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| Painting of the Lusitania Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Painting of the Lusitania Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Painting, oil or acrylic, and pencil on cardboard of the ship Lusitania. Framed in wood with popsicle stick supports on damaged corners. Donor notes, "I bought it at a Cranberry Island Fair in the 1980s, and was told it came out of an Island House. I'm not sure if it was done by an Islander, but Isabel Storey would know." | |||
| Model Schooner Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Model Schooner Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Two-mast schooner model by George Savage. Red, white, orange, black with blue deck, four sails, no name or number on stern or sides. He lived on the island from the 1930s onward. He was a constable. | |
| Model four-mast schooner in glass bottle Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Model four-mast schooner in glass bottle Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Model, 4-masted wooden schooner in a molded glass bottle with cork; it looks old but commercial, not a handicraft object | |||
| Ship's log child's notebook Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ship's log child's notebook Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Ship's log, used as child's notebook by Emery Richardson, poor condition (found in Bob LaHotan's barn when he cleaned it 2001). A child used it for practicing letters and drawing sailboats. | |||
| Lamp, old schooner or boat running light Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Lamp, old schooner or boat running light Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Lamp, old schooner or boat running light found in archives 2016. Wood, thickly layer of green paint with layer of red underneath, clear semi-circular glass lens, two wires running from inside lamp to exterior. Would likely have sat starboard (right) side as the light is painted green. A red light would sit on the dock (left) side so you can see which direction the boat is going even in the dark. | ||
| Receipt for Schooner Rozella supplies Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Receipt for Schooner Rozella supplies Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Business receipt, from Perley, Russel & Co., Portland, list of supplies bought by schooner Rozella | |||
| Receipts for Schooners S. L. Foster, Rozella, Sea Bird, and Relief Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Receipts for Schooners S. L. Foster, Rozella, Sea Bird, and Relief Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Business receipts, 1878 (A) and 1898 (B). 1000.3.218(A) is from Potter and Wrightington, Boston, to Enoch Stanley for the Schooners S.L. Foster, Rozella, Sea Bird, and Relief: $2553.89 for fish. 1000.3.218(B) is a receipt for the Schooner S. L. Foster bought of Sm. Newman, Manset Maine 1898 various items like rope, sail line, nails, knife, keg, coffee and tea pots, spoons etc purchased March through September 1898 total $34.82. | |||
| Cargo Manifest for Schooner S. L. Foster Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cargo Manifest for Schooner S. L. Foster Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Cargo Manifest, schooner S.L. Foster, master Enoch B. Stanley, navigated by 4 men and no boys, from Boston to Cranberry Isles, 3 Dec 1878, cargo: 24 barrels flour, 15 brls apples, 2 tons coal, 52 bushels corn, 30 bshls meal, 4 brls beef, 4 pcs furniture, 1 stove | |||
| 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] | |||
| Early Hadlock papers group 5 of 5 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Early Hadlock papers group 5 of 5 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) [show more] | |||
| Early Hadlock papers group 4 of 5 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Early Hadlock papers group 4 of 5 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) [show more] | |||
| Early Hadlock papers group 3 of 5 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Early Hadlock papers group 3 of 5 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) [show more] | |||
| Early Hadlock papers group 2 of 5 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Early Hadlock papers group 2 of 5 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) [show more] | |||
| Early Hadlock papers group 1 of 5 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Early Hadlock papers group 1 of 5 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) [show more] | |||
| Somes Cove, ME Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Somes Cove, ME Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Two masted schooner at wharf in back of Fernald’s store (purchased in 1887 from A.J. Whiting); later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore, at low tide. Loading ramp extends from second story door in back of building. Somes House Inn to the right. Port in a Storm later was used as an art gallery. | |||
| Wreck of the Schooner "Catherine" in Somes Harbor. Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Wreck of the Schooner "Catherine" in Somes Harbor. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Remains of the wreck of the schooner "Catherine" in Somes Harbor. | |||
| Wreck of the Schooner "Catherine" Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Wreck of the Schooner "Catherine" Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Remains of the wreck of the schooner "Catherine" in Somes Harbor. Unknown man bending over to examine remains. | |||
| Wreck of the Schooner "Catherine" in Somes Harbor Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Wreck of the Schooner "Catherine" in Somes Harbor Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Remains of the wreck of the schooner Catherine in Somes Harbor. | |||
| Wreck of Schooner "Catherine" in Somes Harbor Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Wreck of Schooner "Catherine" in Somes Harbor Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Remains of the wreck of the schooner Catherine in Somes Harbor. | |||
| Launching the SS Acadia Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Launching the SS Acadia Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Launching the S.S. Acadia in Newport News. | ||
| S.S. Acadia prior to launch Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| S.S. Acadia prior to launch Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: The S.S. Acadia in Newport News just prior to launching. | ||
| Two masted Schooner on shore Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Two masted Schooner on shore Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Two masted schooner on shore. Rail fence in foreground. Harbor in background. | |||
| Schooner "Kate Pray" Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Schooner "Kate Pray" Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Schooner "Kate Pray" in back of Fernald’s store (formerly, A.J. Whiting’s Store) later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore, still later, an art gallery. Buildings on Main Street, Somesville, from left to right: Abraham Somes III house; John Somes house, known as “Old Homestead”; Thaddeus Somes Store; in front of store, black smith’s shop; Fernald’s Store; Mount Desert Tavern. To right of schooner two black horses harnessed to wagon next to wood pile. Two men on stern of schooner. One man on deck between masts. Marked on back, "Named for Kate Pray who was resident of Somesville, built at Somesville date unknown.” 8"x 10" [show more] | |||
| Schooner "Federal" by Bryant Bradley at Ballard Studio Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Schooner "Federal" by Bryant Bradley at Ballard Studio Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Two master Schooner "Federal" grounded in Somes Cove at low tide, leaning to port side. Main street Somesville behind schooner. Historic Nathan Salisbury House in middle, Lewis Somes House to right. Marked on back, “Schooner Federal Grounded in the cove at Somesville, Maine. Copy by W.H. Ballard, Photographer Southwest Harbor, Maine. Stereo Original by Bryant Bradley. W.H. Ballard Collection Southwest Harbor, Maine.” Bryant Bradley was born about 1840. His wife’s name was Ellen. She was born about 1847. Their son Harry born around 1876 became a photographer also. His father died by 1900 and Harry had taken over the studio. [show more] | ||
| Schooner "Flora Grindle" Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Schooner "Flora Grindle" Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Schooner "Flora Grindle". Small two masted schooner, top sail on main mast. Two men standing on deck. Tender in davits on stern. Another small boat alongside, person in canoe or dingy rowing around stern. Sch. FLORA GRINDLE printed on upper left corner. 8" x 10" image |