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| Ledger of A. C. Fernald for provisions of schooners 1844-1850 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ledger of A. C. Fernald for provisions of schooners 1844-1850 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Ledger. Small tan leather. Ledger of A. C. Fernald for provisions of schooners 1844-1850 including schooner Seasonpoint(?) or Leaderpant (?), Osprey, Water Witch, Northaven (?), xx and, and entries with individual names: David Pung or King, Peter Standley, Horace Durgen, Edwin Hadlock, Elisha Gilley, Shelddon Brown, Joseph Lancaster, Daniel Kimbal, William M. Richardson, Thomas Savage, Beniah Bunker,and others. One loose scrap of paper with note: "Received eighteen dollars from Capt William Moore it Being in full of all accounts to this date. Cranberry Isl. June 20, 1849, John A. Hitchfield (or Hitchhilll?) [show more] | ||
| William P. Preble Ledgers (1860-1870s) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  William P. Preble Ledgers (1860-1870s) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Eleven ledgers (A-K) with two inserts, 1860-1870s of a collection of 18 small, 19th-century ledgers or account journals belonging to William P. Preble; very difficult to decipher, many entries not in chronological order, often several years of entries not made in sequential order. (Only exterior and one page of each ledger scanned. ) A= Black leather journal with leather clasp. Property of William P. Preble, Cranberry Isles. 1862 Boston entries payments to individuals, mentions Schooner Commerce, etc. Letter tucked into this notebook in the pocket in the rear of the notebook. Bangor Dec. 20, 1860 to Wm. P. Preble Esq. from Abner Knowles about a balance of $40 he owes the Town of Cranberry Isles. B= Black leather journal with leather clasp. Property of William P. Preble, Cranberry Isles. No dates. Payments for work in Boston [undated]. Mentions Schooners Express and Sea Flower. Expenses and provisions, individual accounts. Tucked into the rear pocket of this notebook are two receipts make out to William Preble for $18.00 each for 1862 and 1863 pertaining to his handling of the estate of Sans Stanley. C= 1864-1867-1877 (various years) small ledger begins with Schooner Sea Flower expenses. Schooner Quickstep expenses. Includes payments to sailors/fishermen.1872 Preble as highway Surveyor. 1872 and 1873 School Committee expenses. D= 1865 small ledger Wm. P. Preble begins with Accounts of Sales Daily starting November 1 running for several months….“Amount of sales for the year 1866 $5,542.58, tax collected 798.97” Note: One large loose ledger sheet folded and stored inside this small ledger D with header WP Preble to Clark & Parker November 18th 1879 lists supplies and hardware of various kinds. E= 1867-1871 small ledger begins with “Wrecked Schooner”, then Schooner von Buren & Owners, information pertaining to the Owners of Quickstep (fractions of ownership by each man?), herring for E. B. Stanley and others, fishing tallies, Schooner Sea Queen, 1871 H. Gilley, 1871 and 1873 Town of CI expenses for Preble services, 1873-1874 miscellaneous and expenses Perley and Russell, 1874 Preble’s expenses for Town of CI business, Accounts of sales to various individuals, with various notations on the front and rear flaps of the ledger. F= 1867 long narrow store ledger with list of cash and credit, tallies of purchases by individuals. G= 1869-1872 long narrow store ledger with list of cash and credit for various dates, and purchases by individuals. H= 1867 & 1878 small narrow tan leather journal. 1867 Schooner C.D. Horton, expenses, sailors/fishermen. Schooner Alice P [or T?]. expenses, sailors. Cranberry Isles Wrecking Company meeting notes January and February 1867. Ledgers of accounts for various individuals. Also a couple of notations re: 1878 & 1879 matters, and 1873 on the last page. Inserted in this ledger H is a Lime Rock Insurance Company policy for $3,000 on the schooner Sea Queen for one year from March 1, 1866 at noon. I= 1877 Collector’s Tax List book – William P. Preble, Esq. Treasurer and Collector of Taxes of the Town of Cranberry Isles, County of Hancock aforesaid. Assessors: A. C. Fernald, J. S. Spurling, and N. S. Spurling. With notes after tax lists: June 5th 1879 sold house of Moses D. Haynes to Leonard Holmes at auction for the full xxx of eight dollars at 2 oclock pm [etc] J= Small tan narrow leather journal Date? Undated first half - list of various cargoes, expenses to Belfast, Schooner Alice T [or J?]. Several entries for 1879. 1867 two Schooner Sea Queen entries. Last two pages: List of articles saved from wreck of the Schooner Zulma [no date]. K= Small tan narrow leather journal “W.P. and W. H. Preble book” 1865 lists of expenses. 1874 Entry Boards for meeting house [church] 1249 feet. 1875 list of fish shipped. 1879 entries. 1866 entries cash sent to Portland. Lobsters tallies. 1866 entries for lawyers and Gilley. 1865 entry for Schooner C. Hood[?] [show more] | ||
| Schooner Lizzie Maud payment Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Schooner Lizzie Maud payment Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Business receipt. "525.00 Boothbay, Me. Feb 24th 1885. Received of Benj. N. Spurling Five hundred and twenty five Dollars, On Account payment on Sch[ooner] Lizzie Maud." Appears to be signed by J.P. Nordstrom. Handwriten on back in pencil: "Receipt Copy P. Hady" | ||
| Documents pertaining to the Schooner Wild Rose Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Documents pertaining to the Schooner Wild Rose Great Cranberry Island Historical Society 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] | ||
| The Wind & the Wood, Ralph W. Stanley Inc., Boat Building Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  The Wind & the Wood, Ralph W. Stanley Inc., Boat Building Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Brochure, "The Wind & the Wood," promoting Ralph W. Stanley Inc., Boat Building business in Southwest Harbor. With his thoughts about wooden boat building, and photos of him, his shop, and his boats. Brochure probably from the mid 1980s. | ||
| Receipt for Schooner Lizzie Maud payment Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Receipt for Schooner Lizzie Maud payment Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Business receipt. "Portland, Me Feb 10th, 1885. Received of Benj. N. Spurling Two hundred Dollars on acct of payment of Sch[ooner] Lizzie Maud. $200.00." Appears to be signed by J.P. Nordstrom. Handwriten on back in ink: "Receipt on acct vessel. I. and Y. P. Hodgdon Jr" | ||
| Vessels Related to Great Cranberry Island by Ralph Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Vessels Related to Great Cranberry Island by Ralph Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Ships. Copies of three manuscripts by Ralph W. Stanley. (A & B:) Two xerox copies of "Vessels Related to Great Cranberry Island: Notes Collected by Ralph Stanley Boatbuilder, S.W. Harbor, Me" as handed to Bruce Komusin by Ralph Stanley at GCIHS Annual Meeting, Weds. 28 August 1996. Lists Date; Name of vessel, Master and Owner; Length; and Tonnage for the years 1856-1860. (C) is an alphabetical listing of the same information. (D) "List of Vessels Built on Mount Desert Island, Cranberry Island, Tinker's Island, Thompson's Island and Long Island (Frenchboro), According to Year Built, compiled by Ralph W. Stanley." Sources for (D) are listed on page 40. [show more] | |
| List of Boats to be Taxed Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  List of Boats to be Taxed Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Three documents and one envelope (1888-1900). Two lists of boats to be taxed, one bill for taxes 1900, and one envelope 1888. See description of each document. Names mentioned include: Bunker, Bracy, Birlem, Campbell, Fernald, Gilley, Hadlock, Howard, Harding, Hamor, Joy, Jordan, Ladd, Lopaus, Main, Preble, Phippin, Pung, Rosebrook, Richardson, Rice, Spurling, Stanley, Sanford, Young, Mayo, Fernald, and Hadlock. One handwritten list of boats to be taxed 1885. [show more] | ||
| Insurance policies for schooners and home Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Insurance policies for schooners and home Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Four insurance policies 1850-1860s.[See web link below for info on Schooners mentioned in policies.] Policy 1 = 1850 Lexington Fire, Life and Marine Insurance for William P. Preble $1500 on Schooner Zulma for six months from October 26, 1850 at noon, vessel valued at $3,000. [Zulma was the name of one of Preble's adopted daughters.] Policy 2 = 1854 Hancock Mutual Insurance Company William P. Preble $400 on Schooner Sea Flower and $700 on outfits for a fishing voyage from Tremont to the Magdalen Islands [Quebec] and back to port of discharge commencing the week May 2, 1854. Policy 3 = 1864 Penobscot Mutual Fire Insurance Company Joseph Bunker dwelling house for $250. Policy 4 = 1867 Ocean Insurance Company Perley S. Russell $1200 on charter of Schooner Transfer at and from Boston to one or more ports in the Bahama Isles and from thence to Port of discharge in the United States. [show more] | ||
| Ledger with records of fishing Schooner Rozella Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Ledger with records of fishing Schooner Rozella Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Ledger, Pocket, with records of work, fishing, cleaning fish, fish shares sold from Schooner Rozella, found in Bob LaHotan's barn, and probably kept by Enoch Stanley | ||
| Acadia Maritime Cultural Resources Inventory Final Report Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Acadia Maritime Cultural Resources Inventory Final Report Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Report. Acadia Maritime Cultural Resources Inventory Final Report, funded by an LL Bean Acadia Research Fellowship, Submitted January 2009, by Franklin H. Price, Joshua Daniel, Kristen Chasse, and John Stallings. Emailed to GCIHS September 2014. A brief overview and assessment project reviewing maritime disaster and vessel abandonment near Acadia National Park. Provides a synopsis of known ship wrecks, a GIS database with geospatial information, and a model of where maritime cultural resources might be found. Field interviews, archaeologically corroborated known ship wrecks, photographs of wreck remains, references, bibliography. Field interviews include Charlene Allen, Sheldon Goldthwaite, Ralph Stanley, Mike Pinkham, and Phil Whitney among others. Report was sent via -email as part of an e-mail exchange between Price and GCIHS September 4, 2014. [show more] | ||
| Immersion suit donning instructions Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Immersion suit donning instructions Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Instruction sheet, immersion suit donning, found 25 Aug 2002 on shore near, and presumed to be from, the wreck of the Donbhe, which occurred 5 Mar 2002 | ||
| Navigation License - Lewis Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Navigation License - Lewis Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter accompanying Special License to Navigate | ||
| Envelope accompanying Lewis Stanley License to Navigate Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Envelope accompanying Lewis Stanley License to Navigate Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Envelope, accompanying Special License to Navigate (items 1000.0.19 and 1000.0.25 for license and letter) | |||
| License to Navigate Vessel Lewis G. Stanley 1918 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  License to Navigate Vessel Lewis G. Stanley 1918 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Special License to Navigate, Vessel "B499", to Lewis G. Stanley, 12 Dec 1918. (See item 1000.0.25 and 1000.0.26 for letter and envelope that accompanied license.) | |||
| Brochures 3 Beal & Bunker Sea Queen & Island Queen Schedules Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Brochures 3 Beal & Bunker Sea Queen & Island Queen Schedules Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Brochures: 3 different Beal & Bunker boat schedules: 1987 Sea Queen from NEH; date unknown Sea Queen from NEH; date unknown Island Queen from SWH | |||
| Maine Sea Coast Missionary Society Annual Reports Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Maine Sea Coast Missionary Society Annual Reports Northeast Harbor Library Description: 1926 1941 1949 1954 1955 (50th anniversary) 1968 1971 Scans: Covers, first pages only. | ||||
| Receipt from Samuel S. Newman for 1/16 share in Schooner Carrie M. Richardson to Capt. E.B. (Enoch) Stanley 1874 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Receipt from Samuel S. Newman for 1/16 share in Schooner Carrie M. Richardson to Capt. E.B. (Enoch) Stanley 1874 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Receipt from builder Samuel S. Newman, for a 1/16 share in the Schooner Carrie M. Richardson, to Capt. E.B. (Enoch) Stanley, for $945.66 and 3/8 cents, Dec 17th, 1874. This half-page, handwritten ledger entry was found in Bob LaHotan's barn when he cleaned it 2001. Barn was on the property Enoch B. Stanley owned in the 19th century. Transcribed: "Rec from Capt E B Stanley 945.66 3/8 Nine Hundred forty-five 66/100 Dollars in full for 1/16 of Schr Carrie M Richardson. [Illegible: For? Fox?] Bills not included. Tremont- Dec 17th/74 [1874]. Samuel S. Newman. Paid up to Dec 950:00/945.66, amt of 1/16 over paid 4:34. 10,00-8,68= 1:32" [show more] | |||
| Howe D. Higgins' Documents Containing Information on Rum Running Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Howe D. Higgins' Documents Containing Information on Rum Running Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: This collection of documents contains letters and information about rum running, bootleggers, and their vessels, sent to and from Howe D. Higgins during his time as a customs officer. These documents have been indexed with their dates and the vessels or people they reference. | |||
| Howe D. Higgins' Reports of Seizures and Related Documents Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Howe D. Higgins' Reports of Seizures and Related Documents Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: This collection of documents contains Howe D. Higgins' reports of seizures as collector of customs, as well as the related documents for those seizures, including search warrants and documents containing information about liquor smuggling. | |||
| Correspondence with Howe D. Higgins as Customs Officer Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Correspondence with Howe D. Higgins as Customs Officer Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: This collection contains letters sent to and from Howe D. Higgins between 1921 and 1933 pertaining to information about prohibition and rum runners on Mount Desert Island. These letters have been indexed with their dates and the vessels or people they reference. | |||
| John Pervear Photograph Album Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  John Pervear Photograph Album Northeast Harbor Library Description: 1. Schooners in winter 2. Sunbeam, schooner 3. Northeast Harbor marina 4. Northeast Harbor marina 5. Lobster boat in winter 6. Northeast Harbor marina 7. Northeast Harbor marina 8. View over Asticou dock along Peabody Drive 9. Little Long Pond in winter 10. View from Pervear's kitchen, Harborside Drive 11. Ice in the water at Northeast Harbor marina 12. Ice in the water at Northeast Harbor marina 13. Ice in the water at Northeast Harbor marina 14. Ice in the water at Northeast Harbor marina 15. Hopkins House 16-26. Northeast Harbor in winter 27. Cove End 28-47. Northeast Harbor in spring 48-59: Northeast Harbor in summer 60-79: Northeast Harbor in autumn 80-82: Exterior view of a house 83: Dock 84: Dock 85: View out to ocean 86-88: Northeast Harbor marina 89-90: View out to ocean 91-92: Boats in harbor 93: Yard in autumn 94: Boat on water 95: View out to ocean 96: Mount Desert Island landscape [show more] | |||
| Northeast Harbor Fleet Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Northeast Harbor Fleet Northeast Harbor Library Description: 72 B/W and sepia photographs of the Northeast Harbor Fleet around the clubhouse and under sail. Photographs of IOD's Collection brought to the library in 1998 and are listed as coming from the fleet and Joe Grant. See also item 5458 2: Aquila NEH #2 on mainsail only 4: The "30 M" clearly IDs this boat as a 30 sq m, but the M3 probably denotes it as NEH #3, which is Herman Hessenbruch's Agile 8: Three 30 sq m beating into the wind. Agile NEH #2, in the foreground, tacking to starboard while the other hulls are going to port. The left-most boat looks like NEH #6. The wake behind #2 suggest it had just turned smartly. Also note #2's conspicuous large donut life ring on the stern deck 9: see also photo 1156 q 11/55: Flying Cloud 10/49: Vixen III 16: Sagamore 18/42: Vayu 19: Light air amid a pre-race pileup of yacht racing classes, including Aquila NEH #2, and Nordic II NEH #4 23: Sagamore 26: Aquila NEH #2, probably taken minutes after Photo 1852 NEHF 43. Shows the slight curvature of the upper mast, a characteristic of square meter boats 29/30/37: Niliraga 41: Thistle 43: Aquila NEH #2. The much larger boat in the background (white hull) is not a 30 sq. m. 45: Nancy, Agile. Hessenbruch's jib-less Agile NEH #3 being passed by light-hull NEH #6 51: 30 M #5, with a white hull, running and leading NEH #2 Aquila 53: Another view at the race start of Photo 1852 NEHF 55, showing the same boats in the same order left to right. This would be the start of the big boats racing over the same course. It looks like three other 30 sq. m. are racing given the bent upper masts 55: X 42, 4th from left, is a sail number designation (with an X) that was common for 30 sq. m. boats imported from Germany during the early 1930s. X 42 could be (?) the Gluckauf, the boat purchased and renamed as US3 Visitor by L. Francis Herreshoff. Also in the starting line is the 40 sq. m. NEH #2 Tsana III (holding the actual floating line) 56: Malcom N. Stanley's boat, winner class B, August series 57: Blue Hill, 1933 58: Nymph 59: Old Mack B, 1933 62: Class B yachts approaching finish line 67-71: Start of a Northeast Harbor race in the Summer of 1958 [show more] | ||
| The Winthrop Fleet of 1630 Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  The Winthrop Fleet of 1630 Northeast Harbor Library Description: Account of the Vessels, the Voyage, Passengers. Their English Homes from Original Authorities. | ||
| Marvin Photograph Collection - Album 1 Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Marvin Photograph Collection - Album 1 Northeast Harbor Library Description: Photograph album from Edward Roberts Marvin and Katharine Langdon Marvin (Griffin). The collection is images of the Marvin family in Northeast Harbor, at Harvard University and elsewhere. |