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                                        WELLS - BUSINESSES   FOLDER 1
George Pike's sawmill, showing lumber cut and to be cut.  It was located off Cole Hill's Road, next to the Merryland River on southside of the river and the east side of the road.
                                    
                            
                                        WELLS - CHURCHES   FOLDER 4
Copy print of 2nd Congregational Church & Parsonage on east side of Post Road in Wells circa the early 1900s. Enlargement of postcard.
                                    
                            
                                        OGUNQUIT - AERIALS   FOLDER 3
Ontio Hill
Ogunquit Beach
                                    
                            
                                        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.]
                                    
                            
                                        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.]
                                    
                            
                                        WELLS - BUSINESSES   FOLDER 19
Helen and Wesley Rutledge's Antique Shop, 1937
Corner of Bourne Ave. N. and Route 1, Moody; now (2010) the site of Jake's Restaurant.
                                    
                            
                                        WELLS - BUSINESSES   FOLDER 10
Three photos of the Atlantic Shore Line during the winter, two of the crew shoveling, one of a horse drawn cart carrying workers. Photo of the trolley is missing.
[Note Jan. 2024: Accompanied by a business card - "Herbert Littlefield; Dealer in Hay, Wood, Ice, Milk and Vegetables; Cottages to Let; Depot Carriages, Buckboard Parties and Teaming; Wells Beach, Maine; Telephone 29-2."]
                                    
                            
                                        WELLS - CHURCHES    FOLDER 5
Merriland Ridge Methodist Church interior and pews.  "After the 1947 fires this building was donated to Newfield ME to replace their church that burned." - Hope Shelley
Notable reverse inscription.
                                    
                            
                                        OGUNQUIT - AERIALS   FOLDER 1
Ogunquit looking N towards ocean
                                    
                            
                                        OGUNQUIT - AERIALS   FOLDER 3
Aerial view of Ontio Hill area
Lookout Hotel
                                    
                            
                                        WELLS - BUSINESSES    FOLDER 4
Photo of the doorway of the Eldridge Tavern, now a private home.
                                    
                            
                                        WELLS - BUSINESSES   FOLDER 4
Photo of Clark's Lighthouse Shop on Post Road.
                                    
                            
                                        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.
                                    
                            
                                        WELLS - BUSINESSES   FOLDER 22
Winter snow scene of Moody Post Office & Store on the west side of Post Road in Wells, circa 1950s. Donated by Delia Moody, long-time post mistress at Moody.
                                    
                            
                                        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)
                                    
                            
                                        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.]
                                    
                            
                                        Framed aerial view of the Bald Hill Road quarry in Wells.
An accompanying description notes 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 identifies 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 Photos P10.8 
[Note Jan. 2024: Originally listed as P95-19.]
                                    
                            
                                        WELLS - CHURCHES   FOLDER 2
Copy of original photo made for postcards of  St. Mary's Catholic Church in Wells,1948.  Postcard reads "Catholic Church, Wells Beach, Webhannet, Maine".  Now has been turned into condos (Haven by the Sea, as of 2024).
                                    
                            
                                        OGUNQUIT - Beaches
Linen-finish postcard of sea gulls flying over crashing waves, with shoreline to the south in background. Titled "Sea Gulls on the Beach, Ogunquit, Maine," and produced by Tichnor Bros., Inc., Boston.
Ogunquit postmark dated 1946 to Fanny Ilsley of Newberry, MA.
birds
                                    
                            
                                        WELLS - CHURCHES   FOLDER 1
Aerial view of  the First Church also showing Murray's Restaurant and cabins, c. 1950s
                                    
                            
                                        WELLS - BUSINESSES   FOLDER 12A
Photographic postcard by Leroy Nason of three kittens drinking from a saucer. Titled "Feedtime."
Relation to P91-2.13.
                                    
                            
                                        OGUNQUIT - AERIALS   FOLDER 1
 Aerial view looking N from York
Shoreline
                                    
                            
                                        WELLS - CHURCHES   FOLDER 3
Two identical copy prints of the interior of the Highpine Baptist Church, showing the pulpit and the glass bulb chandelier.
                                    
                            
                                        OGUNQUIT - ART GALLERIES   FOLDER 1
Ogunquit, Shore Rd.
Ogunquit Art Association
Now (2007) the location of Sea Chambers
2 prints