Description: Ready to launch by the town landing. Crowd lined up on stone dock to left watching. Boat is flying colors, and American flag hangs at stern. Good reflection in water below boat. Amoco sign in background.Ballard Neg #2-225 The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Swan’s Island Ferry at the McKinley terminal under construction for State Port Authority. Curving dirt road on rock jetty down to dock and boat under construction in ways. May walking up road towards camera. The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Nelson Leland standing in front of microphone on grassy hill. Two boys laying something on the ground. Three men and two women in background. See 997.26.187
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: 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.
Description: Mount Desert house taken from across road. Two black horses with carriage in front of house, one man seated in carriage. Crowd of people out front. Woman and man in doorway, woman and two children standing on steps, three men standing and one seated. Large flagpole to left with “Mt. Desert House, 1888” sign on it. Picket fence running along right side of lawn. Most shutters are open, except for two windows in middle nearest chimney. This print has been attributed to W.H. Ballard, but the photo is probably too early for Ballard to have taken it. Also known as Mount Desert Tavern. [show more]
Description: 5 X 7 black and white photograph of three unknown children (ages 4-6) standing in line near Park Street. Child in center wearing Park Street Playground t-shirt.
Description: 5 X 7 black and white photograph of John Malbry writing on chalk board. Unknown students sit and stand on porch. Some have notebooks in hand.
Description: 5 X 5 black and white photograph of catkins on atree branch extending from right side of photo to left. Catkins are hanging in bunches that resemble fur tails. Three or four catkins to each end of the branch. Background is grey and out of focus.
Description: Cabinet card of an infant in a decorative wicker chair. Baby wearing a long white dress is resting on a sheepskin. Handwritten on back of card: Mark Whiting Somes, Age 4 mo., Wright." Photographers logo embossed on front: H.L. Gradley, Cottage St., Bar Harbor,ME.
Description: Fiberglass sloop hull and deck on trailer.View of stern and starboard side. FORD pickup truck at front of trailer, man leaning over under bow. Rope coiled on trailer under keel. Shed and dirt pile at right.Ballard Neg. #69-6The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Schooners tied up for season. Close up of deck, looking towards bow. Ship’s bell in lower left. Houses and trees in top right corner, island and other boats in background to the left. Ballard Neg #2-288 (on original envelope, not marked on neg.) Marked “A” on neg. The Charles Butt Collection.
Description: Schooners tied up for season. Close in: Eva Cullison, Mabel.Looking toward hills L to R: Mercantile, Mattie, Enterprise (front row) Lois M. Candage, Clinton (back row). Ballard Neg #2-288 (on original envelope, not marked on neg.) Marked “B” on neg.The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Schooners tied up for season. Close in: Eva Cullison, Mabel.Looking toward hills L to R: Mercantile, Mattie, Enterprise (front row) Lois M. Candage, Clinton (back row). Ballard Neg #2-288 (on original envelope, not marked on neg.) The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Schooners tied up for season. Closer shot that 999-102-3186.Close in: Eva Cullison.Looking toward hills L to R: Mercantile, Mattie, Enterprise (front row) Lois M. Candage, Clinton (back row). Ballard Neg #2-288 (on original envelope, not marked on neg.) The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Joyce Marie, carrier, tied to dock outside “Manset Marine Supply”. Man on board walking toward stern. Beal’s Lobster Pound in background. The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Man rowing away from bows of carriers. L to R: El Placida, America, Rangeley, Fannie & Ethel, Henry O. Underwood. Behind are: Fish Hawk and Bessie L. The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Sardine Carriers at Clark Point Wharfs, Southwest Harbor. ”S.W. Boat Corp.” sign on building. Many boats tied up. From R to L: Gary Alan, Roamer, Henry O. Underwood, Fish Hawk, Novelty, and Chrisotpher in front row. Others beyond that. Lobster boat in foreground with sail up. Hills in background. Ballard Neg. #2-292A The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Sardine Carriers at Clark Point Wharfs, Southwest Harbor. ”S.W. Boat Corp.” sign on building. Many boats tied up. From R to L: Gary Alan, Roamer, Henry O. Underwood, Fish Hawk, Novelty, and Chrisotpher in front row. Others beyond that. Lobster boat in foreground with sail up. Hills in background.Ballard Neg. #2-292The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Snow scene from the outer end of dock. S.W. Boat Corp. boat house to right. Lobster boat tied to dock at right, two boats further back on ways by edge of water. Snow on dock next to S.W. Boat, and on houses in background.The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Four men pulling nets into a small boat with dry exhaust at stern. Lobster boats to left and behind, and man in row boat out in water. Town and trees across water in background.Ballard Neg. #2-264The Charles Butt Collection