Description: Black and white photograph looking over the top of Bar Harbor out towards four of the Porcupine islands in Frenchman's Bay. Large puffy clouds in the sky. This photo was probally taken from the Park Loop Road. The notation on the back reads: Islands in the bays
Description: Black and white photograph of water as seen from under the cover of trees. There is a steep cliff in the distance. Leaves are on te trees and ripples on the water. The notation on the back reads: A thin screen of cedar V, editor notes
Description: Black and white photograph of a small gravel bar with water on both sides. Grass and trees in the forground, small island and trees on a distant spit of land. Two people walk on the gravel bar in the lower left of the frame. The notation on the back reads: South end of the island.
Description: Black and white photograph of the view through the trees towards the ocean. There is some sort of wooden structure in the foreground that LaRue is standing under. The notation on the back reads: View of ------, Turrets-1-bottom left.
Description: Black and white photograph looking at the cormorants on Thrumcap in Frenchman's Bay. This was photographed from the water. Notation on the back reads: Most of the birds on the Thrumcap south of Ship Island stood their ground as we passed.
Description: Oak grove draped in Spanish Moss Note-"Spanish Moss' in a live oak grove in Central Florida. It is not a parasite but manufactures its own food from air and rain using the host tree for support only. From the LaRue Spiker Nature Collection
Description: Black and white photograph looking from one side of Otter Cove to the other. Pine trees in the foreground and rocks to the left of the frame.
Description: Swamp with trees draped with Spanish moss and a Sable Plam in the centre Note-1. These great trees draped with Spanish moss seem to dream a bit over the quiet brown waters of the swamp. Spanish moss is the most ubiquitous member of a large family of flowering plants embracing over 1600 species, most of which occur in Central and South America.Eight species are fairly common in southeastern US, most of them confined to the swamps and hammocks of peninsular Florida.Species native to this country are all epiphytic, including the Spanish Moss, and do not harm the trees on which they grow. Photo taken in the Little Corkscrew swamp near Ft. Meyers, Flrorida. 61/4 "wide by 5 3/4" deep gmc H.T. Feb 1959. REST OF NOTE ILLEGIBLE Spiker Nature Collection [show more]
Description: Black and white photograph looking accross Otter Cove. Little Cranberry Island can be seen in the distance. Notation on back reads: Tidal Water From, Item, editor notes.
Description: Black and white photograph of Sand Beach in winter as seen from the Great Head Trail. Snow covers the trees and rocks. Tide is in and there is a strip of ice where the water meets the beach.
Description: Black and white Echo Lake as seen from the edge of a mountain. The lower left corner of the photo has Echo Lake written on it in white lettering.
Description: Black and white photograph of a beach along a body of water. Three rowboats sit tied to something at the edge of the water. This is Somes Sound not Long Pond. Notation on back reads: Long Pond with editor notes, other photo has Long Pond scribbled out and reads Somes Sound, The Sound was formed by glacial action.
Description: Black and white photograph Somes Sound as seen from Sargent Drive. Flying Mountain seen on the far side of Somes Sound. Notation on back reads: Somes Sound is a true fjord. Also editor notations. Amendment: Somes sound was downgraded by scientist from a fjord to a fjard. The sound lack both a dead zone at the bottom and steep 1,000+ foot cliffs.
Description: Black and white photograph a large tree growing next to the edge of a road. In back of the tree there is an entrance with a sign. The sign is too far away to read. There are many trees and hazy mountains in the distance. There are no leaves on the trees. Notation on back reads: A Row of Elms KLO