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Buckboard Party
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
Buckboard Party
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Four horse team hitched to a buckboard outside two story cottage. Woman and man sit on driver's bench. At least ten other passengers in open buckboard. Ladies in elegant dress stand on covered porch. Vines growing up each side of porch and along front. Small peak in porch roof. Upstairs windows shuttered, center window closed.
Schooner Kate L. Pray
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Ships
  • People
  • Unknown
Schooner Kate L. Pray
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Two masted schooner at wharf in front of A.J. Whiting’s (later, 1887) Fernald’s Store (later Port-in-a-Storm Bookstore, then art gallery). Back of blacksmith shop visible on left. Small sailing dory tied to wharf. Anchor hangs from bow. Several men seated in the bow of schooner, one standing aft near main mast. Man driving wagon pulled by two white horses. Somes meadow in distance. Mark in lower left hand corner. Edges very worn. Stained and faded. Marked on back, “Schooner Kate L. Pray.” [show more]
Clapboard House Unknown Location
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Building
  • People
  • c 1890s - c 1900s
Clapboard House Unknown Location
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Two story white clapboard house with black shutter, attached barn. Large trees in front of house. One horse near shed/bard with no tack held by man. Second horse in front wearing harness held by boy. Man stands near horse.
Fish in Weir Net and Dory
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Fish
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
  • 1987
Fish in Weir Net and Dory
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Fish in weir net and dory. Man pulling net into dory.
Fish in Weir Net in dory
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Fish
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
  • 1987
Fish in Weir Net in dory
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Fish in weir net and dory. Unknown man pulling net into dory.
Fish in Weir Net and Dory
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Fish
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
  • 1987
Fish in Weir Net and Dory
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Fish in weir net and dory. Unknown man pulling net into dory.
Fish in Weir Net
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Fish
  • 1987
Fish in Weir Net
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Fish in weir net.
Dog in Chair
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Nature, Animals, Dogs
Dog in Chair
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Black and white photo of large dog in chair, on back inscribed Donald Smith from Watch Babson.
SEA GULLS, Mount Desert Island, Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Other, Photographic postcards
  • W.H. Ballard
SEA GULLS, Mount Desert Island, Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Postcard by W.H. Ballard: SEA GULLS, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Created for Jordan Pond House.
Seated Woman with Dog
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1970 c.
Seated Woman with Dog
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Unknown older woman seated on steps outside house. May be a relative of LaRue Spiker’s. Cocker Spaniel sits next to woman.
LaRue Spiker
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • Unknown
  • 1970 c.
LaRue Spiker
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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.
Maude Russell
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Plants
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1970 c.
Maude Russell
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Maude Russell pruning potted plants in greenhouse.
Woman with Dogs
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • c 1970s
Woman with Dogs
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Woman seated on rocks among trees with five puppies climbing on her lap.
Auto War
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
Auto War
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Horses hitched to buckboards along street. Men sit in carriages or stand next to them. To the left are grass squares and saplings. Across street three large buildings. Middle building holds R.F. Suminsby, smaller builing next door, sign read [----] Stevens. Stamped on back with LaRue Spiker, P O Box 625, Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679. "Auto War" in red crayon
No person shall allow
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Building
  • Spiker, LaRue
No person shall allow
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Five horses and buggies lined up outside hotel. Three porters on steps of covered porch. Three story claboard building with thirteen windows (visible) across second story. White curtains in every window. On back: Stamp of laRue Spiker P O Box 625, Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679 "No person shall allow--
Dead Seagull on Branch
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • Spiker, LaRue
Dead Seagull on Branch
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of a dead seagull on branch.
Tree Root
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1950-1980s
Tree Root
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of an unusual bulbous root of tree.
Young Oyster Catchers
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • DuPre, Andrew
  • 5/3/40
Young Oyster Catchers
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of two newly hatched birds on sand in middle on frame. One and a half spotted eggs to the right of the birds. Dark straw on left hand side of the photo. Birds have dark stripes on back and are facing in toward one other, but look just past the other bird. Writing on back, “Young Oyster-Catchers, Cape Island, S.C. 5/3/40. April 1962, Frontiers. This picture is furnished on a loan basis for 90 days and must be returned to the U. S. Fish and Wild life Service. Please give credit in the following manner; Andrew Dupre Fish and Wildlife service U. S. [show more]
Palm Plant with Cones
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
Palm Plant with Cones
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 10 black and white close-up photograph of a base of a palm plant. Leaves grow on stem from ground that has pine cone-like pods in a cluster on lighted grass. Behind the stem of the leaves is darkness. Sky visible on upper left corner.
Old Cottonwood
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • LaRue Spiker
  • c 1959
Old Cottonwood
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Large tree with sign advertising for milk. Sign at base of the trunk reading, “Old Cottonwood tree landmark 1936.”
Patuxent Research Refuge
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • LaRue Spiker
  • c 1950s
Patuxent Research Refuge
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Entrance to Patuxent Research Refuge. Sign on stone wall, “U.S. Department of the Interior Patuxent Research Refuge”
Fish and Wildlife Refuge
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • LaRue Spiker
  • c 1950s
Fish and Wildlife Refuge
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuge sign on stone wall.
Woman with Dog at Rocky Beach
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
Woman with Dog at Rocky Beach
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
LaRue Spiker’s friend with pet cocker spaniel on rocky beach.
LaRue Spiker and her Camping Trailer
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • Unknown
LaRue Spiker and her Camping Trailer
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Larue Spiker with pet cocker spaniel outside camping trailer.
Man with Dogs
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
Man with Dogs
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Unknown bearded man with Sugarloaf Moutain T-shirt holds springer spanial puppy and golden retriever.