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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
7591Main Street Somesville
  • Image, Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
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.
7833People gathered at long tables
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
People gathered at long tables on the lawn outside a church. The lawn overlooks the harbor. Fish house and piers line the harbor. Houses are on the hill over the harbor. This is probably Frenchboro.
7834Looking over harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Looking over a harbor lined on each side with piers and fish houses. House on the hill overlooking the harbor. This is probably Frenchboro.
7835Looking over a harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Looking over a harbor lined on each side with piers and fish houses. House on the hill overlooking the harbor. This is probably Frenchboro.
7850Small pond or inlet
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Small pond or inlet. Thee story house with a Mansard roof above the water. Samller buidling closer to the shore. A bridge over a stream to the right.
7876Houses on Frenchboro
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
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.
7877Fishing piers from water
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Fishing piers and buildings from a harbor.
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.
7879Cape Cod House
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Two story full Cape Cod House with front board and batten door in the gable end.
7880Loster traps and fishing grear
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, industry - Fishing
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Lobster traps and other fishing gear on the fish wharf. Lobster boat tied to the pier.
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.
7882Lobster traps on pier
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, industry - Fishing
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Lobster traps at the end of a long wooden pier. In the foreground shingled building. Other builings on the hill across the harbor.
8309Lumber Mill and Mill Pond, Somesville
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
Description:
Lumber Mill and mill pond in Somesville.
8312Somesville Union Meeting House
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Somesville Union Meeting House in the snow.
8317Southwest Harbor Town Dock
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, transportation - Maritime
  • LaRue Spiker
  • c 1960
Description:
Southwest Harbor Town Dock and Beal’s Lobster Wharf. Three punts on float below Beal's. Barrels and traps piled on the pier. Car near the back door of the lobster pound.
10446Boat at Farnsworth Boatyard
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, transportation - Maritime
  • Spiker, LaRue
Description:
Photo taken from inside boat shed belonging to the Farnsworth Family looking out to the cove. Motor boat on the ways.
10454Richardson Homestead and Barn (Fair Oaks Farm)
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • Unkown
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
Description:
Barn at Richardson Homestead (Fair Oaks Farm). Owned by Jones Tracy (1856-1939) at time of photograph.
10465Farnsworth Boatyard Scene
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, transportation - Maritime
  • Spiker, LaRue
Description:
Boat docked on the beach. Caption removed from the back of the photo read, “The hauling shed is located on one of the few sloping beaches near Hull’s Cove. Shed belongs to the Farnsworth Family." Cellophane tape left marks on back which have come through on the image side.
10466View from Boatyard
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, transportation - Maritime
  • Spiker, LaRue
Description:
View looking out of a boat shed into Hulls Cove. A marine railway leads out of the building. Same as Acc # 998-550-1655 record has been removed
10471Woman in Fall Foliage
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • Spiker, LaRue
Description:
Unknown woman standing in front of some colorful leaves.
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.
12349Woman sitting by grist mill, Somesville
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • Places, Landscape
Description:
Grist mill in Somesville on rocky Somes Brook. Trees surround mill. Young woman sits on a rock near brook; she wears long light colored skirt and blouse and a flat hat. Caption under photo, “I suppose you know this girl. Why don’t you write? R.J.L.” Marked on back, “Grist Mill at rear was built 1790 if not earlier.” In reference to woman, “Nellie Freeman family from Pretty Marsh and Summit, N.J.. She came to take care of Baby Arthur in N.J., 1910 (Virginia’s Brother)” referring to Virginia Sanderson. [show more]
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.