Description: Card with double image of Somes Sound, sailboat in distance, view across Sound, "Dog Mtn." Allen the Photographer, No. 24 Temple Place, Boston, n.d., R.H. Hysom written in ink on the back side
Description: Card with double image of Freeman House, Southwest Harbor, Maine, photo of front and elongated wings, with two carriages in front, people, and people also on the roof of the entryway, n.d., Mount Desert Scenery, R.H. Hysom handwritten on back side
Description: Card with double image of Head of Otter Creek, Allen, ... Photographer, No 24 Temple Place, Boston, n.d., R.H. Hysom written in ink on back side
Description: Card with double image of Sea Wall on Otter Creek Road, Mt. Desert, Allen, .. Photogapher, No. 24 Temple Place, Boston, R.H. Hysom written in ink on back side
Description: A CD that includes 15 digital images of steropticon images located in the archives of the Northeast Harbor Library. These images were copied and then the copy was donated to the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. There is also a copy of a letter that accompanied the gift of the images to the NEH Library Archives in 1984. It is unknown if there are restrictions for use. Apparently, the original stereopticon prints are in the NEH Library Archives. See the multi-media tab for all of the images and their subject matter. [show more]
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: Portrait of Dunham School , Seal Harbor. Grade two, 1966-67. Marked in center, “Dunham School, Seal Harbor, Grade 2 1966-67.” Thirteen students, none identified. Printed in lower right hand corner, Alston Studios, Inc.
Description: Portraits of Dunham School grade two, 1966-67. Marked in center, “Dunham School, Seal Harbor, Grade 2 1966-67.” Students from top row, left to right; Ruby Higgin, teacher, Robert Suminsby, Lynn Carpenter, Bruce Smallidge, Beth Minotons; row two, Jay Vollmer, Allison Cochran, Dale Alley, Julie Allen, Alan Graves, Beverly Merchant; row three, Kenneth Norwood, Rossette Pottle, Martha Fields, Sandra Frost. Printed in lower right hand corner, Alston Studios, Inc. [show more]
Description: Dunham School grade one, 1966-67. Marked in center, “Dunham School, Seal Harbor, Grade 1 1966-67.” Sixteen students, three identified. Top left corner, Doris Freman, teacher. Third from left. top row, Joyce Robinson, fourth from left, top row, Richard Bracy. Second row, first picture, Mary Lyny. Printed in lower right hand corner, Alston Studios, Inc.
Description: Portraits of Dunham School grade one, 1966-67. Marked in center, “Dunham School, Seal Harbor, Grade 1 1966-67.” Fourteen students, none identified. Printed in lower right hand corner, Alston Studios, Inc.
Description: Portraits of Dunham School Kindergarten, 1966-67. Marked in center, “Dunham School, Seal Harbor, Kindergarten 1966-67.” Students not identified. Written at top, Teacher Mrs. Savage. Printed in lower right hand corner, Alston Studios, Inc.
Description: Portraits of Dunham School grade two, 1966-67. Marked in center, “Dunham School, Seal Harbor, Grade 2 1966-67.” Fourteen students, none identified. Top left corner, Ruby Higgins, teacher. Printed in lower right hand corner, Alston Studios, Inc.
Description: 11 X 14 color aerial photograph in a cardboard mat showing the Somesville School after conversion to condominiums. Documentation on back: American Aerial Scenes, PO Box 239, Shea Rd., Pompey, NY. Reorder # 171-232.
Description: Receipt from American MIssionary Society for $2.00 contribution from the King's Daughters Circle of Mount Desert, Mary Somes, President. Also includes envelope addressed to Miss Mary A. Somes. Enrollment form of Emma Richardson, Mt Desert, Maine in the International Order of The King's Daughters and Sons, NYC Mae Hill, Mt Desert, ME is the Leader of the Circle known as Somesville Silver Cross (n.d.) Note indicates that Mae Hill was married to Paul Ather? [show more]
Description: A generic Red Cross Soilder's Mail postcard with a printed message: "The ship on which I sailed has arrived safely overseas." Signed by Raymond Somes.
Description: Picture of island women hiking (probably Katadin). Patricia Fox, Patty Tierney, Heidi Walsh, Lois Winter, and Cindy Robbins. Photograph found in album containing pictures of MDIHS activities, 2000-2010.
Description: Gives information about the more than 400 families living in Maine in 1790, according to that year's census. At that time the District of Maine had just five counties and was part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Members of the various Indian tribes were not inclded in this census.
Description: Gives information about the more than 400 families living in Maine in 1790, according to that year's census. At that time the District of Maine had just five counties and was part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Members of the various Indian tribes were not inclded in this census.
Description: Two copies of a letter from Anne Mazlich to the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art on the subject of Louis C. Tiffany's painting "My Family in Somesville." The society is requesting a photographic copy of the painting and permission to publish the photograph. See reply dated 10 May 023.FIC.44 and further correspondence 023.FIC.45
Description: Letter from Anne Mazlich to Nancy Long of the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum on the use of a photograph of "My Family in Somesville". See 023.FIC.43-44
Description: Two letters from Anne Mazlich concerning the Tracy diary (1855). First is to Charles Pierce of the Peirpont-Morgan Library of New York City, second is to "Augie"; reply from Augie to Mazlich included. Letters discuss the possiblity of publishing the Tracy diary in the society's collection.