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Paper titled Cranberry Island:Remembered Histories by Donald Wellman of Great Cranberry Island
Islesford Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
Publications "The History Journal of MDIHS Volume V 2003" and "The History Journal of MDIHS Volume IV 2001-2002"
Islesford Historical Society
  • Publication, Other Publication
Description:
Volume V 2003 Contains a review of the publication "A History of Little Cranberry Island" by Hugh Dwelley on page 80
Maine History Publication Volume 40 Summer 2001
Islesford Historical Society
  • Publication, Other Publication
3 Ring binder labeled "Souvenirs from the three Islesford Painters"
Islesford Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
Description:
Photos of the Blue Duck and copies of the paintings by C. Scott White, Charlie Kinkaid and Harold Warren who styled themselves The Three Islesford Artists (TIPS). Also includes letters form Bob Pyle, and Christina Sawtelle Teal. A letter from Hugh Dwelley to Bob Pyle transmitting material regarding the TIPS collected from the IslesfordJournalsof Dr. Vincent Y. Bowditch
Nicely framed photo of a portrait of Capt. Samuel Hadlock Jr.
Islesford Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
Description:
The portrait was painted in 1824 in Hamburg Germany by an artist named Krugg. The origina is owned by Mrs. Constance Aygun of 85 5th Street, Stamford, CT.
Framed copy of a photo of Capt. Fred Spurling (1868-1958) playing his fiddle. It is probably his fiddle that we have in our collection. See Acq. #0130
Islesford Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
Description:
When not on display, in painting storage.
copy of the Opera Three little wolves and the big bad pig
Islesford Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Musical Composition
Description:
Written by the Islesford school students Sally Bloom from Great Cranberry Helped with the music
Framed photo of Capt. Clarence Spurling (1886 - 1962), Ted's Father, reading a paper. A collection of bait bags that he had knotted beside him.
Islesford Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
Description:
When not on display, in painting storage.
File carrier containing the chapter by chapter working papers for "A History of Little Cranberry Island" published in 2000
Islesford Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
Geneology of Nancy Ann Joy by Philip Curran
Islesford Historical Society
  • Document, List, Register, Family Register
Description:
Being the families of Abraham Somes, Benjamin Joy, Solomon Littlefield, William Henry Pride and Joshua Woodbury
Vol. 2, #26, April 1, 1896: "Sowing and Reaping" by D.L. Moody
Islesford Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
Description:
From the library of Rev. Charles N. Davis who was the pastor of the Cranberry Isles churches for several years. Inscription: "From the collection taken for books by Edwin Hadlock, Islesford, August, 1897
Vol. 2, #28, May 1,1896: "Probable Sons"
Islesford Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
Vol. 2, #28, May 1,1896: "Probable Sons"
Islesford Historical Society
Description:
From the library of Rev. Charles N. Davis who was the pastor of the Cranberry Isles churches for several years. Inscription: "From the collection taken for books by Edwin Hadlock, Islesford, August, 1897
Vol. 2, #40 Nov. 1 18961
Kadesh Barnea by J. Wilbur Chapman, D.D.
Islesford Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
Vol. 2, #40 Nov. 1 18961
Kadesh Barnea by J. Wilbur Chapman, D.D.
Islesford Historical Society
Description:
From the library of Rev. Charles N. Davis who was the pastor of the Cranberry Isles churches for several years. Inscription: "From the collection taken for books by Edwin Hadlock, Islesford, August, 1897
A 4-page handwritten letter dated June 4, 1900 from CM Richardson to Rev. CN Davie, pastor of the church on Great Cranberry Island, transmitting a 13 page notice dated June 25, 1897.
Islesford Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
Description:
Rev. Davie was pastor of the churches on both Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry Islands, His files and library were discovered in the house of the late Rev. Paul Olander at Islesford in 2002. The files were turned over to the Islesford Church and by them to the Islesford Historical Society. These documents record the difficulties that the Church on Great Cranberry was having involving ownershipof pews and the conversion from a Christian meeting house to a Congregational church with open pews. The original documents have been given to the GCI Historical Society. [show more]
Book storms and Shipwrecks of New England by Edward Rowe Snow
Islesford Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Includes, beginning at page 61, the wreck of the Grand Design at Sea Wall in 1741
Swivel for use with a large bouy on the end of a trawl set or a gang of traps from Francis Fernald
Islesford Historical Society
  • Object, Mechanical, Swivel
VHS "An Interview with Marjorie Phippen 1904-2002"
Islesford Historical Society
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording
Description:
2 Copies
Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of the Emilu F. Norton
Islesford Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Description:
copy #2 Reproduced from Down East magazine of March 1974 by the Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Minstrelsy of Maine
Islesford Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Musical Composition, Music Book, Songbook
Minstrelsy of Maine
Islesford Historical Society
Description:
Songs of Maine. Capt. Archie Spurling and other Cranberry Islanders were the sources of many of the sea shantys in this collection. Co-author Mary Smyth, and her sister were long-time summer residents on Islesford. Their father was Rev. Newman Smyth who built the summer cottage later owned by the McAvoy and Land Families, in the 1940's. The Smyth sisters boarded in Mary Morse's old Stanley houe and "mealed" at Woodlawn
An Interview with Ralph Stanley
Islesford Historical Society
  • Document, Oral History
An Interview with Ralph Stanley
Islesford Historical Society
Description:
copy #1
VHS "Ralph Stanley & Friends at the GCIHS Annual Meeting"
Islesford Historical Society
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording
Description:
Ralph Stanley & Friends playing at the GCIHS Annual Meeting 8/15/2002
3 legged milking stoosl
Islesford Historical Society
  • Object, Furnishings, Stool
3 legged milking stoosl
Islesford Historical Society
Description:
Irving Spurling and earlier Islesford farmers used stools like this when milking their cows. This stool may have come from Woodlawn where Ray Dwelley had a cow in the 1920s-30s.
Wash Board
Islesford Historical Society
  • Object, Maintenance, Washboard
Wash Board
Islesford Historical Society
Description:
Used for scrubbing clothes when they were being washed by hand. This may have come from Woodlawn.
Clothes stick
Islesford Historical Society
  • Object, Other Object
Clothes stick
Islesford Historical Society
Description:
this was used to stir clother in a washtub. It may have come from Woodlawn.
Catalogs from the Higgins Classical Institute from 1927-1931
Islesford Historical Society
  • Publication, Catalog
Description:
Many Islesford school children have attended the Higgins Classical Institute among them are Marjorie Bunker, Laurence Phippen, Robert Morse, Harold Phippen, Clayton Bunker, Sylvia Gilley, and Elizabeth Dwelley