Description: Man, two women and girl in canoe paddling on the mill pond, American flag on bow. Another canoe in middle ground containing three women, a girl and boy. Crowd gathered on lawn of Somesville Library. Tents pitched on lawn in front of building. Somes House Inn visible on the right. Blacksmith’s shop and Fernald's Store (aka A.J. Whiting store), later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore, on the left. Tall deciduous tree hanging over bank on the left. CHRISTMAS GREETINGS printed but only partially visible at bottom. [show more]
Description: Marked, “Somesville Church 76” in lower left corner. Somesville Church (now Union Meeting House, 2015) built in 1852 (per "Living Past", p. 280) Telephone pole sitting in front of church. Lower shutters open, uppers closed.
Description: Grist mill on Somes Brook. High bushes cover most of building. Shingled roof, with weathered shingled siding. Large stones line bank of stream. Another small clapboard building to right in background. Appears to have been taken from upstream. Negative.
Description: Mount Desert Post Office on Main street Somesville next to former home of Daniel (Somes) and Rosemary Smith. Former Richard Donahoe house to the right. Post Office is a single story clapboard building with gable end facing the road. There is a sash window beside the front door. There is a small window high in the gabel end. Chimney with stovepipe insert extends above roofline. Car to right with open door. Man stands in front of post office door watching a second man shovel snow. [show more]
Description: Two masted schooner at wharf in back of Fernald’s store (purchased in 1887 from A.J. Whiting); later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore, at low tide. Loading ramp extends from second story door in back of building. Somes House Inn to the right. Port in a Storm later was used as an art gallery.
Description: Grist mill on Somes Brook. High bushes cover most of building. Shingled roof, with weathered shingled siding. Large stones line bank of brook. Another small clapboard building to right in background.
Description: Lumber mill and mill pond in Somesville. Front view with ramp,where mill is built over dam. Ramp for logs extends into pond from large doorway in building. A.J. Whiting’s Store (Frenchmen's Bay Gallery[2016]), visible to the left.
Description: Lumber Mill in Somesville. People identified on related photograph: "left to right: R. Davis, J.A. Somes, J.W.Somes, _____, Geo. Benson, B. Mitchell (last one, Hulls Cove; the remainder Somesville)." Written on related photograph: "July 4, 1932". Processed lumber in various piles around milll. Nine men pose for camera. Three horses and three wagons stand in front of lumber; buildings on Main Street, Somesville, in background. [show more]