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Spinning Wheel Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Object, Spinning Wheel				Spinning Wheel Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-3176 Type: Object, Spinning Wheel Description: Great walking wheel. Missing part. Tension rods intact. Marked Azel Wilder. Keene, NH. Label on wheel head partially missing. Marked, “A. Minors. Patent Warranted. Acce-----g Wheel Heads, Pierce Chesterfield Fa----tt, Spindles Warranted Cast Steel. Donor info - from attic of John Allen Somes House.
Wooden Spinning Wheel Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Object, Spinning Wheel	Object, Spinning Wheel Other, Spinning			Wooden Spinning Wheel Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-3175 Type: Object, Spinning Wheel Subject: Object, Spinning Wheel Other, Spinning Description: Old wooden spinning wheel with 3 turned legs, each 15." Bench 18." Wheel diameter 20".
Base and spinning wheel head for a 'walking' or 'great' spinning wheel Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Spinning Wheel	Other	1880	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Base and spinning wheel head for a 'walking' or 'great' spinning wheel Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2018.417.2280 Type: Object, Spinning Wheel Subject: Other Date: 1880 Description: Three-legged base for a 'walking' or 'great' spinning wheel. Base was originally from the attic of the Scudder house on the north shore of Islesford. Head is termed a 'minor' head made of wood and iron; it came from the donor's wheel in Sullivan, Maine. Donor is a spinner and weaver, and lectures about heritage textiles. She noticed GCIHS had a wheel with no base in collection (GCIHS 2015.312.2072). The two parts married up perfectly. Wheel dates to ca. 1880s; Shakers made this type of great wheel. [show more]
Great wheel spinning wheel Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Spinning Wheel	Other		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Great wheel spinning wheel Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2015.312.2072 Type: Object, Spinning Wheel Subject: Other Description: Wheel from a 'walking' a.k.a. 'great' spinning wheel. Smooth wooden wheel, 45" diameter with brass core in hub of wheel. Rusted nail heads visible where wood overlaps on exterior of wheel and also where several spokes meet the wheel. No other parts of this walking wheel have been located. (It may have come from the Liebow house originally.) This wheel was installed on a 2018 donation of a spinning wheel base from Islesford that fits perfectly. [show more]
Four-legged spinning wheel Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Spinning Wheel	Other		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Four-legged spinning wheel Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.186.1346 Type: Object, Spinning Wheel Subject: Other Description: Small, wooden, four-legged flax spinning wheel with flat table, grooved wheel. "FARNHAM Near Owego" impressed into base. This four-legged wheel is missing part(s). [Note: http://collections.mohistory.org/resource/198156.html says Joel Farnhan was a wheelwright and cabinet maker who moved from PA to Owego NY in 1794.By the 1820s he had a well-established milling and wheelwright business which passed on to his youngest son Frederick, who began producing his own wheels by the 1840s.] [show more]

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