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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, 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 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 1906. View shows the light tower to the right, with the keepers' dwellings beyond, and the oil house to the left. Between the oil house and the tower is a small wooden building, with two bo…
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…
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.
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, 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
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…