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| A Cabin in the Woods - Wini Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  A Cabin in the Woods - Wini Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A booklet written by Wini Smart about Sammy Sanford and Rachel Field's friendship through the years, which led to her writing the acclaimed God's Pocket. Published in 2011. | |
| Cranberry Road: GCI 1919-1950 - Wini Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cranberry Road: GCI 1919-1950 - Wini Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A brief history of Great Cranberry between 1919 and 1950. Covering the businesses and activities of islanders. Including many of Betty Hartleys recollections. | |
| Art Show Quilt 2021 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Art Show Quilt 2021 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: This quilt was made by Beverly Sanborn for the Cranberry Island Art Show for Great Cranberry Historical Society in 2021. Karin Whitney donated it to the Museum. | |
| Harpoon or "Lilly Iron" with swivel piece on the barb Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Harpoon or "Lilly Iron" with swivel piece on the barb Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fishing gear, "Lilly Iron" (harpoon) from Wesley Bracy, Jr. with swiveling piece on the barb that folds flat for easy penetration, but opens crosswise for increased grip, thus preventing loss of the fish; Bruce Komusin inserted a wooden boomstick handle and secured it with rope for display purposes. | |||
| Great Cranberry Island History Project, College of the Atlantic, 1992 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Great Cranberry Island History Project, College of the Atlantic, 1992 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Book, Great Cranberry Island History Project, College of the Atlantic, "Photography: Public and Private Language" Fall 1992, mostly photographs with some text. | ||
| Carrie Richardson Folding Bed Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Carrie Richardson Folding Bed Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: This bed was a feature of the schooner ‘Carrie M. Richardson’ and was used by the ship's namesake, celestial navigator and later owner Carrie Stanley Richardson. Island legend has it that Carrie didn’t like to sleep in the bunks as the rest of the sailors did and so when the schooner was stopped at a dock, she went hunting and found this unusual folding bed. After she passed away, it was left in the boathouse at the Lew Stanley boatyard. Bob LaHotan-who co owned the boatyard with John Heliker-would sleep in the very same bed! [show more] | ||
| Cranberry Rooster Division Sign Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cranberry Rooster Division Sign Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: The Cranberry Club Rooster Division was a local spoof men's club to mirror the elite women’s Cranberry Club. The club house was behind Doc Haydock’s house and also included Arvard Savage, Charlie Rice, and Victor White. They would put on performances of music and ‘interpretive island dances’. | ||
| A Christmas card to Lew Stanley from Evelyn and Melvin Hutchins Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  A Christmas card to Lew Stanley from Evelyn and Melvin Hutchins Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A Christmas card to Lew Stanley. On the front of this card is a drawing of two people on a horse drawn carriage ride. On the inside of the card is a note that says "With best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." The card also has a hand written note that says "Heartiest Greetings to Captain 'Lew'" and the card is signed Evelyn and Melvin Hutchins. | |
| Letter to Captain Lew Stanley from Barbara Donald. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Letter to Captain Lew Stanley from Barbara Donald. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A letter to Lew Stanley from Barbara Donald. This letter basically says that Barbara is going to Europe for the summer and won't be going to Cranberry. She also mentions some oars, and owing Lew money. | |
| Lifeboat Rations Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Lifeboat Rations Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Rations would have been stored in the lifeboat’s emergency kit. This one contains 8oz of dried biscuits. If a boat sunk in the middle of the Atlantic it could be many days before any lifeboats were found, so access to some food could be vital for survival. | ||
| Fire Extinguisher Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Fire Extinguisher Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fire extinguisher for a boat. Likely from early 1900s. On the cylinder it says; "throw contents with force into the base of the flame". | ||
| WWII Era Life Jacket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| WWII Era Life Jacket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Weighing about 5 pounds, this jacket is likely made of Kapok fibre from the Ceiba pentandra tree; which is lighter in weight than the original cork life jackets and much more comfortable and pliable. Unlikely to still float. Donor unknown, likely used in the early 1900s. | |||
| Cranberry Club Chamber Set Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cranberry Club Chamber Set Great Cranberry Island Historical Society | ||
| Model Warship - Built by Arvard Savage Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Model Warship - Built by Arvard Savage Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Model warship built by Arvard Savage. Donated by Karin Whitney. | |
| Indigenous American Sweetgrass Basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Indigenous American Sweetgrass Basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Basket and lid, flat bottom, Indigenous American creation, made of braided sweetgrass and natural and green flat splint fiber, with a blue card inside reading "(printed) Smart Studio Antiques, Maine Street, Northeast Harbor Maine, 276-5152, (handwritten) Penobscot Indian Sweetgrass Basket, late 1800s", and on the back of the card "$145" | ||
| Hawksbill Sea Turtle - Eretmochelys imbricata Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hawksbill Sea Turtle - Eretmochelys imbricata Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: On loan from Phil Whitney. This turtle shell, according to Whitney family legend, is suspected to be from an 1825 whaling expedition to the South Pacific. It was kept in the family home until 1928, when the Spurling house burned down, and was rescued from the flames by islanders trying to salvage their possessions. The shell is that of a Hawksbill sea turtle, larger than most found today, and you may notice an indentation on the left side. Turtles are adept at recovering from injuries but they can’t grow back bone, so this is likely an injury sustained from when this turtle was far smaller. [show more] | ||
| Antique sewing machine from the Moorfield Storey house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Antique sewing machine from the Moorfield Storey house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Sewing Machine, hand/foot-operated "A & S" sewing machine on cast iron stand with three drawers and wooden work surface table and matching wooden box-like cover; the right drawer is loose and not attached to the base; all three drawers are filled with sewing notions; the sewing machine is from the Moorfield Storey household. | |||
| Agricultural heritage of the Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Agricultural heritage of the Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Research, Jessica Duma, 2014-2016 while an Island Institute Fellow at GCIHS which produced an exhibition, presentations, video, and oral history recordings. Historical and modern day materials pertaining to Duma's Agricultural Heritage of the Cranberry Isles fellowship focusing on farming, agriculture, apples, the Island Ecology project, farm stand, and more in the Town of Cranberry Isles from 19th century to present. Duma worked with mentor Todd Little-Siebold (College of the Atlantic) and used GCIHS and other local historical collections to produce an exhibition, gather oral histories, and record videos of her experiences and research while residing on Great Cranberry Island as a two-year fellow and then served as part-time manager of GCIHS and part-time manager for the CIRT (affordable housing) program for the last year. Documents in box. Digital materials located at NAS/ Catalogue/2017.399.2175_Duma. A. Exhibit materials (museum) and: NAS\Exhibits\Exhibits2015\Farming_JessiAndJillPiekutExhibitWork. B. Interviews: NAS\video\Jessi Duma Interviews 2014-20: Video by Duma and Jenny Matthews of "Chuddy" Alley in his home on April 2015. Audio of Colleen Bunker interview December 10, 2015, via telephone. Video of interview with Eva Bracy Galyean on November 22, 2015 in her GCI home with transcript. Audio of Gaile Colby interview January 15, 2015, by Duma and Sarah McCracken, partial transcript. Audio of music and singing with Arvard Savage 2015 or 2016. Video (with separate audio) of Phil Whitney in his GCI home January and February 2016. Video of Duma and Anne Gruhlich on a walkabout with Michael Macfarlan on his property discussing evidence of past farming and other occupations still visible on his historic Preble Cove property. Use of these interviews requires permission of the interviewee or their descendants. Questions: contact jessiduma@gmail.com. C. Video “A Taste of Great Cranberry Island: Agriculture Past and Present” - Duma explores agriculture on Great Cranberry Island through interviews with past and current residents. Directed, filmed, and edited by Jessica Duma. Featuring: Gaile Colby, Ben Sumner, Hallie Sumner, Kariah Sumner, Phil Whitney, Kayla Gagnon, Genny Mathews, Sarah McCracken, Colleen Bunker, Page Hill, Wendy Rackliff. Music by Jason Shaw: Serenity, Mountain Sun, Hoedown, Acoustic Meditation, Solo Acoustic Guitar. Special thanks to: GCIHS, Anne Grulich, Island Institute, Scott Sell, College of the Atlantic, Todd Little-Siebold. On YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKbktzbCqlw [Presently awaiting permissions to use the background music per Jessi 9/2017. Jessi will provide DVD copy after permissions granted.] [show more] | ||
| Richard 'Chuddy' Alley Interview Transcript Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Richard 'Chuddy' Alley Interview Transcript Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Interview Transcript from an interview with Richard 'Chuddy' Alley. The interview was recorded in the 2000's (exact year unknown) by Jessi Duma and Jenny Matthews, who both lived on the island for a number of years. Chuddy came to GCI as a young boy, and recounts many memories of Great Cranberry in the early to mid 20th century. He talks about agriculture and fishing extensively with Jessi. He moved over to Islesford and his son Ricky Alley speaks about fishing with a fish trap, and Pursing. Jessi was a Cranberry Island Fellow and became the general manager for GCIHS for a few years. Interview with transcribed by Hannah Gower-Fox. She was the Archivist and Museum Curator for GCIHS in 2023. [show more] | ||
| Cranberry Wall of Fame - Hannah Gower-Fox, 2023 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cranberry Wall of Fame - Hannah Gower-Fox, 2023 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A booklet detailing each of the individual photographs of people on the 'Cranberry Wall of Fame' in the Museum. Contains information regarding the names; occupations; significant life partners; family members; and houses on the island. Produced using Tax records, Historical maps, google maps, and Phil Whitney's extensive knowledge of islanders personal histories. To be used in conjunction with the photographs on the wall in the museum. [show more] |
| Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Women's Winter Work Project Quilts Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Women's Winter Work Project Quilts Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Questionnaires to gather information about quilts made by GCI women including members of the Ladies Aid Society. The intent was to photograph the quilts to create a photographic record of Cranberry Island's women's winter work. Includes forms from 20 quilters. |
| Scan of Volunteer Fire Department members ca. 1951 -1953 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Scan of Volunteer Fire Department members ca. 1951 -1953 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photograph. Digital scan of the Fire Club (Cranberry Isles Volunteer Fire Department) members ca. 1951 -1953, with items B and C: two overlays identifying individuals in the picture. Firefighters. | ||
| Obituary clippings and photos Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Obituary clippings and photos Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Obituaries: A=Andrew Stanley 1969; B=Elisha Bunker and Edgar Bunker (father and son); C=Mrs. Winslow Bunker 1967; D=Leslie M. Rice 1966; E=Lena M. Stanley 1965; F&G= James R. Dwelley 1955 (father of Hugh Dwelley). Seven photographs: People H-L: H=Shirley Phippen (son of Leslie and Marjorie Phippen; I=Herbert and Florence Towns on sled; J="Brother Perley on boat, Stanley?, Addie Duren's brother". Houses K-M: K= Donald house; L= Reverend Nelson/Sherman Cottage which burned down ca. 1961 and the Wards built on this site; M= unknown house. [show more] | |||
| School trip to Washington, D.C. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  School trip to Washington, D.C. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photographs, framed, with legends identifying students for ca. Cranberry Isles school 1994 Washington, D.C. school field trip. A: Large framed color photo of children on field trip assembled on steps of the Capitol with numbers taped onto the glass of the frame for each person. Dome is being repaired. B: collage of small photos of students in different D.C. locations. Ruth Westphal identified students, boys are in fourth grade. Names: Abbey Liebow, Josh Gray, Molly Gray, Krstina Bracy, Meghan Liebow, Patrick Allen, Michael Westphal, James Bunker, Mandy Bracy, Teacher, Colleeen Allen, Scott Bracy Brandon Russell, Gabriel Westphal, Gary Allen, Josh Gray, Owen Roberts. [show more] | ||
| Bunker Family Reference item Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Bunker Family Reference item Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Sidney Chadwick Hamor Bunker (1824-1918) Julia Bunker Spurling (Sidney's daughter) (1850-1919) Alta Spurling Bunker (Sidney's grand daughter) (1876-1969) Vincie Millicent Bunker (Sidney's great grand daughter) (1895-1993). (Perhaps ca. 1915.) Wilfred Bunker (1920-2012) Alta's son | ||
| Four generations of Bunker family Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Four generations of Bunker family Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Four Bunker family generations: Upper left – Julia Bunker Spurling (Sidney's daughter) (1850-1919); Lower left – Sidney Chadwick Hamor Bunker (1824-1918); Upper right – Alta Spurling Bunker (Sidney's grand daughter) (1876-1969); Lower right – Vincie Millicent Bunker (Sidney's great grand daughter) (1895-1993). (Perhaps ca. 1915.) Donor inherited photograph from his great-grandfather Robert Hamor whose older sister, Sidney Hamor Bunker, appears in this picture. [show more] | |
| Postcards to Addie Duren Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Postcards to Addie Duren Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Postcards to Addie Duren: A=1936 from Elsa. B=1 1943 from Alice. | ||
| Photos and clippings from Addie Duren Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photos and clippings from Addie Duren Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photos and assortment of clippings. 21 photographs of people, boats, structures, from Addie Duren's time, given to GCIHS by her son Ron Mountain, some with IDs written on reverse: A=Adline Bunker; B= Ernest Stanley In Service, First World War; C=Alfred Ladd passed away in first world war by a bomb. D=Addie must be going someplace. All dressed up in my Brothers clothes. E=Winfield Stanley; F=Omer Mountain In USN; G=Eliza Stanley; H=Addie Duren. Photos I-M=people no IDs (except deerhunter photo is marked 1940. Photos N-R=boats have no IDs except N (upper right corner)=First boat Raymond B. ever built. Photos of buildings S=Aid building/barn; T=GCI Church; U=Velma Teel's house in the snow. V-ZZ=Newspaper clippings: improved lobster pot design 1956, witticisms, and children' games. AA-CC= handwritten songs and a note. [show more] | |||
| Addie Ethel Duren WWII ID card Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Addie Ethel Duren WWII ID card Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Addie Ethel Duren WWII ID card issued by U.S. Coast Guard. Islanders were required to carry ID cards during WW II when transiting from islands to MDI, to prove they weren't spies. | |||
| Hats Off Bowling Game (Phippen) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hats Off Bowling Game (Phippen) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Game board, child, Board game, "Hats Off Bowling Game" with wooden pegs that swivel, bowling balls missing. Copyright MCMXLIV by Transogram Company, Inc. , from Montgomery Ward. Marjorie and Les Phippen's children were Paul, Louise, and one other. They were born on GCI and used to live on GCI year round. | |||
| Nautical charts (1855-1877) used by Meltiah and Carrie Richardson for transatlantic voyages Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Nautical charts (1855-1877) used by Meltiah and Carrie Richardson for transatlantic voyages Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Charts, nautical. Collection of ten 1855-1877 nautical charts of various sizes pertaining to the northeast coast of the United States, and the Atlantic Ocean to Europe, some with cotton fabric backing and cloth borders; all were rolled up inside a canvas drawstring carrying bag. (Charts are numbered 1-10 see full descriptions elsewhere.) Chart 1 is the most important and the most fragile of the set. It is stamped twice in black ink with "M. J. Richardson" and clearly plots at least two 1877-78 transatlantic voyages through the Strait of Gibraltar by Great Cranberry Island captains Meltiah J. and/or his spouse Mary Catherine "Carrie" Stanley likely aboard their three-mast schooner, Carrie M. Richardson (built in nearby Manset harbor 1874. See 2017 exhibit of chart and accompanying journals). Chart 6 has M. J. Richardson's name written in pencil on the reverse. Several charts are annotated in pencil and pen with dates and direction of sea voyages, and some have red ink dots indicating navigational aids (nuns and buoys). These charts were inherited by Stanley descendants and originally came from the Lewis Stanley boatyard and/or house on The Pool on GCI. Captain Lewis G. Stanley (1869-1957) was son of Enoch B. Stanley, Sr. (1820-1903). Meltiah J. Richardson married Mary Catherine "Carrie" Stanley (sister of Lewis) in 1870.) Chart 1 is 42” high by 60" wide and was in dire need of conservation. Conservation, encapsulation, digitization, printing and mounting were done at NEDCC August 2016. See documentation and digital files. (Prior to conservation: A piece missing from around the Yucatan peninsula,discolored, and very musty. Ink smudges in the center of the chart.) It’s actually two maritime charts laid side by side on the same cloth backing; used many times; well worn. Schooners known to be associated with Meltiah Richardson are the Hussar, Quickstep, and the Carrie M. Richardson. Legend on lower left corner reads: “Chart of the North Atlantic Ocean. From the most recent British, French, and United States Surveys. Sheet I. Hydrographic Office – U.S. Navy 1369. With variation curves for 1871”. The legend on the lower right side of the chart reads: “Chart of the North Atlantic Ocean from the most recent British, French, Spanish, Portugese, Belgian, Dutch, German, Danish and Norwegian surveys. Sheet II. Hydrographic office U.S. Navy. With variation curves for 1871. Only the most important lights are given on this chart.” There are calculations and dates in pencil along edges of chart and along coastline of the mid-Atlantic and southern U.S. coast. Two voyages are plotted across the ocean indicating dates and occasional notes. Journey 1 runs from October 19, 1877- November 20, 1877 from Malaga (on the southeast coast of Spain in the Mediterranean Sea, through the Strait of Gibraltar) heading east to Cape Lookout, NC, bound for Philadelphia. Journey 2 runs from October 3, 1878 - November 16, 1878, from Cadiz, (on southwest coast of Spain, north of the strait of Gibraltar), heading east to the Chesapeake Bay area of MD/VA, bound for Gloucester. (See scans of wallet journal made 7/29/16 relating directly to chart 1.) See separate document for specifics for each of the 10 charts. (See Exhibits2017 on NAS for displays and texts relating to these charts.) (See also Macfarlan's personal collection - chart of Ireland, and 2002.20.44 Hadlock chart around Norway.) [show more] | ||
| Painting of the Lusitania Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Painting of the Lusitania Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Painting, oil or acrylic, and pencil on cardboard of the ship Lusitania. Framed in wood with popsicle stick supports on damaged corners. Donor notes, "I bought it at a Cranberry Island Fair in the 1980s, and was told it came out of an Island House. I'm not sure if it was done by an Islander, but Isabel Storey would know." | |||
| Annie Bunker's funeral Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Annie Bunker's funeral Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Funeral of Annie L. Bunker 1943 (Polly Bunker's mother) with Ids. L to R: Forrest Spurling, Pauline Bunker, Charlene Bunker, Nancy Spurling and Charlie Rice. Bottom right photo: Victor, Forrest Spurling, Elisha Bunker, Pauline Bunker. | ||
| Quilt by Leah Jeanette (Sawyer) Stanley (1874-1944) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Quilt by Leah Jeanette (Sawyer) Stanley (1874-1944) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Quilt. Red and white (or beige) squares, 73" x 81" with solid white (or beige) reverse; filled with cotton batting. 14 5" x 6" squares long by 15 5"x6" squares wide. Each white square has a red embroidered flower, vegetable, bird, human figure, or animal in it. Donor states quilt was found in house when the property was bequeathed to the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation by Robert LaHotan's will and trust. Donor believes the quilt was made by Leah Stanley (Leah Jeanette (Sawyer) Stanley 1874-1944) who lived in the house with her husband Lewis Stanley. Quilt was displayed in 2006 GCIHS quilt exhibit. [show more] | ||
| Nelson - Carl Nelson. "The Heartiest of Season's Greetings" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Nelson - Carl Nelson. "The Heartiest of Season's Greetings" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A letter from Carl Nelson updating his friends on his new home on Cranberry island. This letter says " I have retired and moved from Boston to this island of unique design located just off the coast of Mt. Desert Island, Maine." He goes on about how tranquil and relaxing he finds the island and his deer neighbors. He ends the note with " In excellent health I am looking forward to retirement as a very exciting adventure." He notes his new address at the bottom of the card. This card looks as though it was a mass send to his friends and acquaintances to be updated on his new life and address. [show more] |
| Nelson - Carl Nelson correspondence with a woman named Martha. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Nelson - Carl Nelson correspondence with a woman named Martha. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Three letters from Carl Nelson to his friend Martha. In the first letter he is writing and just catching up with her about a mutual friend they had passing. In the second letter he is writing Martha thanking her for a jar of relish that she had sent him. In the top right corner he drew a picture of the jar that she sent. The letter starts by saying "How I can tell you how good the relish really is." He continues to write about how much he enjoyed the relish and how good it was. In the third letter he begins by saying " Dear 'Dickerson'" which is the name of Martha's relish mentioned in the second letter. In this letter he adds more praises on Martha's relish and other friendly writing. [show more] |
| Artists of the Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Artists of the Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: GCIHS Publication, created by Wini Smart initially to accompany the exhibit: Art of the Cranberry Isles, Past and Present. Compiles a list of and short biography of all the painters who made an 'impact here on our island and on the world'. With accompanying painter portraits and art. | |
| Shell Midden Remains and Photographs Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Shell Midden Remains and Photographs Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A collection of shells and photographs taken from the Shell Midden on Fish Point. Some of the shells have holes in them, which may have been created by the indigenous people who hunted for them. Dating through the shell middens and other archeological remains, we know people have used this coastline and its plentiful marine resources for thousands of years. The Cranberries themselves were used by the indigenous peoples here, evidenced by the remains of a shell midden on Fish point (at the hook of the island) which isn’t accessible to the public. Shell middens are often referred to as trash heaps and they contain oyster, clam, and shellfish remains, along with ‘faunal remains’ which refers to the mammal, fish, bird, reptile bones and teeth that are found. A minor portion of the middens are often stone tools or their fragments, and pieces of ceramic pottery. Shellfish middens are phenomenal records of the lives lived in proximity to the coast, and they are often found in sheltered coves and bays, near small mudflats, and tidal/inland streams. They tell us which seasons people were occupying areas, their preference for sheltered areas with easy access to the ocean (for their canoes) and plentiful marine resources, such as shellfish flats, and spring runs of migratory fish. They are extraordinary records which are disappearing rapidly due to rising oceans. [show more] | ||
| Fire Department Helmets Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Fire Department Helmets Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Used by Herman Savage and Wilfred Bunker. Two oval metal helmets painted red; adjustable webbed fabric supports with metal rivets inside; raised staples on interior of brim with fabric chin strips in place. Helmets used by GCI volunteer fire department ca. 1948 when the fire department was formed. Helmet (A): Red outside, white inside; "C.I.V.D." painted in white on exterior; handwritten inside the rim "H. Savage" (Herman Savage). Savage was a teenage volunteer fire department member. Helmet (B):Red outside, red inside; "W.A.B." painted in yellow on exterior; no initials inside. Wilfred Allison Bunker would have been in his late 20s in 1948. These may have been WWII helmets adapted for use by the fire department. Badly rusted and paint flaking and peeling. (See also 2014.278.2020 CIVD documents from 1950-1960s.) (See also photo of firefighters taken ca. January 1951-1953 with identifications, printed copy stored with item 2021 - box 49.) [show more] | |||
| Wilfred Bunker's passing article Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wilfred Bunker's passing article Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Front page article on Wilfred Bunker's passing (2012), Mount Desert Islander January 3, 2013. | |
| Cranberry Isles Map and Cottage Directory 1958 (laminated) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cranberry Isles Map and Cottage Directory 1958 (laminated) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Map. Laminated 1958 Cranberry Isles Cottage Directory (L.S. Robinson Real Estate) houses numbered and owners identified. | |
| Cranberry Isles Map and Cottage Directory 1958 (annotated) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cranberry Isles Map and Cottage Directory 1958 (annotated) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: 1958 Cranberry Isles Map and Cottage Directory by L.S. Robinson Real Estate, with annotations by Louise Marr or Doris McSorley. | |
| Certificate of Marriage. Beniah Bunker and Josie S. Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Certificate of Marriage. Beniah Bunker and Josie S. Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Certificate of Marriage. Beniah Bunker and Josie S. Stanley December 4, 1887, with photographs of bride and groom. Ornate frame. | |
| Indigenous American stone tools: 10 arrowheads, flakes, projectile points, and knife blade Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Indigenous American stone tools: 10 arrowheads, flakes, projectile points, and knife blade Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Native American tools: a random collection of 10 stone pieces without provenience: 1 raw stone, 6 arrowheads, 2 flakes, 1 knife blade: some of these artifacts were loaned by individuals, and one projectile point (the longest one, black) was found on GCI on May 25, 2008 by a visitor. Others may not be local points, some perhaps New Jersey origin. One 2" stone knife blade, broken, black (not obsidian) found GCI 2011 by visitor and later donated to GCIHS. (See Abbe Museum on MDI for collection of Native American artifacts from archaeological excavations on GCI.) [show more] | |||
| Cardboard panels painted by GCI school children Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cardboard panels painted by GCI school children Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Paintings, three painted cardboard panels with artwork by GCI school children. (A) Woman on the moon releasing white dove by Amy Russell1996. (B) Woman in black in the middle of an orange flower by Martha Bunker (probably 1996); she became an artist or photographer in Portland. (C) Ice Hockey player in action on the ice by Patrick Allen (probably 1996). | |
| God's Pocket - Rachel Field Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  God's Pocket - Rachel Field Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: 1934. Book, "God's Pocket" by Rachel Field, Macmillan April 1934, inscribed by author "For William C. Bullitt This early American gesture to a far-away friend - with always pleasant remembrances. Rachel Field 1934" Also included with the book is a printout from wikipedia about William Christian Bullitt, Jr., presumably the person the book is inscribed to, who was about 43, and U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1934. (See also Field collection of books 2014.168.2004) [show more] | |||
| Hitty's First One Hundred Years - Rachel Field Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hitty's First One Hundred Years - Rachel Field Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Book. 1941 Edition of Hitty's First One Hundred Years by Rachel Field, signed by the author. (See also Field collection of books 2014.168.2004) | |||
| Points East: Narratives of New England - Rachel Field Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Points East: Narratives of New England - Rachel Field Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Book written by local author Rachel Field. Signed by the author. |
| Wild Island Farm seed collection Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wild Island Farm seed collection Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Seeds. Collection of Polly Storey's Wild Island Farm seeds including three green wooden display boxes (A, B, and C) (with lids attached by brass chains) containing white and green paper seed packets ready for sale, and two shoebox-size cardboard boxes (D and E) with seed packets. There is also a folder of materials (F) relating to Wild Island Farm, the seed business, and a newspaper article “Polly Forbes Johnson Storey: A Spirit of Independence” (Bar Harbor Times, October 21, 1976). (See also GCIHS 1000.0.965 for another undated article about seeds business.) Seed packets indicate crop years were 1972 and 1992; but many packets have no crop years identified. Most of the seeds originated in Maine, but some are from Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Yugoslavia. Polly Storey’s daughter, Elizabeth Selim, recalls her mother germinating wildflower seeds on the property and remembers her mother’s seed business. Two of the green seed display boxes (A and B) contain packets of tree seeds. On the interior lids of these two boxes is a printed pamphlet: Tree Seeds from Maine* (and other exotic parts of the world), with text on why and how to plant tree seeds. Seed packets inside these two boxes include balsam fir, mountain ash, white pine, sugar maple, paper birch, and white spruce - all "Packed by Wild Island Farm, Cranberry Isles, Maine 04625." Balsam fir (Abies balsama): Purity 93%, Germination 50% March 1994; Crop year 1992, Origin Maine. Mountain Ash (Sorbus americana): Purity 80%, Germination 30% March 1994, Crop year 1992, Origin Tennessee. White Pine (Pinus strobus): Purity 98%, Germination 90% March 1994, Crop year 1991, Origin Maine. Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum): Purity 97%, Germination 55% March 1994, Crop Year 1992, Origin Pennsylvania. Paper Birch (Betula papyrifera): Purity 85%, Germination 95% March 1994, Crop year 1992, Origin Wisconsin. White Spruce: (Picea abies): Purity 98%, Germination 47.5% March 1992, Crop year 1990, Origin Yugoslavia. Several types of tree seed packets have bar-coded labels on reverse: “Acadia Shops, (seed name), $2.00”. The third green display box (C) contains mostly flower packets, but there are also four packets of White Cedar seeds in it. The interior lid of this box has hand drawn text and lovely small watercolor sketches of the types of flower seed packets it contains. White Cedar (Thuja occidentales): Text, printing and ‘packed by’ are slightly different: Purity 95%, Germ. 60% March 1973, Crop Year 1972, Origin Maine: Packed by Wild Island Seeds, The Farm House, Cranberry Isles, Maine 04625. Flower packets: Daisy (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum): No date packed etc. Blue Flag (Iris versicolor): No date packed etc, but an Acadia Shops sticker (no bar code) $1.50 on reverse. Evening Primrose (Onothera biennis): No date packed etc. Beach Pea (Lathyrus japponics): Empty envelope, no crop year etc. Lupine (Lupinus perennis): No crop year etc. Cattail (Typha latifolia): No crop year etc., sealed but seems empty. Blueberry (Vaccinium augustifolium): No date crop year etc., envelope stained. There are 5 small manila envelopes with handwritten labels: Beach Pea, Wild Rose, Blue Flag, Seaside Goldenrod, and Bunchberry. Inside a sixth, larger manila envelope (labelled in red ink: ‘Begonia seeds’) are 5 folded, white paper packets, only two of which are labelled: "Pink and white from Christmas cactus pot", and "Deep Red". Cardboard boxes: First box (D) labeled “M.D. Apothecary” contains 59 green and white paper packets of Rhubarb (Rhabarbarum) seeds, “Packed by Wild Island Farm, Cranberry Isles, Maine 04625”, no crop year etc., but Acadia Shops sticker (no bar code) $1.50 on reverse. Second box (E) contains 99 green and white paper packets of Mountain Ash (Sorbus americana) seeds: Purity 80%, Germination 30% March 1994, Crop year 1992, Origin Tennessee, Packed by Wild Island Farm, Cranberry Isles, Maine 04625, no sticker on reverse. Documents (F): 1970 to 1995, including 1992 correspondence with Aroostook Testing and Consulting Laboratory in Presque Isle, Maine, shows Polly submitted several varieties of tree seeds from Cranberry Island for testing and received germination rates for each. Information on how and when to gather seeds. Statements and business registration information. Newspaper article “Polly Forbes Johnson Storey: A Spirit of Independence” (Bar Harbor Times, October 21, 1976). Several letters from visitors who purchased the seeds at local hotels and wanted advice. Two loose 2"x2" square water color sketches of cranberry and fireweed. One 6"x8" color photograph of Polly Storey by Dick Berggren. [show more] | ||
| Newspaper clippings Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Newspaper clippings Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper clippings: A= Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Stanley renew wedding vows, 1960. B= Schooner Nile of Bath, F.H. Lewis master wreck in Winthrop (no date). | ||
| GCI people Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  GCI people Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A= Left to right: John Towns, his mother Mrs. Florence Towns, Sawtelle Teele, [perhaps Howard Pratt], Mary Teele Prat, Dot Towns. B=Capts. Perley Stanley and Hillard Hardy in Florida (1952?). C= Philmore Petersen. D=Frank Stanley. E=Charles "Pink" Stanley with boys (see also 1000.0.574). F="Mr. & Mrs. Antanson on fishing trip with Edgar Bunker and Addie, What a day that was" G= Harold Stanley and wife Maui? Harding Stanley. H= Wheelbarrow race with Judy Towns (Holbrook) (white sweater back row center), Cann Penn (Bangor) August 1958 Church fair day. I= Eleanore Mildred Joy 7 months 4 days. J=Gertie Bunker. K= unknown infant. LMNOPQR=unknown individuals [show more] | |||
| People and Boats on GCI Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  People and Boats on GCI Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: One small booklet from Bicknell Photo Service of Portland Maine with nine photos of people and boats. A= Philmore Peterson in plaid, Morris Alley in center with cap and others at Elisha Bunker's boatyard in 1940s. B= Philmore Peterson and others. C= Hillard Hardy (Noether's House). D= Edgar Bunker. E= Boat "Peggy" that Red built for H. Hardy at Elisha's boatyard. F= Unidentified boat with tractor on beach. G= Unidentified boat. H= Pier with boat. I= Unidentified boats. J= Booklet photos were in (removed April 2019). [show more] | ||
| Hebron Academy/Steele family photos Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hebron Academy/Steele family photos Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: 19 photographs,Steele family and Hebron Academy. Hebron was in central Maine. A= carved wood plaque "Hebron Academy Sturtevant Hall, Summer of 1903 "To Fil from As" ; B= Large cardboard matte Hebron Academy team; C= Class photo on porch, presumably Hebron Academy, Steele family; D= Badly faded Academy group; E= Leo Trask, F&G unk. H&I= unk; J=William Howe; K=unk "with love from Ora" ; L= unk "with Love from Ora [Strauss?]; M=Guy Watson HA'0?"; N="My home [xxxx] for you". (Steele family members are buried in Preble and Bunker Cemeteries on GCI. Related to Lulu Alley and Bunkers, too.) [show more] | ||
| Longfellow School photo ca. 1910 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Longfellow School photo ca. 1910 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Longfellow School photo ca. 1910 Cranberry Isles, on brown cardboard backing with IDs on reverse; children all dressed up, perhaps graduation day. Left to right: Front row: Leslie Stanley, Russell Bunker, John Stanley, Holsie Atkinson, Victor Erickson. Second row: Gracie Atkinson, Bernice Spurling, Laura Erickson, Margie Bulger Phippen, Hilda Bulger Spurling, Blanch White Atkinson, Alvah Bunker. Third row: Esther White Howard, Florence Bracy, Hazel Bunker Hardy, Helen Trussell Alley, Gladys Spurling, Willard Rosebrook. Fourth row: George Hadlock Superintendent, Edgar White, Bertie Stanley, Robert Stanley, Raymond Bunker, Teacher Mamie Birlem. (IDs probably by Ruth Westphal) [show more] | ||
| Old view of Cranberry Road Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Old view of Cranberry Road Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Enlarged reprint of an old view of Cranberry Road (perhaps a postcard view) with a mask identifying buildings along the road. Probably identified 1982 or later by someone who knew Tud Bunker (Doc Haydock?). | |||
| Moorfield Storey family photographs Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Moorfield Storey family photographs Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Six Moorfield Storey (1845-1929) family photographs. A= Moorfield Storey on Cranberry Island 1928. B= Framed photo of Sue Storey [Lyman] and her horse Beauty in 1929. C=Artist Carl G. Nelson photo by David Westphal. D=Jr. Lovett "UncleBob", Aunt Bessie: Eliz Moorfield Storey Lovett and Gertrude Lovett Sturgis (photograph by Hermann, Bad Hauheim). E=Gathering of unidentified people on the lawn. F= Clarence Beal in his boat, Cranberry 1961. [show more] | |||
| Notes on Bunker, Fernald, and Hamor families Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Notes on Bunker, Fernald, and Hamor families Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Handwritten geneaology notes on Benia Bunker, Fernald and Hamor families. And Mary Anne Bunker's calling card (David Bunker's sister). | |||
| Elva (Stanley) Lagoutte and Flora L. Stanley photographs Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Elva (Stanley) Lagoutte and Flora L. Stanley photographs Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Two discolored cabinet card photos: A=Flora L. Stanley, daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Asa D. Stanley, and B=Elva (Stanley) Lagoutte. Photos are warped and brown - may have been damaged during house fire when Addie Duren owned the Mountain house. There are other photos of Elva on NAS> migration photos. | |||
| Islesford Coast Guard Station lifesavers Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Islesford Coast Guard Station lifesavers Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo warped and faded on mounted on cardboard: Islesford Coast Guard Station lifesavers with IDs on reverse: "Consult Marian Spurling, (Captained 1887-1909) Capt. Benjamin Franklin Stanley and crew (Capt. Frank), Islesford Coast Guard Station Life Saving until 1915." | ||
| Lindon "Tud" Bunker and Michael J. (Mickey) Macfarlan Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Lindon "Tud" Bunker and Michael J. (Mickey) Macfarlan Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Lindon Bunker (with unusual cigarette) and Michael J. (Mickey) Macfarlan (with pipe) in suits. Mid-late 1960s. | ||
| Photo of Richie Stanley and harbor views Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photo of Richie Stanley and harbor views Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Three 1946 photos: A= Richie Stanley with lobsters on the rocks. B= Boats in Northeast Harbor. C= Beach scene looking back to Northeast Harbor from Cranberry. | ||
| George and Sam Gilley haying Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  George and Sam Gilley haying Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: George and Sam Gilley haying on Little Cranberry Island. [THIS MAY BE an NPS ACADIA PHOTOGRAPH.] Notes on reverse: "Janice Murch 7/000 Cat. No. 548, Acadia Ex. 705 George & Sam Gilley haying." | |||
| Photographs of islanders Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photographs of islanders Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Group of photos in cardboard frames with annotations. A= To Addie from Mary Anne. B= Arthur Joy Cranberry Isles, notice is sleeve badges USS and 6, and the words on his cap Life Saving Station, as well as a vest pocket watch. C= To Aunt Addie from Lucille Muriel Stanley. D= Aunt Addie Best wishes, Joyce [Arline Bunker]. E= Addie Bates daughter on C Isles [xx] Ella Spurling [1890-95?]." | ||
| Houses on GCI Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Houses on GCI Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A= Postcard photo of Old Stanley home (now Rome/Glazer house) with note: "Nettie Stanley Residents" (sic) Shows the old store to the left, rear of house. B= Birlem fish house on the Pool. C= Town dock and Birlem fish house and little bait house. D= Postcard photo of GCI Post Office (orig photo was by J.G. Towns, Holbrook, MA). E= Bunker dock in the Pool with workers. F= Evergreen trees at dawn with caption "Just a dawn." G= Photo of interior of a home. H= Christmas card photo of Nativity scene an sleigh with reindeer with note that ceramics were made for Florence and Herbert Towns. [show more] | |||
| Sam and Cora Chapman on stoop Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Sam and Cora Chapman on stoop Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Sam Chapman with wife Cora on stoop of their house. The house once belonged to Edith Drury and is now (2019) the Dowling/Meyers home. | |||
| Boats TBD Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Boats TBD Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Boats. A=unidentified ship. B=Large ship, "the SS David McKelvy, 445 ft long, 59 ft breadth, 33.3 ft. depth, 11,000 tons. Draft is 29 feet." C&D= Two-mast sailboat with note "Drager ashore back shore. Oscar Wedge claimed!!! We all had something 1945-1946?" from Folder full of photos from Dot Towns with note that Georgie Ware had been through them (probably to ID them). Save as a collection see below | |||
| Photos of islanders dancing and playing horseshoes Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photos of islanders dancing and playing horseshoes Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Five photos from Dot Towns. A= Dance at GCI schoolhouse with Forest Spurling on right, sideview of Buster Rice in black suit with collar on right, Merton Burton in the middle, woman in white unknown. B= Pink and Eliza Stanley with grand daughter Sandy Start. C= Edgar White pitching horseshoes near Elisha Bunker's store. D= Elisha Bunker throwing horshoes, Sawtelle Teel seated, Walter Wallace of Holbrook MA, Audrey Wallace standing in background. E= Elisha Bunker & Edgar Bunker measuring who is nearest. F= Victor White, Sawtelle Teel, Lena May Spurling, unk, Elisha Bunker, Edgar Bunker with horseshoe. G= Left to right: Victor White, Sawtelle Teel, Audrey Wallace, Walter Wallace, Elisha Bunker (owner of grocery store at the point). [show more] | |||
| Photos of places , duck hunt, and whale on GCI Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photos of places , duck hunt, and whale on GCI Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photos of places, duck hunt, and whale on GCI. A= Bunker Boatyard 1965-1970s, B= Ice in the Creek Feb 12, 1934. C= Ice in the Pool Feb 6, 1934. D= town dock 1940s or 1960?. E= Cranberry Road from Dolly Hill. Duck and geese hunt on the El Pescado. G= Whale washed up on the back of the island (1919?), see report of Dr. Bowditch on Islesford.. H= Raymond Bunker's car on ice in the pool Feb. 12, 1934. I= Unknown car. | |||
| Photos of a dirigible and boats Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photos of a dirigible and boats Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Twelve photos of a dirigible and boats: A= Dirigible above mountains. B= Dirigible (the Shenandoah?) anchored to a navy ship with Coast Guard vessel in front July 4, 1925, Bar Harbor Maine. C= Postcard of [illegible] yacht wrecked on Duck island. D= Schooner George B. Hogg. E= the S.S. David McKelvey. F= the yacht Frolic. G= Yacht Lotusland one of the first to carry an airplane June 1931. H= The Hobo, Warren Rice owned it; he worked for Spurling. I= The cove frozen over. J= unidentified sailboat. K= Unidentified Yacht. L= motorboat with A4845 on bow and Weona as ID on reverse of the photo. [show more] | |||
| Photos of Islanders Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photos of Islanders Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Nine photos of people: A= Hyde and Nettie Stanley who ran store by Brooks' house or store behind Rome house. B= Raymond Bunker 1929. C= Marni (Pink Bulger's mother). D= Archie Spurling. E= Marm, Pink Bulger's mother 1922. F= Tud & friend. G= Group on ice Jan 28, 1935 Elwood Spurling wnd from right, Ada, Neil Peterson. H= Seal Harbor Yacht Club: Alton Bunker, Les Bunkers boy on Saltons, Dud Bracy and the maids, Oscar Bulger, Tud Bunker. I= Seal Harbor Yacht Club: Fritz Fernald?, Oscar Bulger, Fred Bracy, Maid, Alton Bunker, Wesley Bracy Sr. [show more] | |
| Photographs of young Hillard and Shirley Hamor Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photographs of young Hillard and Shirley Hamor Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photographs of Hillard and Shirley Hamor: A= in a wicker chair. B= on a wood dock. | ||
| Tintype photos unknown young man and woman Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Tintype photos unknown young man and woman Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Two large tintype photographs of unidenfified young mand and young woman (perhaps Hamor family) | ||
| Tintype photograph of a Hamor woman Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Tintype photograph of a Hamor woman Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Tintype photograph of a Hamor woman with collar and dress, seated. Large 5" x 7", colorized,with glass pane and wood backing. [Is this a set - a couple or brother/sister see next item?] | |
| Hamor brothers photo Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hamor brothers photo Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo of two young men (probably Hillard and Shirley Hamor brothers) in silver embossed frame. | |||
| John and Sadie Hamor photo Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  John and Sadie Hamor photo Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photograph of older couple (perhaps John and Sadie Hamor) | |||
| Hillard Hamor (possibly) photo Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hillard Hamor (possibly) photo Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Large colorized photo of man with inscription: "To Mabel, with Love", possibly Hillard Hamor | |||
| Cranberry Isles brochure ca. 1929-1942 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cranberry Isles brochure ca. 1929-1942 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Cranberry Isles brochure ca. 1929-1942. It mentions the Hamor Tea House and the Teel House and insect pests (Hamor house out of existence 1942). Mosquitoe project was 1928. Bus service connected to train "Bar Harbor Express." | ||
| Hamor family photos Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hamor family photos Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Four photographs. A= Hamor House with young man sailing model in foreground and whale bones on lawn: "Me sailing my play boat. Send back please. I love to sail xxx yet. Whale bones on lawn 110' long [illegible] Maine. Keep." B= View of Hamor dock. C= Boat "Red Wing laying at our dock, Cranberry Pool." D= Horse pulling a carriage "Old Prince." E= view of [Baker?] lighthouse. | ||
| Cleaves family reunion and Mark Cleaves Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cleaves family reunion and Mark Cleaves Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: The Cleaves are related to Mrs. Hamor. A= Cleaves Reunion Sunday 9/26/54, with individuals numbered and IDd: 1: Sally Wile, 2: Janet Strout Hazelwood, 3: Jean Cleaves (Vaughn's daughter), 4: Marcia Cleaves, 5: Carla Hazelwood, 6: Bobby Hazelwood, 7: Judy Hazelwood, 8: Esther Strout, 9: Marcus Cleaves, "I took picture, 5 took other picture." B= second group photo of Cleaves reunion. C= "Uncle Mark Cleaves, Mum Hamor's brother, Found this old guy up to Borestone Mt. ME last July while visiting Margie and Rob, 79 years old." D= envelope that contained these small black & white photos addressed to: Mr. and Mrs. Hillard M. Hamor, 2023 Crescent Avenue, Charlotte, NC, Postmark Dec. 11, 1954. [show more] | ||
| Postcards of the Hamor House Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Postcards of the Hamor House Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Four postcards of Hamor House: A= Hamor House addressed to Mrs. Evelyn Mann, #4 Sherbrook St., Portland Me, June 19, 1923 with message on reverse from Aunt Sadie [Hamor] Thanking someone for the rug and other things. B= Hamor House dock postcard with scribble on reverse. C= View from Hamor House with not "Dock at house. Our Boathouse just shows. [illegible]. D= Mount Desert from Cranberry - Postcard showing the "point of Iselsford and the old cove." [show more] | ||
| Windjammer postcard with message Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Windjammer postcard with message Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Postcard: An Old Windjammer, printed Belfast Maine, C.A. Townsend photographer. No postmark or addressee but note: "Dear Daddy, I was so glad to get your nice letter Saturday. Pup [or Pink?] asked me if I wanted to send this to you. I wish you were up here. I miss you so much. I will write you soon. Love Hope" | |||
| Memorial booklet for John Henry Hamor 1947 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Memorial booklet for John Henry Hamor 1947 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Funeral home memorial booklet "Leaves of Gold" for John Henry Hamor - Born March 3, 1866 and laid to rest October 23, 1947 at 81 years old in Sharon Memorial Cemetery in Charlotte, NC. Lists of folks who attended, telegrammed or sent flowars. Note says Sadie Hamor born March 2, 1876 and deceased June 12, 1943. | ||
| Condolences to Mrs. Hamor on loss of Capt. Hamor Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Condolences to Mrs. Hamor on loss of Capt. Hamor Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A framed page from Cranberry Club members offering condolences to Mrs. Hamor on the loss of Captain Hamor signed July 9, 1913 by members of the Club: Emma L. Wesson, President; Eleanor Blodgette, VP; Juliana Wood, Secretary; Frances S. Pepper, Treasurer; Annie W. J. Low; W. Amos Doris?; Caroline M. Lewis; Elizabeth R. Arnold; Sophy Dallas Gwin; Frances Parkman; Emilio Ofsten Mulligan?. [This statement is mounted on a black matte on the reverse of a photo of an unidentified stone edifice surrounded by pine trees.] [show more] | ||
| Newspaper articles: life and history on Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Newspaper articles: life and history on Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper articles (1971-2000): life and history on Cranberry Isles | ||
| Miscellaneous correspondence Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Miscellaneous correspondence Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Miscellaneous correspondence re: GCI genealogy (Rice, Spurling, Hamor, Hardy Harwood, Stanley, Wedge, Alley, and Bunker genealogy October 1965. A= Letter from Paul Pattew(sp?) June 26, 1961 to Doctor Macfarlan. B= List of questions for Ethel October 16, 1965, with her answers. C= letter from Ethel October 1965 | ||
| Certificate of British Registry for schooner Alice T Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Certificate of British Registry for schooner Alice T Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: 1867 Certificate of British Registry for the Schooner Alice T, built 1861 (too large to scan entire document). Official #42664, Port Number 46 Built at Dipper Harbor, Saint John, New Brunswick 1861, launched 10 Sept 1861. Length: 82 ft, 2 tenths, Breadth: 23 feet, 6 tenths, Depth: 9 feet. Built by James Thomson Dipper Harbor County of Saint John, NB. Tonnage 106 tons, 62 tenths. Owners: James Thomson of Dipper Harbour, Mariner, 22 shares, Master of the ship. James Edwards Hamm of Carleton, Loader?, 21 shares. William Henry Harding of Carleton, Surveyor, 21 shares. The Alice T wrecked off the Cranberry Isles in a snow storm January 18, 1867 with a load of lumber. William P. Preble was likely the Surveyor of Wrecks for that year as he was for many years. See below for further information on the Alice T from GCIHS ledgers kept by William P. Preble. See weblink for transcription of PROTEST OF CAPT WM. CLARK OF THE BRITISH SCHR ALICE T OF ST JOHNS N B ENTERED JAN 18TH. 1867. [show more] | ||
| Papers and Receipts William P. Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Papers and Receipts William P. Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Miscellaneous documents and receipts. A= 1866 document Moses S. Bunker master of Schooner Sea Flower of Cranberry Isles protest of disaster. B=1854 Schooner Seaflower Bound for England. C=1854 Life insurance policy for William P. Preble from Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance. D, E, & F =1854 Life insurance policy for William P. Preble additional papers. G= 1872 appointment of William Prebble (sic) as Commissioner of Wrecks and Lost Goods. H=Miscellaneous tattered receipts. I=Preble appointed Commissioner of Wrecks and Lost Goods 1864. [show more] | ||
| Douglas Macfarlan Cranberry Isles Scrapbook Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Douglas Macfarlan Cranberry Isles Scrapbook Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Brown notebook “Cranberry Isles Scrapbook” kept by Douglas Macfarlan 1949-1960s. A= Complete multi-page list of contents handwritten by Douglas Macfarlan (only page 1 scanned) includes histories, images, research correspondence, several letters of correspondence between Douglas Macfarlan and Mrs. Wade Marr from whom the Macfarlans bought the house in 1946; Maine maps, photos, abstracts from books; histories of Hadlocks, Fort Castine, St. Sauveur Mission and other local historical spots.etc. Also B, C, D, & I = small delightful pen and ink sketches probably by Douglas Macfarlan. E, F, G, H = Photographs of Baker Island lighthouse 1949. [show more] | ||
| Norwegian Navigation Chart 1807 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Norwegian Navigation Chart 1807 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Navigation Chart of Norway probably belonging to Sam Hadlock, Jr., with a faint, barely legible handwritten annotation in center. [Best guess at written note: "Fren Cape, Nsor 8am, point 21+ NorW, from Stan point, to Cape Jack(?) 21+, N(illegible symbols), Way-and give Sun, Point 1/2 mile -, From Cape Jack(?), to Cape George or, Cape Laieu(?) NW (and then some illegible letters)". A note attributed to "The Maine Islands in Story and Legend" by Dorothy Simpson says: "Capt. Samuel Hadlock in 1807, during Napoleonic wars, took load of fish to Spain, with good profit and returned with load of salt and lemons. He built a store on Little Cranberry. He built ships too, captained by his five sons. His third son was Samuel who lived on Great Cranberry....". Samuel Hadlock, Jr., built the 1826 house that became the Preble House. Samuel Hadlock, Jr.'s adventures were subject of Rachel Field's book, "God's Pocket" [show more] | |||
| Douglas Macfarlan Research and manuscript Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Douglas Macfarlan Research and manuscript Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Green notebook of Douglas Macfarlan (Michael J. "Mickey" Macfarlan's’ father) research labelled "William Bingham’s Maine Lands with biographical notes on Bingham, John Black, Col. Cobb, Baring Bros., Ashburton, Genl James Swagt [sp?]. Notebook also contains A= typewritten copy of Downeast Magazine 1966 Bingham Estate. B=Three seemingly unrelated newspaper clippings. C= An envelope with documents “The Engagement between the “Constitution” and the “Guerriere” Aug 19, 1812 (six pages) with transcription and a copy of "general orders (four pages) with note "turn this envelope up and over to get the ins. copy.” And D = A title page and lengthy manuscript: “Voyages of Discovery of the North Atlantic Coast by Douglas Macfarlan” with red Viking ship picture. [show more] | ||
| Nautical Chart of Ireland with annotations Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Nautical Chart of Ireland with annotations Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Nautical chart of Ireland, believed to be a chart Samuel Hadlock, Jr. used for his voyages to Europe while touring with Eskimos and sled dogs in 1820s. Chart appears to be a section of a larger chart. A note on reverse (probably by Douglas Macfarlan (donor's father)) states: "This old navigation map was found in a sea chest in the Preble House, Cranberry Isl. Maine in 1947." Samuel Hadlock built what became known as the Preble House for the woman he married while on his European tour. Zoom in to see various annotations on the chart. Many nun-buoys are marked in brownish/yellow, and there are several pencil annotations made along the coastline. This chart was scanned at Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) in 2016. A framed print of the full size NEDCC scan hangs in the Macfarlan/Preble house. And see God's Pocket: The Story of Captain Samuel Hadlock, Jr. of Cranberry Isles, Maine (Macmillan 1934, 1936, 1999) and "Hugh Dwelley's Beyond God's Pocket". [show more] | ||
| William Preble Commissioner of Wrecks & Lost Goods Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  William Preble Commissioner of Wrecks & Lost Goods Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Certificate from Governor John Hubbard designating William Preble Commissioner of Wrecks and Lost Goods for Hancock County for four years "if he shall so long behave himself in office" signed by the Secretary of State 1851 | ||
| Letters to Charles A. Gilley 1903-1904 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Letters to Charles A. Gilley 1903-1904 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of two 1903-1904 letters to Charles A. Gilley from a woman (Annie Keaney?) in Lawrence, MA, who wanted very much to come and visit Mr. Gilley or to work for him. They had apparently met at some point. She planned to send him her photo and thought that would be permissible since it was a leap year. | ||
| Documents pertaining to Great Cranberry 1902-1930 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Documents pertaining to Great Cranberry 1902-1930 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of documents (1902-1930) including store receipts, Telephone Office postcard, Cranberry Isles High School program 1902 listing 21 students, and the history of the poem "My Island Home" by Mrs. E. T. Preble. Families mentioned include: Bunker, Spurling, Lagoutte | |||
| Douglas and Donald Macfarlan doctors Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Douglas and Donald Macfarlan doctors Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Douglas and Donald Macfarlan, cover page from Philadelphia Medicine, A Century of Service, Volume 57, No. 22, June 2, 1961. Caption: "The red brick building at 1805 Chestnut Street has been a doctor’s office for ninety-one years. Malcom Macfarlan (1841-1921), a young Scottish immigrant, graduate of Yale and regimental medical officer with the 6th Maine Cavalry in the Alabama campaign (Civil War), came to Philadelphia with his bride, set up his office on Chestnut Street and proceeded to raise a family. Malcom’s two braw bairns, Donald, now 76, and Douglas, now 74, are shown on our cover this week examining the certificate of appreciation given each of them on May 10, 1961 by admiring fellow-practioners. They, with thirty-five other kindred spirits (see page 675), were honored for having practiced medicine in Philadelphia for fifty long years." (Douglas Macfarlan was Michael J. Macfarlan's father shown with his brother Donald. The Macfarlans purchased the historic Preble house on GCI from Louise Marr.) [show more] | ||
| Correspondence about purchase of Church Estey organ 1941 - Letter 21 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Correspondence about purchase of Church Estey organ 1941 - Letter 21 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter 21 - Aug 20, 1941-Sep 23, 1941. This set of letters was found among the 1897 correspondence re: Rev. Charles Elliott Harwood who was the pastor of the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church from 1894 to March 22, 1897. However, this is much later material pertaining to Church matters. Letters and a brochure between Howard Bacon and Estey Organ Corporation 1941, with notation "organ received Oct 2, 1941." Howard N. Bacon was a generous summer resident who arranged for the purchase of the church organ. Contributions made by Alice Stanley and Janine(?) Stanley. [show more] | ||
| Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 19 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 19 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter 19 - Sept. 25, 1897, Rev. Charles Elliott Harwood was the pastor of the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church from 1894 to March 22, 1897 when he died suddenly. E. B. Stanley to Wheelwright re: estate matters. | ||
| Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 20 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 20 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter 20 - Sept. 3, 1896, Rev. Charles Elliott Harwood was the pastor of the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church from 1894 to March 22, 1897 when he died suddenly. Two letters with different dates inside this envelope. Mr. Andrew C. Wheelwright, North East H(arbor), ME, postmark 1897; Wm. P. Preble, Esq., Cranberry Isles, Maine return address re: estate. | ||
| Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 18 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 18 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter 18 - Sept. 24, 1897, Rev. Charles Elliott Harwood was the pastor of the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church from 1894 to March 22, 1897 when he died suddenly. Four letters in this envelope with different dates: Sept 22, Sept 6, and Sept 1, 1897. C. M. Richardson to Wheelwright, and E. B. Stanley to Wheelwright. | ||
| Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 17 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 17 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter 17 - Sept. 24, 1897, Rev. Charles Elliott Harwood was the pastor of the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church from 1894 to March 22, 1897 when he died suddenly. There are a total of three letters in this envelope dated Sept. 1 and Sept 22, and Sept. 24, 1897 re: estate matters. | ||
| Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 16 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 16 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter 16 - Aug. 26, 1897, Rev. Charles Elliott Harwood was the pastor of the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church from 1894 to March 22, 1897 when he died suddenly. Thompson to Wheelwright one handwritten page re: estate matters. | ||
| Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 13 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 13 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter 13 - Aug. 18, 1897, Rev. Charles Elliott Harwood was the pastor of the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church from 1894 to March 22, 1897 when he died suddenly. Three handwritten pages Preble to Wheelwright re: estate. | ||
| Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 12 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 12 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter 12 - August 17, 1897, Rev. Charles Elliott Harwood was the pastor of the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church from 1894 to March 22, 1897 when he died suddenly. One handwritten page re: estate matters. | ||
| Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 10 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 10 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter 10 - August 13, 1897, Rev. Charles Elliott Harwood was the pastor of the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church from 1894 to March 22, 1897 when he died suddenly. Three handwritten pages re: estate. | ||
| Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 9 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 9 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter 9 - Aug. 10, 1897, Rev. Charles Elliott Harwood was the pastor of the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church from 1894 to March 22, 1897 when he died suddenly. Four typed pages re: estate | ||
| Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 8 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 8 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter 8 - August 7, 1897, Rev. Charles Elliott Harwood was the pastor of the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church from 1894 to March 22, 1897 when he died suddenly. Andrew C. Wheelwright, Esq, North East Harbor, Maine addressee; Aug 7 1897 Boston postmark; Matthews & Thompson, 1134-1138 Tremont Building return address re: estate | ||
| Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 7A Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 7A Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter 7A - August 4, 1897, Rev. Charles Elliott Harwood was the pastor of the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church from 1894 to March 22, 1897 when he died suddenly. From Mathews & Thompson counsellors at Law to Mr. Andrew C. Wheelwright re: estate | ||
| Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 7 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 7 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter 7 - August 4, 1897, Rev. Charles Elliott Harwood was the pastor of the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church from 1894 to March 22, 1897 when he died suddenly. To Andrew C. Wheelwright from Myron W. Harwood re: estate | ||
| Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 6 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 6 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter 6 - July 31, 1897, Rev. Charles Elliott Harwood was the pastor of the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church from 1894 to March 22, 1897 when he died suddenly. To Mr. Wheelwright from William G. Thompson, 1134 Tremont Building, Boston re: estate | ||
| Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 5 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 5 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter 5 - July 30, 1897, Rev. Charles Elliott Harwood was the pastor of the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church from 1894 to March 22, 1897 when he died suddenly. To Mr. Andrew C. Wheelwright from Myron Harwood re: same subject.: pews and estate. | ||
| Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 4 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 4 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter 4 - July 2, 1897, Rev. Charles Elliott Harwood was the pastor of the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church from 1894 to March 22, 1897 when he died suddenly. Written from Springfield Ma to Mr. Charles Whittier from Myron W. Harwood. Re: the 24 pews in question which were paid for including $25 out of his own pocket. | ||
| Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 3 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 3 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter 3 - July 2, 1897, Rev. Charles Elliott Harwood was the pastor of the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church from 1894 to March 22, 1897 when he died suddenly. Written from Springfield MA to Mr. Andrew C. Wheelwright from Myron W. Harwood administrator of the estate of Charles E. Harwood Springfield MA, #367 Belmont Ave. He has just received another letter from Rev. Charle swhitter on the subject of his brothers affairs with the church at Cranberry. Doesn't see how his brother owed the church $120.00. Mentions he only had $11.35 on him when he died etc. [show more] | ||
| Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 2 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 2 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter 2 - July 1, 1897, Rev. Charles Elliott Harwood was the pastor of the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church from 1894 to March 22, 1897 when he died suddenly. Written fron Springfield MA, to Rev Charles Whittier from Meyron? W. Harwood, 367 Belmont Avenue about how his brother gave his life to the church on Cranberry and now they want him to give his money. Mr. Preble holds a deed of one of the pews which has not been recorded and which has been paid for by my brother the morning he left there Feb 8, 1897. [show more] | ||
| Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 1 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 1 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter 1 - June 16, 1897, Rev. Charles Elliott Harwood was the pastor of the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church from 1894 to March 22, 1897 when he died suddenly. Dear Bro. Whittier, from SB Moore? About a manuscript. Includes text from Rv. Charles E. Harwood. Note on reverse says Mr. Harwood's article, ms important. | ||
| Harwood - Reverend Charles Elliott Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Harwood - Reverend Charles Elliott Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Rev. Charles Elliott Harwood was the pastor of the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church from 1894 to March 22, 1897 when he died suddenly. This is a collection of letters from 1896-1897 mostly between Mr. Andrew C. Wheelwright and Myron W. Harwood, the administrator of Charles Harwood’s estate. There are also letters from William Preble, Carrie Richardson, and Enoch B. Stanley to Mr. Wheelwright. Many letters still to be added 8/6/18. | ||
| Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 1A Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Correspondence Reverend Charles Elliott Harwood - Letter 1A Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter 1A - Rev. Charles Elliott Harwood was the pastor of the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church from 1894 to March 22, 1897 when he died suddenly. Letter 1A: Statement for Mission work on the Cranberry Islands. Toward the $700 needed to purchase and repair the church property on Cranberry Islan Island (some $500 of which has already been given or pledged) we contribute the amounts opposite our names to be transmitted for this purpose to Rev. Mr. Harwood, the resident mission by:xxx Bishof $5.00; Merril E Gatel? $5.00; Lucius G. Pruitt $5; A.V.A. Nimter? $5.00; and a couple of others paid to Mr. Harwood Sept. 1, 1896. [show more] | ||
| Model Schooner Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Model Schooner Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Two-mast schooner model by George Savage. Red, white, orange, black with blue deck, four sails, no name or number on stern or sides. He lived on the island from the 1930s onward. He was a constable. | |
| 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. | ||
| William Kienbusch Retrospective Exhibition Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  William Kienbusch Retrospective Exhibition Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: William Kienbusch, a Retrospective Exhibition 1946-1979, published by Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland Maine, 1996, William Kienbusch first painted in Maine in 1934, eventually taking up residence on Great Cranberry Isle in 1962. Born in New York City, and a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Princeton University, he studied at the Art Students League in New York with Raphael Soyer and John. Kienbusch lived across from the tennis courts on GCI. He is Carl Little's uncle. [show more] | |
| GCIHS book publications as of 2016 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  GCIHS book publications as of 2016 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Booklets published by GCIHS. (Collection ongoing) GCIHS BOOK PUBLICATIONS LIST as of March 2016 with printed copies of book covers. Not all books are present in collection yet. Digital copies on GCIHS NAS in Archives GCIHS publications. A Cabin in the Woods - A Story of Sammy Sanford and Rachel Field, by Wini Smart (2011). A Taste of Cranberry, by Susan Donald Michalski 2002. Now recorded at 2023.635.3125 An Artist's Sketchbook, 1998, Great Cranberry Island, Maine, by Susan Donald Michalski 2001. An Interview with Ralph Stanley, Wooden Boat Builder and National Heritage Foundation "National Treasure", by Jeff Weisbruch, 1994. Published by GCIHS 1999. Artists of the Cranberry Isles, Past & Present, by Wini Smart (2005). Now recorded at 2023.636.3126 Baker Island - The Early Years, by Wini Smart (2012). Boatdog Bess - My Story, by Kay Gibson (Year?) Cookbook 2004. Cranberry Road Great Cranberry Island 1919-1950 by Wini Smart & Bruce Komusin 2002-2003 Cranberry Quilts by Charlotte Harlan 2006 Enterprising Islanders - Great Cranberry Island 1760-2008, by Wini Smart (2008). Now recorded at 2023.638.3128 Hitty Preble of the Cranberry Isles, Maine by Wini Smart & Bruce Komusin (2004). Now recorded at 2023.637.3127 House Histories Of Great Cranberry Island by Wini Smart 2010 If It Were Yesterday…A Historic Coloring Book Of Great Cranberry Island by Wini Smart (2001) Preserving our Past to steer our Future - Cranberry House Prospectus (2004). Now recorded at 2023.639.3129 Riding with Tud - An interview with Lyndon "Tud" Bunker, March 18, 1993, by ? 2001 Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of the Emily F. Northam, by Farnham W. Smith, with permission of Down East Magazine (March 1974). Now recorded at 2023.640.3130 Surf, Stone, & Spruce by Ted Harlan (2003) The Construction of Road I-95 by Doris "Dot" McSorley (1996). Now recorded at 2023.641.3131 Three Heroines of Great Cranberry Island by Wini Smart (2013) Winter: The Other Season A Look at Old Great Cranberry Island by Wini Smart & Bruce Komusin (2004) Booklets from other lists I came across, not found yet on computer 3/17/16: Favorite Island Recipes (published in conjunction with Ladies Aid) The Asa D. Stanley House 31/07/2023 Booklets that didn't have a new record created and recorded in the above text were not found during the 2023 review. [show more] | ||
| The Construction of Road I-95 - Doris 'Dot' McSorley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  The Construction of Road I-95 - Doris 'Dot' McSorley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A description of the process around building the road I-95, written by Dot McSorley. | |
| Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of Emily F. Northam Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of Emily F. Northam Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: The Emily F. Northam was a three masted cargo schooner that was grounded off of the Baker Island reef, the crew and cargo were rescued but the Northam never left the Cranberry Isles. In 1974 the Downeast Magazine published a piece written about the event by Farnham W. Smith, and the Historical Society acquired its use for the island's history. Introduction by Bruce Komusin. | |
| Preserving our Past to Steer our Future Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Preserving our Past to Steer our Future Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A booklet made in the early years of GCIHS explaining the need for a permanent home for the Historical Society: Cranberry House. | ||
| Enterprising Islanders Great Cranberry - Wini Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Enterprising Islanders Great Cranberry - Wini Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A descriptive booklet describing a number of enterprises local islanders began and maintained between 1760 and 2008. Fishing, Ship Building, Boat Yards, Newman and Gray Boatyard, the mailboat, Stores, Restaurants and Boarding Establishments, Farms, Hooked Rugs, Antique Autos, Art. | |
| Hitty Preble of the Cranberry Isles: A Travelling Adventure Doll Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hitty Preble of the Cranberry Isles: A Travelling Adventure Doll Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A booklet written by Wini Smart and Bruce Komusin, regarding background information on Hitty Preble, a doll written about by the acclaimed Rachel Field. | ||
| A Taste of Cranberry - Susan Donald Michalski Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  A Taste of Cranberry - Susan Donald Michalski Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A collection of poetry and wood cuts by Susan Donald Michalski from 2002. | |
| Mail Art Exhibit materials Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Mail Art Exhibit materials Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Art work. Mail Art Exhibit materials from 2014 & 2012 efforts arranged by Jan Moss' daughter, Rebecca Guyver. Individuals made beautiful, complex, but mailable artworks. Collection of multi-media materials sent to Rebecca Guyver in England and America and hung at both venues: GCIHS and at Maritime Mail Art Navyland Farm in Ringshall, Suffolk, UK. Rebecca gave this collection of items that were mailed to her into an exhibit and then gave them to GCIHS 2012. Dozens of hand made artworks mailed to PO Box 84 on GCI. [show more] | |
| Glass souvenir basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Glass souvenir basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Bowl, souvenir, white glass miniature Clam Broth Basket with red letters "SOUVENIR OF Cranberry Isles Maine"; impressed into glass on inside bottom: PAT'D; gold colored handle and rim; with receipt from Pine Bough "Select Antiques, Northeast Harbor" 13 July '04, and note from them "Prob. orig. sold NEH ca. 1920s" | |||
| Oil lamp with metal base and glass globe Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Oil lamp with metal base and glass globe Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Oil lamp with metal base, brass stand and pressed glass globe with fanlike motif in poor condition. Globe was cracked and repaired in several places. | |||
| Doll furniture with braided rug Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Doll furniture with braided rug Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Doll furniture. Five pieces of furniture for doll house (see 2014.286.2037). Grey and black braided rug (E), blue Pennsylvania Dutch motif cupboard (B). Chest with three drawers (C). Rocking Chair (A). Wicker couch (D). Donor says they were acquired randomly. | |||
| Wooden needles for mending nets Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wooden needles for mending nets Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fishing gear. Collection of twelve wooden tools: (A) Eight wooden needles for mending nets, making and repairing bait bag netting: snowshoe-shaped implements with U-shaped end, closed tangs, and pointed ends. (B) Net needle: wood with large rectangular eye hole. (C) Wood rectangle with hole in the middle and a loop of rope through two other holes: lobster fishing assemby that keeps the line from getting tangled. (D and E) Two wood implements that come to a smooth point. [show more] | |||
| Model four-mast schooner in glass bottle Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Model four-mast schooner in glass bottle Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Model, 4-masted wooden schooner in a molded glass bottle with cork; it looks old but commercial, not a handicraft object | |||
| Wooden and tin kitchenware Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wooden and tin kitchenware Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Kitchenware. Collection of five kitchen wares: (A) Wooden pounder for pounding foodstuff or packing pickles, etc. (B) Large wooden bowl (crack in center). (C and D): Two grooved wooden paddles for making butter balls. (E) One curved, perforated, tin skimmer for removing cream from milk. | |||
| White earthenware bowl Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  White earthenware bowl Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Bowl. White earthenware with red and pink rose clusters (underglaze decals) on interior; exterior has plain embossed scroll work and no rose decals. No maker's marks or ID. | |||
| Earthenware bowl with over-glaze daffodil decals Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Earthenware bowl with over-glaze daffodil decals Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Bowl. Beige earthenware with over-glaze daffodil decals on interior and exterior. Maker's ID on bottom shows a circle with Dale Hall Pottery England readable, with probably a big D and H combination logo in center of circle. Dale Hall seems to have been a late 19th century(ca. 1890) pottery works. | ||
| Glass globe light fixture Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Glass globe light fixture Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Light fixture. Glass globe from donor's kitchen ceiling light with connections and cap. White glass with two blue lines and pale blue band between them; brass base is painted beige. | |||
| Silver spoon from Preble House Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Silver spoon from Preble House Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Spoon, silver plated, makers mark: (star) ROGERS & BRO. A1, with daffodil motif on bowl and handle and engraved italic M on handle, from Preble house | |||
| Silver spoon from Preble house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Silver spoon from Preble house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Spoon, silver plated, makers mark: 1847 ROGERS BROS. A1, with floral motif on handle, from Preble house | |||
| Silver tea set Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Silver tea set Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Tea set, silver plated: "Stevens - Smart Quadruple Plate" tea set, 5 pieces: lidded teapot #415, cream pitcher, double handled sugar bowl, "waste " (used tea leaves) bowl w/lid. Wheat/leaves design cut in, not embossed | |||
| Ceramic bowl made by Lillian Samenfeld Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ceramic bowl made by Lillian Samenfeld Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Bowl. Red earthenware with beige glaze; green and orange dripped pattern. Made and donated by GCI potter, Lillian Samenfeld Island Pottery which operated in the studio barn next to what is now the Bradley house. Samenfeld was a member of the faculty of the Brooklyn Museum Art School. | |||
| Cup Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cup Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Cup. Silver with "JOHN Feb 18 1934" engraved. Bottom is stamped with "Sterling 335". | |||
| Beano game cage with balls Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Beano game cage with balls Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Game. Metal “Beano” cage. Round wire-mesh ball containing many lightweight wooden balls (.5" diam) each stamped with a letter (B,I,N,G,O) and a number (from 1 to at least 70), on a wire stand with wire crank that spins the balls, a latch for an opening where balls can be taken in and out, and a little metal cup stamped "LOWE" where a single ball would tumble into. This game was played at the firehouse 1950s and beyond. | |||
| China doll Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  China doll Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Doll: common hair china doll, 22" tall with underclothes, pink skirt and shirt, leather arms andn cloth body. Ceramic head is cracked and mended, leather hands frayed, underclothes probably original; donor believed the pink floral, ruffled skirt and top were original and the doll was at least 100 years old. This doll is from the Towns house, a.k.a. Crosby farm, Bayview Farm, or Red House. | |||
| Wooden bowl Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wooden bowl Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Bowl. Wood, wide and shallow, perhaps for making butter, but many short cut marks evident mid-way along sides but not in center of bowl.Turned lathe rings visible on inside and outside of bowl. Deep crack across middle. | |||
| Collection of 29 books of a wide variety Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Collection of 29 books of a wide variety Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Books. Collection of 29 books of a wide variety, many donated by Bruce Komusin over the years. (Any other known donors noted in book.) 1. Grandma Moses Story Book, by Kramer 1961 (MISSING as of 27/07/2023) 2. Ballads of the Cranberry Isles, 2003, Edited by Hugh L. Dwelley, Islesford Historical Society Occasional Paper No. 11, June 2003 3. A Long, Long Way - An Artist's Life, by Wini Smart, 2008, Custom Museum Publishing, Rockland, ME 2008 4. Mountain Playmates by Helen R. Albee, Copyright 1900 by Helen R. Albee. 5. Minstrelsy of Maine, Folk Songs and Ballads of the Woods and Coast,1927, Collected by Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and Mary Winslow Smyth 6. Upton Arithmetic Grade 4, By Clifford B. Upton, 1951 7. Maine School Report – 1901. Report of the State Superintendent of Public Schools of the State of Maine for the school year ending June 30, 1900, Augusta, Kennebec Journal Print 1901 8. Sixth Annual Report on Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths in the State of Maine, 1897. Augusta, Kennebec Journal Print, 1899. 9. The Normal Third Reader, 1878, By Albert N. Raub, A.M. Ph.D., Philadelphia: Porter & Coates 1878. 10. The Island of Mount Desert Register, 1909-1910, compiled by Lawton, Jordan, and Maddox 11. Steamboat Lore of the Penobscot River, John M. Richardson, 1941 12. Steamboat Lore of the Penobscot River, John M. Richardson, 1941 13. Penobscot Bay Mount Desert and Eastport Steamboat Album by Alllie Ryan 1972 14. Temperance Fourth Reader, by Julia McNair Wright, 1895 15. The Sword of Honor - A Story of the Civil War by Lieut. H.A. Johnson, Third Maine Regiment, N.V.M., Hallowell Maine 1906. Hannibal A. Johnson, 2d Lieut 16. A Tourist in Ludlow and Other Poems by Charles E. Wadsworth by the Tidal Press (GCI) 1984 - artwork and verse 17. The Prince of Peace by Wadsworth 18. Sprague's Journal of Maine History Vol. XI 1923 No. 3 published by John Francis Sprague Dover Foxcroft Maine 19. The Cranberrry Island Series by Donald Wellman 20. Cemeteries of Cranberry Isles and the Towns of Mount Desert, by Thomas F. Vining, 2000 (1 of 2) 21. Cemeteries of Cranberry Isles and the Towns of Mount Desert, by Thomas F. Vining, 2000 22. A Graveyard Preservation Primer by Lynette Strangstad, Alta Mira Press, 1995 23-29. Books. Six Little Bunkers children's book series. By Laura Lee Hope. (7 books, 7 titles: Six Little Bunkers at Grandpa Ford’s, Six Little Bunkers at Cousin Tom’s, Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell’s, Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack’s, Six Little Bunkers at Miller Ned’s, Six Little Bunkers at Uncle Fred’s, and Six Little Bunkers at Indian John’s). [show more] | |||
| Polly Bunker Day memorabilia Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Polly Bunker Day memorabilia Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Memorabilia. Polly Bunker Day August 14, 2016, celebration at GCIHS. Photos, invitation, program, hat. Co-Chairs Wini Smart and Leslie Watson, with support from the Cranberry Club. Among myriad other contributions to the island, Polly (Pauline) ran the Whale's Rib gift shop for 46 years, and she worked at the Asticou Inn on MDI, too. Large 8x10 color photos and small snapshots of photos of Polly and Tud Bunker from bygone times donated by Wini and Leslie: Polly with friends and family including Ada, Charlene Allen, Leslie Watson, Tom Watson, John Delaney, Susan White, Anne Watson, Morrie Newell, Johnna Newell, Ruth Westpha, Marilynne Fredrickson, Karin Whitney, Marianne Avery, Carl Nelson, and a special one of Polly with her sisters, Charlene, Leona, and Ada taken about 2000. A DVD of photos from Wini Smart was played at the celebration. (There are also scanned family photos that were displayed at the party.) [show more] | ||
| Ship's log child's notebook Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ship's log child's notebook Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Ship's log, used as child's notebook by Emery Richardson, poor condition (found in Bob LaHotan's barn when he cleaned it 2001). A child used it for practicing letters and drawing sailboats. | |||
| Cap and tee shirt, Rooster Club Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cap and tee shirt, Rooster Club Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Clothing. Blue and gold Rooster Club ball cap and green Rooster Club tee shirt. The Rooster Club was the men's answer to the elite women's Cranberry Club. Members included Arvard Savage, Doc Haydock, Charlie Rice, and Victor [White]?. Club house was behind Haydock's house. | |||
| Tobacco pipe Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Tobacco pipe Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Pipe, tobacco smoking pipe with wooden bowl | |||
| Hats and tobacco brick from Lewis Stanley house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hats and tobacco brick from Lewis Stanley house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Hats and tobacco brick. (A) One flat-topped, black, wool cap with braiding above the visor in poor condition -sometimes called a Greek fisherman's cap. Brand name inside is worn off but begins with G. Style may be 100 years old. Perhaps Lewis Stanley's captain's hat (brother of Carrie Richardson). (B) One oilskin, tan, rain hat in poor condition, size 7 and 1/4. (C) One long, flat tobacco brick (10.5" x 2.5" x .5"). "The rectangular block is tobacco, probably to scrape off into the bowl of a pipe." - Bruce Komusin's note Fall 2008. Donor stated items were "found in Carrie Richardson's house under the stairwell during renovation." (The Stanley-Richardson house is now the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation house.) Also,"the photo of Carrie?? [Richardson] and man with telephone standing by canon was given at same time. [Photo not present during 2013 review.] [show more] | |||
| Collection of four books from the Mountain house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Collection of four books from the Mountain house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Books, collection of four. (A) List of Merchant Vessels of the United States 1893 with illustrations and excellent information. (B) List of Merchant Vessels of the United States 1887. (C) The Island of Mount Desert Register - no date visible, but probably 1910. Book includes a chapter of history of Cranberry Isles, page 97. Many newspaper clippings from 1930s to 1960s glued to inside front book jacket and initial pages including obituaries, Cranberry Isles and Mount Desert news, shipwrecks and life savers, the firebug article etc. One black and white photo of the Mountain house before the fire. Obituary clippings include: Clara S. Alley Feb. 26, 1965; Gilbert Hadlock; Wilbert Rice; Mrs. Herbert Bell; Almenia Lurvey; Thomas M. Stanley; Charles Hulbert; Capt. William Bulger dies eleven days after his brother 1927; Mary Ann Carroll; Sim H. Mayo; Oscar Jarvis; Fred Phippen; Capt. Thomas Newman; Mrs. John Carroll; Otis Sawtelle; and Harvey Stanley; Also a handwritten list of the John Stanley, Jr. and wife Margaret family starting 1789 through 1842. Receipt from Strawbridge & Clothier for Mrs. Mabel Stanley no year. Info on Ellen Maria Spurling b. 1842 died 1929 and children. Note about Sam Chapman b. 1868 and Cora Chapman b. 1863. (Color photocopies made of articles and stored with book (C).) (D) "At Mount Desert: A Summer's Sowing" by Mildred Fairfax, copyright Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society, 1893. “At Mount Desert,” by Mildred Fairfax, is in many respects a peculiarly attractive book. A defect of many stories is that they almost leave out the scenery, but it is not so in this instance. The tale itself is deeply interesting, with its young man gone astray, its good-angel sister, and its fortune lost and plotted for, but the writer is evidently in love with all the scenic effects of sea and sky and land along the rugged Maine coast, and at Mount Desert. There would be almost too much word-painting if it were not for the admirable half-tone photographic views which serve as illustrations. They become part of the narrative, and give it a realism not otherwise attainable.” (See www.ebay.com/itm/1893-At-Mount-Desert-Island-by-Mildred-Fairfax-A-Summers-Sowing-8-Plates-/322180352978). [show more] | |||
| Interview with Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley by Georgie Ware Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Interview with Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley by Georgie Ware Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Audio cassette tape of interview with Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley by Georgie Ware, Sep 1984 (might be continuation of item 459) | ||
| Transcript for Interview #3 of Ruth Sylvester Stanley 1993 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Transcript for Interview #3 of Ruth Sylvester Stanley 1993 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Manuscript, transcript of audio interview #3 with Ruth Sylvester Stanley by Jeff Weisbruch, paid for by GCIHS, 19 Feb 1993 (Ruth was first wife of Lindon "Tud" Bunker) | |
| Interview #2 of Ruth Sylvester Stanley 1993 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Interview #2 of Ruth Sylvester Stanley 1993 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Manuscript, transcript of audio interview #2 with Ruth Sylvester Stanley by Jeff Weisbruch, paid for by GCIHS, 17 Feb 1993 (Ruth was first wife of Lindon "Tud" Bunker) | |
| Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley Interview Aug. 1984 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley Interview Aug. 1984 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Minidisc, audio, interview with Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley by Georgie Ware, 13 Aug 1984, "Houses of Great Cranberry" | ||
| Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley Interview Oct. 1984 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley Interview Oct. 1984 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Minidisc, audio, interview of Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley by Georgie Ware, 14 Oct 1984 | |
| Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley Interview Sep. 1984 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley Interview Sep. 1984 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Minidisc, audio, interview of Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley by Georgie Ware, Sep 1984 | ||
| Interview with Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Interview with Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Audio cassette tape of interview with Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley by Georgie Ware, 13 Aug 1984, "Houses of Great Cranberry" | ||
| Interview of Ruth Sylvester Stanley 1993 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Interview of Ruth Sylvester Stanley 1993 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Manuscript, transcript of audio interview #1 with Ruth Sylvester Stanley by Jeff Weisbruch, paid for by GCIHS, before Nov 1993 (Ruth was first wife of Lindon "Tud" Bunker) | ||
| Interview with Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Interview with Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Audio cassette tape of interview with Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley by Georgie Ware, 14 Oct 1984 | ||
| History of Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| History of Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, "History of Ruth Sylvester Bunker Stanley" by Wini Smart, July 2000 | |
| Indigenous American barrel-shaped Sweetgrass Basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Indigenous American barrel-shaped Sweetgrass Basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Basket and lid, very small barrel shaped, flat bottom, made of braided sweetgrass or twine, and perhaps ash strips, with a blue card inside, probably from Smart Studio, reading "Antique Penobscot Indian Sweetgrass Basket, late 1800s, $55". This may be one of several Indigenous American basketry items collected by Mary E. Shaw (Mrs. Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs. Shaw visit 9/25/14). [show more] | ||
| Indigenous American Crafted Sweetgrass Braids Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Indigenous American Crafted Sweetgrass Braids Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Basketry, Collection of 2 Indigenous American Indian crafted sweetgrass braids, one (25" L x 0.5" W) decorated with colorful yarn, likely bought at the Abbe Museum by Wini Smart a few years after 2000, the other (39" L x 0.5" W) tied with yellow yarn; both intended to waft a sweet smell into a room | |||
| Wilfred Bunker and Clarence Beal aboard the Silas McClune Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wilfred Bunker and Clarence Beal aboard the Silas McClune Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo, b&w snapshot, Wilfred Bunker (looking up) and Clarence Beal on board their lobster smack, Silas McClune. Per Ralph Stanley August 2016: The Silas McClune was built for the A. C. McClune Co. in Rockland. They were lobster dealers. Beal & Bunker bought the boat in the 1950s. They had the wet wells plugged and used it as a freight boat. They caught hake fish at GCI and took it to Vinalhaven for sale. Buster Rice was the captain. Beal & Bunker sold the boat to Arnold Allen who had a seining outfit. Ralph believes the boat went ashore and might be beneath the sewer plant in Southwest Harbor. (See also 2018.416.2824C.) [show more] | |||
| Land Agreement between Wilfred Bunker, Frances Marr, Louise Marr, Mary Chamberlin, Doris McSorley , and Wilson Chamberlin, Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Land Agreement between Wilfred Bunker, Frances Marr, Louise Marr, Mary Chamberlin, Doris McSorley , and Wilson Chamberlin, Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A land agreement where Wilfred Bunker sells his land to Louise and Frances Marr, as wells as Mary Chamberlin, Wilson Chamberlin, and Doric McSorley. This piece of land was owned by Wilfred Bunker, and is located near the Heath, and the Marr family was wanting to develop on this land, but needed the permission of Wilfred Bunker. | |
| Collection of over 110 digital video recordings of interviews, oral histories, and events Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Collection of over 110 digital video recordings of interviews, oral histories, and events Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Video recordings. Collection of over 110 digital video recordings of interviews, oral histories, and events recorded by Bruce Komusin, Phil Whitney, and Wini Smart from 2001-2013. [Note: 74 of these videos converted to MPEG-4/H.264 files by Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport, ME May 2016.] Subjects include interviews of donors, residents, and GCI events including: Richardson, Dunbar, Stanley, Bracy, Horvath, Moss, King, Goldberg, Wadsworth, Rice, Wedge, Bloom Phippen, Peterson, Seimer, Marr, Beaulieu, Bunker, Noether, Hartley, Grandgent, Mountain, Allen, Westphal, Cumming, Sayre, Spurling interviews. Events include: Tom Powell ordination, Jane Goldberg Tap Dancing, Baker Island dancing, memorial services, Poetry and Music, GCI scenes, quilt seminar, fiddle playing, boats, Hitty, Rachel Field, Lawler's ice lecture, Crow & Sound, moving Cranberry House, and trailmaking. Most of the original recordings are on mini digital video cassettes (mini DV), with some mini-discs, and four mini-VHS tapes. Several of these recordings have been made into DVDs for sale at the museum store. [show more] | |
| Wilfred Bunker Interview Transcript 5th Dec, 2011 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wilfred Bunker Interview Transcript 5th Dec, 2011 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: This is a transcript of an interview Phil Whitney and Bruce Komusin conducted with Wilfred Bunker, the cofounder of Beal and Bunker, on the 5th December, 2011. |
| Wilfred Bunker memorial service memorabilia Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Wilfred Bunker memorial service memorabilia Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Note from Gary Farley 9/4/13 re: Wilfred Bunker memorial service re: copy of the video slide show played for his grandfather (Wilfred Bunker) memorial service. Farley's business card attached. Associate this item with 6 hr. video interview of Wilfred Bunker (his grandfather) that still needs to be worked on. | ||
| Letter and drawings Eskimo life Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Letter and drawings Eskimo life Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter and 2 photos of drawings depicting Eskimo Culture: hunting, fishing, from German source. [Research TBD] Likely connected with Samuel Hadlock and his traveling exhibition of Eskimo Indians, Rachel Field's God's Pocket, and subsequent research in Beyond God's Pocket | |||
| Copy of Eskimo drawing with lock of hair in green frame, Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Copy of Eskimo drawing with lock of hair in green frame, Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Printed photo copy of Eskimo drawing with lock of hair in green frame, 8"x10"; connected with Rachel Field's book "God's Pocket" and Samuel Hadlock, Jr. voyages with his traveling exhibition of Eskimo Indians in the 1820s. See also Beyond God's Pocket. [Research on drawing TBD.] | |||
| Portrait of Samuel Hadlock, Jr. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Portrait of Samuel Hadlock, Jr. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photograph. Retouched photo of portrait of Captain Samuel Hadlock, Jr. by Heinrich Gottfried Krug, in pen and ink and pastel at Hamburg, Germany, in the year 1824, owned by Constance Aygun of Stamford CT. Hadlock was the original owner of the Preble House on GCI, with long storied history of expeditions in the north and exhibitions throughout Europe. He died when the Minerva became frozen in the ice ca. 1830. Per Wini Smart 2015 Bruce Komusin book: "Samuel Hadlock portrait - Bruce was contacted from the internet by a distant relative of Capt. Hadlock who lived in Connecticut. She had an oil portrait of the captain that had been painted while he was in Germany. Until this time we only had a silhouette illustrated in Rachel Field's book, God's Pocket. I visited her in Connecticut and photographed the small portrait. It was difficult to capture since it was under curved glass. Bruce Komusin painstakingly removed the reflections in the photo to make the image clear." (See 2002 photos/C. Aygun for photos of original portrait taken on site.) (Originally catalogued as 1000.0.1327 with little info.) [show more] | |
| Books from Phippen house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Books from Phippen house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Books and two inserts. (A) Three Little Pigs, Illustrated by Carl Emil Wehde, Copyright MCMXXXVII, McLoughlin Bros., Inc, Springfield, Mass. With inscription "Dickie from Junior Bracy" in Marjorie Phippen's handwriting. (B) New American Business Cyclopedia- A Compendium of useful information and a Guide to Successful Business Methods together with advice...." by E. T. Roe, LL.B., Gordon G. Sapp publisher, Chicago 1925, with two small cardboard certificates inside: (C) Junior Achievement Certificate, Bookkeeping issued by Marion R. Waterman, Instructor, on 12/3/45, to Sheila Louise Phippen by the business Education World, New York. And (D) Senior Achievement Certificate, Bookkeeping, issued to Louise Phippen by Marion R. Waterman, Instructor, 1/2/46, The Business Education World, New York. (Crosby Mills, second husband, had a business – maybe Louise Phippen was bookkeeper? Her first husband was a service man.) [show more] | ||
| Portrait of person in green jacket (perhaps Charles Gott) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Portrait of person in green jacket (perhaps Charles Gott) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Portrait. Large framed oval portrait of a man (or woman) in green jacket. Could be Charles Gott, possibly Lulu (Steele) Alley's husband at one time. Oval wood and bubble glass, perhaps a 'tiger wood' frame. On reverse in pencil script: "5713 Mr. Chas. Gott, Bar Harbor, ME". Gaile Colby recalled some information about Mr. Steele's old place. " A camp across from Polly Bunker's burned down after a lot of use. Louis Bracy was born in that house. It was an outhouse from the school originally and Sadie brought it down and added it to the 'camp'. Arthur built the replacement to the shack late 1960s 1970s. Arthur lived in the old shack, too. Sadie gave it to Madeleine, and Madeleine and Frank lived in it. Everyone lived in it. Liza and Pink's daughter, Elma, lived in it. Jeanne was her sister. Jeanne Start is who Lou Millar bought her house from. This portrait is one of several items from donors in summer 2016 prior to selling their house on The Lane, GCI. Many items pertain to 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 four Sampson children were added to the deed in 1995. Dan and Maia bought the house from Maia’s siblings in 2002 and sold it in 2016. 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] | |||
| Longfellow School house GCI Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Longfellow School house GCI Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo, print of front view of Longfellow School house, in blue frame, 8x10", blk & wht, from scan. (See 2004>photos>bk, possibly made from a postcard: "School House at Cranberry Isles, Me" in script.) | |||
| Drawing of lobster pot by C. Gilley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Drawing of lobster pot by C. Gilley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Art, pen and ink drawing titled "LOBSTER TRAP ON BOTTOM" by C. Gilley, showing an old fashioned round top wooden lobster trap on the sea bed, with a rope going up to an intermediate float (a glass bottle), the rope continuing further up to a bullet shaped float on the surface; also a lobster boat approching it on the surface | |||
| Remnants of 1886 newspaper discovered in parsonage house floor boards Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Remnants of 1886 newspaper discovered in parsonage house floor boards Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper article, 1886 Boston Globe. "February 8, 2006, These remnants of the Boston Globe newspaper of 1886 were found sandwiched between floor boards in the kitchen, confirmng that the kitchen had been an addition to the Great Cranberry Island Parish House (aka Parsonage) approximately 122 years ago." Two tattered articles: "The City's Chief Ruler" and "To Reduce the Fare" were mounted and framed in 2006. (See also Parsonage House shoes research and Cape houses research GCIHS 2015.304.2062.) [show more] | ||||
| Longfellow School GCI ca. 1940 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Longfellow School GCI ca. 1940 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo, (A) print of side view of Longfellow School house showing the bell tower ca. 1940, in green frame, 8x10", color; this is a framed print of a scan of Dot Towns' slide #53. And 2013.234.1316 (B) is a framed print of same view of Longfellow School house without bell tower (print of a scan of slide #100 in this same Dot Towns set.) (From 2009\historical soc\slide show\towns slides) | ||
| Preble cemetery drawing Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Preble cemetery drawing Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Drawing of headstones with inscriptions in Preble Cemetery ca. 1985. (Partial scan shown here.) | ||
| Carl Nelson Self-Portrait 1947 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Carl Nelson Self-Portrait 1947 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Self portrait of Carl Nelson as he looked when he first came to Great Cranberry Isle, Maine, in 1947. Unframed. Partial scan made 9/20/18 | |
| Carl Nelson self portrait 1928 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Carl Nelson self portrait 1928 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Self portrait of Carl Nelson, Hotel de Seine, Rue de Seine, Paris, France, 1928. Contour (direct) drawing after having been the student of Kimon Nicolaides at the Arts Student Leage, New York, New York. Matte/Unframed. Partial scan made 9/20/18 | |
| Templar's Lodge Charter for Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Templar's Lodge Charter for Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Charter document: Grand Lodge of North America (State of Maine) Independent Order of Good Templars, organized May 16, 1855, grant unto G. H. Pressey, C. H. Bulger, L. H. Bracy, A. M. Spurling, G. H. Spurling, Wm. P. Preble, H. A. Preble, L. G. Stanley, C. G. Kimball, A. Bunker, J. M. Bunker, S. A. Bunker and their associates this Charter for a Lodge to be known as Ocean Echo Lodge No. 157 located at Cranberry Isles… signed July 4, 1866. Wikipedia: "The IOGT originated as one of a number of fraternal organizations for temperance or total abstinence founded in the 19th century and with a structure modeled on Freemasonry, using similar ritual and regalia. Unlike many, however, it admitted men and women equally, and also made no distinction by race." According to a local 1888 newspaper article they met Tuesday evenings each week at Norwood's Cove School House. [show more] | ||
| Scrapbook of Lulu Steel Alley 1940-1950s Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Scrapbook of Lulu Steel Alley 1940-1950s Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Scrapbook with cards, newspaper articles, pictures, announcements, a collection of blank checks, calendar photos, and holiday prints by the Wadsworth family can be found pasted in this wallpaper print book. Scrapbook ranges from the 1940's to the late 1950's album was put together by Lulu Steel Alley, Louis Alley's wife and resident of what is now the Horvath house. From the Horvath house | |||
| Captain's clothing belonging to Elwood Spurling, and Philmore Spurling's corncob pipe Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Captain's clothing belonging to Elwood Spurling, and Philmore Spurling's corncob pipe Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Clothing: Blue sea captain's jacket with insignia on right sleeve and eight brass buttons with anchors; Blue vest; Blue tie; White cap (hat) with blue visor (size 7); Blue jeans; Black rubber lobsterman's boots; Corn cob pipe. All but the pipe belonged to Elwood Spurling, Phil Whitney's maternal grandfather. The pipe belonged to Philmore Whitney. | |||
| Janet Roberts ceramics Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Janet Roberts ceramics Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Pottery, Collection of 3 clay pieces made on GCI by Janet Roberts, showing how local indigenous groups, might have made a cooking pot; a) proto-bottom showing the coiling of clay rope to form a surface, 2.5" diam; b) continuing spiraling the clay rope upwards to make a wall, and a part cut away to better show the construction, 3.5" diam x 2" H; c) smoothed, decorated, and fired final pot with incised chevrons near the mouth, raked on the body, also net-like impresses on the body, and a rounded bottom, 5.5" L, 4.25" diam, 0.5" thick [show more] | |||
| Records of the Fire Club(Cranberry Isles Volunteer Fire Department) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Records of the Fire Club(Cranberry Isles Volunteer Fire Department) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Documents. Records of the Fire Club later called the Cranberry Isles Volunteer Fire Department 1948-1972. Six Secretary's Record ledger books from various years with minutes and lists of members, events, GCI fires, and funds. Ledger 1: 1951, 52, 53, 54, 55,; Ledger 2: 1967-1972; Ledger 3: 1958-1963; Ledger 4: 1951, 52, 53; Ledger 5: remains of a damaged Secretary's Record ledger book: 1962-1967; Ledger 6: 1955-1958. Folder 7: Twenty looseleaf pages of handwritten minutes and member info for 1948 when the Fire Club (CIVFD) was formed (removed from deteriorated black binder). Folder 8: One small black and white photograph of a fire truck ca. 195X, red fire call pocket list, $100 donation from Maynard H. Murch Co, Chicago, 1954; Fire Prevention loss form listing George A. Savage one-room shop with all tools, estimated loss of $10,000 on April 8th, 1:50 pm, no year, completed by Wilfred Bunker; paper sign once posted in fire hall listing rules for use of the hall; and small Hancock County Fire Association by-laws booklet. Collection stored in two boxes 48 and 49. [show more] | ||
| Boat compass in wooden Binnacle box Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Boat compass in wooden Binnacle box Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Used by Wilfred S. Trussell and Harvey Everett Bulger. Tool, boat compass in wooden binnacle box with window (brass, wood, paper, iron and glass). Compass card diameter 3.5", gimbal ring 5", interior box: 6.25" x 6.25"; exterior box: 7" x 11" x 8.5" H. North arrow has fleur d' lis motif. Compass was used by Wilfred S. Trussell (1869-1911) and/or Harvey (Harry) Everett Bulger (b.1883-d.<1911), who were husbands of Sadie Anna Harding (b.1879- d. after 1911) who once lived in the Cox now Dalton house (2016) on GCI. Sadie Harding married Trussell 1898 and Bulger 1919. No visible manufacturer or maker marks. Ralph Stanley examined this compass 2016 and believes it's a liquid (alcohol) compass after locating the corroded nut covering the fill-hole in the rim of the compass bowl. He also noted the quadrant markings on the sides of the compass. Per Stanley, Trussell had a sloop and this type of compass was used in boats of that size. It may indeed have been the compass that guided Trussell home during one particular storm (see Stanley's forthcoming book 2017). Stanley thinks it's a liquid compass about 100 years old and could have been purchased at any local marine goods store, but the box was specially made perhaps by Leslie Rice. Michael Macfarlan believes this could be a Ritchie compass and the hole in the wooden case with the shield above it would have been for a battery-powered light (not a candle). One or two large batteries would have been housed in the box's rear compartment. (Box hardware is too corroded to remove and investigate.) Stanley believes a wire to the light would have been wired to the engine. By email 2016, Ben Fuller at Penobscott Marine Museum suggests this compass would be suitable for small schooner or sloop large enough to be sailed at night, suggesting the Smithsonian's NMAH website: amhistory.si.edu/navigation/type.cfm?typeid=3 for further investigation. NMAH Website states: "Simple marine compasses have a magnetized needle attached to the bottom of a paper card, and are inherently unstable. Since the 1850s, scientists and instrument makers have struggled to solve this problem. One solution, pioneered by E. S. Ritchie in the United States, was to float the magnetic needle in a bowl of liquid...." (For genealogy see 2016.337.2103 Index p. 3 and p. 15, records p. 400 and 400A) (See also 2015.350.2115 for possible photo of Wilfred Trussel.) [show more] | ||
| Lamp, old schooner or boat running light Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Lamp, old schooner or boat running light Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Lamp, old schooner or boat running light found in archives 2016. Wood, thickly layer of green paint with layer of red underneath, clear semi-circular glass lens, two wires running from inside lamp to exterior. Would likely have sat starboard (right) side as the light is painted green. A red light would sit on the dock (left) side so you can see which direction the boat is going even in the dark. | ||
| Christmas card from the Newells to Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Christmas card from the Newells to Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Christmas card sent by Hal and Sarah Newell to Wini Smart Winter of 2000 | ||
| Islesford Ferry Shirt belonging to Warren Rice Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Islesford Ferry Shirt belonging to Warren Rice Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A shirt warn by Warren Rice. The shirt was a work shirt for Islesford Ferry service. The back of the shirt says "Old Man Of The Sea". | ||
| 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 | |||
| Clara and Carl Wedge family photos Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Clara and Carl Wedge family photos Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photos. A selection of 12 photos from Clara and Carl Wedge family photos were scanned. Several others copied. 1. Carl and Clara Wedge family Row 1: left to right: Angela and Jessica Reed, Tanya Tozier Row 2: Elmer (Junior) Reed, far right is Keith Wedge with sons Keith and Heath. Row 3: Carla Wedge, russell Wedge, Ethel Wedge (she lived to be 103), Sonja, Maude Wedge, Candy Wedge and Kevin Wedge. Row 4: Joey Wedge< Clar Wedge, Bill Nicholson. Row 5: Carl Wedge and Greg Tozier 2. Carl and Clara Wedge 3. David Westphal 1970s, grocery truck Gretchen Westphal used to drive, Firetruck arrives 1967 or 68 4. Landscape photos ca. 2000 5. Charles Rice 6. Photos of the Pool frozen over with mountains in background, shows Ott house, Finkelstein house with Heliker LaHotan bldgs. 1970s 7. Beautiful winter scenes - mountains, sea, ferry coming and going 2000s 8. Sanborn house viewed from above; and "Million Dollar" view. 9. Carl Wedge with daughter Sonja 10. Carl and Clara Wedge 1950s 11. Carl Wedge with dog ca. 2002 [show more] | |||
| "A New Super Highway", Bluenose Ferry, Bar Harbor to Nova Scotia Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "A New Super Highway", Bluenose Ferry, Bar Harbor to Nova Scotia Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper clipping, "A new Superhighway" about new Bluenose ferry terminal and service from Bar Harbor to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia | |||
| Remembrance article about Rachel Field 1942 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Remembrance article about Rachel Field 1942 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Magazine "The Saturday Review" Remberance article about Rachel Field on page 10. | ||
| Stanley Cemetery conservation project research (2014) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Stanley Cemetery conservation project research (2014) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Cemetery. Stanley Cemetery conservation project completed by GCIHS Stanley Cemetery committee October 2014. Began as a family burial ground in 1838 and continues to serve islanders today. Conservation and restoration work of the 101 headstones done by Fred Wieninger of Wieninger Monuments in Milbridge, Maine. Inscriptions, digital photographs, measurements, deeds, spreadsheets, costs, blog, and photos of work and sundry details of each of 101 known graves recorded by Anne Grulich and documented in full at gcihs.org “cemetery projects” and on the GCIHS server: \Archives\atgrulich\StanleyCemetery2013_2016. Documentation in files includes minutes, research, spreadsheet, photos, administrative documents, field notes and deeds for Stanley/Storey property. See various GCIHS Cranberry Chronicle newsletters for cemetery project progress, and an article about the cemetery in Memories of Maine, Downeast Maine Edition, Summer 2015 by Camille Smalley "Restoring the Past - The Stanley Cemetery on Great Cranberry Island." [show more] | ||
| Report on 19th-century concealed shoes and Cape Houses Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Report on 19th-century concealed shoes and Cape Houses Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Houses. Architectural and folk history. This updated 2018 report of investigation summarizes 2013-2017 research into nine Cape-style houses spawned by the 2013 discovery and repatriation of four ca. 1820-1830s shoes concealed in the chimney wall of the parsonage house of the Great Cranberry Congregational Church. The 2014 and 2018 revised report was submitted to the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Acadia NPS, and GCIHS. Revised version is twenty-two pages with photos and bibliography as of January 18, 2018, and includes findings of a 2015 dendrochronology project. This study of the parsonage Cape-style house with its neighboring Cape-style houses and the separate 2013 study of the nearby ca. 1826 Preble house documents a cluster of historic island houses on the verge of becoming unrecognizable through remodeling. Research reveals folk practices, the oeuvre of local 19th-century house builders; Cape-style design innovations; granite and lumber sources; dendrochronology study; and early 19th-century Bulger and Spurling family histories. One of the cape houses was the birthplace of Civil War Medal of Honor General Andrew Barclay Spurling.; the Preble House was his boyhood home. See also concealed shoe research: 2013.252.1979. See 2018 Chebacco Magazine article, Concealed Shoes and Cape Houses: Artifacts as Agents of the Past by Anne Grulich [show more] | ||
| Tintypes and other photographs and an old photo album Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Tintypes and other photographs and an old photo album Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photos. Four folders of assorted old photographs and one old photo album. Folder 1 = Twenty tintypes of various sizes from 1" to 4" - portraits of unidentified people in various settings and poses. Folder 2 = Cabinet cards and mounted prints: a) group photo of a family reunion marked on reverse "Mrs. D. K. Stanley". b) Portrait of man with a beanie or school cap, on reverse: J. G. L'Abbe/H.A. '06". c) Man with spectacles "Floyd Philbrick"; d) Man in dark suit "Mr. Thomas Fennelley/cor. Summit Ave/& Mcauster Rd/N. E. Harbor, Maine" and "Photo Andrew E. Fennelly". e) Same photo as (d) man in dark suit "Andrew Fennelly". f) "Andrew & Eva Fennelly on wedding day/Gardiner Cottage". g) baby picture "Miss Rebecca Alberger Price/age 22 months/Born Mar 25-1899". h)"Frank Richardson". i) "A late birthday present from Effie". j) "George Renaldo (Hamor?)". k) "Clarence? Crosby". And twelve unidentified photos. Folder 3 = Two mounted photographs. The first is an excellent high quality 5x7 print mounted on cardboard of men at work in a large workshop. Lots of lath strips stored in ceiling and on workbench. (Lobster pots)? Faint illegible writing on upper right corner, "319" "J. B." and other words. The second mounted print is 6"x7" print on tan cardboard backing of 35 women and two boys seated on grass and standing along the wall of the house with a woman and child looking out from a window behind the group. Stained glass window in background. . Folder 4 = A collection of small mounted photos marked: Roy Bryant; Ralph Bryant; Rebecca Alberger Price age 16 mos; Philina Stanley/Oscar Wedge's Aunt (there are chickens and fences in the background; eight unidentified photos. One 4" x4" GCI Class of 1936 yearbook with 1" x1" individual photos of school children and teacher Dorothy Spurling Whitney. Children's names: Spurling, Bunker, Alley, Phippen, Worcester, Wedge, Rosebrook, Carlson, and eight unidentified. There are also nine small unmounted photos with one identified as Ralph Stanley. One framed color 8" x 6" photo "Dock on Great Cranberry" by Waterman. Photo Album = Ornate yellow leather photo album with embossed, colored lilies, metal corners, and 1/2 of its metal clasp remaining. Per donor, this was Ethel Wedge's photo album. It's 12 thick pages of photos unidentified except for the last page "Elder J. C. Foss". The name Myra G. Steele is written in one slot, but the photo is missing. [show more] | ||||
| Town of Cranberry Isles Annual Reports 1921-2012 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Town of Cranberry Isles Annual Reports 1921-2012 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Reports. Town of Cranberry Isles Annual Reports 1921-2012. These booklets are prepared for the Annual Town Meeting and include information on town officials, taxes, auditors reports, schools, ordinances and regulations, budgets, and the warrant for the Annual Town Meeting. Missing booklets for these years: 1926-27, 1927-28, 1930-31, 1942-43, and 2011. (Box 1 of 2 contains reports for 1921-1998. Box 2 of 2 contains reports for 2000-2014.) | |||
| Annual Report (1936-1937) Town of Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Annual Report (1936-1937) Town of Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Booklet, "Annual Report (1936-1937) Town of Cranberry Isles, ME (See also collection of Town Reports in 2015.336.2102.) We have record of this report already kept in Box 61a, with all other annual reports. | |||
| Photo album with tintypes, cabinet cards, and portrait photos Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photo album with tintypes, cabinet cards, and portrait photos Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo album, faded purplish velvet with once-golden lettering "Album", four metal feet on reverse, remains of metal hasp on top cover. Per donor, album was purchased at a white elephant sale, perhaps on GCI, in the 1970s, by donor's mother Jeanne Allen Goldberg. Tintypes, cabinet cards, and portrait photos on matte board. Many pages are empty. Some photos are identified, many are not. Identified photos: "Lulu Grandmother". Ida Higgins (Ida was Allen "Bully" Klausky's grandmother who lived in the first house on the right going down Harding Point Rd, a little gingerbread house. She had a gravely voice, Miriam "Lovey" is Allen Klausky's mother. There was a sister, Dorothy - per Gaile Colby 1/4/16). Josie Bunker, Ben Bunkers wife - (Josie Stanley Bunker was Addie Stanley Duren's sister - per Gaile Colby 1/4/16). Ethel Wedge?. A postcard photo of Lulu and Gott(sp?). A notice from the Treasury Department for Lewis Emery Ladd dated November 1, 1919, that his monthly check from the Bureau of War Risk Insurance in payment of Compensation or Insurance will be received by him later in the month than formerly, etc. - (per Gaile Colby 1/4/16, Lew Ladd was Alfred's father; Alfred died in World War I.) A remembrance card for Charlie S. Wedge, died April 6, 1895, aged 6 months. Willie Steele (tintype) (Willie died as a little boy, he was Lulu Steele's brother - per Gaile Colby 1/4/16.) Lena (tintype). Adas Mathers Father (tintype). Pink Bulger and Will Trussel her first husband (both with question marks) cabinet card portrait: [Per Ralph Stanley 6/24/16 photo is of Sadie Anna Harding (daughter of Joseph Richard Harding and Adelma Abba Stanley) with her first husband Wilfred S. Trussell (son of Horatio H. Trussell and Wealthy Hall Spurling) who she married in 1898.) Postcard photo of street scene with automobile and note: "Can you find yourself here?" addressed to Alfred Ladd, Kents Hill, Maine, sincerely W. M. H. postmarked Mar 9, 1908, Eliot Maine, and Mar 10 1908 with 1 cent postage. Walter Stanley brother of Cliff and Harold. Portrait of a young boy - written on reverse: "Cliff Stanley, Norma Bunker's father - Mrs. Frank Stanley, Cranberry Isles, Maine, Light brown hair, dark blue eyes, navy blue suit with light blue trimming, fair complexion." (Scanned photos of Bulger & Trussell, and Ida Higgins. See also 1000.166.1191 for Trussell's compass.) [show more] | |||
| Small painting - Hitty Dances Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Small painting - Hitty Dances Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Artwork. Small painting, Hitty Dances, in starched lace frame signed "Spirit was willing - I. Wolf" lower right corner. Hitty is a character in Rachel Field's book. |