Description: Photos. Collection of 48 slides from ca. 1960-70s (one slide from 1940s) including aerial photographs of Great Cranberry Island and events concerning the Towns family. Aerial photographs ca. 1968 probably taken by Bob Hylander. Events and people include: Preble Cove, GCI houses, Beal and Bunker dock, Hamor House and restaurant, Polly Bunker and gift shop, George Savage and Ruth Haydock on motor scooter, Bloom concert, school house, Doc Haydock and George Savage with the Lollipop skiff, Norma Bunker with turkeys, Dorothy Dot Towns, Red Macallister with VW Bug, Leona Macallister, Cranberry Cove Restaurant, John Lawrence. This collection is in addition to the 223 Towns family slides catalogued as: 2013.243.1941. (All slides have been scanned and identified. See c:....2014>photos>etc.) [show more]
Description: Oil painting of Ocean Drive, Mount Desert Island, by Howe D. Higgins. Inscription on the back: "Ocean Drive, Acadia National Park, by Howe D. Higgins, 1963, Harborside Studio, Southwest Harbor, Maine.
Description: Woman standing next to Acadia National Park Entrance Sign. From album labled "Southwest Harbor Maine August 1960", in "Spiker Friends Family Personae" File.
Description: Color photo of LaRue Spiker (middle), unknown woman (right), unknown woman left standing outside with a cabin in the background. From Blue Album labled "Southwest Harbor August 1960" in "Spiker Family Friends Personae" File
Description: Color slide of straw spread on the beach to soak up oil on top of the water. Notation on slide reads: Oil and straw 2/7/1969 From folder: Sierra Club Oil Show, Do not separate.
Description: Color slide of grasses along the edge of a river. Slide 8 Notation on the slide reads: Fish, polychaetes, crabs, ect. Little offshore from main river. From folder: "Salt Marsh" For League of Women Voters. Do not separate. These slide as numbered but were not in neumerical order in the box.
Description: Color slide of five dead birds covered in oil laying on the sand. This is an orgional slide. A duplicate appears in other Sierra Club slide shows in the LaRue Spiker Collection. From folder: Sierra Club Oil Show, Do not separate.
Description: Color slide of dead and dying clams in the water. This is an origional slide. A Duplicate of this slide appears in other Sierra Club slide shows in the LaRue Spiker Collection. Notation on slide reads: Wild Harbor River, More dead or dying nemertines+ polychaeles and clams. From folder: Oil Spill loose slides
Description: Color slide of a limpet attached to oil This is an origional slide a duplicate slide appears in other Sierra Club slide shows in the LaRue Spiker Collection. Notation on slide reads: limpet attached to oil. From folder: Oil Spill loose slides
Description: The Spurling Wharf at Islesford. “Blue Duck” to the left. Wharf to the right with Mobilgas sign on front of the building. A lobster boat heads away from the wharf. Caption on the back of photo reads, “The Spurling Wharf at Islesford is now operated by Elmer, son of Capt. Bert Spurling.
Description: Picture of boat with one man at stern. Written beneath:For Immediate Sale--$660Friendship Sloop Pemaquid. 25’ overall. 8’6” beam. 4’6” draft. Sails and rigging excellent shape. Full equipment. Able sea boat. In commission Marblehead. Demonstration gladly given. Andrew Hepburn, owner, 1850 Devonshire Street, Boston Mass.Ballard #69-7The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Carriers in port. Ruth Verlyn and Suzy Olive on right. Others behind and on left to other side of dock. Boathouse to left with three barrels in front on dock. Neg. marked “J”.The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Man rowing in front of docked carriers. L to R: Jacquelyn, Grace M. Cribby, Chester T. Marshall, and Sandra & Jean. Woods in background, house to left..Ballard Neg. #2-234. The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Two lobster boats tied to dock in foreground -- starboard sides in photo, sails rolled up. Second one has two barrels on stern. Carriers behind, and hills in background.Negative marked “D”The Charles Butt Collection
Description: Wharf at Southwest Boat Corporation--”S.W. Boat Corp.” sign on building. Many boats tied up. From R to L: Gary Alan, Roamer, Henry O. Underwood, Fish Hawk, Novelty, and Chrisotpher in front row. Others beyond that. Lobster boat in foreground with sail up. Hills in background. Negative marked “B”
Description: Five men on dock holding rowboat next to starboard side of Maine Queen. Boat has sacks of salt stacked on deck. Many other carriers surround it, including “CG-64300”. American flag flying form one mast in top right corner. Negative marked “C”The Charles Butt Collection