You searched for: Creator: is exactly 'LaRue Spiker'✖Contributor: Mount Desert Island Historical Society✖Subject: People✖Type: Image✖Type: Photograph✖Type: Black-and-White Photograph✖
Description: Unknown couple, may be LaRue Spiker’s parents, standing in front of a large tree. Sign in front of them says, “Big Tree Florida 1948. Oldest-Largest Cyprus 3500 years 17 x 127 feet. Caption on the back reads, “Fla. 1948 - I was looking for something, and this fell out, Will pass it on to you in hopes you’ll get a big laugh. I was shocked at how distressed Pop looks and I can’t remeber of my face being so fat. I think this tree is some where near Orlander seems like some one was with us but I don’t know who. Any way I don’t want it around here.” [show more]
Description: Bion Farnsworth (in the white shirt) and part-time assistant, lobsterman John Hinckley, lever and cradle a boat off the car which runs into the water on steel tracks. Has tape marks on it-yellow
Description: Peter Hjarth (sp?) with Lucky (sp?) Pierre in front of new boat about to be launched. The man in the white shirt is Farnham Butler of Mount Desert Yacht Yard. (RSR 5/2015)
Description: Unknown Lobsterman in apron standing in lobster boat. Caption removed from back of photo read, “Lobster fishing is hard, dangerous work, but most fisherman would not swap it for any other business.
Description: Phillip Lolar, member of the Penobscot Indians Governor’s Council, holds a ceremonial war club made by Senabeh, spiritual lead at Indian Islan, Old Town. The club was on display at time of the photograph at the shop of the Penobscot Indian Enterprises in Bar Harbor.