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Stanley family genealogy Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Other Documents	People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Stanley family genealogy Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.280 Type: Document, Other Documents Subject: People Description: Chart, genealogical, Stanley family, top: Enoch Boynton Stanley & Caroline H. Stanley, and Nancy ?Lopad? & Abraham Richardson
Certificate for William Preble as Notary Public Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Certificate	Organizations, Civic People	1860	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Certificate for William Preble as Notary Public Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2013.246.1944 Type: Document, Certificate Subject: Organizations, Civic People Date: 1860 Description: Document. Certificate: Augusta, Maine, 14 March 1860, William P. Preble of Cranberry Isle, State of Maine, as Notary Public for Hancock County for seven years. Signed by Scott M. Morrill, Governor. Certificate has an ivory and pink impressed and raised seal the State of Maine with the signature of the Governor below it and the notation: Commission Recorded Vol. 4, Page 173. Signed at bottom by Noah Smith, Secretary of State.
Slides ca. 1940, 1960-70s from Towns family Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	People Places	1960	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Slides ca. 1940, 1960-70s from Towns family Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2014.269.2005 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: People Places Date: 1960 Description: Photos. Collection of 48 slides from ca. 1960-70s (one slide from 1940s) including aerial photographs of Great Cranberry Island and events concerning the Towns family. Aerial photographs ca. 1968 probably taken by Bob Hylander. Events and people include: Preble Cove, GCI houses, Beal and Bunker dock, Hamor House and restaurant, Polly Bunker and gift shop, George Savage and Ruth Haydock on motor scooter, Bloom concert, school house, Doc Haydock and George Savage with the Lollipop skiff, Norma Bunker with turkeys, Dorothy Dot Towns, Red Macallister with VW Bug, Leona Macallister, Cranberry Cove Restaurant, John Lawrence. This collection is in addition to the 223 Towns family slides catalogued as: 2013.243.1941. (All slides have been scanned and identified. See c:....2014>photos>etc.) [show more]
Photograph of Mary Teel Pratt Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Photograph of Mary Teel Pratt Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.1359 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: People Description: Photograph. Black and white. Mary Teel Pratt in white dress with pearls. Mary Teel was born about 1912, daughter of Velma and Sawtelle Teel. Mary grew up in what is now (2013) David Bunker's house where Velma and Sawtelle once lived. She died in her sleep in November 1998. Phil Whitney has videos of Mary Teel reminiscing and walking with his mother on GCI.
Dagurreotype photograph of William Pitt Preble ca.1850-1855 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	People	1850	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Dagurreotype photograph of William Pitt Preble ca.1850-1855 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.140.1136 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: People Date: 1850 Description: Photograph. Dagurreotype of man believed to be William Pitt Preble ca.1850-1855, in hinged, gilt-edged, leatherbound, wood case. Plush green velvet with impressed scroll design lines the interior of the cover; thin brass/metal mat has green corrosion spots. From the Louise Marr collection of items recovered from the Preble House. William Pitt Preble (1811-1905) was the second owner of GCI's historic Preble house. He exemplified the industrious ingenuity needed to succeed in homesteading and developing a community on this rugged island in the early 19th century. Preble was the son of the Mount Desert Rock lighthouse keeper, a descendant of an influential Portland family. He came to Great Cranberry as a teacher, and became a church elder, selectman, justice of the peace, tax appraiser, postmaster, storekeeper, shipbuilder, and shipwreck appraiser. He outlived both his wives and raised nine children. [show more]
Ambrotype: perhaps Preble's second wife, Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Ambrotype: perhaps Preble's second wife, Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.140.1843 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: People Description: Photo. Ambrotype in folding wood frame with metal hasp; dark red velvet lining with impressed scroll pattern; brass mat with oval window, showing a young woman, perhaps William Pitt Preble's second wife, Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford Preble. She was the mother of Samuel Sanford, daughter of Capt. Samuel Hadlock, Jr. and Hanna Caroline Dorothea Russ (1803-1889) a.k.a. "the Prussian Woman." From the Louise Marr collection of items recovered from the Preble House. (Photo ca. 1855-1860) See also 1000.0.1066G photo. She wears unusual fingerless gloves. [show more]
Photograph of Abigail Cobb Hadlock Spurling Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Photograph of Abigail Cobb Hadlock Spurling Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.140.1137 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: People Description: Photo. Ambrotype in folding wooden case with two metal hasps showing a woman in dark dress, probably Abigail Cobb Hadlock Spurling Preble ca. 1855-1860. She was William Pitt Preble's first wife. He was her second husband; her first husband was Samuel Spurling. Inside: plush, burgundy, velvet lining with with floral design, photo in brass matte with fairly intricate preserver. From Louise Marr collection of artifacts recovered from the Preble House. (See also Maine Memory Network online exhibit and General Andrew Barclay Spurling, Civil War Medal of Honor recipient, research at GCIHS. Abigail Hadlock and Samuel Spurling were his parents. [show more]
Towns Family Slides Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	People Places		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Towns Family Slides Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2013.243.1941 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: People Places Description: Photos. Slides, 223 total including 35 glass slides. Images donated by the Towns family of GCI: family, friends, homes, landscapes, and seascapes taken over decades. Five slides imprinted 1958; four possibly SEP1974; one 1991. Several handwritten lists of people and places were included with donation but can no longer be tied to individual slides. All slides have been digitally scanned in high resolution (see 2000\photos\dorothy towns). The Towns family are summer residents on GCI. The Towns property is also known historically as the Bayview Farm, the Red House, and the Crosby farm. (The slides are stored in a binder, grouped by brand names and numbers imprinted on individual slides: Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Ansco Color, Pavelle, and Mercury, in hopes slide technology might date these slides. Glass slide projectors in use ca. 1930s-1950s. (See also collection of Towns slides ca. 1960s-70s in 2014.269.2005; and other Towns photos in collection.) [show more]
Photograph: Abigail Cobb Hadlock Spurling Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Photograph: Abigail Cobb Hadlock Spurling Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2013.246.1948 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: People Description: Photograph. Black and white image on slightly waxy, beige paper. Abigail Cobb Hadlock Spurling Preble as an elderly woman, dressed in black with white collar, neck broach, black hat tied beneath her chin, and hands folded. Photograph is in a brown envelope with an eagle logo on upper left corner that reads: "Letrich Studio 2571 Boardwalk Atlantic City". (This is a paper print of the tintype image in album 1000.0.1066, second to last page.) [show more]
Ambrotype portrait two unidentified women in black Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph, Direct Positive, Ambrotype	People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Ambrotype portrait two unidentified women in black Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2013.246.1946 Type: Image, Photograph, Direct Positive, Ambrotype Subject: People Description: Photograph. Ambrotype (ca. 1855-1865): two panes of glass with brass mat and ornate preserver frame securing the ambrotyp components. Portrait of two unidentified young women in black dresses with white lace collars. Back pane of glass is coated with a black emulsion that is flaking and peeling. Front pane is the ghostly, white image of the two women's faces, fingers, lace collars, and the white wall background. Cheeks and lips on both women are pale pink. (Compare with 2013.246.1947 and 2013.246.1945.) [show more]
Tintype portrait: Woman in plaid dress with broach Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	People		Copyright Not Evaluated	Tintype portrait: Woman in plaid dress with broach Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2013.246.1945 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: People Description: Photograph. Tintype with ornate frame. Young woman in plaid dress with broach bearing a picture of a dark-haired, balding man. (Compare with 2013.246.1946 and 2013.246.1947.)
Tintype: two young unidentified women in black Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	People		Copyright Not Evaluated	Tintype: two young unidentified women in black Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2013.246.1947 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: People Description: Photograph. Tintype.Two young women seated wearing black dresses, both unidentified. (Compare with 2013.246.1946 and 2013.246.1945)
School and property tax info Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Government, Government Records	Organizations, School Institution People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	School and property tax info Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2003.77.555 Type: Document, Government, Government Records Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Description: Ledger page, loose, school and property tax info, no date, typical names listed: William Preble, Lew Ladd, Thomas Bunker, Gilbert Family, John Steele, etc.
Wedding Certificate William P. Spurling to Dorcas Bunker Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Government, Marriage Record	People	1869	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Wedding Certificate William P. Spurling to Dorcas Bunker Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2003.62.482 Type: Document, Government, Marriage Record Subject: People Date: 1869 Description: Wedding Certificate, with engraved wedding scene, William P. Spurling to Dorcas Bunker (both from Cranberry Isles) 12 Dec 1869, married by Gilbert Hadlock, Justice of the Peace, in the presence of 2 witnesses, both named Howard, very faded writing
Inventory of the estate of Thomas Manchester Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, List, Inventory	People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Inventory of the estate of Thomas Manchester Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2002.47.287 Type: Document, List, Inventory Subject: People Description: List, handwritten, inventory of the estate of Thomas Manchester, by appraisers William P. Preble, Thomas Bunker, & Joseph S. Spurling
Thomas Manchester's Will Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Legal, Will	People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Thomas Manchester's Will Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2002.47.286 Type: Document, Legal, Will Subject: People Description: Envelope, "" written on it, and holding same, writing probably by Marjorie Phippen, her sister Hilda, or Lena Stanley
Jonathan Stanley as executor of the estate of Thomas Manchester Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Government, Probate	People	1861	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Jonathan Stanley as executor of the estate of Thomas Manchester Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2002.47.285 Type: Document, Government, Probate Subject: People Date: 1861 Description: Document, 19 Jun 1861, officially assigning Jonathan Stanley as executor of the estate of Thomas Manchester (item is glued to item 283)
Will of Thomas Manchester Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Legal, Will	People	1861	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Will of Thomas Manchester Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2002.47.284 Type: Document, Legal, Will Subject: People Date: 1861 Description: Document, 3 Jun 1861, officially recognising the attached will as the will of Thomas Manchester (item is glued to item 283)
Last will and testament of Thomas Manchester Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Legal, Will	People	1851	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Last will and testament of Thomas Manchester Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2002.47.283 Type: Document, Legal, Will Subject: People Date: 1851 Description: Document, 6 May 1851, last will and testament of Thomas Manchester, signed X, giving all real estate, buildings, cattle, sheep, farming tools to Jonathan Stanley, except "the point" going to Thomas M. Stanley, & assorted household goods to Mary Moore
Probate order, with official stamps, sale of estate of Justus W. Gilley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Government, Probate	People	1865	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Probate order, with official stamps, sale of estate of Justus W. Gilley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2002.47.282 Type: Document, Government, Probate Subject: People Date: 1865 Description: Document, Probate order, with official stamps, sale of estate of Justus W. Gilley late of Cranberry Isles, to raise $170, sale to be 14 Aug 1865
Doris Preble Marr Bachelor's degree Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Student Record	Organizations, School Institution People	1934	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Doris Preble Marr Bachelor's degree Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2010.152.1198 Type: Document, Student Record Subject: Organizations, School Institution People Date: 1934 Description: Bachelor of Science degree for Doris Preble Marr, from the State Teachers College. Awarded for having completed a four year course in "High School Teaching and Administration". Dated June 11th, 1934
Sons of the American Revolution presented to Nelson Eliot Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Award	People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Sons of the American Revolution presented to Nelson Eliot Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.997 Type: Object, Award Subject: People Description: Plaque from The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution presented to Nelson Eliot Spurling
Steve Spurling in WWII uniform Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Steve Spurling in WWII uniform Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.981 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: People Description: Photo of Steve Spurling in his WWII uniform. Printed on hard cardboard by the Smart Studio
Mrs. Del Harding with her children Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Mrs. Del Harding with her children Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.18.995 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: People Description: Copy of photo, framed, from Hilda Bulger Spurling's house before it was torn down in the early 1990s. Hazel "Brooks" Peterson said this is Mrs. Del Harding with her children. The girl on the right is Millie "Pink" Harding who later married Oscar Bulger, and was the mother of Hilda Spurling and Marjorie Phippen. The other two children could be Sadie Harding Bulger and a son who was killed in WWI. (The image in the frame is a scan of a photo, not the actual photo 2016). Note on back reads: 'Picture found in Hilda Bulger Spurling's house before it was torn down in the early 1990s. Hazel 'Brooke' Peterson (unknown) this is Mrs. Del Harding with her children , Millie Pink Harding (right), who became Mrs. Oscar Bulger and she was the mother of Hilda Spurlingand Margery Phippen. One of the Harding sons was killed in WWI'. [show more]
Edgar Bunker in military uniform Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	People		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Edgar Bunker in military uniform Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.991 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: People Description: Photo, framed, of Edgar Bunker in his military uniform. Edgar served and died in the Korean conflict.

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