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1. 2008.001.016 - Digital photograph

   Wharf Village - The Edward Hamblin Cottage, called "Daddy's" in this real-photo view dating from the 1920s, was built in 1780 at 9 Main Street, where Hiller Street turns to the right to intersect with Main at the corner of the picket fence. As a rental property, the building housed a number of distinguished guests-including the author and journalist Richard Harding Davis, who rented rooms as his writing study (he wrote his novel Soldiers of Fortu...

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2. 2008.001.033 - Digital photograph

   Water Street - The wide-open spaces of lower Water Street, about 1905. The large house on the right was built by Ebenezer Holmes about 1783. About 100 years later it was enlarged before being uprooted in 1961 and moved to its present location at 84 Front Street, as a gift to Tabor Academy by Mrs. Otto Braitmayer. The houses at center were those of Edward Hamlin and R.S. Dow. The rooftop of Eben Holmes' boat shop is visible at left

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3. 2008.001.083 - Digital photograph

   Shoreline - This view from Nye's Wharf about 1915 shows the west shore of Sippican Harbor, looking north. At the extreme left, 23 Water Street is partially visible. This was the summer home of Boston coal dealer Edward Hamlin, and later of Amory Houghton, who was to become U.S. Ambassador to France under President Eisenhower. Number 29 Water Street, to the right, was the residence of Daniel W. Knowlton. The float in the foreground is off 5 Water ...

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