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W.S. Brown Account Book Great Harbor Maritime Museum	Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger	Businesses, Other Business Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner	Brown - W.S.	1890 c.	Mount Desert Island	No Known Copyright	W.S. Brown Account Book Great Harbor Maritime Museum Identifier: ghmm-1633 Type: Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger Subject: Businesses, Other Business Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner Creator: Brown - W.S. Date: 1890 c. Place: Mount Desert Island Description: Account book kept by W.S. Brown, master of the schooner J.S. Butler, and other vessels. Includes references to cargoes carried, ports visited, and men employed on the schooner. Also includes records of expenditures, mostly for food, but some references to items like knives. Brown may be William Sheldon Brown but additional research is needed. The book may have been used at an earlier time, as several pages have be ripped out, and Brown's name is found in pencil with the date of 1880 near the beginning [show more]
Documents pertaining to the Schooner Wild Rose Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Financial, Sales Record	Businesses, Fishery Business Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner		1890		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Documents pertaining to the Schooner Wild Rose Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2016.332.2096 Type: Document, Financial, Sales Record Subject: Businesses, Fishery Business Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner Date: 1890 Description: Documents. Five small, folded packets of receipts and ledger sheets, each tied with twine. Most pertain to the Schooner Wild Rose provisioning and selling fish in the 1890s at local stores. Initials of Wild Rose fishermen and amounts (or weights) of fish for each fisherman often appear on reverse of these ledger sheets. The Wild Rose was 47.5 ft. built in Boothbay. Owned in 1885 by Willis Bunker. Mentioned in the records of a 1938 hurricane (per gcihs.org/1/photos/ci_notes.html). (See also 2016.332.2095 for Willis Bunker photos; his wife's name was Rosalee.)(A) Packet one: various dates, various years 1893, 1890, 1895 receipts for Wild Rose. Receipts and purchases for provisions of ships from local stores including specific parts of cod fish like 'sounds' i.e., the air bladder of a cod. (B) Packet two: 1895 receipts and purchases. (C) Packet three: 1896 receipts for Wild Rose sales of fish to Southwest Harbor, ME, store. (D) Packet four: 1888 receipts for Wild Rose. (E) Packet five: Receipts for Wild Rose. An 1899 receipt for items purchased at Nettie Spurling Stanley's store on GCI. Her store was attached to the south side of the old Stanley house (a.k.a. 2016 as Rome house). See LB2007.1.100445 Penobscot Marine Museum collection photo, saved at GCIHS in public\2001\Penobscot. [show more]

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