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You searched for: Date: 1930sSubject: OtherType: Image
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
6330A-Boats
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Transportation - Maritime
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 03/06/20131939
Description:
Four A-Boats undersail. # 1 Daffydill owned by Mrs. Henry Parkman, #19 Coleen owned by Mrs. C.B. Fraley, # 16, Nevis, owned by C.P.B. Jeffrey, #21 Polly owned by Luke Hopkins. Ballard Neg # Y-53 This negative is out of numerical order in the Photo Album #12B-1. It is on page 16.
14105Virginia Somes Sanderson
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Portrait
  • Nic Seely
  • 1930
Description:
Virginia Somes Sanderson: short wavy hair parted on one side brushed down. Wearing black dress with pearls at neck, and flowers sitting on shoulder. Stamped Seely Studio 466 Geary Street San Francisco.
14106Virginia Somes Sanderson
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Portrait
  • Nic Seely
  • 1930
Description:
Virginia Somes Sanderson:short wavy hair parted on one side brushed down. Wearing black dress with pearls at neck, and flowers sitting on shoulder. Stamped Seely Studio 466 Geary Street San Francisco.
14107Virginia Somes Sanderson
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Portrait
  • Nic Seely
  • 1930
Description:
Virginia Somes Sanderson: short wavy hair parted on one side brushed down. Turned to side with face to camera. Wearing black dress with pearls at neck, and flowers sitting on shoulder. Marked Nic Seely 1930.
9567Dog Nero
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Dogs
  • Other, Pets
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1930, June
Description:
2.5 X 4 black and white photo of black dog (Nero) lying in grass, body inclined to the left, head turned to face camera. Ball in foeground in front of dog. Bench in background behind dogs head, White structure behind dog. Writting on back, “ June, 1930, ‘Nero’.
7238Orrin Donnell and young Michael Goriansky
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Sailing
  • 1930c.
Description:
Photograph of Orrin Donnell (with cap) seated in sailboat with young Michael Goriansky.
12786Virginia Somes Sanderson
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Portrait
  • 1930c.
Description:
Virginia Somes Sanderson wearing hair short and curly. White blouse with large buttons and wide collar laying flat on shoulders. Strand of pearls at neck. Dark background
5745Four Master at Southwest Harbor, Theoline
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Transportation - Maritime
  • 1932
Description:
The Charles Butt Ballard Negative Collection. Black and white photo. This negative is probably NOT a W.H. Ballard photo. Notes on the Ballard negative sheaf: Four Master at Southwest Harbor, ME. Ralph Blood Negative, 1932. Theoline, Captain John Latty of Bernard, Maine.
12122Lumber Mill, Somesville, 1932
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, 4th of July
  • Other, Lumber Mill
  • Other, Somesville
  • 1932
Description:
Lumber Mill in Somesville. Sepia-toned photograph mounted on cardboard. Wrtten on back, "left to right: R. Davis, J.A. Somes, J.W.Somes, _____, Geo. Benson, B. Mitchell (last one, Hulls Cove; the remainder Somesville)." Also written, "July 4, 1932". Two corners broken off; slight tear in bottom of print itself. Processed lumber in various piles around milll. Nine men pose for camera. Three horses and three wagons stand in front of lumber; buildings on Main Street, Somesville, in background. [show more]
5448Painting S.S. Acadia
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Transportation - Water
  • Unknown
  • 1932
Description:
The last brush of paint. Workmen putting finishing touches to the S.S. Acadia, the new Eastern Steamship liner, just before launching at he Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, Virginia on Saturday last, February 13, 1932. Note the giant blades and shaft projecting from the hull of one of the twin screws.
14069Steamboat "Westport" by W.H. Ballard
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Transportation - Water
  • Places, Landscape
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1933
Description:
Steamboat "Westport" at Steamboat wharf in Southwest Harbor. Fishing boat on mooring in foreground. To the left is a punt tied to a float. Mountains in background. Marked on back, “W.H. Ballard, Photographer Southwest Harbor, Maine #3. Str, Westport at Southwest Harbor June 1933.”
2068The Eyrie Garden
  • Image, Art, Drawing
  • Other, Gardens
  • Other, History - Seal Harbor
  • Places, Landscape
  • 1934
Description:
leaflet from the Annual Meeting of the Garden Club of America July 11,12,13, 1934 Garden Club of Mt. Desert with description of the Eyrie Garden of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and illustration of the Garden.
12987Andrew A. Somes and Obituary
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Portrait photographs
  • 1934
Description:
Photograph of Andrew A. Somes at 24 years of age. His obituary from Bar Harbor Times, date March 5, 1998, is attached to the back of the photograph. Also written on the back are the names, ages and birthdates of Andrew and his two sisters: "Andrew 87 (1910), Valeria 85, 1913, Mary 73, 1925".
5679Selectmen's Building with Ladder
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Building
  • 1935
Description:
Front view of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen's Building Museum. Shutters closed, ladder leaning against door with saw horse to the left. Brook in background.
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
14579Somes House and Cottages
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Somes House
  • Ballard, W.H.
  • 1935
Description:
A black and white 8 x 10 photograph of Somes House and Cottages. Marked on back #157, Aug. 1935 Duplicate of 997-336-501
6699Sailing, Mt. Desert, Me.
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, transportation - Maritime
  • People
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1936
Description:
The MacDuffie’s boat in Somes Sound.Ballard Neg # Y-21
6701Sailing, Mt. Desert, Me.
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, transportation - Maritime
  • People
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1936
Description:
The MacDuffie’s boat in Somes Sound. Ballard Neg # Y-22
6702Racing, Mt. Desert, Me.
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, transportation - Maritime
  • People
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1936
Description:
A-Boats # 18, #17, #24 and #2? in the Western Way.Ballard Neg # Y-20
6704Bottoms-up! Sailing.
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, transportation - Maritime
  • People
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1936
Description:
B-Boat # 13 heeled over. Ballard Neg # Y-17
5794Mt. Desert from Gott's Island
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Transportation - Maritime
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1936
Description:
The Charles Butt Ballard Negative Collection. Black and white photo. View of Mt. Desert from Gott's Island.
5795Mt. Desert from Gott's Island, Vessel Frolic of Elmer Spurling
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Transportation - Maritime
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1936
Description:
The Charles Butt Ballard Negative Collection. Black and white photo. View of Mt. Desert from Gott's Island. Foreground includes Frolic, fishing vessel of Elmer Spurling.
14636SS Iroquois Aground
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Steamboats
  • 1936
Description:
10" X 13" black and white photo. of SS Iroquois Aground, Bar Harbor, July 19, 1936. Man and woman observe from adjacent boat. In frame, which may need to be removed to preserve photo.
9566Dog Sniffy
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Dogs
  • Other, Pets
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1936, November
Description:
2.5 X 4 black and white photograph of small black and white dog with short nose sitting on steps outside in front of door with screen. Dogs ears are perked and he looks ahead above camera. He wears a dark harness with metal studs around his chest , with buckle bellow front legs.
6691Sailing, Mt. Desert Island, Me.
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, transportation - Maritime
  • People
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1937
Description:
Yachts #38 in foreground. Others in background. Ballard Neg # Y-27