Description: Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum June of 1995. China and glassware on bare wood shelves. Picture taken during grand re-opening of Museum.
Description: Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum June of 1995. Carved boat cradle. Picture taken during grand re-opening of Museum.
Description: Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum June of 1995. Nineteenth century skirt, bodice on manikin. Black trim on skirt and cuffs. Black background with white dot and line pattern throughout garments. Picture taken during grand re-opening of Museum.
Description: Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum June of 1995. China and glassware on bare wood shelves. Picture taken during grand re-opening of Museum.
Description: June 8, 1995, Maine Museum Day, Mt. Desert Island Historical Society Museum. Museum interior.Jeannette Godfrey to right. Other visitors unidentified. Babson portrait in center.
Description: Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum June of 1995. Children’s dolls and toys on bare wood shelves. Picture taken during grand re-opening of Museum.
Description: Main Street Somesville, April 1995. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum and historic Selectmen’s building in background. Photo taken morning before arched bridge was replaced. Marked on back in cursive handwriting: "Before New Bridge."
Description: April 1995. Main Street Somesville. Street side end of new arched footbridge in place over stream. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Historic Selectmen’s Building Museum.
Description: April 1995. Main Street Somesville. Left, Jean Fernald, middle, Kathy Drinkert, Right, Phyllis Partridge. Port-In-A-Storm bookstore in distance. Somesville Library to the right.
Description: Main Street Somesville April 1995. Group standing in the parking lot of Mount Desert Island Historical Society watching the new arched footbridge being placed over stream. Mill Pond across the street.
Description: Main Street Somesville April 1995. Group standing on sidewalk watching the new arched footbridge being placed over stream. Historic Abraham Somes III (owned by Richard and Marian Cobb) on corner.
Description: Somesville April 1995. Group standing on bank in back of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum below historic John Somes house (owned by Patsy Little) waiting for the new arched footbridge to be being placed over stream.
Description: Donor information: Merlin Bar Harbor Luders #56, owned here by Norman Mailer, then summering in Sorrento. David Cadigan at the helm, Steve Hensel with hat. Other crew person unknown. Photo probably taken at the annual Bar Harbor regatta. Photo made from slide taken in 1972. Merlin later burned in a fire at Williams Boat yard, Halls Quarry. Boat built by Luders in 1948 for the new Bar Harbor Yacht Club fleet. Original owner was Amos Eno. Boat named Salty . Later owned by Mrs. E.E. Ownes, also of Bar Harbor. [show more]
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: 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: One of five black and white prints and negatives of same showing Bar Harbor Motor Co. shop, storage garage, stock room, and buildings. Photo of exterior, taken from High Street. These photos were part of a Ballard job to photograph the property for an advertising brochure and campaign in 1949. The negatives were used to make the prints in 1985 by Robert Michael, Jr, Portland, Maine.
Description: June 8, 1995, Maine Museum Day, Mt. Desert Island Historical Society Museum. Museum interior.Jaylene Roths, museum director standing next to c1790s-1820s high chair and childrens dolls and toys.
Description: Color Photo of plaque memorializing the first Town House built in Eden. It was built in 1842 and razed in 1931. The memorial was erected in 1932. The back of the photograph is marked "This plaque is one of the few reminders that this area was once the center of Mt. Desert Island Business." -Connee Jellison
Description: Side view of Stone Barn on at intersection of Crooked Road and Norway Drive. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Owen are barn owners. Photographed in May 2006. The farm itself dates to 1850. The barn was built in 1907 by the Shea Brothers of Ellsworth, masonry contractors and builders who had purchased the property. The first story is constructed of glacial stone and granite. The gambrel-roofed barn has housed both sheep and goats. The Stone Barn is on the National Register of historic structures. Mr. and Mrs. Owen have been stewards of the 167 acre farm for over 40 years and have deeded the farm to a conservation trust. A road running between the carriage house to the right of the barn and the farm house led over the brook and up the hill to salt marsh land. The Owens have produced lettuce (6,000-8,000 heads a year), strawberries and beans, goat milk, and other goat mile products which were sold to local restaurants and markets. For years, giant sunflowers stood in a half circle plot on the front lawn. The sheep shed at the rear of the barn was built in the 1960s. The carriage house (not visible in the photograph) was probably somewhat older than the barn, and had front and rear doors so that the carriage could be driven in one end and out the other. [show more]