Description: Unknown Man standing on steps of clapboard house with dark shutters and porch. Flower pots on steps. Man has hands in pocket. Hair parted on one side and brushed to the other. Wears dark coat unbuttoned and light colored vest . White shirt with dark bow tie. Dark trousers.
Description: Unknown Young Boy (age 5-7), older man (age 60 - 70), young woman (age 30 -40). Group standing in front of lilac tree. Boy wears white hat with sailor type shirt. Man wears light jacket with dark pants. Large, bushy beard and disshelved hair. Woman wears white blouse and skirt. Hair worn on top of head. Shingled building in background.
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: Julia, Mrs. Cushman, Kate. Three women. Photo blurred. Woman on left wears light colored dress, woman in middle wears light colored dress with pattern on hem and bodice, black stockings and shoes. Woman on right wears checked dress or jumper with black stockings and shoes. To right 1915-1920 style car passes, to left is white house with black shutters and covered porch.
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: Young man age 18 - 30. Hair in pompadour. Stands with legs crossed, arm on back of chair, curtain to the rigth. Wears long black coat, dark vest and trousers, bow tie with white shirt. Watch fob visible. Marked on back “her son”.
Description: Aerial view of Somesville and Somes Harbor. Center, Somes House and Somes Landing. To left Fernald’s Store. later Port-In-A-Storm bookstore, even later--gallery; driveway encircles building. Donated by Claire and Pete Arnold. Photographer Robert Hylander signed unrestricted Deed of Gift, May 16, 2015.
Description: Black and white photo of Somes Landing. Two small sail boats hide behind evergreens. Lawn in foreground, mountains in background. Water in Somes Harbor very still. Upper left hand corner slightly worn. Donated by Clarie and Pete Arnold, 1996. Note on folder states, "Photo of Sound-- Used for Website.
Description: Mount Desert High School (in Somesville) Boys Basketball team 1934-35. Eight uniformed players, one boy in sweater, man in suit. Five seated, five standing. Players wear sleeveless uniform shirts and shorts with dark sneakers.
Description: Somes House Hotel in Somesville. Image faded and dirty. View of right side of house near driveway. Large tree shades right side of house. Wrap around porch, three stories with two dormers visible. Wide stairs descend from porch. Three people stand in front of lattice work under porch. Woman wearing dark dress, man wearing dark pants, vest and white shirt iwht sleeves rolled up, woman in plaid skirt and dark blouse. Lower right hand corner of image damged. [show more]
Description: Small promotional or souvenir photograph. Caption reads, “Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. Porcupine Islands and Frenchman’s Bay from the summit of Cadillac Mountain.
Description: Unknown Woman wIth dark hair piled on top of head. White long sleeved blouse with v-neck, brooch at point of v. Long dark skirt with plaid sash over waist. Inside wood shop. Hand on miter saw. On left basket in progress. Tools hang on wall behind her. Photo cut into octagon. Backed with old advertisement for cameras.
Description: Two masted schooner at wharf in front of A.J. Whiting’s (later, 1887, Fernald’s) Store. Back of blacksmith shop visible on left. Small sailing dory tied to wharf. Anchor hangs from bow. Several men seated in the bow of schooner, one standing aft near main mast. Man driving wagon pulled by two white horses. Somes Meadow in distance. Tear in lower left hand corner.
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: Four candle mold, coal iron, wooden pitcher, toddy warmer sitting on mill stone in front of Mt. Desert Island Historical Society’s Selectmen’s Building Museum.
Description: Nelson Leland standing in front of microphone on grassy hill. Two boys laying something on the ground. Three men and two women in background. See 997.26.187
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.