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| Large unidentified sailing boat Northeast Harbor Fleet |
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|  Large unidentified sailing boat Northeast Harbor Fleet Description: A 5"x7" black and white photograph of a large unidentified sailing boat. | |||
| Model Warship - Built by Arvard Savage Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Model Warship - Built by Arvard Savage Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Model warship built by Arvard Savage. Donated by Karin Whitney. | |
| Photos and clippings from Addie Duren Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photos and clippings from Addie Duren Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photos and assortment of clippings. 21 photographs of people, boats, structures, from Addie Duren's time, given to GCIHS by her son Ron Mountain, some with IDs written on reverse: A=Adline Bunker; B= Ernest Stanley In Service, First World War; C=Alfred Ladd passed away in first world war by a bomb. D=Addie must be going someplace. All dressed up in my Brothers clothes. E=Winfield Stanley; F=Omer Mountain In USN; G=Eliza Stanley; H=Addie Duren. Photos I-M=people no IDs (except deerhunter photo is marked 1940. Photos N-R=boats have no IDs except N (upper right corner)=First boat Raymond B. ever built. Photos of buildings S=Aid building/barn; T=GCI Church; U=Velma Teel's house in the snow. V-ZZ=Newspaper clippings: improved lobster pot design 1956, witticisms, and children' games. AA-CC= handwritten songs and a note. [show more] | |||
| Boats TBD Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Boats TBD Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Boats. A=unidentified ship. B=Large ship, "the SS David McKelvy, 445 ft long, 59 ft breadth, 33.3 ft. depth, 11,000 tons. Draft is 29 feet." C&D= Two-mast sailboat with note "Drager ashore back shore. Oscar Wedge claimed!!! We all had something 1945-1946?" from Folder full of photos from Dot Towns with note that Georgie Ware had been through them (probably to ID them). Save as a collection see below | |||
| Photos of a dirigible and boats Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photos of a dirigible and boats Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Twelve photos of a dirigible and boats: A= Dirigible above mountains. B= Dirigible (the Shenandoah?) anchored to a navy ship with Coast Guard vessel in front July 4, 1925, Bar Harbor Maine. C= Postcard of [illegible] yacht wrecked on Duck island. D= Schooner George B. Hogg. E= the S.S. David McKelvey. F= the yacht Frolic. G= Yacht Lotusland one of the first to carry an airplane June 1931. H= The Hobo, Warren Rice owned it; he worked for Spurling. I= The cove frozen over. J= unidentified sailboat. K= Unidentified Yacht. L= motorboat with A4845 on bow and Weona as ID on reverse of the photo. [show more] | |||
| Wilfred Bunker and Clarence Beal aboard the Silas McClune Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wilfred Bunker and Clarence Beal aboard the Silas McClune Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo, b&w snapshot, Wilfred Bunker (looking up) and Clarence Beal on board their lobster smack, Silas McClune. Per Ralph Stanley August 2016: The Silas McClune was built for the A. C. McClune Co. in Rockland. They were lobster dealers. Beal & Bunker bought the boat in the 1950s. They had the wet wells plugged and used it as a freight boat. They caught hake fish at GCI and took it to Vinalhaven for sale. Buster Rice was the captain. Beal & Bunker sold the boat to Arnold Allen who had a seining outfit. Ralph believes the boat went ashore and might be beneath the sewer plant in Southwest Harbor. (See also 2018.416.2824C.) [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] | ||
| Rudder with curved blade, wood stem, and cross-piece Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Rudder with curved blade, wood stem, and cross-piece Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Boat equipment. Rudder: wood with two metal brackets and two metal pegs, curved blade with wooden stem and cross-piece. | |||
| "Cranberry Island Notes" by Charles 'Chuck' Liebow Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "Cranberry Island Notes" by Charles 'Chuck' Liebow Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Boats. Looseleaf Binder, "Cranberry Island Notes" by Charles Liebow. Contains maps 1607-1881, "List of Vessels From Notes made by Chuck Liebow (Typed & some notes added by Hugh Dwelley 11/1994" (also on cranberryisles.com website), 1912 petition to establish boundaries of roads, census data 1839-1860, the cranberry register 1909-1910, boat building, Liebow's notes on books and articles, miscellaneous, photos, houses showing owners then and now, families, deeds. [show more] | |||
| Photos of boats and shore Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photos of boats and shore Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of photos, Boats and Shore Scenes | |||
| Boat Drawings by young Alton Bunker Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Boat Drawings by young Alton Bunker Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Two pictures printed on large paper for display purposes of boats by young Alton Bunker, brother of Tud Bunker. Alton had the mailboat contract for a few years around 1939, he ran the contract with his boat a Novia | |||
| Photographs of dory, schooner, and steamer boats Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photographs of dory, schooner, and steamer boats Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Four photographs of boats (A-D) with unidentified men and boys aboard. (A) unidentified dory. (B) and (D) may be the same vessel, probably one of the mackerel schooners owned by Benjamin Harley Spurling whose wife was Frances Almira Preble (donor Louise Marr's grandparents.) C: The steamer may have been one owned by Hanson B. Joyce of Swan's Island engaged in the mackerel fishery. Joyce owned significant shares in several Cranberry Island vessels, possibly shares in Benjamin Spurling's vessels. (D): information from Ralph Stanley and Bar Harbor Record. [show more] | |||
| Dr. Keith MacKane, Sheep Island Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Dr. Keith MacKane, Sheep Island Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Keith MacKane leaning on sail in small sailing dory at float on Sheep Island. Woman on the left bending down to lines, may be Virginia Sanderson. Marked on back, “Dr. MacKane Sheep Island, Maine." No date. | |||
| Looking over lake or Somes Sound Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Looking over lake or Somes Sound Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Looking over lake or Somes Sound. Person in canoe. | ||
| Filmming about Friendship Sloops Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Filmming about Friendship Sloops Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Ralph Stanley far left and two men working on film about Friendship sloops. One of the cameramen is Lowell Wentworth. Unknown man | |||
| Account of the A Grand Old One Design Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Account of the A Grand Old One Design Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Handwritten partial history of the A Class Design. Includes quotes from E.R. Welles. It appears to be part of a forward for a future article. Gaff Rigged Sloop. Known also as an H class Previously accessioned as 007.121 | ||||
| Safe Haven (Kronprinzessin Cecilie) Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Safe Haven (Kronprinzessin Cecilie) Jesup Memorial Library | |||
| High and Dry Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  High and Dry Jesup Memorial Library | |||
| A Tragedy at Mt. Desert Ferry Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  A Tragedy at Mt. Desert Ferry Jesup Memorial Library | |||
| Schooner Frank Brainerd Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Schooner Frank Brainerd Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Framed picture of the Frank Brainerd with a deck load lumber. Sticker on the back of the frame reads: Frank A. Bigelow, Inc. 11 Bromfield St., Boston, Mass. | |||
| Photograph of a Sailboat. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photograph of a Sailboat. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photograph of a sailboat at what looks like Isleford Dock. There is no date on the photo, but from the people on the boat it looks like it could be from the late 1800's early 1900's. | ||
| Funliner Trips- Maine State Ferry Service Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Funliner Trips- Maine State Ferry Service Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A Map of the outer islands, including Great Cranberry, Mt. Desert, Deer Island and North Haven Island. On the other side there is a diagram that explains what the lights and buoys mean. | ||
| Half model of a Luders 16 Sloop Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Half model of a Luders 16 Sloop Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Half model of a sloop, perhaps a Luders 16, with a Genoa jib, made by Robert L. Smallidge Sr. of Northeast Harbor. Model's hull is varnished, and uses various wood types for topsides, waterline, and bottom, while the sails are painted white. The model and sails are mounted on a pine board. On the back of the model is #6, R.L. Smallidge, N.E. Harbor, Me. | |
| Lou [Lewis] Stanley's boat 1935 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Lou [Lewis] Stanley's boat 1935 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo, Lou [Lewis] Stanley's boat 1935 (item #1747a is the reverse side of picture) -from the Hazel Stanley Collection | |||
| The "Cheri & Norm" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  The "Cheri & Norm" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo, the "Cheri & Norm"- Norman Sanborn's boat. The outboard on right is Barbara Donald's and behind -Herman's is on the left and Karl Wedge on right. |