Description: Man setting lobster traps and smiling. Photo badly stained. Edges bent. Thumb tack holes in edges. Man looking at camera. Identified at May 2011 "Mystery Photographs" Exhibit also as possibly Arthur McCrae of Seal Harbor, Larry Smith of Otter Creek, or Freddie Cunningham of Bar Harbor. (AB)
Description: Unknown People sitting in chairs on the grass watching an auction. Auctioneer to the right. Cars parked along street. SIgn in background not in focus.
Description: Auctioneer (possibly Mr. Mayo, per May 2011 "Mystery Photographs" exhibit) wearing light colored pin stripe suit with tasseled loafers. Auctioneer holds items for sale in his hand. Standing in front of tent. U.S. Coast Guard emblem on podium. Furniture and other auction items to the left.
Description: Dr. Virginia Somes Sanderson inside MDI Historical Society Selectmen’s Building. Seated at table, wearing blue shirt under long sleeve white blouse with blue pattern. Surrounded by museum exhibits.
Description: LaRue Spiker and an unidentified friend sit in a docked boat for a picnic on Little Cranberry Island. A note on the back of the photograph from the photographer George Daniell to Spiker explains the excursion. Daniell also invites Spiker to view other photographs and works of art when she comes to visit him. Inscription on back is a message to LaRue Spiker from the photographer, George Daniell, in red pen. People Depicted: LaRue Spiker Black and white [show more]
Description: Robert La Hotan, artist on Great Cranberry Island, 1984. Lover, life partner, of artist John Heliker. Age 40+ standing next to large still life. Wearing Long sleeve tailored shirt, white shorts and white sneakers. Hold cigarette in hand. Circular staircase to right. Gift of George Daniell.
Description: Artist John Heliker in his studio. Man age 65+ seated in wicker chair in front of large painting of hills and village. Wears glasses, short sleeved plaid shirt unbuttoned at top. Gift of George Daniell. Written on the back of the photo: "John Heliker in his studio on Cranberry Island. 1984"
Description: Virginia Somes Sanderson, age 70-80 wears glasses with dark frames, blue dress with seagulls. Seated at table inside Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen’s Building Museum. Collection of China displayed on shelf behind Sanderson. Portrait of Sarah Whiting Kittredge and William Thompson Memorial wreath on right.
Description: Marked on back, “New Museum opening day by Julia B. Smith. Tools on display in background in Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum. Bare wood walls and cabinets. Piano, display case and Great Walking wheel to right. Unknown man seated at desk.
Description: Marked on back, “New Museum opening day by Julia B. Smith." China displayed in Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum. Bare wood walls and cabinets. Piano, display case and Great Walking wheel in foreground. Two people viewing china. 3.5 x 4
Description: Parade float for Mt. Desert Island Historical Society. Larger banner on end of float proclaims, “Twixt the Hills.” Bango and fiddle player in 19th century costume on end of float decorated in red, white, and blue. Women in costume in back of float with spining wheel and Museum sign. Crowd watches from the sidewalk.
Description: Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen’s * Building Museum. Pewter communion set sit on table covered with green cloth. *Original description was Selectmen's Building, but think it is Somesville Museum (AB)
Description: Eric Rodick and unknown friend smoking cigarette leaning against store on cottage street. Bicycles leaning against store front. Village Emporium at the end of the block.
Description: Magazine article from Antiques Magazine? April 1985 depicting life and work of Beatrix Ferrand. Color photographs of gardens and black and white photo of Ferrand. Text has been high-lighted in several places with a yellow marker.