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| Item | Title | Type | Subject | Description | Creator | Date | Property Name | Street | Pages | Medium | Condition | |
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| 4345 | Notable Summer and Year Round People - Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Thorp |
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| Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Thorp. He was a member of the Boston Bar and a true sportsman. In college he had been a member of the celebrated Harvard Baseball team, which made a notable record in games played against professional Nine's. He was a fine tennis player and in a national gold tournament was beaten only on the last green by MacDonald who won the championship. Mrs. Thorp was a daughter of the poet Longfellow and one of the most delightful and charming of women. She was a graduate of Newnham College, Oxford, and was the "laughing Allegra" in "The Children's Hour". Their home was on Greening's Island, but this picture was taken on Mrs. Pepper's piazza. |
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Description: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Thorp. He was a member of the Boston Bar and a true sportsman. In college he had been a member of the celebrated Harvard Baseball team, which made a notable record in games played against professional Nine's. He was a fine tennis player and in a national gold tournament was beaten only on the last green by MacDonald who won the championship. Mrs. Thorp was a daughter of the poet Longfellow and one of the most delightful and charming of women. She was a graduate of Newnham College, Oxford, and was the "laughing Allegra" in "The Children's Hour". Their home was on Greening's Island, but this picture was taken on Mrs. Pepper's piazza. [show more] | ||||||
| 4346 | Notable Summer and Year Round People - Mrs. Joy |
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| Mrs. Joy who, when we first came to Northeast in 1889, kept the only dry-goods store in the village. It was called a "Trimming Store" for the sale of what the British would call "oddments". |
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Description: Mrs. Joy who, when we first came to Northeast in 1889, kept the only dry-goods store in the village. It was called a "Trimming Store" for the sale of what the British would call "oddments". | |||||
| 4347 | Notable Summer and Year Round People - Old Captain Jordan |
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| Old Captain Jordan, Keeper of the Bear Island Light. This picture was taken when he paid a courtesy call on Mrs. Pepper when we first moved into the (then) new cottage on School House Ledge. He evidently felt a bit foolish at being photographed. |
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Description: Old Captain Jordan, Keeper of the Bear Island Light. This picture was taken when he paid a courtesy call on Mrs. Pepper when we first moved into the (then) new cottage on School House Ledge. He evidently felt a bit foolish at being photographed. | ||||||
| 4348 | Notable Summer and Year Round People - Young Captain Jordan |
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| Young Captain Jordan (son of the old Captain) who sailed a large sloop, much used by the Misses Irwin and other ladies for "safe" sailing parties. |
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Description: Young Captain Jordan (son of the old Captain) who sailed a large sloop, much used by the Misses Irwin and other ladies for "safe" sailing parties. | ||||||
| 4349 | Notable Summer and Year Round People - Mr. Frazier |
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| Mr. Frazier, keeper of a buck-board stable. With Mr. Smallidge, Mr. Frazier regularly took up the collection at the Sunday morning service. |
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Description: Mr. Frazier, keeper of a buck-board stable. With Mr. Smallidge, Mr. Frazier regularly took up the collection at the Sunday morning service. | ||||||
| 4350 | Notable Summer and Year Round People - Mr. Soulis |
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| Mr. Soulis, the contractor: a fine man and a skillful workman. His shop was on the margin of Gilpatrick Cove at the place where the bridge across the cove begins. He built our cottage on School House Ledge and our camp on Goosemarsh Point. |
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Description: Mr. Soulis, the contractor: a fine man and a skillful workman. His shop was on the margin of Gilpatrick Cove at the place where the bridge across the cove begins. He built our cottage on School House Ledge and our camp on Goosemarsh Point. | ||||||
| 4351 | Notable Summer and Year Round People - Abram Gilpatrick |
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| Abram Gilpatrick, a fine citizen and a good neighbor. |
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Description: Abram Gilpatrick, a fine citizen and a good neighbor. | ||||||
| 4352 | Notable Summer and Year Round People - Mrs. Caspar Wister |
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| Mrs. Caspar Wister (actual spelling is Wistar) at her Harborside cottage. Every afternoon she poured tea for the many visitors who came to call. She was a sister of Dr. Horace Howard Furness. |
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Description: Mrs. Caspar Wister (actual spelling is Wistar) at her Harborside cottage. Every afternoon she poured tea for the many visitors who came to call. She was a sister of Dr. Horace Howard Furness. | |||||
| 4353 | Notable Summer and Year Round People - Rt. Rev. William Croswell Doane |
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| The Rt. Rev. William Croswell Doane, Bishop of Albany, a notable figure and a lovable character. |
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Description: The Rt. Rev. William Croswell Doane, Bishop of Albany, a notable figure and a lovable character. | ||||||
| 5579 | Beverly Coleman |
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| Scanned colored photograph of Beverly Coleman, formerly of Seal Harbor, a volunteer at the Northeast Harbor Library for more than 20 years. |
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Description: Scanned colored photograph of Beverly Coleman, formerly of Seal Harbor, a volunteer at the Northeast Harbor Library for more than 20 years. | |||||
| 5296 | Down East Storyboard |
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| Storyboard for the documentary Down East. Sailing from Boston to Jonesport. |
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Description: Storyboard for the documentary Down East. Sailing from Boston to Jonesport. | |||||
| 4901 | Manson Manchester |
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| Young man in suit and tie. Portrait. Manson Manchester. (MAN 32) |
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| 4917 | Flora and Charlie Manchester |
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| A woman (Flora Manchester) with baby (Charlie). Flora is wearing a plaid skirt and jacket, and smiling. Baby in white gown. (MAN 31) |
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Description: A woman (Flora Manchester) with baby (Charlie). Flora is wearing a plaid skirt and jacket, and smiling. Baby in white gown. (MAN 31) | ||||
| 4924 | Lydia Graves |
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| A woman (Lydia Graves) in a black dress with beadwork standing next to a chair. (MAN 25) |
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Description: A woman (Lydia Graves) in a black dress with beadwork standing next to a chair. (MAN 25) | ||||
| 4895 | Frank E. Manchester |
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| Young boy in gown, approximately 6 months old. Portrait (MAN 29) |
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Description: Young boy in gown, approximately 6 months old. Portrait (MAN 29) | ||||
| 4896 | Frank and Charlie Manchester |
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| Two young boys in fancy dress. Frank and Charlie Manchester. Approximately 5 and 3 years old. (MAN 30) |
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Description: Two young boys in fancy dress. Frank and Charlie Manchester. Approximately 5 and 3 years old. (MAN 30) | |||||
| 5430 | Marguerite Yourcenar |
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| Photograph negatives of Vits Knuble's 1989 portrait of Marguerite Yourcenar sent to Bob Pyle by Earl Brechlin. See also item 1452. |
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Description: Photograph negatives of Vits Knuble's 1989 portrait of Marguerite Yourcenar sent to Bob Pyle by Earl Brechlin. See also item 1452. | |||||
| 4355 | Northeast Harbor Library Bookplate Design |
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| The drawing and cover letter are framed together. Miss Gilman attributes the drawing to Hopkinson Smith. The logo continues in use a century later. |
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Description: The drawing and cover letter are framed together. Miss Gilman attributes the drawing to Hopkinson Smith. The logo continues in use a century later. | |||||
| 4446 | Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard. |
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| Photograph of Charles W. Eliot, taken on the piazza of his home built on the south side of what is now Peabody Drive, in 1881. He died in summer of 1926 in his 94th year. |
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Description: Photograph of Charles W. Eliot, taken on the piazza of his home built on the south side of what is now Peabody Drive, in 1881. He died in summer of 1926 in his 94th year. | ||||
| 5601 | Northeast Harbor Fleet |
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| A-Boats sailing. |
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| 4905 | Leota Mae Hardison |
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| A young girl in white dress standing on a hassock (MAN 1) |
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| 5376 | Schooner on the Bar |
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| B/W stereoview of a schooner aground on the sand bar. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions. |
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Description: B/W stereoview of a schooner aground on the sand bar. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions. | |||||
| 5379 | Schooners off the Point |
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| B/W stereo Photograph of two schooners off unidentified point of land. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions. |
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Description: B/W stereo Photograph of two schooners off unidentified point of land. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions. | |||||
| 5283 | GI's meet Russian Troops |
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| Photographs of the American-Russian troop meetings on the Mulde and Elbe Rivers before the end of WWII. Related to GEN 399, 400, 401 |
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Description: Photographs of the American-Russian troop meetings on the Mulde and Elbe Rivers before the end of WWII. Related to GEN 399, 400, 401 | ||||
| 4546 | Edwin and Laura Tracy |
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| Brother and sister as small children. |
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