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| Catalogue # | Title | Type | Subject | Description | |
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| 1000.0.1224 | Large fishing hand line with weights with wood frame |
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| Fishing gear, large fishing hand line with weights, wrapped around a wooden frame | 
Description: Fishing gear, large fishing hand line with weights, wrapped around a wooden frame |
| 2018.416.2824 | Photos from Macfarlan family album 1940s-1950s |
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| Photos from Macfarlan family album 1940 and 1950s. A= Beal & Bunker dock with lobsters and gas tank. B= TBD dock (perhaps Preble Cove Hartley dock?) 1930s. C= Molesca (see also 2012.200.1584), Sunbeam III, Silas McClune (see also 2003.88.682), Elwood Spurling's boat on right of photo. D= Eva Grace sardine carrier. E= Macfarlan/Preble house. F= Beal & Bunker dock with lobsters; Town Dock 1940s. (And many other snapshots of people, places, boats unidentified and not scanned as of Dec 2019.) | 
Description: Photos from Macfarlan family album 1940 and 1950s. A= Beal & Bunker dock with lobsters and gas tank. B= TBD dock (perhaps Preble Cove Hartley dock?) 1930s. C= Molesca (see also 2012.200.1584), Sunbeam III, Silas McClune (see also 2003.88.682), Elwood Spurling's boat on right of photo. D= Eva Grace sardine carrier. E= Macfarlan/Preble house. F= Beal & Bunker dock with lobsters; Town Dock 1940s. (And many other snapshots of people, places, boats unidentified and not scanned as of Dec 2019.) [show more] |
| 2018.416.2823 | Macfarlan and Freeman family photos |
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| Four 6.5" x 4.5" black and white prints on grey album paper. A= Mickey Macfarlan, Bob Freeman, and boxer dog Wendy. B= Bob Freeman (Robin's father) with Grandmother Dorothy Macfarlan on the "Vega". C= Mickey Macfarlan with grandfather Douglas Macfarlan. D= Trudy Bancroft, Dody Freeman (Mickey's sister), Bill Bancroft, and Mickey Macfarlan with pistol on the rocks. | 
Description: Four 6.5" x 4.5" black and white prints on grey album paper. A= Mickey Macfarlan, Bob Freeman, and boxer dog Wendy. B= Bob Freeman (Robin's father) with Grandmother Dorothy Macfarlan on the "Vega". C= Mickey Macfarlan with grandfather Douglas Macfarlan. D= Trudy Bancroft, Dody Freeman (Mickey's sister), Bill Bancroft, and Mickey Macfarlan with pistol on the rocks. |
| 2015.323.2084 | Letter with details of voyage on the Schooner Willow |
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| Scan of a two-page 1860 letter from Warren Bunker to his brother-in-law Daniel Hamor with details of Bunker's voyage on the Schooner Willow from 'home' to Baltimore, Savannah, Jacksonville, Nassau, mentioning his cargo of 'old sailors' and yellow pine, the money he has made and hopes to make, and plans for future voyages mentioning Mauricetown NJ and Machiasport possibilities. (See transcription of letter.) We believe 'old sailors' means experienced sailors or sailors who had hired out on another voyage and were trying to get home. Warren Bunker (born 1824, died 1870 at Cranberry Isles) was great-great-grandfather of Great Cranberry Island resident Phil Whitney. Daniel Hamor (born 1822, died 1894) is distantly connected to the donor's family. Background information from donor: Warren Bunker wrote the letter to his brother-in-law Daniel Hamor, Warren's wife's (Sidney Hamor Bunker's) brother, who was then living in Eden (now Bar Harbor), Maine. Daniel Hamor built a fairly large house that still stands (in 2015 painted yellow, with a barn in back), next to the Pot & Kettle Club entrance on what is now Route 3 between Salisbury Cove and Hulls Cove. When Daniel Hamor and his wife Polly died, in 1894, their house was left to their children, Ella, Edward and Mariah, none of whom ever married or had children as far as we know. Ella and Edward died (on the same night in 1928, probably of influenza), leaving the house to Mariah. When Mariah grew old, she invited her cousin Georgia Hamor to come and take care of her on condition that when she (Mariah) died, the house would become Georgia's. Mariah died in 1936. At that time Georgia Hamor inherited the Hamor home, and presumably the Warren Bunker letter. Georgia and her brother, Ansel, lived in the house until they died (Georgia in 1971 and Ansel in 1978). At some point, Georgia, who had inherited various Hamor mementos with the house, gave the letter to her niece, Alice Smith Cowles. She, in turn, gave the letter to me (Alan Cowles). "We almost lost the letter in the great fire of 1947. A note from the Boston Sunday Post, published in October 1947, stated that "Miss Georgia Hamor, a native spinster, and her brother, Ansel, were the last to leave their home in the Hulls Cove section before the inrush of the flames today, and left only because town officials insisted on the evacuation." Fortunately, the fire stopped about one mile from their home." See transcript. | 
Description: Scan of a two-page 1860 letter from Warren Bunker to his brother-in-law Daniel Hamor with details of Bunker's voyage on the Schooner Willow from 'home' to Baltimore, Savannah, Jacksonville, Nassau, mentioning his cargo of 'old sailors' and yellow pine, the money he has made and hopes to make, and plans for future voyages mentioning Mauricetown NJ and Machiasport possibilities. (See transcription of letter.) We believe 'old sailors' means experienced sailors or sailors who had hired out on another voyage and were trying to get home. Warren Bunker (born 1824, died 1870 at Cranberry Isles) was great-great-grandfather of Great Cranberry Island resident Phil Whitney. Daniel Hamor (born 1822, died 1894) is distantly connected to the donor's family. Background information from donor: Warren Bunker wrote the letter to his brother-in-law Daniel Hamor, Warren's wife's (Sidney Hamor Bunker's) brother, who was then living in Eden (now Bar Harbor), Maine. Daniel Hamor built a fairly large house that still stands (in 2015 painted yellow, with a barn in back), next to the Pot & Kettle Club entrance on what is now Route 3 between Salisbury Cove and Hulls Cove. When Daniel Hamor and his wife Polly died, in 1894, their house was left to their children, Ella, Edward and Mariah, none of whom ever married or had children as far as we know. Ella and Edward died (on the same night in 1928, probably of influenza), leaving the house to Mariah. When Mariah grew old, she invited her cousin Georgia Hamor to come and take care of her on condition that when she (Mariah) died, the house would become Georgia's. Mariah died in 1936. At that time Georgia Hamor inherited the Hamor home, and presumably the Warren Bunker letter. Georgia and her brother, Ansel, lived in the house until they died (Georgia in 1971 and Ansel in 1978). At some point, Georgia, who had inherited various Hamor mementos with the house, gave the letter to her niece, Alice Smith Cowles. She, in turn, gave the letter to me (Alan Cowles). "We almost lost the letter in the great fire of 1947. A note from the Boston Sunday Post, published in October 1947, stated that "Miss Georgia Hamor, a native spinster, and her brother, Ansel, were the last to leave their home in the Hulls Cove section before the inrush of the flames today, and left only because town officials insisted on the evacuation." Fortunately, the fire stopped about one mile from their home." See transcript. [show more] |
| 2017.398.2174 | Letter from Julia Bunker to Mariah Hamor with transcription |
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| Letter. Digital version with transcription by donor. Letter was written by Julia Bunker probably to Mariah Hamor (1857-1936) written April 15, ca. 1863-1870. Donor states the letter was sent to "Mercie M. Hamor" but he believes it was for Mariah M. Hamor. The letter was written while Warren Bunker (1824-1870) was alive and while Julia Bunker was old enough to write such a letter (after 1863).Warren was recovering from a leg injury. A new "meeting house" was supposed to be completed on "Cranberry Isles" by the 4th of July in that year. There are also other clues to the date. The letter was probably written on a Sunday, April 15th, and a Horace Edgar ______ had recentlybeen born. Letter references Mariah Hamor, Sidney Chadwick Hamor, Warren Rogers Bunker, Sarah Staples bunker or Experience Leland Hamor, Ella Hamor. ,Julia Maria Bunker. Transcription: Cranberry Isles April 15th [ca.1863-1870] Dear Little Cousin I received your nice letter this morning will now endeavour to spent a few of my leisure moments in answering it. I have been to meeting all day to day feel quite tired now I am stopping with Aunt Mary now have been here over four weeks shall stay until Mother gets home We look for them home the last of next week if the winds and weather permit. Father's health improves fast his leg heals as fast as they want it to. I should like to go to Eden and see you all think I shall this summer for if I cannot get there any other way I can go by the way of Otter Creek with Mr. Duffy wouldnt it be nice to take a trip to Otter Creek with the little Duffies and call out some those nice hotels on the way and rest Mirrie Bunker has a little boy she calls it Horace Edgar Caroline Stanley calls her baby Arno Perkins she named it for Mr. Perkins little boy that he lost. I want you to get (page 2) me a whole bushel basket full of roots and little bushes and flower seed and send them to me the first chance you get. How does Grandmother like living in her new home I should like to stop in and see her I cannot write any more now as Aunt Mary is sick and I have got to get up and get supper so good bye at present I shall try and write to Ella to night. As we have got disappointed in our evening meeting I will try to finish this homily letter you must come down the fourth of July to the fair we expect to have our new meeting house up by that time I cannot write any more to night for I have got a very bad head ache. Please write again soon I will send you some pieces of my new dresses. I will end and go to bed for it is nine Oclock From your Cousin Julia M. Bunker | 
Description: Letter. Digital version with transcription by donor. Letter was written by Julia Bunker probably to Mariah Hamor (1857-1936) written April 15, ca. 1863-1870. Donor states the letter was sent to "Mercie M. Hamor" but he believes it was for Mariah M. Hamor. The letter was written while Warren Bunker (1824-1870) was alive and while Julia Bunker was old enough to write such a letter (after 1863).Warren was recovering from a leg injury. A new "meeting house" was supposed to be completed on "Cranberry Isles" by the 4th of July in that year. There are also other clues to the date. The letter was probably written on a Sunday, April 15th, and a Horace Edgar ______ had recentlybeen born. Letter references Mariah Hamor, Sidney Chadwick Hamor, Warren Rogers Bunker, Sarah Staples bunker or Experience Leland Hamor, Ella Hamor. ,Julia Maria Bunker. Transcription: Cranberry Isles April 15th [ca.1863-1870] Dear Little Cousin I received your nice letter this morning will now endeavour to spent a few of my leisure moments in answering it. I have been to meeting all day to day feel quite tired now I am stopping with Aunt Mary now have been here over four weeks shall stay until Mother gets home We look for them home the last of next week if the winds and weather permit. Father's health improves fast his leg heals as fast as they want it to. I should like to go to Eden and see you all think I shall this summer for if I cannot get there any other way I can go by the way of Otter Creek with Mr. Duffy wouldnt it be nice to take a trip to Otter Creek with the little Duffies and call out some those nice hotels on the way and rest Mirrie Bunker has a little boy she calls it Horace Edgar Caroline Stanley calls her baby Arno Perkins she named it for Mr. Perkins little boy that he lost. I want you to get (page 2) me a whole bushel basket full of roots and little bushes and flower seed and send them to me the first chance you get. How does Grandmother like living in her new home I should like to stop in and see her I cannot write any more now as Aunt Mary is sick and I have got to get up and get supper so good bye at present I shall try and write to Ella to night. As we have got disappointed in our evening meeting I will try to finish this homily letter you must come down the fourth of July to the fair we expect to have our new meeting house up by that time I cannot write any more to night for I have got a very bad head ache. Please write again soon I will send you some pieces of my new dresses. I will end and go to bed for it is nine Oclock From your Cousin Julia M. Bunker [show more] |
| 2019.445.2827 | Ledger sheets Capt. Charles E. Bunker, Schooner Como, 1879 |
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| This group of five ledger sheets tally Charles E. Bunker’s debits and credits for voyage on Schooner “Como” with cargo "cocoanuts, mahogany, and cedars in account with Odio & Perozo of New York". Loose ledger pages are dated February 6-21, 1879. There are 34,505 cocoanuts; 4 logs mahogany; 4 logs cedar; and 8 logs cedar. No ports or destinations discernible. Documents are signed in New York. (Only Page A transcribed.) The Schooner Como was built in Cherryfield 1873; No.125172; 133 tons. Charles E Bunker was master 1877. These ledgers are part of collection of Clara Rice items (Clara Adeline Richardson Bunker Rice (1847-1923). (Charles Bunker was Clara's second husband of three. Clara Rice was postmistress on Sutton Island in the Cranberry Isles. She may have married a Fernald, then Charles Edward Bunker, and then wed Wilbert Augustus Rice in 1893. ) | 
Description: This group of five ledger sheets tally Charles E. Bunker’s debits and credits for voyage on Schooner “Como” with cargo "cocoanuts, mahogany, and cedars in account with Odio & Perozo of New York". Loose ledger pages are dated February 6-21, 1879. There are 34,505 cocoanuts; 4 logs mahogany; 4 logs cedar; and 8 logs cedar. No ports or destinations discernible. Documents are signed in New York. (Only Page A transcribed.) The Schooner Como was built in Cherryfield 1873; No.125172; 133 tons. Charles E Bunker was master 1877. These ledgers are part of collection of Clara Rice items (Clara Adeline Richardson Bunker Rice (1847-1923). (Charles Bunker was Clara's second husband of three. Clara Rice was postmistress on Sutton Island in the Cranberry Isles. She may have married a Fernald, then Charles Edward Bunker, and then wed Wilbert Augustus Rice in 1893. ) [show more] |
| 2017.386.2161 | Preble/Macfarlan house research materials used for Maine memory Network exhibit |
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| Houses. Preble House Maine Memory Network exhibit; Preble House research materials; and ceramic sherds and locations of earlier structures on the property . (A) The 2013 Maine Memory Network online exhibit materials for "Great Cranberry Island's Preble House" at https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/2423/page/3901/display?use_mmn=1&popup=1. A house history of the 1827 home of the Hadlocks, Prebles, and Spurling families including deeds, photos and storyline about the history of the house, people, and documents. (B) Grant documents and research materials. (C) Information and photos about the locations and identification of ceramic sherds, former structures, gardens, apple trees, metalworking (blacksmith?) residue, and cellar for possible future historical preservation or archaeological work including map of property drawn by present owner, Michael Macfarlan. (See also 2013.258.1988 for ceramic sherds (fragments from plates and cups). (D) Information gathered for possible nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. Mickey Macfarlan was working on this with GCIHS assistance. (E) Digital print of an 1876 sketch of Preble House as seen from Preble Cove by Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr .(www.flickr.com/photos/140072964@N06/32815983901/in/album-72157676911263533) Longfellow house Washington's headquarts https://www.nps.gov/long/index.htm | 
Description: Houses. Preble House Maine Memory Network exhibit; Preble House research materials; and ceramic sherds and locations of earlier structures on the property . (A) The 2013 Maine Memory Network online exhibit materials for "Great Cranberry Island's Preble House" at https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/2423/page/3901/display?use_mmn=1&popup=1. A house history of the 1827 home of the Hadlocks, Prebles, and Spurling families including deeds, photos and storyline about the history of the house, people, and documents. (B) Grant documents and research materials. (C) Information and photos about the locations and identification of ceramic sherds, former structures, gardens, apple trees, metalworking (blacksmith?) residue, and cellar for possible future historical preservation or archaeological work including map of property drawn by present owner, Michael Macfarlan. (See also 2013.258.1988 for ceramic sherds (fragments from plates and cups). (D) Information gathered for possible nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. Mickey Macfarlan was working on this with GCIHS assistance. (E) Digital print of an 1876 sketch of Preble House as seen from Preble Cove by Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr .(www.flickr.com/photos/140072964@N06/32815983901/in/album-72157676911263533) Longfellow house Washington's headquarts https://www.nps.gov/long/index.htm [show more] |
| 2005.138.2026 | Hooked rug with geometric dog motif |
| Rug. Hooked, wool, green and beige geometric dog motif. Made on Cranberry Isles 1902-1905. One of two similar rugs from same donor. Donor inherited this rug and believes it belonged to Miriam Reynolds, one of several Mount Desert summer residents who established a rug-making cottage industry on Cranberry Island. Donor explained: "Reynolds was part of the family of William Reed Huntington, who spent summers in Northeast Harbor starting around 1886. Mrs. Huntington died years before, leaving four small children, and her older sister, Miriam, moved in to take care of them. The youngest of the four was Mary, who later married William Thompson. They summered in Tamworth, New Hampshire, and this rug was in their house there. The house was inherited by their second son, Charles G. Thompson. When Charles's daughter Victoria married Dr. James S. Murphy, a Seal Harbor summer resident, she was given the Cranberry rug (by then quite worn) so that it might return to nearer its origin. For forty years it lived in Seal Harbor, but when Victoria's daughter Alice married Cranberry Island summer resident Bill Bancroft, the rug came home!" This rug was repaired in the same manner as the crab-motif rug, but is in much worse condition. It, too, 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. 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. ..." | 
Description: Rug. Hooked, wool, green and beige geometric dog motif. Made on Cranberry Isles 1902-1905. One of two similar rugs from same donor. Donor inherited this rug and believes it belonged to Miriam Reynolds, one of several Mount Desert summer residents who established a rug-making cottage industry on Cranberry Island. Donor explained: "Reynolds was part of the family of William Reed Huntington, who spent summers in Northeast Harbor starting around 1886. Mrs. Huntington died years before, leaving four small children, and her older sister, Miriam, moved in to take care of them. The youngest of the four was Mary, who later married William Thompson. They summered in Tamworth, New Hampshire, and this rug was in their house there. The house was inherited by their second son, Charles G. Thompson. When Charles's daughter Victoria married Dr. James S. Murphy, a Seal Harbor summer resident, she was given the Cranberry rug (by then quite worn) so that it might return to nearer its origin. For forty years it lived in Seal Harbor, but when Victoria's daughter Alice married Cranberry Island summer resident Bill Bancroft, the rug came home!" This rug was repaired in the same manner as the crab-motif rug, but is in much worse condition. It, too, 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. 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. ..." [show more] | |
| 2005.138.2025 | Hooked rug with crab motif |
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| 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] |
| 2011.148.1107 | Gaile Colby with family and friends |
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| Photo of Gaile Colby ca. with family and friends c. 1969: l-r are Gaile, Lauren Gray (friend of family), Royal (Tinker) Colby, and in front l-r are Rhonda and Blair Colby. | 
Description: Photo of Gaile Colby ca. with family and friends c. 1969: l-r are Gaile, Lauren Gray (friend of family), Royal (Tinker) Colby, and in front l-r are Rhonda and Blair Colby. |
| 2017.392.2166 | Louise Sorenson's Post Office Box receipt |
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| Receipt for Louise Sorenson's Post Office Box 6 on GCI, signed by Marjorie Phippen (postmistress), December 24, 1975. Sorenson died the next year. | 
Description: Receipt for Louise Sorenson's Post Office Box 6 on GCI, signed by Marjorie Phippen (postmistress), December 24, 1975. Sorenson died the next year. |
| 1000.0.1548 | Charles "Pink" Stanley and Eliza Stanley |
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| Charles "Pink" Stanley and Eliza Stanley. "Captain Charles “Pink” Stanley was a lobsterman and captain for summer people. | 
Description: Charles "Pink" Stanley and Eliza Stanley. "Captain Charles “Pink” Stanley was a lobsterman and captain for summer people. |
| 1000.0.1539 | Karl and Oscar Wedge |
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| Scan of a photo of Karl and Oscar Wedge originally in folder titled "Wall Photos" | 
Description: Scan of a photo of Karl and Oscar Wedge originally in folder titled "Wall Photos" |
| 2018.416.2822 | Cranberry Road houses and Mailboat "Bobcat" |
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| Two 8"x10" black and white photographs mounted on particle board for display. A= Cranberry Road curve: Rome House, Brooks house and Weibel house. B= Wilfred Bunker's mailboat "Bobcat" heading for MDI with mountains all around. Undtd. | 
Description: Two 8"x10" black and white photographs mounted on particle board for display. A= Cranberry Road curve: Rome House, Brooks house and Weibel house. B= Wilfred Bunker's mailboat "Bobcat" heading for MDI with mountains all around. Undtd. |
| 2019.427.2821 | Photos (color slides) of winter on GCI, hunting, field burning, ice fishing 1960s |
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| Collection of slides from Mickey Macfarlan. Box A= Winter 1965, Ice fishing with Wilfred at Molassas Pond in Eastbrook Maine. Box B= 1966 snow scenes, Philmore Petersen and Red boat building, Keith Wedge shoveling, Russell Wedge, Preble House in snow. Box C= 1967 Red blueberry plants, winter ice in cove, field burning, Bob LaHotan, deer hunting, and Preble house 1965. (These may have been scanned previously; check NAS.) | 
Description: Collection of slides from Mickey Macfarlan. Box A= Winter 1965, Ice fishing with Wilfred at Molassas Pond in Eastbrook Maine. Box B= 1966 snow scenes, Philmore Petersen and Red boat building, Keith Wedge shoveling, Russell Wedge, Preble House in snow. Box C= 1967 Red blueberry plants, winter ice in cove, field burning, Bob LaHotan, deer hunting, and Preble house 1965. (These may have been scanned previously; check NAS.) |
| 2019.427.2820 | Photos of GCI people and places |
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| Collection of photos from Mickey Macfarlan. A= an 8'x10' b&w print of John McDonald dancing with unk woman by Freeman cottage barn. McDonald summered for many years in what is now Robin Freeman's cottage across from the Preble/Macfarlan house. B= 8"x10" color print of Western Way bell buoy on cloudy day with mountains in background. C= Snapshot photos of Mickey Macfarlan clearing trees on his property perhaps 1963. D= Snapshot photos of Macfarlan house exterior perhaps 1963. E= several snapshot photos: Tud Bunker, Mickey Macfarlan with shotgun and one other person Feb 1969. Murch house in the snow 1986. GCI Town Dock in winter with mountains. Unk dock (perhaps Frenchboro) in summer. | 
Description: Collection of photos from Mickey Macfarlan. A= an 8'x10' b&w print of John McDonald dancing with unk woman by Freeman cottage barn. McDonald summered for many years in what is now Robin Freeman's cottage across from the Preble/Macfarlan house. B= 8"x10" color print of Western Way bell buoy on cloudy day with mountains in background. C= Snapshot photos of Mickey Macfarlan clearing trees on his property perhaps 1963. D= Snapshot photos of Macfarlan house exterior perhaps 1963. E= several snapshot photos: Tud Bunker, Mickey Macfarlan with shotgun and one other person Feb 1969. Murch house in the snow 1986. GCI Town Dock in winter with mountains. Unk dock (perhaps Frenchboro) in summer. [show more] |
| 2017.387.2162 | Spurling Cemetery Preservation Project 2016 research |
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| Cemetery. Collection of Spurling Cemetery Preservation Project 2016 materials. These are the records of work done on Spurling Cemetery No. 1 on Spurling Cove on the bluff near the Town dock in 2016. Inscriptions, digital photographs, measurements, deeds, spreadsheets, costs, blog, and photos of work and discoveries for each of the 26 known graves recorded by Anne Grulich. Documentation includes minutes, research, spreadsheet, photos, administrative documents, and field notes. Deed information was supplied by the Maine Coast Heritage Trust who has a conservation easement along part of the David and Tracy Weibel property where the burial ground is located. See various GCIHS Cranberry Chronicle newsletters for cemetery project progress. A memorial headstone listing all 26 known burials for whom only 8 headstones and 5 footstones remain. Memorial stone is funded by the Town of Cranberry Isles and the GCI Church. Folder 1: Committee meeting notes from March 2016 through June 2017. Folder 2: Field work notes and spreadsheet of Names, Dates, and details of headstones. Folder 3: Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Survey of June 15, 2016 performed by Mike Scully and Michael McCormick of Northeast Geophysical Services of Bangor, and paid for by the GCI Church. Folder 4: Documents relating to preservation work done by Fred Wieninger and his nephew Benjamin of Wieninger Monuments in Milbridge. Folder 5: Joseph L'Grow and Sarah L'Grow (LeGrow) genealogical and gravestone information from Cynthia Robertson. Folder 6: Andrew Herrick burial information from Steve Herrick. Folder 7: Deeds for conservation easement for Stanley and Isabel Seimer (parents of David Weibel) to Maine Coast Heritage Trust. Folder 8: PowerPoint printout and printout of intro pages for website. Note: In addition to these papers, the project is fully documented with photos and daily notes and historical information located online at gcihs.org “cemetery projects” and on the GCIHS server \Archives\atgrulich\SpurlingCemetery1_2015_2017, as well as in e-mails. (See also 2016.374.2137 a fragment of William Spurling (d. 1839) marble headstone displayed in Museum, and two posters on exhibit.) | 
Description: Cemetery. Collection of Spurling Cemetery Preservation Project 2016 materials. These are the records of work done on Spurling Cemetery No. 1 on Spurling Cove on the bluff near the Town dock in 2016. Inscriptions, digital photographs, measurements, deeds, spreadsheets, costs, blog, and photos of work and discoveries for each of the 26 known graves recorded by Anne Grulich. Documentation includes minutes, research, spreadsheet, photos, administrative documents, and field notes. Deed information was supplied by the Maine Coast Heritage Trust who has a conservation easement along part of the David and Tracy Weibel property where the burial ground is located. See various GCIHS Cranberry Chronicle newsletters for cemetery project progress. A memorial headstone listing all 26 known burials for whom only 8 headstones and 5 footstones remain. Memorial stone is funded by the Town of Cranberry Isles and the GCI Church. Folder 1: Committee meeting notes from March 2016 through June 2017. Folder 2: Field work notes and spreadsheet of Names, Dates, and details of headstones. Folder 3: Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Survey of June 15, 2016 performed by Mike Scully and Michael McCormick of Northeast Geophysical Services of Bangor, and paid for by the GCI Church. Folder 4: Documents relating to preservation work done by Fred Wieninger and his nephew Benjamin of Wieninger Monuments in Milbridge. Folder 5: Joseph L'Grow and Sarah L'Grow (LeGrow) genealogical and gravestone information from Cynthia Robertson. Folder 6: Andrew Herrick burial information from Steve Herrick. Folder 7: Deeds for conservation easement for Stanley and Isabel Seimer (parents of David Weibel) to Maine Coast Heritage Trust. Folder 8: PowerPoint printout and printout of intro pages for website. Note: In addition to these papers, the project is fully documented with photos and daily notes and historical information located online at gcihs.org “cemetery projects” and on the GCIHS server \Archives\atgrulich\SpurlingCemetery1_2015_2017, as well as in e-mails. (See also 2016.374.2137 a fragment of William Spurling (d. 1839) marble headstone displayed in Museum, and two posters on exhibit.) [show more] |
| 2013.246.1943 | Rear view of Preble House with William Pitt Preble and two women |
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| Photo, ca. 1895, rear view of the Preble House showing William Pitt Preble (1811-1905) with two women. The woman on the left could be Preble's second wife, Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford Preble (1826-1898). The house was built by Captain Samuel Hadlock, Jr. and Samuel Spurling ca. 1827, and was occupied by Hadlocks and Prebles related through marriage or blood for its first century. The house and property have expanded and contracted over the course of its nearly 200 years. It was restored in the late 1940s and stands today as one of the largest and most historic homes on Great Cranberry Island. It was the boyhood home of Civil War General Andrew Barclay Spurling who was born across the street in the Freeman house. | 
Description: Photo, ca. 1895, rear view of the Preble House showing William Pitt Preble (1811-1905) with two women. The woman on the left could be Preble's second wife, Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford Preble (1826-1898). The house was built by Captain Samuel Hadlock, Jr. and Samuel Spurling ca. 1827, and was occupied by Hadlocks and Prebles related through marriage or blood for its first century. The house and property have expanded and contracted over the course of its nearly 200 years. It was restored in the late 1940s and stands today as one of the largest and most historic homes on Great Cranberry Island. It was the boyhood home of Civil War General Andrew Barclay Spurling who was born across the street in the Freeman house. [show more] |
| 2014.272.2016 | Ella Stanley postcard photo |
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| Postcard. Photograph, sepia tone, of woman with hat and victorian dress, annotated on reverse: "Ella Stanley, cousin Ella". | 
Description: Postcard. Photograph, sepia tone, of woman with hat and victorian dress, annotated on reverse: "Ella Stanley, cousin Ella". |
| 2013.263.1996 | Letters from Emily Gilley to Walter and Eliza Towse |
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| Letters. Nine letters from Emily S. Gilley, (born 14 May 1840 at Cranberry Isles to Elisha B. Gilley (1807-1901) and Hannah Manchester Stanley (1804-1880)). The letters were written to the donor's great-grandfather, Walter William Towse and his sister, Eliza. Walter Towse was born in Lubec, ME, in 1840. The first letter is addressed to Walter Towse's sister, Eliz, in 1864. The rest are to Walter from 1866 to 1878 while he was in Denver, Nebraska City, Omaha, and elsewhere. Emily was from Cranberry Isles and lived in Boston part of the year; she worked in the cotton mills, and married an Easterbrook, from Sackville. The donor states "Eliza must have sent the first letter on to her brother, for it was included in the packet he kept in a leather wallet that managed to be handed down in the family. Eunice Durham gave them to me." (Transcripts of letters were made by the donor and sent via email to GCIHS in 2008 along with a history of the correspondence. The letters were mailed to GCIHS inside the leather wallet.) Donor later sent three scanned photos of Walter Towse (B), (C), and (D). | 
Description: Letters. Nine letters from Emily S. Gilley, (born 14 May 1840 at Cranberry Isles to Elisha B. Gilley (1807-1901) and Hannah Manchester Stanley (1804-1880)). The letters were written to the donor's great-grandfather, Walter William Towse and his sister, Eliza. Walter Towse was born in Lubec, ME, in 1840. The first letter is addressed to Walter Towse's sister, Eliz, in 1864. The rest are to Walter from 1866 to 1878 while he was in Denver, Nebraska City, Omaha, and elsewhere. Emily was from Cranberry Isles and lived in Boston part of the year; she worked in the cotton mills, and married an Easterbrook, from Sackville. The donor states "Eliza must have sent the first letter on to her brother, for it was included in the packet he kept in a leather wallet that managed to be handed down in the family. Eunice Durham gave them to me." (Transcripts of letters were made by the donor and sent via email to GCIHS in 2008 along with a history of the correspondence. The letters were mailed to GCIHS inside the leather wallet.) Donor later sent three scanned photos of Walter Towse (B), (C), and (D). [show more] |
| 1000.0.1642 | Arvard Savage |
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| 1000.0.1615 | Westphal4th of July Party. |
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| Photo, the Westphal 2003 4th of July Party. Bill Goldberg, Omar Mountain, Ev Shorey, Doug Frank | 
Description: Photo, the Westphal 2003 4th of July Party. Bill Goldberg, Omar Mountain, Ev Shorey, Doug Frank |
| 1000.0.1610 | Westphal 4th of July Party. |
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| Photo, the Westphal 1994 4th of July Party. Gina Murray, Fred Moss, Katie Kehoe, Jean Cumming, Edna Andrade | 
Description: Photo, the Westphal 1994 4th of July Party. Gina Murray, Fred Moss, Katie Kehoe, Jean Cumming, Edna Andrade |
| 1000.0.1608 | Westphal 4th of July Party |
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| Photo, the Westphal 2000 4th of July Party. Jim Gertmanien reading the Declaration of Independence | 
Description: Photo, the Westphal 2000 4th of July Party. Jim Gertmanien reading the Declaration of Independence |
| 1000.0.1606 | Westphal 4th of July Party |
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| Photo, the Westphal 2000 4th of July Party. Owen Roberts, Rod Ward (back), David Stainton, Dick Pierson, Jim Gertmanien, Susan Ward, Ruth Westphal (solid red shirt at far right table-back to camera) | 
Description: Photo, the Westphal 2000 4th of July Party. Owen Roberts, Rod Ward (back), David Stainton, Dick Pierson, Jim Gertmanien, Susan Ward, Ruth Westphal (solid red shirt at far right table-back to camera) |
