Geographic Locations

Vinalhaven's Carver's Harbor is frozen solid. Six sloop boats ( Friendship sloops) are locked in the ice along with a couple of the new power lobsterboats. The sloop boat in the foreground has a lobster trap hauler so it has an auxiliary engine. In the background is the lighthouse tender Zizania which brought a small amount of supplies to the island which had been icebound for a week or more.

Photograph of the British ship Queen Margaret unloading oil at the Standard Oil Company's "go-down" in Hong Kong. A go-down is the term for a warehouse in southeast Asia.

The schooner George W. Wells was the first six-masted schooner built. Here we see a deck view looking toward the bow and Mount Battie in the background.

Photograph of Bangor from Brewer, showing the tug William Conners hauling a raft of logs.

This chart, dating to the mid 19th century, shows some of the popular fishing banks in the upper Gulf of Maine and off the coast of Maine, including Jeffrey's Ledge, Jeffrey's Bank, and Cashes' Ledge. The lighthouses and their ranges are clearly marked.

The John Carver was a bark built at the Carver yard in 1841, well before Waldo Pierce was born. Until 1870 she was Searsport owned then sold to New Bedford as a whaler. This painting does give the artist's impression of what the Searsport shore looked like, and shows the cords of wood in the foreground needed to heat houses in winter.

Oil painting

Like many ship portrait painters, Belfast's Percy Sanborn took commissions for signs and other decorative work. This sign was painted for the Belfast National Bank, established in 1879. It is signed by Sanborn, as are his paintings. Oil on board.