Description: Card with double image of Somes Sound, sailboat in distance, view across Sound, "Dog Mtn." Allen the Photographer, No. 24 Temple Place, Boston, n.d., R.H. Hysom written in ink on the back side
Description: Card with double image of Duck Brook, Rustic Bridge, Bar Harbor, ME, n.d., title handwritten on the back side, R.H. Hysom written in ink on back side, B.Bradley, Bar Harbor, Me, American Scenery
Description: Card with double image of Native Americans with canoes on the shore and sailing yachts in the harbor, Bar Harbor beach shore, pier on the right, one of the Porcupine Islands in the distance, n.d. Photographed and Published by B.W. Kilburn, Littleton, N.H., R.H. Hysom written in ink on the back side
Description: Card with double image of Bar Harbor, as seen from Bar Island, across the water, B. Bradley, Bar Harbor, ME, Mt. Desert Scenery, R.H. Hysom written in ink on the back side
Description: Card with double image of Sea Wall on Otter Creek Road, Mt. Desert, Allen, .. Photogapher, No. 24 Temple Place, Boston, R.H. Hysom written in ink on back side
Description: Card with double photo of man and boy, man seated in chair, young boy with hand on back of man's chair. Names on back of card: John Somes and John A. Somes, n.d., Stereoscopic views publiched by B.G. Joy, Photographer, Ellsworth, Maine, R.H. Hysom written in ink on back side
Description: Card with double image of Seal Cove, Mt. Desert, Me., Photographed and Published by B.W. Kilburn, Littleton, N.H., R.H. Hysom written in ink on the back side
Description: Card with double image of Balance Rock, Mount Desert Island, B.Bradley, Bar Harbor, ME. "Mt. Desert Scenery", R.H. Hysom name on back side
Description: Large gold-framed photographic portrait of Mary Ann (Norris) Holmes (1814-1898), wife of Leonard Holmes (1814-1894); mother of Emma Amelia (Holmes) Allen (1859-1929) and Leonard Elrie Holmes (1857-137). Mary Ann and Leonard were married in 1837. Emma Amelia married Melville Leighton Allen. Leonard Elrie Holmes married Mary Ellen Rosebrook.
Description: Large gold framed photographic portrait of Sophia A. Leighton Allen (1831-1898), wife of Obadiah Allen (1829-1915) and mother of Melville L. Allen (1862-1939).
Description: Photographic reproduction in color of "My Family at Somesville" by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Original at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park, Florida. Shows Tiffany’s son leading cow on which sits baby. Tiffany’s wife holds baby on cow. His oldest daughter stands next to cow. Nurse holds other twin baby. May be in meadow near Somes Landing. (Anne Mazlish, donor, says this is at Beech Hill, AB 7/11/12)
Description: 9.5 X 13.5 print of black and white photo of Betty Moore, daughter-in-law of Edith Moore, nee Pulitzer of Baymeath. Photographer was George Daniell. "Baymeath" was Edith Moore's Hulls Cove estate.
Description: This is one of six 8 by 10 inch black and white photographs which are COPIES of Ballard photographs used in an exhibit from around 2001. The source of these prints is marked Jaylene. This photograph is of the Claremont Hotel from the water. There is a rowboat in the foreground. The float is in at the dock. The boat house is in the photo but without the deck it has now. The trees come up to the lawn hiding one house on the right side of the picture. Another house is more in view to the right of the hidden house. This is white with dormers. The original of this photo --and possibly the negative -- are in the collection of the Southwest Harbor Public Library. MDIHS does not have permission to reproduce this image. [show more]
Description: This is the second of six 8 by 10 black and white photographs which were Ballard COPIES from an Historical Society exhibit in about 2001. The source of these prints is marked Jaylene. It is labeled "Great Head" on the back. The rocky cliff is on the left side of the print with the ocean to the right. There is a spot on the right side of the photo. The original of this photo --and possibley the negative -- are in the collection of the Southwest Harbor Public Library. MDIHS does not have permission to reproduce this image. [show more]