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: 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 an aerial view of land. Not sure what location this might be. This is an orgional slide. Duplicates appear in other Sierra Club slide shows in the LaRue Spiker Collection. From folder: Sierra Club Oil Show, Do not separate.
Description: Color slide of boats in a harbor as seen from looking across a large field. Islands in the distance. This is an orgional slide. Duplicates appear in other Sierra Club slide shows in the LaRue Spiker Collection. From folder: Sierra Club Oil Show, Do not separate.
Description: Notation on slide reads: Oily Reflections in straw, Santa Barbara Harbor at boat Launching ramp, Under Sea Garden. From folder: Sierra Club Oil Show, Do not separate.
Description: Color slide of a nautical chart of Los Angeles Bay. Notation on slide reads: Map-Santa Barbara Channel, Channel Island and Mainland Coast. From folder: Sierra Club Oil Show, Do not separate.
Description: Color slide of large oil sheen on top of the water. Notation on slide reads: Oil Spill-PLand This is an orgional slide. Duplicates appear in other Sierra Club slide shows in the LaRue Spiker Collection. From folder: Sierra Club Oil Show, Do not separate.
Description: Color slide of large waves crashing as they roll in. This is an orgional slide. Duplicates appear in other Sierra Club slide shows in the LaRue Spiker collection. From folder: Sierra Club Oil Show, Do not separate.
Description: Color slide of a large wave spray coming up from a slab of granite rock along the edge of the water. This is an orgional slide. Duplicates appear in other Sierra Club slide showes in the LaRue Spiker Collection. From folder: Sierra Club Oil Show, Do not separate.
Description: Notation on slide reads: Bay oil production, drilling rig, treater, compressor station, tank battery, and well heads. This is an orgional slide. Duplicates appear in other Sierra Club slide shows in the LaRue Spiker Collection. From folder: Sierra Club Oil Show, Do not separate.
Description: Color slide of a hand holding an open oyster shell showing oil inside the shell. This is an orgional slide. Duplicates appear in other Sierra Club slide shows in the LaRue Spiker Collection. From folder: Sierra Club Oil Show, Do not separate.
Description: Color slide of houses and buildings along the shoreline. There are a number of rowboats in the water on anchorage morrings. Photo is taken from the water. This is an orgional slide. Duplicates appear in other Sierra Club slide shows in the LaRue Spiker Collecion. From folder: Sierra Club Oil Show, Do not separate.
Description: Color slide of an industrial plant with emissions coming out of the smokestacks. The industrial plant is on an peninsula. There are two large storage tanks. This is an orgional slide. Duplicates appear in other Sierra Club slide shows in the LaRue Spiker Collection. From folder: Sierra Club Oil Show, Do not separate.
Description: Color slide of oil floating on top of the water. Notation on slide reads: Oil from Channel Dr. , 2/8/69 This is an orgional slide. Duplicates appear in other Sierra Club Slide shows in the LaRue Spiker Collection. From folder: Sierra Club Oil Show, Do not separate.
Description: Color slide of an oil covered beach and wave. Notation on the slide reads: Taken from under Eas Garden Jetty looking Eastward, 2/16/69 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.