Description: Hooked rug depicting The Western Way on GCI designed and hooked by Barbara N. Sanborn Joy for Acadia National Park 2016 centennial. Book: Images of Acadia, Hancock County Hookers Celebrating 100 Years of Acadia National Park, 2016: photography by Judith Burger-Gossart, Edited by Rosemary and Garry Levin (A Shutterfly book)
Description: Tool, "Tommy Sticker", a brass candle holder with metal spikes on the bottom and side, to be forced into a wooden wall, beam, etc. to provide light while leaving hands free
Description: Wooden commode (potty seat/toilet chair) with lid. One of several items from donors in summer 2016 prior to selling their house on The Lane, GCI. Many items pertain to the Lulu Alley family. Items were in the house when donor's parents, June and Ed Sampson, bought the house from Lulu in November 1969. The house was built for Lulu Steele when she married Lewis Alley 1914(?); Lulu died in 2004. House is said to be a ca. 1914 Sears Roebuck modular home, similar to several others on GCI. The garage on the property was built by Mike Westphal in the 1980s. Big cook stove in kitchen is original. It was the only heat and only stove in the house originally. Rocking chair in house is original. Kitchen cabinetry on right of sink is original. Woodstove in the living room is 1973. [show more]
Description: Light fixture. hanging chandelier in good working condition circa 1928 (in association with item #1397 (estimated total value of items # 1396 & #1397 on 8/7/2011 is $100.00). First year of electricity on the island.
Description: Rug, braided, oval; starting in the center, predominantly green, brown, and orange patterned loops grow larger, then the colors change to blue, pink, brown, and red, culminating in a black border; colors in each loop change even within the loop; the fourth and fifth loops from the outside have become disconnected, and several other loops are loose.
Description: Furniture. Rocking chair with swivel tray. Wood. Original black rocker with gold scroll work on seat and back has been modified with addition of a swiveling, wooden tray affixed to the chair arms. Rocker blades may have been shortened. Rocker may have had a signature, Stanley, visible on it at one time. Phil Whitney recollects in 2015 that this rocker was rescued from his family's house (across the street from his present home) during their house fire. It may have been his mother's rocker (d.o.b. 1911), or perhaps his great great grandmother Sidney Hamor Bunker who died in 1918, or his great grandmother, Julia Bunker Spurling. (From Ladies Aid 2000) [show more]
Description: Wedding Quilt, hand embroidered squares cotton, hand sown together. Red embroidery. Center panel embroidered with date 1893. Flowers, birds, animals. Stitched by Addie Murphy. Redwork Embroidery.
Description: 12" round overall; 9" round, thick glass mirror with a metal surround, florett and leaves pattern. Glass is bneveled to sides at 8" mark. Back has 9" metal holding section with a swivel base attached. Base 3.5"w, 5"h, in shape of yoke with screw fitting at top, and thumbscrews on either side to attach mirror. Mirror is attached to backing by 6 solder joints, patented stamped between yoke mount. Holding with patented word upright. [show more]