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: Photograph of Willie Norwood, who owned the "Old Norwood Place," a cape house with land at the intersection of Oak Hill Road and Whitney Farm Road in Mount Desert. In 1960 the property was purchased by the Alexander family and named Half Pond. The house originally was built by the Thom family. He is standing by the front door.
Description: 4 X 4.5 black and white photograph mounted on an index card of a black and white border collie lying on the grass facing the camera. Markings on back: 1963 -- Bumble - One of LaRue's dogs.
Description: Black and white photograph of LaRue Spiker crouched next to two dogs. She is outside in a yard with shrubs and the bottom of a house behind her. She would be 48 years old. Caption on the back reads: LaRue's Family, Southwest Harbor, Maine 1960
Description: black and white photograph of large jagged rocks with ocean water in between. Beehive looms in the distance. Notation on back reads: Crop Forground. 8x10, 25
Description: Letter (1966) from Dora Parker (1875-1973) to Harold Earl Burnham describing early dances in Southwest Harbor . Also includes references to the Jesse and Grace Parker house and barn on Clark's Cove in Southwest Harbor. Mentions Lawrence and Eleanor Newman and Susie King, who was Manset postmistress for many years.
Description: Vol X in Northeast Folklore Series, published in 1968. Tall tales and anecdotes about MDI families (Manring, Smallidge, Carroll, Holmes, Somes, Storer and Reed among them) and particularly about Jones Tracy (1856-1939).