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Weaving loom
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Loom
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Weaving loom
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Loom. Wooden Weaving Loom. Given to McShea Family by Weinrich Family. History unknown. With two skeins of thread and off-white thread on loom. Perhaps from Bea Weinrich's home when she lived across from the Parsonage house on GCI. (Barely used if ever, perhaps a teaching tool or model.)
Hammer with wood handle and metal head
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Woodworking
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Hammer with wood handle and metal head
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool. Hammer, wood handle inserted into a metal head.
Popcorn popper with rectangular wire basket
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Cooking Vessels
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Popcorn popper with rectangular wire basket
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool. Popcorn popper. Rectangular wire basket with lid that opens, wooden handle.
Tin oil can for sewing machine
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Needlework Machine, Sewing Machine
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Tin oil can for sewing machine
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool, Tin Oil Can for Sewing Machine
Baby Quilt
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Art, Needlework, Quilt
  • In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
Baby Quilt
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Quilt, modern, infant size, made by Beverly Sanborn. Gold borders and gold horizontal and vertical panels with four-piece squares of multi-colored patterns and solid pastels. Reverse of quilt is aqua, edged with white patterned binding on four sides. Polyester fill.
Ladies 19th century shoes
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Clothing, Shoe
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Ladies 19th century shoes
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Shoes. Ladies Shoes- 19th Century-Macfarlan Family. (See also 2009.11.1942 for possible shoes.)
Golliwog doll
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Doll
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Golliwog doll
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Doll, Golliwog, a miniature cloth person in blue shirt with red and white striped pants, black face, black curly hair, big red lips, whites of eyes prominent. Anti Black Caricature prominent in the early 20th century.
Butter churn
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Dairy Tool, Butter Worker
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Butter churn
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Butter churn (a.k.a. box or barrel churn), wooden with red stenciled lettering "No. 3 Improved" and faded red stenciled cow on one side of barrel. Red stenciled lettering "Boston, Amesplu_ _ _, New York" on the other side. Wood and steel handle on one side turns the slatted wooden paddle wheel inside. (B) Wooden spatula. Wooden top. Probably late 19th century. "It was small enough to stand on a table; used for small-scale production of butter in a farmhouse dairy. It would about 70 pints of mile to produce enough cream to make just 18 oz (500gms) of butter. Complete with interior paddle wheel to agitate cream, lid, peg for the drain hole, and handle to rotate paddle wheel. The cream was poured into the opening at the top of the barrel and the handle turned. This would rotate the slatted wooden panels and agitate the cream. There was a small inspection hole in the top of the lid to allow the operator to check the progress of the butter without opening the churn. It would take about an hour and a half to turn the cream to butter. The whey was poured off and either drunk or used as pig food. The butter was then removed from the churn and was washed repeatedly in cold water. It was then beaten with wooden butter beaters or kneaded by hand to remove the excess moisture." http://www.objectlessons.org/work-and-innovation-victorians/barrel-butter-churn-victorian-original/s64/a930/ [show more]
Small cast iron clothes iron
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Furnishings, Other Household Accessories
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Small cast iron clothes iron
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool, clothes iron, small cast iron, with "6" molded into the handle. Wire mesh holder below.
Victrola record player
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Phonograph, Record Player
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Victrola record player
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Artifact, hand cranked console Victrola (record player). Returned to donor.
Light brown umbrella
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Umbrella
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Light brown umbrella
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Light brown parasol with brown tassels (silk?) It is possible that this parasol goes with item #1180 on Accession # 11 per Bruce Komusin
Triangular pointed boatbuilding tool
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Woodworking
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Triangular pointed boatbuilding tool
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool, triangular pointed boatbuilding tool apparently for making small holes
Rasp tool
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Woodworking
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Rasp tool
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool, rasp, two-sided, flat and curved; makers mark: (worn away) USA
Caulking iron
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Woodworking
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Caulking iron
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool, caulking iron, used to drive fiber caulking into the seam between planks on a boat
Buoys used by Victor White
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Buoy
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Buoys used by Victor White
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear. Buoys,wood, painted orange and white - Victor White's colors. (A) Long bullet shaped, and (B) rounded with wooden handle inserted on one end.
Metal coffee grinder
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Food Grinding Tool, Food Grinder
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Metal coffee grinder
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool, kitchen, metal coffee grinder
Metal meat grinder
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Food Grinding Tool, Food Grinder
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Metal meat grinder
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool kitchen, metal meat grinder, molded with "ENTERPRISE FOOD CHOPPER", "ENTRPRISE MF'G CO, PHIL, USA", AND "JCO 303", and on wooden handle "226"
Pulley perhaps for pulling lobster traps
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Pulley perhaps for pulling lobster traps
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool, pulley, round, very open and wide rope surface, probably an outboard pulley for lobster trap pulling
Wooden level on brass plate
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Woodworking
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Wooden level on brass plate
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool, wooden level, on brass plate "STANLEY / RULE & LEVEL CO / NEW BRITAIN CONN USA / PAT 6-2-91 6-2-96"; on the bubble level inserts "STANLEY ADJUSTABLE PATENTED MAR 25 90"
Shoemaker's last, approx. 10"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Last, Shoe Last
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Shoemaker's last, approx. 10"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool, Shoemaker's Last, approx. 10". Found in the old Lewis Ladd barn, a.k.a. Spurling home, and Freeman home (across from donor's home). Lewis Ladd died in 1912 at 88 years old. (See also items 1240-1245.)
Lobsterman boots belonging to Steve Spurling ca. 2000
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Clothing, Shoe
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Lobsterman boots belonging to Steve Spurling ca. 2000
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Boots. Black rubber lobsterman's fishing boots, size 11, tops folded over, heavily spattered with red and blue paint, found and recovered by Wini Smart & Bruce Komusin from the town dump, and later identified by Steve Spurling as being his own boots that he threw away ca. 2000
Boots of lobersterman Steve Spurling
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Clothing, Shoe
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Boots of lobersterman Steve Spurling
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Boots. Pair of rubber lobsterman boots belonging to Steve Spurling. Size 10, black with yellow along foot and white soles.
Hooked rug with geometric dog motif
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Furnishings, Rug
  • 1902
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Hooked rug with geometric dog motif
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Rug. Hooked, wool, green and beige geometric dog motif. Made on Cranberry Isles 1902-1905. One of two similar rugs from same donor. Donor inherited this rug and believes it belonged to Miriam Reynolds, one of several Mount Desert summer residents who established a rug-making cottage industry on Cranberry Island. Donor explained: "Reynolds was part of the family of William Reed Huntington, who spent summers in Northeast Harbor starting around 1886.  Mrs. Huntington died years before, leaving four small children, and her older sister, Miriam, moved in to take care of them.  The youngest of the four was Mary, who later married William Thompson.  They summered in Tamworth, New Hampshire, and this rug was in their house there.  The house was inherited by their second son, Charles G. Thompson.  When Charles's daughter Victoria married Dr. James S. Murphy, a Seal Harbor summer resident, she was given the Cranberry rug (by then quite worn) so that it might return to nearer its origin.  For forty years it lived in Seal Harbor, but when Victoria's daughter Alice married Cranberry Island summer resident Bill Bancroft, the rug came home!" This rug was repaired in the same manner as the crab-motif rug, but is in much worse condition. It, too, lacks the CR monogram that was usually worked into one corner or on the selvage at the back of rugs that were made specifically by the Cranberry Island Club rug makers at the turn of the century. From "Bulletin of the Bureau of Labor", #55 (Nov. 1904), pp 1573-1622, the article "The Revival of Handicrafts in America." by Max West, Ph. D. states: Cranberry Islanders ".... were already familiar with the process of hooking rugs; and they were fortunate in having the benefit of the initiative, moral support, and financial backing of Mrs. Seth Low, Miss Miriam P. Reynolds, and one or two other New York women whose summer homes are at Northeast Harbor, as well as in obtaining the aid of capable designers. The industry was started on a small scale in the autumn of 1901, under the supervision of Miss Amy Mali Hicks, a designer identified with the arts and crafts movement in New York City, who designed the patterns and gave instruction in dyeing, etc. ..." [show more]
Six pairs of hand carved wood "tollers" (decoys)
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Model
Six pairs of hand carved wood "tollers" (decoys)
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Decoys. Set of six pairs of hand carved wood "tollers". Each pair of decoy ducks is attached by a wood slat, then the whole set is attached by strings. Used for luring coot ducks when hunting. Set the decoys on the water, then row off in a boat, and shoot whatever ducks are attracted. Lightweight wood with metal fasteners.
Grappling hook with ring from Victor White's old garage
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
Grappling hook with ring from Victor White's old garage
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool. Grappling hook with ring: metal, 4-pronged with hole in handle and ring through hole, from Victor White's old garage, summer 2013.