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Addie Ethel Duren WWII ID card
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Identification Card
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Addie Ethel Duren WWII ID card
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Addie Ethel Duren WWII ID card issued by U.S. Coast Guard. Islanders were required to carry ID cards during WW II when transiting from islands to MDI, to prove they weren't spies.
Fire Department Helmets
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Clothing, Hat
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Fire Department Helmets
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Used by Herman Savage and Wilfred Bunker. Two oval metal helmets painted red; adjustable webbed fabric supports with metal rivets inside; raised staples on interior of brim with fabric chin strips in place. Helmets used by GCI volunteer fire department ca. 1948 when the fire department was formed. Helmet (A): Red outside, white inside; "C.I.V.D." painted in white on exterior; handwritten inside the rim "H. Savage" (Herman Savage). Savage was a teenage volunteer fire department member. Helmet (B):Red outside, red inside; "W.A.B." painted in yellow on exterior; no initials inside. Wilfred Allison Bunker would have been in his late 20s in 1948. These may have been WWII helmets adapted for use by the fire department. Badly rusted and paint flaking and peeling. (See also 2014.278.2020 CIVD documents from 1950-1960s.) (See also photo of firefighters taken ca. January 1951-1953 with identifications, printed copy stored with item 2021 - box 49.) [show more]
Cap and tee shirt, Rooster Club
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Clothing, Hat
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Cap and tee shirt, Rooster Club
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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.
Rooster Club photos
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Rooster Club photos
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Collection of Photos, building the Rooster Club clubhouse and various people
Arthur Bunker Air Force photo
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Arthur Bunker Air Force photo
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Photo, 8x10 b&w, Air force crew holding sign "U-TAPAO'S 50,000th B-52 Sortie". Arthur Bunker is second from right.
William P. Preble appointed Justices of the Peace and of the Quorum
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Certificate
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Description:
William P. Preble appointed Justices of the Peace and of the Quorum of Hancock County, Maine, August 12, 1873, by Governor Sidney Perham.
Hilda Spurling working at the post office
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • Ed Gray
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Hilda Spurling working at the post office
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Photo, "Hilda Spurling filled in for Marjorie Phippen at the Post Office" taken and developed by Ed Gray. (2 copies) (Note: Item 1633a is also Hilda Spurling from a different angle (5 copies)
Marjorie Phippen working at Post Office
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Marjorie Phippen working at Post Office
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Marjorie Phippen- Post Master at the Cranberry Isle Post Office
Journals, ledgers, wallet, books, scanned photos pertaining to Stanley family from 1870s-1890s
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Collection of journals, ledgers, wallet, books, scanned photos pertaining to Stanley family: Items A-H. (A) Enoch B. Stanley's tan leather fold-over "The Revised and Improved Collector's Tax Book....Adapted to the Revised Statutes of 1883", by W. W. Bolster, Published Portland: W. H. Stevens & Company, No. 193 Middle Street. Entries from 1890-1892 with categories for real estate, personal property, poll tax, highway tax, a section on school district tax. With three loose handwritten pages inserted. One is list of children for Hannah Lopaus(?) who moved to Mount Desert July 12th 1799 and had 10 children and includes list of 9 children born to Hannah's daughter Nancy Lopauss Richardson Clark, one of whom was Meltiah P. Richardson (spouse of Carrie Stanley Richardson). The second loose page is a petition for a fish weir at Thrumcap for Enoch B. Stanley and W.D.(?) Stanley in January 1891. The third loose page is Permission for a fish weir with full description dated Feb. 7, 1891. (B) Maroon fold-over wallet (empty). (C) Scans from loaned Schmidt family photo albums including family and one of old hearse. (D) Maroon wallet with 14 items folded inside it: receipts: Meltiah Richardson 1871 taxes; E.B. Stanley 1862 & 1864; note to Capt Stanley 1864; 1864 receipt; 1864 receipt Hadlock; 1871 tax receipt; M. P. Richardson to E.B. Stanley 1874; one faded small photo of a person on a sailboat; registered letter receipt 1878 addressed to Thomas Leighton of Millbridge Me received of E. J? Stanley; Receipt 1882 for 7.33 payment; 1876 receipt E. B. Stanley and Perley Russell goods of Haskell 14.50. Envelope addressed to Mrs. Caroline H. Stanley Cranberry Isles ME with Boston Jan 30 1898 postmark 2 cents. Two comic poem pages (not scanned). (E) Small tan leather journal full of information listing fish catches and payments to individuals 1868-1870 in Boston, Cranberry Isles, Gloucester, Schooner Rozella mentioned on one page. Names include Gilley, Bunker, Spurling, Stanley, Ladd, Wayland, Bulger, Young; only three representational pages scanned from this journal. (F) Small narrow brown marbled ledger (undated) tallying fish and bills; two pages mention schooner Harrie [or Fannie?] Forrest; 1 page scanned. (G) Book: The Matron's Manual of Midwifery and the diseases of women during pregnancy and in child bed by Frederick Hollick, MD 1843. (H) Book: How to Hunt and Trap containing full instructions for hunting Buffalo, Elk, Moose, deer, Antelope - by J. H. Batty, 1878; inscribed "Boynton Stanley" at top of page, lower down "William G. Thumbeam[?] from Papa, Christmas 1878." (See also 2015.316.2077 and 2017.389.2164) [show more]
Ribbon: Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Pemetic Lodge
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Award
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Ribbon: Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Pemetic Lodge
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Ribbon, pin-on, double sided, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Pemetic Lodge #135, Southwest Harbor
Beach Drill Practice Pole Photograph
Islesford Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Beach Drill Practice Pole Photograph
Islesford Historical Society
Description:
Man participating in a beach drill practice for the Coast Guard. Inscription on back reads "Beach Drill practice pole at Coast Guard Station Islesford" in pencil Black and white
U.S. Coast Guard Members with Model Ships Photograph, c. 1930s
Islesford Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Six members of the U.S. Coast Guard holding four model ships. Inscription on back reads "#1 - Left to Right/ Payson Tucker (?) - Elmer Farnsworth, Herbert Foss (?) - Freeman Harmon (Skipper)/ Sailboats all made by Ephriam Alle - (He isn't in the photo./ I still have one of those sailboats - (Made in 1945) and in darned good shape" in black pen and is signed "Ted Sp[?] Sr., 12/29/93." People Depicted: Payson Tucker, Elmer Farnsworth, Herbert Foss, Freeman Harmon, Ephriam Alley Black and white [show more]
Halloween at the Fire Hall
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Halloween at the Fire Hall
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Halloween 1986- Fire Hall. Hannah Gray, Christina Bracy, Alicia Sporacio, Molly Gray, Becky Sanborn