Description: Portraits of Somesville Grade School. Printed on bottom, Somesville School, Mt. Desert, ME., R. Higgins. Portraits of Somesville Grade School. No grade or year marked. M.Grant is marked at the bottom right Ruby written above R. Higgins. Marked on top, “School Memories, recalled by Alston Studios.” Students from top left to right; Joseph Musetti, [heice] Tracy, Ned Butler; row two, Ann Tracy, unmarked, Marie Richardson, Charlie Barnes, Dottie Kelley, Eliot Mitchell, Avis Lilly; row three, Everett Blanchard, Norma Hibbard, John Carter, Ralph Gonzales, David Grant, unmarked, Rolf Gonzales. [show more]
Description: Portraits of Somesville Grade School. No grade or year marked. M.Grant is marked at the bottom right. Students from left to right, top row; Tom Fernald, Pat Hibbard, Richard Kelley, Kay Tracy, Teddy Stanley, Georgia Robinson; row two, Deaveraux Barnes, Sharon Gonzales, Charlie Carter, Jean Barned, Tony Merchant, Carloyn Brown, Norman Richardson; row three, Lydia Butler, Earl Reed, Rosemary Blanchard, David Lucas, Libby Gonzales, Charlie Barnes, Dennis Blanchard. Margaret written above M. Grant. [show more]
Description: A 5x7 black and white photograph of the "New Museum," possible the Somesville Museum of the Mt.Desert Island Historical Society. (No other information is given about the photo or the location of the museum.)
Description: Black and white photo of a winter scene of two light colored buildings next to an unfrozen river. Notation on the back reads: The Old Woolen Mill. Somesville
Description: From Somes Cove looking towards Somesville and Main Street. To the left, wreck of Schooner Catherine, no masts. Behind Catherine to the left, Fernald’s store (aka A.J. Whiting’s Store) then Port-in-a-Storm bookstore, then The Gallery at Somes Sound (2013-15) . To the right of Fernald’s Store, historic Nathan Salisbury House, once owned by Stan and Binnie MacDonald. To the right Somes House Inn and Cottages. Marked on bottom, “Somes House and Cottages, Somesville, ME. 2K.” [show more]
Description: Tables, bags, and boxes full of stuff. Pictured are preparations for a yard sale held in the Meiers’ yard in Somesville on July 18, 1981 to benefit the League of Women Voters Annual Fund Drive
Description: Mound of clothing on a sale table outdoors. Pictured is a yard sale held in the Meiers’ yard in Somesville on July 18, 1981 to benefit the League of Women Voters Annual Fund Drive.
Description: Two women bending over a small folding table. Pictured is a yard sale held in the Meiers’ yard in Somesville on July 18, 1981 to benefit the League of Women Voters Annual Fund Drive.
Description: Mount Desert Island Historical Society’s Historic Selctmen’s Building. Mount Desert Museum sign on sign holder on corner of building. Shutters open, flowers in box under front window. Large granite step on ground at center of building. Street in foreground. Negative for 97-309-474a
Description: Two photos of interior of MDI Historical Society Historic Selectmen’s Building Museum printed on same paper. Top photo shows wood stove, hay fork, powder horns, lantern, mail bags, pewter communion set, clothes wringer and other itms. Second photo shows Sarah Kittredge portrait, chinaware, bottles, display case and pewter communion set and other items.
Description: Somesville School Class photograph, October 1909. Twenty one students, none identified. Marked Somesville, Me, Oct 1909 in lower left corner. Students gathered on grass, trees in background. Teacher in center wears hair pulled back with white blouse and dark skirt which buttons down center. Dark tie at neck. Photo attached to glass. Glass cracked in several places.
Description: Working the weir. Man inside pen hauling net into dory. Man and woman observe from edge of pen. This is a slide of a photo in the collection
Description: Working the weir. Man inside pen in dory. Man standing on pen pulling on net. Woman observing. This is a slide version of a photo in the collection
Description: Color slide looking accross Somes Pond toward the fish ladder at the right edge of the pond where it empties into Somes Sound. From folder: Landscapes