Description: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen’s Building Museum. Mount Desert Museum Sign hangs outside building. Flowers in window box, bench near road side. Three women on step. From left to right, Mrs. Ethel Mae James, Mrs. Barry Smith, Mrs. Marjory Hayward.
Description: Carrie Mabel Moore age 90. Seated in upholstered chair with wood arms. Window with venetian blinds. Mantel to the right. She wears polka dot dress, short sleeve which buttons up front. Marked on back, “Born Carrie Mabel Moore 11-18-1864, Sea Wall - Maine, Tremont Maine. Father - Joshua S. Moore, Tremont. Mother Caroline Frances Somes Somesville, Mt. Desert, Maine. Mrs. Frank W. Cadwell, Mabel Carrie Moore Cadwell Died Nov. 29, 1954. Daniel Somes branch. Photo taken age 80 years 1954, age 90 years.” (Although the inscription on the back indicates both 80 years old and 90, the birth date given is 1864 and the death date as 1954. [AB]) [show more]
Description: Unknown African American man holding tabby cat. Seated in chair outside a house or cabin. Wears turtle neck sweater and torn pants. May have been taken on a trip to Florida.
Description: Older woman with wrinkled skin. Wears house dress kept closed at top with safety pin. Stands in front of small house/shed. Possibly taken in the mid-west.
Description: Two different poses of baby on one plate. Left hand shot shows baby in white dress with dark hair sitting in wicker chair and looking up towards camera; second shot shows paper in same chair and dress but twisted in chair and looking down below camera.
Description: Copy of Elinor, Sylvia, Jeanette, and Elaine Grindle (daughters of George Edwin Grindle) with dog Timmie at the old house in back of school house at Somes Sound.
Description: Copy of Dottie Dyer Grindle (daughter of George Edwin Grindle) on the porch steps of the Sound Schoolhouse in gown. See Photo Album #10, p.27 for what may be this copy with a different number (AB,11/06/2014)
Description: Unknown men harvesting ice on Somes Pond winter of 1947.Man on left saws ice with long ice saw. Man in middle holds long peavy. Man on right in red plaid coat looks on. Ice saw to left.
Description: copy of William Sullivan and raccoon at the Grindle Homestead at Somes Sound. See Box 4 for original copy. (Not in Photo Album #4,11/06/2014, ABenson)
Description: Copy of Anna Christina Hauck and Louise Grindle standing side by side. Louise holding her skirt wide out. See Box 4 [Photo Album #4] for original copy. Not in Photo Album #4, (11/06/2014, ABenson)
Description: Copy of Ada Belle Carter Grindle seated with Dorothea and Jeanette on her lap. See Box 4 [Photo Album #4] for original copy. Not there,11/06/2014, ABenson
Description: Copy of George Edwin Grindle with fishing pole at Somes Sound. See Box 4 [Photo Album #4] for original copy. Not there,11/06/2014 (ABenson)
Description: Copy of St.James Stone Episcopal Church, Somes Sound Sunday School Class with the Grindles, Bob Norwood , Fred While and others. See Box 4 for original copy. Not there,11/06/2014, ABenson
Description: Copy of Elinor, Sylvia, Jeanette, and Elaine Grindle with dog Timmie at the old house in back of school house at Somes Sound. (Daughters of George Edwin Grindle)
Description: Copy of Dottie Dyer Grindle on the porch steps of the Sound Schoolhouse in gown (daughter of George Edwin Grindle). More description in archives with original scanned copy :box 4 On the back of the photograph Sylvia A. Grindle Gillon wrote: "One sister, Jeanette Helen Grindle Hanscome said it was 'Dress Dot Made". But I always thought it was the dress I had in the play HMS Pinafore in the Somesville (school) Play House." Not in Photo Album #4, 11/17/2014, ABenson In Archive Box #4 Folder # 16 [show more]
Description: Large portrait of female students sitting on stone steps of building. Approximately 60-75 students, around the ages of 18-25, also 3 older males (teachers) and several older women. Most of the girls wear their hair pulled back into pompadours, many wear light colored blouses and long dark skirts, and dark bow ties. Three large stone arches in background.
Description: Photo within album: page 46. Portrait of unknown woman wearing dark dress with white buttons up placket, small white lace collar. Hair parted in center, pulled back, some curls loose around face. Cheeks hand tinted pink, also seems to be a tiny fleck of gold leaf affixed to indentation at throat.
Description: Photo within album: page 45. Portrait of unknown man and woman: woman is on left, seated, man standing on right next to her. Woman wears dark dress, with lots of ruffles on large sleeves, dark curly bangs, dangly earrings, small hat or headband. Man wears dark suit jacket with unidentified button on the left lapel, white shirt. Dark curly hair with widow’s peak, parted on left.
Description: Photo within album: page 44. Unknown man wearing dark suit jacket, dark vest with very fine pinstripes, small white collar, small dark bow tie. Has dark goatee and mustache, dark hair swept up and back. Cheeks hand tinted pink.
Description: Photo within album: page 43. Almost looks liked drawing based on photograph. Unknown woman wears light-colored top, with dark belt, dark buttons up bodice, dark bow tie at collar. Dark hair parted in middle and pulled back.