Description: Unidentified portrait of a young girl, standing next to a table. Posed with a doll. Photo is enclosed in a photographer's enclosure. Handwritten on back: To Aunt Laura From Arline Woods. One of several photographs in a 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 red velvet/leather embossed photo album with metal clasp in good condition. Portraits of Jewett family, including two of Arno as a baby and a 2/3 yr. old. Silsby family, Charles Richardson, J. Herbert Patten M.D. , Johnson children; Rita, Bessie, Shirley and Laurence, Dewey, Ned. Other family names in album: Woods, Sumner, Short, Brigham, Brimmer, Gregg, Withee, Johnson. A number of the portraits are unidentified. [show more]
Description: Unidentified portrait of a woman and man, seated together. Photo is enclosed in an album page. One of several photographs in a 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 red velvet/leather embossed photo album with metal clasp in good condition. Portraits of Jewett family, including two of Arno as a baby and a 2/3 yr. old. Silsby family, Charles Richardson, J. Herbert Patten M.D. , Johnson children; Rita, Bessie, Shirley and Laurence, Dewey, Ned. Other family names in album: Woods, Sumner, Short, Brigham, Brimmer, Gregg, Withee, Johnson. A number of the portraits are unidentified. [show more]
Description: Formal portrait of Cynthia Clement seated with left hand on back of chair (wedding ring visible) and right hand in lap. She wears a light colored long-sleeved dress with heavily pleated bodice, and ruffles at wrists. She has dark hair parted in the middle and pulled back. . Black and white photo print from negative in our collection. Brief, undated, hand-written note (011.FIC.80.4) indicates that Cynthia was a daughter of E.Shepard Richardson and Helen Louise Richardson and married [?] Clement. [show more]
Description: View of Schooners loading granite at Hall Quarry docks, looking up Somes Sound toward Somesville. House, boarding house, other buildings and woodland in foreground. Derricks and qranite cutting buildings visible. Quarry with crane visible on left; quarry near docks show in center.
Description: A 5x7 Black and White Photograph (in poor condition) of a hotel on a dirt road near water. Per Bob Pyle at May 2011 "Mystery Photographs" exhibit, this is the Islesford Hotel run by Loring Stanley. (AB) The Islesford Hotel was built in 1887 and torn down in 1920.
Description: This is an 8 x 10 black and white photograph of LaRue Spiker. The setting is woods with leaves on the ground. She is holding a pipe with her left hand and a bucket in her right. She is getting water from this pipe. There is a black and white dog with open mouth watching. It looks like there is a second dog hidden behind this dog. She has on a skirt, vest and shirt, jacket, loafer-type shoes with white ankle socks. LaRue has a scarf tied around her neck. On the back of the photograph are the words: PHOTOGRAPH BY Courier-Journal and Lousiville Times; PUBLICATION PROHIBITED; Authority to publish or copy MUST be obtained from C-J & T Management; 1954 or 1955 [show more]
Description: Horses and carraiges making their way down the road. Spectators on the side of the road are looking on as the horses and carraiges pass them.
Description: Women and men on horseback. There are some men looking on and standing by in dark suits. There are also some men in light suits standing by in front of the horses.
Description: Horses and carriages pass a man in a raised gazebo looking out and men leaning against a fence. There is a man at the right of the photograph who appears to be judging the horses and carriages and a man checking the one of horses. Robin Hood Park
Description: Photograph of an unidentified town. In the photograph there are logs of wood laying ont he grass. The road is a dirt road, there are horses and carraiges on the other side of the town and a couple of stores.
Description: Several houses on the water in an unknown location. To the right of the houses are two people standing in between the houses and two boats.
Description: Black and white photo showing rocky cliffs on either side of a body of water. In the distance can be seen an old mill water wheel and a bridge. The bottom right hand corner can be see writtin which says Old Mill, Seal Cove.
Description: Unknown man on a skiff. Two Flags. One flag on the bow and an American Flag on the stern. In the background is a three story dark house and a beach.
Description: This is an early view of Somesville. There are a number of editorial notations on the back of the photograph. Notation on the back also reads: An early view of Somesville (Somes)
Description: Black and white photograph of a large horse drawn carriage with five rows of seats loaded with people in front of a building. On the porch others look on.