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Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Blueprint Elevation and Floor Plans for the Municipal Building, Main Street, Northeast Harbor
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Document, Reprographic Copy, Blueprint
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Public Safety, Fire Station
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Town Hall
  • Ralph - Isaac E. Ralph
  • 1916
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
Two sheets of blueprints for the proposed municipal building and firehouse on Main Street, Northeast Harbor. One sheet shows Front and Side Elevations (west and south). The top of the drawing is labeled "Building Fire-House, Northeast Harbor, Town of Mt. Desert. I.E. Ralph, Architect. To the right of the elevation drawings is a partial section of the wall and roof. The other sheet shows the first and second floor plans, as well as a partial section of the building denoting the sizes and types of wood to be used. The first floor has space for the fire department, as well as a heater room and toilet, while the second floor has a large Selectmens' Office in the front, unfinished space behind, and a small toilet room. Both sheets are roughly 24" x 36" The municipal building was constructed between 1916 and 1917 and cost a total of $7151.66. For his work on the plans, I.E. Ralph received $146.90. [show more]
A Little Bit of Hell, Maine Style
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events
  • People
  • 1919
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
A Little Bit of Hell, Maine Style
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Article: A Little Bit of Hell, Maine Style. (TBD 1/9/18, article not located; see also pending Backlog item 2501 for possible copy.) See reprint in Cranberry Chronicle Spring 2014 edition, page 7, from Bangor Daily News ca. 1919; Sam Spurling was aboard the Cashier during this event. Introductory paragraph: “A Little Bit of Hell—Maine Style That’s What Capt. Spurling Gave a Pirate. State Gets Tokens of His Courage. from the Bangor Daily News, ca. 1919 It was just ninety-six years ago Tuesday (Jan. 21) that an event happened in the harbor of Trinidad, Cuba, which reflected great credit on the leader of a bold enterprise, recollections of which have recently been stirred in Maine, on account of the purchase by the state of a brace of pistols and a sword from Mrs. E. Preble of Framingham, Mass…..” And see Charles Liebow notes on the Cashier: - CASHIER: Masters - Samuel Spurling & William Moore, Built in Eden in 1820, 30 Gross Tons, 49.8/17.8/5.3: Two masts with a square stern. Perhaps the vessel from which Sam Spurling gave the Caribbean pirates a "little bit of Hell, Maine style." [show more]
Postcard view of Stanley dock
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Landscape
  • 1912
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Postcard view of Stanley dock
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Postcard. View of Stanley dock from the land. “Stanley Dock, Cranberry Island, ME 142” in white letters across front of card. No postmark. “Aug 19, 1912. Dear Elsie - I will fix your dress but would like to see it on you before I finish it. You can send it over by Arthur and I will [take this].” Addressed to Miss Elsie Stanley, Isleford, Maine. No postmark or postage stamp.
Diary about boat repairs
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • 1914
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Diary about boat repairs
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Diary, printed date 1914, with ads for paint and varnish, filled in with entries of expenses, most all seem to be for boat repair. Work done for Frank Stanley, Walter Eversman, C. Rice, A. Alley, D. Hodgkins.
Lewis Stanley fishing license
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Permission, License
  • Recreation
  • 1918
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Lewis Stanley fishing license
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
License, Special, Lewis G. Stanley for 29 foot sloop "no name" gas motor, for fishing, port of Southwest Harbor, 6 Dec 1918
Hunting license for Addie Duren
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Permission, License
  • Recreation, Hunting
  • 1919
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Hunting license for Addie Duren
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
License, State of Maine Hunting License, for Addie Duren, 25 cents, 1919
History and Civics, Fifth year, first half, American, discovery, exploration, colonization related old world history, local history, civics
Tremont Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Politics and government
  • Other, School Books - Tremont
  • Other, Textbooks - Tremont
  • Other, United States -- Politics and government.
  • Other, United States.
  • Tucker, Louise Emery
  • 1918
Description:
Textbook used for 5th grade. Has signature of P. Thurston, McKinley Maine and Patricia Harvell Brown, Allston, Massachusetts. Found in Book were two typewritten copies of "the Indian's Twenty-Third Psalm"
Navigation License - Lewis Stanley
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Permission, License
  • Vessels, Boat
  • 1918
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Navigation License - Lewis Stanley
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Letter accompanying Special License to Navigate
U.S. Army certificate for Alfred Emery Ladd
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Government, Military Record
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1918
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
U.S. Army certificate for Alfred Emery Ladd
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Documents. U.S. Army certificate for Alfred Emery Ladd, Private 1st Class, Medical Detachment, 125th Infantry died with honor in the service of his country on the sixth day of August 1918. Signed and dated 19 October 1918. With War Department envelope addressed to Mr. Lewis E. Ladd, Cranberry Isles, Maine, postmark illegible. And a card from the War Department imprinted with info that it's from the President who wishes to express his deep and sincere sympathy. Online genealogy lists Alfred Emery Ladd, born November 17, 1889 who died August 06, 1918 in Action in France. He was the son of Clara E. Gilley and Lewis Ladd. Ladd lived in the present (2016) Freeman house on GCI. [show more]
Advertising cards turn of 20th century
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Advertising, Advertisement
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • 1910
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Advertising cards turn of 20th century
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Collection, misc. advertising cards: Philip Douglas, ship smith & machine forger; Wm. Prior, Jr. & Co., fresh & pickled fish, clams & oysters; Walker & Rich, fresh and smoked fish, lobsters, clams, cod liver oil, &c; "Gloucester" Copper Paint; The First National Bank of Ellsworth, Maine; Bethel Church, Portland; Hood's Sarsaparilla; "Untold Secrets", a booklet of jokes published by Pabst Brewing Co.; J.H. Connors & Co., liquor dealers; John Linscott, boots, shoes, & rubbers; J. Burns & Co., fresh, salt, and pickled fish; C.F. Eaton, dealer in flour, west india goods, ship stores, wines, liquors, &c.; H & G.W. Lord, nets, seines, and twine; F.W. Morrill, butter, cheese, & eggs; "The Acme Club" a booklet advertising the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. of Newark, New Jersey; F.H. Johnson, fresh, smoked, and pickled fish; "Between Ourselves" July 1926, a flyer by the New England Telephone & Telegraph Co.; "3 Pounds of Tea" a label from a tea package made by Baird & Peters, "THE tea people." [show more]
Sidney Hamor Bunker and Julia Bunker Spurling
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • 1915
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Sidney Hamor Bunker and Julia Bunker Spurling
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Sidney (aka Sidney) Chadwick Hamor Bunker with daughter Julia Bunker Spurling at home ca. 1915. Donor states: "This picture of the Bloom house was taken early 1900s; date is determined by the gravestones of the two ladies on the front porch. On the left is Sydney Hamor Bunker, wife of Warren Bunker, and mother of Julia Bunker Spurling on the right. Julia was the mother of Joseph Elwood Spurling...."
Calais to Little River (by Cutler), including Cobscook
Tremont Historical Society
  • Document, Chart, Navigational Chart
  • U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
  • 05/1912
Description:
Calais to Little River (by Cutler), including Cobscook-1912-Chart #101, Coast and Geodetic Survey; bears the stamp of R.G.Hodgdon, Boothbay Harbor, Agent for government charts and maps
Boston Bay and Approaches
Tremont Historical Society
  • Document, Chart, Navigational Chart
  • Coast and Geodetic Surve
  • 1916
Boston Bay and Approaches
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Boston Bay and Approaches, Chart #109, Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington, D.C., 1916.
Chesapeake Bay to Straits of Florida
Tremont Historical Society
  • Document, Chart, Navigational Chart
  • U. S. Coast and Geodetic Surve
  • 10/1916
Chesapeake Bay to Straits of Florida
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Chesapeake Bay to Straits of Florida, Chart #1001, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington, D.C., first published 1913, reissued 1916.
Nantucket Sound and Approaches
Tremont Historical Society
  • Document, Chart, Navigational Chart
  • Coast and Geodetic Survey. .
  • 1919
Nantucket Sound and Approaches
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Nantucket Sound and Approaches, Massachusetts, Chart #1209, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington, D.C., 1919
Underwood canning factory 1915
Tremont Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • 1915
Underwood canning factory 1915
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Underwood canning factory 1915
Underwood canning factory interior & workers
Tremont Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • 1912
Description:
Underwood canning factory interior & workers
1915 girls basketball team
Tremont Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • 1915
  • Pemetic?
1915 girls basketball team
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
1915 girls basketball team
Comeau, Margaret
Tremont Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • 1912
Comeau, Margaret
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Comeau, Margaret working on needlework
Gott, Berlin, Gott's Island mailman
Tremont Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • 1919
Gott, Berlin, Gott's Island mailman
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Gott, Berlin, Gott's Island mailman
Essential Stitches and Seams, part 2
Tremont Historical Society
  • Document, Pamphlet
  • Other, Sewing - Study and Teaching
  • Picken, Mary Brooks
  • 1915
Essential Stitches and Seams, part 2
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Series of pamphlets on sewing.
Drafting and Plain Dressmaking Part 4
Tremont Historical Society
  • Document, Pamphlet
  • Other, Sewing - Study and Teaching
  • Picken, Mary Brooks
  • 1915
Drafting and Plain Dressmaking Part 4
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Series on sewing
Pattern Drafting
Tremont Historical Society
  • Document, Pamphlet
  • Other, Sewing - Study and Teaching
  • Picken, Mary Brooks
  • 1915
Pattern Drafting
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Series on sewing
Drafting and Plain Dressmaking Part 3
Tremont Historical Society
  • Document, Pamphlet
  • Other, Sewing - Study and Teaching
  • Picken, Mary Brooks
  • 1915
Drafting and Plain Dressmaking Part 3
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Series on sewing
Drafting and Plain Dressmaking Part 1
Tremont Historical Society
  • Document, Pamphlet
  • Other, Sewing - Study and Teaching
  • Picken, Mary Brooks
  • 1915
Drafting and Plain Dressmaking Part 1
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Series on sewing