Description: Fall 1976. Marked on back, “Mrs. Preston shows us the old hearse.” Children age 10-12 standing in entrance of hearse house in Brookside Cemetery. From left to right, Laura MacDonald, Karen Thomas, Bart Massuco, Keith Moore.
Description: Fall 1976. Marked on back, “A visit to check the old graves of early settlers.” Children age 10-12 rubbing gravestones in Brookside Cemetery.
Description: July 1976. Marked on back, “Helen Pedrone (left ), directs the Junior Historical Society members in basting together the Friendship Quilt (Gift of the women of Somesville to the Historical Society). Bets and Karen Pepper right.”
Description: Portraits of Mt. Desert Elementary, 1969-70 grade two mounted on single mattte. Ruby Higgins, teacher, in center. Students, from top row, left to right: Kim Wilson, Kathy Cousins; Row two, Kevin Smith, Lisa Richards, Ruby Higgins, teacher, Snadra Norwood, Billy Haynes; Row Three, Jean Mandell, Jay Henderson, Kelley Taylor, Harold Link, Beth Graves, David Dawson, Debra Durant; Bottom Row, Janice Smallidge, Ralph Walls, John Walls, Mark Burk, Norman Walls. [show more]
Description: Portraits of Mt. Desert Elementary, 1970 grade two mounted on single mattte. Ruby Higgins, teacher, in center. Only one student marked, top left, Mike Carter. Nineteen portraits.
Description: Portraits of Mt. Desert Elementary, 1972-1973 grade two mounted on singel mattte. Marked at top, “Last class that I taught. I had on a wig. Ruby.” Names of students not marked. Ruby Higgins, teacher, in center. Twenty students. One photo detached.
Description: Mrs. Martha Cyr-Genest, (approximately age 70-80,) at the College of the Atlantic Fair. Wears black veil on head with white blouse and plaid skirt. Seated underneath cedar tree.
Description: Art show on Village Green in Bar Harbor. Paintings displayed near sidewalk. Woman walks past paintings. Four people seated in lawn chairs in facing away from paintings. Congregational Church in background. Cars parked along street and in church parking lot. Gift of George Daniell.
Description: Aurelia Brown in Wingspread Gallery, Northeast Harbor. Brown seated in caned chair on left, elbow on table. Wears turtle neck, stretch pants and white sneakers. Woman acroos the table, long hair parted in middle. Man in background with long poney tail walks through curtain into another room. Dog asleep at Brown’s feet. Gift of George Daniell.
Description: Kaye Higgins leans on railing of her log house porch. Wooden lawn chairs on porch. American flag is hung on the house. Husband mentioned in note on back is not visible.
Description: LaRue Spiker seated in wooden chair on lawn outside her cabin on the Long Pond Road in Southwest Harbor. Wearing short sleeve dress. Holds book open on lap. Cocker Spaniel sits in front of the chair looking up at her.
Description: Unknown woman sitting on edge of large iron kettle probably used for tarring net. Lobster trap inside kettle. Large shingled building in background on stilts.