Exhibit. Previously used museum display about Ice Harvesting on Cranberry Island. Included in the publication "A Day on an Ice-Field" by Alvaro Adsitt.
Description: Exhibit. Previously used museum display about Ice Harvesting on Cranberry Island. Included in the publication "A Day on an Ice-Field" by Alvaro Adsitt.
Description: Business receipt, dated 24 Sep 1910, E.B. Stanley bought of Nettie Stanley, pair of rubbers, ticking, pork, pepper, wire, etc., total $34.50, dated
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.
Description: 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.
Document, 1 sheet, Public Notice, handwritten draft, Selectmen William E. Hadlock and W.A. Spurling propose to consider Cranberry Club's application to build 219-foot Wharf on Fish Point, 25 Mar 1899. It was later approved, obviously. This item has penciled draft on one side, and identical pen draft on the other. Transcribed as: "Notice is hereby given that it is the intention of the Municipal Officers (Selectmen) of Cranberry Isles, upon the application in writing of the President and Others of the Cranberry Club , (so called) for License to Erect and Extend a Wharf, off Land leased of William Stanley at the Fish Point, (so called) on Great Cranberry Island. Said proposed Wharf to extend into tide waters Two Hundred and nineteen feet from low water mark, at low tide; and that they will meet for the purpose of examining the location proposed at said Fish Point on Saturday the twenty fifth day of March, A.D. 1899, at three o'clock in the afternoon, and all persons interested will govern themselves accordingly. Given under our hand, this 20th. day of March, A.D. 1899. William E. Hadlock, Municipal Officers W.A. Spurling Cranberry Isles." (Above is text of the blue ink version. The pencilversion on the back seems to be identical.)
Description: Document, 1 sheet, Public Notice, handwritten draft, Selectmen William E. Hadlock and W.A. Spurling propose to consider Cranberry Club's application to build 219-foot Wharf on Fish Point, 25 Mar 1899. It was later approved, obviously. This item has penciled draft on one side, and identical pen draft on the other. Transcribed as: "Notice is hereby given that it is the intention of the Municipal Officers (Selectmen) of Cranberry Isles, upon the application in writing of the President and Others of the Cranberry Club , (so called) for License to Erect and Extend a Wharf, off Land leased of William Stanley at the Fish Point, (so called) on Great Cranberry Island. Said proposed Wharf to extend into tide waters Two Hundred and nineteen feet from low water mark, at low tide; and that they will meet for the purpose of examining the location proposed at said Fish Point on Saturday the twenty fifth day of March, A.D. 1899, at three o'clock in the afternoon, and all persons interested will govern themselves accordingly. Given under our hand, this 20th. day of March, A.D. 1899. William E. Hadlock, Municipal Officers W.A. Spurling Cranberry Isles." (Above is text of the blue ink version. The pencilversion on the back seems to be identical.) [show more]
Journal with transcription. 38-page typed transcription of protestations of ships wrecked on the Cranberry Isles from an original 19th-century ledger/journal kept by William P. Preble 1867-1879. Journal transcribed by Michael Macfarlan c. 2002. One loose page partial protestation for 1893. The back of the journal also contains pages for the accounts pertaining to School district No. 2, the Post Office, and for various islanders (not transcribed). (See also 1000.0.934: selections from 1080 - sea captain's transcribed broadcasts for possible video production. (See also June 2018 Cranberry Chronicle, pages 20-13 - link below)
Description: Journal with transcription. 38-page typed transcription of protestations of ships wrecked on the Cranberry Isles from an original 19th-century ledger/journal kept by William P. Preble 1867-1879. Journal transcribed by Michael Macfarlan c. 2002. One loose page partial protestation for 1893. The back of the journal also contains pages for the accounts pertaining to School district No. 2, the Post Office, and for various islanders (not transcribed). (See also 1000.0.934: selections from 1080 - sea captain's transcribed broadcasts for possible video production. (See also June 2018 Cranberry Chronicle, pages 20-13 - link below) [show more]
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]
Document, 7 pages, 7 color photos, and 1 envelope, description of the Red House and its Barn (the Towns family house), and photos of same, for posting on web site with intent to rent, 12 Jan 2000
Description: Document, 7 pages, 7 color photos, and 1 envelope, description of the Red House and its Barn (the Towns family house), and photos of same, for posting on web site with intent to rent, 12 Jan 2000
Description: Brochure, 1 sheet, 2 sides, tri-fold, for the Seawich Cafe" in the Cranberry General store, sandwiches, sweets, and salads, with prices, for 1996
Brochure: "Island Adventure", a tourist handout and schedule of the Cranberry Cove Boating Co., 1993, when it was owned & run by Charles "Chuck" Liebow (before being sold to Steve Pagels.)
Description: Brochure: "Island Adventure", a tourist handout and schedule of the Cranberry Cove Boating Co., 1993, when it was owned & run by Charles "Chuck" Liebow (before being sold to Steve Pagels.)
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.