Description: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen’s Building Museum. Mount Desert Museum Sign hangs outside building. Flowers in window box, bench near road side. Three women on step. From left to right, Mrs. Ethel Mae James, Mrs. Barry Smith, Mrs. Marjory Hayward.
Description: Three men on Somes Pond. Power ice saw in background. Man in middle saws ice by hand. Man nearest power saw holds long pole for moving ice. Third man in red plaid coat looks on.
Description: Working the weir. Man inside pen hauling net into dory. Man observes from edge of pen. This is a slide version of a photo in the collection
Description: First telephone office in Somesville. Small one-half story cape on Main street. Overhang over front door. House presently owned by Keating Pepper in distance. Looking toward mill pond.
Description: Main Street Somesville. Nathan Salisbury House to the left surrounded by picket fence. Black trim around windows. Somes House Inn to right
Description: Main Street Somesville. Somes Cove on left. Trees line street. Board sidewalk visible on right near picket fenced yards. Fernald’s Store (later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore) hidden by trees. Lumber mill to left. Two masts of schooner rise up over trees. 8x10 This is also a slide (97-691-861) which was used in the Somesville Bicentenial and can be found on Row 2 Unit 2 Shelf 4 Slide Box 1
Description: Historic Abraham Somes III house (now Cobb House). Three men standing with two horse on the right side of the house. Barn at back of house no longer exists.
Description: Two and one-half story Masonic Hall in Somesville. White clapboard with black shutters. Large addition on back. Covered entry to front door.Several evergreens on front lawn. Pile of logs between two houses. House on right also two story white clapboard. Unruly bush in front of buildings. Road visible in foreground. Marked on back, “Masonic Hall Somesville, before it burned and was replaced.” No date. This is aslo a slide (97-705-875) used in the Somesville Bicentenial and can be found on Row 2 Unit 2 Shelf 4 Slide Box 1 [show more]
Description: Grist mill on Somes Brook. High bushes cover most of building. Shingled roof, with weathered shingled siding. Large stones line bank of stream. Another small clapboard building to right in background. Appears to have been taken from upstream. Sepia-tone; 4 X 5. This is also a slide (97-704-874) used in the Someville Bicentenial and can be found on Row 2 Unit 2 Shelf 4 Slide Box 1
Description: Small steamboat with canopy towing small skiff in Somes Harbor. American flag flying aft. Note on back of photo remarks the man at the helm is Capt. Lester Pray. Back of Somesville Library to the left. Two and one-half story building above boat no longer standing. Peak of blacksmith’s shop visible over canopy of boat. To the right, Fernald’s store (purchased from A.J. Whiting in 1887), later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore, still later, an art gallery. Large smudge in upper right corner of photo. This is also a slide (97-701-871) used in the Somesville Bicentenial it is found on Row 2 Unit 2 Shelf 4 Slide Box 1 [show more]
Description: Lumber mill on mill pond in Somesville. Somes Cove and mountain in background. Rocks in foreground, logs on bank. This is also a slide that was used for the Someville Bicentenial and can be found on Row 2 Unit 2 Shelf 4 Slide Box 1.
Description: Somes House Inn, Somesville. Trees line drive to cottage. View of Inn from Main street Somesville. End of Inn visible, side of covered porch and latticework. Somes House Sign above first floor windows. Board sidewalk in foreground. Somes Cove in background. To the right, A.J. Whiting’s Store, later Port-In-A-Storm bookstore, then Frenchman's Bay Gallery. Schooner at the wharf. Marked 1895 on back. This photo is also a slide that was used in the Somesville Bicentenial and can be found on Row 2 Unit 2 Shelf 4 Slide Box 1. [show more]
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: Portraits of Mt. Desert Elementary, 1972-1973 grade two mounted on singel mattte. Marked at top, “Last class that I taught. I had on a wig. Ruby.” Names of students not marked. Ruby Higgins, teacher, in center. Twenty students. One photo detached.
Description: Donor information: Northwind, Bar Harbor Luders #51 (although the boat was carrying sail #52 that day. Eleanor (McCormick) Collier, owner and skipper. Crew unidentified. The occasion was a Sorrento regatta. Picture taken off Hancock Point by Sturgis Haskins in 1971. Northwind was built in 1948 for Minot Milliken. She was later owned by George Strawbridge, also of Bar Harbor (later to summer in NEH). In 1996 Northwind was nearly derelict in a Cherryfield backyard. [show more]