Description: A.C. Hagerty age 20 - 30. Hair swept to back, head turned to side. Wears coat with velvet collar, white shirt with small black silk bow tie. Oval photo. Marked on back, “City Photograph Gallery, N.W. Cor, Church and Bank Sts, Burlington, Vt. Negatives Preserved. M.J. Bixby.
Description: A.J. Whiting age 20-30. Wears hair brushed back over head, trim mustache and medium length beard tucked into collar. Heavy suit possibly wool. Seated with legs crossed and hands clasped. Wide cuffs on coat with pocket and flap on rigth side. Vest buttoned to top, small black tie and whtie collar appear underneath vest.
Description: Marked Hat Noyes and Harriet Noyes. Woman age 20 - 30 wears hari pulled back and parted in the middle, with narrow braid over top of head. Stands with hand on back of chari. Full black skirt with belt at waist. White blouse and polka dot tie. Short jacket with full sleeved over blouse. Stains, especially on right side of image.
Description: Chas E. Somes age 20 - 30. Standing with arms crossed over chest. Wavy hair parted on one side. Dark coat with white shirt and black tie. Image fading, some stains on photo.
Description: Tilda Nash, Sister to Mrs. Jarvis Higgins. Woman age 18-30. Curly hair worn in ringlets pulled back with hair band. Choker with cross at neck. Dark dress and white lace collar with silk bow at neck. On back - “Collins, 316 Congress Street Portland, Me.
Description: Matted photograph. View to the north on Beech Hill Road. Richardson house is on left (west) side. Richardson barn and ells are visible. On east side of road is another house with outbuildings. Open field in foreground. Date unknown. "Beech Hill Mt. Desert" written in script on lower left edge of photo.
Description: Six lobster boats lined up, bows on beach in cove. Photo take from above with water to right. Boats at either end have sails up. Upside down white row boat stands out between woods and beach. Beach curves around on right side of photo with houses above. Source of this photo is unknown. Found mixed in a group of contact images that were of mixed origins. This may be a contact image of a negative that is in the SWH Library collection. Should be checked out before using image. There may be restrictions: not known .09/23/2014n. [show more]
Description: Outside Farnsworth boat shed. Unknown man reaching from stern of small boat with a hook bringing a boat which has just been lauched under control.
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