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| Photos and clippings from Addie Duren Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photos and clippings from Addie Duren Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photos and assortment of clippings. 21 photographs of people, boats, structures, from Addie Duren's time, given to GCIHS by her son Ron Mountain, some with IDs written on reverse: A=Adline Bunker; B= Ernest Stanley In Service, First World War; C=Alfred Ladd passed away in first world war by a bomb. D=Addie must be going someplace. All dressed up in my Brothers clothes. E=Winfield Stanley; F=Omer Mountain In USN; G=Eliza Stanley; H=Addie Duren. Photos I-M=people no IDs (except deerhunter photo is marked 1940. Photos N-R=boats have no IDs except N (upper right corner)=First boat Raymond B. ever built. Photos of buildings S=Aid building/barn; T=GCI Church; U=Velma Teel's house in the snow. V-ZZ=Newspaper clippings: improved lobster pot design 1956, witticisms, and children' games. AA-CC= handwritten songs and a note. [show more] | |||
| Nautical charts (1855-1877) used by Meltiah and Carrie Richardson for transatlantic voyages Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Nautical charts (1855-1877) used by Meltiah and Carrie Richardson for transatlantic voyages Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Charts, nautical. Collection of ten 1855-1877 nautical charts of various sizes pertaining to the northeast coast of the United States, and the Atlantic Ocean to Europe, some with cotton fabric backing and cloth borders; all were rolled up inside a canvas drawstring carrying bag. (Charts are numbered 1-10 see full descriptions elsewhere.) Chart 1 is the most important and the most fragile of the set. It is stamped twice in black ink with "M. J. Richardson" and clearly plots at least two 1877-78 transatlantic voyages through the Strait of Gibraltar by Great Cranberry Island captains Meltiah J. and/or his spouse Mary Catherine "Carrie" Stanley likely aboard their three-mast schooner, Carrie M. Richardson (built in nearby Manset harbor 1874. See 2017 exhibit of chart and accompanying journals). Chart 6 has M. J. Richardson's name written in pencil on the reverse. Several charts are annotated in pencil and pen with dates and direction of sea voyages, and some have red ink dots indicating navigational aids (nuns and buoys). These charts were inherited by Stanley descendants and originally came from the Lewis Stanley boatyard and/or house on The Pool on GCI. Captain Lewis G. Stanley (1869-1957) was son of Enoch B. Stanley, Sr. (1820-1903). Meltiah J. Richardson married Mary Catherine "Carrie" Stanley (sister of Lewis) in 1870.) Chart 1 is 42” high by 60" wide and was in dire need of conservation. Conservation, encapsulation, digitization, printing and mounting were done at NEDCC August 2016. See documentation and digital files. (Prior to conservation: A piece missing from around the Yucatan peninsula,discolored, and very musty. Ink smudges in the center of the chart.) It’s actually two maritime charts laid side by side on the same cloth backing; used many times; well worn. Schooners known to be associated with Meltiah Richardson are the Hussar, Quickstep, and the Carrie M. Richardson. Legend on lower left corner reads: “Chart of the North Atlantic Ocean. From the most recent British, French, and United States Surveys. Sheet I. Hydrographic Office – U.S. Navy 1369. With variation curves for 1871”. The legend on the lower right side of the chart reads: “Chart of the North Atlantic Ocean from the most recent British, French, Spanish, Portugese, Belgian, Dutch, German, Danish and Norwegian surveys. Sheet II. Hydrographic office U.S. Navy. With variation curves for 1871. Only the most important lights are given on this chart.” There are calculations and dates in pencil along edges of chart and along coastline of the mid-Atlantic and southern U.S. coast. Two voyages are plotted across the ocean indicating dates and occasional notes. Journey 1 runs from October 19, 1877- November 20, 1877 from Malaga (on the southeast coast of Spain in the Mediterranean Sea, through the Strait of Gibraltar) heading east to Cape Lookout, NC, bound for Philadelphia. Journey 2 runs from October 3, 1878 - November 16, 1878, from Cadiz, (on southwest coast of Spain, north of the strait of Gibraltar), heading east to the Chesapeake Bay area of MD/VA, bound for Gloucester. (See scans of wallet journal made 7/29/16 relating directly to chart 1.) See separate document for specifics for each of the 10 charts. (See Exhibits2017 on NAS for displays and texts relating to these charts.) (See also Macfarlan's personal collection - chart of Ireland, and 2002.20.44 Hadlock chart around Norway.) [show more] | ||
| Newspaper clippings Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Newspaper clippings Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper clippings: A= Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Stanley renew wedding vows, 1960. B= Schooner Nile of Bath, F.H. Lewis master wreck in Winthrop (no date). | ||
| People and Boats on GCI Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  People and Boats on GCI Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: One small booklet from Bicknell Photo Service of Portland Maine with nine photos of people and boats. A= Philmore Peterson in plaid, Morris Alley in center with cap and others at Elisha Bunker's boatyard in 1940s. B= Philmore Peterson and others. C= Hillard Hardy (Noether's House). D= Edgar Bunker. E= Boat "Peggy" that Red built for H. Hardy at Elisha's boatyard. F= Unidentified boat with tractor on beach. G= Unidentified boat. H= Pier with boat. I= Unidentified boats. J= Booklet photos were in (removed April 2019). [show more] | ||
| Ship's log child's notebook Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ship's log child's notebook Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Ship's log, used as child's notebook by Emery Richardson, poor condition (found in Bob LaHotan's barn when he cleaned it 2001). A child used it for practicing letters and drawing sailboats. | |||
| Collection of four books from the Mountain house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Collection of four books from the Mountain house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Books, collection of four. (A) List of Merchant Vessels of the United States 1893 with illustrations and excellent information. (B) List of Merchant Vessels of the United States 1887. (C) The Island of Mount Desert Register - no date visible, but probably 1910. Book includes a chapter of history of Cranberry Isles, page 97. Many newspaper clippings from 1930s to 1960s glued to inside front book jacket and initial pages including obituaries, Cranberry Isles and Mount Desert news, shipwrecks and life savers, the firebug article etc. One black and white photo of the Mountain house before the fire. Obituary clippings include: Clara S. Alley Feb. 26, 1965; Gilbert Hadlock; Wilbert Rice; Mrs. Herbert Bell; Almenia Lurvey; Thomas M. Stanley; Charles Hulbert; Capt. William Bulger dies eleven days after his brother 1927; Mary Ann Carroll; Sim H. Mayo; Oscar Jarvis; Fred Phippen; Capt. Thomas Newman; Mrs. John Carroll; Otis Sawtelle; and Harvey Stanley; Also a handwritten list of the John Stanley, Jr. and wife Margaret family starting 1789 through 1842. Receipt from Strawbridge & Clothier for Mrs. Mabel Stanley no year. Info on Ellen Maria Spurling b. 1842 died 1929 and children. Note about Sam Chapman b. 1868 and Cora Chapman b. 1863. (Color photocopies made of articles and stored with book (C).) (D) "At Mount Desert: A Summer's Sowing" by Mildred Fairfax, copyright Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society, 1893. “At Mount Desert,” by Mildred Fairfax, is in many respects a peculiarly attractive book. A defect of many stories is that they almost leave out the scenery, but it is not so in this instance. The tale itself is deeply interesting, with its young man gone astray, its good-angel sister, and its fortune lost and plotted for, but the writer is evidently in love with all the scenic effects of sea and sky and land along the rugged Maine coast, and at Mount Desert. There would be almost too much word-painting if it were not for the admirable half-tone photographic views which serve as illustrations. They become part of the narrative, and give it a realism not otherwise attainable.” (See www.ebay.com/itm/1893-At-Mount-Desert-Island-by-Mildred-Fairfax-A-Summers-Sowing-8-Plates-/322180352978). [show more] | |||
| Wilfred Bunker and Clarence Beal aboard the Silas McClune Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wilfred Bunker and Clarence Beal aboard the Silas McClune Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo, b&w snapshot, Wilfred Bunker (looking up) and Clarence Beal on board their lobster smack, Silas McClune. Per Ralph Stanley August 2016: The Silas McClune was built for the A. C. McClune Co. in Rockland. They were lobster dealers. Beal & Bunker bought the boat in the 1950s. They had the wet wells plugged and used it as a freight boat. They caught hake fish at GCI and took it to Vinalhaven for sale. Buster Rice was the captain. Beal & Bunker sold the boat to Arnold Allen who had a seining outfit. Ralph believes the boat went ashore and might be beneath the sewer plant in Southwest Harbor. (See also 2018.416.2824C.) [show more] | |||
| Boat compass in wooden Binnacle box Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Boat compass in wooden Binnacle box Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Used by Wilfred S. Trussell and Harvey Everett Bulger. Tool, boat compass in wooden binnacle box with window (brass, wood, paper, iron and glass). Compass card diameter 3.5", gimbal ring 5", interior box: 6.25" x 6.25"; exterior box: 7" x 11" x 8.5" H. North arrow has fleur d' lis motif. Compass was used by Wilfred S. Trussell (1869-1911) and/or Harvey (Harry) Everett Bulger (b.1883-d.<1911), who were husbands of Sadie Anna Harding (b.1879- d. after 1911) who once lived in the Cox now Dalton house (2016) on GCI. Sadie Harding married Trussell 1898 and Bulger 1919. No visible manufacturer or maker marks. Ralph Stanley examined this compass 2016 and believes it's a liquid (alcohol) compass after locating the corroded nut covering the fill-hole in the rim of the compass bowl. He also noted the quadrant markings on the sides of the compass. Per Stanley, Trussell had a sloop and this type of compass was used in boats of that size. It may indeed have been the compass that guided Trussell home during one particular storm (see Stanley's forthcoming book 2017). Stanley thinks it's a liquid compass about 100 years old and could have been purchased at any local marine goods store, but the box was specially made perhaps by Leslie Rice. Michael Macfarlan believes this could be a Ritchie compass and the hole in the wooden case with the shield above it would have been for a battery-powered light (not a candle). One or two large batteries would have been housed in the box's rear compartment. (Box hardware is too corroded to remove and investigate.) Stanley believes a wire to the light would have been wired to the engine. By email 2016, Ben Fuller at Penobscott Marine Museum suggests this compass would be suitable for small schooner or sloop large enough to be sailed at night, suggesting the Smithsonian's NMAH website: amhistory.si.edu/navigation/type.cfm?typeid=3 for further investigation. NMAH Website states: "Simple marine compasses have a magnetized needle attached to the bottom of a paper card, and are inherently unstable. Since the 1850s, scientists and instrument makers have struggled to solve this problem. One solution, pioneered by E. S. Ritchie in the United States, was to float the magnetic needle in a bowl of liquid...." (For genealogy see 2016.337.2103 Index p. 3 and p. 15, records p. 400 and 400A) (See also 2015.350.2115 for possible photo of Wilfred Trussel.) [show more] | ||
| Journal 1878-1881 voyages of schooner Carrie M. Richardson Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Journal 1878-1881 voyages of schooner Carrie M. Richardson Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Journal, leather and paper, wallet style, with entries for years 1878, 1879, 1881. Pertains to nautical voyages of Meltiah Richardson aboard the Carrie M. Richardson and perhaps others. It is an extremely valuable resource for interpretation of annotated Nautical Chart 1 and other charts in GCIHS 2015.315.2076. Journal entries corroborate plot markings on nautical chart 1. All pages with handwritten text scanned (48 scans) at 600 dpi July 27, 2016. Complete transcription made Feb. 2017. (Pages with newspaper clippings glued to them were not scanned - most clippings were poetry. Note: Meltiah's wife, Carrie (Mary Catherine Stanley Richardson), wrote and saved poetry.) In several instances, a page had been cut out and/or a portion of a page had been cut out. The journal is not always chronological; entries switch around various years 1878,1879, and 1881. Some highlights are listed below. Scan no. 9 Sailed from Cardenas for NY 260 lbs Manello(?) Rope, 178 shakers, 78 canvas 10 Arrived at NY from Cardenas, list of perhaps cod caught per person by name and weight and $. Left for…. 11 Arrived at NY from C. Isles settled with mate $37.16 14 Rec from M.P Richardson the sum of $70 wages up to Date Nov 19th 1881 William Brandt 15 Arrived Cadiz… 16 M. P Richardson mentioned 17 M. P. Richardson mentioned and Schooner Carrie M. Richardson 1881 19 "Cash in Spanish gold 342" 23 Mr. Rumill shipped on board Schr C. M. Richardson April 10/79 at 35 $ per xxx 24 Antonio Williams on board C. M. Richardson Apr 9th/79 25 more re: 1879 26 more re: 1879 27 more re: 1879 42 "cure for chills/fever (?) 2 bitter apples with one pint gin. Let same stand ays. Dose: ½ wine glass full twice a day before meals (R H O (?)) 43 Bill of sale for 1/32 of Schr CMR Mrs. E B Gregg (interest?) to Joseph W x of Philadelphia 44 Name is clearly Joseph W. Willson of Phila 45 Port charges list 48 Mentions Cadiz [show more] | ||
| "Cranberry Island Notes" by Charles 'Chuck' Liebow Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "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] | |||
| Boat Drawings by young Alton Bunker Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Boat Drawings by young Alton Bunker Great Cranberry Island Historical Society 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 | |||
| Receipts for Schooner Lizzie Maud Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Receipts for Schooner Lizzie Maud Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Two receipts received of Capt. Benj Spurling Dec 18, 1888 for Ac Div Schr Lizzie Maude. A: in the amount of $220 signed by Lincoln Allen; B: in the amount of $40 signed by Mrs. Ellen Lincoln. | ||
| Photographs of dory, schooner, and steamer boats Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  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 |
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|  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. | ||
| Early Hadlock papers group 5 of 5 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  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 |
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|  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 |
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|  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 |
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|  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 |
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|  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] | |||
| Richard Butler Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Richard Butler Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Richard Butler, lobsterman in Frenchman’s Bay, 1965, hauling lobster trap from water. Leaning over boat, cigarette in mouth. Gift of George Daniell | |
| Ship Under Construction, Somes Cove Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Ship Under Construction, Somes Cove Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Ship under construction in Somes Cove. Looking across Somes Cove to Somes meadow and landing. Six men standing on deck looking toward camera. Hull near completion. Lumber scattered around ship. Two masts lie on the ground in sterm of ship. Schooner just visible to the right. | ||
| Unknown man pulling net from water Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Unknown man pulling net from water Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Unknown man on weir pulling net from water, unknown woman looking on. Man in dory pulling weir from water. | |||
| Unknown man on weir pulling net Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Unknown man on weir pulling net Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Unknown man on weir pulling net from water. Unknown man in dory pulling weir from water. Mountains in distance. | |||
| Wreck of the Schooner "Catherine" Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Wreck of the Schooner "Catherine" Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Remains of the wreck of the schooner "Catherine" in Somes Harbor. Unknown man bending over to examine remains. | |||
| Launching the SS Acadia Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Launching the SS Acadia Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Launching the S.S. Acadia in Newport News. |