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| Tud Bunker on Life on GCI Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Tud Bunker on Life on GCI Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Minidisc, audio, copy of NEH Library tape #CO34, "Life on GCI, Past & Present" by Tud Bunker | |||
| Ted Spurling's History of Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ted Spurling's History of Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Minidisc, audio, copy of NEH Library tape #CO23, "A History of the Cranberry Isles" by Ted Spurling | |||
| Ralph Stanley interviews 1994 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ralph Stanley interviews 1994 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Audio cassette tapes (set of two) recording three interviews of Ralph Stanley by Jeff Weisbruch, paid for by GCIHS. Interview dates: January 15, 1994, January 22, 1994, and February 12, 1994. (See transcript of the three interviews 1000.30.91.) | |
| Patti D'Angelo newspaper clipping Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Patti D'Angelo newspaper clipping Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A write up of Patti D'Angelo's work on Cranberry Island with the elementary school and interview with Tud Bunker as well as an explanation of her affiliation with the College of the Atlantic. | |||
| Journal 1878-1881 voyages of schooner Carrie M. Richardson Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Journal 1878-1881 voyages of schooner Carrie M. Richardson Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Journal, leather and paper, wallet style, with entries for years 1878, 1879, 1881. Pertains to nautical voyages of Meltiah Richardson aboard the Carrie M. Richardson and perhaps others. It is an extremely valuable resource for interpretation of annotated Nautical Chart 1 and other charts in GCIHS 2015.315.2076. Journal entries corroborate plot markings on nautical chart 1. All pages with handwritten text scanned (48 scans) at 600 dpi July 27, 2016. Complete transcription made Feb. 2017. (Pages with newspaper clippings glued to them were not scanned - most clippings were poetry. Note: Meltiah's wife, Carrie (Mary Catherine Stanley Richardson), wrote and saved poetry.) In several instances, a page had been cut out and/or a portion of a page had been cut out. The journal is not always chronological; entries switch around various years 1878,1879, and 1881. Some highlights are listed below. Scan no. 9 Sailed from Cardenas for NY 260 lbs Manello(?) Rope, 178 shakers, 78 canvas 10 Arrived at NY from Cardenas, list of perhaps cod caught per person by name and weight and $. Left for…. 11 Arrived at NY from C. Isles settled with mate $37.16 14 Rec from M.P Richardson the sum of $70 wages up to Date Nov 19th 1881 William Brandt 15 Arrived Cadiz… 16 M. P Richardson mentioned 17 M. P. Richardson mentioned and Schooner Carrie M. Richardson 1881 19 "Cash in Spanish gold 342" 23 Mr. Rumill shipped on board Schr C. M. Richardson April 10/79 at 35 $ per xxx 24 Antonio Williams on board C. M. Richardson Apr 9th/79 25 more re: 1879 26 more re: 1879 27 more re: 1879 42 "cure for chills/fever (?) 2 bitter apples with one pint gin. Let same stand ays. Dose: ½ wine glass full twice a day before meals (R H O (?)) 43 Bill of sale for 1/32 of Schr CMR Mrs. E B Gregg (interest?) to Joseph W x of Philadelphia 44 Name is clearly Joseph W. Willson of Phila 45 Port charges list 48 Mentions Cadiz [show more] | ||
| Appointment of Postmaster Joseph S. Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Appointment of Postmaster Joseph S. Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Certificate, Appointment of Postmaster Joseph S. Spurling, 29 Apr 1862 | ||
| Ledgers from Lewis Stanley boatyard, 19th century Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  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] | ||
| Materials gathered in memoriam related to General Andrew Barclay Spurling Civil War career Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Materials gathered in memoriam related to General Andrew Barclay Spurling Civil War career Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Manuscript. A xerox copy of a collection of materials gathered in memoriam related to the military career of Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General Andrew Barclay Spurling who served during the Civil War and died August 22, 1906. [Spurling is the son of Abigail Cobb Hadlock Spurling who was widowed and married William P. Preble. Spurling's boyhood home was the Preble House on Great Cranberry Island, Maine. He was born in the house across the street from the Preble house now known as the Freeman house.] Spurling was in the 2nd Maine Cavalry Union Army and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor March 3, 1863. This packet of materials was given to GCIHS by Hugh Dwelley in 2004 and contains copies of documents outlined in a letter to "Cara and Ted" (probably Ted Spurling, Sr. of Islesford, Little Cranberry Island, ME) from "Marianne and Rene" dtd June 1st (no year). Marianne and Rene had requested the Spurling records and received them for the cost of $32.00. Documents explain Andrew Spurling's heroism and exploits, contain copies of military records, and include statements by other Mainers who served with him. There are also three typewritten pages of text written by Ted Spurling Sr., Islesford, Maine, summing up Andrew Spurling's life, including Ted Spurling's handwritten note: "Gen. Andrew Spurling's father was Samuel Spurling. Andrew's mother was Abigail Hadlock (of Little Cranberry Island.) Gen. Andrew was a first cousin to my great grandfather, George N. Spurling and also a first cousin to my Great Grand Father, Gilbert T. Hadlock - Ted Spurling Sr. 7/8/2002. *Benjamin Spurling was a Rev. War veteran as well. Ted" The last few pages include copies of newspaper articles: one describes the the discovery of 1864 graffiti etched into the wall of a home in Bagdad, Florida, where Spurling and his troops apparently stopped. Graffitti has been preserved in-situ by the homeowner. Another article tells about the end of his life in Chicago investing in real estate and a rawhide manufacturing company, and mentions his unfortunate investment in the Spurling Block in Elgin just at the Panic of 1893. The last page is a letter from "Bud" to Ted [Spurling] thanking him for his copy and inserting his thoughts, dated September 9, 1994. [Perhaps the original copies of these documents are in the Sawtelle collection at Acadia NPS or in the Islesford Historical Society? TBD] [show more] | |||
| The Town of Cranberry Isles by Ted Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  The Town of Cranberry Isles by Ted Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Brochure, "The Town of Cranberry Isles" by Ted Spurling, includes 12 black and white pages with illustrations by Rose Russo Crooker, copyright 1979 by Theodore and Cara Spurling. First printing 1979, second 1986. | ||
| Prints, photographs, oral histories for GCI Portrait Project 2009 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Prints, photographs, oral histories for GCI Portrait Project 2009 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Prints and photographs for The Great Cranberry Island Portrait Project 2009. Project combined art and oral history. 17 original, matted, unframed, black & white and color prints, numbered, signed, and copyrighted by the artist Janet Best Badger, a Bangor, Maine, artist and printmaker. (Three prints linoleum/color; 14 copper/b&W.) 20 color photos with text profiles by Bar Harbor photojournalist Rebecca Buyers-Basso. Individuals: Ruth Fostervold Westphal, Malcolm Donald, Annie Rice Alley, Gaile Frederika Bunker Colby, Sofie Lillian Nathan Dowling, Michael Richman, Louise Oldbrook Littleton Millar, Eva Mariae Bracy Galyean, Wesley "Junior" Bracy, Patricia Bailey, Charlene Louise Allen, Phil Allen Whitney, Clara Frances Pervear Wedge. Also miscellaneous photos including a rock, lupines, and the Macfarlan (Preble) house. Project was accomplished with a grant fom Maine Arts Commision, with support of The Heliker-LaHotan Foundation, GCIHS, and local residents. [show more] | |||
| Stanley family genealogy Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Stanley family genealogy Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Chart, genealogical, Stanley family, top: Enoch Boynton Stanley & Caroline H. Stanley, and Nancy ?Lopad? & Abraham Richardson | |||
| Certificate for William Preble as Notary Public Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Certificate for William Preble as Notary Public Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document. Certificate: Augusta, Maine, 14 March 1860, William P. Preble of Cranberry Isle, State of Maine, as Notary Public for Hancock County for seven years. Signed by Scott M. Morrill, Governor. Certificate has an ivory and pink impressed and raised seal the State of Maine with the signature of the Governor below it and the notation: Commission Recorded Vol. 4, Page 173. Signed at bottom by Noah Smith, Secretary of State. | ||
| Slides ca. 1940, 1960-70s from Towns family Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Slides ca. 1940, 1960-70s from Towns family Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photos. Collection of 48 slides from ca. 1960-70s (one slide from 1940s) including aerial photographs of Great Cranberry Island and events concerning the Towns family. Aerial photographs ca. 1968 probably taken by Bob Hylander. Events and people include: Preble Cove, GCI houses, Beal and Bunker dock, Hamor House and restaurant, Polly Bunker and gift shop, George Savage and Ruth Haydock on motor scooter, Bloom concert, school house, Doc Haydock and George Savage with the Lollipop skiff, Norma Bunker with turkeys, Dorothy Dot Towns, Red Macallister with VW Bug, Leona Macallister, Cranberry Cove Restaurant, John Lawrence. This collection is in addition to the 223 Towns family slides catalogued as: 2013.243.1941. (All slides have been scanned and identified. See c:....2014>photos>etc.) [show more] | ||
| Photograph of Mary Teel Pratt Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photograph of Mary Teel Pratt Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photograph. Black and white. Mary Teel Pratt in white dress with pearls. Mary Teel was born about 1912, daughter of Velma and Sawtelle Teel. Mary grew up in what is now (2013) David Bunker's house where Velma and Sawtelle once lived. She died in her sleep in November 1998. Phil Whitney has videos of Mary Teel reminiscing and walking with his mother on GCI. | |||
| Dagurreotype photograph of William Pitt Preble ca.1850-1855 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Dagurreotype photograph of William Pitt Preble ca.1850-1855 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photograph. Dagurreotype of man believed to be William Pitt Preble ca.1850-1855, in hinged, gilt-edged, leatherbound, wood case. Plush green velvet with impressed scroll design lines the interior of the cover; thin brass/metal mat has green corrosion spots. From the Louise Marr collection of items recovered from the Preble House. William Pitt Preble (1811-1905) was the second owner of GCI's historic Preble house. He exemplified the industrious ingenuity needed to succeed in homesteading and developing a community on this rugged island in the early 19th century. Preble was the son of the Mount Desert Rock lighthouse keeper, a descendant of an influential Portland family. He came to Great Cranberry as a teacher, and became a church elder, selectman, justice of the peace, tax appraiser, postmaster, storekeeper, shipbuilder, and shipwreck appraiser. He outlived both his wives and raised nine children. [show more] | ||
| Ambrotype: perhaps Preble's second wife, Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ambrotype: perhaps Preble's second wife, Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo. Ambrotype in folding wood frame with metal hasp; dark red velvet lining with impressed scroll pattern; brass mat with oval window, showing a young woman, perhaps William Pitt Preble's second wife, Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford Preble. She was the mother of Samuel Sanford, daughter of Capt. Samuel Hadlock, Jr. and Hanna Caroline Dorothea Russ (1803-1889) a.k.a. "the Prussian Woman." From the Louise Marr collection of items recovered from the Preble House. (Photo ca. 1855-1860) See also 1000.0.1066G photo. She wears unusual fingerless gloves. [show more] | |||
| Photograph of Abigail Cobb Hadlock Spurling Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photograph of Abigail Cobb Hadlock Spurling Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo. Ambrotype in folding wooden case with two metal hasps showing a woman in dark dress, probably Abigail Cobb Hadlock Spurling Preble ca. 1855-1860. She was William Pitt Preble's first wife. He was her second husband; her first husband was Samuel Spurling. Inside: plush, burgundy, velvet lining with with floral design, photo in brass matte with fairly intricate preserver. From Louise Marr collection of artifacts recovered from the Preble House. (See also Maine Memory Network online exhibit and General Andrew Barclay Spurling, Civil War Medal of Honor recipient, research at GCIHS. Abigail Hadlock and Samuel Spurling were his parents. [show more] | |||
| Towns Family Slides Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Towns Family Slides Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photos. Slides, 223 total including 35 glass slides. Images donated by the Towns family of GCI: family, friends, homes, landscapes, and seascapes taken over decades. Five slides imprinted 1958; four possibly SEP1974; one 1991. Several handwritten lists of people and places were included with donation but can no longer be tied to individual slides. All slides have been digitally scanned in high resolution (see 2000\photos\dorothy towns). The Towns family are summer residents on GCI. The Towns property is also known historically as the Bayview Farm, the Red House, and the Crosby farm. (The slides are stored in a binder, grouped by brand names and numbers imprinted on individual slides: Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Ansco Color, Pavelle, and Mercury, in hopes slide technology might date these slides. Glass slide projectors in use ca. 1930s-1950s. (See also collection of Towns slides ca. 1960s-70s in 2014.269.2005; and other Towns photos in collection.) [show more] | |||
| Photograph: Abigail Cobb Hadlock Spurling Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photograph: Abigail Cobb Hadlock Spurling Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photograph. Black and white image on slightly waxy, beige paper. Abigail Cobb Hadlock Spurling Preble as an elderly woman, dressed in black with white collar, neck broach, black hat tied beneath her chin, and hands folded. Photograph is in a brown envelope with an eagle logo on upper left corner that reads: "Letrich Studio 2571 Boardwalk Atlantic City". (This is a paper print of the tintype image in album 1000.0.1066, second to last page.) [show more] | |||
| Ambrotype portrait two unidentified women in black Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ambrotype portrait two unidentified women in black Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photograph. Ambrotype (ca. 1855-1865): two panes of glass with brass mat and ornate preserver frame securing the ambrotyp components. Portrait of two unidentified young women in black dresses with white lace collars. Back pane of glass is coated with a black emulsion that is flaking and peeling. Front pane is the ghostly, white image of the two women's faces, fingers, lace collars, and the white wall background. Cheeks and lips on both women are pale pink. (Compare with 2013.246.1947 and 2013.246.1945.) [show more] | |||
| Tintype portrait: Woman in plaid dress with broach Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Tintype portrait: Woman in plaid dress with broach Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photograph. Tintype with ornate frame. Young woman in plaid dress with broach bearing a picture of a dark-haired, balding man. (Compare with 2013.246.1946 and 2013.246.1947.) | |||
| Tintype: two young unidentified women in black Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Tintype: two young unidentified women in black Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photograph. Tintype.Two young women seated wearing black dresses, both unidentified. (Compare with 2013.246.1946 and 2013.246.1945) | |||
| School and property tax info Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  School and property tax info Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Ledger page, loose, school and property tax info, no date, typical names listed: William Preble, Lew Ladd, Thomas Bunker, Gilbert Family, John Steele, etc. | |||
| Wedding Certificate William P. Spurling to Dorcas Bunker Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wedding Certificate William P. Spurling to Dorcas Bunker Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Wedding Certificate, with engraved wedding scene, William P. Spurling to Dorcas Bunker (both from Cranberry Isles) 12 Dec 1869, married by Gilbert Hadlock, Justice of the Peace, in the presence of 2 witnesses, both named Howard, very faded writing | ||
| Inventory of the estate of Thomas Manchester Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Inventory of the estate of Thomas Manchester Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: List, handwritten, inventory of the estate of Thomas Manchester, by appraisers William P. Preble, Thomas Bunker, & Joseph S. Spurling |