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| Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of Emily F. Northam Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of Emily F. Northam Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: The Emily F. Northam was a three masted cargo schooner that was grounded off of the Baker Island reef, the crew and cargo were rescued but the Northam never left the Cranberry Isles. In 1974 the Downeast Magazine published a piece written about the event by Farnham W. Smith, and the Historical Society acquired its use for the island's history. Introduction by Bruce Komusin. | |
| Preserving our Past to Steer our Future Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Preserving our Past to Steer our Future Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A booklet made in the early years of GCIHS explaining the need for a permanent home for the Historical Society: Cranberry House. | ||
| Enterprising Islanders Great Cranberry - Wini Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Enterprising Islanders Great Cranberry - Wini Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A descriptive booklet describing a number of enterprises local islanders began and maintained between 1760 and 2008. Fishing, Ship Building, Boat Yards, Newman and Gray Boatyard, the mailboat, Stores, Restaurants and Boarding Establishments, Farms, Hooked Rugs, Antique Autos, Art. | |
| A Taste of Cranberry - Susan Donald Michalski Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  A Taste of Cranberry - Susan Donald Michalski Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A collection of poetry and wood cuts by Susan Donald Michalski from 2002. | |
| Mail Art Exhibit materials Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Mail Art Exhibit materials Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Art work. Mail Art Exhibit materials from 2014 & 2012 efforts arranged by Jan Moss' daughter, Rebecca Guyver. Individuals made beautiful, complex, but mailable artworks. Collection of multi-media materials sent to Rebecca Guyver in England and America and hung at both venues: GCIHS and at Maritime Mail Art Navyland Farm in Ringshall, Suffolk, UK. Rebecca gave this collection of items that were mailed to her into an exhibit and then gave them to GCIHS 2012. Dozens of hand made artworks mailed to PO Box 84 on GCI. [show more] | |
| Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley Interview Oct. 1984 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley Interview Oct. 1984 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Minidisc, audio, interview of Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley by Georgie Ware, 14 Oct 1984 | |
| Collection of over 110 digital video recordings of interviews, oral histories, and events Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Collection of over 110 digital video recordings of interviews, oral histories, and events Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Video recordings. Collection of over 110 digital video recordings of interviews, oral histories, and events recorded by Bruce Komusin, Phil Whitney, and Wini Smart from 2001-2013. [Note: 74 of these videos converted to MPEG-4/H.264 files by Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport, ME May 2016.] Subjects include interviews of donors, residents, and GCI events including: Richardson, Dunbar, Stanley, Bracy, Horvath, Moss, King, Goldberg, Wadsworth, Rice, Wedge, Bloom Phippen, Peterson, Seimer, Marr, Beaulieu, Bunker, Noether, Hartley, Grandgent, Mountain, Allen, Westphal, Cumming, Sayre, Spurling interviews. Events include: Tom Powell ordination, Jane Goldberg Tap Dancing, Baker Island dancing, memorial services, Poetry and Music, GCI scenes, quilt seminar, fiddle playing, boats, Hitty, Rachel Field, Lawler's ice lecture, Crow & Sound, moving Cranberry House, and trailmaking. Most of the original recordings are on mini digital video cassettes (mini DV), with some mini-discs, and four mini-VHS tapes. Several of these recordings have been made into DVDs for sale at the museum store. [show more] | |
| Wilfred Bunker Interview Transcript 5th Dec, 2011 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wilfred Bunker Interview Transcript 5th Dec, 2011 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: This is a transcript of an interview Phil Whitney and Bruce Komusin conducted with Wilfred Bunker, the cofounder of Beal and Bunker, on the 5th December, 2011. |
| Portrait of Samuel Hadlock, Jr. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Portrait of Samuel Hadlock, Jr. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photograph. Retouched photo of portrait of Captain Samuel Hadlock, Jr. by Heinrich Gottfried Krug, in pen and ink and pastel at Hamburg, Germany, in the year 1824, owned by Constance Aygun of Stamford CT. Hadlock was the original owner of the Preble House on GCI, with long storied history of expeditions in the north and exhibitions throughout Europe. He died when the Minerva became frozen in the ice ca. 1830. Per Wini Smart 2015 Bruce Komusin book: "Samuel Hadlock portrait - Bruce was contacted from the internet by a distant relative of Capt. Hadlock who lived in Connecticut. She had an oil portrait of the captain that had been painted while he was in Germany. Until this time we only had a silhouette illustrated in Rachel Field's book, God's Pocket. I visited her in Connecticut and photographed the small portrait. It was difficult to capture since it was under curved glass. Bruce Komusin painstakingly removed the reflections in the photo to make the image clear." (See 2002 photos/C. Aygun for photos of original portrait taken on site.) (Originally catalogued as 1000.0.1327 with little info.) [show more] | |
| Books from Phippen house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Books from Phippen house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Books and two inserts. (A) Three Little Pigs, Illustrated by Carl Emil Wehde, Copyright MCMXXXVII, McLoughlin Bros., Inc, Springfield, Mass. With inscription "Dickie from Junior Bracy" in Marjorie Phippen's handwriting. (B) New American Business Cyclopedia- A Compendium of useful information and a Guide to Successful Business Methods together with advice...." by E. T. Roe, LL.B., Gordon G. Sapp publisher, Chicago 1925, with two small cardboard certificates inside: (C) Junior Achievement Certificate, Bookkeeping issued by Marion R. Waterman, Instructor, on 12/3/45, to Sheila Louise Phippen by the business Education World, New York. And (D) Senior Achievement Certificate, Bookkeeping, issued to Louise Phippen by Marion R. Waterman, Instructor, 1/2/46, The Business Education World, New York. (Crosby Mills, second husband, had a business – maybe Louise Phippen was bookkeeper? Her first husband was a service man.) [show more] | ||
| Boat compass in wooden Binnacle box Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Boat compass in wooden Binnacle box Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Used by Wilfred S. Trussell and Harvey Everett Bulger. Tool, boat compass in wooden binnacle box with window (brass, wood, paper, iron and glass). Compass card diameter 3.5", gimbal ring 5", interior box: 6.25" x 6.25"; exterior box: 7" x 11" x 8.5" H. North arrow has fleur d' lis motif. Compass was used by Wilfred S. Trussell (1869-1911) and/or Harvey (Harry) Everett Bulger (b.1883-d.<1911), who were husbands of Sadie Anna Harding (b.1879- d. after 1911) who once lived in the Cox now Dalton house (2016) on GCI. Sadie Harding married Trussell 1898 and Bulger 1919. No visible manufacturer or maker marks. Ralph Stanley examined this compass 2016 and believes it's a liquid (alcohol) compass after locating the corroded nut covering the fill-hole in the rim of the compass bowl. He also noted the quadrant markings on the sides of the compass. Per Stanley, Trussell had a sloop and this type of compass was used in boats of that size. It may indeed have been the compass that guided Trussell home during one particular storm (see Stanley's forthcoming book 2017). Stanley thinks it's a liquid compass about 100 years old and could have been purchased at any local marine goods store, but the box was specially made perhaps by Leslie Rice. Michael Macfarlan believes this could be a Ritchie compass and the hole in the wooden case with the shield above it would have been for a battery-powered light (not a candle). One or two large batteries would have been housed in the box's rear compartment. (Box hardware is too corroded to remove and investigate.) Stanley believes a wire to the light would have been wired to the engine. By email 2016, Ben Fuller at Penobscott Marine Museum suggests this compass would be suitable for small schooner or sloop large enough to be sailed at night, suggesting the Smithsonian's NMAH website: amhistory.si.edu/navigation/type.cfm?typeid=3 for further investigation. NMAH Website states: "Simple marine compasses have a magnetized needle attached to the bottom of a paper card, and are inherently unstable. Since the 1850s, scientists and instrument makers have struggled to solve this problem. One solution, pioneered by E. S. Ritchie in the United States, was to float the magnetic needle in a bowl of liquid...." (For genealogy see 2016.337.2103 Index p. 3 and p. 15, records p. 400 and 400A) (See also 2015.350.2115 for possible photo of Wilfred Trussel.) [show more] | ||
| Lamp, old schooner or boat running light Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Lamp, old schooner or boat running light Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Lamp, old schooner or boat running light found in archives 2016. Wood, thickly layer of green paint with layer of red underneath, clear semi-circular glass lens, two wires running from inside lamp to exterior. Would likely have sat starboard (right) side as the light is painted green. A red light would sit on the dock (left) side so you can see which direction the boat is going even in the dark. | ||
| Easter Service held on March 30 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Easter Service held on March 30 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Poster. Easter Service Sunday March 30 (no year), Arthur Forrester and William Goldberg led the service; lunch served in the Ladies Aid. Hand drawn lilies, cross, and text, mixed media with cut-outs of flowers. | ||
| Crazy Quilt Preble House Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Crazy Quilt Preble House Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Quilt. Colorful wool, cotton, flannel, and jersey fabrics made of geometric and freeform shapes and patterns including plaids, tweeds, and solid colors. Reverse side is a solid rough beige cotton with pale blue stripes; there are decorative beige yarn ties along the blue stripes with a few pink yarn ties interspersed. Edges are folded in and machine (?) hemmed, there is no border. Possible ornate script initials - one of which is may be an "L". Some discoloration and stains. This quilt is one of two recovered from the Preble House. (See also quilt 1000.140.1138 from the same 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] | ||
| Charles Rice & Ada Rice Interview Mar. 1993 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Charles Rice & Ada Rice Interview Mar. 1993 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Audio cassette tapes (set of 2) of interview with Charles & Ada Rice by Jeff Weisbruch, paid for by GCIHS, 19 Mar 1993 (see item 434) |
| Marjorie Phippen Interview Nov. 1993 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Marjorie Phippen Interview Nov. 1993 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Audio cassette tapes (set of 2) of interview with Marjorie Phippen by Jeff Weisbruch, paid for by GCIHS, 5 Nov 1993 (see item 436) |
| Marjorie Phippen Interview Dec. 1993 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Marjorie Phippen Interview Dec. 1993 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Audio cassette tapes (set of 2) of interview with Marjorie Phippen by Jeff Weisbruch, paid for by GCIHS, 17 Dec 1993 |
| Steve Spurling and Arleen Spurling Interview Jun. 2000 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Steve Spurling and Arleen Spurling Interview Jun. 2000 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Audio cassette tape of interview with Steve and Arleen Spurling by Wini Smart, 30 Jun 2000 |
| Annette Mountain Interview Jun. 2000 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Annette Mountain Interview Jun. 2000 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Audio cassette tape of interview with Annette Mountain, in her house, by Wini Smart, Jun 2000 |
| Charlotte Harlan Interview Jun. 2000 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Charlotte Harlan Interview Jun. 2000 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Audio cassette tape of interview with Charlotte Harlan, in her house, by Wini Smart and Bruce Komusin, 24 Jun 2000 | |
| Donna Alley and Cleo Alley Interview Oct. 1999 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Donna Alley and Cleo Alley Interview Oct. 1999 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Audio cassette tape of interview with Donna Alley and Cleo Alley by Bruce Komusin, 3 Oct 1999 | |
| Lindon "Tud" Bunker Interview Oct. 1992 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Lindon "Tud" Bunker Interview Oct. 1992 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Audio cassette tape of interview with Lindon "Tud" Bunker by Jeff Weisbruch, paid for by GCIHS, 12 Oct 1992 (might be connected with item 445) |
| Hilda Spurling Interview Oct. 1984 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hilda Spurling Interview Oct. 1984 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Minidisc, audio, interview of Hilda Spurling by Georgie Ware, 8 Oct 1984 | ||
| All This and Heaven Too - Rachel Field Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  All This and Heaven Too - Rachel Field Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Book written by Rachel Field. One copy signed by author 1938. One copy with Ex Libris stamp belonging to Helen R. Corkum. |
| The Pointed People Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  The Pointed People Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Book written by local author Rachel Field. Signed by author. |