Description: Colonial door with decorative fan over the door. Side lights halfway down the door. Three steps and small porch leading to door. Weeds growing around porch.
Description: Ready to launch by the town landing. Crowd lined up on stone dock to left watching. Boat is flying colors, and American flag hangs at stern. Good reflection in water below boat. Amoco sign in background.Ballard Neg #2-225 The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Swan’s Island Ferry at the McKinley terminal under construction for State Port Authority. Curving dirt road on rock jetty down to dock and boat under construction in ways. May walking up road towards camera. The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Clara and Florence Tracy, daughters of Jones Tracy at Richardson Homestead (Fair Oaks Farm). Girl in background near house. This object has not been renumbered because as of 1/13/2022 the object could not be located
Description: Thaddeus Shepley Somes (1839-1913) and his wife, Clara Emilie Meynell Somes (1842-1920). Thaddeus Somes seated to right of Clara Somes, who is standing. He wears a plaid shirt, buttoned vest, open coat, lighter colored pants; she wears dark dress with light bow at neck, hair braided on crown. Thaddeus has moustache and goatee; has right hand is in his pocket, the other hand on his knee; his legs are crossed. Clara also wears long earrings, brooch on ribbon around her neck and a chain on bodice. Her right forearm is resting on his left shoulder. This negative was made from the tintype (996-145-145). It also relates to the photographic print (997-590-760) and negative (997-803-973). [show more]
Description: Pauline Black and Alberta Richardson; one on the running board and one behind the hood of the milk truck at Pearl Richardson Farm, Oak Hill Rd. side of truck reads: "RICHARDSON'S MILK, PASTURIZED AND RAW" Pearl S. Richardson was among the first farmers to begin pasteurizing milk. The farm was on the Oak Hill Road in Mount Desert. The photo of his milk truck was probably taken in the 1930s. no print of this images appears to exist as of 7/6/2016 (RSR and ACB) [show more]
Description: Tracks toward Eagle Lake, from a point not far below the summit, near where the summit road crosses the Ry [sic] site for 2nd time, going down. Ballard notes indicate this negative was from M. Clement. This negative is probably a Ballard made copy of an early photo (1880-1910) by an unknown photographer.
Description: color negative of Green Mountain Railway Car loaded with passengers. Ascending. This negative is probably a Ballard-made copy of an early photo (1880-1910) by an unknown photographer. Ballard working sleeve says from M. Clement.
Description: Color negative of Green Mountain Railway Train #1 ascending the mountain, about 1883. Distance view taken from above. This negative is probably a Ballard made copy of an early photo (1880-1910) by an unknown photographer.