Description: From Ox Hill area. MOUNT DESERT started service in 1886 and was replaced by J. T. MORSE in 1904. Collected for "Mt. Desert: an Informal History"
Description: FDR's white schooner yacht, Sewanna (far right). Nelson Rockefeller's yacht, Wenonah on mooring (just right of the pier). Scanned photograph.
Comment: She left Northeast Harbor on accumulated steam with her boilers shut down and ran out of "oomph". She was refloated without damage. Mounted on 21x19" board.
Description: Comment: She left Northeast Harbor on accumulated steam with her boilers shut down and ran out of "oomph". She was refloated without damage. Mounted on 21x19" board.
Description: Steamboat Wharf in Northeast Harbor showing a coast guard icebreaker making a passageway for steamboat when Somes Sound iced over in 1923.
In 1980 Robert Smallidge reprinted photographs of a 1917 canoe trip taken by Bob Smallidge and Charles Parker. Robert Smallidge prepared a typescript and albums for his family. This one was made as a gift for the Library.
Description: In 1980 Robert Smallidge reprinted photographs of a 1917 canoe trip taken by Bob Smallidge and Charles Parker. Robert Smallidge prepared a typescript and albums for his family. This one was made as a gift for the Library.
B/W Photograph of U.S. Navy Airship "Shenandoah" hovering off Bar Island in Frenchman's Bay (July 3/4, 1925). The vessel to the left is Harry Haskell's yacht "Vanda." Some months later the airship was destroyed by lightning in one of the central States of the USA.
Description: B/W Photograph of U.S. Navy Airship "Shenandoah" hovering off Bar Island in Frenchman's Bay (July 3/4, 1925). The vessel to the left is Harry Haskell's yacht "Vanda." Some months later the airship was destroyed by lightning in one of the central States of the USA.