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.
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.
Description: Light fixture. Glass globe from donor's kitchen ceiling light with connections and cap. White glass with two blue lines and pale blue band between them; brass base is painted beige.
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
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.
Description: Game. Metal “Beano” cage. Round wire-mesh ball containing many lightweight wooden balls (.5" diam) each stamped with a letter (B,I,N,G,O) and a number (from 1 to at least 70), on a wire stand with wire crank that spins the balls, a latch for an opening where balls can be taken in and out, and a little metal cup stamped "LOWE" where a single ball would tumble into. This game was played at the firehouse 1950s and beyond.
Description: Doll: common hair china doll, 22" tall with underclothes, pink skirt and shirt, leather arms andn cloth body. Ceramic head is cracked and mended, leather hands frayed, underclothes probably original; donor believed the pink floral, ruffled skirt and top were original and the doll was at least 100 years old. This doll is from the Towns house, a.k.a. Crosby farm, Bayview Farm, or Red House.
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.
Description: Books. Collection of 29 books of a wide variety, many donated by Bruce Komusin over the years. (Any other known donors noted in book.) 1. Grandma Moses Story Book, by Kramer 1961 (MISSING as of 27/07/2023) 2. Ballads of the Cranberry Isles, 2003, Edited by Hugh L. Dwelley, Islesford Historical Society Occasional Paper No. 11, June 2003 3. A Long, Long Way - An Artist's Life, by Wini Smart, 2008, Custom Museum Publishing, Rockland, ME 2008 4. Mountain Playmates by Helen R. Albee, Copyright 1900 by Helen R. Albee. 5. Minstrelsy of Maine, Folk Songs and Ballads of the Woods and Coast,1927, Collected by Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and Mary Winslow Smyth 6. Upton Arithmetic Grade 4, By Clifford B. Upton, 1951 7. Maine School Report – 1901. Report of the State Superintendent of Public Schools of the State of Maine for the school year ending June 30, 1900, Augusta, Kennebec Journal Print 1901 8. Sixth Annual Report on Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths in the State of Maine, 1897. Augusta, Kennebec Journal Print, 1899. 9. The Normal Third Reader, 1878, By Albert N. Raub, A.M. Ph.D., Philadelphia: Porter & Coates 1878. 10. The Island of Mount Desert Register, 1909-1910, compiled by Lawton, Jordan, and Maddox 11. Steamboat Lore of the Penobscot River, John M. Richardson, 1941 12. Steamboat Lore of the Penobscot River, John M. Richardson, 1941 13. Penobscot Bay Mount Desert and Eastport Steamboat Album by Alllie Ryan 1972 14. Temperance Fourth Reader, by Julia McNair Wright, 1895 15. The Sword of Honor - A Story of the Civil War by Lieut. H.A. Johnson, Third Maine Regiment, N.V.M., Hallowell Maine 1906. Hannibal A. Johnson, 2d Lieut 16. A Tourist in Ludlow and Other Poems by Charles E. Wadsworth by the Tidal Press (GCI) 1984 - artwork and verse 17. The Prince of Peace by Wadsworth 18. Sprague's Journal of Maine History Vol. XI 1923 No. 3 published by John Francis Sprague Dover Foxcroft Maine 19. The Cranberrry Island Series by Donald Wellman 20. Cemeteries of Cranberry Isles and the Towns of Mount Desert, by Thomas F. Vining, 2000 (1 of 2) 21. Cemeteries of Cranberry Isles and the Towns of Mount Desert, by Thomas F. Vining, 2000 22. A Graveyard Preservation Primer by Lynette Strangstad, Alta Mira Press, 1995 23-29. Books. Six Little Bunkers children's book series. By Laura Lee Hope. (7 books, 7 titles: Six Little Bunkers at Grandpa Ford’s, Six Little Bunkers at Cousin Tom’s, Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell’s, Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack’s, Six Little Bunkers at Miller Ned’s, Six Little Bunkers at Uncle Fred’s, and Six Little Bunkers at Indian John’s). [show more]
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.
Description: Clothing. Blue and gold Rooster Club ball cap and green Rooster Club tee shirt. The Rooster Club was the men's answer to the elite women's Cranberry Club. Members included Arvard Savage, Doc Haydock, Charlie Rice, and Victor [White]?. Club house was behind Haydock's house.
Description: Hats and tobacco brick. (A) One flat-topped, black, wool cap with braiding above the visor in poor condition -sometimes called a Greek fisherman's cap. Brand name inside is worn off but begins with G. Style may be 100 years old. Perhaps Lewis Stanley's captain's hat (brother of Carrie Richardson). (B) One oilskin, tan, rain hat in poor condition, size 7 and 1/4. (C) One long, flat tobacco brick (10.5" x 2.5" x .5"). "The rectangular block is tobacco, probably to scrape off into the bowl of a pipe." - Bruce Komusin's note Fall 2008. Donor stated items were "found in Carrie Richardson's house under the stairwell during renovation." (The Stanley-Richardson house is now the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation house.) Also,"the photo of Carrie?? [Richardson] and man with telephone standing by canon was given at same time. [Photo not present during 2013 review.] [show more]
Description: Books, collection of four. (A) List of Merchant Vessels of the United States 1893 with illustrations and excellent information. (B) List of Merchant Vessels of the United States 1887. (C) The Island of Mount Desert Register - no date visible, but probably 1910. Book includes a chapter of history of Cranberry Isles, page 97. Many newspaper clippings from 1930s to 1960s glued to inside front book jacket and initial pages including obituaries, Cranberry Isles and Mount Desert news, shipwrecks and life savers, the firebug article etc. One black and white photo of the Mountain house before the fire. Obituary clippings include: Clara S. Alley Feb. 26, 1965; Gilbert Hadlock; Wilbert Rice; Mrs. Herbert Bell; Almenia Lurvey; Thomas M. Stanley; Charles Hulbert; Capt. William Bulger dies eleven days after his brother 1927; Mary Ann Carroll; Sim H. Mayo; Oscar Jarvis; Fred Phippen; Capt. Thomas Newman; Mrs. John Carroll; Otis Sawtelle; and Harvey Stanley; Also a handwritten list of the John Stanley, Jr. and wife Margaret family starting 1789 through 1842. Receipt from Strawbridge & Clothier for Mrs. Mabel Stanley no year. Info on Ellen Maria Spurling b. 1842 died 1929 and children. Note about Sam Chapman b. 1868 and Cora Chapman b. 1863. (Color photocopies made of articles and stored with book (C).) (D) "At Mount Desert: A Summer's Sowing" by Mildred Fairfax, copyright Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society, 1893. “At Mount Desert,” by Mildred Fairfax, is in many respects a peculiarly attractive book. A defect of many stories is that they almost leave out the scenery, but it is not so in this instance. The tale itself is deeply interesting, with its young man gone astray, its good-angel sister, and its fortune lost and plotted for, but the writer is evidently in love with all the scenic effects of sea and sky and land along the rugged Maine coast, and at Mount Desert. There would be almost too much word-painting if it were not for the admirable half-tone photographic views which serve as illustrations. They become part of the narrative, and give it a realism not otherwise attainable.” (See www.ebay.com/itm/1893-At-Mount-Desert-Island-by-Mildred-Fairfax-A-Summers-Sowing-8-Plates-/322180352978). [show more]
Description: Basket and lid, very small barrel shaped, flat bottom, made of braided sweetgrass or twine, and perhaps ash strips, with a blue card inside, probably from Smart Studio, reading "Antique Penobscot Indian Sweetgrass Basket, late 1800s, $55". This may be one of several Indigenous American basketry items collected by Mary E. Shaw (Mrs. Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs. Shaw visit 9/25/14). [show more]
Description: Basketry, Collection of 2 Indigenous American Indian crafted sweetgrass braids, one (25" L x 0.5" W) decorated with colorful yarn, likely bought at the Abbe Museum by Wini Smart a few years after 2000, the other (39" L x 0.5" W) tied with yellow yarn; both intended to waft a sweet smell into a room
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]
Description: Letter and 2 photos of drawings depicting Eskimo Culture: hunting, fishing, from German source. [Research TBD] Likely connected with Samuel Hadlock and his traveling exhibition of Eskimo Indians, Rachel Field's God's Pocket, and subsequent research in Beyond God's Pocket
Description: Printed photo copy of Eskimo drawing with lock of hair in green frame, 8"x10"; connected with Rachel Field's book "God's Pocket" and Samuel Hadlock, Jr. voyages with his traveling exhibition of Eskimo Indians in the 1820s. See also Beyond God's Pocket. [Research on drawing TBD.]
Description: Portrait. Large framed oval portrait of a man (or woman) in green jacket. Could be Charles Gott, possibly Lulu (Steele) Alley's husband at one time. Oval wood and bubble glass, perhaps a 'tiger wood' frame. On reverse in pencil script: "5713 Mr. Chas. Gott, Bar Harbor, ME". Gaile Colby recalled some information about Mr. Steele's old place. " A camp across from Polly Bunker's burned down after a lot of use. Louis Bracy was born in that house. It was an outhouse from the school originally and Sadie brought it down and added it to the 'camp'. Arthur built the replacement to the shack late 1960s 1970s. Arthur lived in the old shack, too. Sadie gave it to Madeleine, and Madeleine and Frank lived in it. Everyone lived in it. Liza and Pink's daughter, Elma, lived in it. Jeanne was her sister. Jeanne Start is who Lou Millar bought her house from.This portrait is one of several items from donors in summer 2016 prior to selling their house on The Lane, GCI. Many items pertain to Lulu Alley family. Items were in the house when donor's parents, June and Ed Sampson, bought the house from Lulu in November 1969. The four Sampson children were added to the deed in 1995. Dan and Maia bought the house from Maia’s siblings in 2002 and sold it in 2016. The house was built for Lulu Steele when she married Lewis Alley 1914(?); Lulu died in 2004. House is said to be a ca. 1914 Sears Roebuck modular home, similar to several others on GCI. The garage on the property was built by Mike Westphal in the 1980s. Big cook stove in kitchen is original. It was the only heat and only stove in the house originally. Rocking chair in house is original. Kitchen cabinetry on right of sink is original. Woodstove in the living room is 1973. [show more]
Description: Photo, print of front view of Longfellow School house, in blue frame, 8x10", blk & wht, from scan. (See 2004>photos>bk, possibly made from a postcard: "School House at Cranberry Isles, Me" in script.)
Description: Art, pen and ink drawing titled "LOBSTER TRAP ON BOTTOM" by C. Gilley, showing an old fashioned round top wooden lobster trap on the sea bed, with a rope going up to an intermediate float (a glass bottle), the rope continuing further up to a bullet shaped float on the surface; also a lobster boat approching it on the surface