Description: Variety of Company Supply Catalogs from Fred Savage’s business, paint, stucco, drywall, plumbing, finish work etc. Folder 1; Plumbing fixtures, Trenton Potteries, Standard Sinks, Day-Ward, Cahill Iron Works, Western Metal Supply Co., Locke, Stevens & Co., J. L. Mott Folder 2: Advertising Brochure with Hotels, The DeGregoire, The Louisburg, the Malvern, The Rockaway, The Newport House, The Belmont, The St Sauveur, The New Florence Folder 3a/3b: Paint Brochures, Murphy Varnish, S.C. Johnson, Devoe, I. Lappin, Marine Tocolith, Benjamin Moore, Valspar, Patterson-Sargeant, Northern Manufacturing, Symentrex, Nico, Blanchite, Trus-Con, Koncreto, Dutch Boy, Berry Bros.,Glidden, Painting Machine Co., Edward Smith, National Lead, Nico, Trus-Con, S. C. Johnson, Patterson-Sargent, Hascall's, Monument Plaster Folder 4: Machinery, Chas. J. Jager, C.W. Hunt, Clinton Wire Cloth, Fairbanks Company, General Compressed Air House Cleaning Co., Rider-Ericcson Engine Co., Vacuum Hpuse Cleaning Co., General Electric, Hunther Bros, Quimby, Gilbert & Barker Folder 5: Lath, Decorative Iron and Concrete Reinforcement, Berger, Trussed Concrete and Steel Co.,Clinton Wire Cloth Co., Lignine Carvings, Roebling Construction, E. T. Barnum, Henry Weyand, Shreve Crump and Low, Phoenix Wire Works, Vulcan, Newport Rolling Mill Folder 6: Hardware Specialties, Lane Brothers, Buffalo Fertilizers, Union Fibre Co., Harvey Hubble, Hill Dryer [show more]
Description: Early view of Somesville from Somes Meadow. Somes Cove and lumber mill in center with Fernald’s Store (now art gallery as of 2016) on right and Mt. Desert House on far right. Church steeple in distance.
Description: Mount Desert Post office in snow. Card reads: Merry Christmas Happy New Year. Marked on the back of the photograph: "It is good to know that we will see you soon."
Description: Photo of Mill pond and Heath Millinary Shop. Above photo are the words Season’s Greetings. Small print at bottom of photo reads: Street View, Somesville, ME, 21. Victor and Ruby written on back in ink.
Description: Winter scene in Somesville Maine. Hand touched by photographer or artist. Somesville, Me Winter Scene printed at bottom. On right Fernald's store, with covered porch and second story porch. On left Mt. Desert House and Nathan Salisbury House. Wagon sits in snow on left side of road. Narrow space has been plowed or shoveled on road. Large trees on each side of road. Unknown Lone man walks down middle of road. Telephone poles on left side. This is also a slide (97-711-881) used in the Somesville Bicentenial and can be found on Row 2 Unit 2 Shelf 4 Slide Box 1 [show more]
Description: Men removing trees between Old Somesville Firehouse and Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen’s Building Museum. Three men, on left man wears sweatshirt and ball cap man working with tree. In middle man in dark sweater and cap looks up at tree. On right man watches process. Mill stone with plaque in foreground. Image blurry. Photo given by Frances Manning in 1960.
Description: Copy of photo. Large brick house at least three stories with tower on the left. One chimney visible. Two dormers visible. Set on rocky slope in trees.
Description: Color Photo of plaque memorializing the first Town House built in Eden. It was built in 1842 and razed in 1931. The memorial was erected in 1932. The back of the photograph is marked "This plaque is one of the few reminders that this area was once the center of Mt. Desert Island Business." -Connee Jellison
Description: Looking back at city from harbor. Wide street runs through middle of photo from harborside. Two three-masted schooners in port to the right. Three church steeples rise in background above city. To the left sign above building reads, “Washburn [?] flour.” Harbor unidentified; no date.
Description: One negative with four small images, each of which is 1.5" X 2". Top left: Somes House Inn, with dormers, multiple chimneys, porches, and fire escape ladder from third to second floor . Top right: View of Somes Harbor looking across Somes Meadow from Somes House Bottom left: View of Somes Harbor with seven sailboats, two floats with connecting ramp in foreground. Small row boat tied to last float. Bottom right: Somes House Inn from Somes Meadow. Unidentified house to right. [show more]
Description: Caption in The Living Past page 122; "Somesville's main road in 1870, looking north towards Ellsworth. Mount Desert House on left; A.J. Whiting store on right (note balcony and porch); corner of blacksmith shop on right. Telegraph wires were in use in 1870." Horse drawn vehicles on rutted dirt road. Negative.
Description: Main Street Somesville.Somes Cove on left. Trees line street. Board sidewalk visible on right near picket fenced yards. Fernald’s Store (art gallery as of 2016 1112 Main St ) hidden by trees. Lumber mill to left. Two masts of schooner rise up over trees.Negative.
Description: Hall Quarry, quarry in winter. Looking across Somes Sound. Pieces of granite scattered about. Rail for tram covered with snow runs through center of photo. Various buildings in the middle ground. Derricks in the foreground.
Description: Looking toward Main Street from Somes Cove. Lumber mill on the left, library to right of mill. In center two and one-half story house with porch on front and left side. Further right and on the water is Fernald’s Store (aka A.J. Whiting Store), later Port-In-A-Storm bookstore and now (2016) Gallery at Somes Sound. Historic Nathan Salisbury House to the far right [?].
Description: The Abraham Somes III and later, The Thaddeus Somes home, on Main Street, Somesville. To the right is A.J. Whiting's store, sold to Fernald in 1887. This photo predates 1894/95, the year that the library was built. To the left in the photo, a horse and carriage are stopped on the bridge; telegraph pole in view. Image originally labeled “Smith Cottage Mount Desert Maine" but identification changed [by Virginia Somes Sanderson] to read "Abraham Somes III-Thaddeus Somes Home and Mill Pond." It's likely that the house in the center of the image, but obstructed by trees was the "Smith Cottage", torn down c. 1920-1922. [show more]
Description: View of Mill Pond and Somes Harbor from hill on Oak Hill Road in front of historic John Somes House, “The Old Homestead.” Starting from the lefthandside of the photograph, there is a windmill and the lumber mill. The Hamor house, no longer standing, is on the right bank of Mill Pond along with three other buildings. There is a farm house on Mason’s Point. Telephone poles run along Main Street. Mountains in the distance. Black and white oval format. [show more]
Description: View of Village of Somesville including Somes Cove, Somesville Lumber Mill, Somesville Union Meeting House, A.J. Whiting store, and Mount Desert House, taken from the Somes House.