Description: One negative with four small images, each of which is 1.5" X 2". Top left: Somes House Inn, with dormers, multiple chimneys, porches, and fire escape ladder from third to second floor . Top right: View of Somes Harbor looking across Somes Meadow from Somes House Bottom left: View of Somes Harbor with seven sailboats, two floats with connecting ramp in foreground. Small row boat tied to last float. Bottom right: Somes House Inn from Somes Meadow. Unidentified house to right. [show more]
Description: 5 X 7 black and white photograph of a stone building with two low arched openings on ground. Round cylinder with scaffolding on top of square walls. Writting on back, “Furnace, The Katadin [sp.] Iron Works, item #10.”
Description: Hall Quarry, quarry in winter. Looking across Somes Sound. Pieces of granite scattered about. Rail for tram covered with snow runs through center of photo. Various buildings in the middle ground. Derricks in the foreground.
Description: Looking back at city from harbor. Wide street runs through middle of photo from harborside. Two three-masted schooners in port to the right. Three church steeples rise in background above city. To the left sign above building reads, “Washburn [?] flour.” Harbor unidentified; no date.
Description: Photo of Mill pond and Heath Millinary Shop. Above photo are the words Season’s Greetings. Small print at bottom of photo reads: Street View, Somesville, ME, 21. Victor and Ruby written on back in ink.
Description: Newsclipping: “Homes of James Richardson and J.G. Richardson Homestead on Beech Hill” photograph. Previously accessioned as **0695, Object Id 011.FIC.76.1
Description: Houses along a hill and fish piers on the harbor at Frenchboro, Long Island. Truck passes on the road. Three children in the grass near the harbor.
Description: Houses on Main street Somesville. Somes Cove in foreground. Marked, “Somes Cove, Mt. Desert” in lower right corner. House on left is historic Lewis Somes house. See same photo. on p. 8, Album #1 (997-306-471)
Description: 5 X 7 black and white photograph of a bench made out of iron that is situated on wooden supports. Bench is in perspective with widest part near bottom left corner of photo. Grass all around bench. Writting on back, ‘Ingot, An old iron ingot’
Description: James Richardson House (Oak Grove Farm). Clapboard siding, cape style house with four 2 over 2 windows on first floor; two second story dormers. Greek Revival Door with side lights. Some window shutters are missing. Bulkhead to the left of the main entrance.
Description: 5 X 7 black and white photograph of a round stone building with no windows, small vent openings around bottom of building in two rows. Domed roof with plants growing on it. Writting on back, “Kiln, Fourteen Beehive.” Probably at Katahdin Iron Works.
Description: Kimball House, Northeast Harbor, gravel drive and lawn. Car in front of hotel. Marked on back, “1931 Buick - Dad’s was convertible so this must have been Manchester Bro’s roadster."
Description: Looking over a harbor lined on each side with piers and fish houses. House on the hill overlooking the harbor. This is probably Frenchboro.
Description: Looking over a harbor lined on each side with piers and fish houses. House on the hill overlooking the harbor. This is probably Frenchboro.
Description: Lumber Mill in Somesville in operation. Logs piled up on bank in foreground. Logs fill mill pond ready to be milled. Somes Harbor in the background. Telephone pole in foreground next to tall tree. See also p. 8, Photo Album #1 (997-307-472)
Description: Three similar white buildings in row. Small Selectmen’s Building close by. First Higgins store, middle house now gone. Picture shows Chas. Bordeaux and Party, boarders at the Central House. People on steps. Mr. Harrison, C.J. Hall, A.J. Whiting, J.J. Somes, R.G. Salisbury. First building has covered porch with people standing on steps. Second building no porch, third building similar porch. Open carriage drawn by two horses. Telephone poles and wires visible. Photo damaged, perhaps from foxing or water. [show more]
Description: Main Street Somesville.Somes Cove on left. Trees line street. Board sidewalk visible on right near picket fenced yards. Fernald’s Store (art gallery as of 2016 1112 Main St ) hidden by trees. Lumber mill to left. Two masts of schooner rise up over trees.Negative.
Description: Main Street, Somesville.Somes Cove on left. Trees line street. Board sidewalk visible on right near picket fenced yards. Fernald’s Store (later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore) hidden by trees. Lumber Mill to left. Two masts of schooner rise up over trees.
Description: Main Street Somesville. Trees line street. Board sidewalk visible on right near picket fenced yards. Fernald’s Store (now Port-in-a-Storm bookstore) hidden by trees. Historic Lewis Somes on right hidden by trees. telephone poles line street. Man stands on grass near road in distance.