Item	Title	Type	Subject	Creator	Publisher	Date
1649	Collection of Documents	Document, Financial, Receipt	Businesses, Maritime Business				Collection of Documents Item: 1649    Type: Document, Financial, Receipt Subject: Businesses, Maritime Business Description: Collection of five documents, largely connected with the Clark family of Southwest Harbor. Copy of a charter document, dated 1864, between Nathan Clark and William Underwood, to charter the Schooner Loochoo. Letter from Railway Express Agency, August 16, 1946, to R.P. Clark thanking him for his long service. Letter from Maine Central Railroad, January 29, 1911, to R.P. Clark discussing the terms of his employment as express agent. Telegraph Blank (jokingly?) written for Grace Carroll from the Associated Press, August 6, 1903, warning her of hostile warships in Somes Sound. Receipt for goods purchased by Nathan Clark of Eaton & Lane, Boston, August 15, 1865. Goods include: flour, sugar, rum, good whiskey, butter, ticking, matches [show more]
1670	Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock	Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative	Businesses, Fishery Business	Dodge - Lucy McMullin Dodge (1862 - 1946)		1908-08	Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock Item: 1670    Type: Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative Subject: Businesses, Fishery Business Creator: Dodge - Lucy McMullin Dodge (1862 - 1946) Date: 1908-08 Place: Mount Desert Rock Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1908. View shows at least four boats not far from shore fishing. To the far left is a two-masted schooner and in the center is a Friendship sloop. In front of the sloop, and to the right, are at least two smaller boats. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Aug. 1908 Capt. John Robinson seining
1671	Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock	Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative	Businesses, Fishery Business Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Friendship Sloop	Dodge - Lucy McMullin Dodge (1862 - 1946)		1907-09	Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock Item: 1671    Type: Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative Subject: Businesses, Fishery Business Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Friendship Sloop Creator: Dodge - Lucy McMullin Dodge (1862 - 1946) Date: 1907-09 Place: Mount Desert Rock Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, September 1907. View depicts a Friendship sloop, identified as belonging to Captain Van Norden, towing two smaller boats. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Sept. 1907 No. 1 Capt. Van Norden's Boat
1719	Wooden 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]
1721	Cast iron ship's bell	Object	Businesses, Maritime Business				Cast iron ship's bell Item: 1721    Type: Object Subject: Businesses, Maritime Business Description: Cast iron ship's bell with partial detached yoke. The bell has a large crack and is covered with rust. The bell was retrieved by Harold Walls (1913-2000), a fisherman from Otter Creek, who retrieved it around 1958 or 59. Walls went fishing after a large storm, and found many buoys and lines tangled together. Instead of dealing with them at sea, he towed the tangle to Otter Creek to deal with it. This bell was found in the tangle. It is not clear how the bell ended up in the ocean and the exact location of the tangle is not now known. Temporary image [show more]

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