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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
13340"Watermelon" sailboat for Mellon Family
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, transportation - Maritime
  • People
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1946
Description:
Luders sailboat Watermelon owned by the Mellon family.
5404Men cutting ice on Somes Pond
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Ice Harvesting
  • People
  • Unknown
  • c 1940s
Description:
Three men on Somes Pond. Power ice saw in background. Man in middle saws ice by hand. Man nearest power saw holds long pole for moving ice. Third man in red plaid coat looks on.
13558Fog at Boat Wharf Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Transportation - Water
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1948
Description:
Fishing boats tied up to floats. Branch overhead. Negative in possession of donor. Ballard # 2-241
13559Foggy Day from Beal’s Wharf
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Beal's Wharf
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1943
Description:
Punt on floats. Fishing boats tied to floats some on moorings. Seal of Seal Harbor in center. Negative in possession of donor. Ballard # 2-359
9038Fishing boats tied to float
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Transportation - Water
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1948
Description:
Fishing boats tied to floats off Clark Point. Head of the harbor in the distance. Negative in possession of donor. This photo is not located in Photo Album #3. This may be a duplicate of 997-635-805 and not a separate print after all.
13572Ballard: Sardine Boats off Clark Point Road
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Boats
  • Other, Sardine boats
  • W.H. Ballard
  • July 1949
Description:
Sardine Cannery at Southwest Harbor present sight of Southwest Boat Company off Clark Point Road. Sardine carriers tied to floats. Two men working on float.
13483Ballard: Four Sardine Carriers-1946
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Sardine boats
  • Other, Transportation -Water
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1946
Description:
Addison Packing Company wharf August 1946. Four sardine carriers, Osprey, Surfman, Joyce Marie and Safety , at wharf. Clark Point in the background. Negative property of Paul T. Stubing.
12297Spread of 1947 Fire, East Side, MDI
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Map
  • 1947c.
Description:
Map of east side of Mt. Desert tracing spread of 1947 fire. Marked, “Forest Fire 1947 - M. Gilley. This is likely a photograph of a map made by M. Gilley (AB)
14067Ice Harvesting, Somes Pond, 1947
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Places, Landscape
  • 1947
Description:
Men harvesting ice on Somes Pond winter of 1947. In foreground two men use large wooden “scoop/plow” to scrape snow of ice. Another man to right pushes ice along open water. Large saw in back of men plowing snow. Other men in background near Oak Hill Road. Truck on ice near shore.
14114Virginia Somes Sanderson, Sheep Island, 1949
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • 1949
Description:
Virginia Somes Sanderson, wavy hair pulled loosely to back in bow. Wearing sun suit with feathers or similar shape throughout. Holding saw towards tree, hatchet in hand. Marked on back, “Sheep Island, 1949.”
12979J. Walter Allen
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Portrait photographs
  • Karam, Edward L.
  • 1945
Description:
Black and white graduation photograph of J. Walter Allen, 1945, in a cardboard folder frame. Allen is a young man wearing a dark jacket, striped dress shirt and necktie. Photographers logo is printed on the frame: Edward L Karam, The Farrington Studio, Brewer, Maine. Handwritten on the back of the frame: "J. Walter Allen, 1945".
13106American Red Cross Canteen Trucks
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Red Cross
  • October 1942
Description:
7 photographs of the Mt. Desert Canteen Corps truck, operated by American Red Cross license plates show date as 1942 Picture g on p. 25
12833Donald Smith on camel, Egypt
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Pyramids
  • 1943
Description:
Black and white photo. of Donald Smith (in center) on camel during World War II outside Cairo, Egypt, (possibly Giza) with two other soldiers, also on camels, in front of pyramid. One camel held by native person in white. Name of person in right given as Bohliyer. Two copies of same photo, marked c. 1 and c.2
8944Y-91
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Unknown
  • 1941
Description:
photograph two A class boats racing Y-91
8945Y-81 Boat
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Ballard, W.H.
  • 1941
Description:
photograph A class boats racing Y-81
8946Y-85 Boat
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Ballard, W.H.
  • 1941
Description:
photograph of three A class boats Y-85
8947Y-93 Boat
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Ballard, W.H.
  • 1941
Description:
Three A class boats one in foreground Y-93
8948Y-105 boat
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Ballard, W.H.
  • 1941
Description:
three A class boats Y-105
8949Y-104 Boat
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Ballard, W.H.
  • 1941
Description:
photograph single A class boat Y-104
8950Y-110 Boat
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Ballard, W.H.
  • 1941
Description:
close up photograph of A class boat heeling Y-110
75842 A Class Boats
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Ballard, W.H.
  • 1941
Description:
photograph 2 A Class boats followed by committee boat Y-104B
8951Y-61B Boat heeling
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Ballard, W.H.
  • 1940
Description:
photograph A class boat heeling mountains in background Y-61B
8952A class boat Heeling
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Ballard, W.H.
  • 1940
Description:
photograph single A class boat heeling
8953Boat Y-61A
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Ballard, W.H.
  • 1940
Description:
photograph single A class boat heeling Y-61A
13207Sunbeam, Sandra & Jean, and Hornet Rafted in SWH
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Ballard, W.H.
  • 1945
Description:
This is a photograph depicting the working harbor of Southwest. There is a lobster boat tied up to a float in the foreground. Working towards the top of the picture, there is hull#247063, a working fishing boat, tied up to a float with a motor launch. Next come the Sunbeam, Sandra & Jean (built in 1945) and Hornet rafted together. In the upper right is a barge with a tall ladder braced against a support frame.