Description: Ellie Wood, “Gran Walter’s Niece”. Woman age 30-40. Hair Pulled back loosely over head to back. Bangs curled around forehead. White dress/blouse no buttons on front. Embroidered across fronts. Small folds sewn to make several lines from shoulder about 1/3 down bodice. High collar with lace edge. Upper torso only. Probably a cabinet card but the frame is no longer with the photo.
Description: LaRue Spiker seated in wooden chair on lawn outside her cabin on the Long Pond Road in Southwest Harbor. Wearing short sleeve dress. Holds book open on lap. Cocker Spaniel sits in front of the chair looking up at her.
Description: 4.5 X 5.5 black and white photograph of LaRue Spiker seated in wooden chair on lawn outside her cabin on the Long Pond Road in Southwest Harbor. Wearing short sleeve dress. Holds book open on lap. Cocker spaniel lays on ground at her feet.
Description: Somesville School Class photograph, October 1909. Twenty one students, none identified. Marked Somesville, Me, Oct 1909 in lower left corner. Students gathered on grass, trees in background. Teacher in center wears hair pulled back with white blouse and dark skirt which buttons down center. Dark tie at neck.
Description: Ready for the finishing touches.S.S. Acadia of the Eastern Steamship Lines being towed to her outfitting berth after the launching at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. This ship was in service between New York and Yarmouth. It became a hospital ship during World War II. Local woman, Louine Lunt Peck, Army Nurse served on the Acadia. .
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 me.n 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. Slide film
Description: Louine Lunt Peck (then Conner) in uniform aboard Army Hospital Ship during World War II. Lt. Peck served as an Army nurse during the War. She is painting. Another woman stands in background.
Description: Daniel Somes Smith and brother June with Julian ?. Julian on left in tree, age 6-8. Wears dark hat with sweater and light pants. June in middle age7-9 seated on tree with hand on head wears dark sweater with knee pants, dark stockings and boots. Daniel on right wears cap, dark jacket, knee pants, dark stockings and light colored shoes or boots. Photo torn on upper left hand corner.
Description: Formal portrait of Cynthia Clement seated with left hand on back of chair (wedding ring visible) and right hand in lap. She wears a light colored long-sleeved dress with heavily pleated bodice, and ruffles at wrists. She has dark hair parted in the middle and pulled back. . Black and white photo print from negative in our collection. Brief, undated, hand-written note (011.FIC.80.4) indicates that Cynthia was a daughter of E.Shepard Richardson and Helen Louise Richardson and married [?] Clement. [show more]
Description: 3.5 X 3.5 black and white photograph of LaRue Spiker squatting on ground with two dogs, Cocker spaniel (Scampie) on the right looking to the left. Taller dog on the left open mouth and spots on body. LaRue’s hand in on dogs leg. Dark house in the background. LaRue is wearing plaid short sleeved shirt and black rimed glasses.
Description: 3 X 3 black and white photograph of LaRue Spiker and her collie dog. They are on a rocky beach with the ocean in the back. LaRue is in the foreground and is wearing boots, the dog is in the background and is turned to face the camera.
Description: 8 X 10 black and white photograph of two fish in center of photo. The one on the left is much larger than the one on the right. They are being held up by two human hands. Thumb nail showing at bottom of photo. Paper on back of photo, “ A parr is a young salmon just two stages away from hatching. They are marked by vertical bars and must develop into smolts (upper fish) before they are capable of migrating to the sea, where they will spend two or three years developing into adult fish.” [show more]
Description: Marguerite Yourcenar with Hortense Flexner seated in wicker garden chairs. This image appears in the biography of Marguerite Yourcenar (Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life, by Josyane Savigneau, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1993) and is credited to Archives Editions Gallimard.
Description: Ralph Tracy and Pauline Higgins Tracy standing arm-in-arm on granite block. Photo may have been taken on Cadillac Mountain with distant water background. Partial view of automobile ca. 1930 visible in lower left corner of picture.