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Photos and clippings from Addie Duren
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Vessels, Boat
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Photos and clippings from Addie Duren
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Photos and assortment of clippings. 21 photographs of people, boats, structures, from Addie Duren's time, given to GCIHS by her son Ron Mountain, some with IDs written on reverse: A=Adline Bunker; B= Ernest Stanley In Service, First World War; C=Alfred Ladd passed away in first world war by a bomb. D=Addie must be going someplace. All dressed up in my Brothers clothes. E=Winfield Stanley; F=Omer Mountain In USN; G=Eliza Stanley; H=Addie Duren. Photos I-M=people no IDs (except deerhunter photo is marked 1940. Photos N-R=boats have no IDs except N (upper right corner)=First boat Raymond B. ever built. Photos of buildings S=Aid building/barn; T=GCI Church; U=Velma Teel's house in the snow. V-ZZ=Newspaper clippings: improved lobster pot design 1956, witticisms, and children' games. AA-CC= handwritten songs and a note. [show more]
Old view of Cranberry Road
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Old view of Cranberry Road
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Enlarged reprint of an old view of Cranberry Road (perhaps a postcard view) with a mask identifying buildings along the road. Probably identified 1982 or later by someone who knew Tud Bunker (Doc Haydock?).
Houses on GCI
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Houses on GCI
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
A= Postcard photo of Old Stanley home (now Rome/Glazer house) with note: "Nettie Stanley Residents" (sic) Shows the old store to the left, rear of house. B= Birlem fish house on the Pool. C= Town dock and Birlem fish house and little bait house. D= Postcard photo of GCI Post Office (orig photo was by J.G. Towns, Holbrook, MA). E= Bunker dock in the Pool with workers. F= Evergreen trees at dawn with caption "Just a dawn." G= Photo of interior of a home. H= Christmas card photo of Nativity scene an sleigh with reindeer with note that ceramics were made for Florence and Herbert Towns. [show more]
Glass globe light fixture
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Furnishings, Lighting Fixture
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Glass globe light fixture
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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.
Tud Bunker's boat ramp sign
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Sign
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Tud Bunker's boat ramp sign
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Wooden sign painted white with orange, stencilled letters: "SIX PERSON RAMP LIMIT. BIKES LEFT ON DOCK WILL BE SET IN OCEAN". This boat ramp sign was made and used by Tud Bunker.
Negative and print of Lewis Stanley boatyard in winter
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Negative and print of Lewis Stanley boatyard in winter
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Photo. Negative and 11"x14" photo of Lewis (Lew) Stanley's boatyard located on the pool during the wintertime with the pool frozen. The boatyard was later sold to Heliker and LaHotan and they tore it down because it was a hazard and in rough shape. Mickey Macfarlan who said that towards the end of his life Lew Stanley was hard up for money and could no longer repair the boatyard. Mickey said Lew was always complaining that people were stealing from the boatyard - the second floor of it was chock full of all sorts of things. Mickey mentioned that the boatyard itself was "tremendously large" [show more]
Shoe remnants discovered in Pasonage crawlspace 2013
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Clothing, Shoe
  • Object, Clothing, Shoe
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Shoe remnants discovered in Pasonage crawlspace 2013
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Shoes. A collection of the remains of late 19th-century leather shoes discovered in the kitchen crawlspace during the 2013 remodeling of the Great Cranberry Congregational Church parsonage house (177 Cranberry Road). Twenty soles or pieces of soles and two heel uppers with soles missing; remains of nine high boots with eyelets (some brass eyelets in-situ); and twenty leather shoe scraps. All shoe remains are leather, all soles are double- or single- row wood-pegged. [show more]
Hamor House sketch
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Art, Drawing
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
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.
The Old Homestead, poem
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Other
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
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.)
Postcard photo of houses
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Postcard photo of houses
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Postcard photos (A) a house on Islesford with message on reverse to Frances (Marr?) dated 1918, and (B) an unknown house with two people on porch (no message).
Archaeological fragments recovered at Macfarlan (Preble) house
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Other Object
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Description:
Archaeological fragments. Collection of ceramic sherds; white clay pipestem fragments; doll parts, and small finds. Collection of artifacts recovered by donor 1970s-1990s from his property - the historic William Pitt Preble house built ca. 1827. Items donor recovered outside behind the kitchen include sherds of brown, green, purple, red, and blue underglaze printed wares (one "Indian Tomb" pattern (ca. 1830)). Some printed ware sherds with scalloped and some with smooth edges, most are of buff paste and white on reverse. Blue, green, and white edged earthenwares. One sherd underglaze blue, sponge or splatter pattern. One sherd blue/grey stoneware. Four white clay pipe stem fragments measured by donor 2013/2014 and remeasured 2015. Doll's arm marked 'Germany' = 0.093". Small finds: larger doll arm; blue cut glass bead, pocket watch key, tiny wood button, fragment of small metal collar, fragment of what may be a bone toothbrush head. (See also 2017.386.2161 for research materials.) [show more]
Guide to and history of St. John the Baptist Parish Church, Thorpe Mandeville, England
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, England
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • Humfrey, Algernon G
  • Unknown
Description:
Photocopy of history and description of St John the Baptist Parish Church, Thorpe Mandeville, England
"----I can't Be There Poem
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Bells
  • Other, Museums
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
"----I can't Be There Poem
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Poem written by Azerlea Somes Pray Barton about not being able to attend the Somesville Bi-Centennial.
Masonic Lodge and traveling in the winter on Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Bells
  • Other, Museums
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
Description:
Atricle about the Masonic Lodge in 1860s. Article contains notes from Captain Pray about traveling over the ice to get from one location to the other
Somesville Library Association Fair Proves Very Successful
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Bells
  • Other, Museums
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
Description:
Article about the Someville Library fair happenings; flea market, weather, food for sale, exhibits. Previously archived as 011.FIC.57.2
Meat Tenderizer
Tremont Historical Society
  • Other, Meat Tenderizer
  • Other, Grocery store,
  • Structures, Commercial, Store, Butcher Shop
Meat Tenderizer
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Butcher tool used by Lewis Hopkins in his grocery store on Harbor Drive in Bass Harbor.
Interior of the Neptune Theater, McKinley, Bass Harbor
Tremont Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Bass Harbor, Tremont, Hancock County, Maine
  • Other, Businesses
  • Other, McKinley, Tremont, Hancock County, Maine
  • Other, Movie Theater
  • Other, Neptune Theater
  • Other, Reed, H.G.
  • Other, Stores
  • Structures, Civic, Performing Arts, Theater
Description:
Interior of the Neptune Theater, McKinley, Bass Harbor
Seavey, Wendell S., Pemetic HS graduation photo
Tremont Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Graduation photos
  • Other, Pemetic High School
  • Structures, Institutional, School
Description:
Seavey, Wendell S., Pemetic HS graduation photo
Hamblen Elizabeth, Pemetic HS graduation photo
Tremont Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Graduation photos
  • Other, Pemetic High School
  • Structures, Institutional, School
Description:
Hamblen Elizabeth, Pemetic HS graduation photo
Seavey, Frank, Pemetic HS graduation photo
Tremont Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Graduation photos
  • Other, Pemetic High School
  • Structures, Institutional, School
Description:
Seavey, Frank, Pemetic HS graduation photo
Nice, Frederick Millard, Pemetic HS graduation photo
Tremont Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Graduation photos
  • Other, Pemetic High School
  • Structures, Institutional, School
Description:
Nice, Frederick Millard, Pemetic HS graduation photo
Dorr, Cecil E., Pemetic HS graduation photo
Tremont Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Graduation photos
  • Other, Pemetic High School
  • Structures, Institutional, School
Description:
Dorr, Cecil E., Pemetic HS graduation photo
Beal Vera A., Pemetic HS graduation photo
Tremont Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Graduation photos
  • Other, Pemetic High School
  • Structures, Institutional, School
Description:
Beal Vera A., Pemetic HS graduation photo
Robbins, Colson
Tremont Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Graduation photos
  • Other, Pemetic High School
  • Structures, Institutional, School
Robbins, Colson
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Robbins, Colson, Pemetic High School photo
Small island from a boat
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
Small island from a boat
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Close up of an island and what appears to be part of a mainland in the distance from a boat. NOTE-Boat ride-1960 From an envelope with 'LaRue Spiker' typed on the outside in the Family,Friends and Personal folder