Description: 10" X 13" black and white photo. of SS Iroquois Aground, Bar Harbor, July 19, 1936. Man and woman observe from adjacent boat. In frame, which may need to be removed to preserve photo.
Description: 10" X 13" black and white photograph of SS Iroquois aground at Bar Harbor, July 19, 1936. In frame; may be better to remove from frame to make sure correctly preserved.
Description: Boys and girls in front of school, wearing hats, carrying what look to be lunch boxes or baskets. Identified by donor as school class, although some of the people appear to be older than school age. This needs to be verified. Looks more like a multi-age gathering, perhaps a church picnic or outing. Note baseball hat in boy's hand, hats, etc. Check with Tremont Historical Society to verify. Note by Betsy Hewlett and Roz Rea, 01/23/2013
Description: Framed black and white photo. of Colgate Jordan, sitting in wicker chair or buggy holding ball or ball of yarn. Photo seems to have been made into postcard. According to Thomas Vining's Cemeteries of Cranberry Islands..., Colgate Jordan was born in 1911 and died in 1989; he is buried in Seal Harbor Cemetery.
Description: Photograph of Green Mountain Railway steam engine pushing car up Cadillac Mountain. Marked on back: "W.H. Ballard Collection. Green Mountain Railway by Bryant Bradley. Circa 1883) 8x10
Description: Photograph of Steamboat Wharf at the end of Clark's Point Road. Southwest Harbor. Marked on back: "Clark's Point, Southwest Harbor By Henry Rand-1891 from Str. Mount Desert." Present site of Coast Guard Station. Photo taken from Steamship Mount Desert as it left wharf. Barrels piled on wharf to the right. Small building with weathered clapboard siding to the left of barrels. Taller lighter building in back. To the left of wharf is a shack with a fish market sign on roof. Other buildings are along the shore. Mountains in background. Trees on Clark’s Point to the right. Marked on back, “W.H. Ballard Collection Southwest Harbor, Maine. Clark’s Point, Southwest Harbor. By Henry Rand - 1891 from str. Mount Desert. [show more]
Description: Panoramic View of Schooners at Hall Quarry; quarry in operation. Photo taken from Somes Sound. Pieces of granite scattered about. Small two-masted schooner tied next to large three- masted schooner at wharf to take on granite. To the right a second three-masted schooner tied to wharf. In center large one and one-half story building, two cupolas on top. Several pipes or smokestacks rising from roof. Other buildings in the background. Somes House on ridge above quarry. Print of original which was cut in half. [show more]
Description: View of lumber mill from Main St. looking across Somes Cove. Two masted schooner at wharf; tree on left bank; logs piled against side of building. 8" X 10"
Description: A view of the Village of Somesville including Somes Cove, Somesville Lumber Mill, Somesville Union Meeting House, A.J. Whiting Store, and Mount Desert House taken from The Somes House. Marked on back: "Toward Southwest middle 1800's. Whiting store until 1897, Fernalds on left. 8x10 print.
Description: Photograph of Grist Mill on Somes Brook. High trees cover most of the building. Shingled roof and cedar shingled siding. Large stones line bank of brook. Black and White. 8x10
Description: Grist mill on Somes Brook. High bushes cover most of building. Shingled roof, with weathered shingled siding. Large stones line bank of stream. Another small clapboard building to right in background. Appears to have been taken from upstream. 8x10
Description: Mt. Desert Post Office on right. Two story building with covered porch. Mount Desert Post Office mounted on porch roof. Marked on bottom: "1905. Old Post Office. Eva Jacobson postmistress." Marked on back: "going to Ellsworth. John Allen and Ada sold to Pepper Family. John Allen and Ada Somes, son Mark, son John = Beech Hill John originally John Williams Somes house." John Williams Somes (b. 1838, d. 1913) Ada Richardson Somes (b.1872, d. 1949) John Allen (Allie) Somes (b.1872, d.1930) Mark Somes (b. 1895, d. 1919) (Unable to find info. about [son] John) Above info. per Vining and Somes family genealogy ABenson11/05/2015 [show more]
Description: Looking toward Main Street from Somes Cove. Lumber Mill on left, library is to the right of the mill. In the center is a 2 1/2 story house with porch on the front and left side; further to right on water is Fernald's Store (aka A.J. Whiting's store, later Port in a Storm bookstore and now (2016, Gallery at Somes Sound). Marked on back: "left of Fernald's store Virginia's grandmother's summer residence Thaddeus Somes store." [show more]
Description: Color photograph of Virginia Somes Sanderson's Dock and Somes Harbor. Marked on back: "My dock, float and boat when I lived in Old House." 5x5
Description: Photograph of Blacksmith Shop. Sign above door reads, " A.R. Hanscom Horse Shoeing." Marked on Back of photo: Printed from glass negative found in F. Wiggin House, Town Hill, July 1958." 5x7 copy of this is in Photo Album #1, p. 95 is not entered in the collections catalog.