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.
Description: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Cemetery Tour October 31, 1995. Jaylene Roths on left holding lantern, wearing black skirt, jacket and hat. Anne Mazlish on right weaing black skirt, white blouse with shawl. Brookside Cemetery.
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]
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]
Description: A black and white photo negative made from a color snapshot of the fireplace in historic Abraham Somes III house (once owned by Richard and Marion Cobb) on the corner of Main Street and Oak Hill Road in Somesville. Fire burning in the fireplace. Large brick fireplace with brick oven. Clock with reverse glass painting on the mantle.
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: 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.
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.
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.
Description: Working the weir. Man inside pen hauling net into dory. Man observes from edge of pen. This is a slide version of a photo in the collection
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
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.”
Description: Two photos of interior of MDI Historical Society Historic Selectmen’s Building Museum printed on same paper. Top photo shows wood stove, hay fork, powder horns, lantern, mail bags, pewter communion set, clothes wringer and other itms. Second photo shows Sarah Kittredge portrait, chinaware, bottles, display case and pewter communion set and other items.