Description: Card with double image of Sea Wall on Otter Creek Road, Mt. Desert, Allen, .. Photogapher, No. 24 Temple Place, Boston, R.H. Hysom written in ink on back side
Description: Card with double photo of man and boy, man seated in chair, young boy with hand on back of man's chair. Names on back of card: John Somes and John A. Somes, n.d., Stereoscopic views publiched by B.G. Joy, Photographer, Ellsworth, Maine, R.H. Hysom written in ink on back side
Description: Card with double image of Seal Cove, Mt. Desert, Me., Photographed and Published by B.W. Kilburn, Littleton, N.H., R.H. Hysom written in ink on the back side
Description: Card with double image of Balance Rock, Mount Desert Island, B.Bradley, Bar Harbor, ME. "Mt. Desert Scenery", R.H. Hysom name on back side
Description: Photographic reproduction in color of "My Family at Somesville" by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Original at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park, Florida. Shows Tiffany’s son leading cow on which sits baby. Tiffany’s wife holds baby on cow. His oldest daughter stands next to cow. Nurse holds other twin baby. May be in meadow near Somes Landing. (Anne Mazlish, donor, says this is at Beech Hill, AB 7/11/12)
Description: Large gold framed photographic portrait of Sophia A. Leighton Allen (1831-1898), wife of Obadiah Allen (1829-1915) and mother of Melville L. Allen (1862-1939).
Description: 9.5 X 13.5 print of black and white photo of Betty Moore, daughter-in-law of Edith Moore, nee Pulitzer of Baymeath. Photographer was George Daniell. "Baymeath" was Edith Moore's Hulls Cove estate.
Description: This is one of six 8 by 10 inch black and white photographs which are COPIES of Ballard photographs used in an exhibit from around 2001. The source of these prints is marked Jaylene. This photograph is of the Claremont Hotel from the water. There is a rowboat in the foreground. The float is in at the dock. The boat house is in the photo but without the deck it has now. The trees come up to the lawn hiding one house on the right side of the picture. Another house is more in view to the right of the hidden house. This is white with dormers. The original of this photo --and possibly the negative -- are in the collection of the Southwest Harbor Public Library. MDIHS does not have permission to reproduce this image. [show more]
Description: Mabel (Carrie) Moore Cadwell age 4 - 7. Short straight hair combed down. Wears short sleeve dark knee length dress. Bloomers show under skirt. Wears white stockings and black shoes with button strap. Shoulders and skirt hem trimmed with dark dotted ribbon. Chain with arrow shaped pendant around neck. Seated on small chair with fabric skirt.
Description: Two men ages 20-30. Man on left in soldiers uniform. Civil War era cap emblem with two swords attached. Dark uniform coat, top buttoned done. Watch fob visible through open coat. Lighter colored pants. Man on right dressed in identical uniform. Legs crossed, facing right. Men are seated on bench which appears to be on the deck of a boat. Marked House Boston.
Description: Photo of nineteenth century painting of unidentified pond and village. Given to MDIHS by Esther Block hoping for identification. Unknown artist
Description: Steamboat Norma. Built by Lawley of Boston, early 1890s. Purchased in late 1890s by Dwight Blaney of Ironbound Island of Bar Harbor. Sold to Captain Fred Haynes (Hays) of Bar Harbor for use as a sightseeing boat in the 1940s. Steam powered launch. Carried captain, engineer, and mate. Captain Sargent wintered in South Gouldsboro.