Description: Three men on Somes Pond. Power ice saw in background. Man in middle saws ice by hand. Man nearest power saw holds long pole for moving ice. Third man in red plaid coat looks on.
Description: Punt on floats. Fishing boats tied to floats some on moorings. Seal of Seal Harbor in center. Negative in possession of donor. Ballard # 2-359
Description: Fishing boats tied to floats off Clark Point. Head of the harbor in the distance. Negative in possession of donor. This photo is not located in Photo Album #3. This may be a duplicate of 997-635-805 and not a separate print after all.
Description: Sardine Cannery at Southwest Harbor present sight of Southwest Boat Company off Clark Point Road. Sardine carriers tied to floats. Two men working on float.
Description: Addison Packing Company wharf August 1946. Four sardine carriers, Osprey, Surfman, Joyce Marie and Safety , at wharf. Clark Point in the background. Negative property of Paul T. Stubing.
Description: Map of east side of Mt. Desert tracing spread of 1947 fire. Marked, “Forest Fire 1947 - M. Gilley. This is likely a photograph of a map made by M. Gilley (AB)
Description: Men harvesting ice on Somes Pond winter of 1947. In foreground two men use large wooden “scoop/plow” to scrape snow of ice. Another man to right pushes ice along open water. Large saw in back of men plowing snow. Other men in background near Oak Hill Road. Truck on ice near shore.
Description: Virginia Somes Sanderson, wavy hair pulled loosely to back in bow. Wearing sun suit with feathers or similar shape throughout. Holding saw towards tree, hatchet in hand. Marked on back, “Sheep Island, 1949.”
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".
Description: Black and white photo. of Donald Smith (in center) on camel during World War II outside Cairo, Egypt, (possibly Giza) with two other soldiers, also on camels, in front of pyramid. One camel held by native person in white. Name of person in right given as Bohliyer. Two copies of same photo, marked c. 1 and c.2
Description: This is a photograph depicting the working harbor of Southwest. There is a lobster boat tied up to a float in the foreground. Working towards the top of the picture, there is hull#247063, a working fishing boat, tied up to a float with a motor launch. Next come the Sunbeam, Sandra & Jean (built in 1945) and Hornet rafted together. In the upper right is a barge with a tall ladder braced against a support frame.