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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.
11448The Old Somesville Woolen Mill- built in 1847
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Building
  • 1847
Description:
Isaac Somes' woolen mill in Somesville. Three-story building, clapboards on front, shingles on side. Side facing brook shows 15 windows, five on each story. The front shows five windows and door on left. One chimney at front end of roof. Building sits on stone foundation. Bare trees surround mill. The title The OLD SOMESVILLE WOOLEN MILL -Built in 1847" is printed at the bottom of the negative.
7399Main Street, Somesville, 1870.
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Nature, Animals, Horses
  • Other, Buildings
  • 1870 c.
Description:
Caption in The Living Past page 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 rutted dirt road. Negative.
7418Somes Cove and Lumber Mill from Somes House Cottage
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Places, Landscape
  • 1875c.
Description:
View of Village of Somesville including Somes Cove, Somesville Lumber Mill, Somesville Union Meeting House, A.J. Whiting store, and Mount Desert House, taken from the Somes House.
8500Green Mountain Railway, tracks on view toward Eagle Lake terminal
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Green Mountain Railway
  • Bradley, B.
  • 1883
Description:
Color negative of tracks view from above down toward Eagle Lake terminal, Bar Harbor, about 1883. Original image (stereopticon card) appears to be similar if not same as 011.31.20 (Objects). Label on card: 51. Green Mountain Railway, Mt. Desert, Me.
8501Green Mountain Railway Tracks, long upgrade view
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Green Mountain Railway
  • Bradley, B.
  • 1883
Description:
Color negative of a Long upgrade view, Green Mountain Railway. [Made by Ballard] from a B. Bradley print; stereopticon card double view. About 1883 Label on card: 53. Green Mountain Railway, Mt. Desert, Me.
7391Street Scene Somesville
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Nature, Animals, Horses
  • Other, Building
  • People
  • Unknown
  • 1891
Description:
Three similar white buildings in row. Small Selectmen’s Building close by. First Higgins store, middle house now gone. Picture shows Chas. Bordeau and Party, boarders at the Central House. People on steps. Mr. Harison, C.J. Hall, A.J. Whiting, J.J. Somes, R.G. Salisbury. First building has covered porch with people standing on steps. Second building no porch, third building similar porch. Open carriage drawn by two horses. Telephone poles and wires visible. 4 copies, a-d [show more]
7392Street Scene Somesville
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Nature, Animals, Horses
  • Other, Building
  • People
  • Unknown
  • 1891
Description:
Three similar white buildings in row. Small Selectmen’s Building close by. First Higgins store, middle house now gone. Picture shows Chas. Bordeau and Party, boarders at the Central House. People on steps. Mr. Harison, C.J. Hall, A.J. Whiting, J.J. Somes, R.G. Salisbury. First building has covered porch with people standing on steps. Second building no porch, third building similar porch. Open carriage drawn by two horses. Telephone poles and wires visible. 4 copies, a-d [show more]
7393Street Scene in Somesville
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Nature, Animals, Horses
  • Other, Building
  • People
  • Unknown
  • 1891
Description:
Three similar white buildings in row. Small Selectmen’s Building close by. First Higgins store, middle house now gone. Picture shows Chas. Bordeau and Party, boarders at the Central House. People on steps. Mr. Harison, C.J. Hall, A.J. Whiting, J.J. Somes, R.G. Salisbury. First building has covered porch with people standing on steps. Second building no porch, third building similar porch. Open carriage drawn by two horses. Telephone poles and wires visible. 4 copies, a-d [show more]
5811Steamboat Wharf at Clark's Point, SW Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Transportation - Maritime
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1891
Description:
The Charles Butt Ballard Negative Collection. Black and white photo. From Henry Rand's 1891 Album. Pemetic Hotel on hill. Southwest Harbor, Maine This negative was created by Ballard from a photo album of Henry Rand. Photo was 5 x 7. Notes say "from Str. Mount Desert". It has been noted that the Southwest Harbor Public Library may have exclusive rights to this photo. Until this is resolved, this image is restricted.
7083Brook at Somesville
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • People
  • Places, Landscape
  • 1894
Description:
Somes Brook, trees on banks, reeds in lower right corner. Three figures on bridge, two of whom wear white dresses and hats; third (shorter) figure in darker clothing. Lumber Mill in background. Negative; 3 7/8" h X 4 7/8"w
8401On Somes Stream 1894
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • 1894
Description:
Calf in pasture near Somes Stream. Rail fence and rock wall border pasture. Small shingled building to the left. Trees line right bank of stream. Assume negative was made from related print.
8996Clara Emilie Meynell Somes and Thaddeus Shepley Somes
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • People
  • Unknown
  • 1905
Description:
Clara Emilie Meynell Somes(1842-1920) and Thaddeus Shepley Somes (1839-1913) seated on front step of their home on corner of Oak Hill Road and Main Street. Clara wears hair in large bun on back of head. Striped blouse with full sleeves, black placket down center of bodice, white lace around collar. Decorative white flower plackets descend from shoulders along each side on center. Black skirt with indistinguishable design. Thaddeus wears straw hat, dark suit, white shirt, and black tie. [show more]
7076Mount Desert Post Office, Main Street, Somesville, 1905
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Building
  • 1905
Description:
Main Street Somesville. Mount Desert Post Office on right. Two story building with covered porch. Mount Desert Post Office sign mounted on porch roof. Marked on bottom of negative "1905 Old Post Office Eva Jacobson postmistress". John William Somes house, now owned by Keating Pepper with windmill visible over roof of house. Telephone poles line street.
7409Clara Emilie Meynell Somes & Thaddeus Shepley Somes
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • People
  • 1905
Description:
Clara Emilie Meynell Somes (1842-1920) and Thaddeus Shepley Somes (1839-1913) seated on front step of their home on corner of Oak Hill Road and Main Street. Clara wears hair in large bun on back of head. Striped blouse with full sleeves, black placket down center of bodice, white lace around collar. Decorative white flower plackets descend from shoulders along each side on center. Black skirt with indistinguishable design. Thaddeus wears straw hat, dark suit, white shirt and black tie. This negative was taken from post card 012-57-156 and the image is presented in an oval format. [show more]
7404Ship Under Construction, Somes Cove
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • People
  • Vessels, Ship
  • 1905c.
Description:
Ship under construction in Somes Cove. Looking across Somes Cove to Somes meadow and landing. Six men standing on deck looking toward camera. Hull near completion. Lumber scattered around ship. Two masts lie on the ground in sterm of ship. Schooner just visible to the right.
8529Gott's Island from Little Gott's Island
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • 1906
Description:
Looking towards Gott's Island from Little Gott's Island. Negative taken from postcard by CE Cook, Bangor 1906. Black band at bottom on which is printed "Gott's Island, Maine" and under that is hand-written "This is a view of my home, with love from, sister Nell". View includes sail boats, skiffs in harbor and houses on island.
8992Somesville School Class Photograph 1909
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative
  • People
  • Structures, Institutional, School
  • Unknown
  • 1909
Description:
Somesville School Class photograph, October 1909. Twenty one students, none identified. Marked Somesville, Me, Oct 1909 in lower left corner. Students gathered on grass, trees in background. Teacher in center wears hair pulled back with white blouse and dark skirt which buttons down center. Dark tie at neck. Photo attached to glass. Glass cracked in several places.
8516President Taft and John E. Bunker in Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • 1910
Description:
Negative of photo showing President Taft and party on pier in Bar Harbor, with sailboat and Bar Island in distance. Written on the back of the photograph from which this negative was likely made was: "John E. Bunker and President Taft." (Note on sleeve of negative.)
10453Jones Tracy at Richardson Homestead
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • People
  • Unknown
  • 1917
Description:
From left to right - Bloomfield Richardson, Ralph Tracy and Jones Tracy at Richardson Homestead (Oakland Farm of Fair Oaks Farm) splitting wood. Object has not been renumbered because as of 1/13/2022 the object could not be located.
8518Caleb Tracy Pulling Baby Carriage
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • 1918c.
Description:
Caleb Tracy pulling baby carriage. Outside James Richardson Homestead (Fair Oaks Farm).
10457Caleb Tracy Pulling Baby Carriage
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, buildings
  • People
  • Unknown
  • 1918c.
Description:
Caleb Tracy pulling baby carriage. Outside James Richardson Homestead (Fair Oaks Farm).
8533Andrews Farm Market Truck, July 4, Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • 1920c.
Description:
Andrews Farm Market truck at Independence Day parade in Bar Harbor. Frank Andrews wearing cap.
10456Clara and Florence Tracy at Richardson Homestead
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, buildings
  • People
  • Unknown
  • 1920c.
Description:
Clara and Florence Tracy, daughters of Jones Tracy at Richardson Homestead (Fair Oaks Farm). Girl in background near house. This object has not been renumbered because as of 1/13/2022 the object could not be located
6222Street lined with buisnesses and telephone poles
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Houses
  • Other, transportation - Land
  • LaRue Spiker
  • 1920c.
Description:
Copy of photograph. Street lined with businesses and telephones poles. Gold Metal Flour sign on the left. Early car near the sign. Horse and wagon in back of the car.