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| Ship under construction Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Ship under construction Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Ship under construction in distance. Boy sitting on log in foreground. | ||
| Two Schooners in Somes Harbor Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Two Schooners in Somes Harbor Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Two schooners in Somes Harbor. | ||
| Wreck of Schooner Catherine Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Wreck of Schooner Catherine Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Wreck of the Schooner Catherine from the port side | ||
| Wreck of Schooner Catherine Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Wreck of Schooner Catherine Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Wreck of the Schooner Catherine from the bow | ||
| Ship under construction, Somes Cove Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Ship under construction, Somes Cove Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Ship under construction in Somes Cove. Looking across Somes Cove to Somes meadow and landing. Six men standing on deck looking toward camera. Hull near completion. Lumber scattered around ship. Two masts lie on the ground at the stern of the ship. Schooner is just visible to the right. There are also two copies of this photo as slides (97-698-868) which were used in the Somesville Bicentenial and can be found on Row 2 Unit 2 Shelf 4 Slide Box 1 [show more] | ||
| Tree lined dirt road Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Tree lined dirt road Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Tree lined dirt road. Picket fence can be seen on the right side of the road and a bulding can be seen through the trees | ||
| Two masted schooner under sail Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Two masted schooner under sail Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Slide of a two masted schooner under full sail with mountains in the background. | ||
| Somes House and Cottages, Somesville, ME. 2K. Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Somes House and Cottages, Somesville, ME. 2K. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: From Somes Cove looking towards Somesville and Main Street. To the left, wreck of Schooner Catherine, no masts. Behind Catherine to the left, Fernald’s store (aka A.J. Whiting’s Store) then Port-in-a-Storm bookstore, then The Gallery at Somes Sound (2013-15) . To the right of Fernald’s Store, historic Nathan Salisbury House, once owned by Stan and Binnie MacDonald. To the right Somes House Inn and Cottages. Marked on bottom, “Somes House and Cottages, Somesville, ME. 2K.” [show more] | |||
| Remains of Schooner Catherine Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Remains of Schooner Catherine Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Remains of the wreck of the Schooner Catherine in Somes Harbor. | ||
| Schooner Polly Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Schooner Polly Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Schooner Polly of Belfast in Harbor at Amesbury, Massachusettts. Man in canoe paddles close to two-masted schooner. Small sailing sloop on the right. | ||
| Harbor view. Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Harbor view. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Looking back at city from harbor. Wide street runs through middle of photo from harborside. Two three-masted schooners in port to the right. Three church steeples rise in background above city. To the left sign above building reads, “Washburn [?] flour.” Harbor unidentified; no date. | ||||
| Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Glass negative for image taken from Mount Desert Rock. View looks out toward sea from the land, with ledges visible in the foreground, and a three-masted schooner, perhaps called Robert D. Spear, visible in the distance. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Oct. 1907 Robert D. Spear Taken from Mt. Desert Rock |
| Schooner Bessie M. Dugan Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Schooner Bessie M. Dugan Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Three newspaper articles about the schooner Bessie M Dugan. All three of the articles mention the schooner landing in the harbor and the amount of mackerel it is bringing in. | ||
| " 'Old Ironsides' faces new battle." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  " 'Old Ironsides' faces new battle." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A newspaper article talking about the historic boat the 'Old Ironsides.' The article says Forer commanders worry about historic ship's seaworthiness, want her tested in harbor." It also says "The former commanders argue that to see whether the ship is ready to sail in the open sea it needs to be tested in a protected harbor." |
| "Warship heads to the open sea" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "Warship heads to the open sea" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A newspaper article about Old Ironsides, a navy warship from theh late 1700's. This ship used to sit as a museum piece but after a 3.5 year restoration the ship is put back to sail the seas. The article ends by saying "Its no longer a museum piece... she's actually a living ship." |
| W.S. Brown Account Book Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  W.S. Brown Account Book Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Account book kept by W.S. Brown, master of the schooner J.S. Butler, and other vessels. Includes references to cargoes carried, ports visited, and men employed on the schooner. Also includes records of expenditures, mostly for food, but some references to items like knives. Brown may be William Sheldon Brown but additional research is needed. The book may have been used at an earlier time, as several pages have be ripped out, and Brown's name is found in pencil with the date of 1880 near the beginning [show more] |
| Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: A Gloucester fishing schooner sails not far from Mount Desert Rock under partial sail. A number of people are visible on the deck, and a stack of dories can be seen between the masts. A large flag has the name of the vessel, which appears to be two words, though only Frances P. M______ is visible. William H. Bunting has (July 2021) identified this schooner as the Frances P. Mesquita, of Gloucester. Built in Gloucester in 1905, she was owned and commanded by Capt. Joseph Mesquita, and was both a successful fishing and racing vessel. She was sold in 1918 to owners from Newfoundland, and sunk by a U-boat that year. The envelope with this negative reads: No. 7 f., Tower, Single Tenement + Double Tenement, Looking N.W." and is likely an envelope reused from another negative. [show more] | ||
| Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: View taken from Mount Desert Rock of the two-masters fishing schooner Marion Turner, as labeled on the envelope. The Marion Turner is towing a rowboat. In the foreground the ledges of Mount Desert Rock are visible. According to the envelope, the photograph was taken April 22, but year is not given. Likely taken between 1907-1909. Notes at the bottom of the negative envelope appear to refer to the development of the negative: Devel. S.R. plate Pancro. in Devel. 300 count (?) [show more] |
| Model two miniature schooners in glass case Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Model two miniature schooners in glass case Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Model, boat, miniature schooners (two) in glass case | |||
| Model three-mast schooner made by George Savage Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Model three-mast schooner made by George Savage Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Model,boat, three-masted schooner made by George Savage; black hull, red hull bottom and rudder, white deck and two cabins, green cabin roofs, four white cotton sails, three rope ladders on each side; very heavy, perhaps solid wood hull | |||
| Nautical Almanac 1876 for schooner Carrie M. Richardson Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Nautical Almanac 1876 for schooner Carrie M. Richardson Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Journal. Nautical Almanac 1876 containing tables of sun's declination and equation of time and tide by D. Eggert's sons, 23 pages, annotated by Carrie M. Richardson aboard the schooner Carrie M. Richardson. Recording the sun sightings for navigating voyages using dead reckoning; transatlantic journeys are plotted on nautical chart 1 and possibly others of 2015.315.2076. .) From the Lewis Stanley descendants collection. (See also 2015.316.2077 and 2017.388.2163 Initial review of the annotated Nautical Almanac of 1876 indicates that it records the Carrie M. Richardson's journey east from New York starting June 23, 1876; arriving Seville July 22, and departing Seville August 3. She arrived at Cadiz August 5 and left for Boston August 12. A wonderful addition as Nautical Chart 1 (2017.315.2076) only plots the west to east legs of two 1877 and 1878 Spain-to-Cranberry Isles voyages. Decipher the chronometer dead reckoning entries in this Almanac should enableus to plot the route she sailed to reach Spain. (Scanned July 2017) [show more] | ||
| Ledger of A. C. Fernald for provisions of schooners 1844-1850 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ledger of A. C. Fernald for provisions of schooners 1844-1850 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Ledger. Small tan leather. Ledger of A. C. Fernald for provisions of schooners 1844-1850 including schooner Seasonpoint(?) or Leaderpant (?), Osprey, Water Witch, Northaven (?), xx and, and entries with individual names: David Pung or King, Peter Standley, Horace Durgen, Edwin Hadlock, Elisha Gilley, Shelddon Brown, Joseph Lancaster, Daniel Kimbal, William M. Richardson, Thomas Savage, Beniah Bunker,and others. One loose scrap of paper with note: "Received eighteen dollars from Capt William Moore it Being in full of all accounts to this date. Cranberry Isl. June 20, 1849, John A. Hitchfield (or Hitchhilll?) [show more] | ||
| William P. Preble Ledgers (1860-1870s) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  William P. Preble Ledgers (1860-1870s) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Eleven ledgers (A-K) with two inserts, 1860-1870s of a collection of 18 small, 19th-century ledgers or account journals belonging to William P. Preble; very difficult to decipher, many entries not in chronological order, often several years of entries not made in sequential order. (Only exterior and one page of each ledger scanned. ) A= Black leather journal with leather clasp. Property of William P. Preble, Cranberry Isles. 1862 Boston entries payments to individuals, mentions Schooner Commerce, etc. Letter tucked into this notebook in the pocket in the rear of the notebook. Bangor Dec. 20, 1860 to Wm. P. Preble Esq. from Abner Knowles about a balance of $40 he owes the Town of Cranberry Isles. B= Black leather journal with leather clasp. Property of William P. Preble, Cranberry Isles. No dates. Payments for work in Boston [undated]. Mentions Schooners Express and Sea Flower. Expenses and provisions, individual accounts. Tucked into the rear pocket of this notebook are two receipts make out to William Preble for $18.00 each for 1862 and 1863 pertaining to his handling of the estate of Sans Stanley. C= 1864-1867-1877 (various years) small ledger begins with Schooner Sea Flower expenses. Schooner Quickstep expenses. Includes payments to sailors/fishermen.1872 Preble as highway Surveyor. 1872 and 1873 School Committee expenses. D= 1865 small ledger Wm. P. Preble begins with Accounts of Sales Daily starting November 1 running for several months….“Amount of sales for the year 1866 $5,542.58, tax collected 798.97” Note: One large loose ledger sheet folded and stored inside this small ledger D with header WP Preble to Clark & Parker November 18th 1879 lists supplies and hardware of various kinds. E= 1867-1871 small ledger begins with “Wrecked Schooner”, then Schooner von Buren & Owners, information pertaining to the Owners of Quickstep (fractions of ownership by each man?), herring for E. B. Stanley and others, fishing tallies, Schooner Sea Queen, 1871 H. Gilley, 1871 and 1873 Town of CI expenses for Preble services, 1873-1874 miscellaneous and expenses Perley and Russell, 1874 Preble’s expenses for Town of CI business, Accounts of sales to various individuals, with various notations on the front and rear flaps of the ledger. F= 1867 long narrow store ledger with list of cash and credit, tallies of purchases by individuals. G= 1869-1872 long narrow store ledger with list of cash and credit for various dates, and purchases by individuals. H= 1867 & 1878 small narrow tan leather journal. 1867 Schooner C.D. Horton, expenses, sailors/fishermen. Schooner Alice P [or T?]. expenses, sailors. Cranberry Isles Wrecking Company meeting notes January and February 1867. Ledgers of accounts for various individuals. Also a couple of notations re: 1878 & 1879 matters, and 1873 on the last page. Inserted in this ledger H is a Lime Rock Insurance Company policy for $3,000 on the schooner Sea Queen for one year from March 1, 1866 at noon. I= 1877 Collector’s Tax List book – William P. Preble, Esq. Treasurer and Collector of Taxes of the Town of Cranberry Isles, County of Hancock aforesaid. Assessors: A. C. Fernald, J. S. Spurling, and N. S. Spurling. With notes after tax lists: June 5th 1879 sold house of Moses D. Haynes to Leonard Holmes at auction for the full xxx of eight dollars at 2 oclock pm [etc] J= Small tan narrow leather journal Date? Undated first half - list of various cargoes, expenses to Belfast, Schooner Alice T [or J?]. Several entries for 1879. 1867 two Schooner Sea Queen entries. Last two pages: List of articles saved from wreck of the Schooner Zulma [no date]. K= Small tan narrow leather journal “W.P. and W. H. Preble book” 1865 lists of expenses. 1874 Entry Boards for meeting house [church] 1249 feet. 1875 list of fish shipped. 1879 entries. 1866 entries cash sent to Portland. Lobsters tallies. 1866 entries for lawyers and Gilley. 1865 entry for Schooner C. Hood[?] [show more] | ||
| Schooner Lizzie Maud payment Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Schooner Lizzie Maud payment Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Business receipt. "525.00 Boothbay, Me. Feb 24th 1885. Received of Benj. N. Spurling Five hundred and twenty five Dollars, On Account payment on Sch[ooner] Lizzie Maud." Appears to be signed by J.P. Nordstrom. Handwriten on back in pencil: "Receipt Copy P. Hady" | ||
| Early Hadlock Papers Reference Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Early Hadlock Papers Reference Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) [show more] |