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| Lifeboat Rations Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Lifeboat Rations Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Rations would have been stored in the lifeboat’s emergency kit. This one contains 8oz of dried biscuits. If a boat sunk in the middle of the Atlantic it could be many days before any lifeboats were found, so access to some food could be vital for survival. | ||
| Wooden and tin kitchenware Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wooden and tin kitchenware Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Kitchenware. Collection of five kitchen wares: (A) Wooden pounder for pounding foodstuff or packing pickles, etc. (B) Large wooden bowl (crack in center). (C and D): Two grooved wooden paddles for making butter balls. (E) One curved, perforated, tin skimmer for removing cream from milk. | |||
| White earthenware bowl Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  White earthenware bowl Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Bowl. White earthenware with red and pink rose clusters (underglaze decals) on interior; exterior has plain embossed scroll work and no rose decals. No maker's marks or ID. | |||
| Silver spoon from Preble House Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Silver spoon from Preble House Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Spoon, silver plated, makers mark: (star) ROGERS & BRO. A1, with daffodil motif on bowl and handle and engraved italic M on handle, from Preble house | |||
| Silver spoon from Preble house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Silver spoon from Preble house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Spoon, silver plated, makers mark: 1847 ROGERS BROS. A1, with floral motif on handle, from Preble house | |||
| Silver tea set Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Silver tea set Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Tea set, silver plated: "Stevens - Smart Quadruple Plate" tea set, 5 pieces: lidded teapot #415, cream pitcher, double handled sugar bowl, "waste " (used tea leaves) bowl w/lid. Wheat/leaves design cut in, not embossed | |||
| Ceramic bowl made by Lillian Samenfeld Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ceramic bowl made by Lillian Samenfeld Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Bowl. Red earthenware with beige glaze; green and orange dripped pattern. Made and donated by GCI potter, Lillian Samenfeld Island Pottery which operated in the studio barn next to what is now the Bradley house. Samenfeld was a member of the faculty of the Brooklyn Museum Art School. | |||
| Cup Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cup Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Cup. Silver with "JOHN Feb 18 1934" engraved. Bottom is stamped with "Sterling 335". | |||
| Wooden bowl Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wooden bowl Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Bowl. Wood, wide and shallow, perhaps for making butter, but many short cut marks evident mid-way along sides but not in center of bowl.Turned lathe rings visible on inside and outside of bowl. Deep crack across middle. | |||
| Janet Roberts ceramics Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Janet Roberts ceramics Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Pottery, Collection of 3 clay pieces made on GCI by Janet Roberts, showing how local indigenous groups, might have made a cooking pot; a) proto-bottom showing the coiling of clay rope to form a surface, 2.5" diam; b) continuing spiraling the clay rope upwards to make a wall, and a part cut away to better show the construction, 3.5" diam x 2" H; c) smoothed, decorated, and fired final pot with incised chevrons near the mouth, raked on the body, also net-like impresses on the body, and a rounded bottom, 5.5" L, 4.25" diam, 0.5" thick [show more] | |||
| Quilt. Cotton, white with pink basket motif Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Quilt. Cotton, white with pink basket motif Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Quilt. Cotton, white with pink basket motif on front, all white reverse. Pink border around three sides, one end with folded inward seem, no pink border. Sculpted in broad T shape on one end. Note from donor, Susan Bunker, reads: "This quilt was made by my father's, Raymond Bunker who was born in 1906, grandmother. She could have been a Bunker or a Spurling." | |||
| Crazy Quilt Preble House Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Crazy Quilt Preble House Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Quilt. Colorful wool, cotton, flannel, and jersey fabrics made of geometric and freeform shapes and patterns including plaids, tweeds, and solid colors. Reverse side is a solid rough beige cotton with pale blue stripes; there are decorative beige yarn ties along the blue stripes with a few pink yarn ties interspersed. Edges are folded in and machine (?) hemmed, there is no border. Possible ornate script initials - one of which is may be an "L". Some discoloration and stains. This quilt is one of two recovered from the Preble House. (See also quilt 1000.140.1138 from the same donor.) (Note: Lynne Birlem (donor 343) has a very similar framed crazy quilt at her home that is from her great grandmother Hamor's house on GCI.) [show more] | ||
| Grey metal pot Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Grey metal pot Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Metal, gray, with metal handle. Rusted. | |||
| Cast iron clamps used by Ladies Aid members when quilting Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cast iron clamps used by Ladies Aid members when quilting Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Tool. Seven cast iron clamps used by Ladies Aid members when quilting. Each clamp has a three-lobed key head on a threaded rod with floating foot. Four larger clamps (5.5" L x 2.5" W x .5" H): No. 50, E.C. STEARNS & CO., SYRACUSE N.Y.. Three smaller black clamps (4.5" L x 2.25 W x .5" H): E.C. STEARNS & CO., SYRACUSE N.Y. | |||
| Silver rug needle or sewing punch tool Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Silver rug needle or sewing punch tool Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Sewing tool. Antique rug needle or sewing punch tool, a.k.a stiletto sewing awl. Silver handle, steel shank with removable, sliding mechanism bearing patent info: PAT. 0 APR-6-09. Would have been used for a variety of endeavors like ripping seams, as a punch tool in rug making, creating eyelet holes in embroidery, and pricking patterns. Implement was recovered from Ruth "Robin" Freeman's barn across from the Preble House. Freeman is the donor's niece. [show more] | |||
| Patchwork quilt - Sanford Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Patchwork quilt - Sanford Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Quilt. Patchwork wool and polyester squares of black, grey, blue, and green one single white corduroy square. Squares are 6" x5" slightly irregular. Solid black satin with floral pattern back folded over on the parallel long edges to make a border. Machine stitching. | |||
| Hooked rug with wading waterbird Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hooked rug with wading waterbird Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Rug. Hooked, yarn and jersey material, with note "...made by Eliza Stanley." White waterbird with yellow bill wading with cattails, mountains, and butterfly in background; brown border. Faded, torn, worn, repaired at some earlier time. Eliza Stanley b. 1888 and d. 1967. (Donor bought Eliza and Pink Stanley's house 1970.) | ||
| Curved Steel Chopper Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Curved Steel Chopper Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Kitchenware. Curved steel chopper with riveted steel handle. "U. S. Stainless". For use in cutting dough or other foods. | |||
| Plate warmer Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Plate warmer Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Kitchenware. Plate warmer. White ceramic plate with blue rim permanently affixed to a metal bowl with two metal handles and a metal spout with screwable mouthpiece that has a tiny hole in it to allow steam to escape. Likely unscrewed the spout, filled it with hot water, or heated the whole assemblage. | |||
| U.S. flag - 48 states from Stanley home Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  U.S. flag - 48 states from Stanley home Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Flag, 48-Star U.S. flag. Ruth Westphal says, "Found in the home of Alice & Richard Stanley when we purchased it in July 1970. Home was built in 1910 by the Stanleys." | |||
| Harmonica Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Harmonica Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Musical instrument. Harmonica. Wood and metal, Marine Band, M. Hohner, made in Germany. Various trademarks: two hands holding a circle and ULM 1871, Stutgart 1881. Philad 1886. Tud Bunker's harmonica. | |||
| Eyrie Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Eyrie Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Eyrie: Summer home of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. at Seal Harbor in fall foliage 1914-1962 | ||||
| Sunbeam III Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Sunbeam III Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Sunbeam lll, 72 feet long and Diesel powered, owned and operated by the Maine Sea Coast Missionary Society, Bar Harbor, Maine. | ||||
| Roy Salisbury Collection - Objects II Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Roy Salisbury Collection - Objects II Northeast Harbor Library Description: Several objects from World War II belonging to Roy Salisbury and his wife Marion Delano: - Service ID - WWII ration coupons - WWII ration books | ||||
| Roy Salisbury Collection - Objects I Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Roy Salisbury Collection - Objects I Northeast Harbor Library Description: Several objects from World War II: - Red Cross Volunteer Pin - V pin - Rationing tokens (used to make change when using ration coupons) |