Description: Portrait of man in dark suit with stiff white collar and striped tie. Hair slicked back from face. Oval photograph on mount enclosed in case.
Description: Postcard of A.L.Somes store. Dry and Fancy Goods. 357 Main St. According to the postcard writing the picture was taken in 1908. On the telephone poll is a sign: J.H. Scott Tailor Cleansing, Pressing, Repairing Up one Flight. Next to it in a side window is a sign that may say Cove Bailey? then another unreadable sign. There is also a sign in the store front that says See Klark Urban Co Drama and Vaudeville Opera House Aug 25 Above partially hidden by the telephone pole is Geo. R. F __ Law Office [show more]
Description: Arthur Lewis Somes (born 19 Aug 1869, Somesville; d 26 Apr 1941 Southwest Harbor) in his store, A.L. Somes store on 357 Main Street, Southwest Harbor, Maine Tin ceiling still in building as of 2017
Description: Arthur L. Somes grandfather, Raymond Somes,father Barbara Somes (born 1 Mar 25), about 6 months and Emma Somes (about 84) Great grandmother Another name on the back, the person who took the picture perhaps Jeff S Ry?
Description: Barbara Irene Somes (b. 1 Mar 1925 Southwest Harbor; d 22 Oct. 2010) Married name Ball with her Great Grandmother Emma Somes (King Newman (b. 23 Dec 1839 Tremont; d 14 Feb 1892, Somesville) Picture probably taken at 379 Main Street where Barbara lived
Description: Looking from 383 Main Street to the harbor in Southwest Harbor Garden at 383 Main St. in foreground Additional information on the back identifying location added by Carolyn Ball
Description: Christmas time, 1947 Wendell Gilley's house is on left. On right is Lawrence Phillip House Identifed by nephew of Lawrence Phillips, Maurice Marshall Taken form 383 Main St looking up at Phillips Lane Picture is dirty
Description: From 2012 to 2017, Don Lenahan of Bar Harbor, Maine wrote blog posts about the people, geography, and history of Acadia National Park. Those posts are preserved here as PDF files to ensure that they are never lost. No part of the posts may be reproduced without the author's permission. Click the links below to read Don's blog or purchase his iBook.
Description: Great Head is located near Sand Beach in Acadia National Park. The area was owned in the early 1900s by the Satterlee family and they built an observatory and a tea house on the point. The ruins of the structure remain. J.P. Morgan had purchased 110 acres on the Maine coast at Mount Desert including Great Head, now given to Acadia National Park, as a gift for his daughter, Louisa. She and her husband Herbert Satterlee had built their country home there and enjoyed it for many years. [show more]
Description: Echo Lake is located on the western side of Mount Desert Island. The lake is a popular swimming area and is surrounded by hiking trails on the nearby mountains.
Description: One of two gate lodges (the other being the Jordan Pond Gate Lodge) built for John D. Rockefeller Jr. to serve as entry points to his system of carriage roads and to guard against the entry of automobiles. The Brown Mountain Gate Lodge is the larger of the two, with a small complex consisting of a gate house, carriage house, and a care taker's house. The carriage road no longer passes through the grand gate. The two lodges were designed by Grosvenor Atterbury, a New York architect who had previously designed the Congregational Church in Seal Harbor. Atterbury shared Rockefeller's dedication to philanthropy and was one of the few architects to study and use light and ventilation in tenement buildings. These lodges allowed Atterbury to design for the aesthetics of a grand estate and the purpose of housing the working class families that cared for the carriage roads. The gate lodges were subsequently given to Acadia National Park along with the system of carriage roads. In the years since, they have served as housing for park employees. While they are no longer necessary to guard against the entry of automobiles, they serve as a reminder of this long tradition and as architectural gems within the Park. [show more]