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| Catalogue # | Title | Type | Subject | Description | |
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| 1000.116.901 | Hazel "Brooke" "Snooks" (Stanley) Peterson's photos |
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| Collection of Hazel "Brooke" "Snooks" (Stanley) Peterson's photos: a red photo album (1000.116.901 A), plus the box the album came in (1000.116.901 B), both full of photos | 
Description: Collection of Hazel "Brooke" "Snooks" (Stanley) Peterson's photos: a red photo album (1000.116.901 A), plus the box the album came in (1000.116.901 B), both full of photos |
| 1000.0.1064 | Lobster Logo for Crantini Party |
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| Logo for the Cranberry House Crantini Party held on 8/4/2004. Logo created by Suzanne Shoemaker long time summer visitor | 
Description: Logo for the Cranberry House Crantini Party held on 8/4/2004. Logo created by Suzanne Shoemaker long time summer visitor |
| 1000.137.1073 | Coastal View from Murch house |
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| Photo, framed, picture taken from the Murch's looking toward Northeast Harbor. Fish Point on the right. | 
Description: Photo, framed, picture taken from the Murch's looking toward Northeast Harbor. Fish Point on the right. |
| 1000.0.1077 | Island people and games |
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| Photos, 1077a-c, all 3 printed on cardboard for display purposes. (a) horseshoe game held in front of Gaile's trailer, people from left to right: Victor White, Sawtelle Teel, Hillard Hardy, Lucille Hardy, Elisha Bunker, and Edgar Bunker throwing the horseshoe. (b) Edgar Bunker, Edgar before the war worked at the boatyard down on the pool that is now know as Cranberry Island Boat Yard as well as the boatyard that is now Ed Gray's. (c) all people are labeled, the question mark is Lewis Alley. | 
Description: Photos, 1077a-c, all 3 printed on cardboard for display purposes. (a) horseshoe game held in front of Gaile's trailer, people from left to right: Victor White, Sawtelle Teel, Hillard Hardy, Lucille Hardy, Elisha Bunker, and Edgar Bunker throwing the horseshoe. (b) Edgar Bunker, Edgar before the war worked at the boatyard down on the pool that is now know as Cranberry Island Boat Yard as well as the boatyard that is now Ed Gray's. (c) all people are labeled, the question mark is Lewis Alley. [show more] |
| 1000.0.1071 | Edna Andrade photograph |
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| Photo of Edna Andrade printed on a board by Smart Studio in Northeast Harbor. Photo shows Edna Andrade painting a picture of rocks in what is now the Encarnation home. | 
Description: Photo of Edna Andrade printed on a board by Smart Studio in Northeast Harbor. Photo shows Edna Andrade painting a picture of rocks in what is now the Encarnation home. |
| 2005.52.1072 | Bayview Farm photographs |
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| Four small black and white photos and one tintype framed in a wood/glass frame. Bayview Farm owned and operated by Jim Crosby in modern times "The Red House" owned by Judi Towns Lim and Chong Lim, a.k.a. the Towns house. James C. Crosby and Cora Almeda (Pressey) Crosby are the couple in the tintype. Their son, Clarence, is shown in the photo with the barn. The houses seen in the background of the geese photo are "Haydy's house & Arno Stanley's" per donor. (See scans in 2000\photos\dorothy towns and note explaining images.) | 
Description: Four small black and white photos and one tintype framed in a wood/glass frame. Bayview Farm owned and operated by Jim Crosby in modern times "The Red House" owned by Judi Towns Lim and Chong Lim, a.k.a. the Towns house. James C. Crosby and Cora Almeda (Pressey) Crosby are the couple in the tintype. Their son, Clarence, is shown in the photo with the barn. The houses seen in the background of the geese photo are "Haydy's house & Arno Stanley's" per donor. (See scans in 2000\photos\dorothy towns and note explaining images.) [show more] |
| 2013.213.1842 | Photo album: late 19th-early 20th c photographs and cards |
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| Photo album. Eighteen gilt-edged cardboard pages with 70 photos and three memorial cards. Cover is worn gold velvet with ornate metal hasp and decorative metal binding with clover-shaped mirror in center of cover. Album has a metal foot attached to the back to support it when opened and can be attached to a worn gold velvet covered wood and metal bookstand. Most pages hold four paper cabinet card photographs inserted in to a woodgrained paper sleeve. There are also seven tintype photos inserted in sleeves. Stamped in gold on first page is: "Patented January 23, 1894". Several of the photo cards slide in and out of their sleeves and the names of various photo studios from Maine and elsewhere are evident. (For example: C.E. Harvey, 3115 Indiana Avenue, Chicago" and "Osgood, 22 Main St., Ellsworth, ME.") Photo portraits include several GCI families of the late 19th to early 20th century. Many photographs were labeled on looseleaf in modern times by an unknown hand including: Aunt Asinith Spurling; Rev. Charles Howard; Capt. George Bunker; Mrs. George Bunker; George E. Bunker, July '9;, Mrs. Frederick Lord; Samuel Bulger; John Bulger; Mr. Seth Rice; Mrs. Ida Rice; William Preble; Mrs. William Preble; Percy Bunker; Alfred Bulger; Ralph Bulger; Capt. William Bulger and wife; Florence Mildred Bunker; George Edward; Gil Hamor; Frances Spurling; Elton Bunker; Leslie Bunker; Mrs. Harriet Bunker; Mrs. Grace Bunker; Alice Bulger; Johnny and Filmore Steele; Mr. and Mrs. Will Young; Rose Ladd; Edna and Alfred Ladd; Lina and Alfred Ladd; Polly Bulger; Ralph Bulger; John H. Pressey; George and Harriet Bunker; Ida/Clara/Leslie Bunker; John Hamor; Nettie Stanley; Mrs. Lydia Bunker; and Thomas Bunker. (Digital images of individual album pages were made.) | 
Description: Photo album. Eighteen gilt-edged cardboard pages with 70 photos and three memorial cards. Cover is worn gold velvet with ornate metal hasp and decorative metal binding with clover-shaped mirror in center of cover. Album has a metal foot attached to the back to support it when opened and can be attached to a worn gold velvet covered wood and metal bookstand. Most pages hold four paper cabinet card photographs inserted in to a woodgrained paper sleeve. There are also seven tintype photos inserted in sleeves. Stamped in gold on first page is: "Patented January 23, 1894". Several of the photo cards slide in and out of their sleeves and the names of various photo studios from Maine and elsewhere are evident. (For example: C.E. Harvey, 3115 Indiana Avenue, Chicago" and "Osgood, 22 Main St., Ellsworth, ME.") Photo portraits include several GCI families of the late 19th to early 20th century. Many photographs were labeled on looseleaf in modern times by an unknown hand including: Aunt Asinith Spurling; Rev. Charles Howard; Capt. George Bunker; Mrs. George Bunker; George E. Bunker, July '9;, Mrs. Frederick Lord; Samuel Bulger; John Bulger; Mr. Seth Rice; Mrs. Ida Rice; William Preble; Mrs. William Preble; Percy Bunker; Alfred Bulger; Ralph Bulger; Capt. William Bulger and wife; Florence Mildred Bunker; George Edward; Gil Hamor; Frances Spurling; Elton Bunker; Leslie Bunker; Mrs. Harriet Bunker; Mrs. Grace Bunker; Alice Bulger; Johnny and Filmore Steele; Mr. and Mrs. Will Young; Rose Ladd; Edna and Alfred Ladd; Lina and Alfred Ladd; Polly Bulger; Ralph Bulger; John H. Pressey; George and Harriet Bunker; Ida/Clara/Leslie Bunker; John Hamor; Nettie Stanley; Mrs. Lydia Bunker; and Thomas Bunker. (Digital images of individual album pages were made.) [show more] |
| 2013.214.1910 | Print, "A Playful Mood - on Maine Coast" |
| Photograph. Print, "A Playful Mood - on Maine Coast", framed, color landscape of wave breaking on rocks, (c) Harris. With exhibit tag: Old tinted photos from the Hamor Tea House | 
Description: Photograph. Print, "A Playful Mood - on Maine Coast", framed, color landscape of wave breaking on rocks, (c) Harris. With exhibit tag: Old tinted photos from the Hamor Tea House | |
| 1000.0.1349 | Sailboat race |
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| Photo of 8 racing I.O.D.s (International One Design sloops); approximately 5" x 8" black & white, in a wood frame. Caption taped to back of frame: "Full or Collapsed, Spinnakers Reveal Skippers' Skill and Luck in Catching Light Breeze off Mount Desert Island, Maine. One sail (third from left) droops while a rival, 100 feet directly ahead, balloons with a fortunate puff. Hand on sheet, a crew member (second yacht from right) jockeys his sail as he would a horse's reins. Compact and sturdy, these are International Class sloops all built in Norway before the war. Here the Northeast Harbor fleet nears the finish line after an eight mile race. Four years of war have not stopped such races. (Courtesy Main Development Commission)" No date. | 
Description: Photo of 8 racing I.O.D.s (International One Design sloops); approximately 5" x 8" black & white, in a wood frame. Caption taped to back of frame: "Full or Collapsed, Spinnakers Reveal Skippers' Skill and Luck in Catching Light Breeze off Mount Desert Island, Maine. One sail (third from left) droops while a rival, 100 feet directly ahead, balloons with a fortunate puff. Hand on sheet, a crew member (second yacht from right) jockeys his sail as he would a horse's reins. Compact and sturdy, these are International Class sloops all built in Norway before the war. Here the Northeast Harbor fleet nears the finish line after an eight mile race. Four years of war have not stopped such races. (Courtesy Main Development Commission)" No date. [show more] |
| 1000.0.1038 | Great Cranberry Island people and places lot of 33 black & white photos |
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| Photos (33) found in an old cigar box. Many unidentified. Identified photos are as follows 1038A: the old Alley house now the Horvath house for sale on the Lane. 1038B: Lulu Steele Alley seated on rock on front lawn of the Union Church in Northeast Harbor. Lulu lived in the Horvath house and was related to the Wellmans. 1038C: from left to right Lulu Steel Alley, Mother Sadie Steele, Unknown boy. 1038D: Willie (Age 7) and Margaret Wellman (Age 9) in their first communion clothes outside the GCI church. 1038E: photo of Lulu Steele Alley with boyfriend on the Horvath porch. 1038F: photo of Donnie (age 14) and Mary Wellman (age 12) outside the GCI Church. All 33 photos are located in folder 1038. At 2nd archive meeting Gaile Colby identified the following pictures. 1038: G-I Chris Swenson, Sadie Bunker Steele's second husband. Chris was from Sweden and had a very thick accent. 1038J Photo of Sadie Bunker Steele around 1912. 1038K photo group photo of people on a boat, Sadie Bunker Steele is the first woman on the right side of the boat wearing a hat. 1038 Francis Wellman on her wedding day. 1038M-Family photo Sadie Steele in the middle and Lulu Steele Alley on the left other two people are unknown. | 
Description: Photos (33) found in an old cigar box. Many unidentified. Identified photos are as follows 1038A: the old Alley house now the Horvath house for sale on the Lane. 1038B: Lulu Steele Alley seated on rock on front lawn of the Union Church in Northeast Harbor. Lulu lived in the Horvath house and was related to the Wellmans. 1038C: from left to right Lulu Steel Alley, Mother Sadie Steele, Unknown boy. 1038D: Willie (Age 7) and Margaret Wellman (Age 9) in their first communion clothes outside the GCI church. 1038E: photo of Lulu Steele Alley with boyfriend on the Horvath porch. 1038F: photo of Donnie (age 14) and Mary Wellman (age 12) outside the GCI Church. All 33 photos are located in folder 1038. At 2nd archive meeting Gaile Colby identified the following pictures. 1038: G-I Chris Swenson, Sadie Bunker Steele's second husband. Chris was from Sweden and had a very thick accent. 1038J Photo of Sadie Bunker Steele around 1912. 1038K photo group photo of people on a boat, Sadie Bunker Steele is the first woman on the right side of the boat wearing a hat. 1038 Francis Wellman on her wedding day. 1038M-Family photo Sadie Steele in the middle and Lulu Steele Alley on the left other two people are unknown. [show more] |
| 2013.246.2766 | Photographs of unidentified people |
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| Collection of dozens of cabinet card and photographic prints of late 19th-early 20th century unidentified individuals from Louise Marr collection; includestTwo photographic postcards, and one envelope with two-cent stamp addressed to Miss F. M. Spurling, Boothbay Harbor, Box 356, from Higgins Studio in Bath. Probably photos of Louise Marr's extended family including Preble and Spurling kin. (Only one group scanned as a sample.) | 
Description: Collection of dozens of cabinet card and photographic prints of late 19th-early 20th century unidentified individuals from Louise Marr collection; includestTwo photographic postcards, and one envelope with two-cent stamp addressed to Miss F. M. Spurling, Boothbay Harbor, Box 356, from Higgins Studio in Bath. Probably photos of Louise Marr's extended family including Preble and Spurling kin. (Only one group scanned as a sample.) |
| 2013.246.2764 | Tintype photographs of unidentified people |
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| Collection of three groups of tintypes of unknown individuals from Louise Marr collection. | 
Description: Collection of three groups of tintypes of unknown individuals from Louise Marr collection. |
| 2013.246.2762 | Postcard to Mrs. Benjamin Spurling |
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| Postcard of house with two people by road, with message for Mrs. Benjamin H. Spurling, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, postmarked Nov. 10, 191X, one cent stamp. | 
Description: Postcard of house with two people by road, with message for Mrs. Benjamin H. Spurling, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, postmarked Nov. 10, 191X, one cent stamp. |
| 2013.246.2738 | Louise Marr photographs of houses |
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| Three copies of a photograph (5"x4") of a house (probably not on GCI) with inscriptions: To Benj H. Spurling and wife From Ezra and Aunt Min; Christmas Greetings to Benj H. Spurling from Ezra and Aunt Min Dec. 25, 1920; and Christmas Greetings to Wade Marr and family from Ezra and Aunt Min. (B): Photograph of a different house 6"x4" with people standing on porch (no inscription on reverse): Per Willie Granston this house with gingerbread trim is on Islesford, just beyond the church, on the left. (This house appears in the Islesford postcard that GCIHS has, with the church in the background.) | 
Description: Three copies of a photograph (5"x4") of a house (probably not on GCI) with inscriptions: To Benj H. Spurling and wife From Ezra and Aunt Min; Christmas Greetings to Benj H. Spurling from Ezra and Aunt Min Dec. 25, 1920; and Christmas Greetings to Wade Marr and family from Ezra and Aunt Min. (B): Photograph of a different house 6"x4" with people standing on porch (no inscription on reverse): Per Willie Granston this house with gingerbread trim is on Islesford, just beyond the church, on the left. (This house appears in the Islesford postcard that GCIHS has, with the church in the background.) [show more] |
| 2013.246.2737 | Louise Marr relatives and friends portraits (Group 4 of 4) |
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| Photos of Louise Marr relatives and friends identified only as "Chicago Ladies" with no individual names; several are cabinet cards. One or more Spurling/Preble/Marr relatives moved to Chicago in the late 19th century. | 
Description: Photos of Louise Marr relatives and friends identified only as "Chicago Ladies" with no individual names; several are cabinet cards. One or more Spurling/Preble/Marr relatives moved to Chicago in the late 19th century. |
| 2013.246.2736 | Louise Marr relatives and friends portraits (Group 3 of 4) |
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| Photos of Louise Marr relatives and friends identified only as "Children" with no individual names; several are cabinet cards, several photos appear to have been removed from a photo album at some point. (Grouped A-F) | 
Description: Photos of Louise Marr relatives and friends identified only as "Children" with no individual names; several are cabinet cards, several photos appear to have been removed from a photo album at some point. (Grouped A-F) |
| 2013.246.2735 | Louise Marr relatives and friends portraits (Group 2 of 4) |
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| Photos of Louise Marr relatives: with IDs on reverse, most are cabinet cards. A = This is 1 of the daughters of the Preble that had the leather business in Chicago (2 copies) B = F. Spurling 1903 (two photos in wedding dress) C = Ruth Buck, Alice Bennett, BA. D = Augusta F. Reed, July 21, 1900 E = No ID F = Ed Malmar, Husband of Minnie, Chase Manhattan Bank G = Auntie Maude Graduation from High School H = Harold Spurling I = Uncle Harold, Auntie Maude, Mother J = Mother at Auntie Maude's graduation K = Gertrude Estelle Malmar, Age 5 months, Daughter of Ed & Minnie Malmar L = Uncle Harold (Spurling) M = Aunt Maude's only two children: standing Doris Weare (died in her youth) and sitting is Frances Weare Jewett. N= Lucius Whipple with grandchildren Raymond and Harry Spurling | 
Description: Photos of Louise Marr relatives: with IDs on reverse, most are cabinet cards. A = This is 1 of the daughters of the Preble that had the leather business in Chicago (2 copies) B = F. Spurling 1903 (two photos in wedding dress) C = Ruth Buck, Alice Bennett, BA. D = Augusta F. Reed, July 21, 1900 E = No ID F = Ed Malmar, Husband of Minnie, Chase Manhattan Bank G = Auntie Maude Graduation from High School H = Harold Spurling I = Uncle Harold, Auntie Maude, Mother J = Mother at Auntie Maude's graduation K = Gertrude Estelle Malmar, Age 5 months, Daughter of Ed & Minnie Malmar L = Uncle Harold (Spurling) M = Aunt Maude's only two children: standing Doris Weare (died in her youth) and sitting is Frances Weare Jewett. N= Lucius Whipple with grandchildren Raymond and Harry Spurling [show more] |
| 2013.246.2367 | Mrs. Benjamin Spurling with four grandchildren |
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| Photo of Louise Marr's grandmother, Mrs. Benjamin Spurling, with four grandchildren. Standing: Doris Preble Marr; Sitting: Louise Hampton Marr, Mary W. Marr, Elizabeth Spurling Marr. | 
Description: Photo of Louise Marr's grandmother, Mrs. Benjamin Spurling, with four grandchildren. Standing: Doris Preble Marr; Sitting: Louise Hampton Marr, Mary W. Marr, Elizabeth Spurling Marr. |
| 2013.246.2366 | Photographs of dory, schooner, and steamer boats |
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| Four photographs of boats (A-D) with unidentified men and boys aboard. (A) unidentified dory. (B) and (D) may be the same vessel, probably one of the mackerel schooners owned by Benjamin Harley Spurling whose wife was Frances Almira Preble (donor Louise Marr's grandparents.) C: The steamer may have been one owned by Hanson B. Joyce of Swan's Island engaged in the mackerel fishery. Joyce owned significant shares in several Cranberry Island vessels, possibly shares in Benjamin Spurling's vessels. (D): information from Ralph Stanley and Bar Harbor Record. | 
Description: Four photographs of boats (A-D) with unidentified men and boys aboard. (A) unidentified dory. (B) and (D) may be the same vessel, probably one of the mackerel schooners owned by Benjamin Harley Spurling whose wife was Frances Almira Preble (donor Louise Marr's grandparents.) C: The steamer may have been one owned by Hanson B. Joyce of Swan's Island engaged in the mackerel fishery. Joyce owned significant shares in several Cranberry Island vessels, possibly shares in Benjamin Spurling's vessels. (D): information from Ralph Stanley and Bar Harbor Record. [show more] |
| 2013.246.2364 | Preble cove and surf photographs |
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| (A) Preble Cove photograph, date unknown. Shows cabin, two small boats in water, and some activity near the building. (B) View of Surf at Cranberry by Lizzie | 
Description: (A) Preble Cove photograph, date unknown. Shows cabin, two small boats in water, and some activity near the building. (B) View of Surf at Cranberry by Lizzie |
| 2013.246.2365 | Postcard photo of houses |
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| Postcard photos (A) a house on Islesford with message on reverse to Frances (Marr?) dated 1918, and (B) an unknown house with two people on porch (no message). | 
Description: Postcard photos (A) a house on Islesford with message on reverse to Frances (Marr?) dated 1918, and (B) an unknown house with two people on porch (no message). |
| 2013.246.2357 | Wallet with photos |
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| Tiny, dark green, fold-over, leather wallet with gold B on it; two tiny paper photos of young girl with an older women inside. Girl with sailor collar might be donor Louise Marr. | 
Description: Tiny, dark green, fold-over, leather wallet with gold B on it; two tiny paper photos of young girl with an older women inside. Girl with sailor collar might be donor Louise Marr. |
| 2013.246.2355 | Louise Marr relatives and friends, portraits (1 of 4) |
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| Photos of Marr family members with some Bunker and Spurling relatives identified. A = Mistr(?) C. Bunker Dec. 1906. Aunt Menie. B = Minnie Estelle Bunker Malmar, daughter of Horace Bunker. C = Grammie Spurling D = Horace Bunker Family, Feby[or July?] 22, 1891, Minnie Malmar, Horace Bunker, H. Edgar Bunker, Aunt Meanie, Chester, Lena. E = Lizzie Evelyny Moore F = Marion Estella Spurling, Islesford Me., Age 17 months. G = Estelle Foster Webb, Age 6 1/2 mo, 1898, Brooklyn, NY. H = Ruth Clair Bunker, Dec. 1896, Brooklyn, NY photograph. I = Chester A. Bunker, Brooklyn, NY. J = Frank Willis Bunker, 7 years 11 mo. and Carolyn Gertrude Bunker, 16 Mo., June 1914 (postcard photo - two copies) | 
Description: Photos of Marr family members with some Bunker and Spurling relatives identified. A = Mistr(?) C. Bunker Dec. 1906. Aunt Menie. B = Minnie Estelle Bunker Malmar, daughter of Horace Bunker. C = Grammie Spurling D = Horace Bunker Family, Feby[or July?] 22, 1891, Minnie Malmar, Horace Bunker, H. Edgar Bunker, Aunt Meanie, Chester, Lena. E = Lizzie Evelyny Moore F = Marion Estella Spurling, Islesford Me., Age 17 months. G = Estelle Foster Webb, Age 6 1/2 mo, 1898, Brooklyn, NY. H = Ruth Clair Bunker, Dec. 1896, Brooklyn, NY photograph. I = Chester A. Bunker, Brooklyn, NY. J = Frank Willis Bunker, 7 years 11 mo. and Carolyn Gertrude Bunker, 16 Mo., June 1914 (postcard photo - two copies) [show more] |
| 2000.63.491 | Stereoview photographs |
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| Photos. 28 stereoview images on thick cardboard for use with the stereoscope viewer (a.k.a stereopticon) 2000.63.490. Viewed through the stereoscope, the photos take on a three-dimensional quality. Regional, local and other scenes, including one of Mount Desert Island. | 
Description: Photos. 28 stereoview images on thick cardboard for use with the stereoscope viewer (a.k.a stereopticon) 2000.63.490. Viewed through the stereoscope, the photos take on a three-dimensional quality. Regional, local and other scenes, including one of Mount Desert Island. |
| 2000.63.490 | Stereoscope viewer (a.k.a. Stereopticon viewer) 1901 |
| Stereoscope viewer (a.k.a. Stereopticon viewer). This wood and aluminum viewer with two magnifying-glass lenses is a 1901 Underwood & Underwood stereoscope hand-held stereoview card viewer. "Man'f'd by Underwood & Underwood New York; Patented June 11, 1901 Foreign Patents Applied for" stamped into metal base. Stamped into brass flange of wood handle: "Patd June 14, 1881 (or 1891)". Stamped into the metal bracket on the slide mechanism: "Pat June 18, 1907". With a stereoviewing card inserted, images appeared three dimensional. (See 2000.63.491, the stereo viewing cards used with this device.) Stereoscope viewer was given to donor by Addie Stanley Duren, Ron Mountain's aunt, who lived in the house before it became Ron Mountain's property. | 
Description: Stereoscope viewer (a.k.a. Stereopticon viewer). This wood and aluminum viewer with two magnifying-glass lenses is a 1901 Underwood & Underwood stereoscope hand-held stereoview card viewer. "Man'f'd by Underwood & Underwood New York; Patented June 11, 1901 Foreign Patents Applied for" stamped into metal base. Stamped into brass flange of wood handle: "Patd June 14, 1881 (or 1891)". Stamped into the metal bracket on the slide mechanism: "Pat June 18, 1907". With a stereoviewing card inserted, images appeared three dimensional. (See 2000.63.491, the stereo viewing cards used with this device.) Stereoscope viewer was given to donor by Addie Stanley Duren, Ron Mountain's aunt, who lived in the house before it became Ron Mountain's property. [show more] |
