Description: Tourists and a horse and buggy on the grounds of the Mount Desert House in Somesville, ME. Inscription on the back reads "R. H. Hyson" in blue pen and "Mt. Desert House/ Somesville" in black pen. Black and white
Description: Group of well dressed young men age15-25. Threee seated in carved chairs in front of group. One holds large book, middle holds gavel. Man on far left holds tennis raquette. One African-American on far right. Standing utside brick building. May be private school or private men’s club.
Description: Group of high school students on steps of brick school. Predominately female students, group of men to the right. Marked, W.H.S. in lower righthand corner, also marked Mr. Palmer Principal. Morrell Photo Hallowell, Me.
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: LaRue Spiker and an unidentified friend sit in a docked boat for a picnic on Little Cranberry Island. A note on the back of the photograph from the photographer George Daniell to Spiker explains the excursion. Daniell also invites Spiker to view other photographs and works of art when she comes to visit him. Inscription on back is a message to LaRue Spiker from the photographer, George Daniell, in red pen. People Depicted: LaRue Spiker Black and white [show more]
Description: Business and town dignitaries pose with a boat captain on a dock. They are, from left to right: unidentified, Geddes Simpson, unidentified, Jim McLeod, and Sheldon Goldthwaite. Sticker on back identifies some of the individuals in the photograph. Inscription on the back of the photograph reads "Business + Town dignitaries/ 2 pix/ Spiker" in blue pen. People Depicted: Geddes Simpson, Jim McLeod, Sheldon Goldthwaite Black and white [show more]
Description: Portraits of Somesville Grade School Grade five and six mounted on single mattte. Marked, “Happy School Days, Recalled by Jura Studio” top center. Marked, “Grade V-VI, Somesville School, Somesville, Maine, 1957-58.” on bottom. Students from top row, left to rigth; Richard Kelly, Eleanor Lurvey; row two, Bobby Emerson, Ruby Higgins, teacher, George Gray, Jean Butler; row three, Pat Hibbard, Jimmy Greenlaw, unmarked, Ted Stanley, Ann Tracy (photo detached); row four, Charlie Carter, Mary Emerson, Tony Merchant, Hazel Merchant, Tom Fernald. [show more]
Description: Somesville School Class photograph, October 1909. Twenty one students, none identified. Marked Somesville, Me, Oct 1909 in lower left corner. Students gathered on grass, trees in background. Teacher in center wears hair pulled back with white blouse and dark skirt which buttons down cneter. Dark tie at neck. Photo attached to glass. Glass cracked in several places. Caution-this photo is on glass. glass is broken into four pieces. Needs conservation. note made 2004 Old scotch tape removed. Temporary mat frame and “package” created in order to keep pieces from sliding apart 7/2004. [show more]
Description: Portraits of Somesville Grade School Grade five and six mounted on single matte. Marked, “School Life 1958 - 1959” top center. Marked, “Grade five-six, Somesville School, Somesville, Maine, Jura Studio.” on bottom. Marked “Teacher Ruby Higgins” at top. Students from top row, left to right; Emerson, unmarked, Judy Gaudet, Mady Allen; row two, Arthur Lawson, Nancy Merchant, John Butler, Joane Smith; row three, Philip Gaudet, Hazel Merchant, Terry Blanchard, Freda Hibbard, George Gray; row four, Linda Tracy, Billy Richardson, Dora Lawson, George Grant, jr., Sharon Kelley. [show more]
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 Mt. Desert Elementary, 1970 grade two mounted on single mattte. Ruby Higgins, teacher, in center. Only one student marked, top left, Mike Carter. Nineteen portraits.
Description: Portraits of Mt. Desert Elementary, 1969-70 grade two mounted on single mattte. Ruby Higgins, teacher, in center. Students, from top row, left to right: Kim Wilson, Kathy Cousins; Row two, Kevin Smith, Lisa Richards, Ruby Higgins, teacher, Snadra Norwood, Billy Haynes; Row Three, Jean Mandell, Jay Henderson, Kelley Taylor, Harold Link, Beth Graves, David Dawson, Debra Durant; Bottom Row, Janice Smallidge, Ralph Walls, John Walls, Mark Burk, Norman Walls. [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: April 1995. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum parking lot. Standing in front of new arched foot bridge, prior to placement over brook, from right to left, Roy Miller, Stewart Brecher, Robert “Lee” W. Patterson, Jr.
Description: Main Street Somesville. New arched footbridge, Thaddeus Shepley Somes Memorial Bridge, being lifted into place by crane. Jaylene Roths stands near Anne Mazlish seated on rail to right near balloons. 3.5 x 4.5
Description: Somesville School Class photograph, October 1909. Twenty-one students, none identified. Marked Somesville, Me, Oct 1909 in lower left corner. Students gathered on grass, trees in background. Teacher in center wears hair pulled back with white blouse and dark skirt which buttons down center. Dark tie at neck. Copy of original
Description: Garden and fountain in front of the White House in Washington, D.C. A brief history of the White House is printed on the back of the photograph. Hand Colored
Description: Bear Island Lighthouse from water. Marked on back, Bare [sic] Island Light Mount Desert Maine. Photograph furnished by M.A. Molineux 2 Regent Circle Brookline Massachusetts. Please return.
Description: An 8x10 black and white photograph of the Somesville Church (built in 1852 per "Living Past" page 280), now (2015) known as the Somesville Union Meeting House. Marked in the lower left corner "Somesville Church 76". This does not relate to the date of the church but rather is a photographer's numbering system. In the picture the lower window shutters are open and the upper shutters are closed. A telephone pole is visible in front of the church. [show more]
Allen-Holmes-Smith Photographs and other materials
Date:
1900 ca.
Description: Black and white photograph of Somesville library early 1900's. Library is a small building in the background. a telephone pole and a dirt road are in the foreground.
Description: View of Bar Harbor, ME, from Bar Island. Tents of the indian camp are visible at the right, where the sand bar appears at low tide. Inscription on the back reads "R. H. Hyson" in blue pen and "Bar Harbor." Black and white
Description: Freeman House with a buggy in the driveway, in Southwest Harbor, ME, c. 1860s. Inscription on the back reads "R. H. Hyson" in blue pen. Black and white
Description: John and John A. Somes pose outside a house. Inscription on the back reads "R. H. Hyson" in blue pen. People Depicted: John Somes, John A. Somes Black and white
Description: Aerial view of the sea wall on Otter Creek Road on Mount Desert Island, ME. Inscription on the back reads "Sea wall on Otter Creek Road/ Mt. Desert" in black pen and "R. H. Hyson" in blue pen. Black and white