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Newspaper article commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Eastern Maine Basketball Champions of 1924
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Object, Clothing, Uniform, Sports Uniform
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • People
  • Recreation, Sports, Basketball
  • 1984
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
The photograph is a newspaper clipping (text on reverse) from April 12, 1984 that describes 1924 championship team. The Gilman High School of Northeast Harbor basketball team and their coach Stanley Week posed outside after winning the Eastern Maine basketball tournament at the University of Maine at Orono in 1924. The players are in uniform, and Week holds the plaque they won. People Depicted: Stanley Week, Burton Seavey, Edward Ralph, Albert Manchester, Stuart Branscom, Horace Bucklin, Francis Atwood, Jerome Knowles, Merrill Whitmore and Paul Bucklin. Also mentioned in the article are Douglas Driscoll, Carl Kelley Black and white [show more]
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
Description:
Collection of Photos, building the Rooster Club clubhouse and various people
Addie Duren's Ration Book
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Coupon, Ration Coupon, Ration Book
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • 1943
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Addie Duren's Ration Book
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Card & Envelope, Card lists Addie Duren's Identification Number for Ration Book use, postmarked 4 Oct 1943
Postmaster Joseph S. Spurling, Esq. appointed
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Certificate
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • 1862
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Postmaster Joseph S. Spurling, Esq. appointed
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Certificate, Post Office Appointment as postmaster of Joseph S. Spurling, Esq., 29 Apr 1862
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
Description:
Photo, 8x10 b&w, Air force crew holding sign "U-TAPAO'S 50,000th B-52 Sortie". Arthur Bunker is second from right.
Pension for Cynthia Bracy
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Certificate
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • 1891
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Pension for Cynthia Bracy
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Certificate from the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, to Cynthia W. Bracy, 11 Sep 1891, telling her that she will be getting a pension
Receipt for Preble's taxes paid in full
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • 1873
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Receipt for Preble's taxes paid in full
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Receipt: William P. Preble paid in full $31.22 for state, county, town, and highway taxes for 1873; William H. Preble paid $3.76 for same. Dated 5 Jan 1874; signed William P. Bunker, Collector. Transcribed.
Payments made for service to Town of Cranberry Isles
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • People
  • 1876
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Payments made for service to Town of Cranberry Isles
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Nine documents. Eight Town of Cranberry Isles payment receipts (1876-1877), one 1885 Town of CI Schools ledger page, and one 1887 Town of Tremont receipt. Payments involve individuals including: Hadlock, Gilley, Preble, Stanley, Wayland, Hamor, Fernald, schools. See description of each document.
William P. Preble appointed Justices of the Peace and of the Quorum
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Certificate
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
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Description:
William P. Preble appointed Justices of the Peace and of the Quorum of Hancock County, Maine, August 12, 1873, by Governor Sidney Perham.
William P. Preble appointed Notary Public
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Certificate
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • 1885
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William P. Preble appointed Notary Public
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
William P. Preble appointed Notary Public for Hancock County February 5, 1885, by Governor Frederick Robie
William P. Preble Notary Public
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Certificate
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • 1892
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
William P. Preble Notary Public
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
William P. Preble appointed Notary Public for County of Hanock, Maine, 13 April 1892, by Governor Edwin Burleigh.
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
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
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
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
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]
Ten Town of Cranberry Isles documents 1876-1877
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • Places, Town
  • 1876
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Ten Town of Cranberry Isles documents 1876-1877
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Ten Town of Cranberry Isles documents 1876-1877, with summary of each item. Includes receipts for tax assessors; Perley and Russell v. Bunker; Gilley; Schooner Wayland; Leonard Holmes; and mention of a ship attacking a vessel, among other things.
Journal with transcriptions of protestations of ships
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Events
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • People
  • 1867
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Journal with transcriptions of protestations of ships
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Journal with transcription. 38-page typed transcription of protestations of ships wrecked on the Cranberry Isles from an original 19th-century ledger/journal kept by William P. Preble 1867-1879. Journal transcribed by Michael Macfarlan c. 2002. One loose page partial protestation for 1893. The back of the journal also contains pages for the accounts pertaining to School district No. 2, the Post Office, and for various islanders (not transcribed). (See also 1000.0.934: selections from 1080 - sea captain's transcribed broadcasts for possible video production. (See also June 2018 Cranberry Chronicle, pages 20-13 - link below) [show more]
Poster for "Fishing with Wesley Bracy, Jr."
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Advertising, Poster
  • Events
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • 2004
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Poster for "Fishing with Wesley Bracy, Jr."
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Poster for Historical Museum Opener, featuring 2 videos: "Fishing with Wesley Bracy, Jr." and "Ice Harvesting", plus ice lecture by Bill Lawler, held 7 July 2004. (video of lecture on miniDV tape #2004-0004, and see 2013.265.1998 and all years>video)
Museum opening day photos
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • 2000
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Museum opening day photos
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Photos, color, of islanders at Grand Opening of GCI Historical Museum, 6 August 2000
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
Description:
Photo, James Bunker, Christina, Ellen Whitney, Josh, Elysia, Kenneth Whitney, Hannah, Ellen Savage, Mandy, Molly, Scott, Audra, Jill (?), Chris Sparacio, Megan Liebow
Qualification for Doris McSorley to teach
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Permission, License
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • People
  • 1937
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Qualification for Doris McSorley to teach
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Statement of Qualification for Mrs. Doris McSorley, to teach English and History in grades 1-6 in the state of Connecticut. Dated May 24th 1937.
Sunday school attendance record book
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Administrative Records
  • Organizations, Religious
  • People
  • 1974
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Sunday school attendance record book
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Megan Denver's (daughter of Bob Denver, actor in the TV show Gilligan's Island) Sunday school attendance record book from 1974-1975
Andrew McSorley retirement
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Legal, Legal Documents
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • People
  • 1973
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Andrew McSorley retirement
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Retirement contract for Andrew A. McSorley from the State of Connecticut State Teachers' Retirement Board. Retirement date effective as of July 1st, 1973, with an annuity of $124.33 and a pension of $692.51. Creditable service time totaled 37 years and 4 months.
Rug making and Maine Seacoast Mission
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Organizations, Religious
  • Other
  • People
  • 1901
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Rug making and Maine Seacoast Mission
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Documents pertaining to rug making. (A) Report of the Maine Seacoast Missionary Society for the year ending 1927. (B): Nine items of correspondence pertaining to the Cranberry Island Hooked Rugs program started by the Seacoast Mission, letters date from 1901-1902. The hooked rug program was one of the first cottage industries, the Seacoast Mission took completed rugs to New York for sale
Teachers Certificate for Dorothy Preble Marr
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Permission, License
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • People
  • 1934
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Teachers Certificate for Dorothy Preble Marr
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
State Teachers Certificate for Miss Dorothy Preble Marr, for studies completed at Harrisonburg State Teachers College in Virginia. Certificate authorizes the teaching of high school English, Geography, History, Social Science, and all elementary school subjects, for a period of 10 years. Dated July 1st 1934. B - Record of training for Doris P. Marr at Harrisonburg State Teachers College. Breakdown of credit hours by subject.