Description: Marked on back, “New Museum opening day by Julia B. Smith. Tools on display in background in Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum. Bare wood walls and cabinets. Piano, display case and Great Walking wheel to right. Unknown man seated at desk.
Description: Marked on back, “New Museum opening day by Julia B. Smith." China displayed in Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum. Bare wood walls and cabinets. Piano, display case and Great Walking wheel in foreground. Two people viewing china. 3.5 x 4
Description: Parade float for Mt. Desert Island Historical Society. Larger banner on end of float proclaims, “Twixt the Hills.” Bango and fiddle player in 19th century costume on end of float decorated in red, white, and blue. Women in costume in back of float with spining wheel and Museum sign. Crowd watches from the sidewalk.
Description: Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum 1980s.Bare wood shelves. Photographic display of Cranberry Isles ships, other maritime artifacts and Gilley clock.
Description: Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum 1980s.Bare wood shelves. Various tools and small ship painting. Babson portrait to the left.
Description: Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum 1980s.Bare wood shelves. Print of Fitz Hugh Lane’s “Entrance to Somes Sound” along with various tools.
Description: Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum 1980s.Bare wood shelves. Photographic display of Southwest Harbor ships, with two half hull models.
Description: Virginia Somes Sanderson, age 70-80 wears glasses with dark frames, blue dress with seagulls. Seated at table inside Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen’s Building Museum. Collection of China displayed on shelf behind Sanderson. Portrait of Sarah Whiting Kittredge and William Thompson Memorial wreath on right.
Description: 5 X 7 black and white photograph of John Malbry writing on chalk board. Unknown students sit and stand on porch. Some have notebooks in hand.
Description: 5 X 7 black and white photograph of three unknown children (ages 4-6) standing in line near Park Street. Child in center wearing Park Street Playground t-shirt.
Description: Thaddeus Shepley Somes Memorial Bridge in Somesville. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen’s Building Museum to the left. Winter scene, ice on stream. 2 copies (a&b)