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| Portrait of person in green jacket (perhaps Charles Gott) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Portrait of person in green jacket (perhaps Charles Gott) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Portrait. Large framed oval portrait of a man (or woman) in green jacket. Could be Charles Gott, possibly Lulu (Steele) Alley's husband at one time. Oval wood and bubble glass, perhaps a 'tiger wood' frame. On reverse in pencil script: "5713 Mr. Chas. Gott, Bar Harbor, ME". Gaile Colby recalled some information about Mr. Steele's old place. " A camp across from Polly Bunker's burned down after a lot of use. Louis Bracy was born in that house. It was an outhouse from the school originally and Sadie brought it down and added it to the 'camp'. Arthur built the replacement to the shack late 1960s 1970s. Arthur lived in the old shack, too. Sadie gave it to Madeleine, and Madeleine and Frank lived in it. Everyone lived in it. Liza and Pink's daughter, Elma, lived in it. Jeanne was her sister. Jeanne Start is who Lou Millar bought her house from. This portrait is one of several items from donors in summer 2016 prior to selling their house on The Lane, GCI. Many items pertain to Lulu Alley family. Items were in the house when donor's parents, June and Ed Sampson, bought the house from Lulu in November 1969. The four Sampson children were added to the deed in 1995. Dan and Maia bought the house from Maia’s siblings in 2002 and sold it in 2016. The house was built for Lulu Steele when she married Lewis Alley 1914(?); Lulu died in 2004. House is said to be a ca. 1914 Sears Roebuck modular home, similar to several others on GCI. The garage on the property was built by Mike Westphal in the 1980s. Big cook stove in kitchen is original. It was the only heat and only stove in the house originally. Rocking chair in house is original. Kitchen cabinetry on right of sink is original. Woodstove in the living room is 1973. [show more] | |||
| Longfellow School house GCI Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Longfellow School house GCI Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo, print of front view of Longfellow School house, in blue frame, 8x10", blk & wht, from scan. (See 2004>photos>bk, possibly made from a postcard: "School House at Cranberry Isles, Me" in script.) | |||
| Drawing of lobster pot by C. Gilley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Drawing of lobster pot by C. Gilley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Art, pen and ink drawing titled "LOBSTER TRAP ON BOTTOM" by C. Gilley, showing an old fashioned round top wooden lobster trap on the sea bed, with a rope going up to an intermediate float (a glass bottle), the rope continuing further up to a bullet shaped float on the surface; also a lobster boat approching it on the surface | |||
| Remnants of 1886 newspaper discovered in parsonage house floor boards Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Remnants of 1886 newspaper discovered in parsonage house floor boards Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper article, 1886 Boston Globe. "February 8, 2006, These remnants of the Boston Globe newspaper of 1886 were found sandwiched between floor boards in the kitchen, confirmng that the kitchen had been an addition to the Great Cranberry Island Parish House (aka Parsonage) approximately 122 years ago." Two tattered articles: "The City's Chief Ruler" and "To Reduce the Fare" were mounted and framed in 2006. (See also Parsonage House shoes research and Cape houses research GCIHS 2015.304.2062.) [show more] | ||||
| Longfellow School GCI ca. 1940 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Longfellow School GCI ca. 1940 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo, (A) print of side view of Longfellow School house showing the bell tower ca. 1940, in green frame, 8x10", color; this is a framed print of a scan of Dot Towns' slide #53. And 2013.234.1316 (B) is a framed print of same view of Longfellow School house without bell tower (print of a scan of slide #100 in this same Dot Towns set.) (From 2009\historical soc\slide show\towns slides) | ||
| Preble cemetery drawing Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Preble cemetery drawing Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Drawing of headstones with inscriptions in Preble Cemetery ca. 1985. (Partial scan shown here.) | ||
| Carl Nelson Self-Portrait 1947 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Carl Nelson Self-Portrait 1947 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Self portrait of Carl Nelson as he looked when he first came to Great Cranberry Isle, Maine, in 1947. Unframed. Partial scan made 9/20/18 | |
| Carl Nelson self portrait 1928 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Carl Nelson self portrait 1928 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Self portrait of Carl Nelson, Hotel de Seine, Rue de Seine, Paris, France, 1928. Contour (direct) drawing after having been the student of Kimon Nicolaides at the Arts Student Leage, New York, New York. Matte/Unframed. Partial scan made 9/20/18 | |
| Templar's Lodge Charter for Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Templar's Lodge Charter for Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Charter document: Grand Lodge of North America (State of Maine) Independent Order of Good Templars, organized May 16, 1855, grant unto G. H. Pressey, C. H. Bulger, L. H. Bracy, A. M. Spurling, G. H. Spurling, Wm. P. Preble, H. A. Preble, L. G. Stanley, C. G. Kimball, A. Bunker, J. M. Bunker, S. A. Bunker and their associates this Charter for a Lodge to be known as Ocean Echo Lodge No. 157 located at Cranberry Isles… signed July 4, 1866. Wikipedia: "The IOGT originated as one of a number of fraternal organizations for temperance or total abstinence founded in the 19th century and with a structure modeled on Freemasonry, using similar ritual and regalia. Unlike many, however, it admitted men and women equally, and also made no distinction by race." According to a local 1888 newspaper article they met Tuesday evenings each week at Norwood's Cove School House. [show more] | ||
| Scrapbook of Lulu Steel Alley 1940-1950s Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Scrapbook of Lulu Steel Alley 1940-1950s Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Scrapbook with cards, newspaper articles, pictures, announcements, a collection of blank checks, calendar photos, and holiday prints by the Wadsworth family can be found pasted in this wallpaper print book. Scrapbook ranges from the 1940's to the late 1950's album was put together by Lulu Steel Alley, Louis Alley's wife and resident of what is now the Horvath house. From the Horvath house | |||
| Captain's clothing belonging to Elwood Spurling, and Philmore Spurling's corncob pipe Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Captain's clothing belonging to Elwood Spurling, and Philmore Spurling's corncob pipe Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Clothing: Blue sea captain's jacket with insignia on right sleeve and eight brass buttons with anchors; Blue vest; Blue tie; White cap (hat) with blue visor (size 7); Blue jeans; Black rubber lobsterman's boots; Corn cob pipe. All but the pipe belonged to Elwood Spurling, Phil Whitney's maternal grandfather. The pipe belonged to Philmore Whitney. | |||
| Janet Roberts ceramics Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Janet Roberts ceramics Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Pottery, Collection of 3 clay pieces made on GCI by Janet Roberts, showing how local indigenous groups, might have made a cooking pot; a) proto-bottom showing the coiling of clay rope to form a surface, 2.5" diam; b) continuing spiraling the clay rope upwards to make a wall, and a part cut away to better show the construction, 3.5" diam x 2" H; c) smoothed, decorated, and fired final pot with incised chevrons near the mouth, raked on the body, also net-like impresses on the body, and a rounded bottom, 5.5" L, 4.25" diam, 0.5" thick [show more] | |||
| Records of the Fire Club(Cranberry Isles Volunteer Fire Department) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Records of the Fire Club(Cranberry Isles Volunteer Fire Department) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Documents. Records of the Fire Club later called the Cranberry Isles Volunteer Fire Department 1948-1972. Six Secretary's Record ledger books from various years with minutes and lists of members, events, GCI fires, and funds. Ledger 1: 1951, 52, 53, 54, 55,; Ledger 2: 1967-1972; Ledger 3: 1958-1963; Ledger 4: 1951, 52, 53; Ledger 5: remains of a damaged Secretary's Record ledger book: 1962-1967; Ledger 6: 1955-1958. Folder 7: Twenty looseleaf pages of handwritten minutes and member info for 1948 when the Fire Club (CIVFD) was formed (removed from deteriorated black binder). Folder 8: One small black and white photograph of a fire truck ca. 195X, red fire call pocket list, $100 donation from Maynard H. Murch Co, Chicago, 1954; Fire Prevention loss form listing George A. Savage one-room shop with all tools, estimated loss of $10,000 on April 8th, 1:50 pm, no year, completed by Wilfred Bunker; paper sign once posted in fire hall listing rules for use of the hall; and small Hancock County Fire Association by-laws booklet. Collection stored in two boxes 48 and 49. [show more] | ||
| Christmas card from the Newells to Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Christmas card from the Newells to Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Christmas card sent by Hal and Sarah Newell to Wini Smart Winter of 2000 | ||
| GCIHS documents Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| GCIHS documents Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection, GCIHS info. 1052a-c. (a) November 2009 Issue of the Cranberry Chronicle. (b) Summer 2009 Events calendar. (c) Laminated copy of notes from the GCIHS 2000 Annual Meeting | |||
| Clara and Carl Wedge family photos Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Clara and Carl Wedge family photos Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photos. A selection of 12 photos from Clara and Carl Wedge family photos were scanned. Several others copied. 1. Carl and Clara Wedge family Row 1: left to right: Angela and Jessica Reed, Tanya Tozier Row 2: Elmer (Junior) Reed, far right is Keith Wedge with sons Keith and Heath. Row 3: Carla Wedge, russell Wedge, Ethel Wedge (she lived to be 103), Sonja, Maude Wedge, Candy Wedge and Kevin Wedge. Row 4: Joey Wedge< Clar Wedge, Bill Nicholson. Row 5: Carl Wedge and Greg Tozier 2. Carl and Clara Wedge 3. David Westphal 1970s, grocery truck Gretchen Westphal used to drive, Firetruck arrives 1967 or 68 4. Landscape photos ca. 2000 5. Charles Rice 6. Photos of the Pool frozen over with mountains in background, shows Ott house, Finkelstein house with Heliker LaHotan bldgs. 1970s 7. Beautiful winter scenes - mountains, sea, ferry coming and going 2000s 8. Sanborn house viewed from above; and "Million Dollar" view. 9. Carl Wedge with daughter Sonja 10. Carl and Clara Wedge 1950s 11. Carl Wedge with dog ca. 2002 [show more] | |||
| "A New Super Highway", Bluenose Ferry, Bar Harbor to Nova Scotia Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "A New Super Highway", Bluenose Ferry, Bar Harbor to Nova Scotia Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper clipping, "A new Superhighway" about new Bluenose ferry terminal and service from Bar Harbor to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia | |||
| Remembrance article about Rachel Field 1942 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Remembrance article about Rachel Field 1942 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Magazine "The Saturday Review" Remberance article about Rachel Field on page 10. | ||
| Stanley Cemetery conservation project research (2014) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Stanley Cemetery conservation project research (2014) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Cemetery. Stanley Cemetery conservation project completed by GCIHS Stanley Cemetery committee October 2014. Began as a family burial ground in 1838 and continues to serve islanders today. Conservation and restoration work of the 101 headstones done by Fred Wieninger of Wieninger Monuments in Milbridge, Maine. Inscriptions, digital photographs, measurements, deeds, spreadsheets, costs, blog, and photos of work and sundry details of each of 101 known graves recorded by Anne Grulich and documented in full at gcihs.org “cemetery projects” and on the GCIHS server: \Archives\atgrulich\StanleyCemetery2013_2016. Documentation in files includes minutes, research, spreadsheet, photos, administrative documents, field notes and deeds for Stanley/Storey property. See various GCIHS Cranberry Chronicle newsletters for cemetery project progress, and an article about the cemetery in Memories of Maine, Downeast Maine Edition, Summer 2015 by Camille Smalley "Restoring the Past - The Stanley Cemetery on Great Cranberry Island." [show more] | ||
| Report on 19th-century concealed shoes and Cape Houses Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Report on 19th-century concealed shoes and Cape Houses Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Houses. Architectural and folk history. This updated 2018 report of investigation summarizes 2013-2017 research into nine Cape-style houses spawned by the 2013 discovery and repatriation of four ca. 1820-1830s shoes concealed in the chimney wall of the parsonage house of the Great Cranberry Congregational Church. The 2014 and 2018 revised report was submitted to the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Acadia NPS, and GCIHS. Revised version is twenty-two pages with photos and bibliography as of January 18, 2018, and includes findings of a 2015 dendrochronology project. This study of the parsonage Cape-style house with its neighboring Cape-style houses and the separate 2013 study of the nearby ca. 1826 Preble house documents a cluster of historic island houses on the verge of becoming unrecognizable through remodeling. Research reveals folk practices, the oeuvre of local 19th-century house builders; Cape-style design innovations; granite and lumber sources; dendrochronology study; and early 19th-century Bulger and Spurling family histories. One of the cape houses was the birthplace of Civil War Medal of Honor General Andrew Barclay Spurling.; the Preble House was his boyhood home. See also concealed shoe research: 2013.252.1979. See 2018 Chebacco Magazine article, Concealed Shoes and Cape Houses: Artifacts as Agents of the Past by Anne Grulich [show more] | ||
| Tintypes and other photographs and an old photo album Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Tintypes and other photographs and an old photo album Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photos. Four folders of assorted old photographs and one old photo album. Folder 1 = Twenty tintypes of various sizes from 1" to 4" - portraits of unidentified people in various settings and poses. Folder 2 = Cabinet cards and mounted prints: a) group photo of a family reunion marked on reverse "Mrs. D. K. Stanley". b) Portrait of man with a beanie or school cap, on reverse: J. G. L'Abbe/H.A. '06". c) Man with spectacles "Floyd Philbrick"; d) Man in dark suit "Mr. Thomas Fennelley/cor. Summit Ave/& Mcauster Rd/N. E. Harbor, Maine" and "Photo Andrew E. Fennelly". e) Same photo as (d) man in dark suit "Andrew Fennelly". f) "Andrew & Eva Fennelly on wedding day/Gardiner Cottage". g) baby picture "Miss Rebecca Alberger Price/age 22 months/Born Mar 25-1899". h)"Frank Richardson". i) "A late birthday present from Effie". j) "George Renaldo (Hamor?)". k) "Clarence? Crosby". And twelve unidentified photos. Folder 3 = Two mounted photographs. The first is an excellent high quality 5x7 print mounted on cardboard of men at work in a large workshop. Lots of lath strips stored in ceiling and on workbench. (Lobster pots)? Faint illegible writing on upper right corner, "319" "J. B." and other words. The second mounted print is 6"x7" print on tan cardboard backing of 35 women and two boys seated on grass and standing along the wall of the house with a woman and child looking out from a window behind the group. Stained glass window in background. . Folder 4 = A collection of small mounted photos marked: Roy Bryant; Ralph Bryant; Rebecca Alberger Price age 16 mos; Philina Stanley/Oscar Wedge's Aunt (there are chickens and fences in the background; eight unidentified photos. One 4" x4" GCI Class of 1936 yearbook with 1" x1" individual photos of school children and teacher Dorothy Spurling Whitney. Children's names: Spurling, Bunker, Alley, Phippen, Worcester, Wedge, Rosebrook, Carlson, and eight unidentified. There are also nine small unmounted photos with one identified as Ralph Stanley. One framed color 8" x 6" photo "Dock on Great Cranberry" by Waterman. Photo Album = Ornate yellow leather photo album with embossed, colored lilies, metal corners, and 1/2 of its metal clasp remaining. Per donor, this was Ethel Wedge's photo album. It's 12 thick pages of photos unidentified except for the last page "Elder J. C. Foss". The name Myra G. Steele is written in one slot, but the photo is missing. [show more] | ||||
| Town of Cranberry Isles Annual Reports 1921-2012 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Town of Cranberry Isles Annual Reports 1921-2012 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Reports. Town of Cranberry Isles Annual Reports 1921-2012. These booklets are prepared for the Annual Town Meeting and include information on town officials, taxes, auditors reports, schools, ordinances and regulations, budgets, and the warrant for the Annual Town Meeting. Missing booklets for these years: 1926-27, 1927-28, 1930-31, 1942-43, and 2011. (Box 1 of 2 contains reports for 1921-1998. Box 2 of 2 contains reports for 2000-2014.) | |||
| Annual Report (1936-1937) Town of Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Annual Report (1936-1937) Town of Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Booklet, "Annual Report (1936-1937) Town of Cranberry Isles, ME (See also collection of Town Reports in 2015.336.2102.) We have record of this report already kept in Box 61a, with all other annual reports. | |||
| Photo album with tintypes, cabinet cards, and portrait photos Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photo album with tintypes, cabinet cards, and portrait photos Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo album, faded purplish velvet with once-golden lettering "Album", four metal feet on reverse, remains of metal hasp on top cover. Per donor, album was purchased at a white elephant sale, perhaps on GCI, in the 1970s, by donor's mother Jeanne Allen Goldberg. Tintypes, cabinet cards, and portrait photos on matte board. Many pages are empty. Some photos are identified, many are not. Identified photos: "Lulu Grandmother". Ida Higgins (Ida was Allen "Bully" Klausky's grandmother who lived in the first house on the right going down Harding Point Rd, a little gingerbread house. She had a gravely voice, Miriam "Lovey" is Allen Klausky's mother. There was a sister, Dorothy - per Gaile Colby 1/4/16). Josie Bunker, Ben Bunkers wife - (Josie Stanley Bunker was Addie Stanley Duren's sister - per Gaile Colby 1/4/16). Ethel Wedge?. A postcard photo of Lulu and Gott(sp?). A notice from the Treasury Department for Lewis Emery Ladd dated November 1, 1919, that his monthly check from the Bureau of War Risk Insurance in payment of Compensation or Insurance will be received by him later in the month than formerly, etc. - (per Gaile Colby 1/4/16, Lew Ladd was Alfred's father; Alfred died in World War I.) A remembrance card for Charlie S. Wedge, died April 6, 1895, aged 6 months. Willie Steele (tintype) (Willie died as a little boy, he was Lulu Steele's brother - per Gaile Colby 1/4/16.) Lena (tintype). Adas Mathers Father (tintype). Pink Bulger and Will Trussel her first husband (both with question marks) cabinet card portrait: [Per Ralph Stanley 6/24/16 photo is of Sadie Anna Harding (daughter of Joseph Richard Harding and Adelma Abba Stanley) with her first husband Wilfred S. Trussell (son of Horatio H. Trussell and Wealthy Hall Spurling) who she married in 1898.) Postcard photo of street scene with automobile and note: "Can you find yourself here?" addressed to Alfred Ladd, Kents Hill, Maine, sincerely W. M. H. postmarked Mar 9, 1908, Eliot Maine, and Mar 10 1908 with 1 cent postage. Walter Stanley brother of Cliff and Harold. Portrait of a young boy - written on reverse: "Cliff Stanley, Norma Bunker's father - Mrs. Frank Stanley, Cranberry Isles, Maine, Light brown hair, dark blue eyes, navy blue suit with light blue trimming, fair complexion." (Scanned photos of Bulger & Trussell, and Ida Higgins. See also 1000.166.1191 for Trussell's compass.) [show more] | |||
| Small painting - Hitty Dances Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Small painting - Hitty Dances Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Artwork. Small painting, Hitty Dances, in starched lace frame signed "Spirit was willing - I. Wolf" lower right corner. Hitty is a character in Rachel Field's book. |