View at Stonington Me. 36.

View at Stonington Me. 36.

"View at Stonington Me. 36." Image from Green Head looking east at the shoreline and town of Stonington at low tide. Pictured is the distinctive, multi-level townscape of dwellings, commercial buildings, shops, sheds, boat houses and fishing shacks with the harbor and Deer Isle Thorofare in the distance. Taken around 1900, the image conveys the size of the town 40 years after the discovery of the rich vein of granite made the town a major center of granite quarrying, cutting, and shipping. The working harbor is punctuated by the many granite ledges which form the variegated shoreline. In the middle ground a wharf constructed of granite pilings connects the town to an outer ledge and deeper water. At the Green Head neighborhood, small boats are pulled up on the smooth rocks for easy access. The Eastern photographer has likely posed the two girls in their white pinafores as a visual suprise in the foreground, enhancing the sense of scale against the middle ground and distance. The three boys in front seem more incidental, one appearing to be aiming a toy rifle back at the photographer.