Description: Envelope addressed to LaRue Spiker from someone in Philadelphia, PA. Name of sender is unclear due to handwritting. Postmark is unclear. Envelope is empty.
Description: 13 Envelopes which LaRue recycled to hold negatives in. These were found dumped into the back of photo album 16. Some contain notes scribbled on the back as to the subject matter and notes to the newspaper editor.
Description: Blue envelope addressed to LaRue Spiker from Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Palmer, Mount Desert, Maine. Isaac Reed written on envelope near return address. Envelope was sent August 17, 1973 from Southwest Harbor, ME Nothing in envelope
Description: Envelope addressed to Mr. A Keith Glazier SLNTE ED. Press Herald Portland, Maine From La Rue Spiker Norwood written in pencil on front of envelope. Envelope was around 9 black and white photo negatives of Sandra Gott's Wedding
Description: Postcard of the Swan's Island Ferry, underway, 1961. Published in 1965. Back of card: Operated by Maine State Ferry Service, carries 150 passengers and 8 cars between mcKinlye, in Acadia national Park, and Swans Island, Maine. A 5 mile trip in 35 minutes across beautfiul Blue Hill Bay. Note on original sleeve: Sold $6,000 to H.G. Reed, $103.00
Description: Postcard with photo of High Seas, restaurant built for Mr. and Mrs. G. Edgar Morang. Designed by Robert Patterson. Note gave date of 1956.
Description: Small glass ink holder. Date is unkown. There is a crack on the inside of the holder and the inside is murky. Marked on the outside: "Woods Black Ink. Portland"
Description: 8*6.5" notebook used for school work and then used for Friday Club minutes Says 1926 on outside. Inside cover lists subjects beginning with Physiology and ending with Rhetoric. Seems to have some grades As and Bs but others check marks. Next pages are geometry theoremsMinutes begin in 1924, possible spelling list, poetry, stanzas of Lord Ullin's Daughter written by a Scottish poet Thomas Campbell, heaven is not reached on a single bound by J.G. Holland Could be book of child of Maud Trask Mentions waiting list 1/28/27 minutes [show more]
Description: Wooden frame around slate. Frame edges joined with cord. “A” and “LHF” carved into wood. Donor info - collected with other articles in L. Somes House.
Description: Marked, “Andrew’s Noiseless Drawing Slate For Schools and Families. Pat’d April 3rd 1877”. Has a blue and red border around edge of picture. Shows a bucking horse, ax, jug, cross, pyramids, shears, ship and other items. Other side shows names and animals.
Description: Ellsworth Commercial Writing Books, by The Author of The Ellsworth System of Penmanship and Bookkeeping. New York: Boorum & Pease. July 22, 1879. “Mary A. Somes, Oct. 1891” is written in pencil on the cover. Inside are pages of lines written over and over to practice cursive writing.