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  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Will ?
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Harry Plummer
  • 1905
Will ?
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Black and white photograph of an younger man in portrait wearing a suite and tie. Upper right notation reads H-26, notation on back in pencil reads Will 6/25/1905.
Gott's Island from Little Gott's Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • 1906
Gott's Island from Little Gott's Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Looking towards Gott's Island from Little Gott's Island. Negative taken from postcard by CE Cook, Bangor 1906. Black band at bottom on which is printed "Gott's Island, Maine" and under that is hand-written "This is a view of my home, with love from, sister Nell". View includes sail boats, skiffs in harbor and houses on island.
Clapboard House Unknown Location
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Building
  • People
  • c 1890s - c 1900s
Clapboard House Unknown Location
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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.
Man in chair with boy standing beside him
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Unknown
  • 1900s
Man in chair with boy standing beside him
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Photograph of stereoscope slide. Unknown Older man seated in chair on left wearing derby type hat with dark coat, jacket, vest, white collar and dark tie. Boy standing on right wears dark brimless hat, dark coat buttoned to top and dark pants. Boys hand on back of chair. One window with open black shutters on white clapboard house behind pair.
Mark Somes, date unknown
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Animal
  • People
  • 1880s - c 1900
Mark Somes, date unknown
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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.
Harriet Somes Sanderson
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Portrait
  • 1900c.
Harriet Somes Sanderson
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Harriet Somes Sanderson age 5-8. Long hair parted in middle and worn in corkscrew curls. Wears short sleeved white dress, with ribbons over sleeves and lace edging square cut neck.
Harriet Somes Sanderson, son Arthur and his sister
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Portrait
  • 1900c.
Harriet Somes Sanderson, son Arthur and his sister
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Harriet Somes Sanderson wearing hair swept up to top of head, white blouse with cutwork, striped skirt and wire rim spectacles. Son, Arthur Sanderson sitting on lap wearing white sailor outfit, sister [?] leaning head on shoulder, wearing bow in curly hair ; white dress with elaborate embroidery on front of dress. Appears to have been cut out of larger photograph.
Harriet Somes Sanderson, Virginia Somes Sanderson, (her sister?), brother Arthur Sanderson
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Portrait
  • 1901c.
Description:
From left to right, Harriet Somes Sanderson, Virginia Somes Sanderson, sister [?], brother, Arthur Sanderson. Harriet wears dress with no sleeves, beaded shoulder straps, additional strands on beads fall over arm. Beads also decorate bodice. Dark shiny fabric, overskirt covers longer skirt of lighter shade. Virginia wears short sleeved dress of shear fabric and embroidered design throughout. Both women wear beaded necklaces. The sister wears white short sleeve dress with high waist line and pearls at neck. Hair pushed back with head band. Arthur has short hair combed flat with wool suit, wide belt, knee pants. Photo taken in parlor with oval mirror over mantle. Cut to fit an oval frame. [show more]
Harriet Somes Sanderson
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Portrait
  • 1904
Harriet Somes Sanderson
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Harriet Somes Sanderson sitting in upholstered chair looking to left. Hair swept up under wide brimmed white hat with feather falling over brim. Feather boa around shoulders. Dress, leaf and berry pattern throughout with lace bodice. Wearing small earrings.
Julia Lord
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Portrait
  • Unknown
  • 1854 - c 1900
Julia Lord
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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.
Emilie Clarissa Meynell Somes, 1906
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • 1906
Emilie Clarissa Meynell Somes, 1906
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Emilie Clarissa Meynell Somes standing on lawn of historic Abraham Somes III house (later owned by Marion and Richard Cobb). She wears long white dress with v-shaped trim on bodice, decorative black sash or scarf around neck, and small black hat.
Thaddeus Shepley Somes, Virginia Somes, Emilie Clarissa Meynell Somes & Dog
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Animal
  • People
  • 1906
Description:
Thaddeus Shepley Somes with Virginia Somes Sanderson on his knee, Emilie Clarissa Meynell Somes in back. "Lion" the dog in front. Thaddeus seated in chair under tree wearing dark suit and derby. Virginia in corkscrew curls with white dress, dark stockings and boots. Emilie behind Thaddeus with gray hair and print dress. Trees and barn in background.
Somesville Library
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • 1900 ca.
Somesville Library
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Black and white photograph of Somesville library early 1900's. Library is a small building in the background. a telephone pole and a dirt road are in the foreground.
Galen C. McFarland
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Portrait photographs
  • McKay, H.D., Calais, ME
  • 1900 ca.
Galen C. McFarland
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Black and white portrait photograph of Galen C. McFarland, Trenton ME, early 1900's. McFarland is a young man who has wavy hair parted on one side. He wears a striped jacket, high-collared white shirt and necktie. Photographers logo is embossed on the front: H.D. McKay, Calais, ME. Handwritten on the back: "Galen C. McFarland, Trenton, Maine. Brother of Addie B. (McFarland) Smith, (wife of Fred Smith); Bertha E. (McFarland) Allen, (wife of Richard O. Allen; Mildred S. (McFarland) Allen, (wife of Roger H. Allen). Early 1900's" [show more]
1905 View of Brookside Cemetery
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Brookside Cemetery
  • 1905
1905 View of Brookside Cemetery
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1905 view of Brookside cemetery in Somesville. Shows arch at entry and granite blocks of retaining wall along mill stream. Very few trees in view.
Mount Desert Post Office, Main Street, Somesville, 1905
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • 1905
Mount Desert Post Office, Main Street, Somesville, 1905
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Mt. Desert Post Office on right. Two story building with covered porch. Mount Desert Post Office mounted on porch roof. Marked on bottom: "1905. Old Post Office. Eva Jacobson postmistress." Marked on back: "going to Ellsworth. John Allen and Ada sold to Pepper Family. John Allen and Ada Somes, son Mark, son John = Beech Hill John originally John Williams Somes house." John Williams Somes (b. 1838, d. 1913) Ada Richardson Somes (b.1872, d. 1949) John Allen (Allie) Somes (b.1872, d.1930) Mark Somes (b. 1895, d. 1919) (Unable to find info. about [son] John) Above info. per Vining and Somes family genealogy ABenson11/05/2015 [show more]
Somes House
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Ballard, W.H.
  • 1900c.
Somes House
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 x 10 black and white photograph of Somes House side most distant from the road. Duplicate of #997-338-503 Marked on back Ballard Photo #825-A, around 1900 This image is also listed as in the collection of the Southwest Harbor Public Library: #12138
Charlie Rowe's Tuna
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • c. 1905
Charlie Rowe's Tuna
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Charlie Rowe's Tuna. c. 1905. Courtesy of the Swan's Island Educational Society.
Eastern Steamship Dock, Bar Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Eastern Steamship Dock
  • Other, Steamboats
  • Claes, Frank E.
  • 1904
Eastern Steamship Dock, Bar Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Sepia-toned photographic print of Eastern Steamship Dock, Bar Harbor, 1904.
Somesville School after 1897
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • c. 1900
Somesville School after 1897
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Somesville School after 1897. Primary through high school students. Man standing to left wears hat and watch chain. Two to four women teachers to left. Two baseball mitts stuck between the posts?
Two Unknown Women in Field
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • 1907, Aug. 6
Two Unknown Women in Field
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Black and white photograph of two young ladies standing in a field with woods and a house in the background. 3 names listed on back of photo: Olive Strout, Addie W. and Agnes, Td . Aug. 6, 1907. Women wear white blouses and long skirts.
Photograph, Cora Phillips
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Ernest Emery
  • 1900
Photograph, Cora Phillips
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Photograph of Cora Phillips and unnamed child.
NEH Grade School, c.1900
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Unknown
  • 1900
NEH Grade School, c.1900
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Photograph of NEH grade school, c.1900. Class names listed on back of photograph.
Sound School Picture, 1909
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Unknown
  • 1909
Sound School Picture, 1909
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
School picture of Sound School, 1909. Teacher Emily Phillips, 20 students named on back.
[Asticou] Inn Employees, 1900
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • 1900
[Asticou] Inn Employees, 1900
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Fifteen people (five men, ten women) posing for photograph. Note on back says, "Employees in Inn in 1900--the year the house burned--colored woman is Mary Carr, the pastry cook, who discovered the fire round midnight." Some of the women are wearing aprons, one man wears a chef's hat; others likely worked outside or as a bellhop or host. Image is 8.25" X 6"; mounted on grey cardboard 112' X 10"; tear in upper right corner. [show more]