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.
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]
Description: Wilfred Bunker (about age 43) receives cargo on stern of the Island Queen. "Mail Route - Men at Southwest Harbor load mail for delivery at Cranberry Island and Islesford." Photo shows the mail boat at the Lower Town Dock in Southwest Harbor. Photo for newspaper by L. Spiker. The Island Queen was built in 1963. Beal & Bunker moved operations to Northeast Harbor in 1972.
Description: Certificate for repairs to the Factor (three pages), a ship built on GCI 1832, in for repairs in South Carolina in 1854, with cargo of molasses and other items, with transcription by donor.
Walton Advertising and Printing Company, Boston, Mass.
Date:
1913
Description: Their Builders, Owners, and Captains. A glance at an interesting phase of the American Merchant Marine so far as it relates to Boston. With 30 black and white illustrations of ships. (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)
Description: Brochures: 3 different Beal & Bunker boat schedules: 1987 Sea Queen from NEH; date unknown Sea Queen from NEH; date unknown Island Queen from SWH
Description: Small brochure from the Rock End Hotel following enlargement. Scenes of the south from the hotel porch, two Maine Central Ferry Boats passing in front of hotel, and row boats on the shore of Jordan Pond. Belle Smallidge Collection
Description: An unidentified man breaks a bottle against the hull of Vinalhaven II at the boat's launching in 1943 at Southwest Harbor, ME. Black and white
Description: Short biography of brothers Raymond, Tud, and Wilfred Bunker who continue a long family tradition living from the sea. Published in Down East Magazine, November 1979.
Description: Eagle Lake Ferry, circa 1885, serving the Green Mountain Railway. Copy of ticket pictured in upper rt. corner. The boat was sunk in lake before 1910.
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Spurling's dock at Islesford with the Islesford ferry (owned by John Phelps) in foreground and the "Rascal", owned by Elmer Spurling behind dock. The hills of MDI are a backdrop. Copy of scanned photograph.
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: A booklet about daily life and activities on Cranberry Island with some illustrations. Property of Hugh L. Dwelley, Islesford, Maine. Acw. #0316 Date 03/06 People Mentioned: Hugh L. Dwelley, Lura Bodwell, Tinker Colby, Charles Rice, Steve Spurling, Lynn Colby, Winslow Bunker, Maggie Denver, Gary Allen, Norma Bunker, Kenneth Lemoine, David Lemoine, Joyce Forsyte, Edith Cunningham, Dick McFalls, Gail Colby, Sonja Colby, David Westphal, Louise Sorenson, Beverly Sanborn, Wendy Sundstrom, Carl Nelson, Barbara Brooks, Charles E. Harwood, Charles N. Davie, Alexander P. MacDonald, J. W. Tingley, A. D. Knight, Daniel E. Fox, James B. Ford, Melvin Hutchins, Charles Gordon Cumming, Howard N. Bacon, Sarah Fraley, Wilfred Bunker, Amaziah Alley, Margie Phippin, Donald Allen, Julius Luck, Lyndon Colby, Robert Alley, Tud Bunker, Lil Samenfeld, Mark Samenfeld, Jack Helliker, Mickey MacFarlan, Gretna Finkelstein, Chuck Liebow, Don Hagberg, Helena Hagberg, Keith Wedge, Carl Fernald, Ada Rice, Marilyn Peterson, Irene Bartlett, Carl Brooks, Frances Bartlett, Cathy Poulin, Karen Bunker, Polly Storey, Betty Sprague, Elmer Hadlock, Polly Bunker, Ruth Stanley, Timmy Savage, Blair Colby, Ginna Murray, Lionel Sundstrom, Norman Sanborn, Ed Gray, Willie Wellman, Herman Savage, William Preble, George V. Spurling, George W. Colby, Abraham C. Fernald, W. M. Richardson [show more]
Description: Automobiles along the road at front - Left to Right: The automobile with the hood open is a 1954 Ford Hardtop. 1948 Chrysler 1950-1951 Studebaker Behind tree - 1953 Ford station wagon. W.H. Ballard wrote this note on the negative sleeve for the photograph: "“Bluenose” Ferry Terminal, Bar Harbor, ME; taken the day the Bar Harbor-Yarmouth ferry was officially welcomed (service had been on since the early part of January). Blowing a hard SE gale, and I had to press down so hard on the camera that the tripod sagged. I was the only one who remained on the ridge." [show more]