Description: Main Street, Somesville, looking south towards Southwest Harbor. Mill pond on left. Small house with clapboard siding and deck facing street beyond pond. This building, no longer standing, was Judy Heath's novelty shop. Telephone poles line street on left and wooden sidewalk on right. Board fence along both sides of road; Mount Desert Selectmen's Building hidden by trees on the right.
Description: Two views of the interior of MDI Historical Society's historic Selectmen's Building, Somesville. Top photo shows wood stove, hay fork, powder horns, lantern, mail bags, pewter communion set, clothes wringer, and other items. Second photo shows Sarah Kittredge portrait, china ware, bottles, display case, pewter communion set, and other items.
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 top, and ruffles at wrist of sleeves. She has dark hair parted in the middle and pulled back. See related photograph record for brief genealogical information on Cynthia Richardson Clement.
Description: Negative of a portrait of Cynthia Clement wearing ruffled lace collar and bead necklace. Her hair is pulled back. Brief genealogical related record found 011.FIC.80.4.
Description: Copy negative made from a black and white photo portrait of Ida Leland. Ida wears round dark-rimmed glasses, a plain medium colored dress with pin and decorative pleat at v-neck.
Description: Copy negative from a formal photo portrait of Ida Leland. Her hair is pulled back, she wears frameless eyeglasses, a light colored dress with lace collar, and a Christian cross necklace. Dark background.
Description: Sepia-toned photograph of a house, said to be that of Benjamin Leland (b. 1828, d. 1904), on a small hill in Somesville. One and one-half story cape with white clapboard siding, dark shutters and trim. Covered porch on front of house. Extension on back connects to barn and shed. Tree, bare of leaves, near house. Other buildings beyond house. Later, this house may have belonged to Julia Smith (b. 1913, d. 2000). It is located on Main Street, Somesville, next to Don Smith’s house and across from the Somesville School (Condominiums). [show more]
Description: Copy negative created by photographer Marty Lyon so that photographic prints could be made of the original pencil sketch presumably still owned by the Milliken family. Subject is Capt. Lew Stanley, sketch by Aimee Lamb signed and dated 1948. Aimee Lamb lived on Sutton Island in the summers with her sisters, one of whom was Rosamund Lamb. Lew Stanley is an uncle of Ralph W. Stanley. Captain Lewis Gilman "Lew" Stanley was born May 16, 1869, the son of Enoch B. (Sr.) and Caroline H. (Guptill) Stanley of Great Cranberry Island, ME. He was married to Leah Jeanette (Sawyer) Stanley. Captain "Lew" died Jan. 29, 1957. His house was located on "The Pool", and he had a large boathouse there as well. The boathouse blew down in the storm of 1978. He was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge at Southwest Harbor. He is buried in the Stanley Cemetery on Great Cranberry Island. [show more]