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GCI people
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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  • People
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GCI people
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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A= Left to right: John Towns, his mother Mrs. Florence Towns, Sawtelle Teele, [perhaps Howard Pratt], Mary Teele Prat, Dot Towns. B=Capts. Perley Stanley and Hillard Hardy in Florida (1952?). C= Philmore Petersen. D=Frank Stanley. E=Charles "Pink" Stanley with boys (see also 1000.0.574). F="Mr. & Mrs. Antanson on fishing trip with Edgar Bunker and Addie, What a day that was" G= Harold Stanley and wife Maui? Harding Stanley. H= Wheelbarrow race with Judy Towns (Holbrook) (white sweater back row center), Cann Penn (Bangor) August 1958 Church fair day. I= Eleanore Mildred Joy 7 months 4 days. J=Gertie Bunker. K= unknown infant. LMNOPQR=unknown individuals [show more]
Old view of Cranberry Road
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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  • Structures, Dwellings, House
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Old view of Cranberry Road
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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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?).
Moorfield Storey family photographs
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Moorfield Storey family photographs
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Six Moorfield Storey (1845-1929) family photographs. A= Moorfield Storey on Cranberry Island 1928. B= Framed photo of Sue Storey [Lyman] and her horse Beauty in 1929. C=Artist Carl G. Nelson photo by David Westphal. D=Jr. Lovett "UncleBob", Aunt Bessie: Eliz Moorfield Storey Lovett and Gertrude Lovett Sturgis (photograph by Hermann, Bad Hauheim). E=Gathering of unidentified people on the lawn. F= Clarence Beal in his boat, Cranberry 1961. [show more]
Notes on Bunker, Fernald, and Hamor families
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
  • People
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Notes on Bunker, Fernald, and Hamor families
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Handwritten geneaology notes on Benia Bunker, Fernald and Hamor families. And Mary Anne Bunker's calling card (David Bunker's sister).
Elva (Stanley) Lagoutte and Flora L. Stanley photographs
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Cabinet Photograph
  • People
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Elva (Stanley) Lagoutte and Flora L. Stanley photographs
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Two discolored cabinet card photos: A=Flora L. Stanley, daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Asa D. Stanley, and B=Elva (Stanley) Lagoutte. Photos are warped and brown - may have been damaged during house fire when Addie Duren owned the Mountain house. There are other photos of Elva on NAS> migration photos.
George and Sam Gilley haying
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Businesses, Farming
  • People
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George and Sam Gilley haying
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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George and Sam Gilley haying on Little Cranberry Island. [THIS MAY BE an NPS ACADIA PHOTOGRAPH.] Notes on reverse: "Janice Murch 7/000 Cat. No. 548, Acadia Ex. 705 George & Sam Gilley haying."
Photographs of islanders
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Cranberry Isles
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Photographs of islanders
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Group of photos in cardboard frames with annotations. A= To Addie from Mary Anne. B= Arthur Joy Cranberry Isles, notice is sleeve badges USS and 6, and the words on his cap Life Saving Station, as well as a vest pocket watch. C= To Aunt Addie from Lucille Muriel Stanley. D= Aunt Addie Best wishes, Joyce [Arline Bunker]. E= Addie Bates daughter on C Isles [xx] Ella Spurling [1890-95?]."
Houses on GCI
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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  • Places
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
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Houses on GCI
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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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]
Sam and Cora Chapman on stoop
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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  • People
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Sam and Cora Chapman on stoop
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Sam Chapman with wife Cora on stoop of their house. The house once belonged to Edith Drury and is now (2019) the Dowling/Meyers home.
Boats TBD
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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  • Vessels, Boat
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Boats TBD
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Boats. A=unidentified ship. B=Large ship, "the SS David McKelvy, 445 ft long, 59 ft breadth, 33.3 ft. depth, 11,000 tons. Draft is 29 feet." C&D= Two-mast sailboat with note "Drager ashore back shore. Oscar Wedge claimed!!! We all had something 1945-1946?" from Folder full of photos from Dot Towns with note that Georgie Ware had been through them (probably to ID them). Save as a collection see below
Photos of islanders dancing and playing horseshoes
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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  • People
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Photos of islanders dancing and playing horseshoes
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Five photos from Dot Towns. A= Dance at GCI schoolhouse with Forest Spurling on right, sideview of Buster Rice in black suit with collar on right, Merton Burton in the middle, woman in white unknown. B= Pink and Eliza Stanley with grand daughter Sandy Start. C= Edgar White pitching horseshoes near Elisha Bunker's store. D= Elisha Bunker throwing horshoes, Sawtelle Teel seated, Walter Wallace of Holbrook MA, Audrey Wallace standing in background. E= Elisha Bunker & Edgar Bunker measuring who is nearest. F= Victor White, Sawtelle Teel, Lena May Spurling, unk, Elisha Bunker, Edgar Bunker with horseshoe. G= Left to right: Victor White, Sawtelle Teel, Audrey Wallace, Walter Wallace, Elisha Bunker (owner of grocery store at the point). [show more]
Photos of places , duck hunt, and whale on GCI
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Places
  • Recreation, Hunting
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Photos of places , duck hunt, and whale on GCI
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Photos of places, duck hunt, and whale on GCI. A= Bunker Boatyard 1965-1970s, B= Ice in the Creek Feb 12, 1934. C= Ice in the Pool Feb 6, 1934. D= town dock 1940s or 1960?. E= Cranberry Road from Dolly Hill. Duck and geese hunt on the El Pescado. G= Whale washed up on the back of the island (1919?), see report of Dr. Bowditch on Islesford.. H= Raymond Bunker's car on ice in the pool Feb. 12, 1934. I= Unknown car.
Photos of a dirigible and boats
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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  • Vessels, Boat
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Photos of a dirigible and boats
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Twelve photos of a dirigible and boats: A= Dirigible above mountains. B= Dirigible (the Shenandoah?) anchored to a navy ship with Coast Guard vessel in front July 4, 1925, Bar Harbor Maine. C= Postcard of [illegible] yacht wrecked on Duck island. D= Schooner George B. Hogg. E= the S.S. David McKelvey. F= the yacht Frolic. G= Yacht Lotusland one of the first to carry an airplane June 1931. H= The Hobo, Warren Rice owned it; he worked for Spurling. I= The cove frozen over. J= unidentified sailboat. K= Unidentified Yacht. L= motorboat with A4845 on bow and Weona as ID on reverse of the photo. [show more]
Photographs of young Hillard and Shirley Hamor
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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  • People
  • Cranberry Isles
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Photographs of young Hillard and Shirley Hamor
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Photographs of Hillard and Shirley Hamor: A= in a wicker chair. B= on a wood dock.
Tintype photos unknown young man and woman
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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  • People
  • Cranberry Isles
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Tintype photos unknown young man and woman
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Two large tintype photographs of unidenfified young mand and young woman (perhaps Hamor family)
Hamor brothers photo
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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  • People
  • Places, Camp
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Hamor brothers photo
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Photo of two young men (probably Hillard and Shirley Hamor brothers) in silver embossed frame.
John and Sadie Hamor photo
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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  • People
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John and Sadie Hamor photo
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Photograph of older couple (perhaps John and Sadie Hamor)
Hillard Hamor (possibly) photo
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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  • People
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Hillard Hamor (possibly) photo
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Large colorized photo of man with inscription: "To Mabel, with Love", possibly Hillard Hamor
Windjammer postcard with message
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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  • People
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Windjammer postcard with message
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Postcard: An Old Windjammer, printed Belfast Maine, C.A. Townsend photographer. No postmark or addressee but note: "Dear Daddy, I was so glad to get your nice letter Saturday. Pup [or Pink?] asked me if I wanted to send this to you. I wish you were up here. I miss you so much. I will write you soon. Love Hope"
Norwegian Navigation Chart 1807
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Norwegian Navigation Chart 1807
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Navigation Chart of Norway probably belonging to Sam Hadlock, Jr., with a faint, barely legible handwritten annotation in center. [Best guess at written note: "Fren Cape, Nsor 8am, point 21+ NorW, from Stan point, to Cape Jack(?) 21+, N(illegible symbols), Way-and give Sun, Point 1/2 mile -, From Cape Jack(?), to Cape George or, Cape Laieu(?) NW (and then some illegible letters)". A note attributed to "The Maine Islands in Story and Legend" by Dorothy Simpson says: "Capt. Samuel Hadlock in 1807, during Napoleonic wars, took load of fish to Spain, with good profit and returned with load of salt and lemons. He built a store on Little Cranberry. He built ships too, captained by his five sons. His third son was Samuel who lived on Great Cranberry....". Samuel Hadlock, Jr., built the 1826 house that became the Preble House. Samuel Hadlock, Jr.'s adventures were subject of Rachel Field's book, "God's Pocket" [show more]
Documents pertaining to Great Cranberry 1902-1930
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Documents pertaining to Great Cranberry 1902-1930
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Collection of documents (1902-1930) including store receipts, Telephone Office postcard, Cranberry Isles High School program 1902 listing 21 students, and the history of the poem "My Island Home" by Mrs. E. T. Preble. Families mentioned include: Bunker, Spurling, Lagoutte
Model Schooner
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Model
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • George Savage
  • Cranberry Isles
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Model Schooner
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Two-mast schooner model by George Savage. Red, white, orange, black with blue deck, four sails, no name or number on stern or sides. He lived on the island from the 1930s onward. He was a constable.
GCIHS book publications as of 2016
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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  • People
  • Places, Town
  • Cranberry Isles
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GCIHS book publications as of 2016
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Booklets published by GCIHS. (Collection ongoing) GCIHS BOOK PUBLICATIONS LIST as of March 2016 with printed copies of book covers. Not all books are present in collection yet. Digital copies on GCIHS NAS in Archives GCIHS publications. A Cabin in the Woods - A Story of Sammy Sanford and Rachel Field, by Wini Smart (2011). A Taste of Cranberry, by Susan Donald Michalski 2002. Now recorded at 2023.635.3125 An Artist's Sketchbook, 1998, Great Cranberry Island, Maine, by Susan Donald Michalski 2001. An Interview with Ralph Stanley, Wooden Boat Builder and National Heritage Foundation "National Treasure", by Jeff Weisbruch, 1994. Published by GCIHS 1999. Artists of the Cranberry Isles, Past & Present, by Wini Smart (2005). Now recorded at 2023.636.3126 Baker Island - The Early Years, by Wini Smart (2012). Boatdog Bess - My Story, by Kay Gibson (Year?) Cookbook 2004. Cranberry Road Great Cranberry Island 1919-1950 by Wini Smart & Bruce Komusin 2002-2003 Cranberry Quilts by Charlotte Harlan 2006 Enterprising Islanders - Great Cranberry Island 1760-2008, by Wini Smart (2008). Now recorded at 2023.638.3128 Hitty Preble of the Cranberry Isles, Maine by Wini Smart & Bruce Komusin (2004). Now recorded at 2023.637.3127 House Histories Of Great Cranberry Island by Wini Smart 2010 If It Were Yesterday…A Historic Coloring Book Of Great Cranberry Island by Wini Smart (2001) Preserving our Past to steer our Future - Cranberry House Prospectus (2004). Now recorded at 2023.639.3129 Riding with Tud - An interview with Lyndon "Tud" Bunker, March 18, 1993, by ? 2001 Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of the Emily F. Northam, by Farnham W. Smith, with permission of Down East Magazine (March 1974). Now recorded at 2023.640.3130 Surf, Stone, & Spruce by Ted Harlan (2003) The Construction of Road I-95 by Doris "Dot" McSorley (1996). Now recorded at 2023.641.3131 Three Heroines of Great Cranberry Island by Wini Smart (2013) Winter: The Other Season A Look at Old Great Cranberry Island by Wini Smart & Bruce Komusin (2004) Booklets from other lists I came across, not found yet on computer 3/17/16: Favorite Island Recipes (published in conjunction with Ladies Aid) The Asa D. Stanley House 31/07/2023 Booklets that didn't have a new record created and recorded in the above text were not found during the 2023 review. [show more]
The Construction of Road I-95 - Doris 'Dot' McSorley
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Events
  • Doris 'Dot' McSorley
  • Cranberry Isles
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
The Construction of Road I-95 - Doris 'Dot' McSorley
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
A description of the process around building the road I-95, written by Dot McSorley.
Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of Emily F. Northam
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel
  • Farnham W. Smith
  • Cranberry Isles
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of Emily F. Northam
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
The Emily F. Northam was a three masted cargo schooner that was grounded off of the Baker Island reef, the crew and cargo were rescued but the Northam never left the Cranberry Isles. In 1974 the Downeast Magazine published a piece written about the event by Farnham W. Smith, and the Historical Society acquired its use for the island's history. Introduction by Bruce Komusin.

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