Description: Group picnicking on rocks. From left to right, back row, Mother Somes, Daniel Somes Smith, Georgia Somes Smith, mother of Dan, Hollis, June Smith, brother of Dan, and [?]. Boys dressed in knee pants high black socks, v-neck sweaters and caps. Women in white dresses. Mother Somes wears black hat and sweater or jacket. Georgia Smith has chef's hat on. Black dog next to June Smith.
Description: Unknown woman age 99 seated on sofa with crocheted throw on back. Christmas tree to right. Wall paper patterned with ships and men on horse. Mirror behind couch reflect woman wearing short sleeve black dress, glasses with hands on hips. Older woman holds gift on lap, wearing floral print dress. Marked on bottom, “Gram Brown 99 yrs.” Snapshot.
Description: Virginia Somes Sanderson standing on sidewalk near bushes and trellis. Wearing hair parted in middle and pulled back with white peasant type blouse, sleeves pulled up, black skirt, calf length, wide black belt and dark shoes. Standing with hands on hips.
Description: Virginia Somes Sanderson dressed for costume party in monk's robe holding small animal, maybe rabbit, in hands. Standing near bushes and trellis. Marked on back, “How I looked at the feté.”
Description: Unknown woman holding lead on halter of horse. Horse has three white socks with one leg dark, white blaze from middle of nose to nostrils and star on forehead. Woman wears hair pulled back with tailored jacket of light shade with black men’s style tie and straight long dark skirt. Small trees and meadow in background. Marked on back, “August, 1892 - Old ‘Dick’.”
Description: Thaddeus Shepley Somes with Virginia Somes Sanderson on his knee, Emilie Clarissa Meynell Somes in back. "Lion" the dog in front. Thaddeus seated in chair under tree wearing dark suit and derby. Virginia in corkscrew curls with white dress, dark stockings and boots. Emilie behind Thaddeus with gray hair and print dress. Trees and barn in background.
Description: Thaddeus Shepley Somes reading paper, holding garden hoe. Broom leaning on tree. Appears to be working on flower beds near roadside. Wearing derby, dark pants and vest, and white shirt. Location unknown, buildings and telephone poles line street.
Description: Emilie Clarissa Meynell Somes outside dark building with covered porch and lattice work around porch. Wears dark suit with bow tie, holds derby in hand. Wears long dark coat over dark dress, with elaborate collar. Hat with large feather in top. Wears wire rim spectacles. Marked on back, “Apr. 17, 1910” Picture badly torn in center. Very brittle.
Description: Thaddeus Shepley Somes age outside dark building with covered porch and lattice work around porch. Wears dark suit with bow tie, holds derby in hand. Short hair brushed to the side, gray beard well trimmed. Marked on back, “Apr. 17, 1910” Picture badly torn in center. Very brittle.
Description: Unknown man age 20-30 standing outside stone building. Hair parted on side and combed back. Wearing white suit coat with white shirt and dark bow tie. Black pants with belt and sneakers. Snow and mud on ground. Marked Frank at bottom.
Description: Postcard of men in dark full suits (jacket, vest, long dark ties, white shirts, dark fedoras) posing lifting stick with large fish attached to it. Fish is as tall as men, hangs down from pole suspended between them. Same palm trees, beach, water as in postcards 001-59.94, 001-59.220 (most likely could have photograph taken with props, then made into postcard).
Description: Postcard of unknown man wearing full dark suit (jacket, vest, trousers, long dark tie, dark oxford shoes), watch on chain across waist, dark fedora, sitting side-saddle on a burro or donkey. Can see faux water, palm tree in background (though hard to tell if simply a backdrop). Very similar background to earlier postcard of man with alligator: 001.59.94. Typical photo postcard made in Florida studio for tourists.
Description: Kaye Higgins leans on railing of her log house porch. Wooden lawn chairs on porch. American flag is hung on the house. Husband mentioned in note on back is not visible.
Description: LaRue Spiker seated in wooden chair on lawn outside her cabin on the Long Pond Road in Southwest Harbor. Wearing short sleeve dress. Holds book open on lap. Cocker Spaniel sits in front of the chair looking up at her.
Description: Unknown woman sitting on edge of large iron kettle probably used for tarring net. Lobster trap inside kettle. Large shingled building in background on stilts.