Item	Title	Type	Subject	Creator	Publisher	Date
1712	Sign 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]
1715	Wooden 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
1717	Sign 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
1716	Wooden 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.
1147	Photo-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]
1270	Photograph 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
1271	Haynes Express Truck with Man	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Transportation Business People				Haynes Express Truck with Man Item: 1271    Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Transportation Business People Description: Copy of original. Original returned to owner.
1275	Panorama 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.
1277	Photograph 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
1282	Aerial View Hall Quarry with Houses and Ship at Dock	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Quarry Operation Business				Aerial View Hall Quarry with Houses and Ship at Dock Item: 1282    Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Quarry Operation Business Place: Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
1283	Hall Quarry in Snow	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Quarry Operation Business				Hall Quarry in Snow Item: 1283    Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Quarry Operation Business Place: Mount Desert, Hall Quarry Description: Copy. Original returned to owner.
1284	Hall Quarry with 11 Men in Summer Sunday Dress Posed on Quarry Stones	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Quarry Operation Business People				Hall Quarry with 11 Men in Summer Sunday Dress Posed on Quarry Stones Item: 1284    Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Quarry Operation Business People Place: Mount Desert, Hall Quarry Description: Copy. Original returned to owner.
1285	Hall Quarry Close-Up of Crane	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Quarry Operation Business				Hall Quarry Close-Up of Crane Item: 1285    Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Quarry Operation Business Place: Mount Desert, Hall Quarry Description: Negative returned to owner.
1290	Quarrying 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.
1388	Painting "Village Smithy" Copy	Image, Art, Painting	Businesses, Blacksmith Business				Painting "Village Smithy" Copy Item: 1388    Type: Image, Art, Painting Subject: Businesses, Blacksmith Business
1562	Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock	Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative	Businesses, Fishery Business Vessels, Boat, Sailboat	Dodge - Lucy McMullin Dodge		1908-08	Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock Item: 1562    Type: Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative Subject: Businesses, Fishery Business Vessels, Boat, Sailboat Creator: Dodge - Lucy McMullin Dodge Date: 1908-08 Place: Mount Desert Rock Description: Photograph taken at Mount Desert Rock Light Station of Capt. Van Norden's friendship sloop sailing near the shore. On the sloop four men are visible, and a dory appears to be on the deck of the boat as well. Written on the negative envelope is "No. 1. Capt. Van Norden's Boat"
1563	Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock	Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative	Businesses, Fishery Business Vessels, Boat, Sailboat Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner	Dodge - Lucy McMullin Dodge		1907-08	Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock Item: 1563    Type: Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative Subject: Businesses, Fishery Business Vessels, Boat, Sailboat Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner Creator: Dodge - Lucy McMullin Dodge Date: 1907-08 Place: Mount Desert Rock Description: Two sailing vessels and a rowboat seining shad off Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. To the left, the two masted schooner is Capt. Robinson, while the Friendship sloop to the right is Capt. Van Norden, who appears with his boat in other photographs. The smaller boat in front of Capt. Van Norden is identified as Willard K. Osier This negative is damaged across the center. Written on the negative envelope is "Capt. Robinson and Capt. Van Norden Seining Shad. Small boat Willard K. Osier. [show more]
1564	Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock	Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative	Businesses, Fishery Business Vessels, Boat, Sailboat	Dodge - Lucy McMullin Dodge		1908-08	Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock Item: 1564    Type: Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative Subject: Businesses, Fishery Business Vessels, Boat, Sailboat Creator: Dodge - Lucy McMullin Dodge Date: 1908-08 Place: Mount Desert Rock Description: Captain Van Norden's Friendship sloop with four men aboard passes by the light station at Mount Desert Rock.
1587	Fire trucks parked in front of the Municipal Building, Northeast Harbor, circa 1935	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Businesses, Other Business Organizations, Fire Protection			1935	Fire trucks parked in front of the Municipal Building, Northeast Harbor, circa 1935 Item: 1587    Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Businesses, Other Business Organizations, Fire Protection Date: 1935 Place: Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor Description: Two fire engines parked in front of the Municipal Building, Northeast Harbor. A bus is parked the left of the Municipal Building, parked closer to Manchester Brothers' Garage. The truck on the left may be the Northeast Harbor Fire Company's 1926 Maxim Pumper, while that on the right is the ladder truck W.S. Grant, a 1927 American La France. This photograph was taken following the remodeling of the the Municipal Building, which was completed in 1934. [show more]
1588	Carlton 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.
1599	Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock	Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative	Businesses, Fishery Business Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner	Dodge - Lucy McMullin Dodge		1907 circa	Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock Item: 1599    Type: Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative Subject: Businesses, Fishery Business Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner Creator: Dodge - Lucy McMullin Dodge Date: 1907 circa Place: Mount Desert Rock Description: View taken from Mount Desert Rock of the two-masters fishing schooner Marion Turner, as labeled on the envelope. The Marion Turner is towing a rowboat. In the foreground the ledges of Mount Desert Rock are visible. According to the envelope, the photograph was taken April 22, but year is not given. Likely taken between 1907-1909. Notes at the bottom of the negative envelope appear to refer to the development of the negative: Devel. S.R. plate Pancro. in Devel. 300 count (?) [show more]
1624	Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock	Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative	Businesses, Geology & Minerology Business Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse	Dodge - Lucy McMullin Dodge (1862 - 1946)		1907-11	Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock Item: 1624    Type: Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative Subject: Businesses, Geology & Minerology Business Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse Creator: Dodge - Lucy McMullin Dodge (1862 - 1946) Date: 1907-11 Place: Mount Desert Rock Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock showing a large rock sitting on top of ledges with ocean beyond. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Nov. 1907 Lucy M. Dodge No. 2 Rock broken in two East of Boat House. Developed with Dianol.
1633	W.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]
1638	N.E. Harbor Authority, View from South West	Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing	Businesses, Maritime Business	Gulick - Millard B. Gulick		1938-07	N.E. Harbor Authority, View from South West Item: 1638    Type: Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing Subject: Businesses, Maritime Business Creator: Gulick - Millard B. Gulick Date: 1938-07 Description: Photograph of painting signed MBG July 1938 showing the proposed redevelopment of the Sea Street area in Northeast Harbor as planned by Griswold & Gulick, architects of Boston. This proposal was ultimately unrealized, though the Sea Street dock area was redeveloped in the 1950s.
1648	Photographs 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]

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