Description: 1 handwritten pages Copy of document shows a short choncology of the S.A.E. and the Champlain Society from 1884-1887 as written by A.L. Rand Secretary.
Description: Bound picturebook of photographs from Bar Harbor and Acadia Park. Date of publication unkown. One image labeled "Flying Squadron Mountain" dating the source to between 1929 and the 1940s.
Description: A play ("dialogue" is the word used by the author ) about drunkeness and redemption. Appears to have been written by Allen Somes. Three scenes, handwritten on 3 pages. A note on the back of the second page asks a Mr. Higgins to take one of the roles and to come to rehearsal on a Friday evening. If Higgins cannot take the role, he is asked to pass the script to Bloomfield. No date is given.
Description: Two news photographs attributed to [LaRue] Spiker showing millstones which had been used at the Heath grist mill on Seal Cove Pond. Mill operated between 1768 and 1783. Stones were at the cottage of Dr. Eugenia Ketterlinus and Miss Mary Rogers on the south shore of Seal Cove Pond at the time of the photographs. Previously accessioned as Object Id 012.FIC.043.16
Description: One page article discussing theory of William Bigenho that his island, Great Duck Island, could be the location of buried treasure of Capt. William Kidd. Previously archived as object Id 012.FIC.035.9
Description: Two articles pertaining to the history of the Bar Harbor Times newspaper. Titles are: Bar Harbor Times is Fifty Years Old This Week, commemorative edition, published in the Bar Harbor Times, Bar Harbor Times Has New Owners, published in the Ellsworth American and authored by LaRue Spiker.
Description: Three newspaper stories photocopied onto the same page. 1. Bangor Daily News, "MDI historical society receives grant to restore schoolhouse", May 28, 1999. 2. Bar Harbor Times, "School house gets $125,000 challenge", undated. 3. Bar Harbor Times, "Restoration to begin", May 27, 1999.
Description: One double-sided mimeographed page which includes two historical essays: "Somesville, a Pleasant Place, A Goodly Heritage" and "Hall Quarry, An Interesting Place" and well as one unattributed poem, "The Cemetery Road."
Description: Four page handwritten document describing the Battle of Norwood's Cove, a skirmish between settlers of Mt. Desert Island and a British Frigate, Tenedos. Stated to be part of LaRue Spiker Collection, from a file marked "Mrs. Dorr."
Description: Copybook of F.J. Phillips, spring 1873-75, with one section from 1926. Binder of looseleaf paper. Most likely a compilation of other notebooks. Combination of written diary and ledger style of entries.
Description: Includes a History of Maine License Plates. No date given. Famous Maine-made automobiles include the Stanley steamer, Electromobile (made by Belknap Motor Co., Portland), and others.