object, Masonry & Stoneworking, Stone Hammer
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation Business
Quarrying Hammer.
Item:
  • 1124   
Type:
  • Object, Masonry & Stoneworking, Stone Hammer
Subject:
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation Business
Description:
Stone head. Wooden handle.
1122Quarry Bit
  • Object, Masonry & Stoneworking, Masonry Bit
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation Business
Quarry Bit
Item:
  • 1122   
Type:
  • Object, Masonry & Stoneworking, Masonry Bit
Subject:
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation Business
1123Quarry Bit
  • Object, Masonry & Stoneworking, Masonry Bit
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation Business
Quarry Bit
Item:
  • 1123   
Type:
  • Object, Masonry & Stoneworking, Masonry Bit
Subject:
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation Business
1648Photographs of Main Street Northeast Harbor, circa 1935
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Businesses, Transportation Business
  • Organizations, Municipal
  • 1935 c.
Photographs of Main Street Northeast Harbor, circa 1935
Item:
  • 1648   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Transportation Business
  • Organizations, Municipal
Date:
  • 1935 c.
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
6 modern reproduction photographs showing Main Street, Northeast Harbor, circa 1935. Four views show the Municipal Building/Firehouse, and three show fire engines parked in front of the building, including the 1927 American LaFrance Ladder Truck "William S. Grant." Another photograph shows buses parked to the south of the municipal building, belong to Maine Transportation (?), a subsidiary of the Maine Central Railroad Company. Another photograph shows two buses belonging to the Boston & Maine Transportation Company parked behind Manchester Bros. Garage. Another photograph shows the steamer J.T. Morse landing at the steamboat wharf in Northeast Harbor [show more]
1277Photograph Northeast Livery
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Transportation Business, Livery Business
  • Structures, Commercial, Livery Stable
Photograph Northeast Livery
Item:
  • 1277   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Transportation Business, Livery Business
  • Structures, Commercial, Livery Stable
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
1270Photograph Haynes Express Truck with 4 men and luggage
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Transportation Business
  • People
Photograph Haynes Express Truck with 4 men and luggage
Item:
  • 1270   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Transportation Business
  • People
Description:
Photograph copied and original returned
1147Photo-Essay of Last (1942) Voyage of Coal Schooner "Rebecca R. Douglas"
  • Publication, Literary, Essay
  • Businesses, Coal and Oil Business
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • Chanler - Bronson W.
Photo-Essay of Last (1942) Voyage of Coal Schooner "Rebecca R. Douglas"
Item:
  • 1147   
Type:
  • Publication, Literary, Essay
Subject:
  • Businesses, Coal and Oil Business
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
Creator:
  • Chanler - Bronson W.
Description:
Photo-Essay by Bronson W. Chanler detailing a trip aboard the coal schooner "Rebecca R. Douglas" between Northeast Harbor and New York City. Note: As originally displayed in the museum, copies of the photographs taken by Chanler were mounted alongside excerpts and quotes. Around 2015 the photographs were removed from the 1984 posters so they could be scanned and better protected. They are uploaded here, as is the complete text by Bronson W. Chanler. [show more]
1275Panorama of Northeast Harbor--Clifton's Dock
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Panorama
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Panorama of Northeast Harbor--Clifton's Dock
Item:
  • 1275   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Panorama
Subject:
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
Photograph. Original returned to donor.
1388Painting "Village Smithy" Copy
  • Image, Art, Painting
  • Businesses, Blacksmith Business
Painting "Village Smithy" Copy
Item:
  • 1388   
Type:
  • Image, Art, Painting
Subject:
  • Businesses, Blacksmith Business