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| Newsclipping: “Landscape Sargent Painted Gone to make $25,000 DAM” 1936. Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Newsclipping: “Landscape Sargent Painted Gone to make $25,000 DAM” 1936. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Newsclipping - “Landscape Sargent Painted Gone to make $25,000 DAM” 1936. Previously accessioned as **0643, Object Id 011.FIC.71.12 | ||||
| Jennie Ailworth Obituary Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Jennie Ailworth Obituary Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper clipping of Mrs. Jennie Ailworth's obituary from LaRue Spiker Funeral Notice Folder On Card back: "A Service of The Martins in Bushnell, Ill." | ||||
| Arthur Ailworth Obituary Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Arthur Ailworth Obituary Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Funeral Notice for Arthur F. Ailworth from LaRue Spiker Funeral Notice Folder | ||||
| George H. Spiker Obituary Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  George H. Spiker Obituary Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Funeral Notice for George H. Spiker from LaRue Spiker Funeral Notice Folder The Angel of Peace in Loving Remembrance of George H. Spiker, Died Nov. 14, 1911 Age 5 years On Back: Copyright 1908 by H.F. Wendell & Company, Liepsie, Ohio | ||||
| Frank Sample Funeral Notice Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Frank Sample Funeral Notice Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Funeral Notice for Frank Sample from LaRue Spiker Funeral Notice Folder Frank Sample died Aug. 4, 1918 Age 85 years | |||
| LaRue Spiker Report Card Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  LaRue Spiker Report Card Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Postcard adressed to Miss LaRue Spiker, Gridley Street, Bushnell, Illinois Postmarked Minneapolis Minn. Dec. 22 at 2 PM On Back: Pre-Shakes., Drama, Grade A, Thank you From LaRue Spiker Personal Papers/Family Papers | |||
| LaRue Spiker Report Card Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  LaRue Spiker Report Card Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Postcard adressed to Miss LaRue Spiker, Bushnell, Illinois Postmarked Minneapolis Minn. Dec. 23 at 1 PM On Back: Botany, Exam 91, Grade A, Thank you From LaRue Spiker Personal Papers/Family Papers | |||
| Newsclipping - Lewiston Journal “Schooner Catherine, sketched by John Sargent, famous painter, now stranded hulk on Somes Sound”. Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Newsclipping - Lewiston Journal “Schooner Catherine, sketched by John Sargent, famous painter, now stranded hulk on Somes Sound”. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Newsclipping - Lewiston Journal “Schooner Catherine, sketched by John Sargent, famous painter, now stranded hulk on Somes Sound”. Previously accessioned as **0757, Object Id 011.FIC.84.1 | ||||
| Obituaries Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Obituaries Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: John Heiliker, 91 Cranberry Is. artist and teacher died Feb. 22.He was a professor of art at Columbia for 27 years. His career included attend the Art Students League and was a member of the New York arts scene. | |||
| Rudolf Condon Scuptor and Rug Maker Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Rudolf Condon Scuptor and Rug Maker Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Rudolf Condon: Sculptor and Rug Maker by LaRue Spiker. 5 pages. Previously archived as accession #**1231, Object Id **1231 and 013.FIC.30.7 | |||
| Cosmopolitan Art Journal June 1857 No IV Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Cosmopolitan Art Journal June 1857 No IV Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Cosmopolitan Art Journal June 1857 No IV. | |||
| Ceramic Tile - Unknown Artist Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ceramic Tile - Unknown Artist Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Ceramic tile with colorful glaze test spots on it. This glaze is possible the work of Holly Hartley, Mrs. Samenfeld, or Janice Roberts studios. | ||
| Decoy Branscom Male Eider ca 1915 Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Decoy Branscom Male Eider ca 1915 Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Carved decoy, male eider duck | ||
| Sword made from a swordfish bill Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Sword made from a swordfish bill Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Sword made from swordfish bill, with woven rope handle with remains of gilt in several spots, large red bow, and painted nautical scene. From left to right along the blade the painting shows a lighthouse, schooners, swordfish, seagull, flower, and a scroll with "Rena A. Percy", and date "July 19, 1908" towards the tip. Painting is peeling and flaking in some areas. On reverse, peeling paint remains near hilt but no evidence of painting on the rest of the blade. The Rena A. Percy was a schooner under Master Willis G.[E?] Bunker, with a crew of 14, (#200857?), either 78 or 46 Gross Tons, measuring 76.5/ 21.6/ 9.4. Built in 1904 in East Boothbay and used for dory trawling around Jonesport and elsewhere - (http://www.cranberryisles.com/photos/ci_notes.html - Cranberry Islands Notes by Chuck Liebow). Willis Bunker (1855-1915) was the uncle of donor's husband Linden "Tud" Bunker. Note states: "Sword came from Percy's house, Winslow Bunker's father." (In 2016, this would be the house owned by the Sullivan's.) [show more] | |
| Carved walking stick Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Carved walking stick Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Artifact, carved walking stick made by Sam Chapman | ||
| Portrait of Abraham Lincoln with Flower Arrangment Stereograph, 1874 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Portrait of Abraham Lincoln with Flower Arrangment Stereograph, 1874 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Photograph of a portrait of President Abraham Lincoln surrounded by a flower arrangement. People Depicted: Abraham Lincoln Black and white | ||
| Decoy Gus Wilson Coot Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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| Decoy Gus Wilson Coot Great Harbor Maritime Museum | |||
| Nelson - Carl Gustav (1898-1988) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Nelson - Carl Gustav (1898-1988) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Carl G. Nelson, born in Sweden in 1898, came to the United States when he was five-years-old. A part-time resident of Cranberry Isles for 21-years and a full-time resident for 19-years following his retirement from teaching in Boston, he died Aug. 6, 1988, at the age of 91. Carl Nelson was a professional teaching artist. After retiring at 71, he bought a piece of land and settled in a house on Great Cranberry. He called his little estate "Tosh Park", Nelson is noted for his beautiful pen and inks, oils, casein paintings and handsome linoleum cuts. His work is currently represented in museums, gallerys, universities and both government and private collections. He has a long list of exhibitions to his credit at the Whitney Museum Biennials, Chicago Art Institute, Institute of Contemporary Art and the American Federation of the Arts to name oniy a few. He has had many one-man shows in New York, Boston, Cambridge, Fitchburg, Mass., and Atlanta. His works have also been reproduced in a number of books — from Herbert Agar's "Land of the Free", in 1935 to "American Drawings; Drawings of the Masters" by Bartlett H. Hayes in 1975. The documentary film "Of Endless Wonder" was made in 1969 by Betsy Seigal and David Westphall of Brandeis. The artist was born in Sweden, studied at the Art Student's League in New York, was a Tiffany Foundation scholar, and graduated from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. [show more] |