Description: Four A-Boats undersail. # 1 Daffydill owned by Mrs. Henry Parkman, #19 Coleen owned by Mrs. C.B. Fraley, # 16, Nevis, owned by C.P.B. Jeffrey, #21 Polly owned by Luke Hopkins.Ballard Neg # Y-53 This negative is out of numerical order in the Photo Album #12B-1. It is on page 16.
Description: The Charles Butt Ballard Negative Collection. Black and white photo. This negative is probably NOT a W.H. Ballard photo. Notes on the Ballard negative sheaf: Four Master at Southwest Harbor, ME. Ralph Blood Negative, 1932. Theoline, Captain John Latty of Bernard, Maine.
Description: Lumber Mill in Somesville. Sepia-toned photograph mounted on cardboard. Wrtten on back, "left to right: R. Davis, J.A. Somes, J.W.Somes, _____, Geo. Benson, B. Mitchell (last one, Hulls Cove; the remainder Somesville)." Also written, "July 4, 1932". Two corners broken off; slight tear in bottom of print itself. Processed lumber in various piles around milll. Nine men pose for camera. Three horses and three wagons stand in front of lumber; buildings on Main Street, Somesville, in background. [show more]
Description: Steamboat "Westport" at Steamboat wharf in Southwest Harbor. Fishing boat on mooring in foreground. To the left is a punt tied to a float. Mountains in background. Marked on back, “W.H. Ballard, Photographer Southwest Harbor, Maine #3. Str, Westport at Southwest Harbor June 1933.”
Description: Black and white image. Affixed to matte board and small pencil border around image. Signed Ballard, lower right hand corner. Title on lower left, Bass Harbor Head. Shrink wrapped. Back: Bass Harbor Lighthouse, Mt. Desert Island, Maine, Copyright, Anchor Light Studio, No. 167-A, 1935. Anchor Light Studio, W.H. Ballard, Southwest Harbor, Maine
Description: Wreck of the Schooner "Catherine" in Somes Harbor. Somes House Inn covered by trees across the Cove. To the right Somes House Cottages. In foreground logs on ways. Marked on back, “Catherine was built in Belfast, Me in 1833. #165 Schooner Catherine abandoned in the Cove at Somesville, Me. W.H. Ballard, Photographer Southwest Harbor, Maine July 1935.” Signed, Virginia Somes Sanderson
Description: The Charles Butt Ballard Negative Collection. Black and white photo. View of Mt. Desert from Gott's Island. Foreground includes Frolic, fishing vessel of Elmer Spurling.