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7591Main Street Somesville
  • Image, Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
Main Street Somesville
Item:
  • 7591   
Object ID:
  • 97-381-545
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
Place:
  • Somesville,Mt. Desert, Maine
Description:
Main Street Somesville. Trees line street. Board sidewalk visible on right near picket fenced yards. Fernald’s Store (now Port-in-a-Storm bookstore) hidden by trees. Historic Lewis Somes on right hidden by trees. telephone poles line street. Man stands on grass near road in distance.
8981Summer home of Bishop Mckay Smith
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • Unknown
Summer home of Bishop Mckay Smith
Item:
  • 8981   
Object ID:
  • 998-738-1843
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Other, Buildings
Creator:
  • Unknown
Place:
  • Seal Harbor, Maine
Description:
The summer home of Bishop MacKay Smith in Seal Harbor. Taken from the water.
8988Fair Oaks Farm
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • Unknown
Fair Oaks Farm
Item:
  • 8988   
Object ID:
  • 998.116.18
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Other, Buildings
Creator:
  • Unknown
Collection:
  • Kay Tracy Moore Collection
Place:
  • Sound, Mount Desert, Maine
Description:
Fair Oaks Farm. Copied from Post card. James Richardson Homestead in Sound. Presently owned by Kay Tracy Moore. Barn in foreground, homestead in background. Rough bridge over stream. Object has not been renumbered because as of 1/13/2022 the item could not be located.
8999Echo Lake from Echo Vista
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Boats
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
  • Unknown
Echo Lake from Echo Vista
Item:
  • 8999   
Object ID:
  • 997-626-796
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Other, Boats
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
Creator:
  • Unknown
Place:
  • Echo Lake, Mt. Desert, Maine
Description:
Echo Lake from route 102 across from Echo Vista. Small boat with outboard motor anchored off shore. Changing house on shore. Ramp runs from shore to platform outside changing house. Boat ramp to the right. Gift of M.L. Hughs.
9053Mount Desert Post Office
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • Unknown
Mount Desert Post Office
Item:
  • 9053   
Object ID:
  • 97-334-499
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
Creator:
  • Unknown
Place:
  • Somesville, Mt. Desert, Maine
Description:
Mount Desert Post Office on Main Street, Somesville, next to former home of Daniel (Somes) and Rosemary Smith. Former Richard Donahoe house to the right. Post Office is a single story clapboard building with gable end facing the road. There is a sash window beside the front door. There is a small window high in the gable end. Chimney with stovepipe insert extends above roof line. Car to right with open door. Man stands in front of post office door watching a second man shovel snow. [show more]
9054Houses on Main Street Somesville
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
  • Unknown
  • c 1890s
Houses on Main Street Somesville
Item:
  • 9054   
Object ID:
  • 96-306-471
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
Creator:
  • Unknown
Date:
  • c 1890s
Place:
  • Somesville, Mt. Desert, Maine
Description:
Houses on Main street Somesville. Somes Cove in foreground. Marked, “Somes Cove, Mt. Desert” in lower right corner. House on left is historic Lewis Somes house. See same photo. on p. 8, Album #1 (997-306-471)
7577Lumber Mill, Somesville
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
  • Unknown
  • c 1890s
Lumber Mill, Somesville
Item:
  • 7577   
Object ID:
  • 997-314-479
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
Creator:
  • Unknown
Date:
  • c 1890s
Place:
  • Somesville, Mt. Desert, Maine
Description:
Lumber Mill in Somesville in operation. Logs piled up on bank in foreground. Logs fill mill pond ready to be milled. Somes Harbor in the background. Telephone pole in foreground next to tall tree. See also p. 8, Photo Album #1 (997-307-472)
8309Lumber Mill and Mill Pond, Somesville
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
Lumber Mill and Mill Pond, Somesville
Item:
  • 8309   
Object ID:
  • 998-122-1227
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Other, Buildings
Place:
  • Somesville, Mount Desert, Maine
Description:
Lumber Mill and mill pond in Somesville.
10454Richardson Homestead and Barn (Fair Oaks Farm)
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • Unkown
Richardson Homestead and Barn (Fair Oaks Farm)
Item:
  • 10454   
Object ID:
  • 998.116.11
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Other, Buildings
Creator:
  • Unkown
Collection:
  • Kay Tracy Moore Collection
Place:
  • Sound, Mount Desert, Maine
Description:
James Richardson homestead and barn (Fair Oaks Farm). At time of picture, it was owned by Jones Tracy (1856-1939). Truck in back of barn. Outbuilding to the right of barn. MDI Historical Society likely borrowed the photo album from a collection of Kay Moore, and negatives and a print made. (AB,02/10/2015). Kay Moore is descended from James Richardson, first Richardson settler of Mount Desert Island (1762-3).
10463Richardson Homestead Barn, Fair Oaks Farm
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • Unknown
Richardson Homestead Barn, Fair Oaks Farm
Item:
  • 10463   
Object ID:
  • 998.116.02
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Other, Buildings
Creator:
  • Unknown
Collection:
  • Kay Tracy Moore Collection
Place:
  • Sound, Mount Desert, Maine
Description:
Barn at Richardson Homestead (Fair Oaks Farm). Owned by Jones Tracy (1856-1939) at time of photograph.
10474Working Man
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1917
Working Man
Item:
  • 10474   
Object ID:
  • 998.1980.3085.1355
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Other, Buildings
Creator:
  • Spiker, LaRue
Collection:
  • LaRue Spiker Collection
Date:
  • 1917
Place:
  • Sound, Mount Desert, Maine
Description:
Unknown man working in a barn.
10471Woman in Fall Foliage
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • Spiker, LaRue
Woman in Fall Foliage
Item:
  • 10471   
Object ID:
  • 998.1980.3085.1359
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
Subject:
  • Other, Buildings
Creator:
  • Spiker, LaRue
Collection:
  • LaRue Spiker Collection
Place:
  • Sound, Mount Desert, Maine
Description:
Unknown woman standing in front of some colorful leaves.
7398Four Views, Somes Harbor & Somes House
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Other, Boats
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
Four Views, Somes Harbor & Somes House
Item:
  • 7398   
Object ID:
  • 997-839-1009
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
Subject:
  • Other, Boats
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
Place:
  • Somesville, Mt. Desert, Maine
Description:
One negative with four small images, each of which is 1.5" X 2". Top left: Somes House Inn, with dormers, multiple chimneys, porches, and fire escape ladder from third to second floor . Top right: View of Somes Harbor looking across Somes Meadow from Somes House Bottom left: View of Somes Harbor with seven sailboats, two floats with connecting ramp in foreground. Small row boat tied to last float. Bottom right: Somes House Inn from Somes Meadow. Unidentified house to right. [show more]
7399Main Street, Somesville, 1870.
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Nature, Animals, Horses
  • Other, Buildings
  • 1870 c.
Main Street, Somesville, 1870.
Item:
  • 7399   
Object ID:
  • 97-378-542
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
Subject:
  • Nature, Animals, Horses
  • Other, Buildings
Date:
  • 1870 c.
Place:
  • Somesville, Mt. Desert, Maine
Description:
Caption in The Living Past page 122; "Somesville's main road in 1870, looking north towards Ellsworth. Mount Desert House on left; A.J. Whiting store on right (note balcony and porch); corner of blacksmith shop on right. Telegraph wires were in use in 1870." Horse drawn vehicles on rutted dirt road. Negative.
11450Main Street, Somesville, ME
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
Main Street, Somesville, ME
Item:
  • 11450   
Object ID:
  • 97-813-983
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
Subject:
  • Other, Buildings
Place:
  • Somesville, Mt. Desert, Maine
Description:
Marked in lower left corner, “Main Street Somesville, ME". On right Fernald’s store presently Port-In-A-Storm, later Frenchman's Bay Gallery, later Gallery at Somes Sound (2015) with first story covered porch facing road and second story porch on south side of building. On left (across the road) Mt. Desert House and Nathan Salisbury House. On far left unidentified house. No house exists on this lot today. Large trees on each side of road. Telephone poles and wooden sidewalk on left side. View looking north. [show more]
11453Schooner "Kate Pray"
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Ships
Schooner "Kate Pray"
Item:
  • 11453   
Object ID:
  • 97-555-724
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
Subject:
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Ships
Place:
  • Somesville, Mount Desert, Maine
Description:
Two-masted schooner in back of Fernald’s store (purchased in 1887 from A.J. Whiting’s; later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore, still later, an art gallery). Houses on Main street from left to right, Abraham Somes III house; John Somes house, known as “Old Homestead”; Thaddeus Somes Store; in front of store, Blacksmith’s shop; Fernald’s Store; Mount Desert Tavern. To right of schooner two black horses harnessed to wagon next to wood pile. Two men on stern of schooner. One man on deck between masts. [show more]
7400Main Street and Cove, Somesville
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
Main Street and Cove, Somesville
Item:
  • 7400   
Object ID:
  • 97-380-544
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
Subject:
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
Place:
  • Somesville, Mt. Desert, Maine
Description:
Main Street Somesville.Somes Cove on left. Trees line street. Board sidewalk visible on right near picket fenced yards. Fernald’s Store (art gallery as of 2016 1112 Main St ) hidden by trees. Lumber mill to left. Two masts of schooner rise up over trees.Negative.
7401Hall Quarry, Granite Quarry
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Structures, Quarry
Hall Quarry, Granite Quarry
Item:
  • 7401   
Object ID:
  • 97-836-1006
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
Subject:
  • Other, Buildings
  • Structures, Quarry
Place:
  • Hall Quarry, Maine
Description:
Hall Quarry, quarry in winter. Looking across Somes Sound. Pieces of granite scattered about. Rail for tram covered with snow runs through center of photo. Various buildings in the middle ground. Derricks in the foreground.
7403Sawmill and Fernald's Store from the water
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
Sawmill and Fernald's Store from the water
Item:
  • 7403   
Object ID:
  • 997-834-1004
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
Subject:
  • Other, Buildings
Place:
  • Somesville, Maine
Description:
Looking toward Main Street from Somes Cove. Lumber mill on the left, library to right of mill. In center two and one-half story house with porch on front and left side. Further right and on the water is Fernald’s Store (aka A.J. Whiting Store), later Port-In-A-Storm bookstore and now (2016) Gallery at Somes Sound. Historic Nathan Salisbury House to the far right [?].
7413Smith Cottage, Mount Desert, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
Smith Cottage, Mount Desert, Maine
Item:
  • 7413   
Object ID:
  • 997-812-982
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
Subject:
  • Other, Buildings
Place:
  • Somesville, Mt. Desert, Maine
Description:
The Abraham Somes III and later, The Thaddeus Somes home, on Main Street, Somesville. To the right is A.J. Whiting's store, sold to Fernald in 1887. This photo predates 1894/95, the year that the library was built. To the left in the photo, a horse and carriage are stopped on the bridge; telegraph pole in view. Image originally labeled “Smith Cottage Mount Desert Maine" but identification changed [by Virginia Somes Sanderson] to read "Abraham Somes III-Thaddeus Somes Home and Mill Pond." It's likely that the house in the center of the image, but obstructed by trees was the "Smith Cottage", torn down c. 1920-1922. [show more]
7414View of Mill Pond and Somes Harbor taken from hill at "The Old Homestead".
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
View of Mill Pond and Somes Harbor taken from hill at "The Old Homestead".
Item:
  • 7414   
Object ID:
  • 997-811-981
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
Subject:
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
Place:
  • Somesville, Mt. Desert, Maine
Description:
View of Mill Pond and Somes Harbor from hill on Oak Hill Road in front of historic John Somes House, “The Old Homestead.” Starting from the lefthandside of the photograph, there is a windmill and the lumber mill. The Hamor house, no longer standing, is on the right bank of Mill Pond along with three other buildings. There is a farm house on Mason’s Point. Telephone poles run along Main Street. Mountains in the distance. Black and white oval format. [show more]
7418Somes Cove and Lumber Mill from Somes House Cottage
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
  • 1875c.
Somes Cove and Lumber Mill from Somes House Cottage
Item:
  • 7418   
Object ID:
  • 997-807-977
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
Subject:
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
Date:
  • 1875c.
Place:
  • Somesville, Mt. Desert, Maine
Description:
View of Village of Somesville including Somes Cove, Somesville Lumber Mill, Somesville Union Meeting House, A.J. Whiting store, and Mount Desert House, taken from the Somes House.
7419Woman Sitting by Grist Mill, Somesville
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
Woman Sitting by Grist Mill, Somesville
Item:
  • 7419   
Object ID:
  • 997-806-976
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
Subject:
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
Place:
  • Somesville, Mt. Desert, Maine
Description:
Grist mill in Somesville on rocky Somes Brook. Trees surround mill. Young woman sits on a rock near brook; she wears a long light-colored skirt and blouse, a flat hat. Caption under photo, “I suppose you know this girl. Why don’t you write? R.J.L.”
7876Houses on Frenchboro
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
Houses on Frenchboro
Item:
  • 7876   
Object ID:
  • 998-1742-2847
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
Subject:
  • Other, Buildings
Creator:
  • LaRue Spiker
Collection:
  • LaRue Spiker Collection
Place:
  • Frenchboro, Maine
Description:
Houses along a hill and fish piers on the harbor at Frenchboro, Long Island. Truck passes on the road. Three children in the grass near the harbor.
7878Church
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
  • 1965
Church
Item:
  • 7878   
Object ID:
  • 998-1740-2845
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
Subject:
  • Other, Buildings
Creator:
  • LaRue Spiker
Collection:
  • LaRue Spiker Collection
Date:
  • 1965
Place:
  • Frenchboro, Maine
Description:
Church with porch across the front of the building. Fish weather vane on steeple.