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9600Male Deer
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Other, deer
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • c. 1960s1960 c.
Male Deer
Item:
  • 9600   
Object ID:
  • 998-1980-3085.1944
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Nature
  • Other, deer
Creator:
  • Spiker, LaRue
Collection:
  • LaRue Spiker Collection
Date:
  • c. 1960s1960 c.
Place:
  • MDI, Maine
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of a male deer in a field, in the center, facing to the right of the photo. Back is highlighted, and he is standing in a field of short grass with darker trees on edge.
9601Male Deer with Spots
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Other, deer
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • c. 1960s 1960 c.
Male Deer with Spots
Item:
  • 9601   
Object ID:
  • 998.1980.3085.1943
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Nature
  • Other, deer
Creator:
  • Spiker, LaRue
Collection:
  • LaRue Spiker Collection
Date:
  • c. 1960s 1960 c.
Place:
  • MDI, Maine
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of the side view of male deer with white spots on side. Horns with highlighted fuzz around edges. Deers nose is facing to the left of the photo. Bushes with a lot of light on them in background.
8378Horses on racetrack
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
  • c 1900
Horses on racetrack
Item:
  • 8378   
Object ID:
  • 998-1038-2243
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
Subject:
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
Creator:
  • LaRue Spiker
Collection:
  • LaRue Spiker Collection
Date:
  • c 1900
Place:
  • Bar Harbor, Maine
Description:
Horses on the race track at Robin Hood Park. People gathered at the fence along the track. Copy of old photo.
8379Grandstand at race track
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Building
  • LaRue Spiker
  • c 1900
Grandstand at race track
Item:
  • 8379   
Object ID:
  • 998-1037-2242
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
Subject:
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Building
Creator:
  • LaRue Spiker
Collection:
  • LaRue Spiker Collection
Date:
  • c 1900
Place:
  • Bar Harbor, Maine
Description:
Grandstand at the race track at Robin Hood Park Copy of old photo.
8989Mount Desert Tavern
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Nature, Animals, Horses
  • Other, Building
  • People
  • Unknown
  • c 1870 - 1890
Mount Desert Tavern
Item:
  • 8989   
Object ID:
  • 97-342-507a
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
Subject:
  • Nature, Animals, Horses
  • Other, Building
  • People
Creator:
  • Unknown
Date:
  • c 1870 - 1890
Place:
  • Somesville, Mt. Desert, Maine
Description:
Historic Mount Desert Tavern, also know as, the Mount Desert House. Tall sign post on front lawn. Mount Desert House sign partially cut out of picture. Lattice work fence leads to front door. Shutters on front windows shut. Two men standing near front door. Two men in front of lattice work. Several men and boys stand around large wagon with horse. Shadow visible in foreground. Negative for 97-342-507.
10540LaRue Spiker at Campsite
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 8/1973
LaRue Spiker at Campsite
Item:
  • 10540   
Object ID:
  • 998.1980.3085.1284
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
Creator:
  • Spiker, LaRue
Collection:
  • LaRue Spiker Collection
Date:
  • 8/1973
Place:
  • Great Machias Lake, Maine
Description:
LaRue Spiker seated at picnic table holding dog. Second dog in parked car with open hatch back. Moutains and lake in background. On back of photo, “This was the second campsite on Great Machais Lake. The woods are visible and were behind the camera.”
10039Broad 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.
10042Ferns
  • 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.
10049Purple 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.
10037Milkweed
  • 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.
10038Milkweed
  • 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.
10040Wheat 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.
10041Wheat
  • 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.
10044Wheat
  • 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.
10030Pond 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.
10031Pitcher 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.
10032Cormorants
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960s
Cormorants
Item:
  • 10032   
Object ID:
  • 998.1980.3085.1851
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Nature
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Creator:
  • Spiker, LaRue
Collection:
  • LaRue Spiker Collection
Date:
  • 1960s
Place:
  • Maine
Description:
4 X 6 black and white photograph of many cormorant birds among twigs and branches. Large out of focus bird in foreground facing camera with puffed up throat. Many silhouettes of birds along horizon line and birds in air in upper left side of photo.
10033Young Cormorant
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960s
Young Cormorant
Item:
  • 10033   
Object ID:
  • 998.1980.3085.1850
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Nature
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Creator:
  • Spiker, LaRue
Collection:
  • LaRue Spiker Collection
Date:
  • 1960s
Place:
  • Maine
Description:
5 X 5.5 black and white close up photograph of a baby cormorant. Black bird with white throat. Bird is looking up and facing the camera, beak slightly open. Surrounded by twigs and branches. Paper on back, “ Even babies too small to retreat tried to protect themselves with a horrendous bluff. Swelling up the naked orangish colored pouch beneath the chin, they clicked their bills rapidly at the intruders.”
10034Driftwood
  • 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".
10035Nesting Cormorants
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960s
Nesting Cormorants
Item:
  • 10035   
Object ID:
  • 998.1980.3085.1848
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Nature
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Creator:
  • Spiker, LaRue
Collection:
  • LaRue Spiker Collection
Date:
  • 1960s
Place:
  • Maine
Description:
5 X 6 black and white photograph of a field of baby cormorant birds. Black birds dotted among nests of white twigs and grasses. Mountains of MDI in background. One bird in flight toward right hand side of mountain. Paper on back, “ the nests were so closely placed that from a distance it looked as if you couldn’t have laid a pencil between them.”
10043Gulls
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960s
Gulls
Item:
  • 10043   
Object ID:
  • 998.1980.3085.1840
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Nature, Animals
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Creator:
  • Spiker, LaRue
Collection:
  • LaRue Spiker Collection
Date:
  • 1960s
Place:
  • Maine
Description:
4 X 4 black and white photograph. Two Birds in nest. Young, black, without feathers and white throats. First bird is looking up and straight at camera, second bird is in profile facing to the right of photo. They are in a nest of white twigs. Writing on back, “ May 5, Gulls, deB Croff, 1, reb LaRue Spiker, Southwest Harbor.” Paper attatched to back, “ When hatched the nestlings are naked but they soon develop a coarse black down over the rough ashy-black skin.” The LaRue Spiker Collection [show more]
10029Pod-like Plant
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 ca
Pod-like Plant
Item:
  • 10029   
Object ID:
  • 998.1980.3085.1854
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
Creator:
  • Spiker, LaRue
Collection:
  • LaRue Spiker Collection
Date:
  • 1960 ca
Place:
  • Maine
Description:
4 X 5 black and white photograph of two dark pod-like plants. Like upright cupped hands. Plants have light colored spots all over exterior. Plants on ground, photo taken from above.
9526Cat in Grass
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Cats
  • Other, Pets
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
Cat in Grass
Item:
  • 9526   
Object ID:
  • 998.1980.3085.2018
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Nature, Animals, Cats
  • Other, Pets
Creator:
  • Spiker, LaRue
Collection:
  • LaRue Spiker Collection
Date:
  • 1960 c.
Place:
  • Maine
Description:
4.5 X 5 black and white photograph of a dark colored cat walking on grass to the right of the photo. There are three tin trash cans in the background behind the cat. Cat is LaRue Spiker's. Focus of the photograph is blurry.
9527Dog near Shed
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Dogs
  • Other, Pets
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
Dog near Shed
Item:
  • 9527   
Object ID:
  • 998.1980.3085.2017
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Nature, Animals, Dogs
  • Other, Pets
Creator:
  • Spiker, LaRue
Collection:
  • LaRue Spiker Collection
Date:
  • 1960 c.
Place:
  • Maine
Description:
4 X 4.25 black and white photograph of a collie-type dog standing on pile of rocks next to tree with no leaves and old fence post. Dog is turned and looking at something to the right of the photograph. There is an abandoned wooden structure behind dog with two windows. many weeds and tall grasses are around rocks.
9598Shells on the Sand
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Other, shells
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
Shells on the Sand
Item:
  • 9598   
Object ID:
  • 998.1980.3085.1946
Catalog:
  • Photos
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
Subject:
  • Nature
  • Other, shells
Creator:
  • Spiker, LaRue
Collection:
  • LaRue Spiker Collection
Date:
  • 1960 c.
Place:
  • MDI, Maine
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of nine shells arranged in the sun on the sand. Three larger shells near to bottom of photo. Paper attatched to back, “ Each species of snail produces a shell distinctive in size shape color, and texture; but the basic method of manufacturing the shell is similar in all species. Common names for species vary. Most people recognize the big shell at the top as a Tulip Shell. Second row from the top, left to right; Old Maid’s Curl, Cone, Chestnut Turban, and Left-Handed Whelk; small one in center is a Dislocated Auger; bottom row, left to right: Lace Murex, Shark’s Eye, and Paper Fig. [show more]