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  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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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.
Three Lady's Slippers
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960
  • Maine
Three Lady's Slippers
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
3.25 X 3.25 black and white photograph of three lady’s slippers or pink moccassins grow out of forest floor. All flowers are facing camera. Leaves are opened side to side. Other twigs and leaves around.
Mushroom Closeup
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
  • Maine, MDI
Mushroom Closeup
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of tall egg shaped mushrooms with white ruffled outer skin. Two mushrooms in foreground with one out of focus mushroom in background. Dark grass on ground, with rain drops on grass.
Tree at Schoodic
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
  • Maine, Schoodic
Tree at Schoodic
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of a driftwood trunk with many tangled branches coming off in all directions. Photo taken from below tree. Strong contrast on shadows of branches. White granite boulder in foreground. Writing on back, “ Schoodic, tree at schoodic.”
Dead Tree against Sky
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
  • Maine
Dead Tree against Sky
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 8 black and white photograph of dead tree with stripped bark silhouetted against the sky. ‘Y’ formation of top branches reaching to left and right corners. Sky in background with clouds, sun. Dark evergreen trees in lower left hand corner.
Once There Were Giants
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
  • Maine
Once There Were Giants
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 8 black and white photograph of driftwood tree in midground with main trunk pointing toward left of photo. Sparse grass in foreground with rocks. Dark evergreen trees in background. Writing in back of photo, “ Mag.3 Dec.29 Once there were giants.”
Driftwood Patterns
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
  • Maine
Driftwood Patterns
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 8 black and white close-up photograph of driftwood grain patterns, grey photo with black in corners.
Dead Tree
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
  • Maine
Dead Tree
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 8 black and white photograph of a dead tree with stripped bark. Five branches reaching toward the sky. Large white cloud over top half of photo. Small strip of sea and horizon along very bottom half inch of photo.
Driftwood in Beach Grass
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
  • Maine
Driftwood in Beach Grass
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
6 X 6 black and white photograph of a log of drift wood in lower left corner, surrounded by beach grasses. Highlighted patch of sand or rocks in lower right corner.
Evergreen Bush
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
  • Maine
Evergreen Bush
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of evergreen bush branches. Many small clumps of leaves on the bush. light shadows in background. Mostly grey photo. ‘LaRue Spiker’ written in red pen on back of photo.
Beach Stump
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
  • Maine
Beach Stump
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of a stump of driftwood lighted from the right on beach. Rocks in sand and waves on shore in background. Shadow is cast by wood to the left hand side of the photo.
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.
Pitcher Plant
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
  • Maine
Pitcher Plant
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of two flowers of the pitcher plant bending toward the ground. Ground is cropped by bottom of photo. Background is tall thin grasses. Paper attatched to the back, “ The pitcher plant, common to the bogs and marshes of Maine, is an insectivorous plant. The leaves have become modified receptacles for the capture and ingestion of insects enabling the plant to grow in soils otherwise too poor to support it." [show more]
Pitcher Plants
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
  • Maine
Pitcher Plants
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photographs of three flowers of the pitcher plant on tall thin stems. Flowers are round and shiny and petals curl into itself. All heads of flowers facing away from the viewer. Small veined cupped leaves on ground. Background is heavily textured with plant leaves and grasses. Print is on matte paper.
Skunk Cabbage with Fruit
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
  • Maine
Skunk Cabbage with Fruit
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 10 black and white close-up photograph of skunk cabbage with white rough skinned fruit inside leaves. Closeup of cabbage leaning toward right side of frame. Lighted background.
Skunk Cabbage Opening
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
  • Maine
Skunk Cabbage Opening
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of skunk cabbage with opening leaves. Many twigs and branches in lower and top of picture. Three white areas on left side where tape has removed surface of photo. Paper attatched to back, “ 2. the leaves push through the earth in a pointed sheath and look like this several days after the appearance of the hood. In maturity they are oval and quite large. the fruit, somewhat larger than a golf ball, is fleshy and rough skinned.” [show more]
Skunk Cabbage
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
  • Florida
Skunk Cabbage
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of skunk cabbage. Plants resemble cupped hands and are bending in towards each other. White spots are on the suface of each plant. Dirt and grass surround the plants. Writing on back, “ The skunk cabbage-item 70%.”
Southern Forest
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1959
  • Florida
Southern Forest
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of a forest floor with fallen leaves and debris. Tall trees with straight trunks and palm leaves throughout background. Ferns on left and right sides on photo. Paper on back, “ The cover of this section of bay was primarily palmetto and fern with some loblolly bay (a member of the tea family) mixed in.
Maine Fern
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1959
  • Maine
Maine Fern
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of a single stemed fern with five leaves coming off stem in center of photo. Leaves are lighted background is dark with other plants. Back of photo, ‘ December 1959, Frontier’s Zinc H7, 3” wide 2.5” deep.”
Fern with Seed Stalks
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1959
  • Maine
Fern with Seed Stalks
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of a large fern in middle with all leaves pointing upwards. Large seed stalks in center of fern. All values of photo are of equall light and shadow.
Unfolding Ferns
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
  • Florida
Unfolding Ferns
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of two new fern plants with opening leaves. Plants are in front of a piece of wooden log. The plant furthest left is casting a shadow on the bottom of the log. There is dark moss in the forground at the bottom of frame.
Sub-tropical Forest, Highland's Hammock State Park, Florida
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
  • Florida
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of a gravel road lined with palm trees and tropical foliage. Large tree on left side in foreground, with long branch extending from middle of left side of photo to the upper right corner. Paper attatched to back, “ Not all of that mecca for wintering Yankees is surf and shining sand; interior Florida is equally interesting. The sub-tropical forest shown here is part of the Highland’s Hammock State park. There are trailering facilities in the park and in nearby Sebring. LeRue Spiker % Gilbert, 2037 Walnut St. Phila 3, Penna. “ [show more]
Florida Wetland
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960 c.
  • Florida
Florida Wetland
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of a Florida wetland. Body of water in lower part of image with palm tree in center of picture extending out over water. Long spanish moss on trees in foreground on right side of picture.
Unidentified Air Plant
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1958
  • Florida
Unidentified Air Plant
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of a small spider-like air plant attatched to large tree trunk. Writing on back, “ La Rue Spiker, Route 1, Box 14C, Bar Harbor, Maine.” Paper attatched to back, “ 7. Dark green and graceful, this species is decidedly less comon. Even the experts have difficulty in identifying some specits when they are not in bloom.” Second attatchment, “ Note: the botanist at the Highlands Hammock State Park, Sebring, Florida identified this species for me as T. juncea. Later a botanist friend in Philadelphia questioned this identification. Therefore, I sent a copy of the photo to Mulford Foster at Orlando. He Stated : “Most definately the plant is not T. juncea.....Without the plant showing an inflorescence I would not wish to make any identification....” [show more]
Pineapple Air Plant, T. Utriculata
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Plants
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1958
  • Florida
Pineapple Air Plant, T. Utriculata
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of a pineapple air plant attatched to base of trunk on tree. Tree in woods surrounded by other trees. Plant has tall stalk of dark flowers. Writing on back of photo, “ Corkscrew, 1958, LaRue Spiker, Route 1, Box 14c, Bar Harbor, Maine. Paper attatched to back, “ 3. A ‘pineapple air plant’ which had bloomed on the trunk of a small cypress tree. This species, Tillandsia utriculata, requires five or six years to mature, blooms but once then dies. It belongs to the same botanical genus as Spanish moss.” [show more]