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: Interior of cabin on Sheep Island. Large wood desk near window. Tea cart holding papers behind desk. Wall hanging behind tea cart. End of spindle bed at left.
Description: Interior of cabin on Sheep Island. Unfinished wood walls. Double doors on right, window on left side of front wall, window on left wall. Bed in left corner under windows. Table in center of room Chair between bed and door. Rocking chair in middle foreground. Chair at left.
Description: Trees on Sheep Island. Marked on reverse, “Before cutting and trimming. The light section is water on the shore toward the steamboat wharf.”
Description: Ledge on sheep Island. Small evergreens on right side. Virginia Sanderson on ledge with dog Betsy. In ink on back of photo, “The ‘inside’ of the island. The old swimming pool would be in the foreground to the left of this picture, which shows the point down the old ledge. Betsy and I near the stump.”
Description: Unknown Woman wIth dark hair piled on top of head. White long sleeved blouse with v-neck, brooch at point of v. Long dark skirt with plaid sash over waist. Inside wood shop. Hand on miter saw. On left basket in progress. Tools hang on wall behind her. Photo cut into octagon. Backed with old advertisement for cameras.
Description: View of Somesville looking towards library and Somes House from the west. View of Somesville marked at bottom. Old ship and pier on left. Lumber piled around mill in center ground. Somes House in the distance.
Description: Two masted schooner at wharf in front of A.J. Whiting’s (later, 1887, Fernald’s) Store. Back of blacksmith shop visible on left. Small sailing dory tied to wharf. Anchor hangs from bow. Several men seated in the bow of schooner, one standing aft near main mast. Man driving wagon pulled by two white horses. Somes Meadow in distance. Tear in lower left hand corner.
Description: Two story white clapboard house with black shutter, attached barn. Large trees in front of house. One horse near shed/bard with no tack held by man. Second horse in front wearing harness held by boy. Man stands near horse.
Description: People gathered on library lawn. Somesville Library in background. Children holding flags to left. Nelson Leland in middle. Adults on right.
Description: Barn or shed in winter. Long building of natural wood, no siding or paint. No window. Large door on left end. Sign or painting of horse on right end. Other buildings in distance. Lower left hand corner torn.
Description: Four candle mold, coal iron, wooden pitcher, toddy warmer sitting on mill stone in front of Mt. Desert Island Historical Society’s Selectmen’s Building Museum.
Description: Children waiting in line to add dirt to a hole where tree was planted. Two children holding flags. Four women in dresses, holding purses stand in background, dog on right. Somesville Library to left.
Description: Nelson Leland standing in front of microphone on grassy hill. Two boys laying something on the ground. Three men and two women in background. See 997.26.187
Description: Photograph of photograph in frame. Somes creek in winter with woolen mill in back ground. Two other buildings visible on left. One with two stories and chimney. Other in distance.