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| 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] | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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] | |||
| 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. | ||
| 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] | |||
| Quilt. Cotton, white with pink basket motif Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Quilt. Cotton, white with pink basket motif Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Quilt. Cotton, white with pink basket motif on front, all white reverse. Pink border around three sides, one end with folded inward seem, no pink border. Sculpted in broad T shape on one end. Note from donor, Susan Bunker, reads: "This quilt was made by my father's, Raymond Bunker who was born in 1906, grandmother. She could have been a Bunker or a Spurling." | |||
| Stanley family genealogy by Sawtelle & Dwelley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Stanley family genealogy by Sawtelle & Dwelley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Genealogy. The Stanleys of the Cranberry Islands, Genealogical Notes of William Otis Sawtelle with an Index by Hugh L. Dwelley, Islesford Historical Society Transcription, 1996. Volume 1: Little Cranberry Island, Maine, 325 pages. Volume 2: Great Cranberry Island, Maine, 214 pages. Volume 3: Mount Desert Island, Maine, 170 pages. Volume 4: Swans Island, Maine, 137 pages. Photocopies of extensive genealogical records of the Stanley family and their collaterals compiled by William Otis Sawtelle, with a 13-page introduction and index by Hugh Dwelley in 1996. Dwelley states: "This extensive genealogical record of the Stanley family is written largely in the hand of Professor William Otis Sawtelle. It appears to have been prepared mostly during the first decade of the 20th century. Notes such as "Living in ____1906", etc. appear on several of the records. There is a little data from 1920s and later, but it has usually been added in another hand. Professor Sawtelle fell ill in 1936 and died in 1939." Other family names appearing in this genealogy: Spurling, Harding, Bunker, Bulger, Richardson, Parsons, Hamor, Rosebrook, Rinaldo, Workman, Steele, Worcester, Joy, Trussell, Preble, Fernald, Moore, Wilson, Ash, Gilley, Kingsbury, Stephens, Holmes, Lawry, Lancaster, Sprague, Bridges, Jordan, Rea, Ladd, Phippen, Hodgkins, Davis, Anderson, Newman, Somes, Sawyer, Wedge, Whitmore, Turner, Roberts, Paine, Frazier, Bucklin, Peckham, Walls, Richardson, Frisbee, Roix, Story, Buckmore, Bowden, Rich, Lancaster, Coleman, Bridges, Joyce, Stewart, Stinson, Holbrook, Dunham, Gott, Smith, Kent, Stockbridge,and Mcallen. [show more] | ||
| Seascape by Scott White Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Seascape by Scott White Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Art, original watercolor seascape painting by Scott White (one of the "Three Islesford Painters" or TIPs.) Scott White used to spend summers at the Hamor House. Inscription on the back of the painting: "This painting was done by an artist who spent summers on Cranberry Island at the Hamor House. This was given to Mabel by Mr. White on her birthday." | |||
| Portrait of Mary Ann Carroll (1835-1926) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Portrait of Mary Ann Carroll (1835-1926) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo. Black and white portrait of Mary Ann Carroll. Large black and white photo print on metal (18.5” H x 14” W) of Mary Ann Carroll that may have once been affixed to a plaque, retrieved by donor from Southwest Harbor transfer station February 2013. Info and text of late 19th century letters provided by Meredith Hutchins of the Southwest Harbor Public Library. See also high res scan from SWHPL. "At last I have the information I promised to send you on “Aunt Mary Ann Carroll,” the school teacher who taught on Great Cranberry and other islands on the Maine coast. Mary Ann Carroll (1835-1926) was the daughter of John Carroll and Rachel Foster Lurvey. John Carroll immigrated to MDI from Borrisleigh, Ireland via Newfoundland with Michael Bulger, who ended up settling on Great Cranberry and is the Bulger ancestor of the people writing the letters below. John Carroll, of course, was the owner of the Carroll Farm in SWH and progenitor of the large family that bears his name. Except as where otherwise noted, the quotations below are from a series of letters that Emma Frances (Bulger) Spurling, (1860-1934) Mrs. Charles Eaton Spurling and others wrote to Emma’s daughter, Mary Frances (Spurling) “Mamie” (1877-1965) later Mrs. Fred Alberton Birlem (1876-1950) while Mary Frances was attending school in Holbrook, Massachusetts. Mrs. Charles Spurling ran the store on Great Cranberry. November 13, 1898 “”Maryann Carroll is going to teach this school, will begin a week from today. She sent on by S. C. Stover to see if I would board her.” – S. C. Stover may be Samuel Stover, born in Trenton in 1848 and died on Great Cranberry in 1912. November 19, 1893 This letter is to Mary Frances from her maternal grandmother, Mary Lurvey (Stanley) Bulger (1835-1919) “Mema” – Mrs. Samuel Newman Bulger “Mary Ann Carroll commenced school to day [sic] and boards to your house. I don’t expect that you care if you are not there to go to school but I wish you was.” [sic] from Grama November 28, 1893 School has kept a week. Maryann [sic] has a slight cold but she makes quite a touse over it. She did not go to Sabbath School to day, [sic] as she was afraid she might get more and would not be able to teach tomorrow.” December 17, 1893 Tuesday morning “Brother” is Charles Samuel Spurling (1880-1911), Mary Frances’s brother. [Brother] “and Mary Ann have gone to school. She told me to say to you that the scholars are all doing vey much better than they were.” December 20, 1893 This letter is from Ella Florence Bulger (1867-1938) “Aunt Flo,” to Mary Frances in Holbrook.Aunt Flo was a sister to Emma Frances, Mary Frances’s mother. At the time she was married to George Jacob Joy and may have been separated from him. Later she married Warren Adelbert Spurling. Wed. eve 7 o’ clock. “Mary Ann has taken her bag and gone to make some calls.” I’m sure that there are many other references to Aunt Mary Ann Carroll in other local history references. She came from a large family and taught all over. As I may have told you Aunt Mary Ann was the first teacher in the fall of 1896 at the Baker Island School. I have a letter written to her nephew William Lloyd Carroll from there. Hope this info is of assistance to you for the GCHS and let me know if I can be of further help. Sincerely, NMeredith Hutchins [show more] | |||
| Picture of Adelina Patti Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Picture of Adelina Patti Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo. Copy of picture of opera singer Mme. Adelina Patti in plastic gold floral frame. Patti figures in Rachel Field's book, "Hitty, Her First Hundred Years" | |||
| Painting by Charles Edwin Kinkead a.k.a. Kinkaid or Kincaid Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Painting by Charles Edwin Kinkead a.k.a. Kinkaid or Kincaid Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Painting by Charles Edwin Kinkead, oil, framed, of a marsh or field with still water in the foreground, trees in the background, and the mountains of Acadia National Park in the far distance; perhaps The Pool on Great Cranberry Island; or the Bass Harbor marshes per artist Carl Little who has painted there. Written on the back: "Mr Kinkead painted this picture / Presented it to Sadie Hamor 1925"; the painting, on canvas, is cut from its original stretcher and glued to a cardboard backing. (Note: the artist's name is a.k.a. Kinkaid or Kincaid.) [show more] | ||
| Copy of a photo of Sammy Sanford Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Copy of a photo of Sammy Sanford Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo. Reprint, framed in white matte board and sealed in plastic wrap, "Sammy Sanford, Taken on Little Head, Cranberry Is. By Walter K. Shaw Sr". | ||
| Bunker Family Photo Album tintypes Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Bunker Family Photo Album tintypes Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo album, miniature, clasp closure, with metal tintype photos, Inscription on first page: "Presented to Sarah M. Bunker by her brother Thomas J. Bunker 1862", some photos labeled with names.including: George Bulger, George Bunker, Clara Richardson, Harriet Bunker, Julia Bunker. Last page, handwritten: Joanha, Joanah, Johana" | ||
| Addie Stanley Duren family Photo Album 42 tintypes Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Addie Stanley Duren family Photo Album 42 tintypes Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photographs. Photo album (1), small photograph (2); and two postcards (3) and (4). Album is leather bound, with 42 portraits, mostly tintypes inserted into cardboard pages. Four white, marble-like feet on back and front covers support the album. Brass hasp closure with decorative leaf, the word ALBUM written in gold acrss spine. Page edges have impressed floral design. Half of brass hasp is missing. All photos scanned 7/23/2013 and labeled with catalogue numbers plus letters A-Z etc. Labeled photos: Matilda Young Spurling (A); Lucy Spurling Douglas (B); Josie S. Stanley_(.M.) Bunker (H); Luella Stanley (J); Ara D. Stanley (R); Dr. Spears (T); Uncle Charles Spurling (U); Lucy Spurling (Arigtan Spurling Wife (Zf); Tead_Spurling Trussice married second husband Gougins (Zn). The album most likely comes from Addie Stanley Duren, the previous owner of the Mountain house. And one small black and white photo on paper (2) shows Addie Duren's snowy property with house and barn and two trees, inscription on reverse "all plowed out untill next time". Two postcards (3) and (4). Postcard (3): the GCI church with 3/4 view of parsonage on right and two people walking on street, unused. Postcard (4): Boat landing, Islesford, ME. 162, "Genuine photographs from Studio of Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co., Belfast Maine." It is from donor's grandmother, Addie E. Duren to Mrs. Josie S. Bunker, Cranberry Isles, ME, postmarked Islesford, Aug 8 a.m. 1915. "Monday morning, Dear sister, [xxx] a got a quilt there is a party would like to share the darkest quilt you have send it soon as you can From A.S.D". [show more] | |||
| William Pitt Preble's Extended Family Photograph Album Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  William Pitt Preble's Extended Family Photograph Album Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo album covered in red velvet with mostly cabinet card photographs; some tintypes .Elaborate red velvet cover with brass floral and wilderness scene. Brass hasp. Album includes photos of William Pitt Preble's extended family, many with no relation to Cranberry Isles. Some names: One loose portrait photo: T.E. Welles; Uncle Gen. Andrew Spurling (General Andrew Barclay Spurling was Civil War Medal of Honor) (1066G); William Pitt Preble, Esq., Matilda Sanford Preble; Uncle William Preble; Elmenia Spurling Preble; William Pitt Preble II; Lizzie Preble; Capt. Horace G. Bunker; Wilhemenia Bunker; Minnie E. Bunker; Lena Bunker Webb; Chester Raymond Bunker; Abbie Maude Spurling Ware; Abbie Maude and Harold Benjamin Spurling; Uncle Harold; Frances Marion Spurling; Auntie Maude; Uncle Harold; Mother age 7-8; Horace Edgar Bunker; Mrs. H. E. Bunker 1895; Myra Bunker; Mr. Jones; Carrie Celeste Richardson Jones; Addie Neville; Carrie Rice; Agnes Hadlock Spurling; Alfretta Brewer; Mrs. George Bunker; Lizzie Preble; Josephine Thorndike; Minnie Spurling; Judge William Pitt Preble; Abigail Preble; Grampie Spurling; Auntie Maude; Evie Preble; Uncle Willl; Aunt Min; Horace Bunker; Aunt Meanie; Willie; Aunt Lucinda G. Fernald; Preble Richardson. (See 1066A digital scan in museum photos folder, picture of William Pitt Preble. 1066B digital scan in museum photos folder photo of Matilda Sanford Preble.) There is also a tintype of "Judge Preble: William Pitt," and a tintype of elderly woman "Prebles 1st Wife Abigail." (See 1000.0.1066E and 1000.0.1066F in museum photos.) [show more] | |||
| "A Visit Among Islanders" Nov. 1999 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "A Visit Among Islanders" Nov. 1999 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Minidisc, audio, copy of NEH Library tape #CO59, "A Visit Among Islanders" | |||
| Charles Rice & Ada Rice Interview Mar. 1993 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Charles Rice & Ada Rice Interview Mar. 1993 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Audio cassette tapes (set of 2) of interview with Charles & Ada Rice by Jeff Weisbruch, paid for by GCIHS, 19 Mar 1993 (see item 434) |
| Marjorie Phippen Interview Nov. 1993 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Marjorie Phippen Interview Nov. 1993 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Audio cassette tapes (set of 2) of interview with Marjorie Phippen by Jeff Weisbruch, paid for by GCIHS, 5 Nov 1993 (see item 436) |
| Marjorie Phippen Interview Dec. 1993 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Marjorie Phippen Interview Dec. 1993 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Audio cassette tapes (set of 2) of interview with Marjorie Phippen by Jeff Weisbruch, paid for by GCIHS, 17 Dec 1993 |
| Steve Spurling and Arleen Spurling Interview Jun. 2000 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Steve Spurling and Arleen Spurling Interview Jun. 2000 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Audio cassette tape of interview with Steve and Arleen Spurling by Wini Smart, 30 Jun 2000 |
| Annette Mountain Interview Jun. 2000 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Annette Mountain Interview Jun. 2000 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Audio cassette tape of interview with Annette Mountain, in her house, by Wini Smart, Jun 2000 |
| Charlotte Harlan Interview Jun. 2000 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Charlotte Harlan Interview Jun. 2000 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Audio cassette tape of interview with Charlotte Harlan, in her house, by Wini Smart and Bruce Komusin, 24 Jun 2000 | |
| Donna Alley and Cleo Alley Interview Oct. 1999 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Donna Alley and Cleo Alley Interview Oct. 1999 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Audio cassette tape of interview with Donna Alley and Cleo Alley by Bruce Komusin, 3 Oct 1999 | |
| Lindon "Tud" Bunker Interview Oct. 1992 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Lindon "Tud" Bunker Interview Oct. 1992 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Audio cassette tape of interview with Lindon "Tud" Bunker by Jeff Weisbruch, paid for by GCIHS, 12 Oct 1992 (might be connected with item 445) |
| Robin Richman Interview Jul. 2000 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Robin Richman Interview Jul. 2000 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Audio cassette tape of interview with Robin Richman by Wini Smart, 10 Jul 2000 |