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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. As of July 2021 this negative is still 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 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 interior of Kaspar Murphy's bedroom, with a chagrin the corner, and flags on the shelf behind a souvenir plate showing the Liberty Bell. Also on the shelf is a toy gun,…
Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock
Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, October 1908. View shows a man in the foreground, with the boom of the derrick next to him. In the background the light tower and keepers' dwellings are visible. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Deser…
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. This negative is still being digitized (July 2021). Negative envelope is blank, with nothing written on it.
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 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, 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…
