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8999 | Echo Lake from Echo Vista |
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| Description: Echo Lake from route 102 across from Echo Vista. Small boat with outboard motor anchored off shore. Changing house on shore. Ramp runs from shore to platform outside changing house. Boat ramp to the right. Gift of M.L. Hughs. | ||
9053 | Mount Desert Post Office |
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| Description: Mount Desert Post Office on Main Street, Somesville, next to former home of Daniel (Somes) and Rosemary Smith. Former Richard Donahoe house to the right. Post Office is a single story clapboard building with gable end facing the road. There is a sash window beside the front door. There is a small window high in the gable end. Chimney with stovepipe insert extends above roof line. Car to right with open door. Man stands in front of post office door watching a second man shovel snow. [show more] | ||
7577 | Lumber Mill, Somesville |
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| Description: Lumber Mill in Somesville in operation. Logs piled up on bank in foreground. Logs fill mill pond ready to be milled. Somes Harbor in the background. Telephone pole in foreground next to tall tree. See also p. 8, Photo Album #1 (997-307-472) | |
9054 | Houses on Main Street Somesville |
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| Description: Houses on Main street Somesville. Somes Cove in foreground. Marked, “Somes Cove, Mt. Desert” in lower right corner. House on left is historic Lewis Somes house. See same photo. on p. 8, Album #1 (997-306-471) | |
9100 | Auto War |
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| Description: Horses hitched to buckboards along street. Men sit in carriages or stand next to them. To the left are grass squares and saplings. Across street three large buildings. Middle building holds R.F. Suminsby, smaller builing next door, sign read [----] Stevens. Stamped on back with LaRue Spiker, P O Box 625, Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679. "Auto War" in red crayon | ||
5677 | Men Removing Trees |
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| Description: Men removing trees between Old Somesville Firehouse and Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen’s Building Museum. Three men, on left man wears sweatshirt and ball cap man working with tree. In middle man in dark sweater and cap looks up at tree. On right man watches process. Mill stone with plaque in foreground. Image blurry. Photo given by Frances Manning in 1960. | |
8873 | Man in some sort of uniform |
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| Description: Man (may be Keith MacKenzie) wearing white shirt, pants, and cap. Standing in front of tall trees and two buildings, perhaps cabins. | ||
9496 | Iron Ingot Bench |
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| Description: 5 X 7 black and white photograph of a bench made out of iron that is situated on wooden supports. Bench is in perspective with widest part near bottom left corner of photo. Grass all around bench. Writting on back, ‘Ingot, An old iron ingot’ | |
9497 | Kiln |
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| Description: 5 X 7 black and white photograph of a round stone building with no windows, small vent openings around bottom of building in two rows. Domed roof with plants growing on it. Writting on back, “Kiln, Fourteen Beehive.” Probably at Katahdin Iron Works. | |
9498 | Furnace, Katahdin Iron Works |
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| Description: 5 X 7 black and white photograph of a stone building with two low arched openings on ground. Round cylinder with scaffolding on top of square walls. Writting on back, “Furnace, The Katadin [sp.] Iron Works, item #10.” | |
8981 | Summer home of Bishop Mckay Smith |
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| Description: The summer home of Bishop MacKay Smith in Seal Harbor. Taken from the water. | ||
10446 | Boat at Farnsworth Boatyard |
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| Description: Photo taken from inside boat shed belonging to the Farnsworth Family looking out to the cove. Motor boat on the ways. | ||
10465 | Farnsworth Boatyard Scene |
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| Description: Boat docked on the beach. Caption removed from the back of the photo read, “The hauling shed is located on one of the few sloping beaches near Hull’s Cove. Shed belongs to the Farnsworth Family." Cellophane tape left marks on back which have come through on the image side. | ||
10466 | View from Boatyard |
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| Description: View looking out of a boat shed into Hulls Cove. A marine railway leads out of the building. Same as Acc # 998-550-1655 record has been removed | ||
8988 | Fair Oaks Farm |
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| Description: Fair Oaks Farm. Copied from Post card. James Richardson Homestead in Sound. Presently owned by Kay Tracy Moore. Barn in foreground, homestead in background. Rough bridge over stream. Object has not been renumbered because as of 1/13/2022 the item could not be located. | ||
10454 | Richardson Homestead and Barn (Fair Oaks Farm) |
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| Description: James Richardson homestead and barn (Fair Oaks Farm). At time of picture, it was owned by Jones Tracy (1856-1939). Truck in back of barn. Outbuilding to the right of barn. MDI Historical Society likely borrowed the photo album from a collection of Kay Moore, and negatives and a print made. (AB,02/10/2015). Kay Moore is descended from James Richardson, first Richardson settler of Mount Desert Island (1762-3). | ||
10463 | Richardson Homestead Barn, Fair Oaks Farm |
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| Description: Barn at Richardson Homestead (Fair Oaks Farm). Owned by Jones Tracy (1856-1939) at time of photograph. | ||
8309 | Lumber Mill and Mill Pond, Somesville |
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10474 | Working Man |
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5158 | The Parsonage |
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| Description: The Parsonage. End of Mt. Desert House, Nathan Salisbury House, Lewis Somes House. | |||
5234 | Somes House, Christmas card |
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| Description: Card reads Somes House-Abt.1880-1961. Season’s Greetings Hollis and Julia Smith | |||
5235 | Mount Desert Post Office |
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| Description: Mount Desert Post office in snow. Card reads: Merry Christmas Happy New Year. Marked on the back of the photograph: "It is good to know that we will see you soon." | |||
5236 | Historic Somesville Holiday Card |
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| Description: Photo of Mill pond and Heath Millinary Shop. Above photo are the words Season’s Greetings. Small print at bottom of photo reads: Street View, Somesville, ME, 21. Victor and Ruby written on back in ink. |