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You searched for: Date: 1900sType: Image
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
5129Portrait of child in white dress with Doll in hands
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Cabinet Photograph
  • People
  • Lucerne Studio
  • circa 1900
Description:
portrait of child in white dress with some type of print on it. Doll in hands. Short dark hair. Standing on or in front of some type of rug. Caption on back reads “Carol Vicki Cadwell, taken July 21st 1900, born August 6 1898”
8818Unknown man
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Portrait
  • c1900
Description:
Man age 20-30. Hair parted on left and combed back. Mustache turned up at ends. Dark coat with white shirt. Black tie tucked into left side of coat, small tie pin in knot. Small tear near bottom right corner.
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]
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.
9106Mount Washington Railway (formerly Green Mountain Railway)
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Places, Landscape
  • Transportation, Train
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • c 1900s
Description:
Former Green Mountain railway as Mount Washington Railway. Engine and car. Engine pushing car over trestle. Two men sitting on top of engine, one man standing next to coal car. Several people standing outside passenger car, others inside.
9155Man and woman seated on a bench
  • Image, Photograph, Direct Positive, Tintype
  • Other, Portrait
  • Unknown
  • c 1900s
Description:
Young man and young woman seated together on bench in photographer studio. Man on left wears hair parted in middle and combed to sides. White pants, black belt, white shirt, black bow tie and dark coat. Woman wears hair parted in middle and pinned to side of head. Whte dress with hat in hand. Had adorned with flowers and bow.
14007Looking towards Somesville Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Somesville Library
  • c 1900s
Description:
View of Somesville looking towards library and Somes House from the west. View of Somesville marked at bottom. Old ship and pier on left. Lumber piled around mill in center ground. Somes House in the distance.
8378Horses on racetrack
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
  • c 1900
Description:
Horses on the race track at Robin Hood Park. People gathered at the fence along the track. Copy of old photo.
8379Grandstand at race track
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Building
  • LaRue Spiker
  • c 1900
Description:
Grandstand at the race track at Robin Hood Park Copy of old photo.
8380Piers going out into the Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Building
  • Other, transportation - Maritime
  • LaRue Spiker
  • c 1900
Description:
Piers going out into the Harbor. Brick building in the foreground may be the old cannery.
8381People on float at Claremont
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, transportation - Maritime
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
  • c 1900
Description:
People on the floats at the Claremont. Canoes along side the floats Copy of an old photo.
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?
14005Clapboard House Unknown Location
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Building
  • People
  • c 1890s - c 1900s
Description:
Two story white clapboard house with black shutter, attached barn. Large trees in front of house. One horse near shed/bard with no tack held by man. Second horse in front wearing harness held by boy. Man stands near horse.
5457Resting on rocks near the water
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Building
  • Places, Landscape
  • Unknown
  • c 1890s - 1900s
Description:
Well dressed men women and children relaxing on rocks near shore.
5123Young woman in white shirt, dark sweater and round glasses
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Cabinet Photograph
  • People
  • Roger Paul Jordan
  • after 1900
Description:
Studio portrait of young woman with dark hair pulled back wearing white blouse and dark sweater. Wearing glasses with thick, black, completely circular frames. Body standing in profile but head turned towards camera. Mounted in cardboard casing, photographer name on casing marked “Roger Paul Jordan, Portland.”
5639Hotel and Cottages, Dark Harbor, ME
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • 6/20/1904
Description:
Black and white postcard labeled "Hotel and Cottages, Dark Harbor ME." The postcard is addressed to:Miss Margaret Foster, Millbridge, Maine.
5672York Beach Sewer
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • 2/10/1908
Description:
Postcard to Mr. Pearl S. Bordecamp , Mt Desert maine On the back of postcard Harold has worked on it and it is Harold's head that appears above the pipe and Listor Richardson at the end w light sweater on and "Ed" Murphy between the two. I don't know what his real name is but I guess he is from Hall's Quarry. Signed Charlie
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.
7348Unidentified IOOF Ocean Lodge officer, June 18th, 1909
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • 1909
Description:
Framed photograph of an unidentified IOOF Ocean Lodge officer, June 18th, 1909. Handlbar moustache. Plaid vest, wool jacket. Tie visible around standing collar and tucked into vest.
7349Unidentified IOOF Ocean Lodge officer, November 16, 1909
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • 1909
Description:
Framed photograph of an unidentified IOOF Ocean Lodge officer, November 16, 1909. Hair thinning, both ears prominent, handlebar moustache. Knot of tie visible between shirt collar and jacket lapels.
13681Somesville School Class, 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 cneter. Dark tie at neck. Photo attached to glass. Glass cracked in several places. Caution-this photo is on glass. glass is broken into four pieces. Needs conservation. note made 2004 Old scotch tape removed. Temporary mat frame and “package” created in order to keep pieces from sliding apart 7/2004. [show more]
4700Sound School Picture, 1909
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Unknown
  • 1909
Description:
School picture of Sound School, 1909. Teacher Emily Phillips, 20 students named on back.
4800Mary Whitmore, photograph of
  • Image, Photograph
  • 1909
Description:
Woman dressed in long gown sitting in chair. Possibly wife of Sans Whitmore. Inscribed on back, "Sincerely yours/ Mary /January 2/09." Unlikely Mrs. Sans Whitmore, born 1837. RAS
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
7347Unidentified IOOF Ocean Lodge officer, December 25th, 1908
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • 1908
Description:
Framed photograph of an unidentified IOOF Ocean Lodge officer, December 25th, 1908. Receding hairline, full beard (probably red), bushy eyebrows, wide tie between stiff collars of his white shirt. Dark vest and jacket. Chain and badge visible across his chest.. Looks to his right. .