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| 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). | ||
| 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] | |||
| Journal 1878-1881 voyages of schooner Carrie M. Richardson Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Journal 1878-1881 voyages of schooner Carrie M. Richardson Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Journal, leather and paper, wallet style, with entries for years 1878, 1879, 1881. Pertains to nautical voyages of Meltiah Richardson aboard the Carrie M. Richardson and perhaps others. It is an extremely valuable resource for interpretation of annotated Nautical Chart 1 and other charts in GCIHS 2015.315.2076. Journal entries corroborate plot markings on nautical chart 1. All pages with handwritten text scanned (48 scans) at 600 dpi July 27, 2016. Complete transcription made Feb. 2017. (Pages with newspaper clippings glued to them were not scanned - most clippings were poetry. Note: Meltiah's wife, Carrie (Mary Catherine Stanley Richardson), wrote and saved poetry.) In several instances, a page had been cut out and/or a portion of a page had been cut out. The journal is not always chronological; entries switch around various years 1878,1879, and 1881. Some highlights are listed below. Scan no. 9 Sailed from Cardenas for NY 260 lbs Manello(?) Rope, 178 shakers, 78 canvas 10 Arrived at NY from Cardenas, list of perhaps cod caught per person by name and weight and $. Left for…. 11 Arrived at NY from C. Isles settled with mate $37.16 14 Rec from M.P Richardson the sum of $70 wages up to Date Nov 19th 1881 William Brandt 15 Arrived Cadiz… 16 M. P Richardson mentioned 17 M. P. Richardson mentioned and Schooner Carrie M. Richardson 1881 19 "Cash in Spanish gold 342" 23 Mr. Rumill shipped on board Schr C. M. Richardson April 10/79 at 35 $ per xxx 24 Antonio Williams on board C. M. Richardson Apr 9th/79 25 more re: 1879 26 more re: 1879 27 more re: 1879 42 "cure for chills/fever (?) 2 bitter apples with one pint gin. Let same stand ays. Dose: ½ wine glass full twice a day before meals (R H O (?)) 43 Bill of sale for 1/32 of Schr CMR Mrs. E B Gregg (interest?) to Joseph W x of Philadelphia 44 Name is clearly Joseph W. Willson of Phila 45 Port charges list 48 Mentions Cadiz [show more] | ||
| "The Subway Sailors Who Saved New York", 1944 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "The Subway Sailors Who Saved New York", 1944 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper clipping, "The Subway Sailors Who Saved New York", Saturday Evening Post 13 May 1944, about John Stanley being decorated for bravery aboard blazing ammunition ship. (3 pages) | |||
| "God's Tugboat - Seacoast Mission boat Sunbeam" 1949 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "God's Tugboat - Seacoast Mission boat Sunbeam" 1949 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper page with article "God's Tugboat - News for the Seacoast Mission boat Sunbeam" by Edith Drury, about activities of the Seacoast Mission, with photo of Capt. Bert Stanley. From Maine Coast Fisherman, Oct 1949. | |||
| Loading the mail boat ferry Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Loading the mail boat ferry Great Cranberry Island Historical Society 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. | ||
| Sinking Barge Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Sinking Barge Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Bar Harbor Times article about the Beal and Bunker Barge, the Moleska, sinking just off of Islesford. Clarence Beal and Harvey Bunker were aboard the vessel when it collided into the old steamboat wharf. At the time the barge was carrying a drilling rig, and this rig got caught causing the damage. The moleska got towed away back to Great Cranberry Island, where it was beached and underwent repair. On the way to GCI the moleska hit another boat, causing that boat to also have to be beached and repaired. As for the oil rig, it was towed out of the water and mechanics were able to get it up and running again. [show more] | ||
| Grand Old One Design Class Still Races off Northeast Harbor Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Grand Old One Design Class Still Races off Northeast Harbor Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Magazine artilce from Down East Magazine Sept. 1964 about A Clss. Written by E.R.Welles III, photos by W.H. Ballard Previously accessioned as 007.122 | |||
| Gaffed Rigged Racing Sloop newspaper article Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Gaffed Rigged Racing Sloop newspaper article Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: News item about the revival of the A-Class racing fleet in NE, dated Aug. 30, 1962 | |||
| 3 Tie for First Place in A Class Regata Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| 3 Tie for First Place in A Class Regata Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper article entitled 3 Tie for first place in A Class Regattta written by LaRue Spiker ,includes one of her photographs. 1966 Previously accessioned as 007.117 | |||
| Safe Haven (Kronprinzessin Cecilie) Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Safe Haven (Kronprinzessin Cecilie) Jesup Memorial Library | |||
| High and Dry Jesup Memorial Library |
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| A Tragedy at Mt. Desert Ferry Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  A Tragedy at Mt. Desert Ferry Jesup Memorial Library | |||
| Schooner Bessie M. Dugan Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Schooner Bessie M. Dugan Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Three newspaper articles about the schooner Bessie M Dugan. All three of the articles mention the schooner landing in the harbor and the amount of mackerel it is bringing in. | ||
| " 'Old Ironsides' faces new battle." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  " 'Old Ironsides' faces new battle." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A newspaper article talking about the historic boat the 'Old Ironsides.' The article says Forer commanders worry about historic ship's seaworthiness, want her tested in harbor." It also says "The former commanders argue that to see whether the ship is ready to sail in the open sea it needs to be tested in a protected harbor." |
| "Warship heads to the open sea" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "Warship heads to the open sea" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A newspaper article about Old Ironsides, a navy warship from theh late 1700's. This ship used to sit as a museum piece but after a 3.5 year restoration the ship is put back to sail the seas. The article ends by saying "Its no longer a museum piece... she's actually a living ship." |
| "American Marksmanship Claims British Vessel." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "American Marksmanship Claims British Vessel." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: "American Marksmanship Claims British Vessel." - Part 185 of Fred Humiston's "Blue Water Men - and Women." This story is about Edward Preble, it starts by telling of Preble's youth as a farm boy and his journey with learning how to be a seaman. The story then switches over to the story of a navy ship that fired a deadly shot to a British ship. This part says " The 'protector' fired a deadly raking broadside, which brought down the mizzenmast and set the main top-gallant afire." [show more] |
| Mackerel in Maine Waters - article 1909 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Mackerel in Maine Waters - article 1909 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper article, probably September 1909. Title: "Mackerel in Maine Waters". Article reports that 20 barrels of mackerel were caught by Eben T. Lewis, Benjamin A. Spurling, and John S. Seavey, near Monhegan. Article lists other ships and captains active in the Monhegan area due to reports of large schools of mackerel. | |||
| Article: Benjamin Spurling commissioning the Annie Q. Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Article: Benjamin Spurling commissioning the Annie Q. Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper article (photocopy), undated. Title " 'Georgie' was Leading Vessel into New York". Author listed as Fred Humston. Article on right column mentions Benjamin Spurling commissioning the building of the 'Fannie Q. Spurling', a mackeral fishing boat. | |||
| Uncle Edgar's Lobster Boat" By Deig Marie Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Uncle Edgar's Lobster Boat" By Deig Marie Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Copy of "Uncle Edgar's Lobster Boat" By Deig Marie. Presented to the Islesford Library in the Summer of 2001 | |||
| Nautical Almanac 1876 for schooner Carrie M. Richardson Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Nautical Almanac 1876 for schooner Carrie M. Richardson Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Journal. Nautical Almanac 1876 containing tables of sun's declination and equation of time and tide by D. Eggert's sons, 23 pages, annotated by Carrie M. Richardson aboard the schooner Carrie M. Richardson. Recording the sun sightings for navigating voyages using dead reckoning; transatlantic journeys are plotted on nautical chart 1 and possibly others of 2015.315.2076. .) From the Lewis Stanley descendants collection. (See also 2015.316.2077 and 2017.388.2163 Initial review of the annotated Nautical Almanac of 1876 indicates that it records the Carrie M. Richardson's journey east from New York starting June 23, 1876; arriving Seville July 22, and departing Seville August 3. She arrived at Cadiz August 5 and left for Boston August 12. A wonderful addition as Nautical Chart 1 (2017.315.2076) only plots the west to east legs of two 1877 and 1878 Spain-to-Cranberry Isles voyages. Decipher the chronometer dead reckoning entries in this Almanac should enableus to plot the route she sailed to reach Spain. (Scanned July 2017) [show more] | ||
| Old Time New England booklet with story "The Steamer J.T. Morse and others Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Old Time New England booklet with story "The Steamer J.T. Morse and others Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Booklet, "Old Time New England" Apr 1937, with long story "The Steamer J.T. Morse, Her History and Adventures", with ten illustrations. Other stories too. | ||
| Magazine articles about Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Magazine articles about Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Three articles from unknown magazine, unknown year: A= "The Bunkers of Cranberry Isle" by Gunnar Hansen with photos by David Westphal (see also 1000.0.1027). B="Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of the Emily F. Northam" text and photos by Farnham W. Smith. C="Rachel Field of the Cranberry Isles" by Herbert Edwards | |||
| Photo-Essay of Last (1942) Voyage of Coal Schooner "Rebecca R. Douglas" Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Photo-Essay of Last (1942) Voyage of Coal Schooner "Rebecca R. Douglas" Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Photo-Essay by Bronson W. Chanler detailing a trip aboard the coal schooner "Rebecca R. Douglas" between Northeast Harbor and New York City. Note: As originally displayed in the museum, copies of the photographs taken by Chanler were mounted alongside excerpts and quotes. Around 2015 the photographs were removed from the 1984 posters so they could be scanned and better protected. They are uploaded here, as is the complete text by Bronson W. Chanler. [show more] | ||
| steamboat Frank Jones Islesford Historical Society |
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|  steamboat Frank Jones Islesford Historical Society |