Description: Cabinet card of an infant in a decorative wicker chair. Baby wearing a long white dress is resting on a sheepskin. Handwritten on back of card: Mark Whiting Somes, Age 4 mo., Wright." Photographers logo embossed on front: H.L. Gradley, Cottage St., Bar Harbor,ME.
Description: carte de visite of a woman wearing a dark dress with buttons down middle, ruffles on both sides of the bodice, and a white Peter Pan collar. Wears earrings. Hair parted in middle, arranged in thick braid around crown of head. Inscription on front of photo reads “Mrs. Edgar Nash.” Same inscription on back.
Description: Portrait of man in very formal dark suit, almost a tuxedo, with white shirt and white bowtie. Dark hair, bangs swept upward. Faded from shoulders downward. Caption on back reads “Burton from Eva Jacobson.”
Description: portrait of young man in dark suit with white shirt and dark tie. Labeled “Frank Alonzo Higgins” on back. watch on watch fob visible towards bottom of photo. Suit has lighter-colored piping along lapel. Man looking straight ahead at the camera.
Description: Mount Desert house taken from across road. Two black horses with carriage in front of house, one man seated in carriage. Crowd of people out front. Woman and man in doorway, woman and two children standing on steps, three men standing and one seated. Large flagpole to left with “Mt. Desert House, 1888” sign on it. Picket fence running along right side of lawn. Most shutters are open, except for two windows in middle nearest chimney. This print has been attributed to W.H. Ballard, but the photo is probably too early for Ballard to have taken it. Also known as Mount Desert Tavern. [show more]
Description: Caption in The Living Past, p. 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 each side of rutted dirt roadstopped in front of blacksmith’s shop.
Description: Main Street, Somesville.Somes Cove on left. Trees line street. Board sidewalk visible on right near picket fenced yards. Fernald’s Store (later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore) hidden by trees. Lumber Mill to left. Two masts of schooner rise up over trees.
Description: Nelson Leland standing in front of microphone on grassy hill. Two boys laying something on the ground. Three men and two women in background. See 997.26.187
Description: Winter scene in Somesville Maine. Hand touched by photographer or artist. Somesville, Me Winter Scene printed at bottom. On right Fernald's store, with covered porch and second story porch. On left Mt. Desert House and Nathan Salisbury House. Wagon sits in snow on left side of road. Narrow space has been plowed or shoveled on road. Large trees on each side of road. Unknown Lone man walks down middle of road. Telephone poles on left side. This is also a slide (97-711-881) used in the Somesville Bicentenial and can be found on Row 2 Unit 2 Shelf 4 Slide Box 1 [show more]
Description: Bajupa lobster boat in Bass Harbor. Starboard view, sail down, leaving wake behind. Man on stern with arm out. Hills in background.The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Paul Faulkingham, Sr. painting his lobster boat June. Man painting bow of beached boat, “1K140”, in checkered shirt and hat. Hills in background across water.Ballard #2-330-9 (on original envelope, not on neg.)The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Helen McColl, Surfman, and A.T. Haynes in port with view of sterns. Dock on right. Boat labeled “22215” on left. Reflections in waterBallard Neg. #2-218AThe Charles Butt Collection
Description: El Placita on ways at Southwest Harbor. Port side and bow in photo. Gary Allen to left with cabin door open. Southwest Boat Corp. to left with sign on roof. Boats in harbor in background. The Charles Butt Collection
Description: McKinley Terminal, Swan’s Island Ferry. Looking from left at right side of terminal. Dirt ramp leands down to wooden bridge which crosses to dock. Dock to left with elevated house in middle. Rocky shore in right foreground.The Charles Butt Collection
Description: McKinley Terminal, Swan’s Island Ferry. Looking down dirt ramp with rocks on sides leading down to ferry terminal. Dock to left and right with elevated house in middle. Grassy land in foreground.The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Lilly P III at Davis Boat Yard. Anchored with dock to right. Bow and starboard side view with three round bumpers hanging over side. Five people sitting on cabin roof, one standing on dock to right.Negative Marked “4” of 4The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Lilly P III at Davis Boat Yard. Anchored with dock to right. Bow and starboard side view with three round bumpers hanging over side. Five people sitting on cabin roof.Negative Marked “3” of 4The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Dock on left with lobster pots piled in pyramids. Man sweeping boat at end of dock. Small boat at left, and dingy in middle tied to dock. Storage box in right corner of picture. The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Lilly P III at Davis Boat Yard. Anchored with dock to right. Bow and starboard side view with three round bumpers hanging over side. Man sitting on cabin roof, man standing aft against rail, and man standing on dock to right. Negative Marked “2” of 4The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Lilly P III at Davis Boat Yard. Anchored with dock to right. Bow and starboard side view with three round bumpers hanging over side. Man sitting on cabin roof, man standing aft against rail, and man standing on dock to right. Negative Marked “1” of 4The Charles Butt Collection
Description: J.L. Stanley and Sons 58’ dragger. Launching for Granville Davis. Group of men loading long pole over starboard side of boat tied to dock. Line of flags hanging from cabin to bow. Rope and lumber sitting on dock. Trees in background.The Charles Butt Collection Smudges on left edge.
Description: J.L. Stanley and Sons 58’ dragger. Launching for Granville Davis. Sitting anchored in water, starboard side and bow view. Flags hanging from bow. Fishing boat to right. The Charles Butt Collection Smudges on left edge
Description: J.L. Stanley and Sons 58’ dragger. Launching for Granville Davis. Sitting anchored in water, port side view. Flags flying fom cabin to bow and stern, and hanging from bow. Cabin door open.The Charles Butt Collection
Description: J.L. Stanley and Sons 58’ dragger. Launching for Granville Davis. Sitting anchored in water, bow and starboard side view. Flags flying fom cabin to bow, one man standing on deck. The Charles Butt Collection
Description: J.L. Stanley and Sons 58’ dragger. Launching for Granville Davis. Boat entering water from boathouse. Man standing on stern to left of cabin. Flags flying from cabin to bow, cabin to stern, and hanging from back of stern.The Charles Butt Collection