Item	Title	Type	Subject	Creator	Publisher	Date
5233	The Old Somesville Woolen Mill-Built in 1847	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph				1847	The Old Somesville Woolen Mill-Built in 1847 Item: 5233    Object ID: 000-45 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Date: 1847 Description: Isaac Somes' woolen mill in Somesville. Three-story building, clapboards on front, shingles on side. Side facing brook shows 15 windows, five on each story. The front shows five windows and door on left. One chimney at front end of roof. Building sits on stone foundation. Bare trees surround mill. sepia toned photograph Written on the back "Isaac Somes Woolen Mill on the Mill Stream" There is damage to the photo surface.
5157	Indian Cemetery.	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph				1843	Indian Cemetery. Item: 5157    Object ID: 001-86.7 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Date: 1843 Description: Photograph of Indian Cemetery. Taken at Somesville in 1843 by Benj. Joy, Ellsworth. Note: Most likely taken by Benj. Joy, Jr. and is a photograph of a photograph; place probably somewhere in the Andes. The Abbe Museum also has a copy as does the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Smithsonian says date is c.1923. Original record said this was taken at Somesville in 1843 by Benj. Joy, Ellsworth. New information received on Dec. 29, 2014 implies this photo was originally taken by a woman explorer, Harriet Chalmers Adams in the early twentieth century. See Granger Historical Stock photograph # 0253041. [show more]

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