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| 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] | |||
| "Deceased." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "Deceased." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Handwritten list of deceased people. This also provided the dates for some of the deaths. | ||
| "Operations (With their Dates.)" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "Operations (With their Dates.)" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Handwritten notes about the operations of the Marr family. This includes Family Medical History, for example "Age of Father at death 60yr. cause Endocarditis. Age of Mother at death 98yr. Cause Congestive Heart. Age of Sisters at Death - cause Elizabeth 14 Appendectomy, Mary 53 Cancer." This also includes a list of her current illnesses or disabilities, treatment being received, prothesis being used, and past medical history. | |
| "Great Cranberry Island (Marr Property.)" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "Great Cranberry Island (Marr Property.)" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A map of the Marr Property on Great Cranberry Island. This shows Cranberry Cove, Spruce Haven, Rockledge, Pebble Cove, Western Way, Roberts/Long Point. This also shows Seal Harbor, Bar Harbor, Northeast Harbor, Southwest Harbor, Manset, Seawall, and Bass Harbor. Lastly, there is a drawing of GCI and LCI, marking the Marr Property on GCI. | ||
| "Notes from Old Letters." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "Notes from Old Letters." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A Handwritten note about the deaths in the family. This note is labeled 'Notes from Old Letter." This might have been written by Doris Marr McSorley. The notes say " Grannie Spurling 1935 NOV. Shock for years the broke her hip." and "Dad Aug 30 1944 Heart Endocarditis." | ||
| Handwritten genealogy for Francis Spurling Marr. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Handwritten genealogy for Francis Spurling Marr. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: This handwritten genealogy about Francis Marr starts with her birth in 1885 in Portland Maine. It goes on to say she is the daughter of Benjamin Harvey and Frances Preble Spurling. It says she was educated in Boothbay Harbor School and attended Farmington State normal school. She taught in Boothbay harbor school. she got married to Wade Marr in September of 1907. | ||
| Items found in the church closet from many different times. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Items found in the church closet from many different times. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Many different items from the closet of the church. The first item is a list of people. The second is a note about who will be doing what for a reception. The third item is a note written by a woman named Velma, this note says " Dear Mr. MacDonald :- I shall not dare risk my foot to go to church tonight. I have written out a plan as best I can and i am going to ask you to attend to it for me. Will you please read it over at the business meeting for me? Please tell the two who solicit for food to see me before they start to work. Hastily, and thank you, Velma." The fourth item is the longfellow school Christmas program. The fifth item is a magazine called "The new girls' companion." The last item is from the congregational church of Great Cranberry Island. From the summer of 1975. [show more] | ||
| Notes re: music at church services Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Notes re: music at church services Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Notes regarding music played at various regular GCI church services, presumably by Sara Lambert "Sally" Bloom, 1984-1995 | |||
| Poems by Ted Harlan Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Poems by Ted Harlan Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, 8 unbound sheets, collection of 8 poems by George E. "Ted" Harlan: Waiting for the Bluefish, Island Spring, Island Fisherman's Funeral, Island Dusk, Ledges, Firehouse Pool, Back Shores, Granite Lecturn | |||
| Exhibit texts and miscellaneous for 2014 displays Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Exhibit texts and miscellaneous for 2014 displays Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Documents. Exhibit text, labels, photo identifications, and miscellaneous from 2014 GCIHS museum photography exhibit (A). And parsonage house shoes/cape houses exhibit (B) (see also 2015.304.2062). | ||
| Journals, ledgers, wallet, books, scanned photos pertaining to Stanley family from 1870s-1890s Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Journals, ledgers, wallet, books, scanned photos pertaining to Stanley family from 1870s-1890s Great Cranberry Island Historical Society 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] | |||
| Transcript and documents for "Fishing with Junior Bracy" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Transcript and documents for "Fishing with Junior Bracy" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Documents about our video "Fishing with Junior Bracy": transcript (29 pages), questions to ask (2 pages), dialog (5 pages). | |||
| Identification of pictures for Items 1562-1572. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Identification of pictures for Items 1562-1572. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, Sheet of paper identifying pictures written by Annie Alley at time of donation Items 1562-1572. | |||
| Genealogy. Marr, Preble, and Spurling families Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Genealogy. Marr, Preble, and Spurling families Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Documents. Genealogy. Marr, Preble, and Spurling families. 1. Original. Family Register (color print) of William Pitt Preble's siblings and his parents Esaias and Mary A. Preble. 2. Family Register – color faded- William P. Preble and Abigail C. Preble and the children they had together. 3. Article. Ellsworth American 1987 – Double B mail boat and Ferry, "It Carries About Everything that will Fit" with photos of Captain John Gannon and passengers. 4. Envelopes. Two addressed to Miss Fannie A. Preble no contents. One from Wells Fargo and Co, the other from Cold Hill. 5. Photo. Small, black and white, C.S. Spurling Hebron Academy, Sept. 15, 1902, Class of 1902. 6. Documents. Genealogy of William Pitt Preble family and a copy of same. Handwritten. 7. Documents. Genealogy of children of Whillimenia and Fleurase(?) Bunker and a copy of same. Handwritten. 8. Document. Copy. School Agent's Census Return, 1888, District 3, Town of CI 9. Article. Wade H. Marr “East End Locals” 1914. 10. Article. Copy about artist Carl Nelson – The Great Sage of Cranberry Island, ca. mid-1980s. 11. Document. Members of Second Maine Cavalry and Friends of General Andrew B. Spurling - announcing a 90 page book to be sold for benefit of General Spurling. Cost $1.00, postage 4 cents, Address: C.C. Roberts, 879 Millard Avenue, Chicago, Ill. (Civil War Medal of Honor recipient born and raised on GCI.) 12. Photograph. Oval, black and white of young Wade Marr, Father of Louise Marr (donor). 13. Photograph, magazine: an example of a corduroy road like that built on GCI for I-95. 14. Copy of a newspaper article "Our Workers", a portion of an article by Charles Harwood about raising funds for the church, and contains information about the Wheelwright family. No date 15. Print of the Coat of Arms for the Marr family. [show more] | |||
| Genealogical information for Edith Drury Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Genealogical information for Edith Drury Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Genealogy. Edith Drury background information, probably for the 2013 GCIHS "Three Heroines" publication, from Dr. Georgiana Rodiger. Edith Drury b. 1916, daughter of Dr. Samuel Drury, head of St. Paul's School in Concord, NH. Attended Radcliffe College, worked with Maine Seacoast Mission and the Sunbeam for 20 years, lived in Bar Harbor and then on GCI in an 1840s Cape house on Cranberry Road. There is also information on Georgie Rodiger's family included in this packet of information. Copies of various articles. [show more] | |||
| Description of photos for Items 1599-1618 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Description of photos for Items 1599-1618 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, List of description of photos for Items 1599-1618 (note: Item 1619a is the 2nd page of list of picture descriptions. Also, the 1st seven pictures were missing at the time that the pictures were placed in the database. | |||
| Photo descriptions for Items 1692-1704) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photo descriptions for Items 1692-1704) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, Copy of photo descriptions (Item #1692-1704) -unknown donor given to Great Cranberry Island Historical Society 3/20/2012 | |||
| Benedition by Arthur Forrester Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Benedition by Arthur Forrester Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, original of "A Cranberry Isles Benediction" by Arthur Forrester, along with short note from Art to Bruce Komusin on how he wanted it printed, and also a proof of Komusin's design. It was distributed on GCI in late July 1995, on the occasion of Arthur Forrester's retirement as summer guest minister of the Congregational Church | |||
| How to make a quilt Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| How to make a quilt Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Directions, how to make a quilt | |||
| Birth info W.E. Duren Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Birth info W.E. Duren Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Note, stating W.E. Duren born in Bangor, 28 Dec 1881 | |||
| Copy of photo descriptions (Items # 1676-1690) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Copy of photo descriptions (Items # 1676-1690) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, Copy of photo descriptions (Items # 1676-1690) submitted by Annie Alley on 3/20/2012-pictures are on loan to Great Cranberry Isle Historical Society | |||
| Cranberry Clam Diggers Cabaret Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cranberry Clam Diggers Cabaret Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Draft for the Cranberry Clam Diggers' Cabaret, draft copy of sing-along words for specially-written song Cranberry to be sung to the tune of Swanee | |||
| Photo descriptions for Items 1706-1723 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photo descriptions for Items 1706-1723 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo descriptions submitted by Louise Millar (donor #41) and Mickey Macfarlan (donor # 11) for Items # 1706-1723 on 3/12/2012 | |||
| Native American exhibit poster Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Native American exhibit poster Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Poster made by Wini Smart for the museum: Native Americans |