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| Catalogue # | Title | Type | Subject | Description | |
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| 2017.399.2175 | Agricultural heritage of the Cranberry Isles |
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| Research, Jessica Duma, 2014-2016 while an Island Institute Fellow at GCIHS which produced an exhibition, presentations, video, and oral history recordings. Historical and modern day materials pertaining to Duma's Agricultural Heritage of the Cranberry Isles fellowship focusing on farming, agriculture, apples, the Island Ecology project, farm stand, and more in the Town of Cranberry Isles from 19th century to present. Duma worked with mentor Todd Little-Siebold (College of the Atlantic) and used GCIHS and other local historical collections to produce an exhibition, gather oral histories, and record videos of her experiences and research while residing on Great Cranberry Island as a two-year fellow and then served as part-time manager of GCIHS and part-time manager for the CIRT (affordable housing) program for the last year. Documents in box. Digital materials located at NAS/ Catalogue/2017.399.2175_Duma. A. Exhibit materials (museum) and: NAS\Exhibits\Exhibits2015\Farming_JessiAndJillPiekutExhibitWork. B. Interviews: NAS\video\Jessi Duma Interviews 2014-20: Video by Duma and Jenny Matthews of "Chuddy" Alley in his home on April 2015. Audio of Colleen Bunker interview December 10, 2015, via telephone. Video of interview with Eva Bracy Galyean on November 22, 2015 in her GCI home with transcript. Audio of Gaile Colby interview January 15, 2015, by Duma and Sarah McCracken, partial transcript. Audio of music and singing with Arvard Savage 2015 or 2016. Video (with separate audio) of Phil Whitney in his GCI home January and February 2016. Video of Duma and Anne Gruhlich on a walkabout with Michael Macfarlan on his property discussing evidence of past farming and other occupations still visible on his historic Preble Cove property. Use of these interviews requires permission of the interviewee or their descendants. Questions: contact jessiduma@gmail.com. C. Video “A Taste of Great Cranberry Island: Agriculture Past and Present” - Duma explores agriculture on Great Cranberry Island through interviews with past and current residents. Directed, filmed, and edited by Jessica Duma. Featuring: Gaile Colby, Ben Sumner, Hallie Sumner, Kariah Sumner, Phil Whitney, Kayla Gagnon, Genny Mathews, Sarah McCracken, Colleen Bunker, Page Hill, Wendy Rackliff. Music by Jason Shaw: Serenity, Mountain Sun, Hoedown, Acoustic Meditation, Solo Acoustic Guitar. Special thanks to: GCIHS, Anne Grulich, Island Institute, Scott Sell, College of the Atlantic, Todd Little-Siebold. On YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKbktzbCqlw [Presently awaiting permissions to use the background music per Jessi 9/2017. Jessi will provide DVD copy after permissions granted.] | 
Description: Research, Jessica Duma, 2014-2016 while an Island Institute Fellow at GCIHS which produced an exhibition, presentations, video, and oral history recordings. Historical and modern day materials pertaining to Duma's Agricultural Heritage of the Cranberry Isles fellowship focusing on farming, agriculture, apples, the Island Ecology project, farm stand, and more in the Town of Cranberry Isles from 19th century to present. Duma worked with mentor Todd Little-Siebold (College of the Atlantic) and used GCIHS and other local historical collections to produce an exhibition, gather oral histories, and record videos of her experiences and research while residing on Great Cranberry Island as a two-year fellow and then served as part-time manager of GCIHS and part-time manager for the CIRT (affordable housing) program for the last year. Documents in box. Digital materials located at NAS/ Catalogue/2017.399.2175_Duma. A. Exhibit materials (museum) and: NAS\Exhibits\Exhibits2015\Farming_JessiAndJillPiekutExhibitWork. B. Interviews: NAS\video\Jessi Duma Interviews 2014-20: Video by Duma and Jenny Matthews of "Chuddy" Alley in his home on April 2015. Audio of Colleen Bunker interview December 10, 2015, via telephone. Video of interview with Eva Bracy Galyean on November 22, 2015 in her GCI home with transcript. Audio of Gaile Colby interview January 15, 2015, by Duma and Sarah McCracken, partial transcript. Audio of music and singing with Arvard Savage 2015 or 2016. Video (with separate audio) of Phil Whitney in his GCI home January and February 2016. Video of Duma and Anne Gruhlich on a walkabout with Michael Macfarlan on his property discussing evidence of past farming and other occupations still visible on his historic Preble Cove property. Use of these interviews requires permission of the interviewee or their descendants. Questions: contact jessiduma@gmail.com. C. Video “A Taste of Great Cranberry Island: Agriculture Past and Present” - Duma explores agriculture on Great Cranberry Island through interviews with past and current residents. Directed, filmed, and edited by Jessica Duma. Featuring: Gaile Colby, Ben Sumner, Hallie Sumner, Kariah Sumner, Phil Whitney, Kayla Gagnon, Genny Mathews, Sarah McCracken, Colleen Bunker, Page Hill, Wendy Rackliff. Music by Jason Shaw: Serenity, Mountain Sun, Hoedown, Acoustic Meditation, Solo Acoustic Guitar. Special thanks to: GCIHS, Anne Grulich, Island Institute, Scott Sell, College of the Atlantic, Todd Little-Siebold. On YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKbktzbCqlw [Presently awaiting permissions to use the background music per Jessi 9/2017. Jessi will provide DVD copy after permissions granted.] [show more] |
| 1000.0.909 | Arno Preston Stanley information |
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| Background information of Arno Preston Stanley with information and documents supplied by Phil and Karin Whitney and Ralph Stanley. Contains a restored version and a copy of the original marriage proposal letter of Arno Preston Stanley and the acceptance of Maybelle Stanley in the form of the same letter. | 
Description: Background information of Arno Preston Stanley with information and documents supplied by Phil and Karin Whitney and Ralph Stanley. Contains a restored version and a copy of the original marriage proposal letter of Arno Preston Stanley and the acceptance of Maybelle Stanley in the form of the same letter. |
| 2018.416.2783 | Business cards and railroad ticket |
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| Miscellaneous documents (late 1800s-early 1900s) from Preble House. A. Business card: George Shaw Grocer Portland Maine. B. Business card: S.T. Mugridge Sailmaker Rockland Maine. C. Second class railroad ticket Pullman’s Palace Car Co. from Bangor to [xxx], punched, October 2, [no year], Line 151, Conductor name illegible. Reverse shows rules and disclaimer (a statement from General Ticket Agent Chicago). D. Business card. Cranberry Isles Mutual Fish Company listing officers: Wm. P. Preble, A.C. Fernald, and directors: A. C. Savage, O.A. Richardson, A. L. Manchester: Curers, Packers and Shippers, Cranberry Isles etc. Reverse side lists kinds of fish they deal in. E. Undated (18xx) Collector’s Bond form. Partially filled in, listing Charles E. Spurling, Samuel N. Bulger and John Gilley as sureties of the Town of Cranberry Isles for $500. F. Blank shipping order form (two pages). C.K. Darling, Stationer, 15 Exchange St., Boston. | 
Description: Miscellaneous documents (late 1800s-early 1900s) from Preble House. A. Business card: George Shaw Grocer Portland Maine. B. Business card: S.T. Mugridge Sailmaker Rockland Maine. C. Second class railroad ticket Pullman’s Palace Car Co. from Bangor to [xxx], punched, October 2, [no year], Line 151, Conductor name illegible. Reverse shows rules and disclaimer (a statement from General Ticket Agent Chicago). D. Business card. Cranberry Isles Mutual Fish Company listing officers: Wm. P. Preble, A.C. Fernald, and directors: A. C. Savage, O.A. Richardson, A. L. Manchester: Curers, Packers and Shippers, Cranberry Isles etc. Reverse side lists kinds of fish they deal in. E. Undated (18xx) Collector’s Bond form. Partially filled in, listing Charles E. Spurling, Samuel N. Bulger and John Gilley as sureties of the Town of Cranberry Isles for $500. F. Blank shipping order form (two pages). C.K. Darling, Stationer, 15 Exchange St., Boston. [show more] |
| 1000.46.269 | Carrie M. Richardson ephemera |
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| Collection of cards and envelopes sent to Carrie M. Richardson |
Description: Collection of cards and envelopes sent to Carrie M. Richardson |
| 2016.381.2152 | Collection of documents: Receipts for church pews 1866; 1876 store receipt; Preble family ephemera and genealogy; Benjamin Spurling ephemera; memorial card for George N. Spurling 1901; |
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| Documents. Collection of items from Louise Marr. 1. Documents. Ten original receipts for pews sold to finance construction of the Great Cranberry Island meeting house [the GCI church] 1866. Each signed on August 25, 1866 by William P. Preble, Thomas Bunker, and Wm. H. Preble Building Committee. John Stanley $70=Pew 6. William H. Preble $100=Pew 18. Asa D. Stanley $90=Pew 2. Albert Gilley $70=Pew 39. S. G(?). Young and E.C. Rosebrook $60=Pew 30. John G. Bunker $70=Pew 37. William P. Preble $100=Pew 21. John N. Bulger $70=Pew 7. Samuel S. Fernald $80=Pew 29. Enoch Spurling $70=Pew 38. 2. Receipt. Items bought by Mr. William P. Preble on April 14, 1876 from Perley, Russell & Co, 94 Commercial Street, Portland, ME, and paid $51.50 (includes $1.23 interest) on Dec 26, 1876. 3. Several newspaper articles about Rachel Field. 4. Modern reprint of what many believe to be Samuel Hadlock Jr's wife, “The Prussian Lady”, so labelled on reverse. 5. Letter from Knowles Company, Insurance and Real Estate, Northeast Harbor, ME, January 9, 1935, to Capt. Benjamin H. Spurling, Boothbay Harbor, ME, re: problems collecting rent from tenant. 6. Family history re: Capt. Benjamin Spurling born 1849 on GCI "Capt. Benjamin Spurling was b. July 22, 1849, at Great Cranberry Isles, son of George N. and Abigail Spurling. He m. Frances A. dau of William P and Abigail C. Preble, who was born and reared on the same island. He commenced going to sea at the age of ten; took his first command at 21, sch. Maggie W. Willard.. In 1871 he moved to Portland and in 1888 to B.H. [Is this Boothbay Harbor?]. He holds a first-class pilot's license for the Atlantic Coast for steamers not exceeding 700 tons. He has built five vessels for E. Sanders & Col, Pensacola, Fla, and purchased and sold them several others. His principal sea-going has been in the mackerel fishery, and he has one high-line year to his credit. Their children are: Maud A., m. Forest Ware, Whitefield; Harold B. and Frances M. 7. Postcards. Two postcards for Preble taxes 1896 ($4.28) and 1895 ($3.61). 8. Receipt. William P. Preble is proprietor of One share of the capital stock of Ellsworth & Tremont Telegraph Company., July 5, 1869. 9. Card. Memorial card for George N. Spurling, died Jan. 16, 1901 at 82 years. He's buried in Spurling Cemetery. 10. Genealogy of the Preble Family in America, large chart, folded. 11. Genealogy, Family Record, large, ornate, folded, for William P. Preble family | 
Description: Documents. Collection of items from Louise Marr. 1. Documents. Ten original receipts for pews sold to finance construction of the Great Cranberry Island meeting house [the GCI church] 1866. Each signed on August 25, 1866 by William P. Preble, Thomas Bunker, and Wm. H. Preble Building Committee. John Stanley $70=Pew 6. William H. Preble $100=Pew 18. Asa D. Stanley $90=Pew 2. Albert Gilley $70=Pew 39. S. G(?). Young and E.C. Rosebrook $60=Pew 30. John G. Bunker $70=Pew 37. William P. Preble $100=Pew 21. John N. Bulger $70=Pew 7. Samuel S. Fernald $80=Pew 29. Enoch Spurling $70=Pew 38. 2. Receipt. Items bought by Mr. William P. Preble on April 14, 1876 from Perley, Russell & Co, 94 Commercial Street, Portland, ME, and paid $51.50 (includes $1.23 interest) on Dec 26, 1876. 3. Several newspaper articles about Rachel Field. 4. Modern reprint of what many believe to be Samuel Hadlock Jr's wife, “The Prussian Lady”, so labelled on reverse. 5. Letter from Knowles Company, Insurance and Real Estate, Northeast Harbor, ME, January 9, 1935, to Capt. Benjamin H. Spurling, Boothbay Harbor, ME, re: problems collecting rent from tenant. 6. Family history re: Capt. Benjamin Spurling born 1849 on GCI "Capt. Benjamin Spurling was b. July 22, 1849, at Great Cranberry Isles, son of George N. and Abigail Spurling. He m. Frances A. dau of William P and Abigail C. Preble, who was born and reared on the same island. He commenced going to sea at the age of ten; took his first command at 21, sch. Maggie W. Willard.. In 1871 he moved to Portland and in 1888 to B.H. [Is this Boothbay Harbor?]. He holds a first-class pilot's license for the Atlantic Coast for steamers not exceeding 700 tons. He has built five vessels for E. Sanders & Col, Pensacola, Fla, and purchased and sold them several others. His principal sea-going has been in the mackerel fishery, and he has one high-line year to his credit. Their children are: Maud A., m. Forest Ware, Whitefield; Harold B. and Frances M. 7. Postcards. Two postcards for Preble taxes 1896 ($4.28) and 1895 ($3.61). 8. Receipt. William P. Preble is proprietor of One share of the capital stock of Ellsworth & Tremont Telegraph Company., July 5, 1869. 9. Card. Memorial card for George N. Spurling, died Jan. 16, 1901 at 82 years. He's buried in Spurling Cemetery. 10. Genealogy of the Preble Family in America, large chart, folded. 11. Genealogy, Family Record, large, ornate, folded, for William P. Preble family [show more] |
| 1000.0.1104 | Collection of materials from Louise Marr |
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| Collection of Louise Marr related items and donations, and the Preble House, 1104a-d. (a) Photo of Louise Marr. (b) Inventory of items donated by Louise Marr February 2006. (c) Transcription of William Preble's income. (d) Write up used for the Preble display in museum |
Description: Collection of Louise Marr related items and donations, and the Preble House, 1104a-d. (a) Photo of Louise Marr. (b) Inventory of items donated by Louise Marr February 2006. (c) Transcription of William Preble's income. (d) Write up used for the Preble display in museum |
| 2016.381.2148 | Collection of miscellaneous documents |
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| Documents. Collection of miscellaneous materials from donor. School materials - show attendance pre-consolidation in 1904 when there was a school where today's gravel pit is on GCI, and at Malcolm Donald's house on GCI, as well as Baker's island. 3 State of Maine Teacher's School Registers for Cranberry Isles (lists of students and statistics) :(1) No. 5, First Winter Term 1888 signed by Ima Robbins, Teacher District No. 5 (2) No. 4, Spring Term, May 29, 1890, signed by Flossy H. Colby, Teacher District No. 4 (3) No. 1, Spring Term, 1887, signed by Laura Freeman, Teacher District No. 1. Summer term 1887 – Copies of time period general information - Teachers of Yesteryear Copy of list of groceries bought by Mr. Benj. H. Spurling 1905 from Nettie A Stanley Groceries and Dry Goods store. Map, large 1972: Maine Coastal Inventory, Land Cover Types, source: 1972 aerial photography, Trenton, Lamoine -1966 aerial photography, by Maine State Planning Office. Articles various: Ted Spurling making coiled mats, in a rowboat, etc. "Islands build a lifeline" CI parking and dock, Ed Gray and Phil Whitney mentioned. Article on 1990 school funding. Miscellaneous: (A) Postcard to B. H. Spurling; Receipt for the Power Boat Pilgrim purchasing 100 gal. gasoline for $9.00 from E. L. Taylor, Norfolk, VA Dec. 8, 1911; (B) Receipt for Str. Carrie & Mildred & Fitters, Nov. 15, 1910 purchase of groceries from W. S. Jordan & Co., 102 Commercial Street, Portland Maine for $17.64. (C) Copy of article "Cranberry Club is for Brahmins Only" front page of Wall Street Journal, Nov. 4, 1975. (D) Copy of bill for Wm. P. Preble, Esq. tax is $3.90 for May 27, 1897. (E) Copy of statement Chicago Rawhide Mfg. Co, Rawhide Belting, Lace Leather and Rope, Lariats and other Rawhide Goods of all kinds, 75 and 77 East Ohio Street, Chicago, February 13, 1896 stating that the undersigned sell their rights, title and interest in church on Great Cranberry Island - family pew No. 18 to William P. Preble. Witnesses: Lucie Weil, Lizzie A. Preble, Wm. N. Preble, Elmenia Preble. On reverse is statement "Received at Town Clerk's office May 4, 1896 and recorded in Volume 2, Page 82, signed George W. Bulger, Clerk." (F) Tax bill for Benjamin H. Spurling, April 21, 1933 Real estate valuation $1,400. Taxes 44.80, rate of taxation 32 mills. Received payment in full Sept. 1937, Andrew E. Stanley, Collector. (G) Envelope, empty, addressed to Mrs. B. H. Spurling, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, with Gray's Portland Business College logo on it. Written under flap is "Auntie Maude" (H) Old book plate print: The School at Play, engraved expressly for Peterson's Magazine. Children and teacher smoking in classroom. (I) Two pages from a ledger with note: Division of a fish catch with the crew (Schooner Lizzie Maud) Acct. Sales Mackerel Schr Lizzie Maude, July 14, 1896. Lists crew and fish beside column dated June 27, and states Received of B. H. Spurling in full for all [?] on Schr Lizzie Maud to date. Portland Oct. 2, 1896. Acct. Sales Mackerel Schr Lizzie Maud, received of B. H. Spurling the above share in full. Original newspaper article and one copy from The Word and The Work, Bangor Maine, February 1897 about the Cranberry Island church, with subtitle - Rev. Charles E. Harwood. (J) Copy of article on General Andrew B. Spurling's portrait in the state house, "Reminder of a Gallant Soldier" apparently the portrait is an enlargement from a photograph. |
Description: Documents. Collection of miscellaneous materials from donor. School materials - show attendance pre-consolidation in 1904 when there was a school where today's gravel pit is on GCI, and at Malcolm Donald's house on GCI, as well as Baker's island. 3 State of Maine Teacher's School Registers for Cranberry Isles (lists of students and statistics) :(1) No. 5, First Winter Term 1888 signed by Ima Robbins, Teacher District No. 5 (2) No. 4, Spring Term, May 29, 1890, signed by Flossy H. Colby, Teacher District No. 4 (3) No. 1, Spring Term, 1887, signed by Laura Freeman, Teacher District No. 1. Summer term 1887 – Copies of time period general information - Teachers of Yesteryear Copy of list of groceries bought by Mr. Benj. H. Spurling 1905 from Nettie A Stanley Groceries and Dry Goods store. Map, large 1972: Maine Coastal Inventory, Land Cover Types, source: 1972 aerial photography, Trenton, Lamoine -1966 aerial photography, by Maine State Planning Office. Articles various: Ted Spurling making coiled mats, in a rowboat, etc. "Islands build a lifeline" CI parking and dock, Ed Gray and Phil Whitney mentioned. Article on 1990 school funding. Miscellaneous: (A) Postcard to B. H. Spurling; Receipt for the Power Boat Pilgrim purchasing 100 gal. gasoline for $9.00 from E. L. Taylor, Norfolk, VA Dec. 8, 1911; (B) Receipt for Str. Carrie & Mildred & Fitters, Nov. 15, 1910 purchase of groceries from W. S. Jordan & Co., 102 Commercial Street, Portland Maine for $17.64. (C) Copy of article "Cranberry Club is for Brahmins Only" front page of Wall Street Journal, Nov. 4, 1975. (D) Copy of bill for Wm. P. Preble, Esq. tax is $3.90 for May 27, 1897. (E) Copy of statement Chicago Rawhide Mfg. Co, Rawhide Belting, Lace Leather and Rope, Lariats and other Rawhide Goods of all kinds, 75 and 77 East Ohio Street, Chicago, February 13, 1896 stating that the undersigned sell their rights, title and interest in church on Great Cranberry Island - family pew No. 18 to William P. Preble. Witnesses: Lucie Weil, Lizzie A. Preble, Wm. N. Preble, Elmenia Preble. On reverse is statement "Received at Town Clerk's office May 4, 1896 and recorded in Volume 2, Page 82, signed George W. Bulger, Clerk." (F) Tax bill for Benjamin H. Spurling, April 21, 1933 Real estate valuation $1,400. Taxes 44.80, rate of taxation 32 mills. Received payment in full Sept. 1937, Andrew E. Stanley, Collector. (G) Envelope, empty, addressed to Mrs. B. H. Spurling, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, with Gray's Portland Business College logo on it. Written under flap is "Auntie Maude" (H) Old book plate print: The School at Play, engraved expressly for Peterson's Magazine. Children and teacher smoking in classroom. (I) Two pages from a ledger with note: Division of a fish catch with the crew (Schooner Lizzie Maud) Acct. Sales Mackerel Schr Lizzie Maude, July 14, 1896. Lists crew and fish beside column dated June 27, and states Received of B. H. Spurling in full for all [?] on Schr Lizzie Maud to date. Portland Oct. 2, 1896. Acct. Sales Mackerel Schr Lizzie Maud, received of B. H. Spurling the above share in full. Original newspaper article and one copy from The Word and The Work, Bangor Maine, February 1897 about the Cranberry Island church, with subtitle - Rev. Charles E. Harwood. (J) Copy of article on General Andrew B. Spurling's portrait in the state house, "Reminder of a Gallant Soldier" apparently the portrait is an enlargement from a photograph. [show more] |
| 2016.340.2106 | Collection of Rachel Field (author) materials |
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| Collection of materials by or about Rachel Field mostly purchased via the internet by donor. (A) Black and white 8x10 photo of Field at home in Beverly Hills by Culver Pictures, Inc., NY, NY. (B) Black and White 8 x 10 photo of a scene from Time Out of Mind film, photo copyright is 1959 Screen Gems, Inc.. (C) Book: Flora, Fauna, & Fantasy, The Art of Dorothy Lathrop, edited by Catherine E. Hutchins, 2006, The Brandywine Conservancy, from the Brandywine River Museum Exhibition March 25-May21, 2006, and the Albany Institute of History & Art Exhibition September 16 through December 31, 2006 - Lathrop illustrated many Field books. This book was a gift from Virginia Heyerdahl to Bruce Komusin in 2006. (As of 04/07/2023 missing from box 27) (D) Audio cassette tape of Rachel Field radio show #27045, "Rise and Recite, March 29, 1939, Mutual net. Grown men & women recite poems. Author Rachel Field recites." Letter with cassette was mailed to Bruce Komusin from J. David Goldin of Newtown, CT 2/10/2005. (See also 1000.0.1029 CD recording of Field's radio recital in same Box 27.) (E) VHS recording of "Hitty the Legend Continues" probably from the Virginia Beach, VA, Hitty group 1998 Sirocco Productions, Inc. (F) Horn Book Magazine Sept/Oct 1995 with article on Rachel Field's Newbery Medal book Hitty on page 552. (G) McCall's Three Magazines in One March 1942 with Rachel Field's second installment of a story, "And Now Tomorrow." (H) The Saturday Review of Literature, October 22, 1938, Vol. XVIII No. 25, with a review of All this and Heaven Too, entitled, "Two Lives of a Woman" on page 5. (I) Saturday Review of Literature March 28, 1942 with article about Rachel Field's sudden and tragic passing by Laura Benet on page 10. (J) Saturday Review of Literature May 23, 1942 with review of Field's "And Now Tomorrow" on page 6. (K) Saturday Review of literature November 6, 1926 with article by Field, "Random Reflections" on page 277. | 
Description: Collection of materials by or about Rachel Field mostly purchased via the internet by donor. (A) Black and white 8x10 photo of Field at home in Beverly Hills by Culver Pictures, Inc., NY, NY. (B) Black and White 8 x 10 photo of a scene from Time Out of Mind film, photo copyright is 1959 Screen Gems, Inc.. (C) Book: Flora, Fauna, & Fantasy, The Art of Dorothy Lathrop, edited by Catherine E. Hutchins, 2006, The Brandywine Conservancy, from the Brandywine River Museum Exhibition March 25-May21, 2006, and the Albany Institute of History & Art Exhibition September 16 through December 31, 2006 - Lathrop illustrated many Field books. This book was a gift from Virginia Heyerdahl to Bruce Komusin in 2006. (As of 04/07/2023 missing from box 27) (D) Audio cassette tape of Rachel Field radio show #27045, "Rise and Recite, March 29, 1939, Mutual net. Grown men & women recite poems. Author Rachel Field recites." Letter with cassette was mailed to Bruce Komusin from J. David Goldin of Newtown, CT 2/10/2005. (See also 1000.0.1029 CD recording of Field's radio recital in same Box 27.) (E) VHS recording of "Hitty the Legend Continues" probably from the Virginia Beach, VA, Hitty group 1998 Sirocco Productions, Inc. (F) Horn Book Magazine Sept/Oct 1995 with article on Rachel Field's Newbery Medal book Hitty on page 552. (G) McCall's Three Magazines in One March 1942 with Rachel Field's second installment of a story, "And Now Tomorrow." (H) The Saturday Review of Literature, October 22, 1938, Vol. XVIII No. 25, with a review of All this and Heaven Too, entitled, "Two Lives of a Woman" on page 5. (I) Saturday Review of Literature March 28, 1942 with article about Rachel Field's sudden and tragic passing by Laura Benet on page 10. (J) Saturday Review of Literature May 23, 1942 with review of Field's "And Now Tomorrow" on page 6. (K) Saturday Review of literature November 6, 1926 with article by Field, "Random Reflections" on page 277. [show more] |
| 2013.241.1939 | Corporal Edgar Bunker |
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| Documents. Collection of copies of info re: Corporal Edgar Bunker's service in Korean War from June-October 1951, and his posthumous medal presentation August 20, 2000 on GCI. Sixty-seven pages total from at least two sources: unidentified book - random pgs. 25-230; five pages from "The History of the United Nations Forces in the Korean War, Vol. V" pg. 98-103. Letter from Vice Admiral Gregory Johnson to Charlene Allen (Bunker's sister) re: medal presentation August 20, 2000. Laminated pages (15) of photos, articles, and text remembering the medal presentation. (See also 2013.241.1940 medal; and 1000.22.67 newspaper articles.) | 
Description: Documents. Collection of copies of info re: Corporal Edgar Bunker's service in Korean War from June-October 1951, and his posthumous medal presentation August 20, 2000 on GCI. Sixty-seven pages total from at least two sources: unidentified book - random pgs. 25-230; five pages from "The History of the United Nations Forces in the Korean War, Vol. V" pg. 98-103. Letter from Vice Admiral Gregory Johnson to Charlene Allen (Bunker's sister) re: medal presentation August 20, 2000. Laminated pages (15) of photos, articles, and text remembering the medal presentation. (See also 2013.241.1940 medal; and 1000.22.67 newspaper articles.) [show more] |
| 1000.23.563 | "Cranberry Island Notes" by Charles 'Chuck' Liebow |
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| Boats. Looseleaf Binder, "Cranberry Island Notes" by Charles Liebow. Contains maps 1607-1881, "List of Vessels From Notes made by Chuck Liebow (Typed & some notes added by Hugh Dwelley 11/1994" (also on cranberryisles.com website), 1912 petition to establish boundaries of roads, census data 1839-1860, the cranberry register 1909-1910, boat building, Liebow's notes on books and articles, miscellaneous, photos, houses showing owners then and now, families, deeds. | 
Description: Boats. Looseleaf Binder, "Cranberry Island Notes" by Charles Liebow. Contains maps 1607-1881, "List of Vessels From Notes made by Chuck Liebow (Typed & some notes added by Hugh Dwelley 11/1994" (also on cranberryisles.com website), 1912 petition to establish boundaries of roads, census data 1839-1860, the cranberry register 1909-1910, boat building, Liebow's notes on books and articles, miscellaneous, photos, houses showing owners then and now, families, deeds. [show more] |
| 2002.85.600 | Cranberry Island Tennis Club documents |
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| Documents relating to Cranberry Island Tennis Club 1982-1990: bylaws of 1983, list of members, rules of the court, activities, minutes of meetings, etc. |
Description: Documents relating to Cranberry Island Tennis Club 1982-1990: bylaws of 1983, list of members, rules of the court, activities, minutes of meetings, etc. |
| 1000.0.950 | Crantini fundraiser |
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| Collection of items pertaining to the Great Cranberry Island Crantini fundraiser held on 8/4/2004 |
Description: Collection of items pertaining to the Great Cranberry Island Crantini fundraiser held on 8/4/2004 |
| 1000.27.1379 | Creative works by Gretchen Westphal |
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| Document, program list of creative works by Gretchen Westphal, and a short biography "What I Did With My Lawn Mowing Money", for her exhibit at the GCI Library, 5 July 2009 | 
Description: Document, program list of creative works by Gretchen Westphal, and a short biography "What I Did With My Lawn Mowing Money", for her exhibit at the GCI Library, 5 July 2009 |
| 2018.420.2290 | Documents pertaining to Great Cranberry 1902-1930 |
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| Collection of documents (1902-1930) including store receipts, Telephone Office postcard, Cranberry Isles High School program 1902 listing 21 students, and the history of the poem "My Island Home" by Mrs. E. T. Preble. Families mentioned include: Bunker, Spurling, Lagoutte | 
Description: Collection of documents (1902-1930) including store receipts, Telephone Office postcard, Cranberry Isles High School program 1902 listing 21 students, and the history of the poem "My Island Home" by Mrs. E. T. Preble. Families mentioned include: Bunker, Spurling, Lagoutte |
| 2019.427.2808 | Douglas Macfarlan Research and manuscript |
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| Green notebook of Douglas Macfarlan (Michael J. "Mickey" Macfarlan's’ father) research labelled "William Bingham’s Maine Lands with biographical notes on Bingham, John Black, Col. Cobb, Baring Bros., Ashburton, Genl James Swagt [sp?]. Notebook also contains A= typewritten copy of Downeast Magazine 1966 Bingham Estate. B=Three seemingly unrelated newspaper clippings. C= An envelope with documents “The Engagement between the “Constitution” and the “Guerriere” Aug 19, 1812 (six pages) with transcription and a copy of "general orders (four pages) with note "turn this envelope up and over to get the ins. copy.” And D = A title page and lengthy manuscript: “Voyages of Discovery of the North Atlantic Coast by Douglas Macfarlan” with red Viking ship picture. | 
Description: Green notebook of Douglas Macfarlan (Michael J. "Mickey" Macfarlan's’ father) research labelled "William Bingham’s Maine Lands with biographical notes on Bingham, John Black, Col. Cobb, Baring Bros., Ashburton, Genl James Swagt [sp?]. Notebook also contains A= typewritten copy of Downeast Magazine 1966 Bingham Estate. B=Three seemingly unrelated newspaper clippings. C= An envelope with documents “The Engagement between the “Constitution” and the “Guerriere” Aug 19, 1812 (six pages) with transcription and a copy of "general orders (four pages) with note "turn this envelope up and over to get the ins. copy.” And D = A title page and lengthy manuscript: “Voyages of Discovery of the North Atlantic Coast by Douglas Macfarlan” with red Viking ship picture. [show more] |
| 2018.419.2285 | Early Hadlock papers group 1 of 5 |
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| Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) | 
Description: Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) [show more] |
| 2018.419.2286 | Early Hadlock papers group 2 of 5 |
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| Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) | 
Description: Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) [show more] |
| 2018.419.2287 | Early Hadlock papers group 3 of 5 |
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| Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) | 
Description: Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) [show more] |
| 2018.419.2288 | Early Hadlock papers group 4 of 5 |
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| Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) | 
Description: Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) [show more] |
| 2018.419.2289 | Early Hadlock papers group 5 of 5 |
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| Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) | 
Description: Collection of documents pertaining to Samuel and George Hadlock, their stores, schooners Hadlock and Minerva, and other topics. In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Several generous islanders from Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry (Islesford) purchased this collection which now resides at GCIHS, catalogued as 2018.419.2285 through 2289. All documents except the advertisements and bill heads referred to in 2018.419.2288 have been scanned. (Descriptions for this collection were provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books. GCIHS welcomes your transcriptions or comments on individual documents: info@gcihs.org.) [show more] |
| 2014.291.2046 | Eight boxes of research papers from Ralph Stanley |
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| Documents. (Preliminary catalogue entry). Seven boxes of research papers now housed in 8 archival boxes and folders. Box 1: Papers from Mrs. Libby, Bob Pyle's mother, to Ralph Stanley, ca. 1970 which used to be stored in her safe but were given to Ralph for safe keeping: geneaology (could be in Sawtelle's handwriting; Ralph has typewritten copies in his possession). File folder 1 holds items from the top of Ralph's original box- File folder 6 would have been from the bottom of his box. Loose papers and some bound together. Box 2: Leslie Victor Stanley's papers (LVS) ("Uncle Les") = genealogy and other documents, perhaps pertaining to LVS book on houses of GCI. Box 3: Gold binder marked "census". Box 4A= Binder labeled "Cranberry Isles Maine, births and deaths 1763-1890 Archives Augusta, ME." Box 4B= Black binder containing newspaper articles, unknown letter, genealogy and other papers. Second binder labeled "Mass Vital Statistics - Stanley." Box 5= 3 binders: Mass. Stanley genealogy; A-Z Families genealogical info; notebook on genealogy. Box 6= two binders: The first five children of William and Hannah Gilley, Jr.(Hannah, William 3rd, Elisha, Eunice, and Francis). Second binder: genealogy, articles, etc. on Gilleys: Joseph, Matilda, Samuel, Lucinda, John, Mary, and Almira. Box 7= Three file folders with genealogical materials removed from colorful cardboard folders: obituaries, notes, two original receipts; Cemeteries of Southwest Harbor and Manset, ME; Benjamin Spurling, Sr. His Wife and 11 children and 55 grandchildren; Stanleys of Swans Island, ME; Stanleys in Massachusetts; Three Bunker Families on GCI - genealogy. (Note: This accession of 8 boxes presently catalogued under this number may eventually be combined with a second accession of Ralph Stanley papers 2014.296.2049 as topics and materials from donor may be related or duplicated.) |
Description: Documents. (Preliminary catalogue entry). Seven boxes of research papers now housed in 8 archival boxes and folders. Box 1: Papers from Mrs. Libby, Bob Pyle's mother, to Ralph Stanley, ca. 1970 which used to be stored in her safe but were given to Ralph for safe keeping: geneaology (could be in Sawtelle's handwriting; Ralph has typewritten copies in his possession). File folder 1 holds items from the top of Ralph's original box- File folder 6 would have been from the bottom of his box. Loose papers and some bound together. Box 2: Leslie Victor Stanley's papers (LVS) ("Uncle Les") = genealogy and other documents, perhaps pertaining to LVS book on houses of GCI. Box 3: Gold binder marked "census". Box 4A= Binder labeled "Cranberry Isles Maine, births and deaths 1763-1890 Archives Augusta, ME." Box 4B= Black binder containing newspaper articles, unknown letter, genealogy and other papers. Second binder labeled "Mass Vital Statistics - Stanley." Box 5= 3 binders: Mass. Stanley genealogy; A-Z Families genealogical info; notebook on genealogy. Box 6= two binders: The first five children of William and Hannah Gilley, Jr.(Hannah, William 3rd, Elisha, Eunice, and Francis). Second binder: genealogy, articles, etc. on Gilleys: Joseph, Matilda, Samuel, Lucinda, John, Mary, and Almira. Box 7= Three file folders with genealogical materials removed from colorful cardboard folders: obituaries, notes, two original receipts; Cemeteries of Southwest Harbor and Manset, ME; Benjamin Spurling, Sr. His Wife and 11 children and 55 grandchildren; Stanleys of Swans Island, ME; Stanleys in Massachusetts; Three Bunker Families on GCI - genealogy. (Note: This accession of 8 boxes presently catalogued under this number may eventually be combined with a second accession of Ralph Stanley papers 2014.296.2049 as topics and materials from donor may be related or duplicated.) [show more] |
| 2014.295.2048 | Exhibit texts and miscellaneous for 2014 displays |
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| Documents. Exhibit text, labels, photo identifications, and miscellaneous from 2014 GCIHS museum photography exhibit (A). And parsonage house shoes/cape houses exhibit (B) (see also 2015.304.2062). |
Description: Documents. Exhibit text, labels, photo identifications, and miscellaneous from 2014 GCIHS museum photography exhibit (A). And parsonage house shoes/cape houses exhibit (B) (see also 2015.304.2062). |
| 2010.192.1401 | Futures Group Records 1996 & 1997-2002 |
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| Documents. Collection of Old Futures Group Records- 1996 & 1997-2002 |
Description: Documents. Collection of Old Futures Group Records- 1996 & 1997-2002 |
| 1000.0.1052 | GCIHS documents |
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| Collection, GCIHS info. 1052a-c. (a) November 2009 Issue of the Cranberry Chronicle. (b) Summer 2009 Events calendar. (c) Laminated copy of notes from the GCIHS 2000 Annual Meeting |
Description: Collection, GCIHS info. 1052a-c. (a) November 2009 Issue of the Cranberry Chronicle. (b) Summer 2009 Events calendar. (c) Laminated copy of notes from the GCIHS 2000 Annual Meeting |
| 1000.0.1099 | GCIHS's Home and Garden Tour miscellanea |
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| Collection of GCIHS's Home and Garden Tour, 1099a-f. (a) Brochure handed out to Home, Art, and Garden Tour visitors. (b) Photo of Ticket selling station set up in Southwest Harbor. (c) Newspress release announcing the HAGT. (d) Thank you note posted by Phil Whitney after the event. (e) Laminated Poster of HAGT. (f) Save the date. |
Description: Collection of GCIHS's Home and Garden Tour, 1099a-f. (a) Brochure handed out to Home, Art, and Garden Tour visitors. (b) Photo of Ticket selling station set up in Southwest Harbor. (c) Newspress release announcing the HAGT. (d) Thank you note posted by Phil Whitney after the event. (e) Laminated Poster of HAGT. (f) Save the date. |
