Catalogue #	Title	Type	Subject	Description
2013.246.2366	Photographs of dory, schooner, and steamer boats	Image, Photograph, Photographic Print	Businesses, Fishery Business People Vessels, Boat Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner	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.	Photographs of dory, schooner, and steamer boats Catalogue #: 2013.246.2366    Type: Image, Photograph, Photographic Print Subject: Businesses, Fishery Business People Vessels, Boat Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner Materials: Paper 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]
2013.246.2352	Loading the mail boat ferry	Publication, Clipping	Businesses, Ferry Service Organizations, Civic, Post Office People Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry	Wilfred Bunker (about age 43) receives cargo on stern of the Island Queen. "Mail Route - Men at Southwest Harbor load mail for delivery at Cranberry Island and Islesford." Photo shows the mail boat at the Lower Town Dock in Southwest Harbor. Photo for newspaper by L. Spiker. The Island Queen was built in 1963. Beal & Bunker moved operations to Northeast Harbor in 1972.	Loading the mail boat ferry Catalogue #: 2013.246.2352    Type: Publication, Clipping Subject: Businesses, Ferry Service Organizations, Civic, Post Office People Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry Date: 1963 Materials: Paper Description: Wilfred Bunker (about age 43) receives cargo on stern of the Island Queen. "Mail Route - Men at Southwest Harbor load mail for delivery at Cranberry Island and Islesford." Photo shows the mail boat at the Lower Town Dock in Southwest Harbor. Photo for newspaper by L. Spiker. The Island Queen was built in 1963. Beal & Bunker moved operations to Northeast Harbor in 1972.

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