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: Man setting lobster traps and smiling. Photo badly stained. Edges bent. Thumb tack holes in edges. Man looking at camera. Identified at May 2011 "Mystery Photographs" Exhibit also as possibly Arthur McCrae of Seal Harbor, Larry Smith of Otter Creek, or Freddie Cunningham of Bar Harbor. (AB)
Description: Unknown People sitting in chairs on the grass watching an auction. Auctioneer to the right. Cars parked along street. SIgn in background not in focus.
Description: Auctioneer (possibly Mr. Mayo, per May 2011 "Mystery Photographs" exhibit) wearing light colored pin stripe suit with tasseled loafers. Auctioneer holds items for sale in his hand. Standing in front of tent. U.S. Coast Guard emblem on podium. Furniture and other auction items to the left.
Description: Unknown Little boy picking something up from the grass in front of a large tree. Chain link fence in background. Truck passing on the street.
Description: Eric Rodick and unknown friend smoking cigarette leaning against store on cottage street. Bicycles leaning against store front. Village Emporium at the end of the block.
Description: People crossing the street at crosswalk at the corner of Main Street and Cottage Street. Jade East T-shirt shop in the background. Sign in shape of lobster for Testa’s restaurant to the right. Man taking picture on the left in the background.
Description: Ted Spurling seated in wide arm chair working on knot. Caption attached on back was removed. “Ted Spurling, licensed skipper and lobsterman, whiles away hours weaving Turk’s heads from warp. Used as decorative collars on sailing vessels in the past, the Turk’s heads are a popular gift shop item used as candle stick holders. Ted is part of the Oceanarium team.”
Description: Ralph Phippen sitting on couch wearing cardigan and plaid shirt. Caption attached on back was removed. “Ralph Phippen, who started hauling traps when he was eight years old, is almost a classic picture of the Downeast Lobsterman --- gruff, determined, proud. During the depression of the 1930’s,he painted the stern of his boat red, white and blue then labeled her name over the colors -- “Hard Luck.” now he shares his fishing skiff with patrons of the Oceanarium. [show more]
Description: Unknown young woman seated on trunk of sedan. Wears short sleeve plaid shirt and blue jeans. Three story white house with black trim in back ground.