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Mount Desert Rock is a remote, treeless island situated in the Gulf of Maine approximately 25 nautical miles south of the College of the Atlantic campus in Bar Harbor. The former US Coast Guard light station on the island is now the Edward McC. Blair Marine Research Station.
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Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock
Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View shows the end of the double house, with a clothes tree and outbuilding (perhaps an outhouse) behind. In the foreground are broken ledges piled up on one another. Written on negat…
Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock
Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View shows the the light tower and the single dwelling house. Written on negative envelope: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Aug. 1907 Looking N.E. from S.W. Derrick
Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock
Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, 1906. View shows the lighthouse tender Lilac at anchor off Mount Desert Rock, the shoreline of which is visible to the right. Written on negative envelope: No. 2 Lilac 1906 Mt. Desert Lt. Sta.
Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock
Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, June 1908. Image shows the view looking back toward the light station, with the wooden bell tower in the foreground, and the lighthouse and keepers' dwellings visible beyond. Written on negative e…
Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock
Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, June 1908. Image shows the view looking back toward the light station, with the wooden bell tower in the foreground, and the lighthouse and keepers' dwellings visible beyond. Written on negative e…
Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock
Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock. This negative is still (July 2021) being digitized. Negative envelope is blank, with nothing written on it.
Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock
Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View looks back toward the double house, with the single house next door to the right. Broken granite ledges are piled up in the foreground and a boy, Kaspar Murphy, looks at the phot…
Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock
Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, August 1907. View shows the buildings of the light station, with the brick oil house to the left, the light tower in the foreground, and the keepers' dwellings behind. Written on negative envelope…
Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock
Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, September 1907. This image has not yet (August 2021) been digitized. Written on negative envelope: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Sept. 1907 Sitting Room Right Hand Side Corner North House L.M. Dodge
