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Samuel A. Eliot Sepiatones of the Northeast Harbor area.
This collection of images was originally presented in 1985 by Thomas H. and Lois Eliot. Titles by the photographer, Samuel A. Eliot, are in the caption, with comments by Tom Eliot in parentheses. The images were taken during the 1880s during encampments by the Champlain Society.
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Cadillac's Harbor of Mount Desert (from Bear Island, 1881.)
The View from Sargent's Mountain (1881)
Harbor Brook (1881. "I'm not sure whether this is what is now called Little Harbor Brook on Peabody Drive, or what is now called Asticou Stream, which feeds through what is now the Azalea Garden.")
Jordan's Pond (1881)
Head of Somes Sound, 1881. ("As far as I am able to tell by carring the picture to the site, a combination of reforestation and the cutting down of a hill to make the intersection of routes 3 and 233, this photo is not quite possible to replicate. The poles carried telegraph wires.")
Road on East side of Somes Sound, 1881. ("Today called Sound Drive, route 3/198. This view is no longer possible because of reforestation.")
Road above Northeast Harbor, looking South, 1881. ("Known today as Pond Hill, route 3/198 500 yards south of the gatre house. The date is questionable because the photo shows the original Asticou Inn which was not build until after 1881.")
Upper Hadlock Pond, 1881. ("The picture was taken from the roadway before the road was cut down into the hillside, thus the camera height above the water would place today's photographer about six feet in the air.")
Little Long Pond, Callahan Farm on left, no date. ("This photo resovles arguments about whether or not the field west of the pond was settled. Frank Callahan was a farmer and blacksmith whose smithy stood out nearer the seawall. This caption and photo are more recent than the others. In the 1880s there was no need to distinguish between this pond and the one on the west side of the island because the other was called 'Great Pond.'")
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