Description: Strawberry Festival 1991. Women behind tables preparing to serve strawberrys. Two people waiting for shortcake. Looking through trees to Main Street. 3.5 x 4 Image somewhat fuzzy.
Description: Marked on back, “The Famous Open House at the Museum!” Two women seated on path to Museum entrance next to pink and maroon wedding ring quilt for raffle. Looking through trees to Main Street. 3.5 x 4
Description: Strawberry Festival 1991. Biscuits and bowls laid out on table on museum lawn before festival opens. Looking over Main Street through the trees. 3.5 x4
Description: Marked on back, “Junior Hostesses at our museum. Bets and Karen West as Junior Hostesses at Museum in our village, “Somesville”. July 14, 1976.” Girl on left wears colonial costume of blue with white in center of bodice and full cuffs, with white cap. Her hand on Great Walking Wheel. Girl on right wearing floral print colonial costume with bonnet and apron. 3.5 x 4
Description: Marked on back, “Juniors on duty at the museum. Bets and Karen at Museum. Bets holding doll we found in our house. July 14, 1976.” Girl on left, holding china doll, wearing floral print colonial costume with bonnet and apron. Girl on right, wears colonial costume of blue with white in center of bodice and full cuffs, with white cap. Her hand on Great Walking Wheel.
Description: Fall 1976. Marked on back, “At Brookside Oct. 1976 - we searched out the oldest and most recent grave marker.” Unknown children play on fishway in Somes Brook.
Description: Fall 1976. Marked on back, “A visit to Brookside for Gravestone rubbings Oct 1976.” Children age 10-12 rubbing gravestones in Brookside Cemetery. Children standing, Keith Moore, Selena Hamlin. 3.5 x 4
Description: October 1976. Marked on back, “The ‘Jr’s’ Halloween Party 1976.” Children in costume from left to right, Juliana Reddish, Doreen Stillman, Laura MacDonald, Amy Fernald, Missie Fernald, Stephanie Fernald.
Description: Fall 1976. Marked on back, “Mrs. Preston shows us the old hearse.” Children age 10-12 standing in entrance of hearse house in Brookside Cemetery. From left to right, Laura MacDonald, Karen Thomas, Bart Massuco, Keith Moore.
Description: Fall 1976. Marked on back, “A visit to check the old graves of early settlers.” Children age 10-12 rubbing gravestones in Brookside Cemetery.
Description: July 1976. Marked on back, “Helen Pedrone (left ), directs the Junior Historical Society members in basting together the Friendship Quilt (Gift of the women of Somesville to the Historical Society). Bets and Karen Pepper right.”
Description: Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen’s * Building Museum. Pewter communion set sit on table covered with green cloth. *Original description was Selectmen's Building, but think it is Somesville Museum (AB)
Description: Unknown man with two girls outside Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum. Man wears white shortsleeve shirt with dark shorts. Girl on left wears green terry cloth short jumpsuit with ties over shoulders. Girl on right wears striped tank top with dark shorts and white knee socks. Foot bridge in background.
Description: Main Street Somesville. New arched footbridge, Thaddeus Shepley Somes Memorial Bridge, being lifted into place by crane. Jaylene Roths stands near Anne Mazlish seated on rail to right near balloons. 3.5 x 4.5
Description: Main Street Somesville. Trees line street. Board sidewalk visible on right near picket fenced yards. Fernald’s Store (later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore) hidden by trees. Historic Lewis Somes House on right hidden by trees. Telephone poles line street. Man stands on grass near road in distance. Marked on back, “W.H. Ballard Collection Southwest Harbor, Maine. From a B. Bradley Stereo circa 1855." 8x10
Description: Main Street Somesville. Somes Cove on left. Trees line street. Board sidewalk visible on right near picket fenced yards. Fernald’s Store (later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore) hidden by trees. Lumber mill to left. Two masts of schooner rise up over trees. 8x10 This is also a slide (97-691-861) which was used in the Somesville Bicentenial and can be found on Row 2 Unit 2 Shelf 4 Slide Box 1
Description: Main Street, SomesvilleSouthwest Harbor. Mill Pond on left. Small house with clapboard siding and deck facing street.beyond pond. This building (no longer standing) was Judy Heath’s novelty shop. Telephone poles line street on left and wooden sidewalk on the right. Board fence along both sides of the road. Mount Desert Selectmen’s Building hidden by trees on the right. Picture is labeled "MAIN ST. SOMESVILLE, ME Written on back, “going towards Southwest Aunt Judy Heath’s novelty shop around 1900.” 8x10 [show more]
Description: Somes Brook, trees on banks, reeds in lower right corner. Two women crossing bridge, wearing white dresses and hats, may be pushing baby carriage. Lumber Mill in background.
Description: Small steamboat with canopy towing small skiff in Somes Harbor. American flag flying aft. Note on back of photo remarks the man at the helm is Capt. Lester Pray. Back of Somesville Library to the left. Two and one-half story building above boat no longer standing. Peak of blacksmith’s shop visible over canopy of boat. To the right, Fernald’s store (purchased from A.J. Whiting in 1887), later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore, still later, an art gallery. Large smudge in upper right corner of photo. This is also a slide (97-701-871) used in the Somesville Bicentenial it is found on Row 2 Unit 2 Shelf 4 Slide Box 1 [show more]
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 (formerly A.J. Whiting store), 1112 Main St, Port-in-a-Storm bookstore, later Gallery at Somes Sound in 2015 on the left. Tall deciduous tree hanging over bank on the left. Names on back: Charlotte W????, Eleanor Fernald, Cora Parker, Mr. Abbott [show more]
Description: Historic Mount Desert Tavern, also known as the Mount Desert House. Tall sign post on front lawn. Mount Desert House sign partially cut out of picture. Lattice work fence leads to front door. Shutters on front windows shut. Two men standing near front door. Two men in front of lattice work. Several men and boys stand around large wagon with horse. Shadow visible in foreground. (Sometimes erroneously referred to as the Mount Desert Inn.)