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Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Wooden buoys (lobster floats) and net floats on a rope
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Buoy
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Wooden buoys (lobster floats) and net floats on a rope
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, 4 wooden buoys (lobster floats) and 8 round net floats strung on a rope; all buoys are shaped like clubs with a hole to attach a rope on one end. all net floats are shaped like beads with a hole through the center. one buoy has carved initials WFS and is 12.5" L x 4" W x 1.5" H; one buoy has carved initial X and is 13.5" L x 3" W x 2.75" H; the other two buoys have no marks and are 10.5" L x 3.5" W x 2" H, and 12" L x 4" W x 2.5" H. the eight round net floats are varying sizes round and oval, from 3" L to 5" L [show more]
Large fishing handline with weights on wood frame
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Large fishing handline with weights on wood frame
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, large handline with weights, wrapped around a wooden frame
Buoy (lobster float), white & green
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Buoy
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Buoy (lobster float), white & green
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishng equipment, buoy (lobster float), white & green
Fishing line weight
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Fishing line weight
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, fishing line weight 2.5"
Fishing hand line spool
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Fishing hand line spool
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, fishing hand line spool, 13.5", with 2 rungs
Fishing hand line spool
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Fishing hand line spool
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, fishing hand line spool, 14", with 3 rungs
Wooden and foam lobster buoys on a rope
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Buoy
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Wooden and foam lobster buoys on a rope
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, 3 wooden and 5 foam buoys (lobster floats), strung on a rope; wooden buoys: a) bullet shape with white bottom and orange top, hole on top for handle, hole through bottom body for trap rope, 18.5" L x 4" W x 4" D; b) bullet shape with blotches of white, green, and yellow all over the body and handle, branded with "98?????" carved letters ?VV, on the another side carved letters "?ILLE", on another side carved letters "SOW??I?", with black rubber strip tacked on two opposite sides to make a loop for attaching trap rope, 25" L x 5.5" W x 4.5" D; c) log shape with white bottom and orange top and handle branded with "PL ?UNKER" and "BU???R" with canvas strip tacked on the flat bottom to make aloop for attaching trap rope, but broke so a rubber stip was tacked on top of it for the same purpose, 17" L x 7.5" W x 6.25" D; (and 5 foam floats removed for display outside Shaw cabin 2015) [show more]
Wooden buoys and decoys, some from 1920s
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Buoy
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Wooden buoys and decoys, some from 1920s
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Buoys and decoys. Collection of 10 wooden buoys of various shapes and sizes, and two wooden decoys. 1. Blue and white fish-shaped wooden buoy with Richmond name on it. LHA 7519. 2. White, wooden with EW carved onto small piece of wood affixed to buoy (perhaps Edgar White). Hole for handle but handle is missing. 3. Black, yellow, and red bottom, wood, with Numbers 360 or 9 with rubber strap on end. Log with flat bottom. W. Bracy carved, ca. 1920s 4. Mushroom shape, no handle with EN White 1442 with iron ring. See the other "White" above and below. White fished 1930s to 1960s 5. Red bullet shaped, wooden with wooden handle. Branded on it C. Alley, 967 and 805 and 7193; (The name Richman is written on masking tape affixed to buoy.) 6. Red, yellow, and black, wooden handle and rubber strap, Part of last name or complete last name is 'Auy'. Red black yellow chipped paint, with rubber or leather strap and handle broken off, long crack. Has a number on it. 7872 branded on it. 7. Wood, white, mushroom shape with half black handle. "1442" and "N White", with iron ring on base. Perhaps turned on a lathe. Unusual. See the other "White" buoy. 8-10 Three buoys tied together: Blue and white, fish shaped, with Richardson 900. 11. Decoys. Wood with post on one end (neck) and B.S. carved on body. B.S. could indicate Bert Stanley or Boynton Stanley, perhaps gift of Jim Bradley - flat bottom, twine attached to each end to connect to other decoys. (See also 1000.0.1296 primitive decoys in museum.) [show more]
Bar Harbor Loan & Building Association Envelope
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Object, Writing, Envelope
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • 1930 c.
  • Mount Desert Island
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Envelope with the return address for Bar Harbor Loan & Building Association, c. 1930s
Quarrying Tongs
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Object, Masonry & Stoneworking
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Southwest Harbor
  • No Copyright - United States
Quarrying Tongs
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Description:
Quarry tongs donated to museum.
Wedge, Splitting
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Object, Masonry & Stoneworking, Stone Chisel
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Wedge, Splitting
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Quarry Bit
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Object, Masonry & Stoneworking, Masonry Bit
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Quarry Bit
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Quarry Bit
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Object, Masonry & Stoneworking, Masonry Bit
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Quarry Bit
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Quarrying Hammer.
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Object, Masonry & Stoneworking, Stone Hammer
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Quarrying Hammer.
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Description:
Stone head. Wooden handle.
Broad ax
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Object, Woodworking, Ax, Broadax
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Broad ax
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Continental Illinois National Bank to Mrs. George G. McMurtry Envelope, August 7, 1938
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Object, Writing, Envelope
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago
  • 1938-08-17
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Envelope sent to Mrs. George G. McMurtry from the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago. There is a handwritten note on the back regarding rent receipts.
C.E. Marcyes & Co. Envelope
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Object, Writing, Envelope
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Businesses, Real Estate Business
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
C.E. Marcyes & Co. Envelope
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Description:
Envelope with the return address for C.E. Marcyes & Co. with a note regarding Mr. Jerome Goodwin and Bernard Cough, c. 1930s. People Mentioned: Jerome Goodwin, Bernard Cough, C. E. Marcyes
Woodlawn House Business Card, undated
Islesford Historical Society
  • Object, Identification Card, Business Card
  • Businesses, Lodging Business
  • Dwelley, James R.
  • Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Woodlawn House Business Card, undated
Islesford Historical Society
Description:
The Woodlawn Inn was built by George Henry Fernald for George and Edna Gilley, circa 1893. After Edna's death it was closed in 1909. James Ray and Ada Dwelley reopened the inn in 1911 and ran it for over 40 years. A business card for the Woodlawn House, with rates. People Mentioned: James R. Dwelley
Oil Drum, Socony
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Object, Containers, Barrel
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Oil Drum, Socony
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Northeast Harbor Grain Store
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Object, Sign, Identification Sign, Signboard
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Northeast Harbor Grain Store
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Large fishing hand line with weights with wood frame
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Large fishing hand line with weights with wood frame
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, large fishing hand line with weights, wrapped around a wooden frame
Rectangular basket
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Containers, Basket
  • Businesses, Farming
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Rectangular basket
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Basket, woven wood-splint basket, rectangular, low
Large hand line with weights
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Large hand line with weights
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Large hand line with weights and initials JLS
Clam hod (clam basket) handmade
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Clam hod (clam basket) handmade
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, large wood, rectangular, slatted box with handle - clam hod (clam basket) handmade out of parts previously painted in various colors: red, white, green. With small wooden box full of shells.
Clam rake with metal tines and wood handle
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Clam rake with metal tines and wood handle
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, clam rake with metal tines and short wooden handle with a hole on the end