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| Catalogue # | Title | Type | Subject | Description | |
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| 1000.0.1065 | Boat Drawings by young Alton Bunker |
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| Two pictures printed on large paper for display purposes of boats by young Alton Bunker, brother of Tud Bunker. Alton had the mailboat contract for a few years around 1939, he ran the contract with his boat a Novia | 
Description: Two pictures printed on large paper for display purposes of boats by young Alton Bunker, brother of Tud Bunker. Alton had the mailboat contract for a few years around 1939, he ran the contract with his boat a Novia |
| 1000.0.1117 | Model four-mast schooner in glass bottle |
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| Model, 4-masted wooden schooner in a molded glass bottle with cork; it looks old but commercial, not a handicraft object | 
Description: Model, 4-masted wooden schooner in a molded glass bottle with cork; it looks old but commercial, not a handicraft object |
| 1000.0.1324 | Model two miniature schooners in glass case |
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| Model, boat, miniature schooners (two) in glass case | 
Description: Model, boat, miniature schooners (two) in glass case |
| 1000.0.1349 | Sailboat race |
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| Photo of 8 racing I.O.D.s (International One Design sloops); approximately 5" x 8" black & white, in a wood frame. Caption taped to back of frame: "Full or Collapsed, Spinnakers Reveal Skippers' Skill and Luck in Catching Light Breeze off Mount Desert Island, Maine. One sail (third from left) droops while a rival, 100 feet directly ahead, balloons with a fortunate puff. Hand on sheet, a crew member (second yacht from right) jockeys his sail as he would a horse's reins. Compact and sturdy, these are International Class sloops all built in Norway before the war. Here the Northeast Harbor fleet nears the finish line after an eight mile race. Four years of war have not stopped such races. (Courtesy Main Development Commission)" No date. | 
Description: Photo of 8 racing I.O.D.s (International One Design sloops); approximately 5" x 8" black & white, in a wood frame. Caption taped to back of frame: "Full or Collapsed, Spinnakers Reveal Skippers' Skill and Luck in Catching Light Breeze off Mount Desert Island, Maine. One sail (third from left) droops while a rival, 100 feet directly ahead, balloons with a fortunate puff. Hand on sheet, a crew member (second yacht from right) jockeys his sail as he would a horse's reins. Compact and sturdy, these are International Class sloops all built in Norway before the war. Here the Northeast Harbor fleet nears the finish line after an eight mile race. Four years of war have not stopped such races. (Courtesy Main Development Commission)" No date. [show more] |
| 1000.0.1486 | Paul Peterson and Hazel (Stanley) Peterson |
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| Photo, Paul Peterson and Hazel "Brooke" "Snooks" (Stanley) Peterson-1965. Beal and Bunker Speedboat "Rogue" | 
Description: Photo, Paul Peterson and Hazel "Brooke" "Snooks" (Stanley) Peterson-1965. Beal and Bunker Speedboat "Rogue" |
| 1000.0.1518 | Photo of boat Idlesse |
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| Picture of boat. (written on photo is Idlesse- rest of writing on picture not able to read ?) | 
Description: Picture of boat. (written on photo is Idlesse- rest of writing on picture not able to read ?) |
| 1000.0.1637 | Storm clouds above the Island Queen |
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| Photo, Island Queen, Ed and Dave Westphal's Tangerine(?) with dramatic sky and mountains. | 
Description: Photo, Island Queen, Ed and Dave Westphal's Tangerine(?) with dramatic sky and mountains. |
| 1000.0.1647 | Norman and Herman Savage and Karl Wedge boats |
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| Photo, 3 boats - Norman's boat is on the right, center boat is Herman Savage and Karl Wedge's boat is on the left. | 
Description: Photo, 3 boats - Norman's boat is on the right, center boat is Herman Savage and Karl Wedge's boat is on the left. |
| 1000.0.1649 | Victor Whites old shed and boat |
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| Shed on the right was Victor White's now on Marylyn Fredickson's (?) property. Victor's boat, Lea Lyman's house is in the background. | 
Description: Shed on the right was Victor White's now on Marylyn Fredickson's (?) property. Victor's boat, Lea Lyman's house is in the background. |
| 1000.0.1651 | Karl Wedge and Herman Savage boats |
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| Photo, in the foreground is Karl Wedge's "Sonja Russel" and behind is Herman Savage's boat which is rigged for dragging bought from Jr. Bracy. | 
Description: Photo, in the foreground is Karl Wedge's "Sonja Russel" and behind is Herman Savage's boat which is rigged for dragging bought from Jr. Bracy. |
| 1000.0.1652 | Ice on boat hulls |
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| Photo, Ice on boat hulls (maybe Wesley Bracy, Sr.'s boat?), foreground on right is Harry Alley's boat, on left is Keith Wedge's King Pin. | 
Description: Photo, Ice on boat hulls (maybe Wesley Bracy, Sr.'s boat?), foreground on right is Harry Alley's boat, on left is Keith Wedge's King Pin. |
| 1000.0.25 | Navigation License - Lewis Stanley |
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| Letter accompanying Special License to Navigate | 
Description: Letter accompanying Special License to Navigate |
| 1000.0.292 | Receipt for supplies for Schooner Rena A. Percy |
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| Receipt & envelope, from Charles F. Guptill & Co., Portland, 14 Dec 1905, $36.58 food for the Schooner Rena A. Percy, to Capt. Lewis Stanley | 
Description: Receipt & envelope, from Charles F. Guptill & Co., Portland, 14 Dec 1905, $36.58 food for the Schooner Rena A. Percy, to Capt. Lewis Stanley |
| 1000.0.59 | Receipt for salvage items from Brig (Schooner) Aerolite |
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| Receipt, Received from Wm. P. Preble, Auctioneer, $821.92 for salvage items from Brig Aerolite of St. John, N.B., 20 Jan 1869 -- H.G. Bunker | 
Description: Receipt, Received from Wm. P. Preble, Auctioneer, $821.92 for salvage items from Brig Aerolite of St. John, N.B., 20 Jan 1869 -- H.G. Bunker |
| 1000.0.85 | Records for the Brig Beaver |
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| Collection of records about the Brig Beaver | |
| 1000.131.1048 | George and Arvard Savage with horse and boats |
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| Photo, George Savage standing in front of the Helen Parker House (on Cranberry Rd. across from Bruce Komusin's) with his horse Star Summer 1945. 1048B George in back of the Parker house with his horse Star. 1048C photo taken from The Pool. 1048D George Savage's boat. 1048 E Arvard Savage and others with Hillard Hardy's boat. Photo featured on Fall 2010 Cranberry Chronicle. | 
Description: Photo, George Savage standing in front of the Helen Parker House (on Cranberry Rd. across from Bruce Komusin's) with his horse Star Summer 1945. 1048B George in back of the Parker house with his horse Star. 1048C photo taken from The Pool. 1048D George Savage's boat. 1048 E Arvard Savage and others with Hillard Hardy's boat. Photo featured on Fall 2010 Cranberry Chronicle. |
| 1000.166.1191 | Boat compass in wooden Binnacle box |
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| Used by Wilfred S. Trussell and Harvey Everett Bulger. Tool, boat compass in wooden binnacle box with window (brass, wood, paper, iron and glass). Compass card diameter 3.5", gimbal ring 5", interior box: 6.25" x 6.25"; exterior box: 7" x 11" x 8.5" H. North arrow has fleur d' lis motif. Compass was used by Wilfred S. Trussell (1869-1911) and/or Harvey (Harry) Everett Bulger (b.1883-d.<1911), who were husbands of Sadie Anna Harding (b.1879- d. after 1911) who once lived in the Cox now Dalton house (2016) on GCI. Sadie Harding married Trussell 1898 and Bulger 1919. No visible manufacturer or maker marks. Ralph Stanley examined this compass 2016 and believes it's a liquid (alcohol) compass after locating the corroded nut covering the fill-hole in the rim of the compass bowl. He also noted the quadrant markings on the sides of the compass. Per Stanley, Trussell had a sloop and this type of compass was used in boats of that size. It may indeed have been the compass that guided Trussell home during one particular storm (see Stanley's forthcoming book 2017). Stanley thinks it's a liquid compass about 100 years old and could have been purchased at any local marine goods store, but the box was specially made perhaps by Leslie Rice. Michael Macfarlan believes this could be a Ritchie compass and the hole in the wooden case with the shield above it would have been for a battery-powered light (not a candle). One or two large batteries would have been housed in the box's rear compartment. (Box hardware is too corroded to remove and investigate.) Stanley believes a wire to the light would have been wired to the engine. By email 2016, Ben Fuller at Penobscott Marine Museum suggests this compass would be suitable for small schooner or sloop large enough to be sailed at night, suggesting the Smithsonian's NMAH website: amhistory.si.edu/navigation/type.cfm?typeid=3 for further investigation. NMAH Website states: "Simple marine compasses have a magnetized needle attached to the bottom of a paper card, and are inherently unstable. Since the 1850s, scientists and instrument makers have struggled to solve this problem. One solution, pioneered by E. S. Ritchie in the United States, was to float the magnetic needle in a bowl of liquid...." (For genealogy see 2016.337.2103 Index p. 3 and p. 15, records p. 400 and 400A) (See also 2015.350.2115 for possible photo of Wilfred Trussel.) | 
Description: Used by Wilfred S. Trussell and Harvey Everett Bulger. Tool, boat compass in wooden binnacle box with window (brass, wood, paper, iron and glass). Compass card diameter 3.5", gimbal ring 5", interior box: 6.25" x 6.25"; exterior box: 7" x 11" x 8.5" H. North arrow has fleur d' lis motif. Compass was used by Wilfred S. Trussell (1869-1911) and/or Harvey (Harry) Everett Bulger (b.1883-d.<1911), who were husbands of Sadie Anna Harding (b.1879- d. after 1911) who once lived in the Cox now Dalton house (2016) on GCI. Sadie Harding married Trussell 1898 and Bulger 1919. No visible manufacturer or maker marks. Ralph Stanley examined this compass 2016 and believes it's a liquid (alcohol) compass after locating the corroded nut covering the fill-hole in the rim of the compass bowl. He also noted the quadrant markings on the sides of the compass. Per Stanley, Trussell had a sloop and this type of compass was used in boats of that size. It may indeed have been the compass that guided Trussell home during one particular storm (see Stanley's forthcoming book 2017). Stanley thinks it's a liquid compass about 100 years old and could have been purchased at any local marine goods store, but the box was specially made perhaps by Leslie Rice. Michael Macfarlan believes this could be a Ritchie compass and the hole in the wooden case with the shield above it would have been for a battery-powered light (not a candle). One or two large batteries would have been housed in the box's rear compartment. (Box hardware is too corroded to remove and investigate.) Stanley believes a wire to the light would have been wired to the engine. By email 2016, Ben Fuller at Penobscott Marine Museum suggests this compass would be suitable for small schooner or sloop large enough to be sailed at night, suggesting the Smithsonian's NMAH website: amhistory.si.edu/navigation/type.cfm?typeid=3 for further investigation. NMAH Website states: "Simple marine compasses have a magnetized needle attached to the bottom of a paper card, and are inherently unstable. Since the 1850s, scientists and instrument makers have struggled to solve this problem. One solution, pioneered by E. S. Ritchie in the United States, was to float the magnetic needle in a bowl of liquid...." (For genealogy see 2016.337.2103 Index p. 3 and p. 15, records p. 400 and 400A) (See also 2015.350.2115 for possible photo of Wilfred Trussel.) [show more] |
| 1000.212.1260 | Metal bow bit, cleat, nozzle, and "A" from various boats |
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| Ship hardware. Collection of four large brass/metal artifacts recovered by Wesley Bracy Jr. (a.k.a. "Junior:) from local waters while scuba diving 1970-1980s. Items were either loaned or donated to GCIHS in 2000. (A): Artifact, letter "A" metal plate, from tug Astro an ocean-going tug towing a barge that ran ashore on Mt. Desert Rock 1902. Astro sank but barge okay. (B): Bow bit from the Ara, Deane's ocean-going private yacht that sank 1926 off Little Duck Island; (C): cleat; (D:) fire nozzle possibly from Deane's yacht. (See also 2015.310.2070 digital slides, and DVD interview made in 2003 (2013.265.1998).) | 
Description: Ship hardware. Collection of four large brass/metal artifacts recovered by Wesley Bracy Jr. (a.k.a. "Junior:) from local waters while scuba diving 1970-1980s. Items were either loaned or donated to GCIHS in 2000. (A): Artifact, letter "A" metal plate, from tug Astro an ocean-going tug towing a barge that ran ashore on Mt. Desert Rock 1902. Astro sank but barge okay. (B): Bow bit from the Ara, Deane's ocean-going private yacht that sank 1926 off Little Duck Island; (C): cleat; (D:) fire nozzle possibly from Deane's yacht. (See also 2015.310.2070 digital slides, and DVD interview made in 2003 (2013.265.1998).) [show more] |
| 1000.27.150 | Immersion suit donning instructions |
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| Instruction sheet, immersion suit donning, found 25 Aug 2002 on shore near, and presumed to be from, the wreck of the Donbhe, which occurred 5 Mar 2002 |
Description: Instruction sheet, immersion suit donning, found 25 Aug 2002 on shore near, and presumed to be from, the wreck of the Donbhe, which occurred 5 Mar 2002 |
| 1000.27.804 | The Wind & the Wood, Ralph W. Stanley Inc., Boat Building |
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| Brochure, "The Wind & the Wood," promoting Ralph W. Stanley Inc., Boat Building business in Southwest Harbor. With his thoughts about wooden boat building, and photos of him, his shop, and his boats. Brochure probably from the mid 1980s. | 
Description: Brochure, "The Wind & the Wood," promoting Ralph W. Stanley Inc., Boat Building business in Southwest Harbor. With his thoughts about wooden boat building, and photos of him, his shop, and his boats. Brochure probably from the mid 1980s. |
| 1000.28.404 | Shark attack |
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| Photo, 8" x 10", boat with patched hole caused by shark attack (see items 400-406) | 
Description: Photo, 8" x 10", boat with patched hole caused by shark attack (see items 400-406) |
| 1000.3.218 | Receipts for Schooners S. L. Foster, Rozella, Sea Bird, and Relief |
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| Business receipts, 1878 (A) and 1898 (B). 1000.3.218(A) is from Potter and Wrightington, Boston, to Enoch Stanley for the Schooners S.L. Foster, Rozella, Sea Bird, and Relief: $2553.89 for fish. 1000.3.218(B) is a receipt for the Schooner S. L. Foster bought of Sm. Newman, Manset Maine 1898 various items like rope, sail line, nails, knife, keg, coffee and tea pots, spoons etc purchased March through September 1898 total $34.82. | 
Description: Business receipts, 1878 (A) and 1898 (B). 1000.3.218(A) is from Potter and Wrightington, Boston, to Enoch Stanley for the Schooners S.L. Foster, Rozella, Sea Bird, and Relief: $2553.89 for fish. 1000.3.218(B) is a receipt for the Schooner S. L. Foster bought of Sm. Newman, Manset Maine 1898 various items like rope, sail line, nails, knife, keg, coffee and tea pots, spoons etc purchased March through September 1898 total $34.82. |
| 1000.3.219 | Receipt for Schooner Sea Bird supplies |
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| Business receipt, from Perley Russell & Co. Portland, 16 Apr 1875 for schooner Sea Bird, food and supplies, $360.54 |
Description: Business receipt, from Perley Russell & Co. Portland, 16 Apr 1875 for schooner Sea Bird, food and supplies, $360.54 |
| 1000.3.228 | Receipt for repairs to Schooner S. L. Foster |
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| Business receipt, from John Blair, manager of Townsend Marine Railway, 30 Mar 1878, to schooner S.L. Foster, for hauling boat and painting bottom, $31.50. |
Description: Business receipt, from John Blair, manager of Townsend Marine Railway, 30 Mar 1878, to schooner S.L. Foster, for hauling boat and painting bottom, $31.50. |
| 1000.3.229 | Receipt for Schooner Rozella fish |
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| Business receipt, account of mackerel packed for schooner Rozella, 26 Jul 1876, $782.40 |
Description: Business receipt, account of mackerel packed for schooner Rozella, 26 Jul 1876, $782.40 |
