Description: Bear Island Lighthouse from water. Marked on back, Bare [sic] Island Light Mount Desert Maine. Photograph furnished by M.A. Molineux 2 Regent Circle Brookline Massachusetts. Please return.
Description: Somesville School Class photograph, October 1909. Twenty-one students, none identified. Marked Somesville, Me, Oct 1909 in lower left corner. Students gathered on grass, trees in background. Teacher in center wears hair pulled back with white blouse and dark skirt which buttons down center. Dark tie at neck. Copy of original
Allen-Holmes-Smith Photographs and other materials
Date:
1900 ca.
Description: Black and white photograph of Somesville library early 1900's. Library is a small building in the background. a telephone pole and a dirt road are in the foreground.
Description: An 8x10 black and white photograph of the Somesville Church (built in 1852 per "Living Past" page 280), now (2015) known as the Somesville Union Meeting House. Marked in the lower left corner "Somesville Church 76". This does not relate to the date of the church but rather is a photographer's numbering system. In the picture the lower window shutters are open and the upper shutters are closed. A telephone pole is visible in front of the church. [show more]
Description: Woman named Betty singing with a microphone in hand wearing a long dress of shiney material. Man on bandstand plays banjo wearing white shirt, vest and striped tie. Garland on rails of bandstand. Exit door in back.
Description: 5 X 7 black and white photograph mounted on heavy cardboard of Baker’s Island Light House. People sitting/standing on ledge outside chain link fence.
Description: Bass Harbor Head Light from back of house looking over water. Path shoveled through snow. Spiker’s dog walks down path. Can not locate in Photo Album 02/01/2022
Description: Thaddeus Sheply Somes Memorial Bridge in Somesville. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen’s Building Museum to the left. Winter scene, ice on stream.
Description: Thaddeus Shepley Somes Memorial Bridge in Somesville. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen’s Building Museum to the left. Winter scene, ice on stream. 2 copies (a&b)
Description: Small album containing portraits of 5th grade students. Cover marked, “ A Teacher’s Memories, My Class in 1952-1953. In lower right hand corner, Alston Studios logo. First page, eight portraits. Written on top, “Teacher Ruby Higgins, Grades 5+6, Somesville School. Page two, eight portraits. Back page, three portraits. None identified. (3 Photographs)