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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
1562Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
  • Dodge - Lucy McMullin Dodge
  • 1908-08
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"
1671Glass 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
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
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.
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]
1599Glass 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
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]
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.
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]