Description: Indicates that the life saving station was fully manned for an "active season" of only ten months per year. Only the captain was on duty in June and July. See page 107.
Description: Inscribed on the fly leaf - "Addie L Muster, 17 Land Place So. Weymouth, Mass. Dec. 4, 1931. Seth Parker was a humorist from Jonesport, ME
Description: Irene Bartlett advises that Frank Bartlett found this list in a barn on Sutton Island, Irene took it to the Maine State Archives and they copied it some years ago. Irene has the original and one copy. The list doesn't include the very earliest Stanleys and Bunkers. The list doesn't appear to be an official record that was kept over time, rather it appears ti be a list that someone interested in geneology prepared late in the 1800s. The recorder was someone very knowledgeable on the islands, perhaps, a retired selectmen or town clerk. Someone made a few entries (in a different hand) after the original recorder stopped doing so. We have the original copy plus two copies that we have made and bound in brown covers with an index [show more]
Description: The entries on this document apppear to have been copied from the "Sutton Island" list which is ACQ#0098 above . However, some data has been left out and other data added. We have the original copy plus two copies that we had made and bound in red covers with and index
Object, Water Transporation, Watercraft Lamp, Watercraft Running Light
Description: This running light and the attached fabric were salvaged by Mr. Tebbetts who served as the Quartermaster on the Uss Haigler YTB-327 which vessel towed the wreck of the K-14 into Bunker's Cove on July 4, 1944. Mr. Tebbetts has also furnished copies of Photos and testimony as to his role in the salvage operation. (Small wood sample, given by Helen Merrill in August 1996.)
Description: Prepared in 1946 by Cordelia Stanwood of Ellsworth at the reequest of her friend Edna Hadlock. It was for the use of Hugh Dwelley in a high school writing project
Description: Contains mostly newspaper clipping re Marion's relatives and friends from Islesford and elsewhere. Also items regarding her teaching career. There is an especially interesting story about the Islesford Bait Shed in the late 1930s or early 1940s