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.
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 back ground. This also exists as a slide (#97-695-865) used in the Somesville Bicentenail and can be found on Row 2 Unit 2 Shelf 4 Slide Box 1
Description: Old grist mill on Somes Brook in winter. Trees lining banks hide two story shingled building. This is also a slide that was used in the Somesville Bicentenail and can be found on Row 2 Unit 2 Shelf 2 Slide Box 1
Description: Somes House Inn, Somesville. Trees line drive to cottage. View of Inn from Main street Somesville. End of Inn visible, side of covered porch and latticework. Somes House Sign above first floor windows. Board sidewalk in foreground. Somes Cove in background. To the right, A.J. Whiting’s Store, presently Port-In-A-Storm. Schooner at the wharf. Marked 1895 on back.
Description: Echo Lake from route 102 across from Echo Vista. Looking towards Beech Cliff. Echo Vista restaurant on left. Sign on building reads Dairy Creem. Cars parked in front. Marked on back, “Side view of Echo Vista - Mt. Desert Island showing general location and a little [?] view. Echo Vista is on Echo Lake Road, halfway between Somesville and S.W. Harbor - Route 3/102 to Mt. Desert from Info booth as you leave the causeway. Gift of M.L. Hughs.
Description: Front entrance of Echo Vista restaurant. Lobster between Echo and Vista. Striped awnings over both windows. Screened door in center. Second door to right. Waitress, Muriel Trask stands under left window. Gift of M.L. Hughs.
Description: Two and one-half story historic Nathan Salisbury house in Somesville (once owned by Stan and Binnie MacDonald) . White clapboard with dark shutters. Large addition on back. Covered porch across front of house.Several trees on front lawn one in back of house. Telephone poles and large trees line snow covered road. Marked on back, “now MacDonald house formerly Lewis Somes house not Mt. Desert house as Virginia says.” Also marked, “Mt. Desert House, bought by Rev. Manning.” Part crossed out. [show more]
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: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen’s Building Museum. Mount Desert Museum Sign hangs outside building. Flowers in window box, bench near road side. Marked on back, “Complimetns of Elisabeth Leland Waterman, Salsbury [sic] Cove, Maine.
Description: View of Bar Harbor from highland. Looking down Main street and out to Porcupine Islands. In foreground small farm with gardens. Rail fence to the right. Larger buildings, hotels near shore. Telephone poles line road. Stamped on back with LaRue Spiker, P O Box 625, Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679
Description: Two masted schooner in wharf in front of A.J. Whiting Store (later Fernald’s Store, (later Port-in-a-Storm Bookstore, even later, an art gallery). Back of blacksmith shop visible on left. Small sailing dory tied to wharf. Anchor hangs from bow. Several men seated in the bow of schooner, one standing aft near main mast. Man driving wagon pulled by two white horses. Somes Meadow in distance. On back is written The Schooner Kate and La Rue Spicker Southwest Harbor V/4 [show more]
Description: Green Mountain House on top of Cadillac Mountain. Cedar shingled roof with vertical siding and coverd porch. Horse and buggy outside porch. Marked LaRue Spiker on back.
Description: Lumber Mill in Somesville. Lumber piled to left and in back of mill. To right, logs piled on bank of Mill pond. In background, A.J. Whiting’s Store, later Port-In-A-Storm bookstore. Three horses and three wagons wait for load of lumber. Men from left to right, R. Davis, J.A. Somes, J.W. Somes, Geo. Benson, B. Mitchell). Marked on back, “Last one Hulls Cove; the remainder Somesville.” Edges very worn. Small tear in lower left corner. (This description may refer to a different photograph; nothing marked on back and no wear or tear.) [show more]
Description: Winter scene in Somesville Maine. Hand touched by photographer or artist. Somesville, Me Winter Scene printed at bottom. On right Fernald’ store present day Port-In-A-Storm, with covered porch and second story porch. On Right Mt. Desert House and Nathan Salisbury House. Wagon sits in snow on left side of road. Narrow space has been plowed or shoveled on road. Large trees on each side of road. Lone man walks down middle of road. Telephone poles on left side. [show more]
Description: May be a Maine Publicity Bureau Photo. Caption removed from back read, “ A snug harbor, one of hundreds the visitor will run across along Maine’s fabulous coast.
Description: Newport House, near shore path in Bar Harbor. Four story hotel with covered porch extending across the length of the building. Top floor has several dormers and two separate roof peeks. Flag poll sits on lawn in front of hotels. Other grand buildings surround hotels. Granite wall borders beach.
Description: Small puppy sniffing grass. The left side of the frame is partly obscured by the photographers finger. The bottom of doors or wall can be seen in the distance From folder Snapshots Indiana, Animals, Pets
Description: Men seated on banks of mill pond (probably not Main Street Mill) near logs. Lumber floating on barge in pond. Three buildings on opposite bank.