Description: Woman age 50-60. Name in pencil on back not readable ([great ---- Hau-). Hair pulled back tight. Wears dark dress buttons down front. White collar with plaid scarf around neck joined by large white brooch. Hands folded in lap. Ring on middle finger,color added to cheeks.
Description: Elevations print of Bar Harbor 25 -foot class sloops by Bowdoin Bradlee Crowninshield. The class raced in Bar Harbor from 1900 to 1902. The original plans are at the Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.
Description: Official appointment of Georgia N. Somes as Postmaster of Mount Desert, Maine. Certificate notes that she was appointed on November 4, 1908 and executed a bond and took the oath of office on November 9. Signed by George v. L. Meyer, Postmaster of the United States on November 17, 1908.
Description: Reproduction of 1904 Bar Harbor Map compiled from Atlas of Bar Harbor & Vicinity, published by Summer Residents Association. Insets show Map of Shore from Bear Brook to Schooner Head
Description: Portion of a legal document leasing 1/3 of mill and mill privelege to John A. Somes by John J. Somes and Thadeus Somes saw mill ship yard sawmill shipyard
Description: Letter to M.L. Allen from Frank Page, of Bucksport. January 20, 1906. In reference to Allen’s Republican Party nomination for County Commissioner. Page is not ready to pledge. Previously archived as object id 011.FIC.41.1, old accession **0441
Description: Black Ledger with red binding includes Lists of members and participation of juniors from the Somesville Union Meeting House U.C.C. (Congregational Church) from 12/10/1907 - 4/13/1916
Description: “Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture: Stock Feeding.” December, 1902. Vol. 1, No. 4. Quarterly bulletin issued from the office of the Commissioner of Agriculture, Augusta, ME. Press of the Kennebec Journal, Augusta. Marked “William Kittredge.”
Description: “Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture: Silos and Ensilage Crops.” June , 1903. Vol. 2, No. 2. Quarterly bulletin issued from the office of the Commissioner of Agriculture, Augusta, ME. Press of the Kennebec Journal, Augusta. Marked “William Kittredge.”
Description: “Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture: Bovine Tuberculosis.” December, 1906. Vol. V, No. 4. Quarterly bulletin issued from the office of the Commissioner of Agriculture, Augusta, ME. Kennebec Journal Print, Augusta. Marked “William Kittredge.”
Description: Letter to M.L. Allen from Frank Page, of Bucksport. January 25, 1906. In reference to his support for Allen’s Republican Party nomination for County Commissioner. Previously archived as object id 011.FIC.41.1, old accession **0442
Description: Julia Lord age 18 - 30. hair parted in midde and pulled back. Ribbons worn at back of head. Cheeks colored by photographer. Gray dress with plain white collar and brooch at neck.
Description: George Somes age 7-11. Miniature tintype. Boy wears hair combed down parted on left side. Cheeks tinted by photographer. Dark suit, possibly gray with two buttons at top of coat connected with a plackett, vest underneath buttoned to neck.
Description: Cabinet card of a younger man wearing a dark suit (jacket and vest) with a lont striped tie and a white collared shirt. Straight dark hair parted on right side.
Description: leather photo album, holding approximately 50 photos. Leather cover, back and spine. Diamond-shape embossed onto front and back, also decorated with gold leaf in vine pattern, as well as embossed zig-zag design. Four white studs protrude from four corners of album on both front and back. Two metal clasps on right hand side, ivy leaf and vine design. Word “Photographs” embossed on spine of album.
Description: group portrait of eight women, two men, and two small children. Posed the porch of a wooden house with dark shutters. Clothing looks to be late 1800s.
Description: Winter scene in Somesville Maine. Hand touched by photographer or artist. Somesville, Me Winter Scene printed at bottom. On right Fernald's store, with covered porch and second story porch. On left Mt. Desert House and Nathan Salisbury House. Wagon sits in snow on left side of road. Narrow space has been plowed or shoveled on road. Large trees on each side of road. Unknown Lone man walks down middle of road. Telephone poles on left side. This is also a slide (97-711-881) used in the Somesville Bicentenial and can be found on Row 2 Unit 2 Shelf 4 Slide Box 1 [show more]
Description: Mark Somes with horse. Boy age 3 - 7 reached towards horse in stall. Boy has back turned to photographer. Wears straw hat with wide brim and ribbon around the crown. Sailor type top with dark pants. Horse’s head reaches above stall door.
Description: portrait of a woman wearing dress with huge puffed sleeves, dark velvety bodice, high collar, brooch at throat. Dark hair, curly bangs, hair pulled back into tight bun worn high on head. Photo cut in circular shape, glued onto square matte at angle.
Description: carte de visite of a young woman dress with puffed sleeves, bodice cut in a zig-zag design, with high collar. Hair is pulled back and held with a large dark bow at the nape of her neck.