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You searched for: Year start: 1900Year end: 1910Date: 1890sSubject: BusinessesSubject: People
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Bunker Brothers letterhead and Annie M. Bunker ledger
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • 1899
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Bunker Brothers letterhead and Annie M. Bunker ledger
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
A=Letterhead for Bunker Brothers, Dr., Ship Brokers and Commission Merchants, Chas. E. Bunker and M.S. Bunker of Portland 187_. B=Annie E. Bunker ledger 1899 (cover and page 1 of 15 scanned). Other names in ledger include: C. W. Hammond, Thos. J. Johnston, Frey Thomas, A. Paul Jr., J.A. Grimmin, A.J. Gouley, C. Wilt & Son, and Annie M. Bunker. This ledger is part of collection of Clara Rice items (Clara Adeline Richardson Bunker Rice (1847-1923). (Charles E. Bunker was Clara's second husband of three. Clara Rice was postmistress on Sutton Island in the Cranberry Isles. She may have married a Fernald, then Charles Edward Bunker, and then wed Wilbert Augustus Rice in 1893. ) [show more]
Business cards and railroad ticket
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Businesses, Transportation Business
  • People
  • 1890
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Business cards and railroad ticket
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Miscellaneous documents (late 1800s-early 1900s) from Preble House. A. Business card: George Shaw Grocer Portland Maine. B. Business card: S.T. Mugridge Sailmaker Rockland Maine. C. Second class railroad ticket Pullman’s Palace Car Co. from Bangor to [xxx], punched, October 2, [no year], Line 151, Conductor name illegible. Reverse shows rules and disclaimer (a statement from General Ticket Agent Chicago). D. Business card. Cranberry Isles Mutual Fish Company listing officers: Wm. P. Preble, A.C. Fernald, and directors: A. C. Savage, O.A. Richardson, A. L. Manchester: Curers, Packers and Shippers, Cranberry Isles etc. Reverse side lists kinds of fish they deal in. E. Undated (18xx) Collector’s Bond form. Partially filled in, listing Charles E. Spurling, Samuel N. Bulger and John Gilley as sureties of the Town of Cranberry Isles for $500. F. Blank shipping order form (two pages). C.K. Darling, Stationer, 15 Exchange St., Boston. [show more]
Booth Bros. Hurricane Isle Granite Co., Hall Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • People
  • 1890's
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Description:
Showing workers on the granite field at Hall Quarry with cut slabs of granite. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
Salisbury Market (Knowles Co.), Northeast Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Market Business
  • People
  • ca. 1890
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
Almenia Herrick Wagner (mother), Isaac Wilbur Herrick (grandpie), Ida Sumner Herrick (nana) labeled on front of photograph. Now the location of the Knowles Company. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
Capt. William Bill Horace Herrick Leading John Whitmore's Fast Speed Horse To Be Shot
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • 1898 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Written on the back of the photograph: "Old Horse J. Sargent" One of the trees on the front lawn of the library and the library wall can just be seen over the back of the horse. The building visible beyond the library property is the Freeman J. Lurvey building.
Letter from William H. Preble to William P. Preble
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Organizations, Religious
  • People
  • 1891
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Letter from William H. Preble to William P. Preble
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Letter is from William H. Preble to his father William P. Preble in 1891. He explains there have been many fatal cases of the grippe (flu); suggestions for how to handle repairs and sale of the GCI meeting house (church); and that his brother Andrew is disposing of his interests in the company (presumably Chicago Rawhide Mfg); Transcribed.
Capt. William Bill Horace Herrick Leading John Whitmore's Fast Speed Horse To Be Shot
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • 1898 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • No Copyright - United States
"The Village Blacksmith" - Edwin L. Higgins
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Businesses, Blacksmith Business
  • People
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1895-09-05
  • Southwest Harbor
  • No Copyright - United States
"The Village Blacksmith" - Edwin L. Higgins
Southwest Harbor Public Library
"The Village Blacksmith" - Edwin L. Higgins
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Businesses, Blacksmith Business
  • People
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1894-08
  • Southwest Harbor
  • No Copyright - United States
"The Village Blacksmith" - Edwin L. Higgins
Southwest Harbor Public Library
"The Village Blacksmith" - Edwin Lemuel Higgins - III
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Businesses, Blacksmith Business
  • People
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1895-09-05
  • Southwest Harbor
  • No Copyright - United States
Description:
The title was given by Henry L. Rand when he catalogued the photograph. Clearly visible on Mr. Higgins’ anvil is the distinctive eagle and anchor mark that distinguishes it as a Fisher & Norris Eagle Anvil. Mark Fisher founded the company in Newport, Maine in 1843. The company later moved to New Jersey. Mr. Higgins left hand is on the lever that controls the air coming into the fire. And a bucket of water stands nearby.