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You searched for: Year end: 1910✖Place: is exactly 'Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford'✖Date: [blank]✖Place: Islesford✖Subject: Organizations✖Subject: Civic✖
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Islesford Historial Museum Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Islesford Historial Museum Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: William Otis Sawtelle (1874-1939), physicist, historian, genealogist, author founded the museum in 1919. Architect Edmund B. Gilchrist designed the Colonial Revival building, built in 1927. The building, Sawtelle’s Edwin Hadlock’s ship chandlery (The Blue Duck Ships’ Store) the Sawtelle gravesite, and 1.3 acres were acquired by the National Park Service in 1948. The Islesford Historical Museum built in 1927 contains deeds, maps, engravings, papers, and artifacts related to the early history of the Acadia region. The collection also includes artifacts of the region's cultural history including fur- nishings, tools, photographs and scrapbooks. The records of the active schooner which carried cargoes from the Cranberry Isles to ports all over the world cover about one hundred years beginning in 1796. [show more] | ||
Beach Drill Practice Pole Photograph Islesford Historical Society |
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| Beach Drill Practice Pole Photograph Islesford Historical Society Description: Man participating in a beach drill practice for the Coast Guard. Inscription on back reads "Beach Drill practice pole at Coast Guard Station Islesford" in pencil Black and white | ||
U.S. Coast Guard Life Boat Photograph, c. 1940s Islesford Historical Society |
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| U.S. Coast Guard Life Boat Photograph, c. 1940s Islesford Historical Society Description: A U.S. Coast Guard life boat with other boats in the background. Inscription on back reads "USCG Life boat/ Photo by H. Dwelley/ 1940s" in pencil Black and white | |
U.S. Coast Guard Members with Model Ships Photograph, c. 1930s Islesford Historical Society |
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| U.S. Coast Guard Members with Model Ships Photograph, c. 1930s Islesford Historical Society Description: Six members of the U.S. Coast Guard holding four model ships. Inscription on back reads "#1 - Left to Right/ Payson Tucker (?) - Elmer Farnsworth, Herbert Foss (?) - Freeman Harmon (Skipper)/ Sailboats all made by Ephriam Alle - (He isn't in the photo./ I still have one of those sailboats - (Made in 1945) and in darned good shape" in black pen and is signed "Ted Sp[?] Sr., 12/29/93." People Depicted: Payson Tucker, Elmer Farnsworth, Herbert Foss, Freeman Harmon, Ephriam Alley Black and white [show more] |