Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Man participating in a beach drill practice for the Coast Guard. Inscription on back reads "Beach Drill practice pole at Coast Guard Station Islesford" in pencil Black and white
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Illuminated by 23 volunteer light painters. For years these boathouses had been used to build, store, and repair boats. Now all but one have been convert to private residences. There is one boathouse protecting a 100 year old 'friendship sloop' and still has the underwater rails intact.
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Mailed to: Cousin Emily - Emily M. Ray Haynes (1854-1913) Mailed from: Cousin Elsie - Elsie Louise Stanley (1893-1938) Text reads: "Hope you will get my letter. I am sending you today three postals, two for you and one for your friend. Read your card yesterday. With love Elsie"
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Photograph of the Cambell House with four figures (Kate, Edna, Ada, and Ben) standing out front. Inscription on back reads "The Campbell House/ Kate, Enda, Ada + Ben" in pencil with an Islesford Historical Society stamp in the bottom right corner. People Depicted: Edna Hadlock, Ada Dwelley Black and white
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Captain Stanley resident of Islesford. Stillman's owned Berry Cliff on the County Road between Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor. Capt. is rowing the Stillmans ashore at Islesford.
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Left to Right: Percy Edgar Bunker (1887-1980) - the Morsman's captain Elin Forslund (1881-) - the Morsman's Swedish housekeeper "Laddie", the dog
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Three B/W photographs of summer residents (period clothing) enjoying a clambake on Islesford. Photographs were once glued on to a large cardboard for display.
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]
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: "The first Coast Guard presence in the Mt. Desert Island area was a Life Saving Station located on Little Cranberry Island, established by an act of congress on June 18th, 1878. In 1937, the Southwest Harbor complex was created and used as a lighthouse depot by the U.S. Light House Service. By 1945, the Coast Guard Station on Little Cranberry Island was moved to the facility in Southwest Harbor.” - “Sector Field Office (SFO) Southwest Harbor, Southwest Harbor, Maine – History,” United States Coast Guard site, 06/28/13, Accessed online 07/20/10; http://www.uscg.mil/d1/sfoSouthwestHarbor/history.asp. [show more]