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Trawl line with wood frame
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Trawl line with wood frame
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear. Trawl line wound around wooden frame. Wooden handle is nailed to frame (unusual).
Iron cranberry or blueberry rake
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Agricultural, Rake
  • Businesses, Farming
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Iron cranberry or blueberry rake
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool. Cranberry or blueberry rake, iron with solder repairs at tines and bottom.
Round metal fishing buoy
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Buoy
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Round metal fishing buoy
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear. Metal Fishing Buoy, round. It is stamped on one side PHILLIPS PATENT GUARANTEED LIGHTWEIGHT MODEL. and on the other, PATENT No 331163 NOTICE OF INFRINGEMENT REWARDED. The patent number is from Great Britain.
Receipt for store purchases
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • 1910
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Receipt for store purchases
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Business receipt, dated 24 Sep 1910, E.B. Stanley bought of Nettie Stanley, pair of rubbers, ticking, pork, pepper, wire, etc., total $34.50, dated
Maine State Fish Inspector Certificate 1854
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Government, Government Records
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • 1854
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Maine State Fish Inspector Certificate 1854
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Certificate, Appointment as State of Maine Fish Inspector, of William P. Preble, 26 June 1854 with transcription
Ledgers from Lewis Stanley boatyard, 19th century
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • 1855
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Ledgers from Lewis Stanley boatyard, 19th century
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Collection of three scanned ledger account books originally from the Lewis Stanley boatyard. Ledgers were inherited by donor from his great uncle Lewis Stanley. (See scans on gcihs-nas\photo\Museum Photos\2015.316.2077_SchmidtLedgers and on DVD; ledgers were originally returned to donor August 2015; then all were donated to museum June 2017). Ledger A1: Measures 8.25H x 7: W x .5” thick. First page: George N. Spurling, Cranberry Isles; and [unreadable name below Spurling] Machias Port. Entries run from 1855-1870, with the last four pages dated 1855 pertaining to WatterWitch (Water Witch, Waterwitch, spelling and capitalization varies) stocks and specifics. Account entries recorded for the WatterWitch, Schooner Rozella, and Schooner Caressa. Names mentioned: Walton, Guptill, Haynes, Stanley, Spurling, Ferrin, Wentworth, Young, Saddler, Ladd. Commodities: fish and oil mostly; stocks and figuring notations in pen and pencil by different hands. First page states Schooner Hannah & Abigail bought in Boston May 6th, 1849. First entry is “E.B. Stanley, Cranberry Isles Oct. 9th, 1858 for $21 dollars on account of my share of fish bought on board Sch. WatterWitch this season. Asa [D?] Stanley.” Ledger B2: Measures 8”H x 6.75” W x .5” thick. Inside front cover is written: “Jonas Blood born April 15th, 1774.” First page begins with January 1st 1859 listing sale of butter, pork, and eggs. Ledger records expenses and sales of produce and other items through April 1862 and appears to be written by all the same hand. [For some info on Jonas Blood: probably born New Hampshire. http://gen.plagge.org/individual.php?pid=I16094&ged=plagge.ged Jonas Blood:b..c1774 d.5/21/1870, age 96 By genealogy.com.] Ledger C3: 14" H x 3.75" W x 1" thick. Label on front cover: Sanborn & Carter, Publishers, Booksellers and Blank Book Manufacturers, No. 55 Exchange Street, Portland, Maine. Small envelope and letter addressed to Mrs. E. B. Stanley, Cranberry Isles, Maine, postmarked Waltham MA, Nov 17/12M/1908 (03?) with 2 cent stamp. Reverse postmark is Cranberry Isles 1908(3)? Begins "North East Harbor, Lindsay,” ends: "Hastily, Carol(?)" Many pages have been cut out from the beginning of this ledger. First entry, is on page 85 and starts: “Boston Dec. 6th 1879 Sch. S.L. Foster. Page 93 is “Boston Dec 14, 1885.” Page 98 deals with the estate of Enoch B. Stanley and Lewis B. Stanley 1903 and continues with various documents and deeds to 1908 (to page 151). Then returns to accounts for the S. L. Foster 1889. Page 176 begins accounts for the Schooner Rozella 1882, then to 1881, and goes back to deeds and correspondence p. 196 for 1908. P. 198 goes back to the Sch. Foster and alternates between accounts re: Foster and Rozella. Two small loose account papers between p. 212 and 213. The ledger goes back and forth between years and schooners and deeds throughout the book. Last pages of ledger date Jan 18, 1913 and begin with “I expressly forbade Lewis to connect the new building with the original fish house of the heirs of E. B. Stanley…..” (See also 2017.389.2164 and 2017.388.2163) See also notes from Charles Liebow email 2019 re: boat builders with this ledger. [show more]
Negative and print of Lewis Stanley boatyard in winter
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Negative and print of Lewis Stanley boatyard in winter
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Photo. Negative and 11"x14" photo of Lewis (Lew) Stanley's boatyard located on the pool during the wintertime with the pool frozen. The boatyard was later sold to Heliker and LaHotan and they tore it down because it was a hazard and in rough shape. Mickey Macfarlan who said that towards the end of his life Lew Stanley was hard up for money and could no longer repair the boatyard. Mickey said Lew was always complaining that people were stealing from the boatyard - the second floor of it was chock full of all sorts of things. Mickey mentioned that the boatyard itself was "tremendously large" [show more]
Maine Coast Fisherman, Feb 1956
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Maine Coast Fisherman, Feb 1956
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Newspaper sheet, Maine Coast Fisherman, Feb 1956, with interesting stories (lobster 8 cents each, etc.)
"Cranberry Tales" by LaRue Spiker 1971
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
"Cranberry Tales" by LaRue Spiker 1971
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Newspaper complete page, Ellsworth American 1 Jul 1971, "Cranberry Tales" by LaRue Spiker. About the Hadlock family, Capt. Sam Hadlock, Jr., with photos of Arthur Spurling, the old Ben Spurling house, Islesford Museum, Old Wm. Preble House, Church.
List of barrels of oil from Schooner S. L. Foster and others
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, List, Inventory
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • 1882
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
List of barrels of oil from Schooner S. L. Foster and others
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
List, handwritten, 18 Nov 1882, "Gauger's Returns" listing barrels of oil from ships, SLF (probably S.L. Foster) and R (probably Rozella), Capt. E. Stanley, S.L. Foster, signed by J.G. McKerson, Gauger
Working Waterfront 2001: GCIHS new museum
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Working Waterfront 2001: GCIHS new museum
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Newpaper, "The Working Waterfront" Aug 2001, see page 10, article "Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Builds a New Museum from Scratch"
Store Ledger 1853-1857
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • 1853
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Store Ledger 1853-1857
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Ledger, handwritten, probably by William Preble, mostly running expenses and payments, apparently at a store, for various people, 1853-1857
Store Ledger 1838-1845
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • William P. Preble
  • 1839
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Store Ledger 1838-1845
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Ledger, handwritten, inscribed "William P. Preble, Property, Cranberry Isles 1839" inside front cover, records 1838-1845 are mostly running expenses and payments, apparently at a store, for various accounts: Esaias Preble, Horace Duryan, Thomas Bunker, Harriet Rosebrook, John Pung, Michael Green, Winchester Whitney, Abigail Spurling, South (school) District Cranberry Isles, Thomas Manchester, Nathaniel Gott, Edwin Hadlock, Enoch Lurvy (or Lurvey), John Dow, Capt. L.W. Gilley, B. Bunker, Edward Burroughs, Rev. Micah Strickland, Miss Mary Preble, Justis W. Gilley, John Brown, Messrs. Symms Eaton & Co., David Thompson, Haskell Lancaster, Benjamin Moor, Thomas Newman, Josiah Young, Henry Fernald, Town of Cranberry Isles To William Preble, William Pung, expenses of Estate of Benjamin Spurling, Richard Higgins, George N. Spurling, Eunice Keef, Ivory Joy, Esther Eaton, North (school) District, Thomas Marks, Schooner Brainerd (or Brainard), Elisha Young, Bills against the Brigantine Factor for repairs, Michael Bulger, Samuel Farnham, Sans Stanley, Briant Hodgkins, James Mayo, Schooner Harriet, Estate of Robert Spurling, David Winsey, William Richardson, Charles Bunker, Andrew Frisbee, William Rice, Estate of Samuel Spurling, Schooner Eastern Star. Several scraps of note paper with writing and figures also in ledger. [show more]
Store Ledger 1845-1849
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • 1845
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Store Ledger 1845-1849
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Ledger, William Preble, 1845-1849, mostly store accounts listing customers and items and services they bought, apparently at Preble's store. Items referred to both food and nautical hardware with prices listed. Purchases listed by day and date, interspersed with records and values for Preble's business and personal services as executor, town agent, etc. Names include: John Pung, Edward Spurling, Michael Bulger, the schooner Harriet, Elisha Young, Henry Neuman, Freeman Gubtil, Estate of Nicholas Tucker [show more]
Ice Harvesting on Cranberry Island
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Ice Harvesting on Cranberry Island
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Exhibit. Previously used museum display about Ice Harvesting on Cranberry Island. Included in the publication "A Day on an Ice-Field" by Alvaro Adsitt.
Cranberry Island General Store bags
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Containers
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Cranberry Island General Store bags
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Artifact, 1031a-b. (a) and (b) are two types of paper trash bags bought at the old Cranberry Island General Store
"Cranberry Island Notes" by Charles 'Chuck' Liebow
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
"Cranberry Island Notes" by Charles 'Chuck' Liebow
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Boats. Looseleaf Binder, "Cranberry Island Notes" by Charles Liebow. Contains maps 1607-1881, "List of Vessels From Notes made by Chuck Liebow (Typed & some notes added by Hugh Dwelley 11/1994" (also on cranberryisles.com website), 1912 petition to establish boundaries of roads, census data 1839-1860, the cranberry register 1909-1910, boat building, Liebow's notes on books and articles, miscellaneous, photos, houses showing owners then and now, families, deeds. [show more]
Store Ledger 1849-1850
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • 1849
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Store Ledger 1849-1850
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Ledger, handwritten, probably by William Preble, mostly running expenses and payments, apparently at a store, for various people, 1849-1851
Store Ledger 1857-1862
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • 1857
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Store Ledger 1857-1862
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Ledger, handwritten, inscribed "Property of William P. Preble", mostly running expenses and payments, apparently at a store, for various people, 1857-1862
Maine Greets Opening of Yarmouth-Bar Harbor Ferry 1956
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Maine Greets Opening of Yarmouth-Bar Harbor Ferry 1956
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Newpaper clipping, Bangor Daily News, 6 June 1956, pp. 17-18 & 21-22, "Maine Greets Opening of Yarmouth-Bar Harbor Ferry," about the new ferry terminal in Bar Harbor, and the Bluenose ferry.
Wilfred S. Trussell 1906 motorized vessel license
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Permission, License
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
  • People
  • 1906
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Wilfred S. Trussell 1906 motorized vessel license
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Document, License, framed under glass, to operate or navigate motorized vessels of 15 gross tons or less and to carry passengers, issued to Wilfred S. Trussell, 21 Sept 1906, signed by Charles O. Cousinly and Walter L. Blaisdell
Bayview Farm photographs
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Farming
  • People
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
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
  • Image, Art, Drawing
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
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.
William P. Preble receipts
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • 1852
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
William P. Preble receipts
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Two receipts: (A) Tremont March 10th, 1852, Received of William P. Preble seventy three dollars 80/100 in full payment for ballance doo me for wooden materials to build new Brig Abigail Maria of, furnished by me the last season as per agreement dated at Tremont December 5th, 1850. Signed by Henry W. [xxxx?]. And (B): William P. Preble's taxes 1878 = $1.10.
Booklet, Facts and Fancies
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Booklet, Facts and Fancies
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Booklet, Facts and Fancies, Fleischman & Co with illustrations, sayings and advice.