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115’ Dragger Frames and Keel (3)
24 Foot Launch (5)
26 foot fishing vessel, Bass Harbor Boat Shop (4)
32' Boat for Vernon Dalzell, Frenchboro, boat at Southwest Harbor, Maine
34' Boat for Philip Bennett, Under construction
36' Fishing Boats, Webber's Cove (15)
55' Keel and frames, Gary Alan, Davis Yard, Bass Harbor
92' dragger, Constance, under construction (2)
97' dragger under construction, Southwest Boat Corp. (2)
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A Boat # 38 and International Boat # 5
A Boat # 4, International # 7 and Sparrow
A Boats (2)
Albacore III, Blue Hill Falls, Maine (23)
Alfred M. Landon aboard Blue Moon (5)
Alice Nixon (2)
Andrew Haskell; Howe Smith Barn with Lois Leland
Andrews Farm Market Truck, July 4, Bar Harbor
ARAHO, shown at Southwest Harbor, Maine (2)
Asticou Gardens (3)
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Baby in seat on blanket on lawn
Baby in seat on blanket on lawn
"Baby Rose" and "Horne", Fish Wharf
Balding man with beard wearing heavy sweater (4)
Bass Harbor Marsh and Western Mountain (2)
Beached boat with men pushing on side, receding tide, SW Harbor, Maine
Beached boats on head of harbor, view from above, SW Harbor, Maine
Beal’s Sight-seeing Boat at Manset
Bear Island Light with Sailboat
Bennie Davis (3)
Bion Farnsworth (3)
Boat launch of Frances Alice (2)
Boat on Repairway, BassHarbor Boat Shop
Boat yard landing, SW Harbor, Maine
Boats about Town Landing, Southwest Harbor, Maine
Boats alongside wharf, Winter Harbor, Maine
Boats at Bass Harbor From Thurston’s Wharf (2)
Boats at Beal's Wharf, SW Harbor, Maine (2)
Boats at Manset Wharf, SW Harbor, Maine
Boats at Southwest Boat Corp, SW Harbor, Maine (3)
Boats at Southwest Boat Corp., Island Queen
Boats at southwest Boat Corp, Quoddy Bay, SW Harbor, Maine
Boats at Town Landing, Southwest Harbor, Maine (2)
Boats Grounded on shore for bottom paint
Boats moored beyond a grassy field
Boats Sandra & Jean and Chester T. Mashall tied to dock
Bob Lincoln (7)
Borogare of the Bar Harbor Yacht Club (2)
Bouchard Boat Shop, SW Harbor, Maine (2)
Bow of Continental and stern of Ernest
Boy and girl leaning agaist fallen tree
Bucks Harbor, South Brooksville, Maine (3)
Builder’s Model of Brig M.T. Rich
Buildings and derrick near quarry hole
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Caleb Tracy Pulling Baby Carriage (2)
Camden Waterfront, from the Yacht Club
Caopy of old house and outbuildings
Cape Cod House (2)
Cape Cod house with ladder on roof
Car driving road overlooking harbor
Carrier El Placita on ways at Southwest Harbor (2)
Carriers Alice, America, Maine Queen
Carriers at Southwest Boat Company
Cars on Stanleys Fisheries Pier
CCC camp, Men and camp buildings, c. 1930 (46)
Charles Butt Ballard Negative Collection
Child on cot (2)
Children in coats near picnic table
Choppy harbor (2)
Clara and Florence Tracy at Richardson Homestead
Clara Emilie Meynell Somes & Thaddeus Shepley Somes
Clara Emilie Meynell Somes and Thaddeus Shepley Somes
Claremont Hotel (3)
Close up of leaves, flowers, berries on branch
Close up of moss and tree limbs
Clown painting, studio photograph of painting
Coast Guard Cutter "Kickap" off Otter Point, Mount Desert Island, Maine (2)
Colinial house with central door
Colonial doorway (4)
Color photograph, oil painting of a girl by Mrs. John Melcher
Color photograph, oil painting of man with hat by Mrs. John Melcher
Color photograph, oil painting of two children by Mrs. John Melcher
Color photograph, painting of glass vase with flowers by Mrs. John Melcher
Color photograph, portrait of two children by Mrs. John Melcher
Construction at Davis Boat Yard, McKinley, Maine (3)
Construction of friendship sloop, planed hull in Ralph Stanley Boat Shop, SW Harbor, Maine
Construction of Friendship Sloop, Ralph Stanley Boat Shop,SW Harbor, Maine
Construction view, exterior of hull, Bunker and Ellis
Construction view, interior of hull, Bunker and Ellis
Copy of Green Mountain Railway
Copy of horse and wagon outside Green Mountain House
Copy of old photo of horse and wagon by Green Mountain House
Copy of old photo of house and outbuildings
Copy of Summit Hotel or Green Mountain House
Corset or bustle stern on old lobster boat (2)
Cottage at Seawall, Richard McClanahan (7)
Coulter House in winter, Pretty Marsh (2)
Covered half round porch with rock wall and granite step
Covered half round porch with stone wall and granite step (2)
Covered round porch with stone wall and steps (2)
Cruise Schooners (5)
Cruiser (11)
Cruiser, Tim-Tam (7)
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David Irvin (3)
Davis Boat Yard (4)
Decaying Greek Revival house (3)
Deep sea fishing boats, Bar Harbor, Maine
Diesel engine, aboard Irwin Spurling's boat
Dory with fish being unloaded, SW Harbor, Maine
Dory with Fish Being Unloaded, SW Harbor, Maine
Dr. M. T. Mellon, at helm of motor boat.
Dragger C.R. & M., Davis Boat Yard (6)
Dragger rigging, Manset, Maine
Dragger Rigging, Manset, Maine
Draggers and Sailboat, at Wharf
Draggers at Beal's Wharf, Southwest Harbor, Maine (2)
Dragggers at Coast Guard Base, Southwest Harbor, Maine (2)
Dressed up woman in formal garden
Dressed up woman in formal garden
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E.F. Butler climbing rigging of sailboat (2)
Elva L. Beal on launching ways
Entrance to Somes Sound, Southwest Harbor, Maine
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Fair Oaks Farm (3)
Fannie & Ethel fishing vessel, Southwest Harbor, Maine (5)
Fantee (6)
Farnsworth children on gunwhale
Farnsworth children on steps of house
Farnsworth children ouside workshop
Farnsworth children outside shop
Farnsworth family in living room
Fearless (2)
Fiberglass Replica of Old Baldy Hull
Fiberglass Rowboat for Jarvis Newman (17)
Films for Tracy Log Book 1855: A Month in summer
Fireplace in Abraham Somes III house
Fish handling, wharf at SW Harbor, Maine
fish Wharf and Dragger in Fog, SW Harbor, Maine
Fishing boats at wharf, Winter Harbor (4)
Fishing boats on shore, Davis Yard, Bass Harbor
Fishing Boats tied up at Manset Wharf (4)
Fishing vessel Bonaventure, underway
Fishing vessel Henry O. Underwood
Fishing vessels: Whileaway and Dorothy & Edith
Fishing vessels at Coast Guard Base (2)
Fishing vessels, Town Landing, Southwest Harbor
Five Boats and a Dory, Beached at Head of the Harbor, SW Harbor, Maine
Five boats beached at head of the harbor, SW Harbor, Maine
Five boats beached at the head of the harbor, distance view, SW Harbor, Maine
Five Fishing boats at wharf, Winter Harbor
Five men on dock near Maine Queen
Fleet off Bear Island Light, Before Start
Four children holding sacks near shore
Four children on steps of house
Four Master at Southwest Harbor, Theoline
Four people on steps of log house
Four people standing on steps of log house
Framing a dragger, Davis Yard, Bass Harbor
Fred Thurston with his traps, Bernard, Maine
Fred Thurston, with his traps, Bernard, Maine
Frenchman's Bay Boating Company, Bar Harbor, Maine (5)
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Gasoline carrier and fishing boat at Beal's Wharf, Southwest Harbor, Maine.
Gathering of people in the woods
Gayle and Barbara, fishing vessel, on the Ways (3)
Gelouba of the Bar Harbor Yacht Club (4)
Glass vase with flowers, studio photograph of painting
Glowmaid at Southwest Boat Corporation (2)
Goose Model (8)
Gott's Island from Little Gott's Island
Grace and Lunette of Bar Harbor (3)
Granite memorial to Joseph Cutris
Gray haired man in a navy blue suit jacket and tie. color negative of painting
Green Mountain Railway, car loaded with passengers
Green Mountain Railway, engine and car on railway
Green Mountain Railway, Steamer Wauwinnet
Green Mountain Railway, stereopticon image made into negative
Green Mountain Railway Tracks, long upgrade view
Green Mountain Railway, tracks on view toward Eagle Lake terminal
Green Mountain Railway, tracks toward Eagle Lake
Green Mountain Railway, train #1
Green Mountain Railway-terminal at Eagle Lake
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Hanscom Horse Shoeing Building
Harbor Ice from the Beal Fish Wharf, Southwest Harbor, Maine
Harbor Ice, Southwest Harbor Boat Corp Wharf
Harry and Pearl Bordeaux Putting Water in Truck
Headstone of Benjamine Athertone
Herring Boats off Seawall, Southwest Harbor, Maine (2)
Hoisting Ice aboard Hornet, Beal's Wharf, SW Harbor, Maine
House, ell, barn (2)
Howe Smith Farm:Charlotte Smith Ingalls & Charolde [Sherrold?] Smith
Hulls of small and large wooden boats
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Inlet or rover with stony banks
Inlet to marsh (2)
International Sloop (11)
Internationals Behind Starting Line
Isleford Dock (2)
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Jacquelyn (5)
James Richardson Homestead, Tracy Farm
J.L. Stanley and Sons 58’ Dragger (5)
Joan and Tom, fishing vessel (2)
Joe E. Brown (4)
John Fernald Receives Keys to Bordeaux Dairy Truck from Bob Buck
Jones Tracy at Richardson Homestead
Joseph S. Mattos of Gloucester (2)
Joyce Marie outside of Manset Marine Supply
Judith Lee Rose, 115' Dragger in Frame (9)
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Ketch Abigail (23)
King Fisher and Joyce Marie tied to dock
Kolledgewidgwok Yacht Club Landing (4)
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Large group of people sitting outside a house
Launch of the Frances Alice - Family
Launching of Dorothy & Betty II (4)
Launching of Isabelle J II (4)
Launching of Vinalhave II, SW Harbor, Maine (2)
Launching of Vinalhaven II, SW Harbor, Maine (6)
Launching Photos (2)
Launching ways in the ice, Southwest Boat Corp.
Laurence Wayne vessel, interior photos (8)
Lazy Lady (7)
Leonard Motel Annex, Bar Harbor (3)
Leonard's Motel, Bar Harbor (3)
Letter to Sen. Smith re mail boat; signed petition
Liberty Belle underway at Southwest Harbor (2)
Light Fog from Manset Shore, Southwest Harbor, Maine
Lilliy P III (2)
LilliyP III (2)
Lily pad (3)
Lobster Boat (4)
Lobster boat with traps at Beal's Wharf
Lobster Bouy leaning against wooden trap
Lobster car stacked with lobster traps
Lobster car with lobster traps (2)
Lobster traps and bouys on pier
Lobstering boat and wharf, Southwest Harbor, Maine
Lobsterman putting nets in trap
Lobsterman sells catch at dock
Long building on stone pier (2)
Long shingled building on pier (3)
Looing towards water from Manset Shore Road
Looking at boats from under a tree
Looking at harbor between old working boat
Looking at harbor through branches
Looking at harbor through tree branches
Looking at harbor with fishing boats
Looking at pier across dirt road
Looking at sailboats on moorings
Looking at water from rocky beach
Looking through a gate at a cemetery
Looking through break in shrubs
Looking through granite stones
Looking through trees towards water
Looking through windows at trees
Lorine III (12)
Loster traps and fishing grear
Lumber Mill, Front View with Ramp, Somesville
Lunching of Juidth Lee Rose, Southwest Boat Corp. (6)
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Mady Jo (2)
Main Street and Cove, Somesville
Man and boy outside lighthouse
Man and boy outside of lighthouse
Man and boy preparing to launch boat
Man and woman in front of grill
Man and woman in historic costume
Man and woman in Native clothing playing drums
Man and woman looking at a book
Man and woman next to Naval vessel photo
Man and woman on rocky shore (2)
Man fishing (2)
Man hanging cane to man in chair
Man holding violin leaning against fireplace
Man holding violin leaning against stone fireplace
Man in suit handing seated man a cane
Man in sweater leaning against house railing
Man in sweater leaning against house railing
Man in work clothes holding window
Man in work clothes in front of a pile of windows
Man in work clothes in front of pile of windows
Man inside boat waiting launch
Man leaning against boom of sailboat
Man looking at stones on table (2)
man playing guitar, Man playing fiddle
Man rowing in front of docked carriers
Man seated in kitchen chair (2)
Man sits on bow of launched boat
Man sitting on side of a memorial stone
Man stading in front of ivy covered wall
Man standing near cement mixer
Man with bear wearing a heavy apron
Man with beard wearing heavy apron (2)
Manset Fish Wharf view of Southwest Harbor, Maine
Marguerite Yourcenar and Hortense Flexner
Mary Rose, in Ice at Southwest Boat Corp., Fitting Wharf
McKinley Terminal - Swan’s Island Ferry
McKinley Terminal for Swan’s Island Ferry (2)
MDI Historical Society's Selectmen's Building
Melly Bones (13)
Men working on boat, "Connecticut", Southwest Harbor, Maine
Mill Pond, Canoes, & Library: Somesville (2)
Milliken Cruiser (5)
Misty Harbour, copyright image SW Harbor, Maine
Mitchell's Boat, Bass Harbor Boat Shop (5)
Mixed Class of Larger Boats of Hills
Mixed Classes waiting for the gun (2)
Model Tug Boat at Bass Harbor Boat Shop (2)
Motorboat (2)
Motorboat Construction in Lower Shop (2)
Mount Desert House, Somesville, Maine
Mount Desert House (The Tavern)
Mount Desert Post Office, Main Street, Somesville, 1905
Mr. and Mrs. E.F. Butler at helm of sailboat (4)
Mr. and Mrs. E.F. Butler on unidentified sailboat
Mr. Farnsworth (3)
Mrs. E. F. Butler on deck of unidientified sailboat
Mrs. E.F. Butler at helm of sailboat (3)
Mrs. E.F. Butler climbing rigging of sailboat
Mrs. E.F. Butler on deck of sailboat
Mt. Desert from Gott's Island, Vessel Frolic of Elmer Spurling
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Negative of Letter to Sen. Smith re mail boat and two signed petitions (12)
Negatives-Civilian Conservation Corps
Nellie M. Stanley and Chistopher tied up
New Boat, Bass Harbor Boat Shop, Bernard
Northeast Harbor (8)
Northeast Harbor Fleet and Mount Desert Hills (2)
Northeast Harbor Fleet approaching East Blue Hill
Northeast Harbor Fleet at Blue Hill
Northeast Harbor Fleet at Starting Line
Northeast Harbor Fleet Becalmed (2)
Northeast Harbor Fleet Headquarters (2)
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Ocean side beach from the hill
Old Baldy Sloop (4)
Old barn with large sliding doors
Old barn with siding falling off
Old Homestead Dairy Truck. Sargent Dairy
Old Quarry (3)
One story house on inlet or pond
Osprey Transom (3)
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Paine Farm, Crooked Rd., Bar Harbor
Pandora of the Bar Harbor Yacht Club
Pansy L. Robbins, Southwest Harbor, Maine
Path into woods blocked by boulders
Pebbley beach (2)
People around stone with plaque
People at long tables outside church
people at tables outside church
People gathered at long tables
People sitting in a dance studio
People standing around sign against bulldozer (2)
People standing next to fire truck
Peter Benson & Johnathon Stewart Shop
Photo of a postcard of the Claremont Hotel
Piera (24)
Piers going out into the Harbor
Pile of lobster bouys in grass
Pole with wires attached at the top (2)
Pond surrounded by snow covered trees
President Taft and John E. Bunker in Bar Harbor
Progress Photos (2)
P.S. Richardson Farm, Oak Hill Rd.
Punt and lobster traps on shore
Puppy in grass (7)
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Quarry hole filled with water (3)
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Ralph Phippen, hauling lobster trap, SW Harbor, Maine
Ralph Phippen, Hauling Lobster Traps, SW Harbor, Maine
Ralph Phippen, Hauling Traps (6)
Ray Bunker's Boat, Rambler, SW Harbor, Maine (3)
Ray Bunker's Boat, SW Harbor, Maine (2)
Reflected Boats, Sardine Carriers, SW Harbor, Maine
"Rhode Island" - beached for painting (3)
"Rhode Island", Captain William Howell,
Rich Boat Yard (8)
Rich Brother, reading Maine Coast Fisherman, Bernard, Maine
Rich Brother, working on boat, Bernard, Maine
Rich Brothers, working on boat building, Bernard, Maine
Rich Wharf, Power, and Robinson Machine Shop, McKinley & Bernard (2)
Richardson Homestead and Barn (Fair Oaks Farm)
Richardson Homestead Barn (Fair Oaks Farm)
Rich-Grindle Boatyard, Construction, Southwest Harbor, Maine
Robert Morse model bird: Blue Heron
Robert Morse model bird: Great Horned Owl
Robert Morse model bird: Road Runner
Robert Morse model bird: Snowy Owl
Robert Morse Painting: Abandoned Farm House
Robert Morse Painting: Card Game in the Fish House, Cranberry Island
Roger Rich Shop: Clark Point Road
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Sailboat 50 (3)
Sailboat tied to dock with three people sitting on cabin
Sailing, Mt. Desert Island, Me.
Sale, Standard Granite Co., Advertisement
Sammy West (10)
Sardine Boats at Southwest Boat Corp. Landing
Sardine Carriers at Southwest Harbor (22)
Sargent Farm, Old Homestead Dairy truck
Sawmill and Fernald's Store from the water
Scene of a rocky hill, color negative of painting of a "foreign" rocky hill
Schooner, Loading Schooner, Loading Fish Meal (2)
Schooner Yachts of Otter Creek (4)
Schooner Yachts racing off the hills
Schooners and double masters in Mill Cove, Boothbay Harbor, Maine (2)
Sea Wind -- Swan’s Island Ferry
Seal Cove Boat Yard, Harborside, Maine (6)
Seawall: color negatives about grounds, cottage (8)
Seine Boat & Net Handlers--Harbor in Background
Seining at SW Harbor, Maine (3)
Sharp rocks covered with bushes
Shed or small boathouse on shore, winter, SW Harbor, Maine
Ship Under Construction, Somes Cove
Shore front (3)
Side of house (2)
Signal Station, Green Mountain Railway House #3
Skylark (16)
Sloop #12 (2)
Sloop Chicadee (14)
Sloop Melly Bones (14)
Small boats and draggers, Southwest Harbor, Maine
Small Boats at Beals Wharf, SW Harbor, Maine
Small boats at fish wharf and town landing, Southwest Harbor, Maine
Small building on granite pier
Small cove surronded by grasses
Small pond surrounded by marsh (3)
Smith Cottage, Mount Desert, Maine
Snow Scenes, Southwest Harbor, Maine (5)
Somes Cove and Lumber Mill from Somes House Cottage
Somes Sound from Sargent Drive
Somesville Harbor Cove, color negative of stereopticon card
Somesville Meeting House Interior, c. 1900
Somesville Post Office in Winter
Somesville School House, Mt. Desert, ME
Somesville Union Meeting House
Southwest Boat Corporation (75)
Southwest Boat Corporation--Fancy Free (20)
Southwest Harbor, from Manset Winter Scene
Southwest Harbor, Maine, view from Manset Shore Drive
Southwest Harbor Midical Associates office
Southwest Harbor, view from Manset town landing (2)
St. Saviour's Episcopal Church
Stanley Mitchell, on dragger at Clark Point
State patrol boat, Rich Grindle Yard (5)
Steamboat Wharf at Clark's Point, SW Harbor, Maine
Stock Motor Boat (6)
Stone and everreen lined river bank
Stone bridge under Eagle Lake Road
Stowing Seine: Salting Herring Net
Sunbeam (3)
Sunbeam, Northeast Harbor, Maine (2)
Sylvina W. Beal, R. J. Peacock Canning Company (2)
Sylvina W. Beal, R. J. Peacocl Canning Company
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Ten men and a beached boat, head of the harbor, SW Harbor, Maine
Thaddeus Shepley Somes & Clare Emilie Meynell Somes
Thaddeus Shepley Somes and Clara Emilie Meynell Somes
The “Boat Shop” (2)
Theolin seen through summerhouse on backshore--winter
Theoline From the Backshore, Winter (2)
Three boats alongside wharf, Winter Harbor, Maine
Three boats beached at head of harbor, SW Harbor, Maine
Three Boats Beached on Shore at Head of the Harbor, SW Harbor, Maine
Three boats on wharf at Winter Harbor, Maine
Three elderly people in formal wear (2)
Three fishing boats moored in harbor
Three fishing boats, Winter Harbor, Maine
Three headstones (2)
Three master at Southwest Harbor, George Klink
Three Master, George Klink (3)
Three men standing near machinery
Three story building with porch
Toronto (13)
Tow Boat, Mary Merwin, Southwest Boat (3)
Two Boats alongside wharf, Winter Harbor
Two children in coats near picnic table
Two children sitting in a chair, Color negative of photo of painting
Two Children weaving pot holders
Two lobster boats tied to dock
Two man inspect hull of boat waiting launch
Two men in suits seated at table
Two men look a hull of boat waiting for launch
Two people talking in grass near a small building
Two women on pier looking at boats
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Unidentified draggers, Town Landing & Beal's Wharf (3)
Unidentified fishing vessel (2)
Unidentified lobster boat, Roger Rich Boat Shop
Unidentified man working on exterior hull, Bunker and Ellis
Unidentified man working on exterior hull, Rich Brothers Boat Shop
Unidentified pleasure craft (6)
Unidentified vessel, under construction, Robert Rich Boat Shop
Unknown photo of location along Maine coast
Unknown sailboard, Y series Ballard.
Unlading International One Design
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Valkyrie (2)
Vase with flowers, Color negative of photo of painting
Vase with flowers, color negative of photo of paintings (2)
Vessel Romance in the Ice at Manset, SW Harbor, Maine
Veteranarian examines a cocker spaniel
View of Mill Pond and Somes Harbor taken from hill at "The Old Homestead".
View of warf with S. W. Boat Corp sign
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Waterfront views from Southwest Harbor, Maine (7)
Waterfront Shot with Boats, Southwest Harbor, Maine (2)
Waterfront Views (2)
Webber's Cove Boat Yard: A Sub-Collection of 470 Negatives
Wesley Bracy's Boat, Interior (2)
Wharf and Skiffs at Low Tide, Bernard, Maine
Winter Harbor wharf, FV Gary Alan
Winter scene, from Manset Fish Wharf
Woman in front of large fireplace (2)
Woman pouring substance into a mold
Woman sitting at table near oil lamp
Woman sitting at table near oil lamp
Woman Sitting by Grist Mill, Somesville
Woman standing looking at ocean
Woman standing next to oversized pad
Woman using sewing machine (2)
Woman with straw hat, Color negative of photo of painting
Woman with up-do hair style, Color negative of photo of painting
Women leaving Mount Desert Post Office
Wood paneling covering fireplace
Wooden foot bridge over stream
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Yachts and Working boats in Hulls Cove
Yachts Racing at Mt. Desert Island, Me.
Yawl Osprey (10)
Yawl Skylark (11)
Young lobsterman emptying trap
Young man in a blue shirt, color negative of photo of a painting