Description: Black and white "Christmas Greeting" photo postcard showing canoers on Somesville Mill Pond with Somesville Library in background. Back of card has written, "Bob & Norma."
Description: Paul Stubing indicated that this was a picture of the Stanley Fisheries and that the double-ender was "always" in the same point. The caption on the back reads, "Foggy Morning at Southwest Harbor, Maine - August 1941...Lighthouse Tender ILEX - Schooner Rebecca R. Douglass." There is a three-masted schooner in the center background and a vessel which looks like a freighter on the top left. There are two gulls resting on pilings in the foreground. [show more]
Description: Unknown man with no legs (only feet) standing on covered table or stool. Curly hair with receding hairline. Wears dark suit with velvet collar, white shirt, black silk tie. Child in center, age 5-9, blond curly hair parted on side. Wears dark sailor type top, buttons down center with bow tie, knee pants and dark boots. Unknown woman (mother?) sits to right. Hair worn close to head, tight curls flat on forhead. Wears small earings. Dark dress with stripe pattern forming squares. Ruffles above skirt hem. Vertical ruffles down front of skirt. Same trim on cuffs. Large buttons down center of bodice. Wide white collar nearly reaching shoulders lays flat. Marked on back, “Eli Bowen, Wife and Child. A. Newman Photographer. Ground floor Skylight 228 North Ninth Street, Philadelphia. [show more]
Description: Carte de visite of a man with dark hair parted on right, swept over (and slightly up) on right side. Has very thick dark mustache. Wears dark suit, dark bow tie, white shirt. Jacket unbuttoned after first button, distinctive horseshoe shaped pin on left lapel.
Description: 8 X 10 black and white photograph of several newly hatched birds in straw nest in the side of the cliff. Black birds one with mouth opened in center. Paper attatched to the back, “ This Nestful, quite full in fact, of young ravens was photographed on the island. Ravens are year round residents here. Photo courtesy Acadia National Park.
Description: Black Beaver. The back of the photograph is marked: "The beaver is the largest of American rodents. Almost exterminated by the turn of the century, they have now been re-established in the wilder sections of the country. There are several sub-species. This one Castor canadensis canadensis." (Photo Courtesy of Acadia National Park)
Description: Color slide of an aerial view of a pile of trash at the edge of a forest. A river runs to the left of the frame and pine trees on the right of the frame. Notes on slide read: Aerial. Dol. Dump, #120 Color slides which are part of an exhibit. The slides are numbered were not stored in the box in sequential order. The slides are left in the order they appear in the box. From box labeled: Pant Ce Exhibit Birds
Description: Color slide of a bald eagle hunched forward on a tree branch with it's beak open. Notes on slide read: Bald Eagle, #99 Color slides which are part of an exhibit. The slides are numbered were not stored in the box in sequential order. The slides are left in the order they appear in the box. From box labeled: Pant Ce Exhibit Birds
Description: Color slide of a marsh hawk sitting on a ground nest next to vegitation. Notes on slide read: Marsh Hawk, #97 Color slides which are part of an exhibit. The slides are numbered were not stored in the box in sequential order. The slides are left in the order they appear in the box. From box labeled: Pant Ce Exhibit Birds
Description: Color slide of a great horned owl sitting on a tree branch. Notes on slide read: Owl, #96 Color slides which are part of an exhibit. The slides are numbered were not stored in the box in sequential order. The slides are left in the order they appear in the box. From box labeled: Pant Ce Exhibit Birds
Description: Color slide of three song sparrows. Two are sitting on a branch looking to the left and one bird is comming in for a landing on the branch. Notes on slide read: Song Sparrows, #69 Color slides which are part of an exhibit. The slides are numbered were not stored in the box in sequential order. The slides are left in the order they appear in the box. From box labeled: Pant Ce Exhibit Birds
Description: Color slide of a muskrat swimming in a body of water. The slide is out of focus. Notes on slide read: Muskrat, #77 Color slides which are part of an exhibit. The slides are numbered were not stored in the box in sequential order. The slides are left in the order they appear in the box. From box labeled: Pant Ce Exhibit Birds
Description: Portrait of young woman, taken in profile, head slightly bowed. Wears dark wavy hair twisted and pinned back. Also wears thin silver-framed glasses, white lace collar over dark top. Inscription at bottom of case reads, “With deep affection for one of the dearest girls that I have ever known.”
Description: Stereoview of Hamor House, Bar Harbor: two prints printed on card side-by-side of white house with black trim, fence in foreground. Small holes punched in cards at place of each window in picture.
Description: Adult male mourning dove, Auburn, Ala. Photographed by Allen M. Pearson on 20 October, 1939. (Photo courtesy: U.S. Dept. of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service.)
Description: Card with double image of Mount Desert House, Main Street, Somesville, ME, n.d., Allen ... Photographer, No. 24 Temple Place, Boston, shows house with sign on high pole, people in front, horse drawn vehicle in front, next to white fence, R.H. Hysom written in ink on back side
Description: A double image, card, Devil's Oven, with many with hat shown inside the entryway of cave in the rocks, probably on the Hadley Point side of Frenchman's Bay, Bar Harbor, photographed by Allen, 6 Temple Place, Boston, R.H. Hysom handwritten on the back of the card
Description: Card with double image of wooden dory with six people, four men and 2 women, two men holding large oars, n.d., no location, Photographed by Allen, 6 Temple Place, Boston, Mt. Desert Scenery, R.H. Hysom written in ink on back side
Description: Card with double image, taken from shore, landscape view of the caves along the shore in the Frenchman's Bay section of Bar Harbor, nothern shore, Salisbury Cove area, Allen ... Photographer, No. 24 Temple Place, Boston, n.d., R.H. Hysom written in ink on back side
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]