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Curved Steel Chopper
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Knife
  • Other
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Curved Steel Chopper
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Kitchenware. Curved steel chopper with riveted steel handle. "U. S. Stainless". For use in cutting dough or other foods.
Plate warmer
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Plate Warmer
  • Other
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Plate warmer
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Kitchenware. Plate warmer. White ceramic plate with blue rim permanently affixed to a metal bowl with two metal handles and a metal spout with screwable mouthpiece that has a tiny hole in it to allow steam to escape. Likely unscrewed the spout, filled it with hot water, or heated the whole assemblage.
Hamor House sketch
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Art, Drawing
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Hamor House sketch
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Drawing by S.G. Easter or Caster? pencil sketch of the Hamor Tea House; some water staining on the edges. Painting removed from original frame (a glass pane with metal rosettes securing it to a wood board back). Original sketch stored separately; scanned print of the drawing is in frame.
Photo album: late 19th-early 20th c photographs and cards
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Photo album: late 19th-early 20th c photographs and cards
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Photo album. Eighteen gilt-edged cardboard pages with 70 photos and three memorial cards. Cover is worn gold velvet with ornate metal hasp and decorative metal binding with clover-shaped mirror in center of cover. Album has a metal foot attached to the back to support it when opened and can be attached to a worn gold velvet covered wood and metal bookstand. Most pages hold four paper cabinet card photographs inserted in to a woodgrained paper sleeve. There are also seven tintype photos inserted in sleeves. Stamped in gold on first page is: "Patented January 23, 1894". Several of the photo cards slide in and out of their sleeves and the names of various photo studios from Maine and elsewhere are evident. (For example: C.E. Harvey, 3115 Indiana Avenue, Chicago" and "Osgood, 22 Main St., Ellsworth, ME.") Photo portraits include several GCI families of the late 19th to early 20th century. Many photographs were labeled on looseleaf in modern times by an unknown hand including: Aunt Asinith Spurling; Rev. Charles Howard; Capt. George Bunker; Mrs. George Bunker; George E. Bunker, July '9;, Mrs. Frederick Lord; Samuel Bulger; John Bulger; Mr. Seth Rice; Mrs. Ida Rice; William Preble; Mrs. William Preble; Percy Bunker; Alfred Bulger; Ralph Bulger; Capt. William Bulger and wife; Florence Mildred Bunker; George Edward; Gil Hamor; Frances Spurling; Elton Bunker; Leslie Bunker; Mrs. Harriet Bunker; Mrs. Grace Bunker; Alice Bulger; Johnny and Filmore Steele; Mr. and Mrs. Will Young; Rose Ladd; Edna and Alfred Ladd; Lina and Alfred Ladd; Polly Bulger; Ralph Bulger; John H. Pressey; George and Harriet Bunker; Ida/Clara/Leslie Bunker; John Hamor; Nettie Stanley; Mrs. Lydia Bunker; and Thomas Bunker. (Digital images of individual album pages were made.) [show more]
Feather fan, 19th century
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Clothing, Clothing Accessories
  • Object, Clothing, Clothing Accessories
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Feather fan, 19th century
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Clothing. Ladies Feather Fan-19th Century-Macfarlan Family. (Duplicate of 2009.11.1181?)
Guest book from Hamor Tea House 1945
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Guest book from Hamor Tea House 1945
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Book, Guests book inscribed inside front cover "Alice / from / Sadie & John / Oct. 25 / [19]39", given presumably by John & Sadie Hamor, owners of the Hamor Tea House, to "Alice"; guest entries seem to all be written in the same hand - probably Alice's; entries begin 1 June [19]45 with Seth Rice, and end 18 Oct [19]45 with Louise Spurling; most entries are local island folks; most days have only 1 to 3 entries - this seems quite a low number for a restaurant to stay in business; this could be a guest book for Alice's private home [show more]
Ladies 19th century shoes
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Clothing, Shoe
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Ladies 19th century shoes
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Shoes. Ladies Shoes- 19th Century-Macfarlan Family. (See also 2009.11.1942 for possible shoes.)
Hand Towel (white) with monogram "M. Storey"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Towel
  • People
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Hand Towel (white) with monogram "M. Storey"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Towel. Hand Towel (white) with monogram "M. Storey"; belonged to Moorfield Storey
Print, "A Playful Mood - on Maine Coast"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Print, "A Playful Mood - on Maine Coast"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Photograph. Print, "A Playful Mood - on Maine Coast", framed, color landscape of wave breaking on rocks, (c) Harris. With exhibit tag: Old tinted photos from the Hamor Tea House
Ornate metal picture frame
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Furnishings, Frame, Picture Frame
  • Object, Furnishings, Decoration
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Ornate metal picture frame
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Frame. Ornate Metal Picture Frame for 4" to 6" pictures
Christmas card to Addie Stanley
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Greeting Card
  • People
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Christmas card to Addie Stanley
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Christmas card in wood frame. From Annie Blake (Teacher) to Addie Stanley
Two partial sets of alphabet flash cards
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Instructional, Instruction Card, Flash Card
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Two partial sets of alphabet flash cards
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Flash cards, two partial sets of commercially-made alphabet flash cards; each shows a letter of the alphabet or a digraph (2 letters making a sound); the back is sometimes blank, sometimes with a story explaining the use of the letter or sound
Flash cards, commercially-made alphabet flash cards.
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Instructional, Instruction Card, Flash Card
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Flash cards, commercially-made alphabet flash cards.
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Flash cards, commercially-made alphabet flash cards; they show each letter of the alphabet with an object beginning with that letter, and on the back other words beginning with that letter; there are 17 such cards, plus one card with just the saying "Father and Mother"; 26 cards stored in Box 33 archives. two sets A has letters accompanied by pictures drawn, and words for spelling practice on the opposite side, B has only letters on both sides of each card. [show more]
Golliwog doll
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Doll
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Golliwog doll
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Doll, Golliwog, a miniature cloth person in blue shirt with red and white striped pants, black face, black curly hair, big red lips, whites of eyes prominent. Anti Black Caricature prominent in the early 20th century.
Male doll
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Doll
  • People
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Male doll
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Wooden male doll dressed in South American or Spanish style
Alphabet flash cards
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Instructional, Instruction Card, Flash Card
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Alphabet flash cards
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Flash cards, commercially-made alphabet flash cards in a box labeled "MANUSCRIPT CAPITALS / BEADED Tactile-Kinesthetic learning aids"; they show each letter of the alphabet printed with beaded white paint on a black background; there are 26 such cards, plus one card with the punctuation marks !?
Primer Cards from Longfellow School
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Instructional, Instruction Card, Flash Card
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Primer Cards from Longfellow School
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Primer Cards, box of Basic Primer Cards from the old Longfellow School after it closed for lack of students in 2000
German pocket dictionary from 1823
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
German pocket dictionary from 1823
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Book, German pocket dictionary from 1823. Inscribed on first page "Mrs. Caroline Hadlock her book" According to the deed of gift this dictionary originally belonged to "The Prussian Lady", wife of Samuel Hadlock Jr. The book was given by Sammy Sanford to Barbara Shaw Weickent (sp?) (W.K. Shaw, Jr.'s daughter) and Gordon H. Shaw. The book was purchased along with the land and Sammy Sanford's cabin by Walter and Mary Shaw, grandparents of Gordon Shaw. See entry 357 for further letters between Sammy Sanford and Walter K. Shaw [show more]
Guest book from the GCIHS museum 2000-2005
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Guest book from the GCIHS museum 2000-2005
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Book, Guest book from the GCIHS museum from 9/26/2000-8/9/2005
Great Cranberry Island people and places lot of 33 black & white photos
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Description:
Photos (33) found in an old cigar box. Many unidentified. Identified photos are as follows 1038A: the old Alley house now the Horvath house for sale on the Lane. 1038B: Lulu Steele Alley seated on rock on front lawn of the Union Church in Northeast Harbor. Lulu lived in the Horvath house and was related to the Wellmans. 1038C: from left to right Lulu Steel Alley, Mother Sadie Steele, Unknown boy. 1038D: Willie (Age 7) and Margaret Wellman (Age 9) in their first communion clothes outside the GCI church. 1038E: photo of Lulu Steele Alley with boyfriend on the Horvath porch. 1038F: photo of Donnie (age 14) and Mary Wellman (age 12) outside the GCI Church. All 33 photos are located in folder 1038. At 2nd archive meeting Gaile Colby identified the following pictures. 1038: G-I Chris Swenson, Sadie Bunker Steele's second husband. Chris was from Sweden and had a very thick accent. 1038J Photo of Sadie Bunker Steele around 1912. 1038K photo group photo of people on a boat, Sadie Bunker Steele is the first woman on the right side of the boat wearing a hat. 1038 Francis Wellman on her wedding day. 1038M-Family photo Sadie Steele in the middle and Lulu Steele Alley on the left other two people are unknown. [show more]
"The Wonderful Works of Jesus" 1870
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
"The Wonderful Works of Jesus" 1870
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Book, hardcover, miniature, "The Wonderful Works of Jesus - A Question-Book for the Young" by Mary Latham Clark, published by D. Lothrop & Co., Boston, 1870. "S.S. Union Library, Cranberry Isle No. 3" handwritten on inside front cover.
Photographs of unidentified people
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Cabinet Photograph
  • People
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Photographs of unidentified people
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Collection of dozens of cabinet card and photographic prints of late 19th-early 20th century unidentified individuals from Louise Marr collection; includestTwo photographic postcards, and one envelope with two-cent stamp addressed to Miss F. M. Spurling, Boothbay Harbor, Box 356, from Higgins Studio in Bath. Probably photos of Louise Marr's extended family including Preble and Spurling kin. (Only one group scanned as a sample.)
The Old Homestead, poem
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Other
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
The Old Homestead, poem
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
The Old Homestead, a poem by E.T. Preble., reminisces about the Preble house on GCI and all the lives now past. The author of the poem is most likely Elmenia Thompson Spurling, b. 19 Aug 1840, who married first Ezra Carroll, then William Henry Preble. Elmenia had four children by Preble, one being Abby Lizzie Preble, b. 25 Sep 1865, d. 24 Dec 1901 in Chicago. (Statement at bottom of poem connects author to GCI Preble house.)
Tintype photographs of unidentified people
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Direct Positive, Tintype
  • People
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Tintype photographs of unidentified people
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Collection of three groups of tintypes of unknown individuals from Louise Marr collection.
Postcard to Mrs. Benjamin Spurling
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Postcard to Mrs. Benjamin Spurling
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Postcard of house with two people by road, with message for Mrs. Benjamin H. Spurling, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, postmarked Nov. 10, 191X, one cent stamp.