Allen-Holmes-Smith Photographs and other materials
Date:
1922
Description: Black and white photograph of an unknown woman. She wears a dress and a hat and is sitting on the running board of a car. Stated on the back: "Friend of Bertha E. Allen, Hartford, CT 1922".
Description: Photo of Mount Desert Rock lighthouse keeper Vinal O. Beal. Photo taken in 1925. Beal was second assistant (1909-1910), first assistant (1910-1911), then principal keeper (1911-c. 1918) of the lighthouse on Mount Desert Rock.
Description: This is a matted 8 by 10 black and white photograph of a class. It is labeled 1929 and "freshman class" on the back. No indication which school this is. The top mat has been removed, but the photo. needs to be removed from the back.
Description: This is a 5x7 photograph of school children outside the yellow school building which is presently used by Harbor House but was the Pemetic High School in Southwest Harbor. The photo is dated 1929.
Description: Railroad to Cut-Down Coasting Schooner Serving as a Barge. Baird Quarry, Minturn. C.1920 Courtesy of The Swan's Island Educational Society.
Description: Somesville School 1926. Grammar School. Two girls, one female teacher and six boys stand in front of the school house. From right; James Young, Nelson Leland, Dan Smith, Don Smith, Hollis Smith, Julian Brown, "Nell See" (?), Horace Dichie, Ruth Dichie. The house they are standing in front of is the Don Smith House. Fred P. Smith (1886-1960), house built in 1880 for $1,000.
Description: 1926 Somesville High School students seated and standing on lawn in front of trees. Male principal or teacher stands in center at back. Eleven boys and twelve girls.
Description: Color postcard of Mt. Desert Bridge, Maine. "One of the few toll bridges now in existence." Published by J.A. Thompson, Ellsworth, Me. Addressed to Miss Mabel D. Mason, c/o L. Davis, Plaistow, RFD, NH. (Removed from original frame.)
Description: Color postcard labeled, "American Falls from Goat Isle, Niagara Falls." Postcard is addressed to Mary Rainey [sp?], Southwest Harbor, Maine, Hotel Dirigo.