Various Newspapers and Publications and LaRue Spiker
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LaRue Spiker Collection
Description: Collection of articles and notes on environmental topics used by journalist LaRue Spiker. Hand written note on a scrap of paper with information about possible oil tankers coming to ports in Maine. Previously archived as 012.FIC.061.1
Description: History of Mt. Desert Chapter of Order of Eastern Star (1894-1920); Women's Literary Club Handwritten History 2 pages scanned Literary Club (1916-1956) History Typewritten p1-2 scanned; change of type for 158-1966 signed Willette Mitchell, historian The Women's Literary Club of Mt Desert Island Maine 1916-1953, Handwritten Handwritten notes from Aunt Ad about the Eastern Star Sewing Circle; Women's Club. Miscellaneous Items handwritten and from newspaper [show more]
Description: Handwritten notes ( 12 pp.) excerpted from "History of the Town and City of Gloucester, Cape Ann, Mass." by James Pringle, 1892. Notes focus on the involvement of the Morris Somes and family in this town and include Somes genealogy.
Description: Two handwritten notecards quoting Somes related entries in source or sources variously labeled "History of Gloucester"and "History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann, including the town of Rockport".
Description: Handwritten one page folder cover describing printing details of the MDI Historical Society Newsletter. Date unknown. Printing was to be done by Downeast Graphics, Ellsworth, Maine.
Description: 1 Typed page A note from author to reader discussing the appearance of the finished book, explanation of the darkness of certain text, the uneveness of the margins, an how to book was put together.
Description: 10 hand written scraps Scraps of paper with notes scribbled on them: -Fire Going on Western Mt been going for days -Miss Jean Rand, Mr Brewster at SWH Hop Sat Night -From Bar Harbor, Miss Rand, Miss Ballard, Miss Ridgeway, Miss Daisy Rand, Master Percy Rand, Edgan Crocker, Dr. Otis visits camp Fri July 25, 1984 -Pres Eliot arrives , Prof Gurney, CC Everett, Dyerly, Sasldon, Bo Pierce, Mae Vance, Beudelari, Harvard Faculty? July 24, 1984 -40 minutes to row from SW to NE Harbor two people - Charles Eliot's Log of the Sunshine 1880 -Log of the Sunshine 1877-1880 -Champlain Society 1881 Champlain Society Records of Membership -Champlain Society Records of Cambridge and Boston Meetings. -Champlain Society Camp Pemetic - Mt. Desert Champlain Society [show more]
Description: 4x6 piece of paper with hand written note detailing the Champlain Society members and their field of study back in 1880 while they were in Somes Sound.
Description: Rough note by LaRue Spiker, listing common and Latin names for plants. Research for an article on Florida. Previously accessioned as **1966, Object Id 2001.1966
Description: 2 small pages of notes by LaRue Spiker, about a woman. Possibly an idea for future writing. Previously accessioned as **1909, Object Id 2001.1909
Description: Rough notes by LaRue Spiker, about the lumber industry in the Northeast, early 1800s. Previously accessioned as **1925, object Id 2001.1925