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Salting Herring Net Negative, 1944
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Net, Surrounding Net, Seine Net
  • Other
  • People
  • Ballard, W. H.
  • 1944
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Salting Herring Net Negative, 1944
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Men salt a herring net, or seine, in 1944. Black and white
Man with Lobster Trap Photograph
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Object, Fishing, Fish Trap, Lobster Trap
  • Other
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Man with Lobster Trap Photograph
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
An elderly fisherman lifts a lobster trap. Black and white
Men Who Died for Their Country
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Advertising, Poster
  • Object, Sign
  • Other
  • People
  • Josh Blanchard, John Sweeney
Men Who Died for Their Country
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Poster of a man holding a rifle, like the soldiers used in the Civil War. Below the soldier are names of 26 men from Mount Desert who died during the war.
Memorial of Champlain Discoverer of Mt. Desert, 1604-1904
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Object, Site Marker, Monument
  • Other
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • 1906
Description:
Grey booklet about the memorial to Samuel de Champlain, discoverer of Mount Desert Island. At the dedication of his monument in Seal Harbor, speakers included Rev. Samuel Eliot and Rev. William Brown. Photographs included.
Letter to Byron Cheever from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Woodworking, Woodworking Vise
  • Other
  • People
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
  • 1971-04-23
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
This letter praises Wendell Gilley's inventiveness, his carving and his book . O'Brien refers to a vise for holding decoys and carvings for painting that Wendell includes in the book.
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Byron Cheever
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Other
  • People
  • Cheever - Byron Cheever
  • 1971-05-23
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Cheever writes that he has received the materials for Gilley's book and that he read the new chapter on decoys and thought it was well done. He also talks about meeting carver Harold Haertel in Chicago at a meeting of decoy collectors.