Notebook, "United States History", with blank pages for notes and partial maps for coloring and annotation, copyright 1903, belonging to and filled in by Alice Marion Bulger (found in Ruth Westphal's house)
Description: Notebook, "United States History", with blank pages for notes and partial maps for coloring and annotation, copyright 1903, belonging to and filled in by Alice Marion Bulger (found in Ruth Westphal's house)
Handwritten list of description of photos from items # 1623-1654. The picture descriptions were written on 2/7/2012 by Mickey, Annie and Jane. A copy of the list of handwritten notes are items # 1655-1655e
Description: Handwritten list of description of photos from items # 1623-1654. The picture descriptions were written on 2/7/2012 by Mickey, Annie and Jane. A copy of the list of handwritten notes are items # 1655-1655e
Document, 2 handwritten sheets, an early church history, mentioning the Benevolent Sewing Circle (1860-1866), the secession of members, selling of pews Aug 1866 and dedication of Union Meeting House 11 Sep 1866, revival and sale to Rev. Harwood 1896, and then raising subtle legal questions. Perhaps written by Abigail Preble?
Description: Document, 2 handwritten sheets, an early church history, mentioning the Benevolent Sewing Circle (1860-1866), the secession of members, selling of pews Aug 1866 and dedication of Union Meeting House 11 Sep 1866, revival and sale to Rev. Harwood 1896, and then raising subtle legal questions. Perhaps written by Abigail Preble?
Memo, handwritten, containing record of donation request letters sent and donations received (probably written by Carrie Richardson, see handwriting of item 141) (found in Bob LaHotan's barn when he cleaned it 2001). (See scan in 2000>photos>Hazel Brooke Peterson.)
Description: Memo, handwritten, containing record of donation request letters sent and donations received (probably written by Carrie Richardson, see handwriting of item 141) (found in Bob LaHotan's barn when he cleaned it 2001). (See scan in 2000>photos>Hazel Brooke Peterson.)
Newspaper photo: Volunteers gather around the newly-built playground near the Longfellow School and the Great Cranberry Library; with a list of names, some unknown. Transcribed - names.
Description: Newspaper photo: Volunteers gather around the newly-built playground near the Longfellow School and the Great Cranberry Library; with a list of names, some unknown. Transcribed - names.
Ledger page, loose, both sides used, school and property tax info, no date, appears to be a working sheet, in red pen, 8 names: Arno P. Stanley, Lewis Ladd, George Bulger, Edwin Spurling, Sam Bunker, William Bunker, Thomas Bunker, Leonard Holmes. Poor condition.
Description: Ledger page, loose, both sides used, school and property tax info, no date, appears to be a working sheet, in red pen, 8 names: Arno P. Stanley, Lewis Ladd, George Bulger, Edwin Spurling, Sam Bunker, William Bunker, Thomas Bunker, Leonard Holmes. Poor condition.
Letter from Hugh Dwelley to Susan White explaining the enclosed copy of the Great Cranberry Island's church deed from 1897, Includes a copy of the original church deed.
Description: Letter from Hugh Dwelley to Susan White explaining the enclosed copy of the Great Cranberry Island's church deed from 1897, Includes a copy of the original church deed.
Document, photocopy, 2 sheets, essay starting "My mother's interest in Cranberry...", by Mary Cabot Wheelwright, about Mrs. Andrew C. Wheelwright's efforts for GCI, including donating to the church the Sarah Whitman stained glass window, the bell, and the parsonage; paying to restore the pulpit and chairs, helping to settle the site of the Town Dock, and hiring Mrs. Schrifgrisser to teach the children games and handcrafts. Transcribed. Also included is a 2019 letter from an Eliot family descendant, Alexander Goriansky, with with Eliot family genealogy and a copy of a letter published in "Letters from Elizabeth Cabot, Vol. III, Boston 1905". The letter is about Mrs. Cabot's visit to GCI August 8, 1900 to view the new stained glass window in the church: "...It is one of Mrs. Whitman's beautiful wreathes, with gorgeus reds and blues and enough white to show them off, laid on a white Greek cross, on the arms of which is the inscription. The church is absolutely bare, but well colored as to the walls...." Goriansky states that 100 years later, he lived upstairs from where the window's creator, Sarah Wyman Whitman, had lived from 1880-1904 (#77 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston), and that she was very fine designer and maker of "stained" glass windows.
Description: Document, photocopy, 2 sheets, essay starting "My mother's interest in Cranberry...", by Mary Cabot Wheelwright, about Mrs. Andrew C. Wheelwright's efforts for GCI, including donating to the church the Sarah Whitman stained glass window, the bell, and the parsonage; paying to restore the pulpit and chairs, helping to settle the site of the Town Dock, and hiring Mrs. Schrifgrisser to teach the children games and handcrafts. Transcribed. Also included is a 2019 letter from an Eliot family descendant, Alexander Goriansky, with with Eliot family genealogy and a copy of a letter published in "Letters from Elizabeth Cabot, Vol. III, Boston 1905". The letter is about Mrs. Cabot's visit to GCI August 8, 1900 to view the new stained glass window in the church: "...It is one of Mrs. Whitman's beautiful wreathes, with gorgeus reds and blues and enough white to show them off, laid on a white Greek cross, on the arms of which is the inscription. The church is absolutely bare, but well colored as to the walls...." Goriansky states that 100 years later, he lived upstairs from where the window's creator, Sarah Wyman Whitman, had lived from 1880-1904 (#77 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston), and that she was very fine designer and maker of "stained" glass windows. [show more]
Rug. Green and beige crab motif. Hooked, wool, sheared on burlap, 29.5" x 64.5". Made on Cranberry Isles 1902-1905. One of two similar rugs from same donor. (See 2005.138.2026 dog-motif rug.) Donor states her sister recovered this rug from the storage shed at their parents' house in New Hampshire after reading the Bangor Daily News article about her earlier donation of the dog-motif rug; and that this rug was repaired in the same manner as that rug, but is in much better condition. This rug lacks the CR monogram that was usually worked into one corner or on the selvage at the back of rugs that were made specifically by the Cranberry Island Club rug makers at the turn of the century. But it likely shares the provenance of the dog-motif rug described by its donor and its connection to Miriam P. Reynolds of Northeast Harbor and her family's New Hampshire connection. From "Bulletin of the Bureau of Labor", #55 (Nov. 1904), pp 1573-1622, the article "The Revival of Handicrafts in America." by Max West, Ph. D. states: Cranberry Islanders ".... were already familiar with the process of hooking rugs; and they were fortunate in having the benefit of the initiative, moral support, and financial backing of Mrs. Seth Low, Miss Miriam P. Reynolds, and one or two other New York women whose summer homes are at Northeast Harbor, as well as in obtaining the aid of capable designers. The industry was started on a small scale in the autumn of 1901, under the supervision of Miss Amy Mali Hicks, a designer identified with the arts and crafts movement in New York City, who designed the patterns and gave instruction in dyeing, etc. ..." (See also "Three Centuries of Hooking, Mount Desert Island Historical Society, 2009, p. 20-21.)
Description: Rug. Green and beige crab motif. Hooked, wool, sheared on burlap, 29.5" x 64.5". Made on Cranberry Isles 1902-1905. One of two similar rugs from same donor. (See 2005.138.2026 dog-motif rug.) Donor states her sister recovered this rug from the storage shed at their parents' house in New Hampshire after reading the Bangor Daily News article about her earlier donation of the dog-motif rug; and that this rug was repaired in the same manner as that rug, but is in much better condition. This rug lacks the CR monogram that was usually worked into one corner or on the selvage at the back of rugs that were made specifically by the Cranberry Island Club rug makers at the turn of the century. But it likely shares the provenance of the dog-motif rug described by its donor and its connection to Miriam P. Reynolds of Northeast Harbor and her family's New Hampshire connection. From "Bulletin of the Bureau of Labor", #55 (Nov. 1904), pp 1573-1622, the article "The Revival of Handicrafts in America." by Max West, Ph. D. states: Cranberry Islanders ".... were already familiar with the process of hooking rugs; and they were fortunate in having the benefit of the initiative, moral support, and financial backing of Mrs. Seth Low, Miss Miriam P. Reynolds, and one or two other New York women whose summer homes are at Northeast Harbor, as well as in obtaining the aid of capable designers. The industry was started on a small scale in the autumn of 1901, under the supervision of Miss Amy Mali Hicks, a designer identified with the arts and crafts movement in New York City, who designed the patterns and gave instruction in dyeing, etc. ..." (See also "Three Centuries of Hooking, Mount Desert Island Historical Society, 2009, p. 20-21.) [show more]