Description: Virginia Somes Sanderson wearing hair short and curly. White blouse with large buttons and wide collar laying flat on shoulders. Strand of pearls at neck. Dark background
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:
1937, February
Description: 1.5 X 2 photo of Phillip Francis McFarland, age 12 on Sept. 25,1936. Picture taken in February, 1937. Photographers identification on front: Wilson Photo, Cambridge, Mass.
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".