Description: Somes Brook, trees on banks, reeds in lower right corner. Three figures on bridge, two of whom wear white dresses and hats; third (shorter) figure in darker clothing. Lumber Mill in back ground. Marked on back, “On Somes Stream, 1894. duplicate, Property of MDI Hist.Soc.” Sepia toned printed on thin paper; 45/8" h X 6 3/4"w
Description: Main Street Somesville April 1995. School children and teachers sitting on banks of Somes Brook, in front of Mount Desert Island Historical Society, watching new arched footbridge placed over stream.
Description: April 1995. Main Street, Somesville. John Doyle, police chief,Town of Mt. Desert, directing traffic while new arched foot bridge placed over stream in Somesville. Somesville Library in background, mill pond to the right.
Description: April 1995. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum parking lot. Standing in front of new arched foot bridge, prior to placement over brook, from right to left, Roy Miller, Stewart Brecher, Robert “Lee” W. Patterson, Jr.
Description: June 8, 1995, Maine Museum Day, Mt. Desert Island Historical Society Museum. Jean Fernald on Museum lawn holding camera. Marked on Back: "Jean Fernald June 8, 1995"
Description: June 8, 1995, Maine Museum Day, Mt. Desert Island Historical Society Museum. Gail Grandgent spinning wool, spectators, Richard and Laura Allen look on. Museum lawn. Marked on back: "Dick Allen, Laura Allen, Gail Grandsent. June 8, 1995." Could Gail actually be Gayle Grangent and simply misunderstood?
Description: June 8, 1995, Maine Museum Day, Mt. Desert Island Historical Society Museum. Gail Grandgent spinning wool, spectators look on. Museum lawn. Flower garden in background.
Description: June 8, 1995, Maine Museum Day, Mt. Desert Island Historical Society Museum. Gail Grandgent spinning wool, spectators look on. Museum lawn.
Description: June 8, 1995, Maine Museum Day, Mt. Desert Island Historical Society Museum. Museum interior. Far left, Jeannette Godfrey, far right, Betsy Alexander, center Jaylene Roths, museum director.
Description: June 8, 1995, Maine Museum Day, Mt. Desert Island Historical Society Museum. Museum interior. Bare wood shelves with china and glassware. Joanne Whitney to left, Edna Hysom to the right.
Description: China and glassware on bare wood shelves in background. Jaylene Roths, director on left, Gayle Grangent on right. June 8, 1995, Maine Museum Day, Mt. Desert Island Historical Society Museum. Museum interior.
Description: Two unknown people with Ralph Stanley, center. Museum interior. June 8, 1995, Maine Museum Day, Mt. Desert Island Historical Society Museum.
Description: June 8, 1995, Maine Museum Day, Mt. Desert Island Historical Society Museum. In the background, museum building and spinning wheel. Group from left to right, Joanne Whitney, Edna Hysom, Linda Gould, Gail Reiber.
Description: Jeannette Godfrey dressed in long skirt, white blouse, and cameo pin. Working on quilt for Maine Museum Day June 8, 1995 at the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. In background, early nineteenth century cradle.
Description: Jason C. Hill with Buelah Atherton, age 23 months. Jason Hill harness maker, married to Mary Hill, lived in house next to present Allen Fernald House. Somes Pond in background. Cape Cod style house to the left. Hill looks down at child on sled in snow. Hill wears medium length black coat and pants with cap. Child wears puffy hat, scarf and coat. Marked on back, “J.C. Hill and Buelah Atherton, Feb 13, 1902, Age 23 months, 16 days.”
Description: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen’s Building Museum. Mount Desert Museum Sign hangs outside building. Flowers in window box, bench near road side. Three women on step. From left to right, Mrs. Ethel Mae James, Mrs. Barry Smith, Mrs. Marjory Hayward.
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: Southwest Harbor Congregational Church, High Road Southwest Harbor. Congregation gathered in front of church. To the left white horse hitched to buggy. Rail fence in foreground, horse's head to the right. Stains throughout photo.
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: Men and women sitting and standing at the edge of a lake. Woman on left wears blanket over shoulder, man’s hat and holds stick near mouth. Ink smudge over man standing on rock in lake. Man crouching down tending fire. Next to him man holds bucket. Another man stands on small float, one stands on log holding onto mast of boat. Marked on back, “Property of Philip M. Caughey.
Description: Group of hikers on Beech Cliff. Three women in long dresses, two hold walking sticks. Four men, one on far rigth holds walking stick. Man in center holds binoculars. Group relaxes on rocks. Marked on back, “Geo. H. Van Norman, Photographer, 645 Main St. Waltham, Mass.” Also Marked, Property of Philip M. Caughey.
Description: Echo Lake with mountains in the distance. In foreground, man dipping pail into lake. Small row boat in center. To right man stands on log holding onto sail of dory. Marked on back, “Geo. H. Van Norman, Photographer, 645 Main St. Waltham, Mass.” Also Marked, Property of Philip M. Caughey.