Contributed by Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc.
Description
Taken around 1890 at the Phillips home at Seaville on Long Island in Blue Hill Bay.
Back row standing:
Mr. Phillips, Jimmie Sherritt, Billy Nichols, Bob McKnight, Jack Lobban, Alec Clark, "Little Johnnie Phillips, and Alex Davidson. Next row (three young me standing--John Phillips, George Carter, Johnnie Leith.
Last row sitting: Will Phillips (legs crossed standing, Elizabeth, Elsie, and Mrs. Phillips, Alex Phillips (on one knee), Mrs. Leith, Willie, Stanley, and Lizzie Leith, Lizzie Grindle (after Mrs. Alex Davidson) Elsie, Beatrice, and Mary Leith.
The Leiths ran the boarding house on Long Island which housed most of the mine workers. They charged $2.50 a week for a room including meals.
About This Item
- Title: Phillips home, Seaville, Blue Hill, ca. 1890
- Creation Date: circa 1890
- Subject Date: circa 1890
- Location: Long Island, Blue Hill, Hancock County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 21 cm x 13 cm
- Collection: Denny Robertson Collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Granite industry and trade--Maine--Blue Hill
- Phillips family
- Families--Maine--Blue Hill
- Leith family
- Buildings--Maine--Blue Hill
- Houses--Maine--Blue Hill
- Lodging houses--Maine--Blue Hill
- Dwellings--Maine--Blue Hill
- Group portraits--Maine--Blue Hill
- Quarrying--Maine--Blue Hill
- Laborers--Maine--Blue Hill
- Granite quarrying--Maine--Blue Hill
People
- Carter, George
- Clark, Alec
- Davidson, Alex
- Grindle, Lizzie
- Leith, Beatrice
- Leith, Elsie
- Leith, Johnnie
- Leith, Lizzie
- Leith, Mary
- Leith, Stanley
- Leith, Willie
- Lobban, Jack
- Mcknight, Bob
- Nichols, Billy
- Phillips, Alex
- Phillips, Elizabeth
- Phillips, Elsie
- Phillips, John
- Phillips, Johnnie
- Phillips, Will
- Sherritt, Jimmie
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Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc.44 Miles Road, Blue Hill, ME 04614
(207) 374-2459
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