Description: From Somes Cove looking towards Somesville and Main Street. To the left, wreck of Schooner Catherine, no masts. Behind Catherine to the left, Fernald’s store (formerly, A.J. Whiting’s Store) later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore, still later, an art gallery. To the right of Fernald’s Store, Historic Nathan Salisbury House, later owned by Stan and Binnie MacDonald. To the right Somes House Inn and Cottages. Marked on bottom, “Somes House & Cottages, Somesville, ME. 2K.” [show more]
Description: Two masted schooner at Hall Quarry. Buildings in the distance. Somes Sound and mountains in the distance. Piles of brick-size pieces of granite and small tents in foreground. Spots throughout image. Copy of original. 5" x 7"
Description: Two-masted schooner aground [?] in Somes Cove in back of lumber mill. Marked on back, “Lumber Schooner built [?] by OC Nutting. Old Mill to right.”
Description: Mrs. Calvin Austin of Boston who christened the new S.S. Acadia at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company on February 13 1932 on board the Acadia during the christening.
Description: From Somes Cove looking towards Somesville and Main Street. To the left, wreck of Schooner Catherine, no masts. Behind Catherine to the left, Fernald’s store (aka A.J. Whiting’s Store) then Port-in-a-Storm bookstore, then The Gallery at Somes Sound (2013-15) . To the right of Fernald’s Store, historic Nathan Salisbury House, once owned by Stan and Binnie MacDonald. To the right Somes House Inn and Cottages. Marked on bottom, “Somes House and Cottages, Somesville, ME. 2K.” [show more]
Description: Schooner Polly of Belfast in Harbor at Amesbury, Massachusettts. Man in canoe paddles close to two-masted schooner. Small sailing sloop on the right.
Description: Looking back at city from harbor. Wide street runs through middle of photo from harborside. Two three-masted schooners in port to the right. Three church steeples rise in background above city. To the left sign above building reads, “Washburn [?] flour.” Harbor unidentified; no date.
Description: Three newspaper articles about the schooner Bessie M Dugan. All three of the articles mention the schooner landing in the harbor and the amount of mackerel it is bringing in.
Description: Model,boat, three-masted schooner made by George Savage; black hull, red hull bottom and rudder, white deck and two cabins, green cabin roofs, four white cotton sails, three rope ladders on each side; very heavy, perhaps solid wood hull
Description: Ledger. Small tan leather. Ledger of A. C. Fernald for provisions of schooners 1844-1850 including schooner Seasonpoint(?) or Leaderpant (?), Osprey, Water Witch, Northaven (?), xx and, and entries with individual names: David Pung or King, Peter Standley, Horace Durgen, Edwin Hadlock, Elisha Gilley, Shelddon Brown, Joseph Lancaster, Daniel Kimbal, William M. Richardson, Thomas Savage, Beniah Bunker,and others. One loose scrap of paper with note: "Received eighteen dollars from Capt William Moore it Being in full of all accounts to this date. Cranberry Isl. June 20, 1849, John A. Hitchfield (or Hitchhilll?) [show more]
Description: Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) [show more]
Description: Photographs. Digital copies of 41 color slides made in April 2015. They were loaned to Phil Whitney by Charles 'Chip' Sheppard following Phil Whitney's interview of him in Pennsylvania December 2014. Some slides are undated and some noted in ballpoint pen as years: 1947, 1948, 1950 and 1952. An e-mail from Melen Boothby identified Slide 296, taken in August of 1950, as "shot from my grandparents' house near Thrumcap and shows the wreck of a Canadian lumber schooner that ran aground during a storm in the '30s. Apparently people on the island were told to help themselves to the lumber as the ship wasn't going anywhere!" (Not sure if this means 1830s or 1930s?) Slides were scanned and returned to donor. Scenery, family and friends: Carl and Winston Sheppard's boat Kiri III, a B class Boat (slide 379); Emerson Ham (slide 38); fishing weir (slide 386); fishing, picnic, old cars, docks, and a blue lobster. [show more]
Description: Ledger, Pocket, with records of work, fishing, cleaning fish, fish shares sold from Schooner Rozella, found in Bob LaHotan's barn, and probably kept by Enoch Stanley
Description: Photographs. Collection of scans of photos 2013.344.2110 (A-Y) made in 2004 from photos recovered by donor in either Hilda Spurling or Marjorie Phippen's GCI house. Unclear whether we have original photos at GCIHS. (Note: Original photo names were pw01 thru pw027, museum photos now identified as A-Y.)pw01 - pulled from an album; post-it note on back: "Moss House" (Image of Moss House with haystacks 1927)pw02 - on back: "1947"; post-it note on back: "Hilda Spurling 1947"pw03 - on back, in ink: "this is Harvard Beals Boat we are hauling on the ice" in pencil: "March 1923"pw04 - pulled from an album; on back, ballpoint ink: "Little Elener (now Buzzie)"; on post-it note: "Seimer House"pw05 - postcard; pw06 - unknown housenext 3 photos were clipped together by phil whitneypw07 - unknown man in unknown boatpw08 - skyline of New York City?pw09 - pulled from an album; unknown kids on slednext 4 photos were clipped together by philpw10 - unknown shipwreckpw11 - post-it note on back: "Spurling Cove 1923"pw12 - pulled from album; post-it note on back: "Field across from Wesley Bracy's house" but i think this is wrong as the houses across the way seem too close & numerouspw13 - post-it note on back: "Murch dock"pw14 - on back: "Sherley Louise & cat 'Jiminey'"pw15 - on back: "Margie & Hilda"; post-it note on back: "Margie Phippen & Hilda Spurling"pw16 - pulled from album; on back: "Bertie's cat 'Goody'"pw17 - on back: "Hilda & Ethel B."pw18 - pulled from album; on front: "Harriet's room, one of my rooms, my bedroom" on back: "Where we let...etc."pw19 - pulled from album, double exposure; post-it note on back: "Morrie Newell House"pw20 - on back: "Margie & Mother"pw21 - unknown vesselpw22 - unknown vessel; on back: "ship wreck on back of cranberry island" (same vessel as pw10)pw23 - on back: "The cove froxen over" post-it note on back: "Spurling Cove 1923"pw24 - on back: "Bagley's Barber shop with a little snow on the side Ha! Where I have my hair dressing done Marcel Wasco and so on Ha!"pw25 - unknown house, seems same as pw06 but has additional dormer and latticework under porchpw26 - seems to be same kids and same houses as pw14pw27 - luxury yacht passing by GCI [show more]