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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
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
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.
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.
13636Betty Moore
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • George Daniell
Description:
Betty Moore, daughter-in-law of Edith Moore, neé Pulitzer, of Baymeath, Hulls Cove. Mrs. Moore is picking daffodils in garden of Greenwich estate. Large house in background. Gift of George Daniell Deaccessioned because replaced by 008.122.1
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.
13678Buckboard Party
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
Description:
Four horse team hitched to a buckboard outside two story cottage. Woman and man sit on driver's bench. At least ten other passengers in open buckboard. Ladies in elegant dress stand on covered porch. Vines growing up each side of porch and along front. Small peak in porch roof. Upstairs windows shuttered, center window closed.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
7877Fishing piers from water
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Fishing piers and buildings from a harbor.
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]
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.”
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.
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.
5236Historic Somesville Holiday Card
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
Description:
Photo of Mill pond and Heath Millinary Shop. Above photo are the words Season’s Greetings. Small print at bottom of photo reads: Street View, Somesville, ME, 21. Victor and Ruby written on back in ink.
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.
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.
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)
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’
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.
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.