Description: Woman age 50-60. Name in pencil on back not readable ([great ---- Hau-). Hair pulled back tight. Wears dark dress buttons down front. White collar with plaid scarf around neck joined by large white brooch. Hands folded in lap. Ring on middle finger,color added to cheeks.
Description: Elevations print of Bar Harbor 25 -foot class sloops by Bowdoin Bradlee Crowninshield. The class raced in Bar Harbor from 1900 to 1902. The original plans are at the Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.
Description: Official appointment of Georgia N. Somes as Postmaster of Mount Desert, Maine. Certificate notes that she was appointed on November 4, 1908 and executed a bond and took the oath of office on November 9. Signed by George v. L. Meyer, Postmaster of the United States on November 17, 1908.
Description: Reproduction of 1904 Bar Harbor Map compiled from Atlas of Bar Harbor & Vicinity, published by Summer Residents Association. Insets show Map of Shore from Bear Brook to Schooner Head
Description: Portion of a legal document leasing 1/3 of mill and mill privelege to John A. Somes by John J. Somes and Thadeus Somes saw mill ship yard sawmill shipyard
Description: Letter to M.L. Allen from Frank Page, of Bucksport. January 20, 1906. In reference to Allen’s Republican Party nomination for County Commissioner. Page is not ready to pledge. Previously archived as object id 011.FIC.41.1, old accession **0441
Description: Black Ledger with red binding includes Lists of members and participation of juniors from the Somesville Union Meeting House U.C.C. (Congregational Church) from 12/10/1907 - 4/13/1916
Description: “Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture: Stock Feeding.” December, 1902. Vol. 1, No. 4. Quarterly bulletin issued from the office of the Commissioner of Agriculture, Augusta, ME. Press of the Kennebec Journal, Augusta. Marked “William Kittredge.”
Description: “Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture: Silos and Ensilage Crops.” June , 1903. Vol. 2, No. 2. Quarterly bulletin issued from the office of the Commissioner of Agriculture, Augusta, ME. Press of the Kennebec Journal, Augusta. Marked “William Kittredge.”
Description: “Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture: Bovine Tuberculosis.” December, 1906. Vol. V, No. 4. Quarterly bulletin issued from the office of the Commissioner of Agriculture, Augusta, ME. Kennebec Journal Print, Augusta. Marked “William Kittredge.”
Description: Letter to M.L. Allen from Frank Page, of Bucksport. January 25, 1906. In reference to his support for Allen’s Republican Party nomination for County Commissioner. Previously archived as object id 011.FIC.41.1, old accession **0442
Description: Julia Lord age 18 - 30. hair parted in midde and pulled back. Ribbons worn at back of head. Cheeks colored by photographer. Gray dress with plain white collar and brooch at neck.
Description: George Somes age 7-11. Miniature tintype. Boy wears hair combed down parted on left side. Cheeks tinted by photographer. Dark suit, possibly gray with two buttons at top of coat connected with a plackett, vest underneath buttoned to neck.
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: A "complete, original and useful collection of salad recipes ever brought together." Inscribed on front, "Geo. Cookson, Bermuda Islands." Mr. Cookson was the donor's great great uncle. Inscribed on inside back, "commenced work at the Great Northern Hotel Sept. 26 1903 Monday noon."
Description: "A quarterly periodical devoted to art needlework, crochet, knitting, and home decoration." 170 pps., plus many advertisements for such things as furnaces, lace curtains, as well as articles and illustrations. May have come from Hysom/Reiber family.
Description: Advertising brochure for the “Continental Tobacco Company”. Explains items one can obtain by collecting tags from their various tobacco products. The offer expired November 30, 1900 Previously archived as 016.001.2.B, old accession # 1534
Allen-Holmes-Smith Photographs and other materials
Date:
1900 ca.
Description: Black and white portrait photograph of Galen C. McFarland, Trenton ME, early 1900's. McFarland is a young man who has wavy hair parted on one side. He wears a striped jacket, high-collared white shirt and necktie. Photographers logo is embossed on the front: H.D. McKay, Calais, ME. Handwritten on the back: "Galen C. McFarland, Trenton, Maine. Brother of Addie B. (McFarland) Smith, (wife of Fred Smith); Bertha E. (McFarland) Allen, (wife of Richard O. Allen; Mildred S. (McFarland) Allen, (wife of Roger H. Allen). Early 1900's" [show more]
Description: Harriet Somes Sanderson wearing hair swept up to top of head, white blouse with cutwork, striped skirt and wire rim spectacles. Son, Arthur Sanderson sitting on lap wearing white sailor outfit, sister [?] leaning head on shoulder, wearing bow in curly hair ; white dress with elaborate embroidery on front of dress. Appears to have been cut out of larger photograph.