Description: Small black and white photograph of portrait of LaRue Spiker. The woman is wearing a suit jacket with a white shirt. There is a pin on their left shoulder. She is wearing glasses and has brown short currily hair held back with a headband. The is a stamp in the lower right corner which reads: Metcalf Studio 42.
Description: Black and white image. Hoisting ice in a bucket aboard Hornet. One unidentified man aboard deck of boat. The Charles Butt Ballard Negative Collection.
Description: Black and white image. Construction at Davis Boat Yard, McKinley, Maine. The Charles Butt Ballard Negative Collection. Individuals depicted in this and related photos: Clarence Butler, Stan Mitchell, Leon Butler, Nelson Herrick, Robert Mallinson, Grandville Davis, and John Murphy, Jr. Working on coaming, cribbing, and lowering engine
Description: Black and white photo image. Wharf at Bernard, Maine. Two skiffs tied to wharf at low tides. Lobster boats moored in the harbor in background. The Charles Butt Ballard Negative Collection.
Description: Black and white photo.Title on negative sleeve Seining at S.W. Harbor. Southwest Harbor, Maine. Four men in a odry, working a seine net. The Charles Butt Ballard Negative Collection Note other related images on Relations record herein.
Description: Mrs. John Allen Somes: short wavy hair parted on one side and brushed back. Wears white dress with smocking below shoulder and short sleeves. White buttons down front with long jeweled pin above top button. Pearls at throat. Marked on back, “Mrs. John Allen Somes Somesville, Bar Harbor, Me.” Ada May (Richardson) Somes b.October 4, 1872, married John Allen Somes on June 27, 1894, d. November 9, 1949
Description: Marjorie (sic) actually Marjory Hayward. Hair parted on one side and brushed down, curled up on ends. Wears white blouse with tucks along shoulder, dark buttons down center and on pocket. Collar with pointed ends lays flat. Small dark bow under collar. Marked on back, “Mrs. Marjorie Hayward Beech Hill Road, Somesville ME”. Moved to Mount Desert Island in 1936. Probably in her 30s.
Description: Paul Stubing indicated that this is a photograph of Bobby Rich and his father's yard in Bass Harbor. He said that there is a man on the bow of a dragger and that the picture was taken in 1945. There is a lobster boat on the grass in the right foreground. Her identification is "1-C-494". There are planks scattered in the foreground. Two coniferous trees are on the shore behind the "cradled" lobster boat.
Description: Paul Stubing indicated that this was a picture of the Stanley Fisheries and that the double-ender was "always" in the same point. The caption on the back reads, "Foggy Morning at Southwest Harbor, Maine - August 1941...Lighthouse Tender ILEX - Schooner Rebecca R. Douglass." There is a three-masted schooner in the center background and a vessel which looks like a freighter on the top left. There are two gulls resting on pilings in the foreground. [show more]
Description: The caption on the back of this photograph reads, "Sch. William Keen at Manset, Maine. Discharging Salt. 1949." This picture shows the vessel tied up to the Stanley Fish Wharf. She has two masts and there is one man on her foredeck and another man in the rigging. There is a motor boat rigged for fishing on the left side of the picture and the farmhouse on Greenings Island is visible in the background.
Description: A Boats #35 Alanda or Vixen (Butler/Roberts) and # 40 Scud (Fox/Price). Committee race boat with passengers aboard. Ballard Negative # Y-112
Allen-Holmes-Smith Photographs and other materials
Date:
1945
Description: Black and white graduation photograph of J. Walter Allen, 1945, in a cardboard folder frame. Allen is a young man wearing a dark jacket, striped dress shirt and necktie. Photographers logo is printed on the frame: Edward L Karam, The Farrington Studio, Brewer, Maine. Handwritten on the back of the frame: "J. Walter Allen, 1945".