Description: 3.5 X 3.5 black and white photograph of older woman with short hair wearing dress patterned with bricks and flowers, large beaded necklace, carrying white purse on arm. Stands in front of white house. Writing on back, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.’ I look so big” This may be LaRue Spiker’ s Mother, Grace Spiker.
Description: Early view of Somesville from Somes Meadow. Somes Cove and lumber mill in center with Fernald’s Store (now art gallery as of 2016) on right and Mt. Desert House on far right. Church steeple in distance.
Description: Unknown teenage girls holding lobster given to them by a fisherman at the dock. Maine News Service Photo. Paper stapled to photo read, “You pick’em out yourself when you are lobster-hungry in Maine. A Maine lobster, fresh from the clean northern Atlantic, is a taste thrill beyond compare.”
Description: Eric Rodick and unknown friend smoking cigarette leaning against store on cottage street. Bicycles leaning against store front. Village Emporium at the end of the block.
Description: People crossing the street at crosswalk at the corner of Main Street and Cottage Street. Jade East T-shirt shop in the background. Sign in shape of lobster for Testa’s restaurant to the right. Man taking picture on the left in the background.
Description: Looking at Greenings Island and the entrance of Somes Sound from Manset. Sailboats on moorings. In the foreground, ramp and float. Small boats tied to float.