Description: Dr. Virginia Somes Sanderson inside MDI Historical Society Selectmen’s Building. Seated at table, wearing blue shirt under long sleeve white blouse with blue pattern. Surrounded by museum exhibits.
Description: Man standing by a boat on wheels with League of Women Voters banner. Boat is MDI LWV float in the Bar Harbor 1980 4th of July parade. Bruce Leighton loaned the boat and drove the truck that hauled it.
Description: Artist John Heliker in his studio. Man age 65+ seated in wicker chair in front of large painting of hills and village. Wears glasses, short sleeved plaid shirt unbuttoned at top. Gift of George Daniell. Written on the back of the photo: "John Heliker in his studio on Cranberry Island. 1984"
Description: Robert La Hotan, artist on Great Cranberry Island, 1984. Lover, life partner, of artist John Heliker. Age 40+ standing next to large still life. Wearing Long sleeve tailored shirt, white shorts and white sneakers. Hold cigarette in hand. Circular staircase to right. Gift of George Daniell.
Description: Unknown People sitting in chairs on the grass watching an auction. Auctioneer to the right. Cars parked along street. SIgn in background not in focus.
Description: Auctioneer (possibly Mr. Mayo, per May 2011 "Mystery Photographs" exhibit) wearing light colored pin stripe suit with tasseled loafers. Auctioneer holds items for sale in his hand. Standing in front of tent. U.S. Coast Guard emblem on podium. Furniture and other auction items to the left.
Description: Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum 1980s.Bare wood shelves. Various tools and small ship painting. Babson portrait to the left.
Description: Figures walking on beach at low tide. MDI League of Women Voters celebrated the Year of the Coast with an informal picnic and hike to Bar Island on August 23, 1980. In this photo they are heading across at low tide.
Description: Stretch of unspoiled shoreline. MDI League of Women Voters celebrated the Year of the Coast with an informal picnic and hike to Bar Island on August 23, 1980. Pictured is Bar Island shore with Bald Porcupine Island on the right.
Description: Women lined up along a fence view and handle sheep. LaRue Spiker looks on as Mollie Birdsall holds black lamb. Louise Gilbert, Ruth Cummins, Doris Riley are along fence. Visit to Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 is in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters..
Description: Children examine whale bones and other materials at the College of the Atlantic "Ocean Day" on March 21, 1981. Inscription on back reads "College of the Atlantic "Ocean Day" March 21, 1981/ Photo by John Jacob/ Please Return" in blue pen and "John P. Jacob/ COA/ 288-5015" in red pen. Black and white
Description: Color slide a slice cut into the ground showing ground cover on top and layer of dark soil underneath. From box labled: Great Heath & Col. Falls, April 1983
Description: Display entitled “Synfuels is Sinful.” At an Earth Day 1980 presentation at the COA the MDI League sponsored an informational booth about synfuels. LaRue Spiker and Helen Douglas designed and set up the display.