Dark Harbor photograph album, Homer family, early 20th century
Entry/Object ID
2026.015.001
Description
Album of photographs from the Homer family, Dark Harbor, 1903-1907. Casual pictures of houses, scenes, gatherings, families and individuals, and activities of the summer colony on Islesboro.
Thomas Barrett Homer built what is officially considered the first Dark Harbor cottage in 1892. See Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., "The Summer Cottages of Islesboro, 1890 - 1930" (Islesboro Historical Society, 1989), pp. 65-66.
