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| "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] | |||
| 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] | |||
| Photographs and a brochure from Ralph Stanley Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Photographs and a brochure from Ralph Stanley Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: See index file for a description of each item | |||
| Mount Desert Shipping Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Mount Desert Shipping Northeast Harbor Library Description: Lists of ships, tonnages and owners in Mount Desert 10 pages stapled or taped with 2 loose sheets | |||
| The Howe D. Higgins Collection of Documents Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Howe D. Higgins Collection of Documents Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The Howe D. Higgins Collection contains Howe's collection of documents from his time spent as a customs officer on Mount Desert Island from 1921 to 1930, with some other documents spanning into the 1930s. The collection is sorted into several sets of documents including: letters and correspondence with Howe D. Higgins pertaining to information about rum running and bootleggers on the island; reports of seizures and related search warrants; documents containing information about rum runners in the area; Howe D. Higgins' Work Logs as customs officer from 1921 to 1922 and 1928 to 1930; and newspaper clippings pertaining to prohibition and rum running on Mount Desert Island. [show more] | |||
| The Connecticut at the Southwest Boat Corporation Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Connecticut at the Southwest Boat Corporation Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Mackerel in Maine Waters - article 1909 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Mackerel in Maine Waters - article 1909 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper article, probably September 1909. Title: "Mackerel in Maine Waters". Article reports that 20 barrels of mackerel were caught by Eben T. Lewis, Benjamin A. Spurling, and John S. Seavey, near Monhegan. Article lists other ships and captains active in the Monhegan area due to reports of large schools of mackerel. | |||
| Early Hadlock Papers Reference Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Early Hadlock Papers Reference 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] | |||
| The Wind & the Wood, Ralph W. Stanley Inc., Boat Building Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  The Wind & the Wood, Ralph W. Stanley Inc., Boat Building Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Brochure, "The Wind & the Wood," promoting Ralph W. Stanley Inc., Boat Building business in Southwest Harbor. With his thoughts about wooden boat building, and photos of him, his shop, and his boats. Brochure probably from the mid 1980s. | ||
| Ledger with records of fishing Schooner Rozella Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ledger with records of fishing Schooner Rozella Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Ledger, Pocket, with records of work, fishing, cleaning fish, fish shares sold from Schooner Rozella, found in Bob LaHotan's barn, and probably kept by Enoch Stanley | ||
| Hall Quarry Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Hall Quarry Northeast Harbor Library Description: B/W Photograph taken from east side of the Sound looking west toward Hall Quarry, with quarry schooners at dock and anchored in the Sound. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions. | |||
| Photo-Essay of Last (1942) Voyage of Coal Schooner "Rebecca R. Douglas" Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Photo-Essay of Last (1942) Voyage of Coal Schooner "Rebecca R. Douglas" Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Photo-Essay by Bronson W. Chanler detailing a trip aboard the coal schooner "Rebecca R. Douglas" between Northeast Harbor and New York City. Note: As originally displayed in the museum, copies of the photographs taken by Chanler were mounted alongside excerpts and quotes. Around 2015 the photographs were removed from the 1984 posters so they could be scanned and better protected. They are uploaded here, as is the complete text by Bronson W. Chanler. [show more] | ||
| Howe D. Higgins' Documents Containing Information on Rum Running Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Howe D. Higgins' Documents Containing Information on Rum Running Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: This collection of documents contains letters and information about rum running, bootleggers, and their vessels, sent to and from Howe D. Higgins during his time as a customs officer. These documents have been indexed with their dates and the vessels or people they reference. | |||
| Howe D. Higgins' Reports of Seizures and Related Documents Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Howe D. Higgins' Reports of Seizures and Related Documents Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: This collection of documents contains Howe D. Higgins' reports of seizures as collector of customs, as well as the related documents for those seizures, including search warrants and documents containing information about liquor smuggling. | |||
| Correspondence with Howe D. Higgins as Customs Officer Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Correspondence with Howe D. Higgins as Customs Officer Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: This collection contains letters sent to and from Howe D. Higgins between 1921 and 1933 pertaining to information about prohibition and rum runners on Mount Desert Island. These letters have been indexed with their dates and the vessels or people they reference. | |||
| Man with Lobster Trap Photograph Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Man with Lobster Trap Photograph Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: An elderly fisherman lifts a lobster trap. Black and white | |||
| Wood is Good but Glass May Surpass Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Wood is Good but Glass May Surpass Northeast Harbor Library Description: Article from Down East Magazine about Robert "Bob Lincoln's small boat building business, RKL Boatworks. He started with the Rangeley Guide Boat and is developing a row boat, now using the less expensive fiberglass. | |||
| Casco Bay Steamship Company Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Casco Bay Steamship Company Southwest Harbor Public Library | |||
| Unloading Fish from a Dory Negative (2) Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Unloading Fish from a Dory Negative (2) Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Five men unload fish from a dory in Southwest Harbor, ME. Black and white | |
| Unloading Fish from a Dory Negative (1) Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Unloading Fish from a Dory Negative (1) Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Three men unload fish from a dory in Southwest Harbor, ME. Black and white |