Item	Title	Type	Subject	Creator	Publisher	Date
9999	Wild Plant	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		c. 1960-1980s	Wild Plant Item: 9999    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1884 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: c. 1960-1980s Place: Maine, MDI Description: 5 X 7 black and white photograph of long thin unidentified plant. Highlighted against black background. Large leaves at base of stem. Small delicate flowers at top of stem.
10000	Sweet Gale	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		c. 1960-1980s	Sweet Gale Item: 10000    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1883 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: c. 1960-1980s Place: Maine, MDI Description: 5 X 5 black and white close up of sweet gale plant with thin leaves on branches. Small pinecone like buds near base of leaves. Leaves reach toward Upper left corner.
10002	Trees with Air Plants and Spanish Moss	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		c. 1960-1980s	Trees with Air Plants and Spanish Moss Item: 10002    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1881 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: c. 1960-1980s Place: Florida Description: 5 X 7 black and white photograph of tree branches with air plants surrounded by spanish moss hanging from tree limbs. Other folige with small leaves in lower left corner. Paper attatched to back of photo, “ An ‘air pine’ growing on a branch of live oak in a grove festooned by Spanish moss. Both air pines and Spanish moss are related to the pineapple. The air pine requires five or six years to mature, bears a clump of cream colored blossoms on a stiff stalk several feet tall, then dies.” [show more]
12892	Living on the Edge: A Guide to Plants of the seaside and salt marsh and animals and algae of tide pools	Publication, Book	Nature Nature, Plants	Grierson, Ruth Gortner and Thomas F. Vining	V.F. Thomas Co.	2003	Living on the Edge: A Guide to Plants of the seaside and salt marsh and animals and algae of tide pools Item: 12892    Object ID: 005.8.1 Catalog: Library Type: Publication, Book Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Grierson, Ruth Gortner and Thomas F. Vining Publisher: V.F. Thomas Co. Date: 2003 Description: Describes the habitats (sand, cobbles, salt marsh, tide pools) of the plants and animals found by the sea; includes photographs, Latin names, and descriptions of the plants, algae, and animals.
10039	Broad Leaf Fern	Image, Photograph, Color Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1990	Broad Leaf Fern Item: 10039    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1844 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Color Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1990 Place: Maine Description: 3 X 5 color photograph in horizontal format of green broad leafed forest fern. Photo taken from above. Largest leaf in center of photo pointing toward upper left corner. Much follige in background as well as piece of brown log.
10042	Ferns	Image, Photograph, Color Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1990	Ferns Item: 10042    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1841 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Color Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1990 Place: Maine Description: 3.5 X 5 color photograph. Horizontal format, Forest fern in sunlight. Photo taken from above. Large leaves surrounding two brown shoots in middle of fern. Lighted brown pine needles in bottom right corner of photo.
10049	Purple Iris	Image, Photograph, Color Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1990	Purple Iris Item: 10049    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1834 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Color Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1990 Place: Maine Description: 3.5 X 5 color photograph. Purple Iris. Two full blooms in forground in middle of picture frame. One bloom out of focus in upper left background corner. Many leaves in full sunlight. Photo taken from above.
10026	Indian Pipe Plants	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1982	Indian Pipe Plants Item: 10026    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1857 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1982 Place: Maine, MDI Description: 5 X 7 color photograph of 10 white Indian Pipe plants close to ground in cluster with rocks and brown needles on ground. Plants have bell like flowers that hang down toward the ground. Tallest flower is cropped by top of photo.
10028	Landscape with Red Bushes	Image, Photograph, Color Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1982	Landscape with Red Bushes Item: 10028    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1855 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Color Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1982 Place: Maine, MDI Description: 5 X 7 color photograph of landscape with red bushes, possibly blueberry bushes, in foreground, Golden grasses and yellow and green trees near horizon, Faint blue mountains in the background, under a grey sky with white clouds. Horizontal format.
10037	Milkweed	Image, Photograph, Color Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1980’s	Milkweed Item: 10037    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1846 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Color Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1980’s Place: Maine Description: 3 X 5 color photograph in vertical format of milkweed gone to seed. Many pods on one stalk. View from bellow. Against blue sky, Half an inch of wheat field showing at bottom, with two white structures on horizon to left of base of stalk.
10038	Milkweed	Image, Photograph, Color Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1980's	Milkweed Item: 10038    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1845 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Color Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1980's Place: Maine Description: 3 X 5 color photograph in vertical format of milkweed gone to seed. Several golden pods on one stalk against grey-blue sky. Gold wheat along bottom of photo. Milkweed stalk extending from right side of photo.
10040	Wheat Field	Image, Photograph, Color Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1980s	Wheat Field Item: 10040    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1843 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Color Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1980s Place: Maine Description: 3 X 5 color photograph of field of golden wheat against grey-blue sky (Horizontal Format). Various Brown plants dot midground and horizon.
10041	Wheat	Image, Photograph, Color Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1980's	Wheat Item: 10041    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1842 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Color Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1980's Place: Maine Description: 3.5 X 5 color photograph. Vertical format of Golden wheat against blue-grey sky. View point is from bellow wheat looking up. Wheat bends from lower right corner to upper left.
10044	Wheat	Image, Photograph, Color Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1980s	Wheat Item: 10044    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1839 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Color Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1980s Place: Maine Description: 3.5 X 5 color photograph. Horizontal format, Golden wheat blowing in wind. Background grey sky.
10525	Maude Russell	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature, Plants People	Spiker, LaRue		1970 c.	Maude Russell Item: 10525    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1299 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature, Plants People Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1970 c. Description: Maude Russell pruning potted plants in greenhouse.
10017	Mushroom Closeup	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1960s	Mushroom Closeup Item: 10017    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1866 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1960s Place: Maine, MDI Description: 3.5 X 6 black and white photograph of a thin mushroom with bell like cap. Cap is white and fuzzy with darker rim along the bottom. Mushroom is in the shorter grass which still has small water droplets on the blades.
10018	Mushrooms	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1960s	Mushrooms Item: 10018    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1865 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue SpikerCollection Date: 1960s Place: Maine, MDI Description: 5 X 7 black and white photograph of two white mushrooms against dark grass. Larger mushroom is on left side and smaller one on the right. The caps of the mushrooms have smaller white bumps around rim.
10020	Mushroom	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1960s	Mushroom Item: 10020    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1863 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1960s Place: Maine, MDI Description: 4 X 6.25 black and white photograph of a mushroom with shadow being cast to the right of the photo. Small pinecone on ground under mushroom on the right side of photo. Grasses and dirt in background.
10021	Tree Trunk Image	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1960s	Tree Trunk Image Item: 10021    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1862 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1960s Place: Maine, MDI Description: 5 X 5 black and white photograph of close up of tree trunk with abnormal bark formation in center of trunk. Red arrow drawn in right margin with ‘up’ writen under it. Written on back of photograph: "Monkeys in . . . . "
10022	Dead Tree	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1960s	Dead Tree Item: 10022    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1861 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1960s Place: Maine, MDI Description: 5 X 7 black and white photograph of a dead tree, stripped of bark. Top of tree is curving toward ground. Background is in focus and contains many leaves and othe trees. Writing on back,” This evidence, item, sec.II p.4, 2 col.”
10023	Catkins	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1960s	Catkins Item: 10023    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1860 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1960s Place: Southwest Harbor, ME Description: 5 X 5 black and white photograph of catkins on atree branch extending from right side of photo to left. Catkins are hanging in bunches that resemble fur tails. Three or four catkins to each end of the branch. Background is grey and out of focus.
10024	Sculpture at Seawall	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1960s	Sculpture at Seawall Item: 10024    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1859 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1960s Place: Maine, MDI, Seawall Description: 4.5 X 7 black and white photograph of a large gnarled tree trunk with bark striped off. Trunk is highlighted against black background. Writing on back of photo, “ Sculpture at Seawall.”
10030	Pond Plants	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1960s	Pond Plants Item: 10030    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1853 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1960s Place: Maine Description: 5 X 7 black and white photo of pond with water plants sticking up in middle. Horizontal Format. Many grasses are under water and small water lily leaves are clustered in foreground. Dark reflections on water in upper left hand side of photo.
10031	Pitcher Plant	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1960s	Pitcher Plant Item: 10031    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1852 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1960s Place: Maine Description: 3.5 X 7 black and white photograph of a pitcher plant with two flowers (Vertical Format). Flowers resemble orchids and have long steams with veined leaves on ground.
10034	Driftwood	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1960s	Driftwood Item: 10034    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1849 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1960s Place: Maine Description: 4.5 X 4.5 black and white photograph of driftwood. Four large branches extending from base of photo and reaching toward sky. Clouds in sky and small bit of horizon line at very bottom of photo. Paper attatched to back, “ Near the shore a piece of drift wood seems to lift its arms as if in wonder for the beauty of the place.” On back of photograph: "Wonderland".

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