Description: Two pictures printed on large paper for display purposes of boats by young Alton Bunker, brother of Tud Bunker. Alton had the mailboat contract for a few years around 1939, he ran the contract with his boat a Novia
Description: Photos, 1077a-c, all 3 printed on cardboard for display purposes. (a) horseshoe game held in front of Gaile's trailer, people from left to right: Victor White, Sawtelle Teel, Hillard Hardy, Lucille Hardy, Elisha Bunker, and Edgar Bunker throwing the horseshoe. (b) Edgar Bunker, Edgar before the war worked at the boatyard down on the pool that is now know as Cranberry Island Boat Yard as well as the boatyard that is now Ed Gray's. (c) all people are labeled, the question mark is Lewis Alley. [show more]
Description: Photo of Edna Andrade printed on a board by Smart Studio in Northeast Harbor. Photo shows Edna Andrade painting a picture of rocks in what is now the Encarnation home.
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]
Description: Book, hardbound, "The Island of Mount Desert Register with The Cranberry Isles 1909-10" compiled by Lawton, Jordon, & Maddox, 1910, 334 pages. Includes advertising in first segment, church and island history, and 1909 Census of Eden, Mt. Desert, Southwest Harbor, Tremont, Cranberry Isles, with people and their occupations.
Description: Book, "MT Desert in 1873" Published by J.R. Osgood & Co, Portrayed in Crayon and Quill. Inscriptions on first pages read "Mrs .... H. Howard with the compliments of Mr. Lawerence Sprague 1874" second inscription reads "Given Sept. 1950 by John K Howard Mrs Howard's youngest son to his daughter Jean Gaston Howard Wadsworth."
Description: Kitchenware. Plate warmer. White ceramic plate with blue rim permanently affixed to a metal bowl with two metal handles and a metal spout with screwable mouthpiece that has a tiny hole in it to allow steam to escape. Likely unscrewed the spout, filled it with hot water, or heated the whole assemblage.
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.
Description: Photo album. Eighteen gilt-edged cardboard pages with 70 photos and three memorial cards. Cover is worn gold velvet with ornate metal hasp and decorative metal binding with clover-shaped mirror in center of cover. Album has a metal foot attached to the back to support it when opened and can be attached to a worn gold velvet covered wood and metal bookstand. Most pages hold four paper cabinet card photographs inserted in to a woodgrained paper sleeve. There are also seven tintype photos inserted in sleeves. Stamped in gold on first page is: "Patented January 23, 1894". Several of the photo cards slide in and out of their sleeves and the names of various photo studios from Maine and elsewhere are evident. (For example: C.E. Harvey, 3115 Indiana Avenue, Chicago" and "Osgood, 22 Main St., Ellsworth, ME.") Photo portraits include several GCI families of the late 19th to early 20th century. Many photographs were labeled on looseleaf in modern times by an unknown hand including: Aunt Asinith Spurling; Rev. Charles Howard; Capt. George Bunker; Mrs. George Bunker; George E. Bunker, July '9;, Mrs. Frederick Lord; Samuel Bulger; John Bulger; Mr. Seth Rice; Mrs. Ida Rice; William Preble; Mrs. William Preble; Percy Bunker; Alfred Bulger; Ralph Bulger; Capt. William Bulger and wife; Florence Mildred Bunker; George Edward; Gil Hamor; Frances Spurling; Elton Bunker; Leslie Bunker; Mrs. Harriet Bunker; Mrs. Grace Bunker; Alice Bulger; Johnny and Filmore Steele; Mr. and Mrs. Will Young; Rose Ladd; Edna and Alfred Ladd; Lina and Alfred Ladd; Polly Bulger; Ralph Bulger; John H. Pressey; George and Harriet Bunker; Ida/Clara/Leslie Bunker; John Hamor; Nettie Stanley; Mrs. Lydia Bunker; and Thomas Bunker. (Digital images of individual album pages were made.) [show more]
Description: Book, Guests book inscribed inside front cover "Alice / from / Sadie & John / Oct. 25 / [19]39", given presumably by John & Sadie Hamor, owners of the Hamor Tea House, to "Alice"; guest entries seem to all be written in the same hand - probably Alice's; entries begin 1 June [19]45 with Seth Rice, and end 18 Oct [19]45 with Louise Spurling; most entries are local island folks; most days have only 1 to 3 entries - this seems quite a low number for a restaurant to stay in business; this could be a guest book for Alice's private home [show more]
Description: Doll, Hitty Willow Thompson, wood, carved by Pat Thompson in 2005, in green dress with white smock; donated by HittyforEveryone Yahoo group in memory of Diane Barrow-Clark. Diane was caretaker of the imaginary "Lake Thonotosassa Boarding School" in Florida (LTBS, as she referred to it) where Hitty Willow Thompson was Head Mistress. Accessories with doll: yellow-walled apartment box, hanging on its wall is a picture of Diane, a picture of the students that were at LTBS, and also a picture of Jacques, the last doll purchased by Diane and donated to the HittyforEveyrone group to use as their travel doll. Further accessories: red cotton dress, doll quilt white squares and green squares with brown star, light yellow knitted doll afghan, blue wool cape, knitted white shawl, knitted mustard-color shawl, knitted mustard-color handbag, ceramic cup and saucer white with orange-colored decorative decal, coffee pot with spout and orange colored decorative decal, orange carrots in a green bowl (all one piece plastic), green plastic caricature turtle, teddy bear with red ribbon neck kerchief, tiny "Hitty, Her First Hundred Years" book, clothes chest with one (inoperable) drawer, round coffee table, and wooden round-top treasure chest with leather straps and buckles (made in China). All these items were donated by HittyforEveryone group members: Kathie Baxter, Linda Bennett and the Yabba Dabba Doo Hittys, Elise Buhn, Sharon Horswill, Linda Knott, Judy Millman and the Sherman Oaks Hittys,and Sue Parker. (See GCIHS web page for Hitty doll information.) [show more]
Description: Flash cards, school, hand-drawn by Gillian Lobkowicz for her students circa 1988; they show each letter of the alphabet with a humorous illustration and phonetic saying
Description: Certificate of Marriage between John H. Hamor of Cranberry Isles Maine and Sadie B. Cleoses of Steuben Maine, at Steuben on 21 November 1894, signed by Robert Sutcliff, Pastor, Methodist E. Church Milbridge; with elaborate color illustrations; framed