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| Catalogue # | Title | Type | Subject | Description | |
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| 2021.456.2945 | Items found in the church closet from many different times. |
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| Many different items from the closet of the church. The first item is a list of people. The second is a note about who will be doing what for a reception. The third item is a note written by a woman named Velma, this note says " Dear Mr. MacDonald :- I shall not dare risk my foot to go to church tonight. I have written out a plan as best I can and i am going to ask you to attend to it for me. Will you please read it over at the business meeting for me? Please tell the two who solicit for food to see me before they start to work. Hastily, and thank you, Velma." The fourth item is the longfellow school Christmas program. The fifth item is a magazine called "The new girls' companion." The last item is from the congregational church of Great Cranberry Island. From the summer of 1975. | 
Description: Many different items from the closet of the church. The first item is a list of people. The second is a note about who will be doing what for a reception. The third item is a note written by a woman named Velma, this note says " Dear Mr. MacDonald :- I shall not dare risk my foot to go to church tonight. I have written out a plan as best I can and i am going to ask you to attend to it for me. Will you please read it over at the business meeting for me? Please tell the two who solicit for food to see me before they start to work. Hastily, and thank you, Velma." The fourth item is the longfellow school Christmas program. The fifth item is a magazine called "The new girls' companion." The last item is from the congregational church of Great Cranberry Island. From the summer of 1975. [show more] |
| 1000.1.421 | Notes re: music at church services |
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| Notes regarding music played at various regular GCI church services, presumably by Sara Lambert "Sally" Bloom, 1984-1995 | 
Description: Notes regarding music played at various regular GCI church services, presumably by Sara Lambert "Sally" Bloom, 1984-1995 |
| 2005.138.1078 | Rug making and Maine Seacoast Mission |
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| Documents pertaining to rug making. (A) Report of the Maine Seacoast Missionary Society for the year ending 1927. (B): Nine items of correspondence pertaining to the Cranberry Island Hooked Rugs program started by the Seacoast Mission, letters date from 1901-1902. The hooked rug program was one of the first cottage industries, the Seacoast Mission took completed rugs to New York for sale |
Description: Documents pertaining to rug making. (A) Report of the Maine Seacoast Missionary Society for the year ending 1927. (B): Nine items of correspondence pertaining to the Cranberry Island Hooked Rugs program started by the Seacoast Mission, letters date from 1901-1902. The hooked rug program was one of the first cottage industries, the Seacoast Mission took completed rugs to New York for sale |
| 1000.0.691 | Mrs. Andrew C. Wheelwright legacy |
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| 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] |
