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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
8995MDI Historical Society Historic Selctmen's Building
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Other, Building
  • Unknown
Description:
Mount Desert Island Historical Society’s Historic Selctmen’s Building. Mount Desert Museum sign on sign holder on corner of building. Shutters open, flowers in box under front window. Large granite step on ground at center of building. Street in foreground. Negative for 97-309-474a
9097Somes Memorial Bridge
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Building
  • Structures, Transportation, Bridge
  • Bangor Daily News
  • c 1980s
Description:
Thaddeus Shepley Somes Memorial Bridge in Somesville. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen’s Building Museum to the left. Winter scene, ice on stream. 2 copies (a&b)
9098Somes Memorial Bridge
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Building
  • Places, Landscape
  • Structures, Transportation, Bridge
  • Bangor Daily News
Description:
Thaddeus Sheply Somes Memorial Bridge in Somesville. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen’s Building Museum to the left. Winter scene, ice on stream.
7076Mount Desert Post Office, Main Street, Somesville, 1905
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Building
  • 1905
Description:
Main Street Somesville. Mount Desert Post Office on right. Two story building with covered porch. Mount Desert Post Office sign mounted on porch roof. Marked on bottom of negative "1905 Old Post Office Eva Jacobson postmistress". John William Somes house, now owned by Keating Pepper with windmill visible over roof of house. Telephone poles line street.
7077Somesville School House, Mt. Desert, ME
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Building
Description:
Somesville School House (c. early 1900's), Main Street, Somesville. Few trees around building, evergreens in back. Covered porch in center of building with balcony above. Flag pole in center of balcony. Two chimneys and bell tower on roof. Clapboard siding, 12 unshuttered windows visible.
7078Early Abraham Somes House
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Building
Description:
Somes House, early photo. Young trees cover lawn. No shutters on windows. Barn to far right. Small shed next to house on right. Small addition extends from house on left. Copy from Bradley Stereo Card (this negative is one of two--see related negative). The B. Bradley stereo card does not appear to be in the collection. This photograph appears in "The Living Past" by Virginia Somes Sanderson on page 226 and is captioned, "The Original Abraham Somes Home, later converted into the Somes House, date unknown." [show more]
7080Early Abraham Somes House
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Building
Description:
Somes House, early photo. Young trees cover lawn. No shutters on windows. Barn to far right. Small shed next to house on right. Small addition extends from house on left. This negative is one of two made from a Bradley Stereo Card, which does not appear to be in the collection. This photograph appears in "The Living Past" by Virginia Somes Sanderson, p. 226, and is captioned, "The original Abraham Somes home, later converted into The Somes House, date unknown." [show more]
7402Mill Pond, Canoes, & Library: Somesville
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Building
  • People
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]
7405Somesville Church
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Building
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.
7406Grist Mill, Somesville
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Building
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.
7936MDI Historical Society's Selectmen's Building
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Building
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
MDI Historical Society’s Selectmen’s Building. Flowers in the box outside the window. Sign on corner of the building reads, “Mount Desert Museum.”
7937Slectmen's Building
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Building
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
MDI Historical Society’s Selectmen’s Building. Flowers in the box outside the window. Sign on corner of the building reads, “Mount Desert Museum.”
8072Isaac Somes House
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Building
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Isaac Somes house next to the Brookside cemetery in Somesville. Presently owned by Edward Babcock. Two and one half stories with a central chimney. One story el to the right and to the right a colonial revival porch. Shrubs around the front door.
8077Isaac Somes House
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Building
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Isaac Somes house next to the Brookside cemetery in Somesville. Presently owned by Edward Babcock. Two and one half stories with a central chimney. One story el to the right and to the right a colonial revival porch. Shrubs around the front door.
8079Lewis Somes House
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Building
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Lewis Somes House on Main street Somesville. Picket fence in front of house. Greek Revival Cape style. Presently owned by the Dresser family of Massachusetts.
8096Somesville school
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Building
  • Other, transportation - Land
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Former Somesville School. Chain link fence around school. Sign outside reads, “Mount Desert Island Child Guidance Association. Office.” Car circa 1950s outside the school.
8107Selectmen's Building
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Building
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen’s building. Door open. Sign, “Museum Open Today” in the foreground. “Mount Desert Museum” sign on the building.
8108Fence along Somes Brook
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Building
  • Places, Landscape
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Chain link fence along Somes Brook. MDI Historical Society Selectmen’s Building in the background.
8109Cape Cod House
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Building
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Old shingled Cape Cod House with extension to the right. Oil tank outside front door. May be the Dr. Kendell Kitredge house outside Somesville. Was owned by Eugeen Merchant who died in 1996.
8112Lewis Somes house
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Building
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
The Lewis Somes house in Somesville. This was once the cobbler’s home. Now owned by Dresser Family of Massachusetts.
11455Somes House and Cottages, Somesville, ME. 2K.
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Building
  • Vessels, Ship
Description:
From Somes Cove looking towards Somesville and Main Street. To the left, wreck of Schooner Catherine, no masts. Behind Catherine to the left, Fernald’s store (aka A.J. Whiting’s Store) then Port-in-a-Storm bookstore, then The Gallery at Somes Sound (2013-15) . To the right of Fernald’s Store, historic Nathan Salisbury House, once owned by Stan and Binnie MacDonald. To the right Somes House Inn and Cottages. Marked on bottom, “Somes House and Cottages, Somesville, ME. 2K.” [show more]
7403Sawmill and Fernald's Store from the water
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
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 [?].
8312Somesville Union Meeting House
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Somesville Union Meeting House in the snow.
5406Fish in dory
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Fishing
  • Unknown
  • c 1950s
Description:
Fish in dory. This is a slide of a photo in the collection
7938Mill Wheel
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Industry - Food Processing
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Mill wheel in the ground outside the Selectmen’s Building in Somesville. Plaque on wheel commorates Abraham Somes trip and settlement of Mount Desert Island.