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9624Evergreen Bush
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of evergreen bush branches. Many small clumps of leaves on the bush. light shadows in background. Mostly grey photo. ‘LaRue Spiker’ written in red pen on back of photo.
9625Beach Stump
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of a stump of driftwood lighted from the right on beach. Rocks in sand and waves on shore in background. Shadow is cast by wood to the left hand side of the photo.
9627Pitcher Plant
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of two flowers of the pitcher plant bending toward the ground. Ground is cropped by bottom of photo. Background is tall thin grasses. Paper attatched to the back, “ The pitcher plant, common to the bogs and marshes of Maine, is an insectivorous plant. The leaves have become modified receptacles for the capture and ingestion of insects enabling the plant to grow in soils otherwise too poor to support it." [show more]
9628Pitcher Plants
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photographs of three flowers of the pitcher plant on tall thin stems. Flowers are round and shiny and petals curl into itself. All heads of flowers facing away from the viewer. Small veined cupped leaves on ground. Background is heavily textured with plant leaves and grasses. Print is on matte paper.
9629Skunk Cabbage with Fruit
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
Description:
8 X 10 black and white close-up photograph of skunk cabbage with white rough skinned fruit inside leaves. Closeup of cabbage leaning toward right side of frame. Lighted background.
9631Skunk Cabbage Opening
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of skunk cabbage with opening leaves. Many twigs and branches in lower and top of picture. Three white areas on left side where tape has removed surface of photo. Paper attatched to back, “ 2. the leaves push through the earth in a pointed sheath and look like this several days after the appearance of the hood. In maturity they are oval and quite large. the fruit, somewhat larger than a golf ball, is fleshy and rough skinned.” [show more]
10029Pod-like Plant
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 ca
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.
13685School Life 1960-61
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Structures, Institutional, School
  • Jura Studio
  • 1960-61
Description:
Portraits of Somesville Grade School Grade five and six mounted on singel mattte. Marked School Life 1960 -1961 top center, Somesville Grade School Somesville Maine, Grade five-Six Jura Studio at bottom. Students from Left to right; top row; Laurabee Pepper, Edna Gaudet, Linda Smith, Virginia Richardson.Second row; Ruby Higgins, teacher, Terry Blanchard, Gloria Cunninham, George Grant, Jr., Dora Lawson, Albert Merchant, Mary Emerson. Bottom Row; Calab Tracy, Nancy Kelly, John Butler, Debbie Gray, Raymond Lawson, Freda Hibbard, Philip Gaudet. [show more]
8386Claremont Hotel
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Building
  • Other, transportation - Land
  • LaRue Spiker
  • 1960c.
Description:
The Claremont Hotel. Car parked on the right.
10030Pond Plants
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960s
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
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
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
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
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
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
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]
10405Stanley Fisheries, Manset
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Other, Transportation - Maritime
  • Other, transportation - Automobil
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960s
Description:
Stanley Fisheries in Manset. Large truck and several cars on pier. Color photo
5896Frenchman's Bay Boating Company, Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Transportation - Maritime
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1961
Description:
The Charles Butt Ballard Negative Collection. Black and white photo. Frenchman's Bay Boating Company, Bar Harbor, Maine. Pictures of "Osprey" - fishing excursion boat.
5897Frenchman's Bay Boating Company, Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Transportation - Maritime
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1961
Description:
The Charles Butt Ballard Negative Collection. Black and white photo. Frenchman's Bay Boating Company, Bar Harbor, Maine. Pictures of "Osprey" - fishing excursion boat.
5898Frenchman's Bay Boating Company, Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Transportation - Maritime
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1961
Description:
The Charles Butt Ballard Negative Collection. Black and white photo. Frenchman's Bay Boating Company, Bar Harbor, Maine. Pictures of "Osprey" - fishing excursion boat.
5899Frenchman's Bay Boating Company, Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Transportation - Maritime
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1961
Description:
The Charles Butt Ballard Negative Collection. Black and white photo. Frenchman's Bay Boating Company, Bar Harbor, Maine. Pictures of "Osprey" - fishing excursion boat.
5900Frenchman's Bay Boating Company, Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Transportation - Maritime
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1961
Description:
The Charles Butt Ballard Negative Collection. Black and white photo. Frenchman's Bay Boating Company, Bar Harbor, Maine. Pictures of "Osprey" - fishing excursion boat.
5907Deep sea fishing boats, Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Transportation - Maritime
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1961
Description:
The Charles Butt Ballard Negative Collection. Black and white photo. From Town Landing at Bar Harbor. Shows two deep sea fishing excursion boats at float.
5908Sunbeam, Northeast Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Transportation - Maritime
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1961
Description:
The Charles Butt Ballard Negative Collection. Black and white photo. Sunbeam, Northeast Harbor, Maine
5909Sunbeam, Northeast Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Transportation - Maritime
  • W.H. Ballard
  • 1961
Description:
The Charles Butt Ballard Negative Collection. Black and white photo. Sunbeam, Northeast Harbor, Maine