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Cast iron wrapping paper stand with twine attachment
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Object
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Description:
Cast iron stand, with wooden rod and spool of twine. This was used by David Stanley at Stanley's Fish Market, Northeast Harbor, to wrap fish for customers. The cast iron stand has raised letters reading CUTTER BOSTON on the inside of one leg. A spool of white twine accompanied this stand when it was given to the museum, but there was no longer any paper.
Hand painted SEA FOOD sign
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Object, Sign, Identification Sign, Signboard
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Hand painted SEA FOOD sign
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Description:
Hand painted sign reading SEA FOOD. Sign is painted on Masonite (or a similar product) and has a white background and black letters. The front of the sign is scratched and shows signs of age. The sign came from Stanley's Fish Market, Northeast Harbor, operated by David L. Stanley. To see a photograph showing this sign or one like it, go to https://nehl.digitalarchive.us/items/show/5993
Harpoon or "Lilly Iron" with swivel piece on the barb
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Harpoon or "Lilly Iron" with swivel piece on the barb
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, "Lilly Iron" (harpoon) from Wesley Bracy, Jr. with swiveling piece on the barb that folds flat for easy penetration, but opens crosswise for increased grip, thus preventing loss of the fish; Bruce Komusin inserted a wooden boomstick handle and secured it with rope for display purposes.
Richard 'Chuddy' Alley Interview Transcript
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Oral History
  • Businesses, Farming
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Cranberry Isles
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Richard 'Chuddy' Alley Interview Transcript
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Interview Transcript from an interview with Richard 'Chuddy' Alley. The interview was recorded in the 2000's (exact year unknown) by Jessi Duma and Jenny Matthews, who both lived on the island for a number of years. Chuddy came to GCI as a young boy, and recounts many memories of Great Cranberry in the early to mid 20th century. He talks about agriculture and fishing extensively with Jessi. He moved over to Islesford and his son Ricky Alley speaks about fishing with a fish trap, and Pursing. Jessi was a Cranberry Island Fellow and became the general manager for GCIHS for a few years. Interview with transcribed by Hannah Gower-Fox. She was the Archivist and Museum Curator for GCIHS in 2023. [show more]
Wooden needles for mending nets
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fabric Piercing Tool, Sewing Needle
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Wooden needles for mending nets
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear. Collection of twelve wooden tools: (A) Eight wooden needles for mending nets, making and repairing bait bag netting: snowshoe-shaped implements with U-shaped end, closed tangs, and pointed ends. (B) Net needle: wood with large rectangular eye hole. (C) Wood rectangle with hole in the middle and a loop of rope through two other holes: lobster fishing assemby that keeps the line from getting tangled. (D and E) Two wood implements that come to a smooth point. [show more]
Drawing of lobster pot by C. Gilley
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Art, Drawing
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Object, Fishing, Fish Trap, Lobster Trap
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Drawing of lobster pot by C. Gilley
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Art, pen and ink drawing titled "LOBSTER TRAP ON BOTTOM" by C. Gilley, showing an old fashioned round top wooden lobster trap on the sea bed, with a rope going up to an intermediate float (a glass bottle), the rope continuing further up to a bullet shaped float on the surface; also a lobster boat approching it on the surface
Harpoon head from Victor White's old garage
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Harpoon head from Victor White's old garage
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear. Harpoon head: wood handle with threaded metal collar and 5-pronged metal barbed harpoon head. Wood handle is a sawed-off tree limb; metal collar possibly an old pipe fitting; harpoon head is inserted into handle; collar turns freely. One tine missing its barb. From Victor White's old garage summer 2013.
Head of a branding iron: W.E. BUNKER
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Woodworking, Woodworking Iron, Marking Iron
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Head of a branding iron: W.E. BUNKER
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear. Head of a branding iron: W.E. BUNKER. Iron head, no handle.
Trawl line on wood frame with lead sinker and large hook
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Trawl line on wood frame with lead sinker and large hook
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear. Trawl line wound around wooden frame with heavy lead sinker and large metal hook.
Trawl line with wood frame
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Trawl line with wood frame
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear. Trawl line wound around wooden frame. Wooden handle is nailed to frame (unusual).
Round metal fishing buoy
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Buoy
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Round metal fishing buoy
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear. Metal Fishing Buoy, round. It is stamped on one side PHILLIPS PATENT GUARANTEED LIGHTWEIGHT MODEL. and on the other, PATENT No 331163 NOTICE OF INFRINGEMENT REWARDED. The patent number is from Great Britain.
Maine Coast Fisherman, Feb 1956
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Maine Coast Fisherman, Feb 1956
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Newspaper sheet, Maine Coast Fisherman, Feb 1956, with interesting stories (lobster 8 cents each, etc.)
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"
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]
"Cap'n B"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Nature, Seasons, Winter
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
  • In Copyright - Rights-holder(s) Unlocatable or Unidentifiable
"Cap'n B"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
The Cap'n B moored during a winter storm at Spurling Cove, Great Cranberry Island.
Mackerel in Maine Waters - article 1909
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Mackerel in Maine Waters - article 1909
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Newspaper article, probably September 1909. Title: "Mackerel in Maine Waters". Article reports that 20 barrels of mackerel were caught by Eben T. Lewis, Benjamin A. Spurling, and John S. Seavey, near Monhegan. Article lists other ships and captains active in the Monhegan area due to reports of large schools of mackerel.
Journals, ledgers, wallet, books, scanned photos pertaining to Stanley family from 1870s-1890s
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Collection of journals, ledgers, wallet, books, scanned photos pertaining to Stanley family: Items A-H. (A) Enoch B. Stanley's tan leather fold-over "The Revised and Improved Collector's Tax Book....Adapted to the Revised Statutes of 1883", by W. W. Bolster, Published Portland: W. H. Stevens & Company, No. 193 Middle Street. Entries from 1890-1892 with categories for real estate, personal property, poll tax, highway tax, a section on school district tax. With three loose handwritten pages inserted. One is list of children for Hannah Lopaus(?) who moved to Mount Desert July 12th 1799 and had 10 children and includes list of 9 children born to Hannah's daughter Nancy Lopauss Richardson Clark, one of whom was Meltiah P. Richardson (spouse of Carrie Stanley Richardson). The second loose page is a petition for a fish weir at Thrumcap for Enoch B. Stanley and W.D.(?) Stanley in January 1891. The third loose page is Permission for a fish weir with full description dated Feb. 7, 1891. (B) Maroon fold-over wallet (empty). (C) Scans from loaned Schmidt family photo albums including family and one of old hearse. (D) Maroon wallet with 14 items folded inside it: receipts: Meltiah Richardson 1871 taxes; E.B. Stanley 1862 & 1864; note to Capt Stanley 1864; 1864 receipt; 1864 receipt Hadlock; 1871 tax receipt; M. P. Richardson to E.B. Stanley 1874; one faded small photo of a person on a sailboat; registered letter receipt 1878 addressed to Thomas Leighton of Millbridge Me received of E. J? Stanley; Receipt 1882 for 7.33 payment; 1876 receipt E. B. Stanley and Perley Russell goods of Haskell 14.50. Envelope addressed to Mrs. Caroline H. Stanley Cranberry Isles ME with Boston Jan 30 1898 postmark 2 cents. Two comic poem pages (not scanned). (E) Small tan leather journal full of information listing fish catches and payments to individuals 1868-1870 in Boston, Cranberry Isles, Gloucester, Schooner Rozella mentioned on one page. Names include Gilley, Bunker, Spurling, Stanley, Ladd, Wayland, Bulger, Young; only three representational pages scanned from this journal. (F) Small narrow brown marbled ledger (undated) tallying fish and bills; two pages mention schooner Harrie [or Fannie?] Forrest; 1 page scanned. (G) Book: The Matron's Manual of Midwifery and the diseases of women during pregnancy and in child bed by Frederick Hollick, MD 1843. (H) Book: How to Hunt and Trap containing full instructions for hunting Buffalo, Elk, Moose, deer, Antelope - by J. H. Batty, 1878; inscribed "Boynton Stanley" at top of page, lower down "William G. Thumbeam[?] from Papa, Christmas 1878." (See also 2015.316.2077 and 2017.389.2164) [show more]
Edgar White's branding iron
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Woodworking, Woodworking Iron, Marking Iron
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Edgar White's branding iron
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Branding iron, long handle with heavy head: "E.N. White 1442". 1442 was Edgar Nelson White's number, and black and white were his colors. Edgar was Victor White's brother. With reminiscences of the family in the 1960s by Charles Liebow including Edgar and Alice White, their Dog Point Road house and outbuilding "Duffys", their grandsons Chuck and Larry Pipes, and working as sternman for Edgar.
Ledger with records of fishing Schooner Rozella
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • Enoch Stanley
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Ledger with records of fishing Schooner Rozella
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Ledger, Pocket, with records of work, fishing, cleaning fish, fish shares sold from Schooner Rozella, found in Bob LaHotan's barn, and probably kept by Enoch Stanley
Glass float from herring fishing net
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Glass float from herring fishing net
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, glass float, round, aqua colored, with pontil mark (where glass was blown, then removed from pipe), fully enclosed in a stout twine net (with unusually wide openings) which would be attached to the edge of a herring net
Receipt for fish
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Receipt for fish
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Receipt, tied with string, for fish
Branding iron 7327
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Woodworking, Woodworking Iron, Marking Iron
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Branding iron 7327
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, Metal Branding Iron to burn "7327" onto lobster floats or buoys, presumably.
Branding iron RH STANLEY
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Woodworking, Woodworking Iron, Marking Iron
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Branding iron RH STANLEY
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, branding iron to burn "RH STANLEY" onto wooden lobster buoys
Sailmakers thimble or net mender
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Thimble
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Sailmakers thimble or net mender
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Boat tools. Sailmakers thimble (a.k.a. net mender per donor), leather and metal with star on thimble. Thumb slips through hole and metal thimble is used to push needle through dense material.
Broken wood frame for handline branded J. C. PIKE
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Broken wood frame for handline branded J. C. PIKE
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, empty wooden frame for fishing handline, broken into two halves and just pushed together; branded "J. C. PIKE." on both halves