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| Rachel Fields - Photograph, booklet, and Magazine review. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Rachel Fields - Photograph, booklet, and Magazine review. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Rachel Fields was an author who frequented Cranberry Island, and who was the creator of Hitty. These objects are just a few things involved with her collection featured here. | ||
| Photograph of Emma Birlem. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photograph of Emma Birlem. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A photograph of Emma Birlem standing next to a horse drawn carriage. | ||
| Map of Cranberry Isles, Maine Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Map of Cranberry Isles, Maine Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Map of Cranberry Isles, Maine. Includes Bear I., Sutton's I., Great Cranberry I., Little Cranberry I., and Bakers I. | ||
| Stool for organ with red brocade top Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Stool for organ with red brocade top Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Artifact, organ stool red brocade top | |||
| Blue pitcher with wash basin and vase Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Blue pitcher with wash basin and vase Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Blue pitcher with wash basin and vase. Labeled : Ada Rice Set | |||
| Steamer trunk Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Steamer trunk Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Steamer trunk with metal bottom with inset wheels, reinforced metal corners and edges, wooden slats on all sides including top and bottom to protect the exterior sides, a leather handle on each short side (one handle broken), with remains of two paper shipping labels: on the bottom, RECEIPT COLLECT 353551 WAYBILL LABEL BOSTON MASS AMERICAN RAILWAY EXPRESS NOV ??? 18; on the short side, unreadable; written inside on the bottom: C.M. Gott | |||
| Clothes iron set Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Clothes iron set Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Iron. Clothes iron set consisting of two flat irons, detachable wooden handle (one), and base stand. Irons are cast iron with writing "ENTERPRISE MFG CO, PHILA PA, NO 50", and are intended to be heated on a stove. Handle is interchangeable between both irons, so one iron can be used to press clothes while the other iron is being heated without a handle. Stand is cast iron with writing "ENTERPRISE MFG CO, PHILADELPHIA" | |||
| Wooden laundry stirrer Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Wooden laundry stirrer Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Art, carved wooden laundry stirrer, made by Sam Chapman | ||
| Iron Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Iron Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Iron. Electric Clothes Iron Set consisting of electric iron and matching base stand. Iron is 400 Watt "UNIVERSAL" model made by Landers, Frary & Clark, New Britain, Conn., USA. There is no matching electric cord. Base stand is unmarked. | |||
| Food slicer or wood plane Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Food slicer or wood plane Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Tool, kitchen, large food slicer (for cheese?); or a plane for wood? | |||
| Antique telephone with wooden box and hand crank Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Antique telephone with wooden box and hand crank Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Telephone, antique, wooden box with hand crank, with metal handset and base attached by cord. This type of telephone would have been in use before direct dial in 1952. You would pick up the receiver, crank the handle on the wooden box - for example to make one short and two long rings to reach a certain party. You paid for every call, but if you wanted to "cheat" you could set up a time with the person you're calling and then just do one quick ring to get him. (Memories by Mickey Macfarlan.) [show more] | |||
| Basket and lid with modern sewing notions Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Basket and lid with modern sewing notions Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Basket and lid, flat bottomed, made of sweetgrass? or rattan?, filled with modern sewing notions, lid has two decorative rope handles with Asian characters on coin-like buttons, blue on the inside. | |||
| Native American sweetgrass whisk brooms Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Native American sweetgrass whisk brooms Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Two Native American sweetgrass whisk brooms with braided loop handles, one (10" L, handle 3" across) decorated with purple twine, the other (9.5" L, handle 3" across) tied with green twine. The broom with the green twine was one of several basketry items collected by Mary E. Shaw (Mrs. Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs. Shaw visit 9/25/14). [show more] | |||
| Native American comb or wall-pocket basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Native American comb or wall-pocket basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Basket, small comb or wall pocket basket woven of natural and red fibers, suitable to hold hair combs, keys, paper clips. This type of basket was made by the Wabanaki for sale to visitors during the late 19th-early 20th century. | |||
| Flat basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Flat basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Basket and lid, flat basket, green bottom with green, tan, and yellow twine woven throughout, lid with twine handle, marked "Made In Canada" on bottom | |||
| Native American sweetgrass basket with lid Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Native American sweetgrass basket with lid Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Basket, rectangular, with attached lid, woven with flat fiber and braided sweet grass, with thin green borders on lid and body, two sweetgrass handles, loop on lid. This purse was one of several basketry items collected by Mary E. Shaw (Mrs. Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs. Shaw visit to GCIHS 9/25/14).] | |||
| Native American miniature sweetgrass basket (Passamaquoddy) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Native American miniature sweetgrass basket (Passamaquoddy) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Basket and lid, extremely small, flat bottom, made of sweet grass and copper colored strips, marked on bottom "PASSAMAQ." meaning Passamaquoddy; lid has a small loop handle. This miniature is one of several basketry items collected by Mary E. Shaw (Mrs. Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs. Shaw visit 9/25/14). | |||
| Native American sweetgrass basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Native American sweetgrass basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Basket and lid, very small, flat bottom, sweetgrass and green tinted ash or other strips. | |||
| Sweetgrass basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Sweetgrass basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Basket and lid, round, flat bottom, made of braided sweetgrass and red and blue and natural flat elements. Gift to donor by its maker in Manset, ME. | |||
| Native American acorn-like sweet-grass basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Native American acorn-like sweet-grass basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Basket and lid, extremely small, acorn-shaped, flat bottom, made of sweet grass and flat elements. (This basket was inside basket 2013.294.1901 in 2013.) This miniature is one of several basketry items collected by Mary E. Shaw (Mrs. Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail Cleveland, (per Mrs. Shaw visit to GCIHS 9/25/14). | |||
| Native American sweetgrass basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Native American sweetgrass basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Basket and lid, bowl shaped with foot ring, woven with natural color fibers and sweetgrass, lid decorated with purple, orange, and white dried flowers | |||
| Native American basket of corn husks and sweetgrass Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Native American basket of corn husks and sweetgrass Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Basket and lid, woven of corn husks and natural and green sweetgrass | |||
| Native American sweetgrass square shape Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Native American sweetgrass square shape Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Basket and lid, small square picnic basket shaped, flat open weave bottom, made of braided sweetgrass and flat elements, with a ring handle on the lid and a smaller ring handle on the body that intersect and fold down to hold the lid closed. This miniature is one of several basketry items collected by Mary E. Shaw (Mrs. Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs. Shaw visit to GCIHS 9/25/14). [show more] | |||
| Native American sweetgrass tea-cup basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Native American sweetgrass tea-cup basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Basket, cup and saucer design, extremely small, flat bottom, woven of sweetgrass and darker brown shiney ribbon-like material (resembles magnetic tape), cup is attached to saucer. (Could this be example of 1930s "Hong Kong" paper twine?) | |||
| Native American sweetgrass basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Native American sweetgrass basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Basket and lid, flat bottom, woven of sweetgrass and red or brown strips, with star-shape finish to elaborate hole in center of lid |