Description: Small album containing portraits of 5th grade students. Cover marked, “ A Teacher’s Memories, My Class in 1952-1953. In lower right hand corner, Alston Studios logo. First page, eight portraits. Written on top, “Teacher Ruby Higgins, Grades 5+6, Somesville School. Page two, eight portraits. Back page, three portraits. None identified. (3 Photographs)
Description: Portraits of Somesville Grade School. Marked at top, Somesville Grammar School, 1962-1963, Grade Five-Six. Students from top, left to right; John Merchant gr 5, Danny Lawson, gr 6; row two, Mary Brown, Joanne Smith gr 6; row three, Milton Gilley gr 6, Ruby Higgins, teacher, Macky Gilley gr 6, row four, James Gonzales gr 6, Diane Blanchard gr 4, Fred Hubbard. Written at bottom, "last sixth and fifth grade classes at Somesville".
Description: Portraits of Somesville Grade School. Printed on bottom, Somesville School, Mt. Desert, ME., R. Higgins. Portraits of Somesville Grade School. No grade or year marked. M.Grant is marked at the bottom right Ruby written above R. Higgins. Marked on top, “School Memories, recalled by Alston Studios.” Students from top left to right; Joseph Musetti, [heice] Tracy, Ned Butler; row two, Ann Tracy, unmarked, Marie Richardson, Charlie Barnes, Dottie Kelley, Eliot Mitchell, Avis Lilly; row three, Everett Blanchard, Norma Hibbard, John Carter, Ralph Gonzales, David Grant, unmarked, Rolf Gonzales. [show more]
Description: Portraits of Somesville Grade School. No grade or year marked. M.Grant is marked at the bottom right. Students from left to right, top row; Tom Fernald, Pat Hibbard, Richard Kelley, Kay Tracy, Teddy Stanley, Georgia Robinson; row two, Deaveraux Barnes, Sharon Gonzales, Charlie Carter, Jean Barned, Tony Merchant, Carloyn Brown, Norman Richardson; row three, Lydia Butler, Earl Reed, Rosemary Blanchard, David Lucas, Libby Gonzales, Charlie Barnes, Dennis Blanchard. Margaret written above M. Grant. [show more]
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: 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)
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.
Description: Portraits of Somesville Grade School Grade five and six. Marked, Happy School Days, Recalled by Jura Studio. Marked, “Grade V-VI, Somesville School, Somesville, Maine, 1957-58.” on bottom. Students from top row, left to rigth; Richard Kelly, Eleanor Lurvey; row two, Bobby Emerson, Ruby Higgins, teacher, George Gray, Jean Butler; row three, Pat Hibbard, Jimmy Greenlaw, unmarked, Ted Stanley, Ann Tracy; row four, Charlie Carter, Mary Emerson, Tony Merchant, Hazel Merchant, Tom Fernald. [show more]
Description: Black and white photo of a winter scene of two light colored buildings next to an unfrozen river. Notation on the back reads: The Old Woolen Mill. Somesville
Description: A 5x7 black and white photograph of the "New Museum," possible the Somesville Museum of the Mt.Desert Island Historical Society. (No other information is given about the photo or the location of the 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.
Description: Color slide looking accross Somes Pond toward the fish ladder at the right edge of the pond where it empties into Somes Sound. From folder: Landscapes
Description: Two women bending over a small folding table. Pictured is a yard sale held in the Meiers’ yard in Somesville on July 18, 1981 to benefit the League of Women Voters Annual Fund Drive.
Description: Mound of clothing on a sale table outdoors. Pictured is a yard sale held in the Meiers’ yard in Somesville on July 18, 1981 to benefit the League of Women Voters Annual Fund Drive.
Description: Tables, bags, and boxes full of stuff. Pictured are preparations for a yard sale held in the Meiers’ yard in Somesville on July 18, 1981 to benefit the League of Women Voters Annual Fund Drive
Description: Working the weir. Man inside pen in dory. Man standing on pen pulling on net. Woman observing. This is a slide version of a photo in the collection
Description: Working the weir. Man inside pen hauling net into dory. Man and woman observe from edge of pen. This is a slide 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: 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. Photo attached to glass. Glass cracked in several places.
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]
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.