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| Four generations of Bunker family Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Four generations of Bunker family Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Four Bunker family generations: Upper left – Julia Bunker Spurling (Sidney's daughter) (1850-1919); Lower left – Sidney Chadwick Hamor Bunker (1824-1918); Upper right – Alta Spurling Bunker (Sidney's grand daughter) (1876-1969); Lower right – Vincie Millicent Bunker (Sidney's great grand daughter) (1895-1993). (Perhaps ca. 1915.) Donor inherited photograph from his great-grandfather Robert Hamor whose older sister, Sidney Hamor Bunker, appears in this picture. [show more] | |
| Longfellow School photo ca. 1910 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Longfellow School photo ca. 1910 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Longfellow School photo ca. 1910 Cranberry Isles, on brown cardboard backing with IDs on reverse; children all dressed up, perhaps graduation day. Left to right: Front row: Leslie Stanley, Russell Bunker, John Stanley, Holsie Atkinson, Victor Erickson. Second row: Gracie Atkinson, Bernice Spurling, Laura Erickson, Margie Bulger Phippen, Hilda Bulger Spurling, Blanch White Atkinson, Alvah Bunker. Third row: Esther White Howard, Florence Bracy, Hazel Bunker Hardy, Helen Trussell Alley, Gladys Spurling, Willard Rosebrook. Fourth row: George Hadlock Superintendent, Edgar White, Bertie Stanley, Robert Stanley, Raymond Bunker, Teacher Mamie Birlem. (IDs probably by Ruth Westphal) [show more] | ||
| Islesford Coast Guard Station lifesavers Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Islesford Coast Guard Station lifesavers Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo warped and faded on mounted on cardboard: Islesford Coast Guard Station lifesavers with IDs on reverse: "Consult Marian Spurling, (Captained 1887-1909) Capt. Benjamin Franklin Stanley and crew (Capt. Frank), Islesford Coast Guard Station Life Saving until 1915." | ||
| Condolences to Mrs. Hamor on loss of Capt. Hamor Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Condolences to Mrs. Hamor on loss of Capt. Hamor Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A framed page from Cranberry Club members offering condolences to Mrs. Hamor on the loss of Captain Hamor signed July 9, 1913 by members of the Club: Emma L. Wesson, President; Eleanor Blodgette, VP; Juliana Wood, Secretary; Frances S. Pepper, Treasurer; Annie W. J. Low; W. Amos Doris?; Caroline M. Lewis; Elizabeth R. Arnold; Sophy Dallas Gwin; Frances Parkman; Emilio Ofsten Mulligan?. [This statement is mounted on a black matte on the reverse of a photo of an unidentified stone edifice surrounded by pine trees.] [show more] | ||
| Receipt for store purchases Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Receipt for store purchases Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Business receipt, dated 24 Sep 1910, E.B. Stanley bought of Nettie Stanley, pair of rubbers, ticking, pork, pepper, wire, etc., total $34.50, dated | ||
| Eulogy for Mrs. Captain Bunker, and Bunker Genealogy Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Eulogy for Mrs. Captain Bunker, and Bunker Genealogy Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Eulogy for Mrs. Captain Bunker (A); and (B) a two-page Bunker Family genealogy (probably composed by donor Louise Marr). Remarks made at the funeral of Mrs. Captain Bunker, May 23d, 1912 by Pastor Addison W. Hayes. [Mrs. Bunker full name not known, just these clues from the text: “Grandma Bunker” was married for half a century. Mother of six children with her husband, The Captain, often away on the high seas. She was lame for the last 17 years. Converted to Methodism in Portland. Buried in Fairview Cemetery. [show more] | ||
| Certificate of Birth for Louise Hampton Marr Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Certificate of Birth for Louise Hampton Marr Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Certificate of Birth for Louise Hampton Marr. She was born May 16th, 1910 to Wade H. Marr and Frances Spurling. | |
| Marr- Louise H. Marr Certificate of Birth. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Marr- Louise H. Marr Certificate of Birth. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Birth certificate for Louise Marr. She was born on May 16th, 1910 in Westbrook Main. She was born to Wade Marr and Frances Spurling. |
| McSorley - Andrew Albert McSorley Birth certificate. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  McSorley - Andrew Albert McSorley Birth certificate. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Andrew McSorley's Birth Certificate. Andrew was born on March 9th, 1912 to John and Estella McSorley. He was born in Isleford Maine to Dr. Marsh. |
| A Little Bit of Hell, Maine Style Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  A Little Bit of Hell, Maine Style Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Article: A Little Bit of Hell, Maine Style. (TBD 1/9/18, article not located; see also pending Backlog item 2501 for possible copy.) See reprint in Cranberry Chronicle Spring 2014 edition, page 7, from Bangor Daily News ca. 1919; Sam Spurling was aboard the Cashier during this event. Introductory paragraph: “A Little Bit of Hell—Maine Style That’s What Capt. Spurling Gave a Pirate. State Gets Tokens of His Courage. from the Bangor Daily News, ca. 1919 It was just ninety-six years ago Tuesday (Jan. 21) that an event happened in the harbor of Trinidad, Cuba, which reflected great credit on the leader of a bold enterprise, recollections of which have recently been stirred in Maine, on account of the purchase by the state of a brace of pistols and a sword from Mrs. E. Preble of Framingham, Mass…..” And see Charles Liebow notes on the Cashier: - CASHIER: Masters - Samuel Spurling & William Moore, Built in Eden in 1820, 30 Gross Tons, 49.8/17.8/5.3: Two masts with a square stern. Perhaps the vessel from which Sam Spurling gave the Caribbean pirates a "little bit of Hell, Maine style." [show more] | ||
| Postcard view of Stanley dock Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Postcard view of Stanley dock Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Postcard. View of Stanley dock from the land. “Stanley Dock, Cranberry Island, ME 142” in white letters across front of card. No postmark. “Aug 19, 1912. Dear Elsie - I will fix your dress but would like to see it on you before I finish it. You can send it over by Arthur and I will [take this].” Addressed to Miss Elsie Stanley, Isleford, Maine. No postmark or postage stamp. | ||
| Diary about boat repairs Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Diary about boat repairs Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Diary, printed date 1914, with ads for paint and varnish, filled in with entries of expenses, most all seem to be for boat repair. Work done for Frank Stanley, Walter Eversman, C. Rice, A. Alley, D. Hodgkins. | ||
| Lewis Stanley fishing license Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Lewis Stanley fishing license Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: License, Special, Lewis G. Stanley for 29 foot sloop "no name" gas motor, for fishing, port of Southwest Harbor, 6 Dec 1918 | ||
| Hunting license for Addie Duren Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Hunting license for Addie Duren Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: License, State of Maine Hunting License, for Addie Duren, 25 cents, 1919 | ||
| 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 | ||
| U.S. Army certificate for Alfred Emery Ladd Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  U.S. Army certificate for Alfred Emery Ladd Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Documents. U.S. Army certificate for Alfred Emery Ladd, Private 1st Class, Medical Detachment, 125th Infantry died with honor in the service of his country on the sixth day of August 1918. Signed and dated 19 October 1918. With War Department envelope addressed to Mr. Lewis E. Ladd, Cranberry Isles, Maine, postmark illegible. And a card from the War Department imprinted with info that it's from the President who wishes to express his deep and sincere sympathy. Online genealogy lists Alfred Emery Ladd, born November 17, 1889 who died August 06, 1918 in Action in France. He was the son of Clara E. Gilley and Lewis Ladd. Ladd lived in the present (2016) Freeman house on GCI. [show more] | ||
| Advertising cards turn of 20th century Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Advertising cards turn of 20th century Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection, misc. advertising cards: Philip Douglas, ship smith & machine forger; Wm. Prior, Jr. & Co., fresh & pickled fish, clams & oysters; Walker & Rich, fresh and smoked fish, lobsters, clams, cod liver oil, &c; "Gloucester" Copper Paint; The First National Bank of Ellsworth, Maine; Bethel Church, Portland; Hood's Sarsaparilla; "Untold Secrets", a booklet of jokes published by Pabst Brewing Co.; J.H. Connors & Co., liquor dealers; John Linscott, boots, shoes, & rubbers; J. Burns & Co., fresh, salt, and pickled fish; C.F. Eaton, dealer in flour, west india goods, ship stores, wines, liquors, &c.; H & G.W. Lord, nets, seines, and twine; F.W. Morrill, butter, cheese, & eggs; "The Acme Club" a booklet advertising the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. of Newark, New Jersey; F.H. Johnson, fresh, smoked, and pickled fish; "Between Ourselves" July 1926, a flyer by the New England Telephone & Telegraph Co.; "3 Pounds of Tea" a label from a tea package made by Baird & Peters, "THE tea people." [show more] | ||
| Sidney Hamor Bunker and Julia Bunker Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Sidney Hamor Bunker and Julia Bunker Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Sidney (aka Sidney) Chadwick Hamor Bunker with daughter Julia Bunker Spurling at home ca. 1915. Donor states: "This picture of the Bloom house was taken early 1900s; date is determined by the gravestones of the two ladies on the front porch. On the left is Sydney Hamor Bunker, wife of Warren Bunker, and mother of Julia Bunker Spurling on the right. Julia was the mother of Joseph Elwood Spurling...." | ||
| Doll house made by Al Gray 1915 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Doll house made by Al Gray 1915 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Doll house. Wood painted red, yellow and white with black roof and green base. Per donor, house was made about 1915 by Al Gray for his grandchildren, Molly, Hannah, and their sister and two brothers. Donor bought the doll house at Jane and Eddi Gray's hard sale ca. 2000 for her own grandchildren. (See eclectic doll furniture 2014.286.2037.) | ||
| Cranberry Club House circa 1910 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cranberry Club House circa 1910 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo, Cranberry Club House circa 1910 -man in the middle of photo with cap on is Elwood Spurling, one of the ladies is Mrs. Caroline Stanley (her name is on back of actual photograph) and the rest of people are not identified. See 2011.145.1101(O) photo for ids. | ||
| Letter from Sara Mayo to Catherine Pye Mayo Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Letter from Sara Mayo to Catherine Pye Mayo Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: March 29, 1914 Letter from Sara Mayo, Baker Island school teacher to her Mother Catherine Pye Mayo | ||
| Articles describing the 1916 Firebug Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Articles describing the 1916 Firebug Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Two copies of articles describing the 1916 Firebug on the Cranberry Isles with a summary provided by Bruce Komusin | ||
| Postcard to Sammy Sanford Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Postcard to Sammy Sanford Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Post Card addressed to Sammy Sanford sent by Henry P. Wright about planting flower seeds. Postmark 1918(?) | ||
| German postcard Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  German postcard Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Postcard, used, with German writing, religious theme, dated 1917 on front | ||
| Postcard from Germany Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Postcard from Germany Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Postcard, used, photo of a young woman, postmarked Berlin Germany 1912 |