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William P. Preble Notary Public Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Certificate	Organizations, Civic People		1892	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	William P. Preble Notary Public Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2018.416.2784 Type: Document, Certificate Subject: Organizations, Civic People Date: 1892 Description: William P. Preble appointed Notary Public for County of Hanock, Maine, 13 April 1892, by Governor Edwin Burleigh.
Hilda Spurling working at the post office Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Organizations, Civic People	Ed Gray		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Hilda Spurling working at the post office Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.1633 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Organizations, Civic People Creator: Ed Gray 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)
Marjorie Phippen working at Post Office Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Organizations, Civic People			No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Marjorie Phippen working at Post Office Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.1638 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Organizations, Civic People Description: Marjorie Phippen- Post Master at the Cranberry Isle Post Office
School and property tax information Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Government, Government Records	Organizations, School Institution People			No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	School and property tax information Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2003.77.557 Type: Document, Government, Government Records Subject: Organizations, School Institution People 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.
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]
Ten Town of Cranberry Isles documents 1876-1877 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Other Documents	Organizations, Civic People Places, Town		1876	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Ten Town of Cranberry Isles documents 1876-1877 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2018.416.2775 Type: Document, Other Documents Subject: Organizations, Civic People Places, Town Date: 1876 Description: Ten Town of Cranberry Isles documents 1876-1877, with summary of each item. Includes receipts for tax assessors; Perley and Russell v. Bunker; Gilley; Schooner Wayland; Leonard Holmes; and mention of a ship attacking a vessel, among other things.
Journal with transcriptions of protestations of ships Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Other Documents	Businesses, Store Business Events Organizations, Civic Organizations, School Institution People		1867	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Journal with transcriptions of protestations of ships Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.116.1080 Type: Document, Other Documents Subject: Businesses, Store Business Events Organizations, Civic Organizations, School Institution People Date: 1867 Description: Journal with transcription. 38-page typed transcription of protestations of ships wrecked on the Cranberry Isles from an original 19th-century ledger/journal kept by William P. Preble 1867-1879. Journal transcribed by Michael Macfarlan c. 2002. One loose page partial protestation for 1893. The back of the journal also contains pages for the accounts pertaining to School district No. 2, the Post Office, and for various islanders (not transcribed). (See also 1000.0.934: selections from 1080 - sea captain's transcribed broadcasts for possible video production. (See also June 2018 Cranberry Chronicle, pages 20-13 - link below) [show more]
Poster for "Fishing with Wesley Bracy, Jr." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Advertising, Poster	Events Organizations, Civic People		2004	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Poster for "Fishing with Wesley Bracy, Jr." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2004.98.755 Type: Document, Advertising, Poster Subject: Events Organizations, Civic People Date: 2004 Description: Poster for Historical Museum Opener, featuring 2 videos: "Fishing with Wesley Bracy, Jr." and "Ice Harvesting", plus ice lecture by Bill Lawler, held 7 July 2004. (video of lecture on miniDV tape #2004-0004, and see 2013.265.1998 and all years>video)
Museum opening day photos Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Events Organizations, Civic People		2000	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Museum opening day photos Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2003.103.762 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Events Organizations, Civic People Date: 2000 Description: Photos, color, of islanders at Grand Opening of GCI Historical Museum, 6 August 2000
Longfellow School children Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Organizations, School Institution People			No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Longfellow School children Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.1628 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Description: Photo, James Bunker, Christina, Ellen Whitney, Josh, Elysia, Kenneth Whitney, Hannah, Ellen Savage, Mandy, Molly, Scott, Audra, Jill (?), Chris Sparacio, Megan Liebow
Qualification for Doris McSorley to teach Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Permission, License	Organizations, School Institution People		1937	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Qualification for Doris McSorley to teach Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2010.152.1200 Type: Document, Permission, License Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Date: 1937 Description: Statement of Qualification for Mrs. Doris McSorley, to teach English and History in grades 1-6 in the state of Connecticut. Dated May 24th 1937.
Sunday school attendance record book Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Administrative Records	Organizations, Religious People		1974	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Sunday school attendance record book Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.955 Type: Document, Administrative Records Subject: Organizations, Religious People Date: 1974 Description: Megan Denver's (daughter of Bob Denver, actor in the TV show Gilligan's Island) Sunday school attendance record book from 1974-1975
Andrew McSorley retirement Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Legal, Legal Documents	Organizations, School Institution People		1973	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Andrew McSorley retirement Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2010.152.1196 Type: Document, Legal, Legal Documents Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Date: 1973 Description: Retirement contract for Andrew A. McSorley from the State of Connecticut State Teachers' Retirement Board. Retirement date effective as of July 1st, 1973, with an annuity of $124.33 and a pension of $692.51. Creditable service time totaled 37 years and 4 months.
Rug making and Maine Seacoast Mission Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Other Documents	Organizations, Religious Other People		1901	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Rug making and Maine Seacoast Mission Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2005.138.1078 Type: Document, Other Documents Subject: Organizations, Religious Other People Date: 1901 Description: Documents pertaining to rug making. (A) Report of the Maine Seacoast Missionary Society for the year ending 1927. (B): Nine items of correspondence pertaining to the Cranberry Island Hooked Rugs program started by the Seacoast Mission, letters date from 1901-1902. The hooked rug program was one of the first cottage industries, the Seacoast Mission took completed rugs to New York for sale
Teachers Certificate for Dorothy Preble Marr Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Permission, License	Organizations, School Institution People		1934	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Teachers Certificate for Dorothy Preble Marr Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2010.152.1199 Type: Document, Permission, License Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Date: 1934 Description: State Teachers Certificate for Miss Dorothy Preble Marr, for studies completed at Harrisonburg State Teachers College in Virginia. Certificate authorizes the teaching of high school English, Geography, History, Social Science, and all elementary school subjects, for a period of 10 years. Dated July 1st 1934. B - Record of training for Doris P. Marr at Harrisonburg State Teachers College. Breakdown of credit hours by subject.
Teaching certificate for Doris P. McSorley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Permission, License	Organizations, School Institution People		1945	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Teaching certificate for Doris P. McSorley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2010.152.1201 Type: Document, Permission, License Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Date: 1945 Description: Teachers Certificate, Permanent for Doris P. McSorley, granting permanent license to teach in 'Junior High School' in any public 'School System' in the state of Connecticut. Dated July 1st, 1945. B - Includes McSorley's address as 41 Oak Street, Southington, CT. Lists certificate subjects as "Grades VII and VIII", and "Endorsed for Elementary Grades I - VIII"
Volunteers gather at the new playground Longfellow School Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Organizations, School Institution People			In Copyright	Volunteers gather at the new playground Longfellow School Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.841 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Description: Newspaper photo: Volunteers gather around the newly-built playground near the Longfellow School and the Great Cranberry Library; with a list of names, some unknown. Transcribed - names.
Ribbon: Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Pemetic Lodge Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Award	Organizations, Civic People			Copyright Not Evaluated	Ribbon: Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Pemetic Lodge Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.384 Type: Object, Award Subject: Organizations, Civic People Description: Ribbon, pin-on, double sided, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Pemetic Lodge #135, Southwest Harbor
Recital by William Goldberg at GCI Church Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Program	Organizations, Religious People		1995	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Recital by William Goldberg at GCI Church Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.27.711 Type: Document, Program Subject: Organizations, Religious People Date: 1995 Description: Recital by William Goldberg, piano, and Nick Humez, tenor-baritone, 6 Jul 1995, to benefit the Library
School #2 list of pupils 1899 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Student Record	Organizations, School Institution People			Copyright Not Evaluated	School #2 list of pupils 1899 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.7.77 Type: Document, Student Record Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Description: Souvenir, School #2, 1899, student list of 23 pupils, Charles Spurling, etc. (See prop copy 1000.0.1319)
Stephen Spurling report card Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Student Record	Organizations, School Institution People			No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Stephen Spurling report card Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.45.204 Type: Document, Student Record Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Description: Report card of Stephen Spurling, for primary school, teacher Miss Theolyn Rumill (Steve went to public school on Great Cranberry Island)
Report cards for Hillard and George Hamor Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Student Record	Organizations, School Institution People		1908	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Report cards for Hillard and George Hamor Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.1015 Type: Document, Student Record Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Date: 1908 Description: Report cards, school, six of Hillard Hamor and George Hamor's report cards ranging from 1908-1910. A couple of them are signed by John Hamor as a parent's signature
Report card for Steve Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Student Record	Organizations, School Institution People		1931	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Report card for Steve Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.45.205 Type: Document, Student Record Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Date: 1931 Description: Promotion card of Steve Spurling, promoted out of third grade into fourth, 5 June 1931
Mrs. Andrew C. Wheelwright legacy Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Other Documents	Organizations, Religious People	Mary Cabot Wheelwright		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Mrs. Andrew C. Wheelwright legacy Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.691 Type: Document, Other Documents Subject: Organizations, Religious People Creator: Mary Cabot Wheelwright Description: Document, photocopy, 2 sheets, essay starting "My mother's interest in Cranberry...", by Mary Cabot Wheelwright, about Mrs. Andrew C. Wheelwright's efforts for GCI, including donating to the church the Sarah Whitman stained glass window, the bell, and the parsonage; paying to restore the pulpit and chairs, helping to settle the site of the Town Dock, and hiring Mrs. Schrifgrisser to teach the children games and handcrafts. Transcribed. Also included is a 2019 letter from an Eliot family descendant, Alexander Goriansky, with with Eliot family genealogy and a copy of a letter published in "Letters from Elizabeth Cabot, Vol. III, Boston 1905". The letter is about Mrs. Cabot's visit to GCI August 8, 1900 to view the new stained glass window in the church: "...It is one of Mrs. Whitman's beautiful wreathes, with gorgeus reds and blues and enough white to show them off, laid on a white Greek cross, on the arms of which is the inscription. The church is absolutely bare, but well colored as to the walls...." Goriansky states that 100 years later, he lived upstairs from where the window's creator, Sarah Wyman Whitman, had lived from 1880-1904 (#77 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston), and that she was very fine designer and maker of "stained" glass windows. [show more]
"Cranberry Isles Benediction" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Publication, Literary, Reminiscence	Organizations, Religious People		1982	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	"Cranberry Isles Benediction" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.35.127 Type: Publication, Literary, Reminiscence Subject: Organizations, Religious People Date: 1982 Description: Document, 1982 (distributed on Forrester's retirement as summer minister) (2 copies)

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