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2011.163.1390Mail Boat ticket
  • Object, Ticket
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
Ticket, Mail Boat, 10-Trips for $5, all punched out (used). Polly said while donating it, "An example of the 'Good Old Days.'"
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Ticket, Mail Boat, 10-Trips for $5, all punched out (used). Polly said while donating it, "An example of the 'Good Old Days.'"
2012.200.1584Downeast Windjammer Cruise information
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
  • People
Document, Downeast Windjammer Cruises dated 3/21/2011 from Captain Steven F. Pagels. Subject: Great Cranberry Island Historical Society. Article mentions the newsletter, Cranberry Chronicles). Capt. Steven F. Pagels owned the ferry, Moleska, for a period of time. Capt. Pagels "purchased Moleska from Chuck Liebow where she was lying in his boat house on Great Cranberry. We needed a vessel for a pilot launch as we were then running pilots out to cruise ships entering and leaving Bar Harbor back in the 1990's. I believe the Moleska had been built at Southwest Boat right after WWII. We later sold Moleska and I believe she went down to Belfast." See also 2018.416.2824C.
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Document, Downeast Windjammer Cruises dated 3/21/2011 from Captain Steven F. Pagels. Subject: Great Cranberry Island Historical Society. Article mentions the newsletter, Cranberry Chronicles). Capt. Steven F. Pagels owned the ferry, Moleska, for a period of time. Capt. Pagels "purchased Moleska from Chuck Liebow where she was lying in his boat house on Great Cranberry. We needed a vessel for a pilot launch as we were then running pilots out to cruise ships entering and leaving Bar Harbor back in the 1990's. I believe the Moleska had been built at Southwest Boat right after WWII. We later sold Moleska and I believe she went down to Belfast." See also 2018.416.2824C. [show more]
1000.0.1657Beal & Bunker Mail Boat and Ferry Service Schedule
  • Document, Schedule, Timetable
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
Document, 1657a-b. (a) 1985 Beal & Bunker Mail Boat and Ferry Service Schedule. Northeast Harbor-Cranberry Isles-Islesford-Suttons Abroad the SEA QUEEN. (b) back side of same. There are 3 copies of this schedule.
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Document, 1657a-b. (a) 1985 Beal & Bunker Mail Boat and Ferry Service Schedule. Northeast Harbor-Cranberry Isles-Islesford-Suttons Abroad the SEA QUEEN. (b) back side of same. There are 3 copies of this schedule.
2021.455.2858Mail Boat breaking Ice
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
A photograph labeled " Feb-12-1934. No Mail for 6 days. Boat Breaking Ice"
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A photograph labeled " Feb-12-1934. No Mail for 6 days. Boat Breaking Ice"
2003.70.525Ferry schedule
  • Document, Schedule, Timetable
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
Leaflet, Islesford Ferry Schedule, 1952, stopping at Seal Harbor, Northeast Harbor, Asticou, Southwest Harbor, Manset, Cranberry Isles
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Leaflet, Islesford Ferry Schedule, 1952, stopping at Seal Harbor, Northeast Harbor, Asticou, Southwest Harbor, Manset, Cranberry Isles
1000.27.723Cranberry Cove Boating Schedule
  • Document, Advertising, Poster
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
Business card, Cranberry Cove Boating Co. run by Charles Liebow, with 1998 ferry schedule and fares from Southwest Harbor
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Business card, Cranberry Cove Boating Co. run by Charles Liebow, with 1998 ferry schedule and fares from Southwest Harbor
2022.623.3113Beal & Bunker The "Mail Boat", Sea Queen, Cap'N B, and the Double B ferry schedule
  • Document, Schedule, Timetable
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
Tri-fold paper schedule for the mail boat ferry from Northeast Harbor to Cranberry Islands and Sutton Island. Adult $16. Undated.
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Tri-fold paper schedule for the mail boat ferry from Northeast Harbor to Cranberry Islands and Sutton Island. Adult $16. Undated.
2013.220.1875Wilfred S. Trussell 1906 motorized vessel license
  • Document, Permission, License
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
  • People
Document, License, framed under glass, to operate or navigate motorized vessels of 15 gross tons or less and to carry passengers, issued to Wilfred S. Trussell, 21 Sept 1906, signed by Charles O. Cousinly and Walter L. Blaisdell
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Document, License, framed under glass, to operate or navigate motorized vessels of 15 gross tons or less and to carry passengers, issued to Wilfred S. Trussell, 21 Sept 1906, signed by Charles O. Cousinly and Walter L. Blaisdell
1000.0.782Maine Greets Opening of Yarmouth-Bar Harbor Ferry 1956
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
Newpaper clipping, Bangor Daily News, 6 June 1956, pp. 17-18 & 21-22, "Maine Greets Opening of Yarmouth-Bar Harbor Ferry," about the new ferry terminal in Bar Harbor, and the Bluenose ferry.
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Newpaper clipping, Bangor Daily News, 6 June 1956, pp. 17-18 & 21-22, "Maine Greets Opening of Yarmouth-Bar Harbor Ferry," about the new ferry terminal in Bar Harbor, and the Bluenose ferry.
2021.456.2879Islesford Ferry Shirt belonging to Warren Rice
  • Object, Clothing, Shirt
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
A shirt warn by Warren Rice. The shirt was a work shirt for Islesford Ferry service. The back of the shirt says "Old Man Of The Sea".
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A shirt warn by Warren Rice. The shirt was a work shirt for Islesford Ferry service. The back of the shirt says "Old Man Of The Sea".
1000.7.215"A New Super Highway", Bluenose Ferry, Bar Harbor to Nova Scotia
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
Newspaper clipping, "A new Superhighway" about new Bluenose ferry terminal and service from Bar Harbor to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
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Newspaper clipping, "A new Superhighway" about new Bluenose ferry terminal and service from Bar Harbor to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
2023.634.3124Wilfred Bunker Interview Transcript 5th Dec, 2011
  • Document, Oral History
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
This is a transcript of an interview Phil Whitney and Bruce Komusin conducted with Wilfred Bunker, the cofounder of Beal and Bunker, on the 5th December, 2011.
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This is a transcript of an interview Phil Whitney and Bruce Komusin conducted with Wilfred Bunker, the cofounder of Beal and Bunker, on the 5th December, 2011.
1000.27.1124Brass lobster gauge
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Tool, lobster gauge, brass, used to determine whether a lobster is of legal size to be kept. From the lobster's eye socket notch to the end of its carapace, it must be no larger than 5" and no smaller than 3-3/16". This guage has those two dimensions built in
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Tool, lobster gauge, brass, used to determine whether a lobster is of legal size to be kept. From the lobster's eye socket notch to the end of its carapace, it must be no larger than 5" and no smaller than 3-3/16". This guage has those two dimensions built in
2010.152.1153Receipt made out to Mrs. Spurling
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Business receipt. Itemized purchases dated May 4, 5, 11, 18, and 25,188(?). Company name appears as 'Jewett and Brower', at Portland Maine. Made out to Mrs. Spurling. Total amount is for $121. Lines 1, 3, and 5 appear to be haddock.
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Business receipt. Itemized purchases dated May 4, 5, 11, 18, and 25,188(?). Company name appears as 'Jewett and Brower', at Portland Maine. Made out to Mrs. Spurling. Total amount is for $121. Lines 1, 3, and 5 appear to be haddock.
2010.152.1157Receipt for Preble's purchase of netting
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Business receipt. "Portland, Feb 19th, 1880, Mr. W.P. Preble, A.M. Nickerson & Co, Dealers in All Kinds of Seines, &c., Also Seines Tarred, Hung and Repaired at Shortest Notice. Long Wharf, Portland, ME." Item bought: "100 Lbs Porgie Netting $20.00" Handwritten note "Rev'd Pay't A.M. Nickerson & Co." Further note: "Paid: March 22nd 1880"
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Business receipt. "Portland, Feb 19th, 1880, Mr. W.P. Preble, A.M. Nickerson & Co, Dealers in All Kinds of Seines, &c., Also Seines Tarred, Hung and Repaired at Shortest Notice. Long Wharf, Portland, ME." Item bought: "100 Lbs Porgie Netting $20.00" Handwritten note "Rev'd Pay't A.M. Nickerson & Co." Further note: "Paid: March 22nd 1880"
1000.12.1179Wooden buoys (lobster floats) and net floats on a rope
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Buoy
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear, 4 wooden buoys (lobster floats) and 8 round net floats strung on a rope; all buoys are shaped like clubs with a hole to attach a rope on one end. all net floats are shaped like beads with a hole through the center. one buoy has carved initials WFS and is 12.5" L x 4" W x 1.5" H; one buoy has carved initial X and is 13.5" L x 3" W x 2.75" H; the other two buoys have no marks and are 10.5" L x 3.5" W x 2" H, and 12" L x 4" W x 2.5" H. the eight round net floats are varying sizes round and oval, from 3" L to 5" L
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Fishing gear, 4 wooden buoys (lobster floats) and 8 round net floats strung on a rope; all buoys are shaped like clubs with a hole to attach a rope on one end. all net floats are shaped like beads with a hole through the center. one buoy has carved initials WFS and is 12.5" L x 4" W x 1.5" H; one buoy has carved initial X and is 13.5" L x 3" W x 2.75" H; the other two buoys have no marks and are 10.5" L x 3.5" W x 2" H, and 12" L x 4" W x 2.5" H. the eight round net floats are varying sizes round and oval, from 3" L to 5" L [show more]
2004.164.1182Herring net on metal hoop with wooden handle
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear, large herring net on metal hoop with wooden handle. The net itself is 11' long, the metal hoop 5.5' in diameter, the wooden handle 10' long, the overall length (hoop + handle) is 15.5'. Net was found upstairs in Wesley Bracey Sr.'s workshop (before the building was moved and became the Cranberry House).
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Fishing gear, large herring net on metal hoop with wooden handle. The net itself is 11' long, the metal hoop 5.5' in diameter, the wooden handle 10' long, the overall length (hoop + handle) is 15.5'. Net was found upstairs in Wesley Bracey Sr.'s workshop (before the building was moved and became the Cranberry House).
1000.0.1192Large fishing hand line with weight
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear, large hand line with weight (for fishing)
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Fishing gear, large hand line with weight (for fishing)
1000.0.1224Large fishing hand line with weights with wood frame
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear, large fishing hand line with weights, wrapped around a wooden frame
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Fishing gear, large fishing hand line with weights, wrapped around a wooden frame
1000.0.1225Large fishing handline with weights on wood frame
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear, large handline with weights, wrapped around a wooden frame
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Fishing gear, large handline with weights, wrapped around a wooden frame
1000.0.1226Large hand line with weights
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Large hand line with weights and initials JLS
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Large hand line with weights and initials JLS
1000.0.1227Wooden barrel with fishing twine
  • Object, Containers
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Large bundle of fishing twine
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Large bundle of fishing twine
1000.0.1252Fishing line weight
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear, fishing line weight 2.5"
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Fishing gear, fishing line weight 2.5"
1000.0.1255Wood buoy (lobster float) branded CE RICE
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Buoy
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear, wooden buoy (lobster float), bell shaped, black & orange, branded "CE RICE" and "9818", with iron ring attached with iron staple on bottom
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Fishing gear, wooden buoy (lobster float), bell shaped, black & orange, branded "CE RICE" and "9818", with iron ring attached with iron staple on bottom
1000.0.1256Buoy (lobster float), white & green
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Buoy
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishng equipment, buoy (lobster float), white & green
Description:
Fishng equipment, buoy (lobster float), white & green