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Addie Ethel Duren WWII ID card Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Identification Card	Organizations, Civic People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Addie Ethel Duren WWII ID card Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2019.434.2444 Type: Object, Identification Card Subject: Organizations, Civic People Description: Addie Ethel Duren WWII ID card issued by U.S. Coast Guard. Islanders were required to carry ID cards during WW II when transiting from islands to MDI, to prove they weren't spies.
Fire Department Helmets Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Clothing, Hat	Organizations, Civic People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Fire Department Helmets Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2014.278.2019 Type: Object, Clothing, Hat Subject: Organizations, Civic People Description: Used by Herman Savage and Wilfred Bunker. Two oval metal helmets painted red; adjustable webbed fabric supports with metal rivets inside; raised staples on interior of brim with fabric chin strips in place. Helmets used by GCI volunteer fire department ca. 1948 when the fire department was formed. Helmet (A): Red outside, white inside; "C.I.V.D." painted in white on exterior; handwritten inside the rim "H. Savage" (Herman Savage). Savage was a teenage volunteer fire department member. Helmet (B):Red outside, red inside; "W.A.B." painted in yellow on exterior; no initials inside. Wilfred Allison Bunker would have been in his late 20s in 1948. These may have been WWII helmets adapted for use by the fire department. Badly rusted and paint flaking and peeling. (See also 2014.278.2020 CIVD documents from 1950-1960s.) (See also photo of firefighters taken ca. January 1951-1953 with identifications, printed copy stored with item 2021 - box 49.) [show more]
Cap and tee shirt, Rooster Club Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Clothing, Hat	Organizations, Civic People		Copyright Not Evaluated	Cap and tee shirt, Rooster Club Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2016.353.2118 Type: Object, Clothing, Hat Subject: Organizations, Civic People Description: Clothing. Blue and gold Rooster Club ball cap and green Rooster Club tee shirt. The Rooster Club was the men's answer to the elite women's Cranberry Club. Members included Arvard Savage, Doc Haydock, Charlie Rice, and Victor [White]?. Club house was behind Haydock's house.
School and property tax info Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Government, Government Records	Organizations, School Institution People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	School and property tax info Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2003.77.555 Type: Document, Government, Government Records Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Description: Ledger page, loose, school and property tax info, no date, typical names listed: William Preble, Lew Ladd, Thomas Bunker, Gilbert Family, John Steele, etc.
Mementos from Preble family school years Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Student Record	Organizations, School Institution People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Mementos from Preble family school years Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2013.246.2351 Type: Document, Student Record Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Description: Mementos from the Preble family school years: (A) Card with 18 U.S. Presidents depicted (ends with Grant 1869); (B) Reward of Merit presented by W. H. Preble, Teacher; (C) Reward of Merit to Fannie A. Preble, presented by J. C. Chilcott.
Rooster Club photos Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Organizations, Civic People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Rooster Club photos Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.5.166 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Organizations, Civic People Description: Collection of Photos, building the Rooster Club clubhouse and various people
Arthur Bunker Air Force photo Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Organizations, Civic People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Arthur Bunker Air Force photo Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2003.69.571 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Organizations, Civic People Description: Photo, 8x10 b&w, Air force crew holding sign "U-TAPAO'S 50,000th B-52 Sortie". Arthur Bunker is second from right.
William P. Preble appointed Justices of the Peace and of the Quorum Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Certificate	Organizations, Civic People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	William P. Preble appointed Justices of the Peace and of the Quorum Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2018.416.2786 Type: Document, Certificate Subject: Organizations, Civic People Description: William P. Preble appointed Justices of the Peace and of the Quorum of Hancock County, Maine, August 12, 1873, by Governor Sidney Perham.
Hilda Spurling working at the post office Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Organizations, Civic People	Ed Gray	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Hilda Spurling working at the post office Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.1633 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Organizations, Civic People Creator: Ed Gray Description: Photo, "Hilda Spurling filled in for Marjorie Phippen at the Post Office" taken and developed by Ed Gray. (2 copies) (Note: Item 1633a is also Hilda Spurling from a different angle (5 copies)
Marjorie Phippen working at Post Office Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Organizations, Civic People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Marjorie Phippen working at Post Office Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.1638 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Organizations, Civic People Description: Marjorie Phippen- Post Master at the Cranberry Isle Post Office
School and property tax information Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Government, Government Records	Organizations, School Institution People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	School and property tax information Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2003.77.557 Type: Document, Government, Government Records Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Description: Ledger page, loose, both sides used, school and property tax info, no date, appears to be a working sheet, in pencil, 9 names: Arno P. Stanley, Lewis Ladd, George Bulger, Edwin Spurling, William Bulger, Thomas Bunker, Leonard Holmes, Sam Bunker, William Bunker. Poor condition.
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	Journals, ledgers, wallet, books, scanned photos pertaining to Stanley family from 1870s-1890s Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2017.388.2163 Type: Document, Other Documents Subject: Businesses, Fishery Business Organizations, Civic People 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]
Longfellow School children Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Organizations, School Institution People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Longfellow School children Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.1628 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Description: Photo, James Bunker, Christina, Ellen Whitney, Josh, Elysia, Kenneth Whitney, Hannah, Ellen Savage, Mandy, Molly, Scott, Audra, Jill (?), Chris Sparacio, Megan Liebow
Volunteers gather at the new playground Longfellow School Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Organizations, School Institution People		In Copyright	Volunteers gather at the new playground Longfellow School Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.841 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Description: Newspaper photo: Volunteers gather around the newly-built playground near the Longfellow School and the Great Cranberry Library; with a list of names, some unknown. Transcribed - names.
Ribbon: Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Pemetic Lodge Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Award	Organizations, Civic People		Copyright Not Evaluated	Ribbon: Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Pemetic Lodge Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.384 Type: Object, Award Subject: Organizations, Civic People Description: Ribbon, pin-on, double sided, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Pemetic Lodge #135, Southwest Harbor
School #2 list of pupils 1899 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Student Record	Organizations, School Institution People		Copyright Not Evaluated	School #2 list of pupils 1899 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.7.77 Type: Document, Student Record Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Description: Souvenir, School #2, 1899, student list of 23 pupils, Charles Spurling, etc. (See prop copy 1000.0.1319)
Stephen Spurling report card Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Student Record	Organizations, School Institution People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Stephen Spurling report card Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.45.204 Type: Document, Student Record Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Description: Report card of Stephen Spurling, for primary school, teacher Miss Theolyn Rumill (Steve went to public school on Great Cranberry Island)
Mrs. Andrew C. Wheelwright legacy Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Other Documents	Organizations, Religious People	Mary Cabot Wheelwright	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Mrs. Andrew C. Wheelwright legacy Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.691 Type: Document, Other Documents Subject: Organizations, Religious People Creator: Mary Cabot Wheelwright Description: Document, photocopy, 2 sheets, essay starting "My mother's interest in Cranberry...", by Mary Cabot Wheelwright, about Mrs. Andrew C. Wheelwright's efforts for GCI, including donating to the church the Sarah Whitman stained glass window, the bell, and the parsonage; paying to restore the pulpit and chairs, helping to settle the site of the Town Dock, and hiring Mrs. Schrifgrisser to teach the children games and handcrafts. Transcribed. Also included is a 2019 letter from an Eliot family descendant, Alexander Goriansky, with with Eliot family genealogy and a copy of a letter published in "Letters from Elizabeth Cabot, Vol. III, Boston 1905". The letter is about Mrs. Cabot's visit to GCI August 8, 1900 to view the new stained glass window in the church: "...It is one of Mrs. Whitman's beautiful wreathes, with gorgeus reds and blues and enough white to show them off, laid on a white Greek cross, on the arms of which is the inscription. The church is absolutely bare, but well colored as to the walls...." Goriansky states that 100 years later, he lived upstairs from where the window's creator, Sarah Wyman Whitman, had lived from 1880-1904 (#77 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston), and that she was very fine designer and maker of "stained" glass windows. [show more]
Children singing Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Organizations, Religious People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Children singing Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2012.193.1440 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Organizations, Religious People Description: Photo, Chris Sporacio, Candy Wedge, Christina Bracy, Alicia Sporacio, Unknown, Scott Bracy, Molly Gray
Children at school Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Organizations, School Institution People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Children at school Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2012.193.1439 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Description: Photo, Carolyn Liebow, Megan Liebow, Mandy Bracy, Audra Wellman, Ada Rice, Molly Gray
Children at church Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Organizations, Religious People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Children at church Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2012.193.1433 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Organizations, Religious People Description: Photo, Scott Bracy, Christina Bracy, Chris Sporacio, Hannah Gray, Candy Wedge
Children at school Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Organizations, School Institution People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Children at school Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2012.193.1413 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Description: Candy Wedge, Becky Sanborn, Corey Alley, Katrina Pickering
Longfellow School-Washington, D.C. field trip Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Organizations, School Institution People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Longfellow School-Washington, D.C. field trip Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.1631 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Description: Photo, "Longfellow School-Washington, D.C. Trip. Michael Westphal, Christina, Gary, Mandy (in front), Megan (behind), Colleen Allan, Molly, Scott, Brandon Russel (standing), Josh (sitting), Gabriel (sitting), Abbey Liebow (behind), Teacher Ray Chalmers (behind), James Bunker (sitting), boy sitting might be Patrick (?)
School children in costumes Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Organizations, School Institution People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	School children in costumes Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2012.193.1448 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Description: Photo, Hannah Gray, Christina Bracy, Scott Bracy, Molly Gray, Mandy Bracy, Candy Wedge, Megan Liebow, Alicia Sporacio, Ellen Savage, Teacher Shannon Shannon
Children at school Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Organizations, School Institution People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Children at school Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2012.193.1442 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Description: Photo, Martha Gray, Hannah Gray, Alicia Sporacio, Megan Liebow, Audra Wellman, Teacher Shannon Shannon, Mandy Bracy, Chris Sporacio, Molly Gray, Scott Bracy

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