Description: New Herreshoff Bullseye sailboat (Burke). See information in archival box #7 folder # 21. According to a letter to Sturgis Haskins from Edmund Gillispie, grandson of Edmund Burke, this may be a Bullseye named Scamp. Picture was taken near Norwood’s Cove where the Burkes build their summer home. He suspects the man in the hat may be his grandfather.
Description: Main Street Somesville.Somes Cove on left. Trees line street. Board sidewalk visible on right near picket fenced yards. Fernald’s Store (art gallery as of 2016 1112 Main St ) hidden by trees. Lumber mill to left. Two masts of schooner rise up over trees.Negative.
Description: Hall Quarry, quarry in winter. Looking across Somes Sound. Pieces of granite scattered about. Rail for tram covered with snow runs through center of photo. Various buildings in the middle ground. Derricks in the foreground.
Description: Man, two women and girl in canoe paddling on the mill pond, American flag on bow. Another canoe in middle ground containing three women, a girl and boy. Crowd gathered on lawn of Somesville Library. Tents pitched on lawn in front of building. Somes House Inn visible on the right. Blacksmith’s shop and Fernald's Store (aka A.J. Whiting store), later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore, on the left. Tall deciduous tree hanging over bank on the left. CHRISTMAS GREETINGS printed but only partially visible at bottom. [show more]
Description: Looking toward Main Street from Somes Cove. Lumber mill on the left, library to right of mill. In center two and one-half story house with porch on front and left side. Further right and on the water is Fernald’s Store (aka A.J. Whiting Store), later Port-In-A-Storm bookstore and now (2016) Gallery at Somes Sound. Historic Nathan Salisbury House to the far right [?].
Description: Marked, “Somesville Church 76” in lower left corner. Somesville Church (now Union Meeting House, 2015) built in 1852 (per "Living Past", p. 280) Telephone pole sitting in front of church. Lower shutters open, uppers closed.