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WELLS - BUSINESSES FOLDER 20 From left to right, the Unity Inn, Moody Store & Post Office, and Warren Littlefield Homestead in Moody, west side of Post Road. Woman identified as Georgie Warren Littlefield. Photographed by Wood Photo Co., Wells. Relation to Objects 19.1.893. - Print, Photographic

Record Type: Photo
WELLS - CHURCHES FOLDER 5 Merriland Ridge Methodist Church interior. "Mrs. Ida E. West, 90, Maryland Ridge, Wells, occupies her pew for the last time." "After the 1947 fires this building was donated to Newfield ME to replace their church that burned." - Hope Shelley Notable reverse inscription. - Print, Photographic

Record Type: Photo
BUSINESSES FOLDER #8 Leroy Nason's studio at Wells Beach, at the corner of Webhannet Drive and Mile Road. Leroy's daughter ran the next door beauty parlor, and on the other side is the house where Leroy, his wife, daughter Gladys Nason Fearon, and her husband John lived. Also seen is the fountain in the middle of the road. - Print, Photographic
1900-1920

Record Type: Photo
WELLS ANNIVERSARIES AND PARADES FOLDER #1A Photo at Wells Corner of the 250th. celebration parade. Float with children in foreground, man on horseback, and buggy in front of store. Building is bedecked in bunting with a large portrait of President Lincoln on second floor. - Print, Photographic
1903

Record Type: Photo
Framed print of celebrants at the Wells 250th. anniversary dressed in colonial costumes. Included are: 1) Mrs. Julia (Davis) Maxwell 2) Mrs. Howard Nason 3) Miss Hannah Wells 4) Mrs. William (Emma) Storer 5) Miss Augustus Storer 6) Unknown 7) Unknown 8) Miss Helen Lindsay 9) Mrs. Charles Brown 10) William Shaw 11) Edward Hanscom 12) Hobbs Storer 13) Charles N. Spiller Driver - George Getchell - Print, Photographic
1903

Record Type: Photo
WELLS - BUSINESSES FOLDER 9 Copy print aerial view of pink granite quarry on Quarry Road in Wells in summer 1957. Accompanied by a detailed description, noting that most of the cut blocks in the storage yard (upper left) were used in the 1957 construction of Seagram Plaza in New York City, and identifying the roughly square uncut section to the right of the yard (towards the bottom of the side farthest from camera) as cut in December 1957 for use in the 1958 WWII and Korea additions to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington, Virginia. Relation to Objects 482 (originally listed as P95-19) - Print, Photographic
1957

Record Type: Photo
BUSINESSES FOLDER # 4 Various photos of the Casino Square at Wells Beach. Two are winter shots, one of the Webhannet Post Office and the Harry Littlefield house, the other in front of the Ocean View. Two show Casino Square in summer, with the thater and Playland in the 1940's. Seven views altogether. - Print, Photographic
1940-1950

Record Type: Photo
FISHERMAN'S COVE FOLDER #1 Print from glass negative of Leroy Nason. In the background, some of the buildings are identified ( left to right): Roberts/DesJardin, Plummer, unknown, Horsch Cottage (with Mansard roof), unknown, Minnetonka, unknown, Magnolia, Kimball, Eldridge Road, Webhannet Inn, Gay, Miller. - Print, Photographic

Record Type: Photo
WELLS - BUSINESSES FOLDER 15 Murray's Restaurant and and Cabins, located on the west side of Route 1, south of the Meetinghouse. The restaurant barn was replaced by a motel; the house was turned into Maxmillian Restaurant and then torn down when replaced by CVS. Cabins out back were sold individually. Photographed by Edward Hipple and purchased from his estate in 1994. [Edit Jan. 2024: Final decimal added to Object ID.] - Print, Photographic

Record Type: Photo
WELLS - BUSINESS FOLDER 3 11 prints of former wharf base cribbing at Upper Landing Road, taken by Hope Shelley while researching working waterfronts in the maritime history of Wells. [Edit Jan. 2024: Final decimal added to Object ID.] [Note Jan. 2024: Images not in original order.] - Print, Photographic

Record Type: Photo
CAPE NEDDICK FOLDER #5 Photo of Mrs. C. H. Chase's house on Chase's Pond with a sign reading "Mrs. C. H. Chase's Homemade Root Beer/ Cookies Jellies/ Jams Marmalades/ Pickles Katsup/ Chili Sauce/ Honey". Bee hives are in the side yard, and house is reflected in pond. - Print, Photographic

Record Type: Photo
WELLS - BUSINESSES FOLDER 9 27 original prints of pink granite quarry, Quarry Road, in the Highpine section of Wells, and associated sites. Photographed by Swenson Co., Concord, NH. Originally in operation from 1927 to around 1970 and reopened in 2000 as Millennium Granite, its distinctive stone contributed to such projects as Seagram Plaza in New York City; the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery; the Rayburn House Office Building and Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.; the Federal Building in Manchester, NH; and locally in the Wells Harbor jetties and Fisherman's Cove. Most images likely summer 1955; set of railroad side track photos dated summer 1928. - Print, Photographic

Record Type: Photo
PERSONS 2 4x6 and 1 6x8 photos of the Waterhouse family. Individual portraits are of Joseph Waterhouse and Sarah (Shorer) Waterhouse (1886). The group portrait is from 1925. Back row from left - Nellie Lord, Fred Waterhouse, Fred Gray, Norris Lord, Josephine Waterhouse, Marian Waterhouse. Front row from left - Lou Gray, Barbara Lord, Nettie Waterhouse (stepmother), Joseph Waterhouse (dad), holking Betty Waterhouse (age 2 years). - Print, Photographic

Record Type: Photo
WELLS - BUSINESSES FOLDER 3 42 prints of river bed at low tide and cribbing for former wharves off of Upper Landing Road in Wells (Birch Tree Landing). Taken by Allan Schwarte and used for a maritime history exhibit on local "working waterfronts." Images not in original order. - Print, Photographic

Record Type: Photo
OGUNQUIT - AGAMENTICUS RD. FOLDER 1 Former Jacobs property located on right side of Agamenticus Road about 500 feet from Route 1 4 views Copy prints [Edit Jan. 2024: Originally cataloged as "P97-6.2,3,4,5" - additional sequential numbering appears to have been in error.] - Print, Photographic

Record Type: Photo
Black and white photograph of the York County Travers(e) Jury, September 1907. Top row, L to R: Fred Staples (North Berwick), Guy R. Thyng (Shapleigh), Thomas G. Brackett (Steep Falls), A. L. Bradbury (Hollis Center). Middle row: Sheriff B. J. Grant (Acton), J. A. Chute (Saco), A. W. Littlefield (Wells), J. Allen (Saco), S. S. Mathews (Berwick). Bottom row: Foreman O. P. Green (Saco), J. A. Berry (Saco), F. J. Cousens (Old Orchard), H. B. Dearborn (Lebanon). - Print, Photographic
1907

Record Type: Photo
WELLS: CHURCHES FOLDER #1 Steeple repair on First Church, Post Road, Wells (now the Meetinghouse Museum) in the early 1920s. Two workers stand on staging; one of them has been identified as John Guest. [Edit Dec. 2023: Final decimal added to Object ID.] - Print, Photographic

Record Type: Photo
WELLS - BUSINESSES FOLDER 7 3 prints of construction of bridge over Boston & Maine railroad tracks on Sanford Road in Wells, taken Sept. 18, 1936 by Mary Carpenter Kelley. Project cost $58,000 and employed 20-40 men on relief. W.P.G.H. grade crossing eliminating a dangerous crossing where at least nine had been killed by car/train accidents. Possibly a WPA project. Notable back inscriptions. - Print, Photographic
1936

Record Type: Photo
PERSONS 5x8 copy print of horse and buggy with seven occupants, taken in front of Leroy Nason's studio on Webhannet Drive, Wells. Front row: Mabel (Goodwin) Day, her two children, Harland and Gladys (Day) Colby, Julia Lawson, friend and owner of the buggy. Back row: Coral (Goodwin) Wormwoodholding daughter Louise (Wormwood) Damren, and daughter Edith (Wormwood) Welch. Mabel and Coral were sisters from Wells. - Print, Photographic

Record Type: Photo
DRAKES ISLAND FOLDER #1 Thirteen photos of Gordon Dunthorne and his work. Five are of Gordon taking photos of wake robin trillium ( a rare perenial native to northern North America) near a pond in Alfred ME. Five are of Gordon working on his relief map of Mount Katahdin, two of him and his dog, andtwo at his desk examining flora , presumably of Mexico, in front of a Mexican campaign poster. All date from the early 1940's. Also contains two newspaper clippings concerning lectures he had given. - Print, Photographic

Record Type: Photo