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| Postcard, glasses, tintype, mittens, purse Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Postcard, glasses, tintype, mittens, purse Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of miscellaneous items in a box sent by Louise Marr from Boca Grande, Florida. Box contains a note addressed to Wini Smart. Box includes. 1 Postcard not filled out announcing the birth of a baby. 2 Glasses cases, one containing two pairs of glasses from Richard B Frohork, Optometrist, room 301, old YMCA bldg, Portland, Maine and one containing one pair of glasses. 1 golden picture frame case with no picture. 1 Tintype photo album containing five pictures. One pair of intricately knit mittens, probably knit by a member of Louise Marr's family. 1 Black sequined purse (clutch). 1 hand beaded glass purse. 1 book titled "The Little Folks" [show more] | |||
| Mrs. Jean Howard Wadsworth's Workshirt Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Mrs. Jean Howard Wadsworth's Workshirt Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Clothing. Shirt, work, worn by Jean Howard (Mrs. Wadsworth) during the building of the Charles & Jean Wadsworth home | |||
| Boat Drawings by young Alton Bunker Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Boat Drawings by young Alton Bunker Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Two pictures printed on large paper for display purposes of boats by young Alton Bunker, brother of Tud Bunker. Alton had the mailboat contract for a few years around 1939, he ran the contract with his boat a Novia | |||
| Island people and games Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Island people and games Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photos, 1077a-c, all 3 printed on cardboard for display purposes. (a) horseshoe game held in front of Gaile's trailer, people from left to right: Victor White, Sawtelle Teel, Hillard Hardy, Lucille Hardy, Elisha Bunker, and Edgar Bunker throwing the horseshoe. (b) Edgar Bunker, Edgar before the war worked at the boatyard down on the pool that is now know as Cranberry Island Boat Yard as well as the boatyard that is now Ed Gray's. (c) all people are labeled, the question mark is Lewis Alley. [show more] | |||
| Edna Andrade photograph Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Edna Andrade photograph Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo of Edna Andrade printed on a board by Smart Studio in Northeast Harbor. Photo shows Edna Andrade painting a picture of rocks in what is now the Encarnation home. | |||
| Bayview Farm photographs Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Bayview Farm photographs Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Four small black and white photos and one tintype framed in a wood/glass frame. Bayview Farm owned and operated by Jim Crosby in modern times "The Red House" owned by Judi Towns Lim and Chong Lim, a.k.a. the Towns house. James C. Crosby and Cora Almeda (Pressey) Crosby are the couple in the tintype. Their son, Clarence, is shown in the photo with the barn. The houses seen in the background of the geese photo are "Haydy's house & Arno Stanley's" per donor. (See scans in 2000\photos\dorothy towns and note explaining images.) [show more] | |||
| 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] | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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] | |||
| 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.) | |||
| 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. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Louise Marr relatives and friends portraits (Group 4 of 4) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Louise Marr relatives and friends portraits (Group 4 of 4) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photos of Louise Marr relatives and friends identified only as "Chicago Ladies" with no individual names; several are cabinet cards. One or more Spurling/Preble/Marr relatives moved to Chicago in the late 19th century. | |||
| Mrs. Benjamin Spurling with four grandchildren Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Mrs. Benjamin Spurling with four grandchildren Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo of Louise Marr's grandmother, Mrs. Benjamin Spurling, with four grandchildren. Standing: Doris Preble Marr; Sitting: Louise Hampton Marr, Mary W. Marr, Elizabeth Spurling Marr. | |||
| Photographs of dory, schooner, and steamer boats Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photographs of dory, schooner, and steamer boats Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Four photographs of boats (A-D) with unidentified men and boys aboard. (A) unidentified dory. (B) and (D) may be the same vessel, probably one of the mackerel schooners owned by Benjamin Harley Spurling whose wife was Frances Almira Preble (donor Louise Marr's grandparents.) C: The steamer may have been one owned by Hanson B. Joyce of Swan's Island engaged in the mackerel fishery. Joyce owned significant shares in several Cranberry Island vessels, possibly shares in Benjamin Spurling's vessels. (D): information from Ralph Stanley and Bar Harbor Record. [show more] | |||
| Marr family genealogy Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Marr family genealogy Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Three Centuries of Marrs, The definitive and thorough History of American Marrs documented and indexed, Compiled by the Marr Family Roots Center, Denver Colorado for Louise H. Marr, 57 pages. | |||
| Wallet with photos Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wallet with photos Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Tiny, dark green, fold-over, leather wallet with gold B on it; two tiny paper photos of young girl with an older women inside. Girl with sailor collar might be donor Louise Marr. | |||
| Louise Marr relatives and friends, portraits (1 of 4) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Louise Marr relatives and friends, portraits (1 of 4) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photos of Marr family members with some Bunker and Spurling relatives identified. A = Mistr(?) C. Bunker Dec. 1906. Aunt Menie. B = Minnie Estelle Bunker Malmar, daughter of Horace Bunker. C = Grammie Spurling D = Horace Bunker Family, Feby[or July?] 22, 1891, Minnie Malmar, Horace Bunker, H. Edgar Bunker, Aunt Meanie, Chester, Lena. E = Lizzie Evelyny Moore F = Marion Estella Spurling, Islesford Me., Age 17 months. G = Estelle Foster Webb, Age 6 1/2 mo, 1898, Brooklyn, NY. H = Ruth Clair Bunker, Dec. 1896, Brooklyn, NY photograph. I = Chester A. Bunker, Brooklyn, NY. J = Frank Willis Bunker, 7 years 11 mo. and Carolyn Gertrude Bunker, 16 Mo., June 1914 (postcard photo - two copies) [show more] | |||
| Hair curling iron Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hair curling iron Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Hair curling iron: wood handles with long metal jaw that opens and closes. | |||
| Mementos from Preble family school years Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Mementos from Preble family school years Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Mementos from the Preble family school years: (A) Card with 18 U.S. Presidents depicted (ends with Grant 1869); (B) Reward of Merit presented by W. H. Preble, Teacher; (C) Reward of Merit to Fannie A. Preble, presented by J. C. Chilcott. | |||
| Early Hadlock papers group 5 of 5 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Early Hadlock papers group 5 of 5 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society 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] |