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You searched for: Object ID: is not emptyDate: 1940s
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
1623Fort Knox School Trip
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • 1941
Description:
Photo of 3 school children Jimmy? left, Smallidge, right. Fort Knox, Bucksport, ME school trip 1941
1624Somesville High School Photo
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • 1941
Description:
Photo of school children at Fort Knox, Bucksport, class trip 1941, Sylvia Grendell right, Smallidge, center
1627Somesville School Photos, 1941
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • 1941
Description:
Somesville School trip to Fort Knox, Bucksport 1941, Mary Ellen Fernald, left front. Sylvia Grendell, 2nd right
1638Marjorie Hayward
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Portrait
  • c 1940s
Description:
Marjorie (sic) actually Marjory Hayward. Hair parted on one side and brushed down, curled up on ends. Wears white blouse with tucks along shoulder, dark buttons down center and on pocket. Collar with pointed ends lays flat. Small dark bow under collar. Marked on back, “Mrs. Marjorie Hayward Beech Hill Road, Somesville ME”. Moved to Mount Desert Island in 1936. Probably in her 30s.
2137Stockyard?
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1946
Description:
Black and white photograph of a long low structure with an elevated roofed walkway above the main structure. Dirt road is seen in the front of the stucture. and there is a long low building in the distance. There is a row of something piled next to the dirt road. This maybe a stockyard. From Folder Snapshots/Indiana landscape
2138Bridge over the river
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1946
Description:
Black and white photograph of tressel style bridge over a river. The photo was taken from the edge of a road as there is a guard rail at the bottom of the photograph. The bridge spans a river and stands fairly high over the river. From Folder Snapshots/Indiana landscape
2139Whitefish Point Coast Guard Station
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1946
Description:
Black and white photograph of Whitefish Point Coast Guard Station. There is a two story white clapboard building in the middle of the frame with four other two story buildings to the left of the frame. Next to the closest building there is a square building on stilts with a window on each side. A pile of windows or doors lays closest to the photographer on the ground. Date on the back reads 1946. From Folder Snapshots/Indiana landscape
2157logs on beach
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1946
Description:
Black and white photograph of cut tree logs laying on the beach next to the lake. Most likely fell of cargo ships and washed up on shore. 1946 written on back From Folder Snapshots/Indiana Nature
2158Deer on ridge
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1946
Description:
Black and white photograph of deer standing on a ridge above LaRue. The deer are in between the two large trees on either side. 1946 written on back From Folder Snapshots/Indiana Nature
2208LaRue Spiker 1942
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Unknown
  • Dec 25, 1942
Description:
Black and white Metcalf Studio photograph of LaRue Spiker taken in Harrisburg, Illinois. She wears a dark suit jacket with a pin on the right side. She has currly hair held back by a headband. This is in a carboard frame stamped Metcalf Studio. She would be 30 years old. Caption on the frame reads: LaRue Spiker, 167 & 11th St., Indianapolis, Ind. Dec 25, 1942
2222LaRue Spiker and Francis Failing
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Unknown
  • 1945
Description:
Black and white photograph of LaRue Spiker and Francis Failing riding bicycles. Both women are dressed in dark colored pants and sweaters. There is a path next to a body of water, possibly a canal, with trees and undgergrowth on the other side. Caption on back reads: LaRue + Francis Failing Gudianafolis- 1945
2226LaRue Spiker seated on a rock
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Unknown
  • 1941
Description:
Black and white picture of LaRue Spiker sitting on a rock in the sunshine. The Ozarks, Mo. 1941
2239LaRue Spiker protrait.
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Unknown
  • 1942
Description:
Small black and white photograph of portrait of LaRue Spiker. The woman is wearing a suit jacket with a white shirt. There is a pin on their left shoulder. She is wearing glasses and has brown short currily hair held back with a headband. The is a stamp in the lower right corner which reads: Metcalf Studio 42.
2270Dog on cushion
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1940
Description:
Small dog sitting on a cushion. Dog appears to be moving off the cushion onto the floor. The photos are taken from two different angles. The photographer is at the same level as the dog. From Folder: Animals/Pets
2271Puppy chewing on long stick
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1940
Description:
Small brown and black puppy laying on the grass with the end of a long stick in its mouth. The photographer is at the same level as the dog. From Folder: Animals/Pets
2272Dog with tongue out
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1940
Description:
Dog with it's tongue out. There is a person behind the dog, but all you can see of the person is one foot in a white shoe and fingers on a hand. The rest of the person has been cropped out. The photographer is at the same level as the dog. From Folder: Animals/Pets
2309Journal of Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the State of Maine - Vol. XIX, Part 3
  • Document, Report, Proceedings
  • Organizations
  • Other, Clubs
  • 10/20/1948
Description:
Small 196 page brown paper booklet published by the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Maine recording the one-hundred fifth annual session held October 1948 in Lewiston, Maine. Content includes list of attending members, articles of membership, installation of officers, membership reports from accross the state, committee reports, etc. Watson C. Robbins, president.
2349G.H.S. Junior Prize Speaking
  • Object, Plaque
  • 1949
Description:
G.H.S. Junior Prize Speaking Plaque. 1943-1949 From Gilman High School, Northeast Harbor, Maine
2401Infant bootees
  • Object, Clothing, Bootee
  • c. 1940s
Description:
Pair of knitted pink wool infant booties with pink ribbon.
2463Postcard of Eagle Lake from Cadilac Mountain Road
  • Object, Writing, Postcard
  • 1946
Description:
Postcard of Eagle Lake from Cadilac Mountain Road
2593Said the Bicycle to the Automobile
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Transportation - land
  • 9/5/1942
Description:
Picture with caption showing the number of bicycles versus automobiles parked at the Kimball House in NE Harbor.
2611Island Retrospect
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, History - Bar Harbor
  • 10/17/1947
Description:
Bar Harbor Times ,10/13/1983, written by Dotty Cooke. A first hand account of the 1947 Bar Harbor fire as told by Dotty Cooke.
2674Boston Sunday Advertiser Pictoral Review
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Military History
  • 11/29/1942 1942
Description:
Boston Sunday Advertiser Pictoral Review. “America Will Never Forget Pearl Harbor.” Pictures and articles about Pearl Harbor and World War II.
2896Accounts of Fire of 1947
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Bar Harbor Savings Bank
  • Other, Coast Guard
  • Other, Estates
  • Other, Jackson Laboratory
  • Other, Looting
  • Other, National Guard
  • Oct 24-26, 1947
Description:
Newspaper stories from Boston Post, Bangor Commercial, NY Times (listing places burned and owners) retyped on a computer
2897Society issues related to Fire
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Chambers of commerce
  • Other, Cottages
  • Other, Social life
  • 11/3-11/9 1947
Description:
Boston Sunday Herald article on decline of BH as resort area, Chamber letter to the editor (photocopy) and photocopy of letter in the Bangor Daily News responding to a letter of Nov 3 of demise of summer homes