Description: Women seated on rocks watching Northeast Harbor Fleet cruise to Blue Hill. Start of the Bar Harbor S-Boats. Committee boat is "Swallow" from NEH fleet; Ballard photo c. 1939. Taken from Milliken Camp estate. Per notes from 2011 "Mystery Photographs" Exhibit (AB).
Description: The last brush of paint. Workmen putting finishing touches to the S.S. Acadia, the new Eastern Steamship liner, just before launching at he Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, Virginia on Saturday last, February 13, 1932. Note the giant blades and shaft projecting from the hull of one of the twin screws.
Description: Steamboat "Westport" at Steamboat wharf in Southwest Harbor. Fishing boat on mooring in foreground. To the left is a punt tied to a float. Mountains in background. Marked on back, “W.H. Ballard, Photographer Southwest Harbor, Maine #3. Str, Westport at Southwest Harbor June 1933.”
Description: Wreck of the Schooner "Catherine" in Somes Harbor. Somes House Inn covered by trees across the Cove. To the right Somes House Cottages. In foreground logs on ways. Marked on back, “Catherine was built in Belfast, Me in 1833. #165 Schooner Catherine abandoned in the Cove at Somesville, Me. W.H. Ballard, Photographer Southwest Harbor, Maine July 1935.” Signed, Virginia Somes Sanderson
Description: Virginia Somes Sanderson wearing long dress or robe, holding saw in her hand, about to limb evergreens. Two dogs paw in the grass behind her.
Description: Keith McKane outside cabin on Sheep Island. Looks towards sun. Wears no shirt with dark pants and belt. Chopping pile of wood, log on stump. Bull dog next to wood pile. Marked on back Oct 9, 1939.
Allen-Holmes-Smith Photographs and other materials
Date:
1934
Description: Photograph of Andrew A. Somes at 24 years of age. His obituary from Bar Harbor Times, date March 5, 1998, is attached to the back of the photograph. Also written on the back are the names, ages and birthdates of Andrew and his two sisters: "Andrew 87 (1910), Valeria 85, 1913, Mary 73, 1925".
Description: 10" X 13" black and white photo. of SS Iroquois Aground, Bar Harbor, July 19, 1936. Man and woman observe from adjacent boat. In frame, which may need to be removed to preserve photo.
Description: Front view of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen's Building Museum. Shutters closed, ladder leaning against door with saw horse to the left. Brook in background.
Description: Panoramic view of Sheep Island. Evergreens line rock shore with small ledge extending into a small cove. Two photographs attached together to create panorama.
Description: 3.5 X 5 black and white photograph of a dark colored dog with long legs in stance with head cocked to the right of the photo. Eyes are wide and he faces the camera. Has short tail and light coloring on chest. Wearing buckled collar with studs. Standing on chest of drawers. Writting on bottom of photo, “Nero.” Dec,. 1930.
Description: 2.5 X 4 black and white photograph of small black and white dog with short nose sitting on steps outside in front of door with screen. Dogs ears are perked and he looks ahead above camera. He wears a dark harness with metal studs around his chest , with buckle bellow front legs.
Description: 2.5 X 4 black and white photo of black dog (Nero) lying in grass, body inclined to the left, head turned to face camera. Ball in foeground in front of dog. Bench in background behind dogs head, White structure behind dog. Writting on back, “ June, 1930, ‘Nero’.
Description: leaflet from the Annual Meeting of the Garden Club of America July 11,12,13, 1934 Garden Club of Mt. Desert with description of the Eyrie Garden of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and illustration of the Garden.