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Pilot Rules for Atlantic and Pacific coast inland waters 1906 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Publication, Booklet	Places		Copyright Not Evaluated	Pilot Rules for Atlantic and Pacific coast inland waters 1906 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.160 Type: Publication, Booklet Subject: Places Description: Booklet, "Pilot Rules for Atlantic and Pacific coast inland waters", about ship navigating, dated 1906
Tax form for vessel Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Government, Government Records	Businesses, Boatbuilding Business		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Tax form for vessel Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.335 Type: Document, Government, Government Records Subject: Businesses, Boatbuilding Business Description: Tax form, blank, for vessels
Vessel "Hurricane" aground on Great Cranberry Island Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Publication, Clipping	Events		In Copyright	Vessel "Hurricane" aground on Great Cranberry Island Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.963 Type: Publication, Clipping Subject: Events Description: Newspaper articles. Article 963 A "Maine's Misty Kingdoms" NY Times August 26, 1984; Article 963 B about the boat "Hurricane" aground on GCI (no date).
"Newman and Gray steers a steady course" article 2008 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Publication, Clipping	Businesses, Boatbuilding Business		In Copyright	"Newman and Gray steers a steady course" article 2008 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.1622 Type: Publication, Clipping Subject: Businesses, Boatbuilding Business Description: Newspaper clipping, "Newman and Gray steers a steady course" article in the Mount Desert Islander, dated Monday, December 25th, 2008 located on page 6, section 2. "Cranberry Isles: "The current economic downturn is on the radar of many boatbuilders in Maine. On the island of Great Cranberry, venerable boatbuilders, Newman and Gray, however, have yet to see the effects of the falling tide, due to a consistent current of customer service work. (note: item # 1622a & #1622b are the bottom portions of the newspaper page) [show more]
Mackerel in Maine Waters - article 1909 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Publication, Clipping	Businesses, Fishery Business Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel		Copyright Not Evaluated	Mackerel in Maine Waters - article 1909 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2010.152.1159 Type: Publication, Clipping Subject: Businesses, Fishery Business Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel Description: Newspaper article, probably September 1909. Title: "Mackerel in Maine Waters". Article reports that 20 barrels of mackerel were caught by Eben T. Lewis, Benjamin A. Spurling, and John S. Seavey, near Monhegan. Article lists other ships and captains active in the Monhegan area due to reports of large schools of mackerel.
Article: Benjamin Spurling commissioning the Annie Q. Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Publication, Clipping	Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel		Copyright Not Evaluated	Article: Benjamin Spurling commissioning the Annie Q. Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2010.152.1166 Type: Publication, Clipping Subject: Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel Description: Newspaper article (photocopy), undated. Title " 'Georgie' was Leading Vessel into New York". Author listed as Fred Humston. Article on right column mentions Benjamin Spurling commissioning the building of the 'Fannie Q. Spurling', a mackeral fishing boat.
Herring boat 1958 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel		Copyright Not Evaluated	Herring boat 1958 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2012.210.1787 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel Description: Photo, Herring boat from McIntosh Factory. Picture was taken from boat near Cranberry Isles, Maine in 1958.
Lou [Lewis] Stanley's boat 1935 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Vessels, Boat		Copyright Not Evaluated	Lou [Lewis] Stanley's boat 1935 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2012.208.1747 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Vessels, Boat Description: Photo, Lou [Lewis] Stanley's boat 1935 (item #1747a is the reverse side of picture) -from the Hazel Stanley Collection
The "Cheri & Norm" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Vessels, Boat		Copyright Not Evaluated	The "Cheri & Norm" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.1650 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Vessels, Boat Description: Photo, the "Cheri & Norm"- Norman Sanborn's boat. The outboard on right is Barbara Donald's and behind -Herman's is on the left and Karl Wedge on right.
Boat "Polly" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Vessels, Boat		Copyright Not Evaluated	Boat "Polly" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.1648 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Vessels, Boat Description: Photo, Victor White's or Charles & Ada's boat "Polly"
Uncle Edgar's Lobster Boat" By Deig Marie Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Publication, Book	Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat		In Copyright	Uncle Edgar's Lobster Boat" By Deig Marie Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2001.111.958 Type: Publication, Book Subject: Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat Description: Copy of "Uncle Edgar's Lobster Boat" By Deig Marie. Presented to the Islesford Library in the Summer of 2001
Journals, ledgers, wallet, books, scanned photos pertaining to Stanley family from 1870s-1890s Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Other Documents	Businesses, Fishery Business Organizations, Civic People		Copyright Not Evaluated	Journals, ledgers, wallet, books, scanned photos pertaining to Stanley family from 1870s-1890s Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2017.388.2163 Type: Document, Other Documents Subject: Businesses, Fishery Business Organizations, Civic People Description: Collection of journals, ledgers, wallet, books, scanned photos pertaining to Stanley family: Items A-H. (A) Enoch B. Stanley's tan leather fold-over "The Revised and Improved Collector's Tax Book....Adapted to the Revised Statutes of 1883", by W. W. Bolster, Published Portland: W. H. Stevens & Company, No. 193 Middle Street. Entries from 1890-1892 with categories for real estate, personal property, poll tax, highway tax, a section on school district tax. With three loose handwritten pages inserted. One is list of children for Hannah Lopaus(?) who moved to Mount Desert July 12th 1799 and had 10 children and includes list of 9 children born to Hannah's daughter Nancy Lopauss Richardson Clark, one of whom was Meltiah P. Richardson (spouse of Carrie Stanley Richardson). The second loose page is a petition for a fish weir at Thrumcap for Enoch B. Stanley and W.D.(?) Stanley in January 1891. The third loose page is Permission for a fish weir with full description dated Feb. 7, 1891. (B) Maroon fold-over wallet (empty). (C) Scans from loaned Schmidt family photo albums including family and one of old hearse. (D) Maroon wallet with 14 items folded inside it: receipts: Meltiah Richardson 1871 taxes; E.B. Stanley 1862 & 1864; note to Capt Stanley 1864; 1864 receipt; 1864 receipt Hadlock; 1871 tax receipt; M. P. Richardson to E.B. Stanley 1874; one faded small photo of a person on a sailboat; registered letter receipt 1878 addressed to Thomas Leighton of Millbridge Me received of E. J? Stanley; Receipt 1882 for 7.33 payment; 1876 receipt E. B. Stanley and Perley Russell goods of Haskell 14.50. Envelope addressed to Mrs. Caroline H. Stanley Cranberry Isles ME with Boston Jan 30 1898 postmark 2 cents. Two comic poem pages (not scanned). (E) Small tan leather journal full of information listing fish catches and payments to individuals 1868-1870 in Boston, Cranberry Isles, Gloucester, Schooner Rozella mentioned on one page. Names include Gilley, Bunker, Spurling, Stanley, Ladd, Wayland, Bulger, Young; only three representational pages scanned from this journal. (F) Small narrow brown marbled ledger (undated) tallying fish and bills; two pages mention schooner Harrie [or Fannie?] Forrest; 1 page scanned. (G) Book: The Matron's Manual of Midwifery and the diseases of women during pregnancy and in child bed by Frederick Hollick, MD 1843. (H) Book: How to Hunt and Trap containing full instructions for hunting Buffalo, Elk, Moose, deer, Antelope - by J. H. Batty, 1878; inscribed "Boynton Stanley" at top of page, lower down "William G. Thumbeam[?] from Papa, Christmas 1878." (See also 2015.316.2077 and 2017.389.2164) [show more]
Wrench Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Metalworking, Wrench	Object, Other Object		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Wrench Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.1303 Type: Object, Metalworking, Wrench Subject: Object, Other Object Description: Artifact, wrench for opening boat hatches
Edgar White's branding iron Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Woodworking, Woodworking Iron, Marking Iron	Businesses, Boatbuilding Business Businesses, Fishery Business		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Edgar White's branding iron Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2013.256.1986 Type: Object, Woodworking, Woodworking Iron, Marking Iron Subject: Businesses, Boatbuilding Business Businesses, Fishery Business Description: Branding iron, long handle with heavy head: "E.N. White 1442". 1442 was Edgar Nelson White's number, and black and white were his colors. Edgar was Victor White's brother. With reminiscences of the family in the 1960s by Charles Liebow including Edgar and Alice White, their Dog Point Road house and outbuilding "Duffys", their grandsons Chuck and Larry Pipes, and working as sternman for Edgar.
Pulley with hook Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Mechanical, Pulley	Object, Other Object		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Pulley with hook Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.1300 Type: Object, Mechanical, Pulley Subject: Object, Other Object Description: Pulley, wood with metal hook
Collection of transcribed documents from Great Cranberry Island sea captains Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Oral History	People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Collection of transcribed documents from Great Cranberry Island sea captains Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.934 Type: Document, Oral History Subject: People Description: Transcriptions. Collection of transcribed documents from Great Cranberry Island sea captains for possible use in video adaptations. They are excerpts of entries from a William P. Preble ledger/journal of ship's protestations owned by and transcribed by Mickey Macfarlan. (See 1000.116.1080 for full transcription and possible scans, and online at gcihs.org>history>preble.) (Complete scan of 75 page journal perhaps located 2002\photos\mickey macfarlan.) [show more]
Canada goose decoy Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Model	Nature, Animals, Birds		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Canada goose decoy Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.1310 Type: Object, Model Subject: Nature, Animals, Birds Description: Decoy. Wood, Canada goose, written on bottom "LT WARD + BRO" and "Crisfield, MD"
Ledger of A. C. Fernald for provisions of schooners 1844-1850 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger	People Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner	A. C. Fernald	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Ledger of A. C. Fernald for provisions of schooners 1844-1850 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2015.308.2068 Type: Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger Subject: People Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner Creator: A. C. Fernald Description: Ledger. Small tan leather. Ledger of A. C. Fernald for provisions of schooners 1844-1850 including schooner Seasonpoint(?) or Leaderpant (?), Osprey, Water Witch, Northaven (?), xx and, and entries with individual names: David Pung or King, Peter Standley, Horace Durgen, Edwin Hadlock, Elisha Gilley, Shelddon Brown, Joseph Lancaster, Daniel Kimbal, William M. Richardson, Thomas Savage, Beniah Bunker,and others. One loose scrap of paper with note: "Received eighteen dollars from Capt William Moore it Being in full of all accounts to this date. Cranberry Isl. June 20, 1849, John A. Hitchfield (or Hitchhilll?) [show more]
Early Hadlock Papers Reference Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Reference	Businesses, Store Business People Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Early Hadlock Papers Reference Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2018.419.2804 Type: Reference Subject: Businesses, Store Business People Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner Description: Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) [show more]
The Wind & the Wood, Ralph W. Stanley Inc., Boat Building Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Advertising, Poster	Businesses, Boatbuilding Business Vessels, Boat	Ralph Stanley	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	The Wind & the Wood, Ralph W. Stanley Inc., Boat Building Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.27.804 Type: Document, Advertising, Poster Subject: Businesses, Boatbuilding Business Vessels, Boat Creator: Ralph Stanley Description: Brochure, "The Wind & the Wood," promoting Ralph W. Stanley Inc., Boat Building business in Southwest Harbor. With his thoughts about wooden boat building, and photos of him, his shop, and his boats. Brochure probably from the mid 1980s.
Boat Building during World War II Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Report	Businesses, Boatbuilding Business	Ralph Stanley	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Boat Building during World War II Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2011.157.1380 Type: Document, Report Subject: Businesses, Boatbuilding Business Creator: Ralph Stanley Description: Document, "Boatbuilding During World War II, M.D.I., Ellsworth, Stonington, and Bluehill" by Ralph W. Stanley, 12 pages. Ralph was 12 years old on 7 Dec 1941, and gives his personal reminiscences of that period and the war effort. He mentions the Manset Boatyard, Henry Hinckley Co., Southwest Boat, and the Mount Desert Yacht Yard, all on MDI, the Webber's Cove Boat Yard in Bluehill, and the Stonington Deer Isle Yacht Yard. He lists many vessels built at those places, and throws in a few humorous anecdotes too. Ralph lists his sources at the end. (Document transcribed as .txt and saved as html.) [show more]
Philmore Peterson Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Philmore Peterson Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2012.208.1734 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: People Description: Philmore Peterson
The Mary A - Harold Alley's boat Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Vessels, Boat		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	The Mary A - Harold Alley's boat Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2011.197.1563 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Vessels, Boat Description: Photo, Harold Alley's 1st boat (Mary A)
Tinker Colby at the boatyard Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Boatbuilding Business People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Tinker Colby at the boatyard Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.1641 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Boatbuilding Business People Description: Photo, Tinker Colby at the Cranberry Island boatyard
Charles Rice at Cranberry Isle Boatyard Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Boatbuilding Business People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Charles Rice at Cranberry Isle Boatyard Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.1635 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Boatbuilding Business People Description: Charles Rice at Cranberry Isle Boatyard which he owned. He sold to Ed and Ed sold to the Staintons (2 copies of picture)

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