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You searched for: Object ID: is not emptyDate: 1900sType: Image
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
5440Telephone office Somesville
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Building
  • Unknown
  • 1905
Description:
First telephone office in Somesville. Small one-half story cape on Main street. Overhang over front door. House presently owned by Keating Pepper in distance. Looking toward mill pond.
12390Somesville Meeting House Interior, c.1900
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Interior
  • 1900c.
Description:
Interior of Somesville Meeting House taken from back of church over middle row of pews. Church is decorated with garlands and ferns and other plant material. The words "GOD is LOVE" and "WELCOME" on the wall at the front of the chuch. The organ is to the right.
12348Sale, Standard Granite Co., Advertisement
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Advertisement
  • 1901c.
Description:
Advertisement reads, “Slaughter Sale of Bankrupt Stock! of the Standard Granite Co. at -- Stock Consisting of Groceries, Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, Rubbers, Tinware. and . General Merchandise. Good Prints 3 c per yard. 10c Ginghams 5c per yard. Boots and Shoes at about half price Men’s Rubber Boots $2.25. A lot of show cases,Scales, Paper Holders, and Store Furnishings will be sold at bargain prices. Don’t miss this opportunity to buy goods at low prices. For furthur information apply to Fernald & Somes, Mount Desert, Maine. Sherman, Printer, Bar Harbor.” Marked 1901 at top. [show more]
12489Clara Emilie Meynell Somes & Thaddeus Shepley Somes
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Building
  • 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 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. Marked on back Garm and Gapa, 1905. Photo cut to fit frame or album. Pieces of a letter appear on back. [show more]
14079Steamboat "Mount Desert" leaving Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Transportation - Water
  • Places, Landscape
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1900c.
Description:
Steamboat "Mount Desert" leaving Southwest Harbor. Three small sail boats between Clark’s Point and Greening’s Island. Two boats moored in front of Madeira house near Manset, roof of house visible. Sloop under sail to left of house. Entrance to Somes Sound and mountains visible in background. Marked on back, W.H. Ballard Collection Southwest Harbor, Maine. Str. Mount Desert Leaving Southwest Harbor. About 1900. Rockland - Bar Harbor Line.” [show more]
12549Schooner "Kate Pray" in Somes Cove, c. 1905
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Places, Landscape
  • Vessels, Ship
  • 1905c.
Description:
Two masted-schooner in back of Fernald’s store (formerly A.J. Whiting’s Store) later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore, still later, an art gallery. Houses on Main street from left to right: Abraham Somes III house; John Somes house, known as “Old Homestead”; Thaddeus Somes Store; in front of store, Blacksmith’s shop; Fernald’s Store; Mount Desert Tavern. Flags flying on main mast, American Flag and Kate Pray pennant. Five men sit on top of cabin house. One man standing between masts. Photo is black and white. [show more]
8903Brig Under Construction
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Places, Landscape
  • Vessels, Ship
  • c 1905
Description:
Brig 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 masted lay on the ground in back of ship. Schooner to the right. Marked on back, “One of the boat builders was William Smith husband of Addie Smith of Somesville” Brief outline of family tree. “Ship builder, William married Cynthia?, children Pearl - Blacksmith and Bloomfield, Storekeeper. Child of Pearl, Fred who married Addie. Children of Fred and Addie, Don and Stuart.” Don Smith still living in Somesville. Photo could not be located 02/03/2022 [show more]
11452Bridge Under C, Somes Cove
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Transportation - Water
  • 1905c.
Description:
Brig 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 lay on the ground in back of ship. Schooner to the right. Marked on back, “Steamboat Wharf in back ground. Brig 1905?” 8" x 10"
13006Schooner in back of Fernald's Store, 1906
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Building
  • Places, Landscape
  • Vessels, Ship
  • 1906
Description:
Two-masted schooner at wharf in back of Fernald’s store. Fernald purchased it from A.J. Whiting in 1887; it later was the Port in a Storm bookstore, and still later, an art gallery.at low tide. Loading ramp extends from second story door in back of building. Somes House Inn to the right.
14099Children, Catawba Island, Ohio, 1900
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Building
  • People
  • 1900
Description:
Two unknown children, possibly Virginia Somes Sanderson and brother Arthur. Girl wearing hair on top of head held by ribbon, white knee-length dress with short puffy sleeves and bare legs. Boy wears cap with striped shirt and black bow tie, knee pants, dark socks and white shoes. Large cottage with covered porch in background. Marked on back, “July 1900 Catawba Island, O.”
14098Virginia Somes Sanderson and unknown man, Catawba Island, Ohio, 1900
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Places, Landscape
  • 1900
Description:
Girl standing in shallow water of lake or pond in bathing suit. Hair pulled up in ribbon. Man in bathing suit next to her; both are making Victory sign. Marked on back, “Catawba Island, O. July 1900." Little girl identified possibly as Virginia Somes Sanderson, per 2011 "Mystery Photographs" Exhibit (AB).
11447Somesville School Class, October 1909
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Structures, Institutional, School
  • 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. Copy of original
14118Arthur Sanderson [?[, father of Virginia Somes Sanderson
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • 1904
Description:
Unknown man, perhaps Arthur Sanderson, father of Virginia Somes Sanderson, wearing pin striped suit, white shirt and tie. Watch fob visible under coat. Holding bowler type hat in hand. Standing in front of lawn of Victorian house. Marked on back, “1904 351 W 7th Ave Columbus, O.
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.
13455Thaddeus Shepley Somes, Virginia Somes, Emilie Clarissa Meynell Somes & Dog
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Animal
  • People
  • 1906
Description:
Thaddeus Shepley Somes with Virginia Somes Sanderson on his knee, Emilie Clarissa Meynell Somes in back. "Lion" the dog in front. Thaddeus seated in chair under tree wearing dark suit and derby. Virginia in corkscrew curls with white dress, dark stockings and boots. Emilie behind Thaddeus with gray hair and print dress. Trees and barn in background.
14172Thaddeus Shepley Somes, daughter Virginia, & Lion the dog
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Animal
  • Other, Building
  • People
  • 1906
Description:
Thaddeus Shepley Somes sitting under tree on lawn across from Somesville Library with Virginia Somes Sanderson on his lap. Big dog next to them. Board sidewalk with rail in back of tree. Lumber mill in distance. Man drives by in wagon. Marked on back, “Thaddeus, Virginia, Lion, the dog. 1906”
12974Somesville Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • 1900 ca.
Description:
Black and white photograph of Somesville library early 1900's. Library is a small building in the background. a telephone pole and a dirt road are in the foreground.
12980Galen C. McFarland
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Portrait photographs
  • McKay, H.D., Calais, ME
  • 1900 ca.
Description:
Black and white portrait photograph of Galen C. McFarland, Trenton ME, early 1900's. McFarland is a young man who has wavy hair parted on one side. He wears a striped jacket, high-collared white shirt and necktie. Photographers logo is embossed on the front: H.D. McKay, Calais, ME. Handwritten on the back: "Galen C. McFarland, Trenton, Maine. Brother of Addie B. (McFarland) Smith, (wife of Fred Smith); Bertha E. (McFarland) Allen, (wife of Richard O. Allen; Mildred S. (McFarland) Allen, (wife of Roger H. Allen). Early 1900's" [show more]
131081905 View of Brookside Cemetery
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Brookside Cemetery
  • 1905
Description:
1905 view of Brookside cemetery in Somesville. Shows arch at entry and granite blocks of retaining wall along mill stream. Very few trees in view.
12435Mount Desert Post Office, Main Street, Somesville, 1905
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • 1905
Description:
Mt. Desert Post Office on right. Two story building with covered porch. Mount Desert Post Office mounted on porch roof. Marked on bottom: "1905. Old Post Office. Eva Jacobson postmistress." Marked on back: "going to Ellsworth. John Allen and Ada sold to Pepper Family. John Allen and Ada Somes, son Mark, son John = Beech Hill John originally John Williams Somes house." John Williams Somes (b. 1838, d. 1913) Ada Richardson Somes (b.1872, d. 1949) John Allen (Allie) Somes (b.1872, d.1930) Mark Somes (b. 1895, d. 1919) (Unable to find info. about [son] John) Above info. per Vining and Somes family genealogy ABenson11/05/2015 [show more]
13303Somes House
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Ballard, W.H.
  • 1900c.
Description:
8 x 10 black and white photograph of Somes House side most distant from the road. Duplicate of #997-338-503 Marked on back Ballard Photo #825-A, around 1900 This image is also listed as in the collection of the Southwest Harbor Public Library: #12138
16793Charlie Rowe's Tuna
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • c. 1905
Description:
Charlie Rowe's Tuna. c. 1905. Courtesy of the Swan's Island Educational Society.
12145Eastern Steamship Dock, Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Eastern Steamship Dock
  • Other, Steamboats
  • Claes, Frank E.
  • 1904
Description:
Sepia-toned photographic print of Eastern Steamship Dock, Bar Harbor, 1904.
12807Somesville School after 1897
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • c. 1900
Description:
Somesville School after 1897. Primary through high school students. Man standing to left wears hat and watch chain. Two to four women teachers to left. Two baseball mitts stuck between the posts?
13072Two Unknown Women in Field
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • 1907, Aug. 6
Description:
Black and white photograph of two young ladies standing in a field with woods and a house in the background. 3 names listed on back of photo: Olive Strout, Addie W. and Agnes, Td . Aug. 6, 1907. Women wear white blouses and long skirts.