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| Hamor House sketch Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hamor House sketch Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Drawing by S.G. Easter or Caster? pencil sketch of the Hamor Tea House; some water staining on the edges. Painting removed from original frame (a glass pane with metal rosettes securing it to a wood board back). Original sketch stored separately; scanned print of the drawing is in frame. | |||
| Photo album: late 19th-early 20th c photographs and cards Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photo album: late 19th-early 20th c photographs and cards Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo album. Eighteen gilt-edged cardboard pages with 70 photos and three memorial cards. Cover is worn gold velvet with ornate metal hasp and decorative metal binding with clover-shaped mirror in center of cover. Album has a metal foot attached to the back to support it when opened and can be attached to a worn gold velvet covered wood and metal bookstand. Most pages hold four paper cabinet card photographs inserted in to a woodgrained paper sleeve. There are also seven tintype photos inserted in sleeves. Stamped in gold on first page is: "Patented January 23, 1894". Several of the photo cards slide in and out of their sleeves and the names of various photo studios from Maine and elsewhere are evident. (For example: C.E. Harvey, 3115 Indiana Avenue, Chicago" and "Osgood, 22 Main St., Ellsworth, ME.") Photo portraits include several GCI families of the late 19th to early 20th century. Many photographs were labeled on looseleaf in modern times by an unknown hand including: Aunt Asinith Spurling; Rev. Charles Howard; Capt. George Bunker; Mrs. George Bunker; George E. Bunker, July '9;, Mrs. Frederick Lord; Samuel Bulger; John Bulger; Mr. Seth Rice; Mrs. Ida Rice; William Preble; Mrs. William Preble; Percy Bunker; Alfred Bulger; Ralph Bulger; Capt. William Bulger and wife; Florence Mildred Bunker; George Edward; Gil Hamor; Frances Spurling; Elton Bunker; Leslie Bunker; Mrs. Harriet Bunker; Mrs. Grace Bunker; Alice Bulger; Johnny and Filmore Steele; Mr. and Mrs. Will Young; Rose Ladd; Edna and Alfred Ladd; Lina and Alfred Ladd; Polly Bulger; Ralph Bulger; John H. Pressey; George and Harriet Bunker; Ida/Clara/Leslie Bunker; John Hamor; Nettie Stanley; Mrs. Lydia Bunker; and Thomas Bunker. (Digital images of individual album pages were made.) [show more] | |||
| Feather fan, 19th century Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Feather fan, 19th century Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Clothing. Ladies Feather Fan-19th Century-Macfarlan Family. (Duplicate of 2009.11.1181?) | |||
| Guest book from Hamor Tea House 1945 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Guest book from Hamor Tea House 1945 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Book, Guests book inscribed inside front cover "Alice / from / Sadie & John / Oct. 25 / [19]39", given presumably by John & Sadie Hamor, owners of the Hamor Tea House, to "Alice"; guest entries seem to all be written in the same hand - probably Alice's; entries begin 1 June [19]45 with Seth Rice, and end 18 Oct [19]45 with Louise Spurling; most entries are local island folks; most days have only 1 to 3 entries - this seems quite a low number for a restaurant to stay in business; this could be a guest book for Alice's private home [show more] | ||||
| Ladies 19th century shoes Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ladies 19th century shoes Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Shoes. Ladies Shoes- 19th Century-Macfarlan Family. (See also 2009.11.1942 for possible shoes.) | ||||
| Hand Towel (white) with monogram "M. Storey" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hand Towel (white) with monogram "M. Storey" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Towel. Hand Towel (white) with monogram "M. Storey"; belonged to Moorfield Storey | |||
| Print, "A Playful Mood - on Maine Coast" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Print, "A Playful Mood - on Maine Coast" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photograph. Print, "A Playful Mood - on Maine Coast", framed, color landscape of wave breaking on rocks, (c) Harris. With exhibit tag: Old tinted photos from the Hamor Tea House | ||||
| Ornate metal picture frame Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ornate metal picture frame Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Frame. Ornate Metal Picture Frame for 4" to 6" pictures | |||
| Christmas card to Addie Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Christmas card to Addie Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Christmas card in wood frame. From Annie Blake (Teacher) to Addie Stanley | |||
| Two partial sets of alphabet flash cards Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Two partial sets of alphabet flash cards Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Flash cards, two partial sets of commercially-made alphabet flash cards; each shows a letter of the alphabet or a digraph (2 letters making a sound); the back is sometimes blank, sometimes with a story explaining the use of the letter or sound | |||
| Flash cards, commercially-made alphabet flash cards. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Flash cards, commercially-made alphabet flash cards. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Flash cards, commercially-made alphabet flash cards; they show each letter of the alphabet with an object beginning with that letter, and on the back other words beginning with that letter; there are 17 such cards, plus one card with just the saying "Father and Mother"; 26 cards stored in Box 33 archives. two sets A has letters accompanied by pictures drawn, and words for spelling practice on the opposite side, B has only letters on both sides of each card. [show more] | |||
| Golliwog doll Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Golliwog doll Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Doll, Golliwog, a miniature cloth person in blue shirt with red and white striped pants, black face, black curly hair, big red lips, whites of eyes prominent. Anti Black Caricature prominent in the early 20th century. | ||||
| Male doll Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Male doll Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Wooden male doll dressed in South American or Spanish style | |||
| Alphabet flash cards Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Alphabet flash cards Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Flash cards, commercially-made alphabet flash cards in a box labeled "MANUSCRIPT CAPITALS / BEADED Tactile-Kinesthetic learning aids"; they show each letter of the alphabet printed with beaded white paint on a black background; there are 26 such cards, plus one card with the punctuation marks !? | |||
| Primer Cards from Longfellow School Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Primer Cards from Longfellow School Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Primer Cards, box of Basic Primer Cards from the old Longfellow School after it closed for lack of students in 2000 | |||
| German pocket dictionary from 1823 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  German pocket dictionary from 1823 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Book, German pocket dictionary from 1823. Inscribed on first page "Mrs. Caroline Hadlock her book" According to the deed of gift this dictionary originally belonged to "The Prussian Lady", wife of Samuel Hadlock Jr. The book was given by Sammy Sanford to Barbara Shaw Weickent (sp?) (W.K. Shaw, Jr.'s daughter) and Gordon H. Shaw. The book was purchased along with the land and Sammy Sanford's cabin by Walter and Mary Shaw, grandparents of Gordon Shaw. See entry 357 for further letters between Sammy Sanford and Walter K. Shaw [show more] | ||||
| Guest book from the GCIHS museum 2000-2005 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Guest book from the GCIHS museum 2000-2005 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Book, Guest book from the GCIHS museum from 9/26/2000-8/9/2005 | ||||
| Great Cranberry Island people and places lot of 33 black & white photos Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Great Cranberry Island people and places lot of 33 black & white photos Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photos (33) found in an old cigar box. Many unidentified. Identified photos are as follows 1038A: the old Alley house now the Horvath house for sale on the Lane. 1038B: Lulu Steele Alley seated on rock on front lawn of the Union Church in Northeast Harbor. Lulu lived in the Horvath house and was related to the Wellmans. 1038C: from left to right Lulu Steel Alley, Mother Sadie Steele, Unknown boy. 1038D: Willie (Age 7) and Margaret Wellman (Age 9) in their first communion clothes outside the GCI church. 1038E: photo of Lulu Steele Alley with boyfriend on the Horvath porch. 1038F: photo of Donnie (age 14) and Mary Wellman (age 12) outside the GCI Church. All 33 photos are located in folder 1038. At 2nd archive meeting Gaile Colby identified the following pictures. 1038: G-I Chris Swenson, Sadie Bunker Steele's second husband. Chris was from Sweden and had a very thick accent. 1038J Photo of Sadie Bunker Steele around 1912. 1038K photo group photo of people on a boat, Sadie Bunker Steele is the first woman on the right side of the boat wearing a hat. 1038 Francis Wellman on her wedding day. 1038M-Family photo Sadie Steele in the middle and Lulu Steele Alley on the left other two people are unknown. [show more] | |||
| "The Wonderful Works of Jesus" 1870 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "The Wonderful Works of Jesus" 1870 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Book, hardcover, miniature, "The Wonderful Works of Jesus - A Question-Book for the Young" by Mary Latham Clark, published by D. Lothrop & Co., Boston, 1870. "S.S. Union Library, Cranberry Isle No. 3" handwritten on inside front cover. | ||||
| Photographs of unidentified people Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photographs of unidentified people Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of dozens of cabinet card and photographic prints of late 19th-early 20th century unidentified individuals from Louise Marr collection; includestTwo photographic postcards, and one envelope with two-cent stamp addressed to Miss F. M. Spurling, Boothbay Harbor, Box 356, from Higgins Studio in Bath. Probably photos of Louise Marr's extended family including Preble and Spurling kin. (Only one group scanned as a sample.) | |||
| The Old Homestead, poem Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  The Old Homestead, poem Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: The Old Homestead, a poem by E.T. Preble., reminisces about the Preble house on GCI and all the lives now past. The author of the poem is most likely Elmenia Thompson Spurling, b. 19 Aug 1840, who married first Ezra Carroll, then William Henry Preble. Elmenia had four children by Preble, one being Abby Lizzie Preble, b. 25 Sep 1865, d. 24 Dec 1901 in Chicago. (Statement at bottom of poem connects author to GCI Preble house.) | |||
| Tintype photographs of unidentified people Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Tintype photographs of unidentified people Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of three groups of tintypes of unknown individuals from Louise Marr collection. | |||
| Postcard to Mrs. Benjamin Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Postcard to Mrs. Benjamin Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Postcard of house with two people by road, with message for Mrs. Benjamin H. Spurling, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, postmarked Nov. 10, 191X, one cent stamp. | |||
| Letter from young girl undtd Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Letter from young girl undtd Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: One page of a letter (transcribed) from a young girl just starting high school near Biddeford, Maine, to a friend or a relative. (This fragment of letter was in with several Bunker family letters in donor Louise Marr’s items, but author and recipient are unknown at this point.) | |||
| Preble family genealogy Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Preble family genealogy Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Family Record of William Pitt Preble, five handwritten pages (perhaps compiled by donor Louise Marr) undated. |