Description: Variety of Company Supply Catalogs from Fred Savage’s business, paint, stucco, drywall, plumbing, finish work etc. Folder 1; Plumbing fixtures, Trenton Potteries, Standard Sinks, Day-Ward, Cahill Iron Works, Western Metal Supply Co., Locke, Stevens & Co., J. L. Mott Folder 2: Advertising Brochure with Hotels, The DeGregoire, The Louisburg, the Malvern, The Rockaway, The Newport House, The Belmont, The St Sauveur, The New Florence Folder 3a/3b: Paint Brochures, Murphy Varnish, S.C. Johnson, Devoe, I. Lappin, Marine Tocolith, Benjamin Moore, Valspar, Patterson-Sargeant, Northern Manufacturing, Symentrex, Nico, Blanchite, Trus-Con, Koncreto, Dutch Boy, Berry Bros.,Glidden, Painting Machine Co., Edward Smith, National Lead, Nico, Trus-Con, S. C. Johnson, Patterson-Sargent, Hascall's, Monument Plaster Folder 4: Machinery, Chas. J. Jager, C.W. Hunt, Clinton Wire Cloth, Fairbanks Company, General Compressed Air House Cleaning Co., Rider-Ericcson Engine Co., Vacuum Hpuse Cleaning Co., General Electric, Hunther Bros, Quimby, Gilbert & Barker Folder 5: Lath, Decorative Iron and Concrete Reinforcement, Berger, Trussed Concrete and Steel Co.,Clinton Wire Cloth Co., Lignine Carvings, Roebling Construction, E. T. Barnum, Henry Weyand, Shreve Crump and Low, Phoenix Wire Works, Vulcan, Newport Rolling Mill Folder 6: Hardware Specialties, Lane Brothers, Buffalo Fertilizers, Union Fibre Co., Harvey Hubble, Hill Dryer [show more]
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]
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.
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]
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
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."
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
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.
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 [?].
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]
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]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.