Description: 5 X 8 color photograph of a large tropical flower with five yellow petals. Dark green foliage behind flower. Petals are ruffled around edges and appear to have small hairs over surface.
Description: Color Photo of plaque memorializing the first Town House built in Eden. It was built in 1842 and razed in 1931. The memorial was erected in 1932. The back of the photograph is marked "This plaque is one of the few reminders that this area was once the center of Mt. Desert Island Business." -Connee Jellison
Description: Two photos of interior of MDI Historical Society Historic Selectmen’s Building Museum printed on same paper. Top photo shows wood stove, hay fork, powder horns, lantern, mail bags, pewter communion set, clothes wringer and other itms. Second photo shows Sarah Kittredge portrait, chinaware, bottles, display case and pewter communion set and other items.
Description: MDI class boat #16. Owned and skippered by Sturgis Haskins, of Sorrento. The MDI class was designed and built in 1924 for the Bar Harbor and Seal Harbor Yacht Clubs. Edsel Ford was said to have underwritten the design. This boat, the Rugusa , was originally owned by Sandy Kellog, of Sandy Kellog, of Bar Harbor. It was the last built in the class -1925. A later owner, in the 1930s,was Mary Smith of Greenings Island. Later in the 1950s it was owned by Rev. Palfred Perkins of Southwest Harbor who changed the name from Red Jacket to Lillibet. Toby Strong of Southwest Harbor purchased it from Perkins lat selling it to Sturgis Haskins. It is the last MDI left on Mt. Desert. The nearest two are in the Penobscot Marine Museum, in Searsport, and on an island in Penobscot Bay owned by the Porters. [show more]
Description: 11 X 14 color aerial photograph in a cardboard mat showing the Somesville School after conversion to condominiums. Documentation on back: American Aerial Scenes, PO Box 239, Shea Rd., Pompey, NY. Reorder # 171-232.
Description: Acknowledgements for bicentennial slide show. People Acknowledged, John Fernald, Eva Somes, Georgia Stanley, Edna and Ross Hysom, Thalia and O.C. Nutting, Emmons Brown, Addie Smith, Carolyn Grant, Bertha Allen, MDI Historical Society for lending old photographs. Llewellyn Mitchell for converting these photographs to slides, - Marjory Hayward, color slides.
Description: Color slide of a tidepool full of dead animals. Dead Sand eeels, Fundulus, cancer-Crab, various species of polychaetes-still alive. Notation on the slide reads: Sept 19, 1969 This is an orgional slide. A duplicate slide appears in other Sierra Club slide shows in the LaRue Spiker Collection. From folder: Sierra Club Oil Show, Do not separate.
Description: Color slide of workers processing fish at a processing plant. Notation on slide reads: Menhaden, Gloucester, MA From folder: Sierra Club Oil Show, Do not separate.
Description: Color slide of large amounts of fish. Notation on slide reads: Menhaden, Gloucester, MA From folder: Sierra Club Oil Show, Do not separate. This is an orgional slide. A duplicate slide appears in other Sierra Club slide shows in the LaRue Spiker Collection.