Description: Portraits of students Mt. Desert Elementary School, no date marked. Students from top row, left to right; Edna Gaudet, Deborah Gray, Virginia Richardson, Nancy Kelley, Caleb Tracy; Row Two, Raymond Lawson, Mary Emerson, Albert Merchant, Malcolm Gilley, Ruby Higgins, teacher; bottom row, Joanne Smith, Billy Grossnickle, Milton Gilley, Mary Brown.
Description: Three unknown boys stand on step of white clapboard building with black shutter. Each boy holds bottle of soda. Three other unknown boys stand inside open door with backs turned towards camera. Three wooden boxes marked Pepsi-Cola on ground next to steps.
Description: Unknown Boy age 13-20. Short lightish hair parted on side and combed to right. Wears light colored shirt buttoned up front with top button undone. Looking to left. Creases in photo.
Description: 3 1/2 X 3 1/2 black and white photograph of the Farnsworth children drawing at children’s table. One girl sits alone in rocking chair. Telephone table is in background.
Description: Copy of a Ballard Photo the Southwest Harbor Library has in its collection. It is a photograph of the old Jordan Pond House which burned in the 1970s and was replaced by the present structure. Contact Charlotte Morrill at SWH Library to gain permission before copying.
Description: The caption on the back reads "Venturer 1960 Manset". The Venturer is cradled next to a lobsterboat with a spray hood. The lobsterboat is dwarfed by the size of the Venturer.
Description: 8x10 photograph of A-class boat number 29 , tip of sail of another boat visible to the left. Taken by Kathy Suminsby 1961 This is a duplicate of 007.114.2
Description: Color photograph of Virginia Somes Sanderson's Dock and Somes Harbor. Marked on back: "My dock, float and boat when I lived in Old House." 5x5
Description: A color 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 photograph taken from upstairs window in Historic Abraham Somes III of a view of Mill pond. Home owned at the time by Mr. and Mrs. Cobb.
Description: An 8 x 10 black and white photograph of Somes House Inn side most distant from the road. Ballard photo. marked #825-A Duplicate of 997-340-505 This image is also listed as in the collection of the Southwest Harbor Public Library: #12138
Description: A black and white 4 1/2 x 3 photograph of the back of Mason Cobb's house on the corner of Oak Hill Road and Rt. 102. 1964 Historic Abraham Somes III house in Somesville (now owned by Marion and Richard Cobb) . White clapboard with dark shutters. Large barn/garage on back. Covered porch between house and barn.Several trees on front lawn one in back of house. Evergreens in back. White picket fence surrounds house. Marked on back, “back of Garm’s house, note fence.” This house was also owned by Abraham Somes III son, Thaddeus, grandfather of Virginia Somes Sanderson. Gram’s is Emilie Clarissa Meynell Somes, her grandmother. W.H. Ballard Photographer, Southwest Harbor, stamped on back. [show more]
Description: Set of 12 photographs mounted on black construction paper. Subjects include Marjorie Hayward, Art and Nan Kellam, and Placentia Island. See also the book on the Kellams as a related record.
Description: Three unknown men removing trees between Old Somesville Firehouse and Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen's Building Dec 8, 1960
Description: Collection of slides from Mickey Macfarlan. Box A= Winter 1965, Ice fishing with Wilfred at Molassas Pond in Eastbrook Maine. Box B= 1966 snow scenes, Philmore Petersen and Red boat building, Keith Wedge shoveling, Russell Wedge, Preble House in snow. Box C= 1967 Red blueberry plants, winter ice in cove, field burning, Bob LaHotan, deer hunting, and Preble house 1965. (These may have been scanned previously; check NAS.)
Description: Collection of photos from Mickey Macfarlan. A= an 8'x10' b&w print of John McDonald dancing with unk woman by Freeman cottage barn. McDonald summered for many years in what is now Robin Freeman's cottage across from the Preble/Macfarlan house. B= 8"x10" color print of Western Way bell buoy on cloudy day with mountains in background. C= Snapshot photos of Mickey Macfarlan clearing trees on his property perhaps 1963. D= Snapshot photos of Macfarlan house exterior perhaps 1963. E= several snapshot photos: Tud Bunker, Mickey Macfarlan with shotgun and one other person Feb 1969. Murch house in the snow 1986. GCI Town Dock in winter with mountains. Unk dock (perhaps Frenchboro) in summer. [show more]