Allen-Holmes-Smith photographs and other materials
Description: Black and white portrait photograph of an unknown young man. He wears his short hair combed straight back. He is wearing a jacket, white shirt and necktie. Photo is in a folding cardboard frame with embossed art deco design on the front.
Description: Small steamboat with canopy towing small skiff in Somes Harbor. American flag flying aft. Note on back of photo remarks the man at the helm is Capt. Lester Pray. Back of Somesville Library to the left. Two and one-half story building above boat no longer standing. Peak of blacksmith’s shop visible over canopy of boat. To the right, Fernald’s store (purchased from A.J. Whiting in 1887) later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore, then art gallery. Large smudge in upper right corner of photo. [show more]
Description: Grist mill on Somes Brook. High bushes cover most of building. Shingled roof, with weathered shingled siding. Large stones line bank of stream. Another small clapboard building to right in background.
Description: Main Street Somesville. Trees line street. Board sidewalk visible on right near picket fenced yards. Fernald’s Store (now Port-in-a-Storm bookstore) hidden by trees. Historic Lewis Somes on right hidden by trees. telephone poles line street. Man stands on grass near road in distance.
Description: Framed photograph of Constance Marie Kenney (26 April 1923-24 October 2013). According to text written on back, she is the second daughter of Emily Phillips and Robert Edes Kenney.