Description: Three unknown men removing trees between Old Somesville Firehouse and Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen's Building Dec 8, 1960
Description: Unknown Boy age 13-20. Short lightish hair parted on side and combed to right. Wears light colored shirt buttoned up front with top button undone. Looking to left. Creases in photo.
Description: The caption on the back reads "Venturer 1960 Manset". The Venturer is cradled next to a lobsterboat with a spray hood. The lobsterboat is dwarfed by the size of the Venturer.
Description: 3 1/2 X 3 1/2 black and white photograph of the Farnsworth children drawing at children’s table. One girl sits alone in rocking chair. Telephone table is in background.
Description: Portraits of Somesville Grade School Grade five and six mounted on singel mattte. Marked School Life 1960 -1961 top center, Somesville Grade School Somesville Maine, Grade five-Six Jura Studio at bottom. Students from Left to right; top row; Laurabee Pepper, Edna Gaudet, Linda Smith, Virginia Richardson.Second row; Ruby Higgins, teacher, Terry Blanchard, Gloria Cunninham, George Grant, Jr., Dora Lawson, Albert Merchant, Mary Emerson. Bottom Row; Calab Tracy, Nancy Kelly, John Butler, Debbie Gray, Raymond Lawson, Freda Hibbard, Philip Gaudet. [show more]
Description: Portraits of students Mt. Desert Elementary School, no date marked. Students from top row, left to right; Edna Gaudet, Deborah Gray, Virginia Richardson, Nancy Kelley, Caleb Tracy; Row Two, Raymond Lawson, Mary Emerson, Albert Merchant, Malcolm Gilley, Ruby Higgins, teacher; bottom row, Joanne Smith, Billy Grossnickle, Milton Gilley, Mary Brown.
Description: An 8 x 10 black and white photograph of Somes House Inn side most distant from the road. Ballard photo. marked #825-A Duplicate of 997-340-505 This image is also listed as in the collection of the Southwest Harbor Public Library: #12138
Description: 8x10 photograph of A-class boat number 29 , tip of sail of another boat visible to the left. Taken by Kathy Suminsby 1961 This is a duplicate of 007.114.2
Description: Color photograph of Virginia Somes Sanderson's Dock and Somes Harbor. Marked on back: "My dock, float and boat when I lived in Old House." 5x5
Description: Interior of cabin on Sheep Island. Large wood desk near window. Tea cart holding papers behind desk. Wall hanging behind tea cart. End of spindle bed at left.
Description: Interior of cabin on Sheep Island. Unfinished wood walls. Double doors on right, window on left side of front wall, window on left wall. Bed in left corner under windows. Table in center of room Chair between bed and door. Rocking chair in middle foreground. Chair at left.
Description: Dragger Tipsy Parson built by Sim Davis of Bass Harbor. Smaller boat in foreground. Three larger boats in background tied to wharf, Hornert, Sandi and Jean, Sunbeam.. Negative in possession of donor.
Description: A black and white 4 1/2 x 3 photograph of the back of Mason Cobb's house on the corner of Oak Hill Road and Rt. 102. 1964 Historic Abraham Somes III house in Somesville (now owned by Marion and Richard Cobb) . White clapboard with dark shutters. Large barn/garage on back. Covered porch between house and barn.Several trees on front lawn one in back of house. Evergreens in back. White picket fence surrounds house. Marked on back, “back of Garm’s house, note fence.” This house was also owned by Abraham Somes III son, Thaddeus, grandfather of Virginia Somes Sanderson. Gram’s is Emilie Clarissa Meynell Somes, her grandmother. W.H. Ballard Photographer, Southwest Harbor, stamped on back. [show more]
Description: A color 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 photograph taken from upstairs window in Historic Abraham Somes III of a view of Mill pond. Home owned at the time by Mr. and Mrs. Cobb.
Description: Richard Butler, lobsterman in Frenchman’s Bay, 1965, hauling lobster trap from water. Leaning over boat, cigarette in mouth. Gift of George Daniell