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You searched for: Object ID: is not emptySubject: OtherSubject: BuildingsType: Image
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
8873Man in some sort of uniform
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • 1930-1950
Description:
Man (may be Keith MacKenzie) wearing white shirt, pants, and cap. Standing in front of tall trees and two buildings, perhaps cabins.
8900Unknown children, front of Nathan Salisbury House, Somesville
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Cabinet Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
Description:
The Nathan Salisbury House Somesville. Summer. Four girls standing on lawn in front of house. Worn drive at left of house. Barn and shed in back. White house with black shutters. Five windows on front of second story. Threes sets shutters closed. Four windows on first floor front. Three windows on left side. Back of photo marked Decleen, Baker in Pencil. Also in pen Salisbury, Hysom to MacDonald House. Then in pencil Property of Philip M. Coughey. [show more]
8981Summer home of Bishop Mckay Smith
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • Unknown
Description:
The summer home of Bishop MacKay Smith in Seal Harbor. Taken from the water.
8984Home of Bishop MacKay Smith
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • Unknown
Description:
The summer home of Bishop MacKay Smith in Seal Harbor. Taken from the water. Flag pole to the right.
8985Summer Home of Bishop MacKay Smith
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • Unknown
Description:
The summer home of Bishop MacKay Smith in Seal Harbor. In the foreground dirt road along the shore.
8988Fair Oaks Farm
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • Unknown
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
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
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
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)
9100Auto War
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
Description:
Horses hitched to buckboards along street. Men sit in carriages or stand next to them. To the left are grass squares and saplings. Across street three large buildings. Middle building holds R.F. Suminsby, smaller builing next door, sign read [----] Stevens. Stamped on back with LaRue Spiker, P O Box 625, Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679. "Auto War" in red crayon
9104Somes Cove and Old Somesville Lumber Mill
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
  • La Rue Spiker
Description:
View of Somes Cove and Old Somesville Lumber mill from Somes House. Fernald’s Store, now Port-in-a-Storm Bookstore, at right. Church steeple rises in distance with several other buildings in between. This photo could not be found so it has not been placed in albums with the rest of the LaRue Spiker Collection 01/31/2022
9109Bass Harbor to Bernard from McKinley
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Boats
  • Other, Buildings
  • Unknown
  • 1903
Description:
Looking across Bass Harbor to Bernard from McKinley. Several boats in the harbor, mostly fishing vessels. Sea gulls in foreground.
9115Kimball House
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, transportation - Land
  • Unknown
Description:
Kimball House, Northeast Harbor, gravel drive and lawn. Car in front of hotel. Marked on back, “1931 Buick - Dad’s was convertible so this must have been Manchester Bro’s roadster."
9117Schooner Kate L. Pray
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Ships
  • People
  • Unknown
Description:
Two masted schooner at wharf in front of A.J. Whiting’s (later, 1887) Fernald’s Store (later Port-in-a-Storm Bookstore, then art gallery). Back of blacksmith shop visible on left. Small sailing dory tied to wharf. Anchor hangs from bow. Several men seated in the bow of schooner, one standing aft near main mast. Man driving wagon pulled by two white horses. Somes meadow in distance. Mark in lower left hand corner. Edges very worn. Stained and faded. Marked on back, “Schooner Kate L. Pray.” [show more]
9159Three women arm in arm
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Automobiles
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • Unknown
Description:
Julia, Mrs. Cushman, Kate. Three women. Photo blurred. Woman on left wears light colored dress, woman in middle wears light colored dress with pattern on hem and bodice, black stockings and shoes. Woman on right wears checked dress or jumper with black stockings and shoes. To right 1915-1920 style car passes, to left is white house with black shutters and covered porch.
9164Somes Cove and Lumber Mill from Somes House Cottage
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
  • Unknown
  • 1875 c.
Description:
A view of the 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. Small B&W print.
9496Iron Ingot Bench
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Katahdin Iron Works
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1970 c.
Description:
5 X 7 black and white photograph of a bench made out of iron that is situated on wooden supports. Bench is in perspective with widest part near bottom left corner of photo. Grass all around bench. Writting on back, ‘Ingot, An old iron ingot’
9497Kiln
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Katahdin Iron Works
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1970 c.
Description:
5 X 7 black and white photograph of a round stone building with no windows, small vent openings around bottom of building in two rows. Domed roof with plants growing on it. Writting on back, “Kiln, Fourteen Beehive.” Probably at Katahdin Iron Works.
9498Furnace, Katahdin Iron Works
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Katahdin Iron Works
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1970 c.
Description:
5 X 7 black and white photograph of a stone building with two low arched openings on ground. Round cylinder with scaffolding on top of square walls. Writting on back, “Furnace, The Katadin [sp.] Iron Works, item #10.”
7353Eden Town House
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
Description:
Color Photo of plaque memorializing the first Town House built in Eden. It was built in 1842 and razed in 1931. The memorial was erected in 1932. The back of the photograph is marked "This plaque is one of the few reminders that this area was once the center of Mt. Desert Island Business." -Connee Jellison
7387Harbor view.
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Vessels, Ship
Description:
Looking back at city from harbor. Wide street runs through middle of photo from harborside. Two three-masted schooners in port to the right. Three church steeples rise in background above city. To the left sign above building reads, “Washburn [?] flour.” Harbor unidentified; no date.
7398Four Views, Somes Harbor & Somes House
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Other, Boats
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
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.
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.
7400Main Street and Cove, Somesville
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
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
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.