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: Small card size painting by Garmie/Somes?- likely Ann Somes Fenneley. See photographs 997-293-48 and 997-298-463 for family history and artist details.
Description: Painting of the old Somesville Mill by George Ashbridge Rhoades. Mill on pond with waterfall to the right. Church steeple in background. Moon in upper left corner. Copy of July 5, 1933 news article on back in reference to the Somesville Mill burning down. Taped to the back of the painting are a newspaper clipping and a typed copy of the clipping: BAR HARBOR TIMES Wednesday, July 5, 1933 SOMESVILLE MILL IS BURNED Early yesterday morning the Old Mill at Somesville burned in a fire of undetermined origin. This historic landmark owned jointly by Mrs. John Somes and Mrs. Geo. Somes has been in the Somes family for four generations. It was built nearly 100 years ago by the first John Somes, a pioneer on the island. Lumber, long and short shingles were sawed at the mill and it was operated by John Somes up to about eight years ago. The remnant of the little old schooner which John Singer Sargent painted when he visited the island some dozen years ago, escaped the fire. The mill will not be rebuilt. [show more]
Description: In oval dark wood frame with gilt edge. Portrait - gray background. Subject wearing black suit and bow tie resembles Abraham Lincoln. Loaner is descendant of Nathan Salisbury who lived in Somesville.
Description: Background brown and gray. Subject is wearing bonnet, shawl, black dress. A hand is reaching from behind sofa to take sheet music. Sarah Kittredge ( 1776-1871) was the wife of Dr. Kendall Kittredge (1773-1857), first doctor on Mount Desert Island. Artist unknown- may be an itinerant painter.
Description: Tinted engraving a collage of pictures by Harry Fenn Boat Landing, Cliff Walk, Bald Porcupine, In the Arch, Cathedral Rock, The Ovens, Star Crevice, A Conceit
Description: Tinted engraving, collage of 6 scenes of Bar harbor and neighboring shore. Bass harbor light, Deer Island, Bar Harbor, Split Rock and the Ovens
Description: Tinted engraving of the German steamship Cimbria in SW Harbor. It had been sent to US to await the completion of the vessels that the Volunteer Russian Navy had ordered. As it turns out they were never completed and the Cimbria returned to Russia.