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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
12448Old Somesville Woolen Mill-built in 1847
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • 1847
Description:
Isaac Somes' woolen mill in Somesville. Three-story building, clapboards on front, shingles on side. Side facing brook shows 15 windows, five on each story. The front shows five windows and door on left. One chimney at front end of roof. Building sits on stone foundation. Bare trees surround mill. Marked on back, “The Woolen Mill along Somes Brook to Cemetery on other side of cemetery"
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.
12358Main Street, Somesville, 1870
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Transportation
  • People
  • Places, Landscape
  • 1870c.
Description:
Caption in The Living Past, p. 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 each side of rutted dirt roadstopped in front of blacksmith’s shop.
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.
7418Somes Cove and Lumber Mill from Somes House Cottage
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
  • 1875c.
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.
12366Main Street and Cove, Somesville
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
  • 1877
Description:
Main Street, Somesville.Somes Cove on left. Trees line street. Board sidewalk visible on right near picket fenced yards. Fernald’s Store (later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore) hidden by trees. Lumber Mill to left. Two masts of schooner rise up over trees.
5470Winter Scene in Somesville Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
  • 1880s - 1900s
Description:
Winter scene in Somesville Maine. Hand touched by photographer or artist. Somesville, Me Winter Scene printed at bottom. On right Fernald's store, with covered porch and second story porch. On left Mt. Desert House and Nathan Salisbury House. Wagon sits in snow on left side of road. Narrow space has been plowed or shoveled on road. Large trees on each side of road. Unknown Lone man walks down middle of road. Telephone poles on left side. This is also a slide (97-711-881) used in the Somesville Bicentenial and can be found on Row 2 Unit 2 Shelf 4 Slide Box 1 [show more]
14588Main Stree, Somesville, 1891
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals, Horses
  • Other, Buildings
  • 1891
Description:
Three similar white buildings in row. Small Selectmen’s Building close by. First Higgins store, middle house now gone. Picture shows Chas. Bordeaux and Party, boarders at the Central House. People on steps. Mr. Harrison, C.J. Hall, A.J. Whiting, J.J. Somes, R.G. Salisbury. First building has covered porch with people standing on steps. Second building no porch, third building similar porch. Open carriage drawn by two horses. Telephone poles and wires visible. Photo damaged, perhaps from foxing or water. [show more]
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.
14142Emilie Clarissa Meynell Somes, 1906
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • 1906
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.
10474Working Man
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1917
Description:
Unknown man working in a barn.
12232James Richardson House
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • 1917
Description:
James Richardson House (Oak Grove Farm). Clapboard siding, cape style house with four 2 over 2 windows on first floor; two second story dormers. Greek Revival Door with side lights. Some window shutters are missing. Bulkhead to the left of the main entrance.
14143Virginia Somes Sanderson
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • 1920c.
Description:
Virginia Somes Sanderson dressed for costume party in monk's robe holding small animal, maybe rabbit, in hands. Standing near bushes and trellis. This is similar to accession #997-488-654, which is the object ID for this. These numbers all need to be fixed. (AB)
14153Virginia Somes Sanderson
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • 1920c.
Description:
Virginia Somes Sanderson standing on sidewalk near bushes and trellis. Wearing hair parted in middle and pulled back with white peasant type blouse, sleeves pulled up, black skirt, calf length, wide black belt and dark shoes. Standing with hands on hips.
14154Virginia Somes Sanderson dressed for costume party.
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • 1920c.
Description:
Virginia Somes Sanderson dressed for costume party in monk's robe holding small animal, maybe rabbit, in hands. Standing near bushes and trellis. Marked on back, “How I looked at the feté.”
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.
14080Wreck of the Schooner "Catherine", Somes Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
  • Vessels, Ship
  • Ballard, W.H.
  • 1935
Description:
Wreck of the Schooner "Catherine" in Somes Harbor. Somes House Inn covered by trees across the Cove. To the right Somes House Cottages. In foreground logs on ways. Marked on back, “Catherine was built in Belfast, Me in 1833. #165 Schooner Catherine abandoned in the Cove at Somesville, Me. W.H. Ballard, Photographer Southwest Harbor, Maine July 1935.” Signed, Virginia Somes Sanderson
14200View of Somesville from Sheep Island
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
  • 1938
Description:
View of Somesville from Sheep Island. Tall evergreen in foreground.
17142Our Vanishing Landscape
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Landscapes
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Wilfred Funk
  • 1955
Description:
Illustrations of disappearing structures and man-made landscaping
17144American Yesterday
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Tools & Implements
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Wilfred Funk
  • 1956 .
Description:
Occupations of early America
5677Men Removing Trees
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
  • Unknown
  • 1960
Description:
Men removing trees between Old Somesville Firehouse and Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen’s Building Museum. Three men, on left man wears sweatshirt and ball cap man working with tree. In middle man in dark sweater and cap looks up at tree. On right man watches process. Mill stone with plaque in foreground. Image blurry. Photo given by Frances Manning in 1960.
7878Church
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
  • 1965
Description:
Church with porch across the front of the building. Fish weather vane on steeple.
7881Bennie Davis
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, industry - Fishing
  • LaRue Spiker
  • 1965
Description:
Bennie Davis, first selectmen of Frenchboro, age 50-60 on deck of fishing boat.
17148The Cracker Barrel
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Stores & shops
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Funk and Wagnalls
  • 1967
Description:
Illustrations and anecdotes dedicated to the general store
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’