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Lantern, Kerosene Great Harbor Maritime Museum	Object, Furnishings, Lantern, Kerosene Lantern				Copyright Not Evaluated	Lantern, Kerosene Great Harbor Maritime Museum Identifier: ghmm-1492 Type: Object, Furnishings, Lantern, Kerosene Lantern
3 legged milking stoosl Islesford Historical Society	Object, Furnishings, Stool					3 legged milking stoosl Islesford Historical Society Identifier: ihs-2264 Type: Object, Furnishings, Stool Description: Irving Spurling and earlier Islesford farmers used stools like this when milking their cows. This stool may have come from Woodlawn where Ray Dwelley had a cow in the 1920s-30s.
Quilted bedspread designed for a 4 poster bed Made by Aunt Mitilda Spurling, Cranberry Isles, Me Islesford Historical Society	Object, Furnishings, Bedcover, Bedspread					Quilted bedspread designed for a 4 poster bed Made by Aunt Mitilda Spurling, Cranberry Isles, Me Islesford Historical Society Identifier: ihs-2206 Type: Object, Furnishings, Bedcover, Bedspread Description: Matilda wa the grandmother of"Chummie" Spurling. She was born Matilda Young, Daughter of Josiah and Rosalana(Guptil) Young Married Joseph W. Spurling, was the father of Arthur and of Warren A."Bert" Spurling both of whom married and lived their libes on Little Cranberry Island.
19th Century Seaman's medicine chest with contents and a copy of Ritter's Medical Manual Islesford Historical Society	Object, Furnishings, Household Box, Medicine Chest					19th Century Seaman's medicine chest with contents and a copy of Ritter's Medical Manual Islesford Historical Society Identifier: ihs-2120 Type: Object, Furnishings, Household Box, Medicine Chest Description: Chest owned and used by George Gilley (1848-191 _)of Islessford. See Islesford Historical Society Occasional Paper No. 1, June 1991.
Braided Rug Great Harbor Maritime Museum	Object, Furnishings, Rug, Flatweave, Rag Rug				Copyright Not Evaluated	Braided Rug Great Harbor Maritime Museum Identifier: ghmm-1366 Type: Object, Furnishings, Rug, Flatweave, Rag Rug
Birch bench with green cushion Great Harbor Maritime Museum	Object, Furnishings, Bench, Garden Bench	Object, Furnishings, Bench			Copyright Not Evaluated	Birch bench with green cushion Great Harbor Maritime Museum Identifier: ghmm-1106 Type: Object, Furnishings, Bench, Garden Bench Subject: Object, Furnishings, Bench Description: One of five wooden benches with cushions
Hooked rug with geometric dog motif Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Furnishings, Rug			1902	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Hooked rug with geometric dog motif Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2005.138.2026 Type: Object, Furnishings, Rug Date: 1902 Description: Rug. Hooked, wool, green and beige geometric dog motif. Made on Cranberry Isles 1902-1905. One of two similar rugs from same donor. Donor inherited this rug and believes it belonged to Miriam Reynolds, one of several Mount Desert summer residents who established a rug-making cottage industry on Cranberry Island. Donor explained: "Reynolds was part of the family of William Reed Huntington, who spent summers in Northeast Harbor starting around 1886. Mrs. Huntington died years before, leaving four small children, and her older sister, Miriam, moved in to take care of them. The youngest of the four was Mary, who later married William Thompson. They summered in Tamworth, New Hampshire, and this rug was in their house there. The house was inherited by their second son, Charles G. Thompson. When Charles's daughter Victoria married Dr. James S. Murphy, a Seal Harbor summer resident, she was given the Cranberry rug (by then quite worn) so that it might return to nearer its origin. For forty years it lived in Seal Harbor, but when Victoria's daughter Alice married Cranberry Island summer resident Bill Bancroft, the rug came home!" This rug was repaired in the same manner as the crab-motif rug, but is in much worse condition. It, too, lacks the CR monogram that was usually worked into one corner or on the selvage at the back of rugs that were made specifically by the Cranberry Island Club rug makers at the turn of the century. From "Bulletin of the Bureau of Labor", #55 (Nov. 1904), pp 1573-1622, the article "The Revival of Handicrafts in America." by Max West, Ph. D. states: Cranberry Islanders ".... were already familiar with the process of hooking rugs; and they were fortunate in having the benefit of the initiative, moral support, and financial backing of Mrs. Seth Low, Miss Miriam P. Reynolds, and one or two other New York women whose summer homes are at Northeast Harbor, as well as in obtaining the aid of capable designers. The industry was started on a small scale in the autumn of 1901, under the supervision of Miss Amy Mali Hicks, a designer identified with the arts and crafts movement in New York City, who designed the patterns and gave instruction in dyeing, etc. ..." [show more]
Hooked rug with crab motif Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Furnishings, Rug	Organizations, Civic Other			No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Hooked rug with crab motif Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2005.138.2025 Type: Object, Furnishings, Rug Subject: Organizations, Civic Other Description: Rug. Green and beige crab motif. Hooked, wool, sheared on burlap, 29.5" x 64.5". Made on Cranberry Isles 1902-1905. One of two similar rugs from same donor. (See 2005.138.2026 dog-motif rug.) Donor states her sister recovered this rug from the storage shed at their parents' house in New Hampshire after reading the Bangor Daily News article about her earlier donation of the dog-motif rug; and that this rug was repaired in the same manner as that rug, but is in much better condition. This rug lacks the CR monogram that was usually worked into one corner or on the selvage at the back of rugs that were made specifically by the Cranberry Island Club rug makers at the turn of the century. But it likely shares the provenance of the dog-motif rug described by its donor and its connection to Miriam P. Reynolds of Northeast Harbor and her family's New Hampshire connection. From "Bulletin of the Bureau of Labor", #55 (Nov. 1904), pp 1573-1622, the article "The Revival of Handicrafts in America." by Max West, Ph. D. states: Cranberry Islanders ".... were already familiar with the process of hooking rugs; and they were fortunate in having the benefit of the initiative, moral support, and financial backing of Mrs. Seth Low, Miss Miriam P. Reynolds, and one or two other New York women whose summer homes are at Northeast Harbor, as well as in obtaining the aid of capable designers. The industry was started on a small scale in the autumn of 1901, under the supervision of Miss Amy Mali Hicks, a designer identified with the arts and crafts movement in New York City, who designed the patterns and gave instruction in dyeing, etc. ..." (See also "Three Centuries of Hooking, Mount Desert Island Historical Society, 2009, p. 20-21.) [show more]
Braided rug Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Furnishings, Rug	Other			No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Braided rug Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2013.241.1976 Type: Object, Furnishings, Rug Subject: Other Description: Rug. Braided with hooked center element. Concentric rings of browns, blacks, and greens with pale blue, red, and maroon flowers in hooked center square. Reverse side of rug has patch of brown cotton fabric with coral and beige flower decoration 16.5 x 17" serving as backing for the hooked flowers. Edges badly worn. Hole by the maroon flower. Some separation between the concentric braided rings.
Rug, hooked, depicting schooner Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Furnishings, Rug	Other			No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Rug, hooked, depicting schooner Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.18.1934 Type: Object, Furnishings, Rug Subject: Other Description: Rug, hooked, rectangular; brown border with schooner, lighthouse and rocks against partly cloudy sky and green sea. From the home of Hilda Adel Bulger Spurling (1902-1987) (the Keegan's house on Harding Pt. Road in modern times). Hilda served as Postmistress on weekends for her sister Marjorie Phippen.
Six small hooked rugs Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Furnishings, Rug	Other			No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Six small hooked rugs Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2016.359.2124 Type: Object, Furnishings, Rug Subject: Other Description: Rugs. A collection of six small hooked rugs of various shapes, fabrics, sizes, and patterns - likely early 20th century and made locally. Donor's sister-in-law, Holly Hartley, a summer resident in the house on Preble Cove, GCI, that donor now owns and where the rugs were used recalls: "The two worn, rectangular rugs are very familiar to me. I'm certain that my grandmother collected them, as I am sure they were in the house from the time I first came to Cranberry in 1946 at 2-years-old. The other two are not familiar to me. They seem a different aesthetic entirely - multiple types of flowers, lots of different colors, the use of shading. I wonder whether or not my Mother or my sister Vicky collected them. I know my grandmother had braided rugs that were made by Margie Phippen and her sister Hilde Spurling and their mother, Pink Bulger. No 6 is very familiar to me and I also think no 5 was in the house for a long time. I am now asking myself their locations in the house. I know we walked on them and I think they were in hallways and bedrooms. I still don't know the artist but I think these two are among the older ones." See photographs of backs and fronts of each rug. [show more]
Hooked rug with clamshell design Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Furnishings, Rug	Other People			No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Hooked rug with clamshell design Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2015.331.2093 Type: Object, Furnishings, Rug Subject: Other People Description: Rug. Hooked rug, with clamshell design. Description for clamshell from donor's 1987 appraisal at Thomaston Galleries: HOOKED RUG: woolens on burlap with 1/2”-wide braided border. Dark band enclosing tight rows of dark polychrome “Clam Shells”. Good overall condition. 20th c. American Dim: 28” x 47”. Donor doesn't know if it was made on GCI, but recalls it being in her mother's GCI home when she was a child.
Hooked rug with floral design Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Furnishings, Rug	Other People			No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Hooked rug with floral design Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2015.331.2094 Type: Object, Furnishings, Rug Subject: Other People Description: Rug. Hooked rug, with floral design. Donor doesn't know if it was made on GCI, but recalls it being in her mother's GCI home when she was a child. Rug is hooked with stockings and fabric on burlap.
Braided rugs and pot holder by Addie Duren Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Furnishings, Rug	Other People			No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Braided rugs and pot holder by Addie Duren Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2016.335.2101 Type: Object, Furnishings, Rug Subject: Other People Description: Rugs: two braided multi-colored rugs; and one cloth pot holder. These three items were all made by GCI resident Addie Duren. Rug (A) is oval shaped, brightly colored reds, blues, purples, greys 46" long by 32.5" wide. Rug (B) is oval shaped, black and tan overall 56" long x 39" wide. There is a story that when the Duren house caught fire (19xx?), it was Addie's rags and rug-making materials stored in the attic that kept the fire from spreading rapidly through whole house. Pot holder (C) has crocheted edges with dancing girl and pink backing. [show more]
Rug made by Cora Spurling Richardson Chapman Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Furnishings, Rug	Other	Cora Spurling Richardson Chapman		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Rug made by Cora Spurling Richardson Chapman Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2016.373.1929 Type: Object, Furnishings, Rug Subject: Other Creator: Cora Spurling Richardson Chapman Description: Rug, braided with hooked center. Concentric circles of brown, black, blue, tan, red, green, orange, and rose; the center is a hooked oblong, bordered in blue, with a depiction of a full basket of red, yellow, white, and tan flowers; on the reverse side, the central hooked area is covered with a green fabric protective patch. Donor Charlotte Harlan wrote 9/21/2016 and 10/8/16: "That rug belonged to my Aunt Virginia. She was my mother's youngest sister, my grandfather Charles Henry Bulger's daughter. We believe that the rug was made by Aunt Cora [Cora Spurling Richardson Chapman b. July 3, 1863], who lived in the house where the Dowlings live now. My mother spoke of her Aunt Cora quite often. She made a lot of braided rugs. [show more]
Braided, oval rug Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Furnishings, Rug	Other			No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Braided, oval rug Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2013.214.1930 Type: Object, Furnishings, Rug Subject: Other Description: Rug, braided, oval; starting in the center, predominantly various red patterns; black, brown, gray, tan, and blue as the loops grow larger, culminating in a black border
Braided rug Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Object, Furnishings, Rug	Other			No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Braided rug Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2013.214.1931 Type: Object, Furnishings, Rug Subject: Other Description: Rug, braided, oval; starting in the center, predominantly black/white loops grow larger, then the colors change to gray/black, green/gray, and red/tan, culminating in a gray/black border; dirty and worn

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