Description: People gathered at long tables on the lawn outside a church. The lawn overlooks the harbor. Fish house and piers line the harbor. Houses are on the hill over the harbor. This is probably Frenchboro.
Description: Looking over a harbor lined on each side with piers and fish houses. House on the hill overlooking the harbor. This is probably Frenchboro.
Description: Looking over a harbor lined on each side with piers and fish houses. House on the hill overlooking the harbor. This is probably Frenchboro.
Description: Man wearing work clothes standing on a lawn where people are seated at long tables. Harbor in the background. This is probably Frenchboro.
Description: Small pond or inlet. Thee story house with a Mansard roof above the water. Samller buidling closer to the shore. A bridge over a stream to the right.
Description: Four horse team hitched to a buckboard outside two story cottage. Woman and man sit on driver's bench. At least ten other passengers in open buckboard. Ladies in elegant dress stand on covered porch. Vines growing up each side of porch and along front. Small peak in porch roof. Upstairs windows shuttered, center window closed.
Description: Two masted schooner at wharf in front of A.J. Whiting’s (later, 1887) Fernald’s Store (later Port-in-a-Storm Bookstore, then art gallery). Back of blacksmith shop visible on left. Small sailing dory tied to wharf. Anchor hangs from bow. Several men seated in the bow of schooner, one standing aft near main mast. Man driving wagon pulled by two white horses. Somes meadow in distance. Mark in lower left hand corner. Edges very worn. Stained and faded. Marked on back, “Schooner Kate L. Pray.” [show more]
Description: Looking back at unnamed city from harbor. Wide street runs through middle of photo from harborside. Two three-masted schooners in port to the right. Three church steeples rise in background above city. To the left sign above building reads, “Washburn [?] flour.” Marked on back, “Printed from glass negative found in F. Wiggin House, Town Hill, July 1958.”
Description: 3.5 X 3.5 black and white photograph of older woman with short hair wearing dress patterned with bricks and flowers, large beaded necklace, carrying white purse on arm. Stands in front of white house. Writing on back, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.’ I look so big” This may be LaRue Spiker’ s Mother, Grace Spiker.
Description: Horses hitched to buckboards along street. Men sit in carriages or stand next to them. To the left are grass squares and saplings. Across street three large buildings. Middle building holds R.F. Suminsby, smaller builing next door, sign read [----] Stevens. Stamped on back with LaRue Spiker, P O Box 625, Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679. "Auto War" in red crayon