Description: Yellowed color photograph of three people posed outside near a car. One woman wearing a blue floral dress with grey hair, one woman with grey hair seated in a chair wearing a grey dress, man standing to the right of the women wearing a white shirt blakc and gold tie and black pants. Notation on back of photo reads: Mother's Day 5/8/1949 Peoria, Ill.
Description: Yellowed color photo of three people posed outside next to a car, one woman in a blue short sleved dress with brown hair, one woman with grey hair seated in a chair wearing a blue floral dress, man with grey hair wearing a white shirt with brown and tan tie wearing brown pants. Notation on back of picture reads: "Mother's Day 5/8/1949 Peoria."
Description: Yellowed color photo of eight people posed outside with cars in the background. Row 1: One woman with brown hair wearing a blue dress crouching and petting a cat, Woman with grey hair and grey dress seated in a chair to the right of the woman petting the cat Row 2: Woman with grey hair wearing a blue floral dress, Woman with dark colored hair wearing a black dress with a print collar and a broach on right shoulder, Woman with brown hair in blue print dress, Man with brown hair wearing light colored shirt grey print tie and grey pants, man with grey hair white shirt black tie black pants Row 3: Man with grey hair wearing white shirt with brown print tie. Notation on back of the photo reads "Mother's Day 5/8/1949, Peoria" From Pink Robinson's Drug Store Envelope in file "Spiker Family Friends Personae." [show more]
Description: Certificate (1Fighter Command) and two letters commending and thanking Elmer Cousins for volunteering with the Aircraft Warning Service, "to take part in the gradual transition from the defensive position..to the offensive..." "A small scale sneak raid" is still possible...maintain silence...to safeguard military information." (The War Dept. had announced the discontinuance of the Ground Observer Corps and the Aircraft Warning Corps.) [show more]
Description: Black and white photograph a wooden row boat tied to a stake along one side of a wide river. There are two more wodden boat in the middle of the river. Trees and grass line the river banks. From Folder Snapshots/Indiana landscape
Description: Black and white photograph of Whitefish Point Coast Guard Station. There is a two story white clapboard building in the middle of the frame with four other two story buildings to the left of the frame. Next to the closest building there is a square building on stilts with a window on each side. A pile of windows or doors lays closest to the photographer on the ground. Date on the back reads 1946. From Folder Snapshots/Indiana landscape
Description: Paul Stubing says this is a view of McKinley from Bernard. The caption on the back reads," Bass Harbor from Thurston's Wharf, Bernard, Me. The old wooden water tower is in view in the background. There are several lobster boats riding at anchor in the harbor. In the bottom right of the photo are five punts tied up to a float. There are four wooden lobster crates piled on each other. Each crate has rope handles. Ralph Stanley said the boat second from the left with a spray hood and shelter and the traps on the following deck belonged to Merton Alley at that time. It was built by Chester Clement for Francis Fernald on Islesford. Ralph couldn't identify any other of the boats. Possibly Arlene Bartlett could identify some of the other boats in the pictures. She might know others who could be helpful. [show more]
Description: Typed and annotated draft of an article by LaRue Spiker unknown publication and date. U.S. Wildlife Refuge 1949 history of the program. 17 typed pages Previously archived as object id 013.FIC.30.3
Description: Black and white photograph of trees and rocks. One tree to the right of center has a bend in the trunk about half way up. From Folder Snapshots/Indiana Nature
Description: Black and white photograph of young tree growing out of a crack in the rock. Appears to be taken in either fall or winter. From Folder Snapshots/Indiana Nature