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9138John Allen Somes, Mark Somes, Ada Somes, John William Somes, Sarah Somes, Kate Heath
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Building
  • People
  • Unknown
Description:
Group of people standing on lawn of historic Mt. Desert Tavern. White clapboard house with black shutters. Drive on right side of house, barn or shed attached to back of house. Two tall treees shade the hosue. From left to right, John Allen Somes (Allie), wearing dark suit and cap, holding Mark Somes, Ada (Richardson) Somes, wearing white dress, John William Somes, father of John Allen Somes, wearing derby, long coat. long white beard and carrying walking stick, Sarah Somes, sister of John William wearing white apron, blouse with full puffed sleeves and hat, Kate Heath Pray, wife of Lester Pray, wearing black skirt, full puffed blouse and hat. [show more]
9139Saw Mill in Somesville
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Building
  • People
  • Places, Landscape
  • Unknown
Description:
Saw mill in Somesville. View from across mill pond. Logs floating in pond. Lumber piled along banks. Masts of schooner appear in back of lumber. Men standing on banks. Horse with lumber cart on bank. Looking across Somes Cove.
9159Three women arm in arm
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Automobiles
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • Unknown
Description:
Julia, Mrs. Cushman, Kate. Three women. Photo blurred. Woman on left wears light colored dress, woman in middle wears light colored dress with pattern on hem and bodice, black stockings and shoes. Woman on right wears checked dress or jumper with black stockings and shoes. To right 1915-1920 style car passes, to left is white house with black shutters and covered porch.
13685School Life 1960-61
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Structures, Institutional, School
  • Jura Studio
  • 1960-61
Description:
Portraits of Somesville Grade School Grade five and six mounted on singel mattte. Marked School Life 1960 -1961 top center, Somesville Grade School Somesville Maine, Grade five-Six Jura Studio at bottom. Students from Left to right; top row; Laurabee Pepper, Edna Gaudet, Linda Smith, Virginia Richardson.Second row; Ruby Higgins, teacher, Terry Blanchard, Gloria Cunninham, George Grant, Jr., Dora Lawson, Albert Merchant, Mary Emerson. Bottom Row; Calab Tracy, Nancy Kelly, John Butler, Debbie Gray, Raymond Lawson, Freda Hibbard, Philip Gaudet. [show more]
14008Virginia Somes Sanderson
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Interior
  • People
  • C 1980
Description:
Virginia Somes Sanderson, age 70-80 wears glasses with dark frames, blue dress with seagulls. Seated at table inside Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen’s Building Museum. Collection of China displayed on shelf behind Sanderson. Portrait of Sarah Whiting Kittredge and William Thompson Memorial wreath on right.
13327Cruising Club of America visit to Somesville
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, transportation - Maritime
  • People
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1955
Description:
Cruising Club of America visit to Somesville. Local Hustler fleet. Ballard Negative # Y-124J
17844Mount Desert House (The Tavern)
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals, Horses
  • Other, Building
  • People
Description:
Mount Desert House (The Tavern) in center of photo, taken from across the mill pond. Several people standing outside on lawn. Horse harnessed to buggy with person in seat. Person seated in chair on lawn with woman standing behind. Two men to the right. Historic Nathan Salisbury house with dark trimmed windows to the right. Stake fence surrounds front yard of the Nathan Salisbury house.
12489Clara Emilie Meynell Somes & Thaddeus Shepley Somes
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Building
  • People
  • 1905
Description:
Clara Emilie Meynell Somes(1842-1920) and Thaddeus Shepley Somes(1839-1913) seated on front step of their home on corner of Oak Hill Road and Main Street. Clara wears hair in bun on back of head. Striped blouse with full sleeves, black placket down center of bodice, white lace around collar. Decorative white flower plackets descend from shoulders along each side on center. Black skirt with indistinguishable design. Thaddeus wears straw hat, dark suit, white shirt and black tie. Marked on back Garm and Gapa, 1905. Photo cut to fit frame or album. Pieces of a letter appear on back. [show more]
12549Schooner "Kate Pray" in Somes Cove, c. 1905
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Places, Landscape
  • Vessels, Ship
  • 1905c.
Description:
Two masted-schooner in back of Fernald’s store (formerly A.J. Whiting’s Store) later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore, still later, an art gallery. Houses on Main street from left to right: Abraham Somes III house; John Somes house, known as “Old Homestead”; Thaddeus Somes Store; in front of store, Blacksmith’s shop; Fernald’s Store; Mount Desert Tavern. Flags flying on main mast, American Flag and Kate Pray pennant. Five men sit on top of cabin house. One man standing between masts. Photo is black and white. [show more]
8903Brig Under Construction
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Places, Landscape
  • Vessels, Ship
  • c 1905
Description:
Brig under construction in Somes Cove. Looking across Somes Cove to Somes Meadow and landing. Six men standing on deck looking toward camera. Hull near completion. Lumber scattered around ship. Two masted lay on the ground in back of ship. Schooner to the right. Marked on back, “One of the boat builders was William Smith husband of Addie Smith of Somesville” Brief outline of family tree. “Ship builder, William married Cynthia?, children Pearl - Blacksmith and Bloomfield, Storekeeper. Child of Pearl, Fred who married Addie. Children of Fred and Addie, Don and Stuart.” Don Smith still living in Somesville. Photo could not be located 02/03/2022 [show more]
14100Somesville School House and students, c. 1890
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Building
  • People
  • 1890
Description:
Children standing on steps of Somesville School House. Front door open. Teachers standing in back row to the left. Thirty nine in photo including at least two teachers. Boys dressed in knee pants, some with sweaters and caps, others in jackets. Boots of children in front row very dirty. One boy stands between posts. Edges of photo very worn, peeling away from mat.
14172Thaddeus Shepley Somes, daughter Virginia, & Lion the dog
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Animal
  • Other, Building
  • People
  • 1906
Description:
Thaddeus Shepley Somes sitting under tree on lawn across from Somesville Library with Virginia Somes Sanderson on his lap. Big dog next to them. Board sidewalk with rail in back of tree. Lumber mill in distance. Man drives by in wagon. Marked on back, “Thaddeus, Virginia, Lion, the dog. 1906”
8993Someville School Class 1909
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • People
  • unknown
Description:
Somesville School Class photograph, October 1909. Twenty one students, none identified. Marked Somesville, Me, Oct 1909 in lower left corner. Students gathered on grass, trees in background. Teacher in center wears hair pulled back with white blouse and dark skirt which buttons down center. Dark tie at neck.
5421Men standing near lumber in empty mill pond
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Building
  • People
  • Unknown
Description:
Men standing near lumber in empty mill pond. Looking towards Mount Desert House. Small building standing on bank of mill pond.
5422Men seated on the banks of mill pond
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Building
  • People
  • Unknown
Description:
Men seated on banks of mill pond (probably not Main Street Mill) near logs. Lumber floating on barge in pond. Three buildings on opposite bank.
5455Boy standing on the shore
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • People
  • Places, Landscape
  • Unknown
Description:
Boy standing on shore near entrance to Babson Creek looking toward harbor
5456Ship under construction
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • People
  • Vessels, Ship
  • Unknown
Description:
Ship under construction in distance. Boy sitting on log in foreground.
7588Lumber Mill, Somesville
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Building
  • People
  • Places, Landscape
Description:
Lumber Mill in Somesville. Lumber piled to left and in back of mill. To right, logs piled on bank of Mill pond. In background, A.J. Whiting’s Store, later Port-In-A-Storm bookstore. Three horses and three wagons wait for load of lumber. Men from left to right, R. Davis, J.A. Somes, J.W. Somes, Geo. Benson, B. Mitchell). Marked on back, “Last one Hulls Cove; the remainder Somesville.” Edges very worn. Small tear in lower left corner. (This description may refer to a different photograph; nothing marked on back and no wear or tear.) [show more]
9053Mount Desert Post Office
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • Unknown
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 gable end. Chimney with stovepipe insert extends above roof line. Car to right with open door. Man stands in front of post office door watching a second man shovel snow. [show more]
9086MDI Historical Society Cemetery Tour
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • People
  • Places, Cemetery
  • Pete Travers
  • 1995
Description:
Mount Desert Island Historical Society Cemetery Tour October 31, 1995. Crowd standing under Brookside Cemetery Gate. Near right gate post. Jaylene Roths on left holding lantern , wearing black skirt, jacket and hat. Anne Mazlish on right wearing black skirt, white blouse with shawl holding torch. Eben Richardson, behind right gate post.
9087MDI Historical Society Cemetery Tour
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • People
  • Places, Cemetery
  • Pete Tavers
  • 1995
Description:
Small group standing outside cemetery gates. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Cemetery Tour October 31, 1995. Two in costume, one holds candle lantern. Brookside Cemetery. Person on far right identified as Patty Ryan per 2011 "Mystery Photographs" Exhibit (AB).
7415School Life 1960-61
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • People
  • Structures, Institutional, School
  • Jura Studio
Description:
Portraits of Somesville Grade School Grade five and six mounted on singel mattte. Marked School Life 1960 -1961. Somesville Grade School Somesville Maine, Grade five-Six Jura Studio at bottom. Students from Left to right; top row; Lalb Pepper, Edna Gaudet, Linda Tracy, Virginia Richardson.Second row; Terry Blanchard, Gloria Cunninham, George Grant, Jr., Dora Lawson, Albert Merchant, Mary Emerson. Bottom Row; Calab Tracy, Nancy Kelly, John Butler, Debbie Gray, Danny Lawson, Freda Hibbard, Philip Gaudet. Written ar top center, Ruby Higgins teacher. [show more]
9076Maine Museum Day 1995
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Other, Interior
  • People
  • Unknown
  • 1995
Description:
June 8, 1995, Maine Museum Day, Mt. Desert Island Historical Society Museum. Museum interior.Jeannette Godfrey to right. Other visitors unidentified. Babson portrait in center.
9073Main Street Somesville 1995
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • People
  • Structures, Transportation, Bridge
  • Unknown
  • 1995
Description:
April 1995. Main Street Somesville. New arched footbridge in place over stream.
9072Main Street Somesville 1995
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • People
  • Structures, Transportation, Bridge
  • Unknown
  • 1995
Description:
April 1995. Main Street Somesville. New arched footbridge in place over stream.