Description: Three unknown men removing trees between Old Somesville Firehouse and Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen's Building Dec 8, 1960
Description: Black and white photograph of LaRue Spiker crouched next to two dogs. She is outside in a yard with shrubs and the bottom of a house behind her. She would be 48 years old. Caption on the back reads: LaRue's Family, Southwest Harbor, Maine 1960
Description: The caption on the back reads "Venturer 1960 Manset". The Venturer is cradled next to a lobsterboat with a spray hood. The lobsterboat is dwarfed by the size of the Venturer.
Description: An 8 x 10 black and white photograph of Somes House Inn side most distant from the road. Ballard photo. marked #825-A Duplicate of 997-340-505 This image is also listed as in the collection of the Southwest Harbor Public Library: #12138
Description: 8x10 photograph of A-class boat number 29 , tip of sail of another boat visible to the left. Taken by Kathy Suminsby 1961 This is a duplicate of 007.114.2
Description: Color photograph of Virginia Somes Sanderson's Dock and Somes Harbor. Marked on back: "My dock, float and boat when I lived in Old House." 5x5
Description: 4 X 4.5 black and white photograph mounted on an index card of a black and white border collie lying on the grass facing the camera. Markings on back: 1963 -- Bumble - One of LaRue's dogs.
Description: Oil painting of Ocean Drive, Mount Desert Island, by Howe D. Higgins. Inscription on the back: "Ocean Drive, Acadia National Park, by Howe D. Higgins, 1963, Harborside Studio, Southwest Harbor, Maine.
Description: Oil painting of Surf at Seawall, by Howe D. Higgins. Inscription on the back: "Surf at Seawall, Mount Desert Island, Me, Painted by Howe D. Higgins, 1963, At Harborside Studio, Southwest Harbor, Maine.
Description: A black and white 4 1/2 x 3 photograph of the back of Mason Cobb's house on the corner of Oak Hill Road and Rt. 102. 1964 Historic Abraham Somes III house in Somesville (now owned by Marion and Richard Cobb) . White clapboard with dark shutters. Large barn/garage on back. Covered porch between house and barn.Several trees on front lawn one in back of house. Evergreens in back. White picket fence surrounds house. Marked on back, “back of Garm’s house, note fence.” This house was also owned by Abraham Somes III son, Thaddeus, grandfather of Virginia Somes Sanderson. Gram’s is Emilie Clarissa Meynell Somes, her grandmother. W.H. Ballard Photographer, Southwest Harbor, stamped on back. [show more]
Description: A color 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 photograph taken from upstairs window in Historic Abraham Somes III of a view of Mill pond. Home owned at the time by Mr. and Mrs. Cobb.