Item	Title	Type	Subject	Creator	Publisher	Date
10030	Pond Plants	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1960s	Pond Plants Item: 10030    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1853 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1960s Place: Maine Description: 5 X 7 black and white photo of pond with water plants sticking up in middle. Horizontal Format. Many grasses are under water and small water lily leaves are clustered in foreground. Dark reflections on water in upper left hand side of photo.
10031	Pitcher Plant	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1960s	Pitcher Plant Item: 10031    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1852 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1960s Place: Maine Description: 3.5 X 7 black and white photograph of a pitcher plant with two flowers (Vertical Format). Flowers resemble orchids and have long steams with veined leaves on ground.
10032	Cormorants	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature Nature, Animals, Birds	Spiker, LaRue		1960s	Cormorants Item: 10032    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1851 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Animals, Birds Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1960s Place: Maine Description: 4 X 6 black and white photograph of many cormorant birds among twigs and branches. Large out of focus bird in foreground facing camera with puffed up throat. Many silhouettes of birds along horizon line and birds in air in upper left side of photo.
10033	Young Cormorant	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature Nature, Animals, Birds	Spiker, LaRue		1960s	Young Cormorant Item: 10033    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1850 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Animals, Birds Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1960s Place: Maine Description: 5 X 5.5 black and white close up photograph of a baby cormorant. Black bird with white throat. Bird is looking up and facing the camera, beak slightly open. Surrounded by twigs and branches. Paper on back, “ Even babies too small to retreat tried to protect themselves with a horrendous bluff. Swelling up the naked orangish colored pouch beneath the chin, they clicked their bills rapidly at the intruders.”
10034	Driftwood	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature Nature, Plants	Spiker, LaRue		1960s	Driftwood Item: 10034    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1849 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Plants Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1960s Place: Maine Description: 4.5 X 4.5 black and white photograph of driftwood. Four large branches extending from base of photo and reaching toward sky. Clouds in sky and small bit of horizon line at very bottom of photo. Paper attatched to back, “ Near the shore a piece of drift wood seems to lift its arms as if in wonder for the beauty of the place.” On back of photograph: "Wonderland".
10035	Nesting Cormorants	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature Nature, Animals, Birds	Spiker, LaRue		1960s	Nesting Cormorants Item: 10035    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1848 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature Nature, Animals, Birds Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1960s Place: Maine Description: 5 X 6 black and white photograph of a field of baby cormorant birds. Black birds dotted among nests of white twigs and grasses. Mountains of MDI in background. One bird in flight toward right hand side of mountain. Paper on back, “ the nests were so closely placed that from a distance it looked as if you couldn’t have laid a pencil between them.”
10043	Gulls	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Nature, Animals Nature, Animals, Birds	Spiker, LaRue		1960s	Gulls Item: 10043    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1840 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Nature, Animals Nature, Animals, Birds Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1960s Place: Maine Description: 4 X 4 black and white photograph. Two Birds in nest. Young, black, without feathers and white throats. First bird is looking up and straight at camera, second bird is in profile facing to the right of photo. They are in a nest of white twigs. Writing on back, “ May 5, Gulls, deB Croff, 1, reb LaRue Spiker, Southwest Harbor.” Paper attatched to back, “ When hatched the nestlings are naked but they soon develop a coarse black down over the rough ashy-black skin.” The LaRue Spiker Collection [show more]
10809	Hinckley Company	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Other, industry - Boat Building People	LaRue Spiker		1964	Hinckley Company Item: 10809    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.997 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Other, industry - Boat Building People Creator: LaRue Spiker Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1964 Place: Manset, Maine Description: Unknown Craftsmen at work at the Hinckley Company.
10838	Captain Burt Spurling, Isleford	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	People	LaRue Spiker		1964	Captain Burt Spurling, Isleford Item: 10838    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.966 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: People Creator: LaRue Spiker Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1964 Place: Islesford, Maine Description: Captain Burt Spurling
10402	Spurling Wharf, Isleford	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Other, Transportation - Maritime Other, buildings	Spiker, LaRue		1964	Spurling Wharf, Isleford Item: 10402    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.1410 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Other, Transportation - Maritime Other, buildings Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: 1964 Place: Islesford, Maine 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.
2085	Jagged rocks	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph		Spiker, LaRue		November 1961	Jagged rocks Item: 2085    Object ID: 998.1980.3085.2419 Catalog: Photos Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Creator: Spiker, LaRue Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Date: November 1961 Place: Acadia National Park, Maine Description: black and white photograph of large jagged rocks with ocean water in between. Beehive looms in the distance. Notation on back reads: Crop Forground. 8x10, 25

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