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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. The island lies within unorganized islands in Hancock County.
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Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock
Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, May 11, 1908. View shows the light staton, with the top of the tower cropped by the frame of the photograph. In front of the tower the oil house is visible. Behind the tower the keepers' houses ar…
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, 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, August 1907. Image shows view looking out over the ledges with many sea birds visible. To the left the power launch sits on the wooden ramp, and to the right two men are visible. Written on negati…
Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock
Glass negative for image taken at Mount Desert Rock, June 1908. Image shows Lawrence Newman on the rocks at Mount Desert Rock, with a toy boat at his feet. Laundry hangs in the background between the work buildings. Negative envelope reads…
Life on a Barren Rock (Mount Desert Rock)
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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 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. This negative is still being digitized (July 2021). Negative envelope is blank, with nothing written on it.
