Description: Document: List of items & expenses that Sanford owes Preble up to date 20 Oct 1898, probably prepared by Preble in preparation for the trlal Sanford vs Preble. Transcribed.
Description: Letter: W.P. Preble (grandson) to William P. Preble, undated, about grandson's search for letters his grandfather asked for, and mentioning that the grandfather said in 1898 that he was "...unable to attend to business any longer, my strength is failing and I am wasting away, and ... I just put everything in your hands, and cannot attend to it any longer." Transcribed.
Description: Letter: William P. Preble to Wm. H. Preble (son), 7 Nov 1898, putting his entire affairs into his son's hands, and complaining of Samuel Sanford's recent change to ungratefulness. This is the letter referred to in item #825. Transcribed.
Description: Copy of photograph 1000.123.994, annotated with names of school children standing outside the old school house on Schoolhouse Hill ca. 1892 or 1893.(The Malcolm Donald house.) Annotations: 0000736.jpg 1000.27.736 “Estimate 1892 because Addie Stanley [Duren] appears to be 6 or 7 years old. Left to right (back row to front row): Lena Ladd, Miss Rich, Millicent Harding (?Pink Oscar Bulger of Hilda & Margery), Frank Bunker, Sadie Harding (Harvey Bulger)-Cox house, Brother Spurling, Sadie Bunker, Lena Spurling, Annie Bunker, Millard Spurling, Perley Stanley, Elna Stanley, Mamie Spurling, ?Ida Stover, Alfred Ladd, Roy Bulger (Bea Weinrich house?), Charles Richardson (?Capp Kane house), Johnnie Steele (1880-1911), Philmore Steele, Addie Stanley 1886-1973, Vida Stanley, Harvey Bulger (?Cox house).” (See 1000.123.994 for original photograph with teacher and children's names.) Compare with 2018.272.2018. [show more]
Description: Document, 1 handwritten sheet, apparently by William P. Preble 1898 or after, listing sources of income: $200 to administer Thomas Stanley estate, $440 from Post Office for years 1893-1897, $500 from sale of Union Meeting House in 1896, $50 for sale of land to William P. Richardson. Also lists all his farming & animal husbandry activities. Item given to Komusin by Dot & Andy McSorley, when he bought his land from them. Transcribed.
Description: Bill from I.L. Snow & Co. Rockland ME, 17 May 1898, to Schooner S.L. Foster, for ship repair, $80.23, with nice photo of Rockland Harbor printed on the bill. Also, slip acknowledging payment for same on 1 Sep 1898. Both were attached together with steel straight pin, which had rusted.
Description: Bill from Wilbur H. Smith Dr. (dealer) Manset ME, 26 Oct 1898, to Schooner S.L. Foster, for misc. merchandise, $2.90 Paid in full the next day.
Description: Bill from Wilbur H. Smith Dr. (Dealer) Manset ME, 26 Aug 1898, to Schooner S. L. Foster, for misc. merchandise, $0.60 Paid in full the next day.
Description: Bill from Richard J. Pike (handwritten), 29 Sep 1898, to Schooner S.L. Foster, for six hours repairing foresail at 20 cents per hour, $1.20
Description: Bill, handwritten, from Clark Hopkins Dr (dealer), Southwest Harbor ME, 27 Jun 1898, to Schooner S.L. Foster, for canvas, rope, repairing jib, $7.23
Description: Letter and envelope, from Charles H. Bain, Portland, 8 Jul 1893, to Capt. E.B. Stanley, Schooner S.L. Foster, Cranberry Isle, Maine, sending receipts
Description: Bill, handwritten, from Mitchell & Fowler, Portland, 1 Jun 1893, to Schooner Rozella, Stanley, for making staysail and duck canvas material, $24
Description: Copy of an 8" x 10" black and white photo of Charles Emery "Peter" Richardson in The Pool on Great Cranberry Island, believed to have been taken about 1893 by Frederick Wesley Morse (1870-1929). (This photo and two others (1000.2.193 and 191) are accompanied by a note: "Merry Christmas 1990, Dear Gaile - I thought you might like to have copies of the three photos that I found in Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast. The little boy in the hat is, I believe, Peter Richardson. The photos were taken about 1893. Have a wonderful Christmas! All our love to you both, Jim & Isabelle" Storey. , From Memories of a Maine Island by Marie Locke and Nancy Montgomery 1998 [show more]