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Rachel Field research materials for 1985 SWHPL exhibit Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Rachel Field research materials for 1985 SWHPL exhibit Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Five folders of Rachel Field research, primarily from the late Phoebe White Wentworth of Southwest Harbor who gave it to Carl Little years ago while he was working on the foreword to a new 1999 edition of Field's "God’s Pocket" published by the Northeast Harbor Library . These research materials relate to a 1985 exhibit and quilt raffle held at the Southwest Harbor Public Library. | ||
GCIHS documents Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| GCIHS documents Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection, GCIHS info. 1052a-c. (a) November 2009 Issue of the Cranberry Chronicle. (b) Summer 2009 Events calendar. (c) Laminated copy of notes from the GCIHS 2000 Annual Meeting | |||
Lifesaving Service collection Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Lifesaving Service collection Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of items from Alice White from 1955, included are postcards from Gott's Island from 1912 and several receipts. One book: Annual Report of the Operations of the United States Lifesaving Service for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1879. Book stamped with "Custom House Portland ME Sep. 27, 1880" and has inscription on the first page "Alice White 1955". Includes services rendered by various crews 1879. | |||
Exhibit texts and miscellaneous for 2014 displays Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Exhibit texts and miscellaneous for 2014 displays Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Documents. Exhibit text, labels, photo identifications, and miscellaneous from 2014 GCIHS museum photography exhibit (A). And parsonage house shoes/cape houses exhibit (B) (see also 2015.304.2062). | ||
Payments made for service to Town of Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Payments made for service to Town of Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Nine documents. Eight Town of Cranberry Isles payment receipts (1876-1877), one 1885 Town of CI Schools ledger page, and one 1887 Town of Tremont receipt. Payments involve individuals including: Hadlock, Gilley, Preble, Stanley, Wayland, Hamor, Fernald, schools. See description of each document. | ||
Journals, ledgers, wallet, books, scanned photos pertaining to Stanley family from 1870s-1890s Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Journals, ledgers, wallet, books, scanned photos pertaining to Stanley family from 1870s-1890s Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of journals, ledgers, wallet, books, scanned photos pertaining to Stanley family: Items A-H. (A) Enoch B. Stanley's tan leather fold-over "The Revised and Improved Collector's Tax Book....Adapted to the Revised Statutes of 1883", by W. W. Bolster, Published Portland: W. H. Stevens & Company, No. 193 Middle Street. Entries from 1890-1892 with categories for real estate, personal property, poll tax, highway tax, a section on school district tax. With three loose handwritten pages inserted. One is list of children for Hannah Lopaus(?) who moved to Mount Desert July 12th 1799 and had 10 children and includes list of 9 children born to Hannah's daughter Nancy Lopauss Richardson Clark, one of whom was Meltiah P. Richardson (spouse of Carrie Stanley Richardson). The second loose page is a petition for a fish weir at Thrumcap for Enoch B. Stanley and W.D.(?) Stanley in January 1891. The third loose page is Permission for a fish weir with full description dated Feb. 7, 1891. (B) Maroon fold-over wallet (empty). (C) Scans from loaned Schmidt family photo albums including family and one of old hearse. (D) Maroon wallet with 14 items folded inside it: receipts: Meltiah Richardson 1871 taxes; E.B. Stanley 1862 & 1864; note to Capt Stanley 1864; 1864 receipt; 1864 receipt Hadlock; 1871 tax receipt; M. P. Richardson to E.B. Stanley 1874; one faded small photo of a person on a sailboat; registered letter receipt 1878 addressed to Thomas Leighton of Millbridge Me received of E. J? Stanley; Receipt 1882 for 7.33 payment; 1876 receipt E. B. Stanley and Perley Russell goods of Haskell 14.50. Envelope addressed to Mrs. Caroline H. Stanley Cranberry Isles ME with Boston Jan 30 1898 postmark 2 cents. Two comic poem pages (not scanned). (E) Small tan leather journal full of information listing fish catches and payments to individuals 1868-1870 in Boston, Cranberry Isles, Gloucester, Schooner Rozella mentioned on one page. Names include Gilley, Bunker, Spurling, Stanley, Ladd, Wayland, Bulger, Young; only three representational pages scanned from this journal. (F) Small narrow brown marbled ledger (undated) tallying fish and bills; two pages mention schooner Harrie [or Fannie?] Forrest; 1 page scanned. (G) Book: The Matron's Manual of Midwifery and the diseases of women during pregnancy and in child bed by Frederick Hollick, MD 1843. (H) Book: How to Hunt and Trap containing full instructions for hunting Buffalo, Elk, Moose, deer, Antelope - by J. H. Batty, 1878; inscribed "Boynton Stanley" at top of page, lower down "William G. Thumbeam[?] from Papa, Christmas 1878." (See also 2015.316.2077 and 2017.389.2164) [show more] | |||
Ten Town of Cranberry Isles documents 1876-1877 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Ten Town of Cranberry Isles documents 1876-1877 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Ten Town of Cranberry Isles documents 1876-1877, with summary of each item. Includes receipts for tax assessors; Perley and Russell v. Bunker; Gilley; Schooner Wayland; Leonard Holmes; and mention of a ship attacking a vessel, among other things. | ||
Journal with transcriptions of protestations of ships Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Journal with transcriptions of protestations of ships Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Journal with transcription. 38-page typed transcription of protestations of ships wrecked on the Cranberry Isles from an original 19th-century ledger/journal kept by William P. Preble 1867-1879. Journal transcribed by Michael Macfarlan c. 2002. One loose page partial protestation for 1893. The back of the journal also contains pages for the accounts pertaining to School district No. 2, the Post Office, and for various islanders (not transcribed). (See also 1000.0.934: selections from 1080 - sea captain's transcribed broadcasts for possible video production. (See also June 2018 Cranberry Chronicle, pages 20-13 - link below) [show more] | ||
Museum visitors and donations Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Museum visitors and donations Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Notes taken by Charlene Allen in 2003 counting visitors and donations to the Museum while it was still located in the Longfellow school. | ||
Identification of pictures for Items 1562-1572. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Identification of pictures for Items 1562-1572. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, Sheet of paper identifying pictures written by Annie Alley at time of donation Items 1562-1572. | |||
Description of photos for Items 1599-1618 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Description of photos for Items 1599-1618 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, List of description of photos for Items 1599-1618 (note: Item 1619a is the 2nd page of list of picture descriptions. Also, the 1st seven pictures were missing at the time that the pictures were placed in the database. | |||
Photo descriptions for Items 1692-1704) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Photo descriptions for Items 1692-1704) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, Copy of photo descriptions (Item #1692-1704) -unknown donor given to Great Cranberry Island Historical Society 3/20/2012 | |||
Photo descriptions for Items 1706-1723 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Photo descriptions for Items 1706-1723 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo descriptions submitted by Louise Millar (donor #41) and Mickey Macfarlan (donor # 11) for Items # 1706-1723 on 3/12/2012 | |||
Baker Island lighthouse information Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Baker Island lighthouse information Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Memorandum of the June 23, 2009 meeting at Acadia National Park Headquarters in order to decline the offer of purchasing the lighthouse located on Baker's Island. | ||
Photo identifications from Louise Millar Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Photo identifications from Louise Millar Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, Copy of photo descriptions submitted by Louise Millar in 1/2012. (item #1758a is the 2nd page) -all the pictures are from the Hazel Stanley Collection | |||
Futures Group Records 1996 & 1997-2002 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Futures Group Records 1996 & 1997-2002 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Documents. Collection of Old Futures Group Records- 1996 & 1997-2002 | ||
Notes for Ladies Aid Fair 1973 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Notes for Ladies Aid Fair 1973 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Notes, three pages, on people working at the Ladies Aid Fair, 1973 | ||
Letters and recipes Ladies Aid Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Letters and recipes Ladies Aid Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of letters & recipes to the Ladies Aid |