Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: The photograph shows the room which was built onto the back of the Islesford Library in 1998 to house the Islesford Historical Society collection.
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Mailed to: Cousin Emily - Emily M. Ray Haynes (1854-1913) Mailed from: Cousin Elsie - Elsie Louise Stanley (1893-1938) Text reads: "Hope you will get my letter. I am sending you today three postals, two for you and one for your friend. Read your card yesterday. With love Elsie"
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Captain Stanley resident of Islesford. Stillman's owned Berry Cliff on the County Road between Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor. Capt. is rowing the Stillmans ashore at Islesford.
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: The "Wednesday Spinners" load their spinning wheels and bags onto a boat in Islesford. Inscription on back reads "Islesfcord town/ The Wednesday Spinners/ Spiker" in blue pen, "01 III" in blue marker, and "100%" in green marker. Black and white
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Twenty-seven glass plate photographs of Islesford and family of Frederick Morse. Sent to Northeast Harbor Library in l997 by Marie Locke, the photographer's great granddaughter, following an exhibit in Islesford.
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Three B/W photographs of summer residents (period clothing) enjoying a clambake on Islesford. Photographs were once glued on to a large cardboard for display.
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Letter and envelope from George Hadlock to Francis G. Fernald about applying for a shared weir or trap license. February 25, 1944 People Mentioned: Percy T. Clarke
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
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]
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Personal and business correspondence, receipts, ledgers of Islesford Wharf Co., annual reports to Maine Public Utilities Commission, and other documents relating to the creation of the Islesford Wharf Co. and the Islesford Historical Committee which would insure public access to Little Cranberry Island and provide a historical museum and repository for local public records, other documents, and historical items.
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Short biography of Islesford's resident artist and storyteller, Ashley Bryan with focus on his life and home on Cranberry Island. Published in Down East Magazine, December 1991.