Description: Somes House Inn, Somesville. Road in foreground. Trees line drive to cottage. Two connected three-story white clapboard buildings. On left, wrap-around porch with lattice work and steps going down the left side. Two dormers and one chimney. On right - Porch on front with lattice work. Two chimneys. Horse and buggy in front of steps. Person on porch. No date.
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.
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]
Description: Mount Desert House (The Tavern) in center of photo, taken from across the mill pond. Several people standing outside on lawn. Horse harnessed to buggy with person in seat. Person seated in chair on lawn with woman standing behind. Two men to the right. Historic Nathan Salisbury house with dark trimmed windows to the right. Stake fence surrounds front yard of the Nathan Salisbury house.
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: Lumber Mill in Somesville. Lumber piled to left and in back of mill. To right, logs piled on bank of Mill pond. In background, A.J. Whiting’s Store, later Port-In-A-Storm bookstore. Three horses and three wagons wait for load of lumber. Men from left to right, R. Davis, J.A. Somes, J.W. Somes, Geo. Benson, B. Mitchell). Marked on back, “Last one Hulls Cove; the remainder Somesville.” Edges very worn. Small tear in lower left corner. (This description may refer to a different photograph; nothing marked on back and no wear or tear.) [show more]
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
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--
Description: Green Mountain House on top of Cadillac Mountain. Cedar shingled roof with vertical siding and coverd porch. Horse and buggy outside porch. Marked LaRue Spiker on back.
Description: Two masted schooner in wharf in front of A.J. Whiting Store (later Fernald’s Store, (later Port-in-a-Storm Bookstore, even later, an 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. On back is written The Schooner Kate and La Rue Spicker Southwest Harbor V/4 [show more]
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]
Description: 4 X 4 black and white photograph taken from above of small nestling in leaves, may be on ground. Bird still has down on head and back and small dark stripes on wings. Paper attatched to back, “ The great black-backed gull fledglings remained motionless even when the burdock leaves under which they were hiding were turned back exposing them to view.”
Description: 5 X 7 black and white photograph of a white seagull in middle of picture standing on a granite rock. Horizontal format. Seagull is in profile facing right. Dark line of sea and horizon just bellow top of granite rock. Writting on back: “ Maine Native”