Description: Report. Acadia Maritime Cultural Resources Inventory Final Report, funded by an LL Bean Acadia Research Fellowship, Submitted January 2009, by Franklin H. Price, Joshua Daniel, Kristen Chasse, and John Stallings. Emailed to GCIHS September 2014. A brief overview and assessment project reviewing maritime disaster and vessel abandonment near Acadia National Park. Provides a synopsis of known ship wrecks, a GIS database with geospatial information, and a model of where maritime cultural resources might be found. Field interviews, archaeologically corroborated known ship wrecks, photographs of wreck remains, references, bibliography. Field interviews include Charlene Allen, Sheldon Goldthwaite, Ralph Stanley, Mike Pinkham, and Phil Whitney among others. Report was sent via -email as part of an e-mail exchange between Price and GCIHS September 4, 2014. [show more]
Description: Photographs. Scans of seven large-format color slides taken by Michael Macfarlan in 1955. Two (F-G) are of the Lewis Stanley boathouses on GCI. Five are of the 1,000 lb. Carcharodon carcharias "man-eater" shark harpooned by Capt. Lyndon "Tud" Bunker and John L. Saltonstall aboard his 32-foot cabin cruiser, Thetis, in August of 1955. According to newspaper articles (see items 1000.28.400-406), the shark rammed a hole below the waterline about three feet from the bow, forcing the Captain to land the boat on Bakers Island where Macfarlan took these photos. The shark was shot and killed by a boat coming to their rescue. The shark was identified by one of its teeth by Henry B. Bigelow of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College in September 1955. The photographs show John Saltonstall in blue jacket and white cap with Tud Bunker (tan pants) and Dorothy Macfarlan (photographer's mother) in white with white hat on Bakers Island with the boat and the shark. [show more]
Description: Photos and telephone books. Scanned versions of loans of a two paintings and one photograph. (A) Portrait painting of Brooks Peterson as a young woman by Betsy Flagg Melcher 1964. Donor says Melcher was a member of the Cranberry Club to which Brooks belonged; (B) scanned photo of Brooks Peterson as an older woman; (C) Painting of Harold Stanley's boat came with the note: "Harold Stanley's boat, built by B. Spurling? painted by Harry Spurling 4B". (D) Invitation to Chamber Music Concert and Reception 8/10/1986 on GCI to benefit the Arcady Music Festival. (E) Newspaper article by Liz Roman Gallese, Staff Reporter of the Wall Street Journal, undtd (elsewhere article date is 24 Nov 1975), "Down East in Maine, The Cranberry Club is for Brahmins Only;" (F) 1994-95 Cranberry Isles telephone book, (G) 1999-2000 Cranberry Isles telephone book. (H-I) Two tourist MDI resort maps undtd. (J-K) Ellsworth tephone books for 1969 and 1975. [show more]
Description: Photos. Collection of 19 small black and white, and family photos of Winslow Bunker (1912-1992) and family. Winslow was the son of Percy Bunker; he was grandson of Willis Bunker and Rena Stanley Bunker. Winslow married M. Rosalee (Rosie) (1919-1967). He served in WWII. People and places in several of the photos have been identified including: Winslow and Rosie Bunker, their house, Percy Bunker, Winslow's lobster boat, his dock, his dog Gus and cat Smokey. Winslow's dock was on The Pool on GCI near the present Richman house. Richmans bought Winslow's house. (See 2016.323.2096 for Winslow Bunker's boat "Wild Rose.) [show more]
Description: Photographs. Collection of scans of photos 2013.344.2110 (A-Y) made in 2004 from photos recovered by donor in either Hilda Spurling or Marjorie Phippen's GCI house. Unclear whether we have original photos at GCIHS. (Note: Original photo names were pw01 thru pw027, museum photos now identified as A-Y.)pw01 - pulled from an album; post-it note on back: "Moss House" (Image of Moss House with haystacks 1927)pw02 - on back: "1947"; post-it note on back: "Hilda Spurling 1947"pw03 - on back, in ink: "this is Harvard Beals Boat we are hauling on the ice" in pencil: "March 1923"pw04 - pulled from an album; on back, ballpoint ink: "Little Elener (now Buzzie)"; on post-it note: "Seimer House"pw05 - postcard; pw06 - unknown housenext 3 photos were clipped together by phil whitneypw07 - unknown man in unknown boatpw08 - skyline of New York City?pw09 - pulled from an album; unknown kids on slednext 4 photos were clipped together by philpw10 - unknown shipwreckpw11 - post-it note on back: "Spurling Cove 1923"pw12 - pulled from album; post-it note on back: "Field across from Wesley Bracy's house" but i think this is wrong as the houses across the way seem too close & numerouspw13 - post-it note on back: "Murch dock"pw14 - on back: "Sherley Louise & cat 'Jiminey'"pw15 - on back: "Margie & Hilda"; post-it note on back: "Margie Phippen & Hilda Spurling"pw16 - pulled from album; on back: "Bertie's cat 'Goody'"pw17 - on back: "Hilda & Ethel B."pw18 - pulled from album; on front: "Harriet's room, one of my rooms, my bedroom" on back: "Where we let...etc."pw19 - pulled from album, double exposure; post-it note on back: "Morrie Newell House"pw20 - on back: "Margie & Mother"pw21 - unknown vesselpw22 - unknown vessel; on back: "ship wreck on back of cranberry island" (same vessel as pw10)pw23 - on back: "The cove froxen over" post-it note on back: "Spurling Cove 1923"pw24 - on back: "Bagley's Barber shop with a little snow on the side Ha! Where I have my hair dressing done Marcel Wasco and so on Ha!"pw25 - unknown house, seems same as pw06 but has additional dormer and latticework under porchpw26 - seems to be same kids and same houses as pw14pw27 - luxury yacht passing by GCI [show more]
Description: Instruction sheet, immersion suit donning, found 25 Aug 2002 on shore near, and presumed to be from, the wreck of the Donbhe, which occurred 5 Mar 2002
Description: Special License to Navigate, Vessel "B499", to Lewis G. Stanley, 12 Dec 1918. (See item 1000.0.25 and 1000.0.26 for letter and envelope that accompanied license.)
Description: Brochures: 3 different Beal & Bunker boat schedules: 1987 Sea Queen from NEH; date unknown Sea Queen from NEH; date unknown Island Queen from SWH
Description: Collection of three items. (A) Trailboard from a Friendship sloop. Letters visible: “BUILDER FRIENDSHIP, ME” on one side, and “WILBUR A. MORSE, BUILDER” on the other side. Carved with leaves and wavy line on both sides. Donor believes this could be the trailboard from one of Peter Richardson’s Friendship sloops. Richardson kept five Friendship sloops where Heliker LaHotan now stands (the old Stanley boatyard).(Trailboards are a pair of decorative boards at the bow of a sailboat, running from the figurehead back towards the hawsepipe.) (Measurements: 35"L x 6"H x 8.5"W)Note: On 10/14/16 Captain, historian, and boat builder Ralph Stanley visited GCIHS and commented on the trailboard. Ralph explained that donor's Friendship sloop, Old Baldy, was bought from its original owner; Kathy Newman owns it now. Jarvis Newman restored it. Stanley believes that the sloop that the trailboard came from was Little Flirt. (Apparently, the intended name was Alert, but William Doane Stanley had also named his boat Alert.) Eventually, Little Flirt had Sweet Pea painted on her stern. Whoever gave Lou Alert’s trailboard, likely found it in the field by Lewis Stanley’s boat yard (Ralph Stanley’s Uncle Lew) after the boat was destroyed and the ruins put in the field. He believes a full trailboard would have included the date made, 1904, and would have had an eagle’s head on the end. Ralph will check and see if Kathe Walton has the head.(B) Stanley cemetery wooden post. A broken post with carved top intact for exhibit purposes and for use as a model for new fence posts for the 2014 restored Stanley cemetery. (There are several more broken fence posts currently at the cemetery.) (Measurements: 41"L x 6" Diameter)(C) Powder horn from donor's family. Lovely, plain, unornamented horn which Donor used with her muzzle loading rifles and as a prop in a play. Has string attached by screw; two drilled holes; hollow. It was probably acquired in Ohio. No direct connection to GCI other than Lou Millar's use in her long and interesting life and it’s a neat artifact. (Measurements: 14.5"L x 3.5"H x 3"W) [show more]
Object, Water Transporation, Water Transportation Accessories
Subject:
Vessels, Boat
Date:
1970
Description: Ship hardware. Collection of four large brass/metal artifacts recovered by Wesley Bracy Jr. (a.k.a. "Junior:) from local waters while scuba diving 1970-1980s. Items were either loaned or donated to GCIHS in 2000. (A): Artifact, letter "A" metal plate, from tug Astro an ocean-going tug towing a barge that ran ashore on Mt. Desert Rock 1902. Astro sank but barge okay. (B): Bow bit from the Ara, Deane's ocean-going private yacht that sank 1926 off Little Duck Island; (C): cleat; (D:) fire nozzle possibly from Deane's yacht. (See also 2015.310.2070 digital slides, and DVD interview made in 2003 (2013.265.1998).) [show more]
Description: Boat. Rowboat or skiff made ca. 1890. White with red trim. (The boat is on the right in this 2016 photo showing two rowboats. The other images are from June 2010 after GCIHS was given the boat and before it was repainted.) Per Willie Granston (GHMM): "used to have a name on the stern (Cat's Miow) and was given to the Historical Society by a Northeast Harbor family who had it in the basement of their cottage (the Brzezinski family)... I had it in an exhibit in Northeast Harbor (The Power of the Oar - Summer 2010), and it looked really really nice. We spent a lot of time cleaning it and washing it... It is almost undoubtedly a Chummy Spurling skiff as I lined it up with a known Spurling and measured the two side by side and all the dimensions matched, down to the size, number, and spacing of the ribs.." (See link below to album showing the rowboat when it was displayed in NEH Maritime Museum.) [show more]
Description: Boat. Rowboat or skiff, made by Dud (Dudley) Bracy (Junior Bracy's grandfather) perhaps ca. 1890. White with red trim . Rowboat sat on the shore by Nancy Lea's boathouse near Newman & Gray boatyard for years. Kevin Russell gave the rowboat to donor after Russell became the owner of the Lea boathouse. Boathouse was then passed on to Brezinis and has since changed hands again. The boat was repainted at some point . (Willie Granston (GHMM) may have photos of boat when it was on the shore.) [show more]
Description: Receipt from builder Samuel S. Newman, for a 1/16 share in the Schooner Carrie M. Richardson, to Capt. E.B. (Enoch) Stanley, for $945.66 and 3/8 cents, Dec 17th, 1874. This half-page, handwritten ledger entry was found in Bob LaHotan's barn when he cleaned it 2001. Barn was on the property Enoch B. Stanley owned in the 19th century. Transcribed: "Rec from Capt E B Stanley 945.66 3/8 Nine Hundred forty-five 66/100 Dollars in full for 1/16 of Schr Carrie M Richardson. [Illegible: For? Fox?] Bills not included. Tremont- Dec 17th/74 [1874]. Samuel S. Newman. Paid up to Dec 950:00/945.66, amt of 1/16 over paid 4:34. 10,00-8,68= 1:32" [show more]
Description: Three articles from unknown magazine, unknown year: A= "The Bunkers of Cranberry Isle" by Gunnar Hansen with photos by David Westphal (see also 1000.0.1027). B="Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of the Emily F. Northam" text and photos by Farnham W. Smith. C="Rachel Field of the Cranberry Isles" by Herbert Edwards
Description: Photo-Essay by Bronson W. Chanler detailing a trip aboard the coal schooner "Rebecca R. Douglas" between Northeast Harbor and New York City. Note: As originally displayed in the museum, copies of the photographs taken by Chanler were mounted alongside excerpts and quotes. Around 2015 the photographs were removed from the 1984 posters so they could be scanned and better protected. They are uploaded here, as is the complete text by Bronson W. Chanler. [show more]
Description: "Capt. Van Norden's Boat" - A friendship sloop sails off the waters of Mount Desert Rock with four men aboard. To the right a spar buoy leans is visible