Description: Document, 8 unbound sheets, collection of 8 poems by George E. "Ted" Harlan: Waiting for the Bluefish, Island Spring, Island Fisherman's Funeral, Island Dusk, Ledges, Firehouse Pool, Back Shores, Granite Lecturn
Description: Poem, handwritten, (possibly by Carrie Richardson), "A House of Glass Shall Come to Pass", with lines like "In 1891, the world unto an end shall come"
Description: Document, Report on Anne Eisner (Putnam), synopsis of her career as a painter, author, & ethnographer (Eisner was either wife or sister-in-law of John McDonald)
Description: Documents. Exhibit text, labels, photo identifications, and miscellaneous from 2014 GCIHS museum photography exhibit (A). And parsonage house shoes/cape houses exhibit (B) (see also 2015.304.2062).
Description: Quilt. Known as a "crazy quilt", this quilt was recovered from the Preble house on GCI and is believed to be over 150 years old. Quilt is bordered in velvet with silk and other types of multi-colored, geometric and free-form fabric pieces and a wide variety of fancy stitching; reverse is green silk. The quilt has three sets of fancy-script initials in different areas interpreted as: "A" ; "J" or "T"; and "JSM". (See also quilt 2014.270.2007 from same location and donor.) (Note: Lynne Birlem (donor 343) has a very similar framed crazy quilt at her home that is from her great grandmother Hamor's house on GCI.) [show more]
Description: Model,boat, three-masted schooner made by George Savage; black hull, red hull bottom and rudder, white deck and two cabins, green cabin roofs, four white cotton sails, three rope ladders on each side; very heavy, perhaps solid wood hull
Description: Photo, "Hilda Spurling filled in for Marjorie Phippen at the Post Office" taken and developed by Ed Gray. (2 copies) (Note: Item 1633a is also Hilda Spurling from a different angle (5 copies)
Description: Ledger page, loose, both sides used, school and property tax info, no date, appears to be a working sheet, in pencil, 9 names: Arno P. Stanley, Lewis Ladd, George Bulger, Edwin Spurling, William Bulger, Thomas Bunker, Leonard Holmes, Sam Bunker, William Bunker. Poor condition.
Description: Booklet, "Pilot Rules for certain inland waters of the Atlantic and Pacific coast and of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico", about ship navigating, dated 1910