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State of Maine driver's license
1940; 1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945; 1946
1941 Florida automobile registration
1941 Freight Bill from Ralph Benson
1942 Map of a portion of Mount Desert Island
30 sq. Metre sail boat # 1 Valle
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A Boat # 27 Tsana (Morris) and A Boat # 43 Sammy West (Wilder)
A Boats #35 Alanda or Vixen (Butler/Roberts) and # 40 Scud (Fox/Price)
A Canoe from the Penobscot River
A Memoir of Elizabeth Shaw Morison 1886-1945
A Report on Tribal boundaries and Hunting areas of the Malecite Indian of New Brunswick
A statement of the financial condition of the county of Hancock
Acadia National park and vicinity, Hancock county, Maine
Agnes Yarnall LePage Collection - Charcoal Drawings
Alterations and Additions, Northeast Harbor Fleet, Tennis Club, and Swim Club, 1945-1970
Alterations for residence of Mr. and Mrs. A.P. Butler, Southwest Harbor
Alterations, Union Trust Company, Ellsworth, ME, 1949 (2)
American Red Cross Canteen Trucks
Andrew A. McSorley, Principal of Plantsville School
Andrew McSorley teaching certificate
Annual Neighborhood House Vaudeville Shows
Annual Report of the Municipal Officers, Mount Desert (2)
ANP account of weather conditions during Fire of 1947
Arthur Foote II and Rebecca (Clark) Foote on Holiday at Hearst Ranch
Arthur H. Freeman to Raymond P. Somes (2)
Arthur Pierce Butler and Lydia Raguet (Farnham) Butler - Christmas Card
Asticou Report on Fire Damage: Fire of 1947
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Bar Harbor - Ellsworth Telephone Directory
Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Belmont hotel area destruction
Bar Harbor fire of 1947, DeGregoire hotel area destruction
Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Eagle Lake Road destruction
Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Forest St. destruction
Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Malvern Hotel area destruction
Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Miller Cottage area destruction
Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Mount Desert Street destruction
Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Mountain Avenue destruction
Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Prospect Avenue destruction
Barbara Alberta Lanpher's Diploma, Mount Desert High School
Beal's Wharf #343 A "George Klink"
Betty Ann Walls, Pemetic HS senior photo, 1949
Between the Hills and Its 100 - Year Old Church
Birds of Mt. Desert Island Acadia National Park.
Boat on Repairway, BassHarbor Boat Shop
Bobby Rich's Father's Boat yard
Boston Sunday Advertiser Pictoral Review
Boyington, Ramona Ann Pemetic HS senior photo, 1949
Bryer, Philip M. Pemetic HS senior photo, 194
Bud Long's Birding Notebook from 1949
Building for the Trustees of the Northeast Harbor Library
B&W photograph of 2-year-old John Wheeler Millard on a tricycle,1945
B&W photograph of 3 women and a young boy standing outside
B&W photograph of a small boy on the running boards of a white car, 1945
B&W photograph of a woman and small dog posed next to a car with houses in the background,1944
B&W photograph of a woman standing next to a car with a small dog to her right, 1949
B&W photograph of four women and three men in front of a house, 1947
By-Laws of Ocean Lodge, I.O.O.F. No. 140
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Campfield's Madeira Camera Shop Group
Carl Nelson Self-Portrait 1947
Certificate for sugar purchase 1942
Certificates of Birth of Grace Sample and La Rue Spiker
Charles Butt Ballard Negative Collection
Cherokee-Iroquois Little People
Children discover body of sailor 1944
Child's Toy Car Burned in 1947 Fire
Construction at Davis Boat Yard, McKinley, Maine
Construction of "Constance" Negative, 1942 (1)
Construction of "Constance" Negative, 1942 (2)
Construction Plan , Design No. 77
Copies of pics from Fire of 1947
Copy of Path and Road Map for the Eastern Part of Mount Desert Island 1941
Copy of Path and Road Map for the Western Part of Mount Desert Island
Cora Myrtle (Hamblen) Ward with Grandson Rodney Franklin Ward at Home
Correspondence about purchase of Church Estey organ 1941 - Letter 21
Cottage Directory and Key to Map (2)
Cotton and lace cover for child's pillow
Cranberry Isles brochure ca. 1929-1942
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Dance Order, Second Annual Fishermen's Ball, 1949
Deed: Elizabeth C. Gray to Raymond P. Somes
Deer Island to Thorofare and Casco Passage
Descendants of Deacon Samuel & Ann Bass
Diary and Notes on the 5 year diary of Minne (Mitchell) Dolliver
Discharge papers for Stuart J. Smith (2)
Dog in forest (2)
Dory at Southwest Boat Corporation
Douglas Macfarlan Cranberry Isles Scrapbook
Dragger Rigging, Manset, Maine
Dunham School Stetson School, MD High School
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Eagle Lake and Frenchman's Bay
Eagle Plaque (2)
Eastern Maine Championship Runner-Up 1949
Echo Lake Camp - Appalachian Mountain Club - Southwest Harbor, Maine
Elisha Bunker, Hillard Hardy and Lucille Hardy
Elizabeth "Betsy" Winstead (Garrison) Barton
Elizabeth Harkins' address book, c. 1943
Ellsworth Eagles semi-professional baseball team gear bag
Employment offer for Mrs. Andrew McSorley
Envelope for discharge papers for Stuart J. Smith
Estate of Arthur L. Somes, Petition and Probate of Will
Esther A. (Thurston) Williams, Mrs. William G. Williams Jr.
Esther A. (Thurston) Williams, Mrs. William G. Williams Jr. and Children
Esther A. (Thurston) Williams, Mrs. William G. Williams Jr. and William G. Williams III
Eugene Shubal Thurston with mother, Lizzie E. (Moulden) Thurston and wife Alice M. (Orr) Thurston
Evaluation of Defects (in cows competing for prizes)
Experts Plan Rebuilding of Bar Harbor: Lumber in Firs Area to be Salvaged
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Fahey, Charles Pemetic HS senior photo, 1949
Fannie H. Eckstorm and Mary C. Wheelwright Letters
Fire Balloon (2)
Fire of 1974: letter to Elmer Cousins to pick up belongings
Florida receipt for automobile tax
Fontaine Leval: A French Settlement on the Maine Coast, 1791
Fred Alberton "Bert" Birlem (1876-1950)
Frenchmen Bay and Eastern part of Mt. Desert Island
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Galley, Arlene Pemetic HS senior photo, 1949
George and Arvard Savage with horse and boats
George B. Dorr Photograph from Shelburne Studios
George Dorr in seashore cave, c. 1940
Gilman High School Graduation Portrait
Gilman High School Graduation Portrait - Class of 1948
Gilman High School Women's Basketball Team
Gilmanac 1948 Gilman High School Yearbook
Grace and Lunette (#2 in series of this boat)
Great Cranberry Island children
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Hancock County Grammar School 1948 Trophy
Hancock County Grammar School Tournament 1949 Trophy
Hancock County Tournament Championship Trophy 1940
Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations
Harbors of the North. Volume Two. New London, Connecticut to Jonesport, Maine.
Harold L. Wedge's Passenger Launch, Frolic
Harvard Riley Beal's Bowling Alley
Hazel Stanley Petersen in uniform
Hazel Stanley Peterson in uniform
Health Measures after the Fire
Helen Nathalie Turner Smallidge at Her Loom at her Home in Northeast Harbor
Henry R. Hinckley Company - Boat Production
Higgins, Winona Pemetic HS senior photo, 1949
Hinckley US MTLs - Motor Towing Launches (MTLs)
Hoisting Ice aboard Hornet, Beal's Wharf, SW Harbor, Maine
Home for Mr. and Mrs. Gerrish H. Milliken, "The Haven", Northeast Harbor, Maine, 1948 (7)
Home for Mrs. Russell Wilson, Somesville, ME, 1949 (3)
Home of Mr. and Mrs. M.C. Kennedy, Northeast Harbor, Maine, 1948-1962
House and Guest House for Mr. and Mrs. R.A. Thorndike, Bar Harbor, ME, 1946
House and Guest House for Mr. and Mrs. R.A. Thorndike, Bar Harbor, ME, 1947 (3)
House and Guest House for Mr. and Mrs. R.A. Thorndike, Bar Harbor, ME, 1948
House for Antonio Y. Stewart, Bar Harbor, Hulls Cove, 1947 (7)
House for Antonio Y. Stewart, Bar Harbor, Hulls Cove, 1948 (7)
House for Miss Carolyn Trippe, "Wingwood" (Stotesbury), Bar Harbor, Maine, 1948 (6)
House for Mr. and Mrs. Donald N. Gilpin, Somesville, Maine, 1949-1952 (4)
House for Mr. and Mrs. F.B. Stimson, Mount Desert, ME, 1949 (9)
House for Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Jones, Castine, Maine, 1948 (15)
House for Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald, Somes Sound, Mount Desert, Maine, 1948 (13)
House for Mrs. Beatrix Farrand, Bar Harbor, Maine , sheet 2
House for Mrs. Beatrix Farrand, Bar Harbor, Maine, Sheet 3
House for Mrs. Louis Owens, Bar Harbor, Maine, 1948-1950
House for Mrs. Potter Palmer, Bar Harbor, Maine, 1948-1950 (45)
Howard J. Crafts' Wood shop Accounting Ledger
Hulls No. 553-77: Construction Plan
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Imperial Glass Toothpick Holder
Infant bonnet (3)
Infant jacket (2)
Infant shirt (2)
Information card for the U.S.S. Missouri visit to Bar Harbor
Interior and exterior photos of Hinckley military boats
Interior Photographs of a Hinckley Sloop
Interiors 24’ sloop H. R. Hinckley Co.
Invitation to 100th Anniversary of the Congregational Religious Society of MDI (1940)
Invitation to 25 Waybackers' Annual Ball New Year's Eve
Invitation to the Forty Hayseeders Annual Ball, February 21, 1944
Ipswich Bay to Gloucester Harbor
Items for Showing the General Location of the Airports in Maine
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Jarvis Newman's father's peapod and dragger built by Sim Davis
John D. Rockefeller 1839-1937 Industrial Pioneer and Man
John Stillman "Little Reddy" Photograph Album
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Kebo Valley Club, 60th Anniversary
Kimball House, Northeast Harbor, ME
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Ladies Aid Fair, Receipts 1940-1965
Land of Enchantment: The Penobscot Bay - Mount Desert Region of Maine.
LaRue Spiker and Francis Failing
Last Will & Testament of Hallie M. Somes
Last Will & Testament of Raymond P. Somes
Lawson, Frances Rhoda, Pemetic HS senior photo
Letter from Horace Bunker to his Uncle Ben
Letter from Jennie Stanley to Mrs. Elmer Spurling 1946
Letter from Rachel Field Pederson to Mrs. Eversman
Letter of estimate of cost to Fred Smith (1946) from plumbing company
Letter to Harry Clark from Donald F. Graves
Letter to Jud ? from Don stationed in Italy
Letter to Maine State Publicity Bureau
letter to Mount Desert ferry postmaster terminating postal delivery
Letter to Mr & Mrs Fred P. Smith from Cp Donald E. Smith
Letter to Mr. Eliot from E.A. Pettee
Letter to Robe from Joshua Grindle
Letter to the Southwest Harbor Public Library from Charles Morris Young
Letters Pertaining to Somes Genealogy
Letters to Rosamond & Aimee Lamb from Rachel Field
Lewis, Gilbert Pemetic HS senior photo, 1949.
Lewis H. Alley in a Passenger Launch
Lewis Kennison Robinson and Son Byron Lewis Robinson
Liberty National Bank, Ellsworth, Maine
Lobsters and Gasoline at Beal's
Longfellow School GCI ca. 1940
Longfellow School students 1944
Luders and International sailboats racing off Bear Island
Luders Hulls 553-62: Sail Plan & Rigging Details
Luders Sail Plan, Hulls 553-62
Lynne Marie Birlem and Charles Wallace Birlem
Lynne Marie Birlem Riding a Tricycle
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Macfarlan/Preble house renovation
Maine auto registration card 1940
Maine Central Property, Perspective Sketch, Suggested Development, 1945
Maine Central Property, Plan, Suggested Development, 1945
Maine Central Property, Plan, Suggested Development, 1945, Sheet 1
Maine Province and Court Records Vol. 3
Mallard Drake (2)
Malvern Flower Shop, Bar Harbor, details (2)
Malvern Flower Shop, Bar Harbor, Flower shop and potting shed, first floor plan and elevations
Malvern Flower Shop, Bar Harbor, Full size details, rafters
Map of Cranberry Isles hand-drawn 1947
Map of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park
Map of Mount Desert Island, Maine
Map of Mt. Desert Island, Maine
Map of the Area Burned in 1947
Map of the Town of Brookline, Massachusetts
Marjorie Ellen (Page) Copeland
Marjorie Ellen (Page) Copeland in a Hammock
Mary Rose (2)
Meeting of F. D. Roosevelt and W. Churchill aboard "HMS Prince of Wales", August 1941 (6)
Meeting of the Members of the Champlain Fund
Memorial booklet for John Henry Hamor 1947
Memorial Service for Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Men Working on "Connecticut" Negative, 1946
Minutes for the Ladies Aid 1942-1948
Minutes of Meetings of Ocean Lodge #140 I.O.O.F. (2)
Mitchell's Boat (second in series)
More Vacation Days in Maine. Signed by the author.
Motor Yacht Owned by Atwater Kent
Motor Yacht Placida and Tender
Mount Desert Chamber of Commerce News Letter
Mount Desert Island Education Survey 1949
Mount Desert Island Educational Survey
Mount Desert Island Educational Survey 1949
Mount Desert Island's Worst Disaster
Mount Desert Messenger - news on the home front
Mout Desert Deer Past and Present
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Merrill Stanley and Children - Mary Helen Stanley and Alberta Mildred Stanley
Mrs. A. McSorley acting principal at Plantsville School
Murphy - George W. Murphy Jr. (1800-1862)
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Navigational and Nautical Astronomy
Neighborhood House Event Tickets
Neil Stanley Peterson and Norman Kimball Wedge
New Buildings at Jackson Memorial Laboratory
Newman 32' (2)
Newsletter of The Mount Desert Messenger (1945)
North Vista, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University, Washington, DC, gates
North Vista, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University, Washington, DC, north wall
North Vista, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University, Washington, DC, sketch of gates (2)
North Vista, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, Preliminary Plan
North Vista, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, Preliminary Plan, Details
North Vista, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, Preliminary Plans (2)
North Vista Finials for the two North Vista Corners, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, DC
North Vista Finials for two Center Piers, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, DC
North Vista Finials, One finial at each of Two Gates, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington DC
North Vista Gates, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, Sketch (2)
North Wall, North Vista, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, Sketch
Northeast Harbor Library Librarian Report
Notes on the History of Folly Island
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Orville Trask, lobster dealer, 1947 ledger
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"Pansy L. Robbins" in Norwood Cove
Party Dress (6)
Path and Road Map of the Eastern and Western Parts of Mount Desert Island, Maine
Peliminary Report on the Town Plan Bar Harbor, Maine
Personal letter at the end of WWII
Photo of Hamton (?) Combs 1941
Photo of Liberty National Bank, Ellsworth, Maine, 1949
photo of Miriam Thomas and Buster (?) 1941
Photo of Miriam Thomas and Elmer Marshall
Photo of Richie Stanley and harbor views
Photo of Somesville High School children
Photo of Somesville school children 1941
Photo of Somesville School House 1941 (2)
Plans for T. Flynn, Long Pond, Town of Mount Desert, Maine, n.d.
Possibly Arthur Garfield Kellam
Postcard of Eagle Lake from Cadilac Mountain Road
Postcard of Otter Cliff in Acadia National Park
Pre-stamped postcard sent from Otter Creek Post Office 1945.
Program for service of commemoration at Ladies Aid
Public School Teacher Contract
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Radio announcements about Fire of !947
Ralph Phippen's Boat at Beal's Wharf
RECORD OF HONORABLE DISCHARGES; WORLD WAR II; TOWN OF MOUNT DESERT
Records of the Fire Club(Cranberry Isles Volunteer Fire Department)
Regional Island High School formation papers
Registry of Probate re Estate of Barbara I. Somes
Remembrances of Mount Desert (2)
Repair Work on a Vessel at Southwest Boat Corporation
Request for bids of timber by ANP
Rich - Grindle Shop; Dalzell Owner of Boat
Robert W. Patterson Letter regarding 1947 Fire
Rock Cut Ascending Cadillac Mountain Road
Rusty Spurling and Dickie Bayler
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Said the Bicycle to the Automobile
Sale of property to Harriet S. Sanderson
Salting Herring Net Negative, 1944
Sandra & Jean vessel in and Duke vessel too
Sawyer, Ralph, Pemetic HS senior photo, 1949
Schooner "William Keene" At the Stanley Fish Wharf
Scorton & Aptucxet - Cape Cod Canal Boats
Scrapbook, newspaper clippings about 1947 Bar Harbor Fire
Scrapbook of clippings about Fire of 1947.
Seal Harbor Library War Hours Announcement
Seal Harbor Neighborhood Hall Association
Seat for the Box Terrace, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC Research Library, Preliminary Sketch
Seat, North Gate, Rose Garden, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC (3)
Sheliak Too (2)
Shirley Moore Phippen Aboard Yacht Placida Tender
Shirley Moore Phippen and Halibut
Small dog running through field
Society issues related to Fire
Somesville Grammar School, HMS Pinafore Program
Somesville Grammar School Yearbook 1941
Somesville High School Pet Show (2)
Somesville High School Pet Show photo
Somesville High School photo 1941
Somesville High School Photo 1941
Somesville High School photo school bus
Somesville High School playground photo 1941
Somesville School Photos, 1941
Southwest Boat Corporation - 20' Navy Lifeboats LB 90
Southwest Boat Corporation - A.T. Haynes
Southwest Harbor, Boats in the Fog
Special Paper Maine Fire Disaster
St. Ignatius Church, Northeast Harbor
Stamped postcard sent from Hulls Cove post office,1947
Stanchfield, Richard, Pemetic HS senior photo, 1949
Stanley, Ruth Celestia, Pemetic senior class photo 1949
State of Maine certificate of title for auto 1940
Steping Stones, Sieur de Monts Tarn
Summer Yesterdays in Maine: Memories of Boyhood Vacation Days
"Sunbeam II" or "Sunbeam III", "Elva Beal", and "Elin B."
Sunbeam, Sandra & Jean, and Hornet Rafted in SWH
Survey of Southwest Harbor, Manset, Sea Wall
Survey of Southwest Harbor, Manset, Seawall January 1942
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Tax List 1940 Town of Mount Desert
Tax List 1941 Town of Mount Desert
Tax List 1942 Town of Mount Desert
Tax List 1943 Town of Mount Desert
Tax List 1944 Town of Mount Desert
Tax List 1945 Town of Mount Desert
Tax List 1946 Town of Mount Desert
Tax List 1947 Town of Mount Desert
Tax List 1948 Town of Mount Desert
Tax List 1949 Town of Mount Desert
Teacher's contract for Doris P. McSorley
Teaching certificate for Doris P. McSorley
Ted Madara Family 1940 Home movies
The 100th Anniversary Congregational Society of Mount Desert (2)
The Bar Harbor Fire - View from Beech Hill Road
The Concept of Tribal Separation as rationalized in Indian Folklore
The Flower Guide: A Pocket Manual of the Wild Flowers East of the Rockies.
The Grange Initiate and Declarations of Purposes of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry.
The Mount Desert Messenger (2)
The One Hundredth Anniversary of the Congregational Society of Mount Desert
The Origin and the Chronology of the Clipper Ships
The Pine Cone - A Panorama of Maine
The Union Meeting House Worship Schedule (2)
The Wildlife Resources of Maine:
Three Postcards of Bear Island Lighthouse
Three Shell Heaps on Frenchman's Bay
Thurston, Leslie William, Pemetic HS photo
Thurston's wharf written entries of fishermen's catch
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1940
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1941
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1942
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1943
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1944
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1945
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1946
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1947
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1948
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1949
Town of Cranberry Isles records - Fish weir or trap licenses (1944-1951).
Town of Mount Desert Annual Report 1943
Town of Mount Desert automobile excise tax receipt
Translation of Samuel Hadlock Jr.'s Journal
Trask, Graham Arthur Pemetic HS senior photo, 1949
Trial Run of Passenger Ferry Vinalhaven II
Typed excerpt of 'Along These Streets' by Struthers Burt, published 1942
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Uncashed Check from Maine Forestry District
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Valuation Non-Resident 1940 Town of Mount Desert (2)
Valuation Non-Resident 1941 Town of Mount Desert
Valuation Non-Resident 1942 Town of Mount Desert
Valuation Non-Resident 1944 Town of Mount Desert
Valuation Non-Resident 1945 Town of Mount Desert
Valuation Non-Resident 1946 Town of Mount Desert
Valuation Non-Resident 1947 Town of Mount Desert
Valuation Non-Resident 1948 Town of Mount Desert
Valuation Non-Resident 1949 Town of Mount Desert
Valuation Resident 1940 Town of Mount Desert
Valuation Resident 1941 Town of Mount Desert
Valuation Resident 1942 Town of Mount Desert
Valuation Resident 1943 Town of Mount Desert
Valuation Resident 1944 Town of Mount Desert
Valuation Resident 1945 Town of Mount Desert
Valuation Resident 1946 Town of Mount Desert
Valuation Resident 1947 Town of Mount Desert
Valuation Resident 1948 Town of Mount Desert
Valuation Resident 1949 Town of Mount Desert
View from Manset to Clark Point in Winter
View of McKinley From Thurston's Wharf
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Warren Derby Stanley and Dorothy Ruth (Peterson) Stanley
Wedding Dress (2)
Weir or trap license application, February 25, 1944
Wendell Gilley's Maine Master Plumber License
Wharf and Skiffs at Low Tide, Bernard, Maine
William "Bill" J. Lawlor - 1945
William "Bill" Lawlor and His Father Christopher Wendell Lawlor
Woman's Literary Club Active Charter Members
WWII Boats built by the Henry R Hinckley Company
WWII War Dept. recognition of Elmer Cousins
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Yachtsmen's Guide & Business Directory
Yellowed color photo of 8 people posed outside with cars in the background,1949
Yellowed color photograph of three people posed outside near a car, 1949
Yellowlegs (2)