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Letter and drawings Eskimo life Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Letter and drawings Eskimo life Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter and 2 photos of drawings depicting Eskimo Culture: hunting, fishing, from German source. [Research TBD] Likely connected with Samuel Hadlock and his traveling exhibition of Eskimo Indians, Rachel Field's God's Pocket, and subsequent research in Beyond God's Pocket | |||
Copy of Eskimo drawing with lock of hair in green frame, Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Copy of Eskimo drawing with lock of hair in green frame, Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Printed photo copy of Eskimo drawing with lock of hair in green frame, 8"x10"; connected with Rachel Field's book "God's Pocket" and Samuel Hadlock, Jr. voyages with his traveling exhibition of Eskimo Indians in the 1820s. See also Beyond God's Pocket. [Research on drawing TBD.] | |||
Quilt. Cotton, white with pink basket motif Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Quilt. Cotton, white with pink basket motif Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Quilt. Cotton, white with pink basket motif on front, all white reverse. Pink border around three sides, one end with folded inward seem, no pink border. Sculpted in broad T shape on one end. Note from donor, Susan Bunker, reads: "This quilt was made by my father's, Raymond Bunker who was born in 1906, grandmother. She could have been a Bunker or a Spurling." | |||
Connecticut Chamber Orchestra photo (Bloom) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Connecticut Chamber Orchestra photo (Bloom) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Image, printed for exhibit. The Connecticut Chamber Orchestra. Robert and Sara Bloom used to summer on Great Cranberry Island. Annie Alley used to work for them one day a week and when he passed away Annie was given a cupboard that Bob had built | |||
Robert Bloom Collection notes Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Robert Bloom Collection notes Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, 5 pages, explaining the | |||
Robert and Sara Bloom information Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Robert and Sara Bloom information Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, 3 pages. 1st: "Other Publications" being a list of 3 publications by Sara Lambert Bloom. 2nd: biography of Sara Lambert Bloom. 3rd: biography of Robert Bloom, 1908-1994. | |||
Hooked rug with wading waterbird Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Hooked rug with wading waterbird Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Rug. Hooked, yarn and jersey material, with note "...made by Eliza Stanley." White waterbird with yellow bill wading with cattails, mountains, and butterfly in background; brown border. Faded, torn, worn, repaired at some earlier time. Eliza Stanley b. 1888 and d. 1967. (Donor bought Eliza and Pink Stanley's house 1970.) | ||
William B. Goldberg playing piano Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| William B. Goldberg playing piano Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Audio cassette recording. William B. Goldberg, piano, made by Educo Records, Ventura, California. William Goldberg often played at the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church. | |||
Article about Sara Lambert Bloom Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Article about Sara Lambert Bloom Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, promotional article about Sara Lambert Bloom, oboist, with good photos | |||
"Hilda Spurling's Recipes" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| "Hilda Spurling's Recipes" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Notebook, handwritten, "Hilda Spurling's Recipes" including meat, desserts, cookies, pudding, stew, cake muffins, etc. | |||
The Quiltmaker Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| The Quiltmaker Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Artwork. "The Quiltmaker" framed, oil on canvas by Wini Smart 2006. Islander Ruth Westphal sewing a colorful quilt in a windowed room with view of church suggested in one window. Painting donated by Friends of Cranberry House at the 2006 Exhibit and Benefit Auction held at the Neighborhood House in Northeast Harbor, ME. | |||
Davis Grim with Canoe Photograph Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Davis Grim with Canoe Photograph Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Davis Grimm stands behind a canoe. Inscriptions on back read "Davis Irvin [sp?] item/ 4 pix/ Spiker" in blue pen, and "III 2," "100%," and "3 col" in marker. People Depicted: Davis Grimm Black and white | ||
Robert Lincoln with Canoe Photograph Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Robert Lincoln with Canoe Photograph Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Robert Lincoln works on a canoe outside a log cabin. Inscriptions on back read "Robert Lincoln item/ 4 pix/ Spiker" in blue pen, and "100%," and "3 col" in marker. People Depicted: Robert Lincoln Black and white | ||
Business and Town Dignitaries on a Dock Photograph Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Business and Town Dignitaries on a Dock Photograph Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Business and town dignitaries pose with a boat captain on a dock. They are, from left to right: unidentified, Geddes Simpson, unidentified, Jim McLeod, and Sheldon Goldthwaite. Sticker on back identifies some of the individuals in the photograph. Inscription on the back of the photograph reads "Business + Town dignitaries/ 2 pix/ Spiker" in blue pen. People Depicted: Geddes Simpson, Jim McLeod, Sheldon Goldthwaite Black and white [show more] | ||
Man with Lobster Trap Photograph Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Man with Lobster Trap Photograph Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: An elderly fisherman lifts a lobster trap. Black and white | |||
Hooked rug with clamshell design Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Hooked rug with clamshell design Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Rug. Hooked rug, with clamshell design. Description for clamshell from donor's 1987 appraisal at Thomaston Galleries: HOOKED RUG: woolens on burlap with 1/2”-wide braided border. Dark band enclosing tight rows of dark polychrome “Clam Shells”. Good overall condition. 20th c. American Dim: 28” x 47”. Donor doesn't know if it was made on GCI, but recalls it being in her mother's GCI home when she was a child. | |||
Hooked rug with floral design Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Hooked rug with floral design Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Rug. Hooked rug, with floral design. Donor doesn't know if it was made on GCI, but recalls it being in her mother's GCI home when she was a child. Rug is hooked with stockings and fabric on burlap. | |||
Braided rugs and pot holder by Addie Duren Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Braided rugs and pot holder by Addie Duren Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Rugs: two braided multi-colored rugs; and one cloth pot holder. These three items were all made by GCI resident Addie Duren. Rug (A) is oval shaped, brightly colored reds, blues, purples, greys 46" long by 32.5" wide. Rug (B) is oval shaped, black and tan overall 56" long x 39" wide. There is a story that when the Duren house caught fire (19xx?), it was Addie's rags and rug-making materials stored in the attic that kept the fire from spreading rapidly through whole house. Pot holder (C) has crocheted edges with dancing girl and pink backing. [show more] | |||
Collection of Rachel Field's Hitty Preble materials Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Collection of Rachel Field's Hitty Preble materials Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of Rachel Field/Hitty items, 1098a-g. (a) News article "Hitty Comes Home" Bar Harbor Times May 27, 2004. (b) News article "Children's books Include Rachel Field favorite" Mount Desert Islander May 18, 2006. Apparently, "Grace for an Island Meal" was her favorite. (c) 3 different printed copies of "Big Hitty" postcards. (d) Two-page genealogy "The Field Family of Stockbridge in the 1800s" covering 1781-1942, and ending with the death of Rachel Field. (e) Two writings by Rachel Field. "A Valentine for Old Dolls" and "Acceptance Paper", which she read after winning the Newbery Medal for "Hitty" in 1030. (f) Article by the Macmillan Company "Dorothy P. Lathrop" illustrator of Rachel Field's works. (g) Article from COMPASS, Aug 31, 2006, "Do You Know Who Hitty Is? If So, We've Got a Weekend for You", with announcement of "All this and Hitty too: a doll, a book, a seminar" held in Stockbridge, MA September 15-17, 2006. Also one-page "Looking Back at Hitty's Second Hundred Years" a talk by Margaret Chang, Delivered at the "all this and Hitty Too" Seminar of the Stockbridge Library Assocition, September 16, 2006. Actually, items d-g probably were all distributed at this seminar [show more] | |||
Reviews of oboe performances by Sara Lambert Bloom Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Reviews of oboe performances by Sara Lambert Bloom Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, 1 page, collection of reviews of oboe performances by Sara Lambert Bloom | |||
Picnic of trustees of the Arcady Music Festival, Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Picnic of trustees of the Arcady Music Festival, Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo, picnic of trustees of the Arcady Music Festival, 1984 |