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: Photograph of stereoscope slide. Unknown Older man seated in chair on left wearing derby type hat with dark coat, jacket, vest, white collar and dark tie. Boy standing on right wears dark brimless hat, dark coat buttoned to top and dark pants. Boys hand on back of chair. One window with open black shutters on white clapboard house behind pair.
Description: Unknown woman, approximately wearing large black bow at back of head with decorative hat with feathers. Gray or brown suit is trimmed with velvet. Copy of glass plate negative.
Description: Thaddeus Shepley Somes with Virginia Somes Sanderson on his knee, Emilie Clarissa Meynell Somes in back. "Lion" the dog in front. Thaddeus seated in chair under tree wearing dark suit and derby. Virginia in corkscrew curls with white dress, dark stockings and boots. Emilie behind Thaddeus with gray hair and print dress. Trees and barn in background.
Description: Mark Somes with horse. Boy age 3 - 7 reached towards horse in stall. Boy has back turned to photographer. Wears straw hat with wide brim and ribbon around the crown. Sailor type top with dark pants. Horse’s head reaches above stall door.
Description: Two story white clapboard house with black shutter, attached barn. Large trees in front of house. One horse near shed/bard with no tack held by man. Second horse in front wearing harness held by boy. Man stands near horse.
Description: Emilie Clarissa Meynell Somes standing on lawn of historic Abraham Somes III house (later owned by Marion and Richard Cobb). She wears long white dress with v-shaped trim on bodice, decorative black sash or scarf around neck, and small black hat.
Description: group portrait of eight women, two men, and two small children. Posed the porch of a wooden house with dark shutters. Clothing looks to be late 1800s.
Description: Cabinet card of a younger man wearing a dark suit (jacket and vest) with a lont striped tie and a white collared shirt. Straight dark hair parted on right side.
Description: portrait of a woman wearing dress with huge puffed sleeves, dark velvety bodice, high collar, brooch at throat. Dark hair, curly bangs, hair pulled back into tight bun worn high on head. Photo cut in circular shape, glued onto square matte at angle.
Description: carte de visite of a young woman dress with puffed sleeves, bodice cut in a zig-zag design, with high collar. Hair is pulled back and held with a large dark bow at the nape of her neck.
Description: Portrait of young man in dark suit with polka dot vest, white shirt and dark bow tie. Striped shirt underneath suit jacket; hands in pockets. Straight dark hair parted on left. Caption on back reads “H. Sumner Richardson, age 17 yrs.” b. 1883, d. 1947.
Description: Weather record for 1908. Hand written account of the weather during summer months in a small pocket account book. Previously archived as 016.FIC.001.36
Description: Color postcard labeled "Steamer Frank Jones leaving Bar Harbor, ME." There is an inset marked "From Deck of Frank Jones." The postcard is addressed to: A.F. Sawyer Millbridge, ME
Description: Marian Lawrence Peabody diary, Aug 22 1904 , p. 149 to Sep 23, 1904 p. 170 She missed going to a meeting with Booker Washington, p. 157 Tennis at the Pinchots court, p. 159 Went to the Unitarian church and Sam Eliot preached Went to the Democratic Rally with the Morris' and Pinchot. "Pinchot is a fierce Republican..."