Description: Horses hitched to buckboards along street. Men sit in carriages or stand next to them. To the left are grass squares and saplings. Across street three large buildings. Middle building holds R.F. Suminsby, smaller builing next door, sign read [----] Stevens. Stamped on back with LaRue Spiker, P O Box 625, Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679. "Auto War" in red crayon
Description: Four horse team hitched to a buckboard outside two story cottage. Woman and man sit on driver's bench. At least ten other passengers in open buckboard. Ladies in elegant dress stand on covered porch. Vines growing up each side of porch and along front. Small peak in porch roof. Upstairs windows shuttered, center window closed.
Description: Children examine whale bones and other materials at the College of the Atlantic "Ocean Day" on March 21, 1981. Inscription on back reads "College of the Atlantic "Ocean Day" March 21, 1981/ Photo by John Jacob/ Please Return" in blue pen and "John P. Jacob/ COA/ 288-5015" in red pen. Black and white
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: James Parker writes to his sister, Letita A. Parker, from Fort Sumner about the pleasure of receiving letters, the cold weather, a trip he took into the country and some dogs he saw there, and learning to play chess. The original postmarked envelope is included as well.
Description: LaRue Spiker seated in wooden chair on lawn outside her cabin on the Long Pond Road in Southwest Harbor. Wearing short sleeve dress. Holds book open on lap. Cocker Spaniel sits in front of the chair looking up at her.
Description: 4.5 X 5.5 black and white photograph of LaRue Spiker seated in wooden chair on lawn outside her cabin on the Long Pond Road in Southwest Harbor. Wearing short sleeve dress. Holds book open on lap. Cocker spaniel lays on ground at her feet.
Description: LaRue Spiker seated at picnic table holding dog. Second dog in parked car with open hatch back. Moutains and lake in background. On back of photo, “This was the second campsite on Great Machais Lake. The woods are visible and were behind the camera.”
Description: Lumber Mill in Somesville. Lumber piled to left and in back of mill. To right, logs piled on bank of Mill pond. In background, A.J. Whiting’s Store, later Port-In-A-Storm bookstore. Three horses and three wagons wait for load of lumber. Men from left to right, R. Davis, J.A. Somes, J.W. Somes, Geo. Benson, B. Mitchell). Marked on back, “Last one Hulls Cove; the remainder Somesville.” Edges very worn. Small tear in lower left corner. (This description may refer to a different photograph; nothing marked on back and no wear or tear.) [show more]
Description: Caption in The Living Past, p. 122: "Somesville's main road in 1870, looking north towards Ellsworth. Mount Desert House on left; A.J. Whiting store on right (note balcony and porch); corner of blacksmith shop on right. Telegraph wires were in use in 1870." Horse-drawn vehicles on each side of rutted dirt roadstopped in front of blacksmith’s shop.