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10549Unknown Woman
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, buildings
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
Description:
3.5 X 3.5 black and white photograph of older woman with short hair wearing dress patterned with bricks and flowers, large beaded necklace, carrying white purse on arm. Stands in front of white house. Writing on back, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.’ I look so big” This may be LaRue Spiker’ s Mother, Grace Spiker.
5421Men standing near lumber in empty mill pond
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Building
  • People
  • Unknown
Description:
Men standing near lumber in empty mill pond. Looking towards Mount Desert House. Small building standing on bank of mill pond.
5422Men seated on the banks of mill pond
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Building
  • People
  • Unknown
Description:
Men seated on banks of mill pond (probably not Main Street Mill) near logs. Lumber floating on barge in pond. Three buildings on opposite bank.
5468Mount Desert House
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Horses
  • Other, Building
  • People
Description:
Mount Desert House. Horse and buggy in front of tall sign and post. People stand near front door.
7588Lumber Mill, Somesville
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Building
  • People
  • Places, Landscape
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]
9053Mount Desert Post Office
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • Unknown
Description:
Mount Desert Post Office on Main Street, Somesville, next to former home of Daniel (Somes) and Rosemary Smith. Former Richard Donahoe house to the right. Post Office is a single story clapboard building with gable end facing the road. There is a sash window beside the front door. There is a small window high in the gable end. Chimney with stovepipe insert extends above roof line. Car to right with open door. Man stands in front of post office door watching a second man shovel snow. [show more]
9100Auto War
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
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
9020Someville Grade School Class Photo
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Education
  • People
  • Unknown
Description:
Portraits of Somesville Grade School. No grade or year marked. M.Grant is marked at the bottom right. Students from left to right, top row; Tom Fernald, Pat Hibbard, Richard Kelley, Kay Tracy, Teddy Stanley, Georgia Robinson; row two, Deaveraux Barnes, Sharon Gonzales, Charlie Carter, Jean Barned, Tony Merchant, Carloyn Brown, Norman Richardson; row three, Lydia Butler, Earl Reed, Rosemary Blanchard, David Lucas, Libby Gonzales, Charlie Barnes, Dennis Blanchard. Margaret written above M. Grant. [show more]
10310Open air market Philadelphia
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, industry - Food
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Man standing near fruit table at an open air market. Contact Print. Man's face blurry
11207Anne Mintz
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, music
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Anne Mintz and unknown man seated on couch holding unusual musical intruments.
11212Lee Wilbur
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, industry - Boat Building
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Lee Wilbur and unknown man on the left on a new fishing boat. Accession number also listed on the back as 998-570-1675
11213Bion Farnsworth and John Hinckley
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, industry - Boat Building
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Bion Farnsworth (in the white shirt) and part-time assistant, lobsterman John Hinckley, lever and cradle a boat off the car which runs into the water on steel tracks. Has tape marks on it-yellow
11214Two Masted Sailboat
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, transportation - Maritime
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Unknown Man in double ended two-masted sailboat.
11215Man in sailboat
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, transportation - Maritime
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Man in small sailboat Savannah of W. Tremont. Two copies of the same photograph in the album.
11217Hauling Traps
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, industry - Fishing
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Unknown Lobsterman hauling trap from the water.
11216Peter Hjarth and Farnham Butler
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, industry - Boat Building
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Peter Hjarth (sp?) with Lucky (sp?) Pierre in front of new boat about to be launched. The man in the white shirt is Farnham Butler of Mount Desert Yacht Yard. (RSR 5/2015)
11218Lyford Stanley and John Letour
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, industry - Boat Building
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Lyford Stanley (L) and John Letour (R) looks at a half hull with another unknown man .
10808Win Ellis
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, industry - Boat Building
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Boat builder Win Ellis working on the lead keel cast for a boat.
11226Lobster
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, industry - Fishing
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Lobsterman in apron standing in lobster boat holding a lobster which was just taken from the trap.
11227Lobsterman
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, industry - Fishing
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Unknown Lobsterman in apron standing in lobster boat. Caption removed from back of photo read, “Lobster fishing is hard, dangerous work, but most fisherman would not swap it for any other business.
10810Publicity photo
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, industry - Fishing
  • People
  • Douglas Armsden
Description:
State of New Hampshire Planning and Development Commission photo of three lobstermen on a beach with lobster traps.
10812Phillip Lolar
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, crafts
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Phillip Lolar, member of the Penobscot Indians Governor’s Council, holds a ceremonial war club made by Senabeh, spiritual lead at Indian Islan, Old Town. The club was on display at time of the photograph at the shop of the Penobscot Indian Enterprises in Bar Harbor.
10813Lobsterman
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, industry - Fishing
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Unknown Lobsterman in apron standing in lobster boat holding a large lobster.
10814Judith and Pamela Parnsworth
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Object, Water Transporation, Davit
  • Other, industry - Boat Building
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Judith and Pamela Farnsworth with their father repairing a davit.
10815Sitting in Punt
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, industry - Fishing
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Unknown Boy approximately age 10 sitting in punt.