Description: Mount Desert House (The Tavern) in center of photo, taken from across the mill pond. Several people standing outside on lawn. Horse harnessed to buggy with person in seat. Person seated in chair on lawn with woman standing behind. Two men to the right. Historic Nathan Salisbury house with dark trimmed windows to the right. Stake fence surrounds front yard of the Nathan Salisbury house.
Description: Man on mowing machine. Team of oxen stand in front of machine, not harnessed. Large shingled barn behind man and oxen. man wears short buttoned jacket, dark pants and boots and cap. Marked on back, “Some of the first oxen in Somesville.”
Description: Group of women and two men gathered on steps of unidentified brick building. Names marked on back, “Carmen Harper, Lucy Murphy, Abbie Buck, Abbie Hanna, Evelyn McPheaters, Edna Miller, Gladys Sweetsen, Ellis [Daieu], Adria Pratt, Elise Buck, Marjorie Harvey, Inez Folsom, Louis Hutchings, Jessie Flye, Maurice Brown, Flora V.E. Ames, Elizabeth Parker, Gracia Hooper, Francis Larrabee, Mildred Look, Calista Andrews, Mabel Ridley, Ida M. Folsom, Hattie Wiggin, Dr. Edward E. Philbrook, Kate M. Russell. [show more]
Description: Ethel Somes wearing heavy dark cardigan sweater, with knee pants, boots laced up to knee. Small cabin in background among small evergreens and bare decidous trees. Marked on bottom, “[Necatous?] Ethel Somes.”
Description: Thaddeus Shepley Somes reading paper, holding garden hoe. Broom leaning on tree. Appears to be working on flower beds near roadside. Wearing derby, dark pants and vest, and white shirt. Location unknown, buildings and telephone poles line street.
Description: Virginia Sanderson wearing robe outside cabin on Sheep Island with three bull dogs. Ramp to float in foreground. Wood pile behind cabin in trees.
Description: Unknown man age 20-30 standing outside stone building. Hair parted on side and combed back. Wearing white suit coat with white shirt and dark bow tie. Black pants with belt and sneakers. Snow and mud on ground. Marked Frank at bottom.
Description: Men seated on banks of mill pond (probably not Main Street Mill) near logs. Lumber floating on barge in pond. Three buildings on opposite bank.
Description: Lumber Mill in Somesville. Lumber piled to left and in back of mill. To right, logs piled on bank of Mill pond. In background, A.J. Whiting’s Store, later Port-In-A-Storm bookstore. Three horses and three wagons wait for load of lumber. Men from left to right, R. Davis, J.A. Somes, J.W. Somes, Geo. Benson, B. Mitchell). Marked on back, “Last one Hulls Cove; the remainder Somesville.” Edges very worn. Small tear in lower left corner. (This description may refer to a different photograph; nothing marked on back and no wear or tear.) [show more]
Description: Four boys in pony cart with pony. Marked on back of photo - Bob, John, Burnham and Arthur L. Cart next to Mill Pond in Somesville. Logs floating on pond. Somesville Library visible in background. Telephone poles along road side.
Description: Lucie Pray age 10 - 12. Girl wears knee lenght full dress or duster, black boots and hat. Standing with bicycle next to board sidewalk. In back of sidewalk is stone wall and Somesville home.
Description: Somes Brook, trees on banks, reeds in lower right corner. Two women crossing bridge, wearing white dresses and hats, may be pushing baby carriage. Lumber Mill in back ground. This also exists as a slide (#97-695-865) used in the Somesville Bicentenail and can be found on Row 2 Unit 2 Shelf 4 Slide Box 1