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View towards Cranberry Isles from the top of Mt Cadillac
Islesford Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Island
Description:
Back view from the air Islesford mid 1970's,
Winter Islesford
Islesford Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Island
Winter Islesford
Islesford Historical Society
Description:
1996
View from Islesford
Islesford Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Island
View from Islesford
Islesford Historical Society
View twards Baker's Island
Islesford Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Island
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Farmhouse
View twards Baker's Island
Islesford Historical Society
Main St Islesford Me
Islesford Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Island
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
Main St Islesford Me
Islesford Historical Society
Islesford ME, Islesford Boat landing
Islesford Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Island
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
Islesford ME, Islesford Boat landing
Islesford Historical Society
Gilley farm 1960s
Islesford Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Island
Gilley farm 1960s
Islesford Historical Society
Dancing Rocks, Bakers Island
Islesford Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Island
Dancing Rocks, Bakers Island
Islesford Historical Society
Main road on Islesford
Islesford Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Places, Island
Main road on Islesford
Islesford Historical Society
Description:
Acquisition 0009. Photograph accompanyed by sketch of buildings. Back of photograph says "app 1858-1902, EPS Stanley, about 1860, ACQ #009, 8/31/91, Donor: John Moran"
Winter scene
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Island
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Winter scene
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Cranberry Island (Picture from vehicle of unknown house in winter)
Map of Great Cranberry by Dot and Andy McSorley
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Map
  • Places, Island
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Map of Great Cranberry by Dot and Andy McSorley
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Map, 2 maps, one hand-drawn and one mimeographed, made by Dot & Andy McSorley, indicating the old time property holders and the McSorley land colored in red. The McSorleys loved to make maps of their land, the lots they intended to divide it into.
Interviews of Islander Gaile Colby in 2018
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Oral History
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • 2018
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Interviews of Islander Gaile Colby in 2018
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Oral history. These two interviews with lifelong GCI resident Gaile Colby were conducted by Phil Whitney and Josh Hastings in July 2018. They mostly discuss houses along The Lane, Harding Point, Heliker-Lahotan and Jimmies Point Road. Arvard helped a lot with certain houses on Harding Point Road and certain houses on The Lane in the second interview. Two sessions 7/22/18 and 7/29/18. Several segments of the July 29 interview were transcribed 2018 and include the visit of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to the Cranberry Club on GCI; the wakes of Rena Bunker Willis' widow (1940) and Henry Bunker (1941) held in the Richman house; the 1961 fire at the Sherman house. The MP3 Sound recordings are very good. See GCIHS-NAS\video\2018. (Note: photo used here is from the 2009 Portrait Project by Becky Buyers-Basso (2013.238.1933), not these 2018 interviews.) [show more]
Mural seascape with mountains and schooners
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Art, Painting
  • Places, Island
  • Winifred Smart Quackenbush
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Mural seascape with mountains and schooners
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Painting. Mural, acrylic on canvas of view from Preble Cove, Great Cranberry Island - seascape with mountains and schooners by Wini Smart. Artist painted the view from Sammy Sanford's cabin for a play by Hugh Dwelley about Sanford that was produced by GCIHS in 2000 - "An Evening with Rachel Field & Sammy Sanford." Artist says the mural was rained on and had to be rescued at one point. Four snapshot photos of mural in use at the GCI church. (See also video of play 1000.0.505; and p. 77 in "A Long, Long Way, An Artist's Life" 2008 by Wini Smart.) [show more]
Ice Breaker in 1918
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Island
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Ice Breaker in 1918
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Photo, Ice Breaker S.C. 262 in 1918 to save Cranberry Isle Fleet- the words hand-written around margin of photo, "Through miles of solid ice to save the Cranberry Isles fleet in Feb. 1918.
Spurling Cove frozen over
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Island
  • 1922
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Spurling Cove frozen over
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Post Card, 1922 post card-"Spurling Cove,Cranberry Isles, Me."- Harbor Frozen Over
Photos of winter of 1965
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Island
  • 1965
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Photos of winter of 1965
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Photos. Collection of four photos from winter of 1965, showing snow on the main road: A-woman pulling child on sleigh away from camera (toward town dock), and in background, man plowing snow toward camera with small green bulldozer; B-same scene but camera is closer to womand and child, and plower is also closer; C-man with bulldozer goes off to the side (quite close to the camera) to let a dark Buick pass; D-the house of Elton "Buster" and Doris Rice, porch covered in snow, with a two-story water tower next to it. [show more]
Sunset over the Western Way
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Island
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Sunset over the Western Way
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Photo. Slide looking across Preble Cove and Wharf Head, over Western Way, at sunset.
Great Cranberry and Suttons Map
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Map
  • Places, Island
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Great Cranberry and Suttons Map
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Map. Copy of an old Great Cranberry and Suttons Map (date not specified)
Topographic map of the Cranberry Isles
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Map
  • Places, Island
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Topographic map of the Cranberry Isles
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Topo map of the Cranberry Isles (with lines of equal height, but not including Bear Island) and with cemeteries marked in yellow highlighter, as mentioned in Tom Vining's book "Cemeteries of MDI & the CIs"
Map of Preble's home lot
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Map
  • Places, Island
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Map of Preble's home lot
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Map: Showing William P. Preble's "The Old Home Lot" and the previous lots around it (some of which presumably Preble bought) extending from the main road to what we now call Preble Cove. Date unkown
GCI Playground Construction 1985
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Island
  • 1985
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
GCI Playground Construction 1985
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Photos, fifteen, color, "Cranberry Island Playground 1985", showing construction of playground by schoolhouse, with Charlene Allen, Don Wells, Jeremy Wells, Jim Gertmenian, Harold Wedge, Jennifer Westphal, Colleen Allen, Patrick Allen, Paul Allen, Mike Westphal
Geology of MDI
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Map
  • Places, Island
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Geology of MDI
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Document, 1 sheet, copy of map "Bedrock Geology of Mount Desert Island, Maine" by Carlton A. Chapman, 1962,1970, showing types of rock found at various places.
Mount Desert Island 1882 US Coast & Geodetic Survey Map showing Cranberry Isles including personal note & envelope
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Map
  • Places, Island
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Description:
Map, modern copy of US Coast & Geodetic Survey, "Mount Desert Island Maine, 1882", 2 loose sheets: legend sheet and map itself (only the Cranberry Isles depicted). Envelope & short note from Hugh Dwelley also included. (Scans affiliated with this catalogue number were made from some iteration of the 1882 map at an unknown date discovered 1/19/15.)
Film by David Westphal - aka Lloyd Hayes-Bob Browning Home movies
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording
  • Places, Island
  • 1929
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Description:
Video. Two DVDs made by Northeast Historic Films in Bucksport, ME, of a 16MM film and three documents. A letter from David Wesphal, Acadia Film/Video, GCI, ME, 17Feb1989 to Robertina (Bobby) Gray, Cranberry Island Library President; and a newspaper clipping dated Feb. 16, 1989 (newspaper unidentified) discussing the Northeast Historic Film archive in Blue Hill; and a film log for each of the seven reels. Westphal's letter speaks about the sugar tin can that Gray brought to him containing seven 400-ft reels of film which Wesphal titled Sugar 1, 2, 3 etc. Westphal suggests the film go to the Blue Hill Film depository for long term storage. He says the whole film runs about 1 and a half hours, was shot at slow speed (silent speed). Reel 1: Lobster-Herring (some on CI). Reel 2: Duck Island, A Few Yachts, Robinson Mtn. Reel 3: Bob in Punt, Al and Rene, Yojo, Bathing Group, Lorae, Isl and Pine Isl, Bob in Lorae. Reel 4: Morse, Panorama, Reception, Picnic Bakers, Anna Arm. Reel 5: Valley Cove, Teacup Inn, Mt Road, Jordan Pond, Grand Pre, Lena at Bakers. Reel 6: Bemesa and Yacht Races. Reel 7: Bathing, Sammy Sanford, Natives on Wharf, Eber at P.O., Enoch, Capt Rice, Kelly and Boy Radts. The leader on the digital copy of the film reads: The David Westphal Collection, Acc 0702, Browning Home movies, transferred from 16mm master by Northeast Historic Film 12 June 1996. At GCIHS this film is called the Lloyd Hayes-Bob Browning video and is believed to have been taken ca. 1929-1931; www.gcihs.org/1/photos/lloyd_hayes.html: Bob Browning donated home movies made by Lloyd Benjamin Hayes (1880-1943), and that Lloyd and Rachel Hayes bought and refurbished the old Spurling home, ran a boarding house 1934-1937, and made these home movies. [show more]
Letter from Franklin Roosevelt to Lloyd B. Hayes
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Places, Island
  • 1933
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Letter from Franklin Roosevelt to Lloyd B. Hayes
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Letter, typed, from Franklin Roosevelt to Lloyd B. Hayes, 26 Jul 1933, about FDR's passing by Great Cranberry Island in his boat