Description: Thaddeus Shepley Somes (1839-1913) and his wife, Clara Emilie Meynell Somes (1842-1920). Thaddeus Somes seated to right of Clara Somes, who is standing. He wears a plaid shirt, buttoned vest, open coat, lighter colored pants; she wears dark dress with light bow at neck, hair braided on crown. Thaddeus has moustache and goatee; has right hand is in his pocket, the other hand on his knee; his legs are crossed. Clara also wears long earrings, brooch on ribbon around her neck and a chain on bodice. Her right forearm is resting on his left shoulder. This is tintype is the source of all the related images: negative 997-810-980, later negative 997-803-973 and print from later negative 997-590-760. [show more]
Description: Yellow wood box with hinged lid and small oval shell medallion in center. Appears to hold dried, caked make-up. Wood may be maple. Compact for face powder.
Description: Apple-shaped pincushion with needle, straight pins, two large pins with initial W (likely Whitmore) and one large pin with man's figure. Found in apartment over old store in Seal Harbor.
Description: This is comprehensive report that addresses such topics as attendance, subjects of study (reading, arithmetic, geography, language and grammar, history, spelling, penmanship). The School Improvement League of Maine is discussed. The 1894 volume has newspaper clippings of recipes pasted onto the first few pages as well as several loose clippings.
Description: Ann Somes, daughter of Jacob and Rebecca Seavy Somes. Married William Fennelly. She ran the Central House in Somesville which was inherited from her father, the builder. Age 10-14. Long blond hair with tight curls around top of head. Seated on floor with arms leaning on stool. Wears ring on ring finger and beads around neck. Dress, check with lace collar. Buttons on left side of bodice. Trim on both sides of bodice and near cuffs. Stored in white envelope marked, Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Salisbiry, Mount Desert. Also marked Farrar and Barnard Staioners, 687 1/2 Washington Street. (1 envelope and 1 photo) [show more]
Description: Green Binder: Copies of Reminiscences of Somesville by Adelma F. Joy; Excerpts from The Island of Mount Desert Register 1909-1910;Annual Report of Town Officers of Mount Desert, ME 1900,1910, 1911 - 1916 and 1931
Description: Sight Seeing and Ferry Schedules, Beal & Bunker Inc. Cranberry Isles, Maine The old Mail Boat Srervice aboard the Island Ferry, Islesford Historical Cruise aboard the Sea Princess Mail Boat and Ferry Service aboard the Sea Queen
Description: Menus from Elmwood Hotel, Waterville, Maine (Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Dinner, Initiation Banquet, Phi Delta Theta, 1911, 1912 Gray's Inn, Jackson, NH (Washington's Birthday), 1920 The Hamiltons, Bermuda The St. George, Bermuda Huntoon's Tavern, Brunswick, Maine Hotel Heselton, Skowhegan (First Maine Cavalry Fourth Annual Banquet, 1894) Hotel Heselton , Skowhegan, 1894 to commemorate the initial trip on the Skowhegan and Norridgewock Electric Road, Reunion and Banquet of U.K.E. A, 1895, and Somerset Association, First Maine Cavalry, 1894 Lawrence House, Augusta ( Farewell Lunch for 76th Maine Legislature, Xmas 1913) Imperial Club, 1895 Chef A. G. Cookson was donor's great great uncle. [show more]
Description: Small black notebook listing deceased members by cemetery: 58 in Northeast Harbor, 3 in Kimball Cemetery, 18 Seal Harbor, 7 Somes Sound, 6 Somesville, 2 Oak Point, 4 Pretty Marsh, 1 Bartlett’s Island, 3 Southwest Harbor, 2 Town Hill, 1 Stonington,2 Surry, 3 Islesford, 2 Otter Creek, 1 East Sullivan, 2 Franklin, 1 North Ellsworth, Sedgwick, Ellsworth, Prospect Harbor, Brewer, Steuben, Farmington. Deceased members of the Ocean Lodge #140.
Description: Map of Mt. Desert Island, Undated. Written on with red pen Maps Showing the Routes of All Divisions for the Eastern Steamship Company. From the Passenger Traffic Department, Boston, Mass. Cover to a booklet (inside pages missing) showing the routes of various steamships. Map is mounted and framed.
Object, Fishing, Fishing Tackle, Fishing Weight, Net Weight
Subject:
Other, Fishing
Other, Weights
Description: Eleven (11) weights for fishing nets on a line of rope, with metal eye at one end. Circular loop of rope at opposite end. Each weight is approx. 1.25 inches long.