Description: June Smith age 5-9. Boy wears big smile, light colored shirt and knee pants with dark stockings and black boots. Stands on grass near large tree.
Description: June Smith age 5-9 sitting on pile of straw. Brother of Daniel Somes Smith. Boy wears light colored shirt and knee pants with dark stockings and black boots. Holds hat in hand.
Description: Virginia Somes Sanderson: short wavy hair, wearing blousy white dress, ribbon hanging around neck. Marked on back, “Just to let you know, dear Aunt Ada, that I am thinking of you. Virginia.” Lower right corner bent.
Description: Virginia Somes Sanderson, short wavy hair parted on one side and brushed to the other. Hand on cheek. Wears leopard pattern blanket or shawl with white stripes around shoulder with print dress underneath. Curtain in background.
Description: Students on step of Somesville school house, ages 13-18. Teacher in middle of back row. Girls standing in back row, second row, girls seated on step, first row boys seated on ground.
Description: Virginia Somes Sanderson dressed for costume party in monk's robe holding small animal, maybe rabbit, in hands. Standing near bushes and trellis. This is similar to accession #997-488-654, which is the object ID for this. These numbers all need to be fixed. (AB)
Description: Virginia Somes Sanderson standing on sidewalk near bushes and trellis. Wearing hair parted in middle and pulled back with white peasant type blouse, sleeves pulled up, black skirt, calf length, wide black belt and dark shoes. Standing with hands on hips.
Description: Virginia Somes Sanderson dressed for costume party in monk's robe holding small animal, maybe rabbit, in hands. Standing near bushes and trellis. Marked on back, “How I looked at the feté.”
Allen-Holmes-Smith Photographs and other materials
Date:
1922
Description: Black and white photograph of an unknown woman. She wears a dress and a hat and is sitting on the running board of a car. Stated on the back: "Friend of Bertha E. Allen, Hartford, CT 1922".
Description: Photo of Mount Desert Rock lighthouse keeper Vinal O. Beal. Photo taken in 1925. Beal was second assistant (1909-1910), first assistant (1910-1911), then principal keeper (1911-c. 1918) of the lighthouse on Mount Desert Rock.
Description: This is a matted 8 by 10 black and white photograph of a class. It is labeled 1929 and "freshman class" on the back. No indication which school this is. The top mat has been removed, but the photo. needs to be removed from the back.
Description: This is a 5x7 photograph of school children outside the yellow school building which is presently used by Harbor House but was the Pemetic High School in Southwest Harbor. The photo is dated 1929.
Description: Railroad to Cut-Down Coasting Schooner Serving as a Barge. Baird Quarry, Minturn. C.1920 Courtesy of The Swan's Island Educational Society.
Description: Somesville School 1926. Grammar School. Two girls, one female teacher and six boys stand in front of the school house. From right; James Young, Nelson Leland, Dan Smith, Don Smith, Hollis Smith, Julian Brown, "Nell See" (?), Horace Dichie, Ruth Dichie. The house they are standing in front of is the Don Smith House. Fred P. Smith (1886-1960), house built in 1880 for $1,000.
Description: 1926 Somesville High School students seated and standing on lawn in front of trees. Male principal or teacher stands in center at back. Eleven boys and twelve girls.
Description: Color postcard of Mt. Desert Bridge, Maine. "One of the few toll bridges now in existence." Published by J.A. Thompson, Ellsworth, Me. Addressed to Miss Mabel D. Mason, c/o L. Davis, Plaistow, RFD, NH. (Removed from original frame.)