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List of barrels of oil from Schooner S. L. Foster and others
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, List, Inventory
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • 1882
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
List of barrels of oil from Schooner S. L. Foster and others
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
List, handwritten, 18 Nov 1882, "Gauger's Returns" listing barrels of oil from ships, SLF (probably S.L. Foster) and R (probably Rozella), Capt. E. Stanley, S.L. Foster, signed by J.G. McKerson, Gauger
Working Waterfront 2001: GCIHS new museum
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Working Waterfront 2001: GCIHS new museum
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Newpaper, "The Working Waterfront" Aug 2001, see page 10, article "Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Builds a New Museum from Scratch"
Store Ledger 1853-1857
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • 1853
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Store Ledger 1853-1857
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Ledger, handwritten, probably by William Preble, mostly running expenses and payments, apparently at a store, for various people, 1853-1857
Store Ledger 1838-1845
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • William P. Preble
  • 1839
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Store Ledger 1838-1845
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Ledger, handwritten, inscribed "William P. Preble, Property, Cranberry Isles 1839" inside front cover, records 1838-1845 are mostly running expenses and payments, apparently at a store, for various accounts: Esaias Preble, Horace Duryan, Thomas Bunker, Harriet Rosebrook, John Pung, Michael Green, Winchester Whitney, Abigail Spurling, South (school) District Cranberry Isles, Thomas Manchester, Nathaniel Gott, Edwin Hadlock, Enoch Lurvy (or Lurvey), John Dow, Capt. L.W. Gilley, B. Bunker, Edward Burroughs, Rev. Micah Strickland, Miss Mary Preble, Justis W. Gilley, John Brown, Messrs. Symms Eaton & Co., David Thompson, Haskell Lancaster, Benjamin Moor, Thomas Newman, Josiah Young, Henry Fernald, Town of Cranberry Isles To William Preble, William Pung, expenses of Estate of Benjamin Spurling, Richard Higgins, George N. Spurling, Eunice Keef, Ivory Joy, Esther Eaton, North (school) District, Thomas Marks, Schooner Brainerd (or Brainard), Elisha Young, Bills against the Brigantine Factor for repairs, Michael Bulger, Samuel Farnham, Sans Stanley, Briant Hodgkins, James Mayo, Schooner Harriet, Estate of Robert Spurling, David Winsey, William Richardson, Charles Bunker, Andrew Frisbee, William Rice, Estate of Samuel Spurling, Schooner Eastern Star. Several scraps of note paper with writing and figures also in ledger. [show more]
Store Ledger 1845-1849
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • 1845
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Store Ledger 1845-1849
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Ledger, William Preble, 1845-1849, mostly store accounts listing customers and items and services they bought, apparently at Preble's store. Items referred to both food and nautical hardware with prices listed. Purchases listed by day and date, interspersed with records and values for Preble's business and personal services as executor, town agent, etc. Names include: John Pung, Edward Spurling, Michael Bulger, the schooner Harriet, Elisha Young, Henry Neuman, Freeman Gubtil, Estate of Nicholas Tucker [show more]
Ice Harvesting on Cranberry Island
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Ice Harvesting on Cranberry Island
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Exhibit. Previously used museum display about Ice Harvesting on Cranberry Island. Included in the publication "A Day on an Ice-Field" by Alvaro Adsitt.
Cranberry Island General Store bags
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Containers
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Cranberry Island General Store bags
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Artifact, 1031a-b. (a) and (b) are two types of paper trash bags bought at the old Cranberry Island General Store
"Cranberry Island Notes" by Charles 'Chuck' Liebow
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
"Cranberry Island Notes" by Charles 'Chuck' Liebow
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Boats. Looseleaf Binder, "Cranberry Island Notes" by Charles Liebow. Contains maps 1607-1881, "List of Vessels From Notes made by Chuck Liebow (Typed & some notes added by Hugh Dwelley 11/1994" (also on cranberryisles.com website), 1912 petition to establish boundaries of roads, census data 1839-1860, the cranberry register 1909-1910, boat building, Liebow's notes on books and articles, miscellaneous, photos, houses showing owners then and now, families, deeds. [show more]
Store Ledger 1849-1850
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • 1849
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Store Ledger 1849-1850
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Ledger, handwritten, probably by William Preble, mostly running expenses and payments, apparently at a store, for various people, 1849-1851
Store Ledger 1857-1862
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • 1857
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Store Ledger 1857-1862
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Ledger, handwritten, inscribed "Property of William P. Preble", mostly running expenses and payments, apparently at a store, for various people, 1857-1862
Maine Greets Opening of Yarmouth-Bar Harbor Ferry 1956
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Maine Greets Opening of Yarmouth-Bar Harbor Ferry 1956
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Newpaper clipping, Bangor Daily News, 6 June 1956, pp. 17-18 & 21-22, "Maine Greets Opening of Yarmouth-Bar Harbor Ferry," about the new ferry terminal in Bar Harbor, and the Bluenose ferry.
Wilfred S. Trussell 1906 motorized vessel license
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Permission, License
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
  • People
  • 1906
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Wilfred S. Trussell 1906 motorized vessel license
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Document, License, framed under glass, to operate or navigate motorized vessels of 15 gross tons or less and to carry passengers, issued to Wilfred S. Trussell, 21 Sept 1906, signed by Charles O. Cousinly and Walter L. Blaisdell
Bayview Farm photographs
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Farming
  • People
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Bayview Farm photographs
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Four small black and white photos and one tintype framed in a wood/glass frame. Bayview Farm owned and operated by Jim Crosby in modern times "The Red House" owned by Judi Towns Lim and Chong Lim, a.k.a. the Towns house. James C. Crosby and Cora Almeda (Pressey) Crosby are the couple in the tintype. Their son, Clarence, is shown in the photo with the barn. The houses seen in the background of the geese photo are "Haydy's house & Arno Stanley's" per donor. (See scans in 2000\photos\dorothy towns and note explaining images.) [show more]
Hamor House sketch
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Art, Drawing
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Hamor House sketch
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Drawing by S.G. Easter or Caster? pencil sketch of the Hamor Tea House; some water staining on the edges. Painting removed from original frame (a glass pane with metal rosettes securing it to a wood board back). Original sketch stored separately; scanned print of the drawing is in frame.
William P. Preble receipts
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • 1852
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
William P. Preble receipts
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Two receipts: (A) Tremont March 10th, 1852, Received of William P. Preble seventy three dollars 80/100 in full payment for ballance doo me for wooden materials to build new Brig Abigail Maria of, furnished by me the last season as per agreement dated at Tremont December 5th, 1850. Signed by Henry W. [xxxx?]. And (B): William P. Preble's taxes 1878 = $1.10.
Booklet, Facts and Fancies
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Booklet, Facts and Fancies
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Booklet, Facts and Fancies, Fleischman & Co with illustrations, sayings and advice.
Photographs of dory, schooner, and steamer boats
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Photographs of dory, schooner, and steamer boats
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Four photographs of boats (A-D) with unidentified men and boys aboard. (A) unidentified dory. (B) and (D) may be the same vessel, probably one of the mackerel schooners owned by Benjamin Harley Spurling whose wife was Frances Almira Preble (donor Louise Marr's grandparents.) C: The steamer may have been one owned by Hanson B. Joyce of Swan's Island engaged in the mackerel fishery. Joyce owned significant shares in several Cranberry Island vessels, possibly shares in Benjamin Spurling's vessels. (D): information from Ralph Stanley and Bar Harbor Record. [show more]
Loading the mail boat ferry
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • 1963
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Loading the mail boat ferry
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Wilfred Bunker (about age 43) receives cargo on stern of the Island Queen. "Mail Route - Men at Southwest Harbor load mail for delivery at Cranberry Island and Islesford." Photo shows the mail boat at the Lower Town Dock in Southwest Harbor. Photo for newspaper by L. Spiker. The Island Queen was built in 1963. Beal & Bunker moved operations to Northeast Harbor in 1972.
Repairs to the Brig Factor March 13, 1854
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Administrative Records
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel
  • 1854
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Repairs to the Brig Factor March 13, 1854
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Certificate for repairs to the Factor (three pages), a ship built on GCI 1832, in for repairs in South Carolina in 1854, with cargo of molasses and other items, with transcription by donor.
Early Hadlock papers group 5 of 5
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Early Hadlock papers group 5 of 5
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) [show more]
Early Hadlock papers group 4 of 5
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Early Hadlock papers group 4 of 5
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) [show more]
Early Hadlock papers group 3 of 5
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Early Hadlock papers group 3 of 5
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) [show more]
Early Hadlock papers group 2 of 5
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Early Hadlock papers group 2 of 5
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) [show more]
Early Hadlock papers group 1 of 5
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Early Hadlock papers group 1 of 5
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) [show more]
"The Granite Napkin"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Advertising, Poster
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Copyright Undetermined
"The Granite Napkin"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
An old flyer for "The Granite Napkin." It says "Join us in our traditional cape on Great Cranberry Island for special lunches and afternoon teas + treats, or for dinner Thursday and Sunday nights (you must reserve). Were located 1/2 mile from the town dock opposite of the rusty anchor. Call Liza for information or the day's menu (it changes with our whims ], the weather, and the gardens best.) Open 12-3 daily except Tues. and Weds. Dinner Thurs. and Sun. at 6:00 and 8:00. Call to inquire about private parties. Tel. 244-7758. [show more]