Description: Julia Lord age 18 - 30. hair parted in midde and pulled back. Ribbons worn at back of head. Cheeks colored by photographer. Gray dress with plain white collar and brooch at neck.
Description: Tilda Nash, Sister to Mrs. Jarvis Higgins. Woman age 18-30. Curly hair worn in ringlets pulled back with hair band. Choker with cross at neck. Dark dress and white lace collar with silk bow at neck. On back - “Collins, 316 Congress Street Portland, Me.
Description: Marked Sue Cushman written on front, Laura Cushman written on reverse.Woman age 18-30 standing, hand on pedestal in photographer’s studio. Wearing full dress with hope skirt. Dark fabric with full sleeves. Black decorative trim runing down each side of skirt fron and joining row of points along hem. Trim also on cuff and upper arm. White collar and black bow at neck. Hair parted in middle and pulled back. Wearing small hat or ribbon on back of head. [show more]
Description: Unknown Boy age 13-20. Short lightish hair parted on side and combed to right. Wears light colored shirt buttoned up front with top button undone. Looking to left. Creases in photo.
Description: Six lobster boats lined up, bows on beach in cove. Photo take from above with water to right. Boats at either end have sails up. Upside down white row boat stands out between woods and beach. Beach curves around on right side of photo with houses above. Source of this photo is unknown. Found mixed in a group of contact images that were of mixed origins. This may be a contact image of a negative that is in the SWH Library collection. Should be checked out before using image. There may be restrictions: not known .09/23/2014n. [show more]
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: A Boats #35 Alanda or Vixen (Butler/Roberts) and # 40 Scud (Fox/Price). Committee race boat with passengers aboard. Ballard Negative # Y-112
Description: 3 1/2 X 3 1/2 black and white photograph of the Farnsworth children drawing at children’s table. One girl sits alone in rocking chair. Telephone table is in background.
Description: Somes House, early photo. Young trees cover lawn. No shutters on windows. Barn to far right. Small shed next to house on right. Small addition extends from house on left. Copy from Bradley Stereo Card. This photograph appears in "The Living Past" by Virginia Somes Sanderson on page 226 and is captioned, "The Original Abraham Somes Home, later converted into the Somes House, date unknown."
Description: Man on mowing machine. Team of oxen stand in front of machine, not harnessed. Large shingled barn behind man and oxen. man wears short buttoned jacket, dark pants and boots and cap. Marked on back, “Some of the first oxen in Somesville.”
Description: Somesville Sampler, part of MDI Historical Society Collection. Framed crosstich sampler. Depicts planes and airport, clock on mantle with candlesticks, sailboats, grounded schooner, 1920s automobile, horse and buggy,church, cemetery. Not sure this is correct location (AB, 7/12/12)
Description: Steamship Mount Desert, small paddlewheeler. One man on top deck near paddle wheel, two others on bow, second deck. Lettering on port side of bow reads MOUNT DESERT BOSTON & BANGOR S.S.CO. Marked on back, “Enlarged from glass negative found in F. Wiggin House, July 1958. Steamer Mount Desert. Paddle wheels. Walking beam.”
Description: Steamboat Islesford underway. Photograph of painting. American flag on the stern. Islesford flag on the bow. Smoke coming from stack. Two life boats in davits on top deck. Very small: 2" x 3"