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: 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: 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: 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.
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: 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)
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: 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’
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.
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.”
Description: Lumber Mill in Somesville in operation. Logs piled up on bank in foreground. Logs fill mill pond ready to be milled. Somes Harbor in the background. Telephone pole in foreground next to tall tree. See also p. 8, Photo Album #1 (997-307-472)
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).
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.
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
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.