Description: Woodbury Tracy? age 60 -70 holding hand of girl age 3-4. Standing outside James Richardson homestead (Fair Oakes Farm) a white clapboard house. Man wears dark coat and trousers with dark shirt underneath. Gray hair, balding, mustache. Girl wears knee length whte dress with buttons down bodice. White flower in hair.
Description: Unknown Boy age 10-12 dressed in white sailor style shirt and knickers with black socks and “sneakers”. Standing on dirt road in front of grassy embankment. Above cape house with with attachment, another two story house next door. Tree on bank.
Description: People gathered on library lawn. Somesville Library in background. Children holding flags to left. Nelson Leland in middle. Adults on right.
Description: Barn or shed in winter. Long building of natural wood, no siding or paint. No window. Large door on left end. Sign or painting of horse on right end. Other buildings in distance. Lower left hand corner torn.
Description: Photograph of photograph in frame. Somes creek in winter with woolen mill in back ground. Two other buildings visible on left. One with two stories and chimney. Other in distance.
Description: Wool swift, dye pot, and heddle sitting on mill stone in front of Mt. Desert Island Historical Society’s Selectmen’s Building Museum. On left is front step of Museum. In distance to the right is Somesville Library.
Description: White three story clapboard cottage with black shutters. Porch on front and back. Front also has second floor balcony. One chimney. Marked Lawson Cottage, Lord Cottage and on the back, later Halstead Cottage.
Description: House on Thompson’s Island built by William Thompson. Two story house with attic. Addition on left side of house. Wrap around porch. Two chimneys. Small shrubs in front of house. Several trees around house. Wires connected to building. Recorded on back of photo - “My great-grandfather William Thompson’s house on “the island” in Trenton, Maine. The island was where the drawbridge was from the mainlands to Mt. Desert Island. William Thompson built the drawbridge and his men operated it for a long time. When I was a little girl (c. 8 or 9) and visited my grandparents at this place. I loved to go to the toll house and watch the taking of the toll. [show more]
Description: Mount Desert House (The Tavern) in center of photo, taken from across the mill pond. Several people standing outside on lawn. Horse harnessed to buggy with person in seat. Person seated in chair on lawn with woman standing behind. Two men to the right. Historic Nathan Salisbury house with dark trimmed windows to the right. Stake fence surrounds front yard of the Nathan Salisbury house.
Description: Historic Abraham Somes III house (now Cobb House). Three men standing with two horse on the right side of the house. Barn at back of house no longer exists.
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. Appears to have been taken from upstream. Sepia-tone; 4 X 5. This is also a slide (97-704-874) used in the Someville Bicentenial and can be found on Row 2 Unit 2 Shelf 4 Slide Box 1
Description: Lumber mill on mill pond in Somesville. Somes Cove and mountain in background. Rocks in foreground, logs on bank. This is also a slide that was used for the Someville Bicentenial and can be found on Row 2 Unit 2 Shelf 4 Slide Box 1.
Description: Main Street, Somesville.Somes Cove on left. Trees line street. Board sidewalk visible on right near picket fenced yards. Fernald’s Store (later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore) hidden by trees. Lumber mill to left. Two masts of schooner rise up over trees.
Description: Main Street Somesville. Nathan Salisbury House to the left surrounded by picket fence. Black trim around windows. Somes House Inn to right
Description: Mt. Desert Island Bridge. Narrow bridge with wood side rails. Small pier extends off left side of bridge. Two metal towers at either end of bridge. In foreground, white two and one half story house with white clapboard siding and black trim and covered front porch. Another house behind it. Both sit to right of bridge. Small shack or shed to left. Other buildings across bridge in distance. Marked on bottom “New Mt. Desert Bridge 1A.”
Description: Man on mowing machine. Team of oxen stand in front of machine, not harnessed. Large shingled barn behind man and oxen. man wears short buttoned jacket, dark pants and boots and cap. Marked on back, “Some of the first oxen in Somesville.”
Description: Two-masted schooner aground [?] in Somes Cove in back of lumber mill. Marked on back, “Lumber Schooner built [?] by OC Nutting. Old Mill to right.”
Description: Group of women and two men gathered on steps of unidentified brick building. Names marked on back, “Carmen Harper, Lucy Murphy, Abbie Buck, Abbie Hanna, Evelyn McPheaters, Edna Miller, Gladys Sweetsen, Ellis [Daieu], Adria Pratt, Elise Buck, Marjorie Harvey, Inez Folsom, Louis Hutchings, Jessie Flye, Maurice Brown, Flora V.E. Ames, Elizabeth Parker, Gracia Hooper, Francis Larrabee, Mildred Look, Calista Andrews, Mabel Ridley, Ida M. Folsom, Hattie Wiggin, Dr. Edward E. Philbrook, Kate M. Russell. [show more]
Description: Ethel Somes wearing heavy dark cardigan sweater, with knee pants, boots laced up to knee. Small cabin in background among small evergreens and bare decidous trees. Marked on bottom, “[Necatous?] Ethel Somes.”
Description: Thaddeus Shepley Somes reading paper, holding garden hoe. Broom leaning on tree. Appears to be working on flower beds near roadside. Wearing derby, dark pants and vest, and white shirt. Location unknown, buildings and telephone poles line street.
Description: Virginia Sanderson wearing robe outside cabin on Sheep Island with three bull dogs. Ramp to float in foreground. Wood pile behind cabin in trees.