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| A Cabin in the Woods - Wini Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  A Cabin in the Woods - Wini Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A booklet written by Wini Smart about Sammy Sanford and Rachel Field's friendship through the years, which led to her writing the acclaimed God's Pocket. Published in 2011. | |
| Cranberry Road: GCI 1919-1950 - Wini Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cranberry Road: GCI 1919-1950 - Wini Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A brief history of Great Cranberry between 1919 and 1950. Covering the businesses and activities of islanders. Including many of Betty Hartleys recollections. | |
| Cranberry Rooster Division Sign Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cranberry Rooster Division Sign Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: The Cranberry Club Rooster Division was a local spoof men's club to mirror the elite women’s Cranberry Club. The club house was behind Doc Haydock’s house and also included Arvard Savage, Charlie Rice, and Victor White. They would put on performances of music and ‘interpretive island dances’. | ||
| Richard 'Chuddy' Alley Interview Transcript Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Richard 'Chuddy' Alley Interview Transcript Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Interview Transcript from an interview with Richard 'Chuddy' Alley. The interview was recorded in the 2000's (exact year unknown) by Jessi Duma and Jenny Matthews, who both lived on the island for a number of years. Chuddy came to GCI as a young boy, and recounts many memories of Great Cranberry in the early to mid 20th century. He talks about agriculture and fishing extensively with Jessi. He moved over to Islesford and his son Ricky Alley speaks about fishing with a fish trap, and Pursing. Jessi was a Cranberry Island Fellow and became the general manager for GCIHS for a few years. Interview with transcribed by Hannah Gower-Fox. She was the Archivist and Museum Curator for GCIHS in 2023. [show more] | ||
| Artists of the Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Artists of the Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: GCIHS Publication, created by Wini Smart initially to accompany the exhibit: Art of the Cranberry Isles, Past and Present. Compiles a list of and short biography of all the painters who made an 'impact here on our island and on the world'. With accompanying painter portraits and art. | |
| Notes on Bunker, Fernald, and Hamor families Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Notes on Bunker, Fernald, and Hamor families Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Handwritten geneaology notes on Benia Bunker, Fernald and Hamor families. And Mary Anne Bunker's calling card (David Bunker's sister). | |||
| Norwegian Navigation Chart 1807 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Norwegian Navigation Chart 1807 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Navigation Chart of Norway probably belonging to Sam Hadlock, Jr., with a faint, barely legible handwritten annotation in center. [Best guess at written note: "Fren Cape, Nsor 8am, point 21+ NorW, from Stan point, to Cape Jack(?) 21+, N(illegible symbols), Way-and give Sun, Point 1/2 mile -, From Cape Jack(?), to Cape George or, Cape Laieu(?) NW (and then some illegible letters)". A note attributed to "The Maine Islands in Story and Legend" by Dorothy Simpson says: "Capt. Samuel Hadlock in 1807, during Napoleonic wars, took load of fish to Spain, with good profit and returned with load of salt and lemons. He built a store on Little Cranberry. He built ships too, captained by his five sons. His third son was Samuel who lived on Great Cranberry....". Samuel Hadlock, Jr., built the 1826 house that became the Preble House. Samuel Hadlock, Jr.'s adventures were subject of Rachel Field's book, "God's Pocket" [show more] | |||
| Documents pertaining to Great Cranberry 1902-1930 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Documents pertaining to Great Cranberry 1902-1930 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of documents (1902-1930) including store receipts, Telephone Office postcard, Cranberry Isles High School program 1902 listing 21 students, and the history of the poem "My Island Home" by Mrs. E. T. Preble. Families mentioned include: Bunker, Spurling, Lagoutte | |||
| The Construction of Road I-95 - Doris 'Dot' McSorley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  The Construction of Road I-95 - Doris 'Dot' McSorley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A description of the process around building the road I-95, written by Dot McSorley. | |
| Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of Emily F. Northam Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of Emily F. Northam Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: The Emily F. Northam was a three masted cargo schooner that was grounded off of the Baker Island reef, the crew and cargo were rescued but the Northam never left the Cranberry Isles. In 1974 the Downeast Magazine published a piece written about the event by Farnham W. Smith, and the Historical Society acquired its use for the island's history. Introduction by Bruce Komusin. | |
| Preserving our Past to Steer our Future Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Preserving our Past to Steer our Future Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A booklet made in the early years of GCIHS explaining the need for a permanent home for the Historical Society: Cranberry House. | ||
| Enterprising Islanders Great Cranberry - Wini Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Enterprising Islanders Great Cranberry - Wini Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A descriptive booklet describing a number of enterprises local islanders began and maintained between 1760 and 2008. Fishing, Ship Building, Boat Yards, Newman and Gray Boatyard, the mailboat, Stores, Restaurants and Boarding Establishments, Farms, Hooked Rugs, Antique Autos, Art. | |
| Hitty Preble of the Cranberry Isles: A Travelling Adventure Doll Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hitty Preble of the Cranberry Isles: A Travelling Adventure Doll Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A booklet written by Wini Smart and Bruce Komusin, regarding background information on Hitty Preble, a doll written about by the acclaimed Rachel Field. | ||
| A Taste of Cranberry - Susan Donald Michalski Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  A Taste of Cranberry - Susan Donald Michalski Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A collection of poetry and wood cuts by Susan Donald Michalski from 2002. | |
| Collection of over 110 digital video recordings of interviews, oral histories, and events Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Collection of over 110 digital video recordings of interviews, oral histories, and events Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Video recordings. Collection of over 110 digital video recordings of interviews, oral histories, and events recorded by Bruce Komusin, Phil Whitney, and Wini Smart from 2001-2013. [Note: 74 of these videos converted to MPEG-4/H.264 files by Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport, ME May 2016.] Subjects include interviews of donors, residents, and GCI events including: Richardson, Dunbar, Stanley, Bracy, Horvath, Moss, King, Goldberg, Wadsworth, Rice, Wedge, Bloom Phippen, Peterson, Seimer, Marr, Beaulieu, Bunker, Noether, Hartley, Grandgent, Mountain, Allen, Westphal, Cumming, Sayre, Spurling interviews. Events include: Tom Powell ordination, Jane Goldberg Tap Dancing, Baker Island dancing, memorial services, Poetry and Music, GCI scenes, quilt seminar, fiddle playing, boats, Hitty, Rachel Field, Lawler's ice lecture, Crow & Sound, moving Cranberry House, and trailmaking. Most of the original recordings are on mini digital video cassettes (mini DV), with some mini-discs, and four mini-VHS tapes. Several of these recordings have been made into DVDs for sale at the museum store. [show more] | |
| 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 | |||
| Scrapbook of Lulu Steel Alley 1940-1950s Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Scrapbook of Lulu Steel Alley 1940-1950s Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Scrapbook with cards, newspaper articles, pictures, announcements, a collection of blank checks, calendar photos, and holiday prints by the Wadsworth family can be found pasted in this wallpaper print book. Scrapbook ranges from the 1940's to the late 1950's album was put together by Lulu Steel Alley, Louis Alley's wife and resident of what is now the Horvath house. From the Horvath house | |||
| GCIHS documents Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| GCIHS documents Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection, GCIHS info. 1052a-c. (a) November 2009 Issue of the Cranberry Chronicle. (b) Summer 2009 Events calendar. (c) Laminated copy of notes from the GCIHS 2000 Annual Meeting | |||
| Town of Cranberry Isles Annual Reports 1921-2012 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Town of Cranberry Isles Annual Reports 1921-2012 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Reports. Town of Cranberry Isles Annual Reports 1921-2012. These booklets are prepared for the Annual Town Meeting and include information on town officials, taxes, auditors reports, schools, ordinances and regulations, budgets, and the warrant for the Annual Town Meeting. Missing booklets for these years: 1926-27, 1927-28, 1930-31, 1942-43, and 2011. (Box 1 of 2 contains reports for 1921-1998. Box 2 of 2 contains reports for 2000-2014.) | |||
| Easter Service held on March 30 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Easter Service held on March 30 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Poster. Easter Service Sunday March 30 (no year), Arthur Forrester and William Goldberg led the service; lunch served in the Ladies Aid. Hand drawn lilies, cross, and text, mixed media with cut-outs of flowers. | ||
| "A Visit Among Islanders" Nov. 1999 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "A Visit Among Islanders" Nov. 1999 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Minidisc, audio, copy of NEH Library tape #CO59, "A Visit Among Islanders" | |||
| Hilda Spurling Interview Oct. 1984 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hilda Spurling Interview Oct. 1984 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Minidisc, audio, interview of Hilda Spurling by Georgie Ware, 8 Oct 1984 | ||
| Recording of 78rpm records - Richard Cox Victrola Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Recording of 78rpm records - Richard Cox Victrola Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Minidisc, audio, recording of 78rpm records in Richard Cox Victrola, made Aug 2003 by Bruce Komusin | |||
| Tud Bunker on Life on GCI Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Tud Bunker on Life on GCI Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Minidisc, audio, copy of NEH Library tape #CO34, "Life on GCI, Past & Present" by Tud Bunker | |||
| Ted Spurling's History of Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ted Spurling's History of Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Minidisc, audio, copy of NEH Library tape #CO23, "A History of the Cranberry Isles" by Ted Spurling |