Item	Title	Type	Subject	Creator	Publisher	Date
9628	Pitcher Plants	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1960 c.	Pitcher Plants Item: 9628    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1907 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1960 c. Place: Maine 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.
9629	Skunk Cabbage with Fruit	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1960 c.	Skunk Cabbage with Fruit Item: 9629    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1906 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1960 c. Place: Maine 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.
9631	Skunk Cabbage Opening	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1960 c.	Skunk Cabbage Opening Item: 9631    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1904 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1960 c. Place: Maine 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]
10029	Pod-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.
10030	Pond 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.
10031	Pitcher 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.
10032	Cormorants	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.
10033	Young 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.”
10034	Driftwood	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".
10035	Nesting 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.”
10043	Gulls	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]
10037	Milkweed	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.
10038	Milkweed	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.
10040	Wheat 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.
10041	Wheat	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.
10044	Wheat	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.
10039	Broad 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.
10042	Ferns	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.
10049	Purple 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.
10540	LaRue 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.”
8989	Mount 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.
8378	Horses 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.
8379	Grandstand 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 ParkCopy of old photo.
9601	Male 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.
9600	Male 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.

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