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| Addie Ethel Duren WWII ID card Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Addie Ethel Duren WWII ID card Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Addie Ethel Duren WWII ID card issued by U.S. Coast Guard. Islanders were required to carry ID cards during WW II when transiting from islands to MDI, to prove they weren't spies. | |||
| Quilt by Leah Jeanette (Sawyer) Stanley (1874-1944) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Quilt by Leah Jeanette (Sawyer) Stanley (1874-1944) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Quilt. Red and white (or beige) squares, 73" x 81" with solid white (or beige) reverse; filled with cotton batting. 14 5" x 6" squares long by 15 5"x6" squares wide. Each white square has a red embroidered flower, vegetable, bird, human figure, or animal in it. Donor states quilt was found in house when the property was bequeathed to the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation by Robert LaHotan's will and trust. Donor believes the quilt was made by Leah Stanley (Leah Jeanette (Sawyer) Stanley 1874-1944) who lived in the house with her husband Lewis Stanley. Quilt was displayed in 2006 GCIHS quilt exhibit. [show more] | ||
| Fire Department Helmets Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Fire Department Helmets Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Used by Herman Savage and Wilfred Bunker. Two oval metal helmets painted red; adjustable webbed fabric supports with metal rivets inside; raised staples on interior of brim with fabric chin strips in place. Helmets used by GCI volunteer fire department ca. 1948 when the fire department was formed. Helmet (A): Red outside, white inside; "C.I.V.D." painted in white on exterior; handwritten inside the rim "H. Savage" (Herman Savage). Savage was a teenage volunteer fire department member. Helmet (B):Red outside, red inside; "W.A.B." painted in yellow on exterior; no initials inside. Wilfred Allison Bunker would have been in his late 20s in 1948. These may have been WWII helmets adapted for use by the fire department. Badly rusted and paint flaking and peeling. (See also 2014.278.2020 CIVD documents from 1950-1960s.) (See also photo of firefighters taken ca. January 1951-1953 with identifications, printed copy stored with item 2021 - box 49.) [show more] | |||
| China doll Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  China doll Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Doll: common hair china doll, 22" tall with underclothes, pink skirt and shirt, leather arms andn cloth body. Ceramic head is cracked and mended, leather hands frayed, underclothes probably original; donor believed the pink floral, ruffled skirt and top were original and the doll was at least 100 years old. This doll is from the Towns house, a.k.a. Crosby farm, Bayview Farm, or Red House. | |||
| Ship's log child's notebook Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ship's log child's notebook Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Ship's log, used as child's notebook by Emery Richardson, poor condition (found in Bob LaHotan's barn when he cleaned it 2001). A child used it for practicing letters and drawing sailboats. | |||
| Cap and tee shirt, Rooster Club Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cap and tee shirt, Rooster Club Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Clothing. Blue and gold Rooster Club ball cap and green Rooster Club tee shirt. The Rooster Club was the men's answer to the elite women's Cranberry Club. Members included Arvard Savage, Doc Haydock, Charlie Rice, and Victor [White]?. Club house was behind Haydock's house. | |||
| Hats and tobacco brick from Lewis Stanley house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hats and tobacco brick from Lewis Stanley house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Hats and tobacco brick. (A) One flat-topped, black, wool cap with braiding above the visor in poor condition -sometimes called a Greek fisherman's cap. Brand name inside is worn off but begins with G. Style may be 100 years old. Perhaps Lewis Stanley's captain's hat (brother of Carrie Richardson). (B) One oilskin, tan, rain hat in poor condition, size 7 and 1/4. (C) One long, flat tobacco brick (10.5" x 2.5" x .5"). "The rectangular block is tobacco, probably to scrape off into the bowl of a pipe." - Bruce Komusin's note Fall 2008. Donor stated items were "found in Carrie Richardson's house under the stairwell during renovation." (The Stanley-Richardson house is now the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation house.) Also,"the photo of Carrie?? [Richardson] and man with telephone standing by canon was given at same time. [Photo not present during 2013 review.] [show more] | |||
| Captain's clothing belonging to Elwood Spurling, and Philmore Spurling's corncob pipe Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Captain's clothing belonging to Elwood Spurling, and Philmore Spurling's corncob pipe Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Clothing: Blue sea captain's jacket with insignia on right sleeve and eight brass buttons with anchors; Blue vest; Blue tie; White cap (hat) with blue visor (size 7); Blue jeans; Black rubber lobsterman's boots; Corn cob pipe. All but the pipe belonged to Elwood Spurling, Phil Whitney's maternal grandfather. The pipe belonged to Philmore Whitney. | |||
| Quilt. Cotton, white with pink basket motif Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Quilt. Cotton, white with pink basket motif Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Quilt. Cotton, white with pink basket motif on front, all white reverse. Pink border around three sides, one end with folded inward seem, no pink border. Sculpted in broad T shape on one end. Note from donor, Susan Bunker, reads: "This quilt was made by my father's, Raymond Bunker who was born in 1906, grandmother. She could have been a Bunker or a Spurling." | |||
| Sons of the American Revolution presented to Nelson Eliot Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Sons of the American Revolution presented to Nelson Eliot Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Plaque from The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution presented to Nelson Eliot Spurling | |||
| Eyeglasses from Richard and Alice Stanley house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Eyeglasses from Richard and Alice Stanley house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Spectacles. A pair of old reading eye glasses found in the Richard and Alice Stanley home. | |||
| Remembrance token made of human hair Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Remembrance token made of human hair Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Pin, bouquet of flowers made of human hair. Possible "sailor's treasure" - token of remembrance. Large daisies and smaller flowers on black wrapped stem. | |||
| Hooked rug with wading waterbird Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hooked rug with wading waterbird Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Rug. Hooked, yarn and jersey material, with note "...made by Eliza Stanley." White waterbird with yellow bill wading with cattails, mountains, and butterfly in background; brown border. Faded, torn, worn, repaired at some earlier time. Eliza Stanley b. 1888 and d. 1967. (Donor bought Eliza and Pink Stanley's house 1970.) | ||
| Edgar Bunker Korean War commemorative Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Edgar Bunker Korean War commemorative Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of Edgar Bunker Korean War commemorative items. (A) Medal. Korean War Service Medal for Edgar Bunker in wood and glass shadow box. Medal was posthumously presented to Bunker's four surviving sisters along with three commemorative coins, two cloth patches, and one tie-tack on August 20, 2000, by Vice Admiral Gregory Johnson at a ceremony on GCI. (B) Plaque: Certificate of Appreciation 2000. (C) Framed annotated map of Korean War events with presented to Pauline Bunker 2000. (See also 2013.241.1939 letter from Vice Admiral Johnson to Charlene Allen (Bunker's sister) and photos; and 1000.22.67 newspaper articles.) [show more] | |||
| Shoes and gloves worn by Hannah (nee Dick) Macfarlan for 1869 honeymoon trip Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Shoes and gloves worn by Hannah (nee Dick) Macfarlan for 1869 honeymoon trip Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Clothing. Collection of women's accessories worn with the "going away" outfit of Hannah (nee Dick) Macfarlan for her honeymoon trip. Married 21 April 1869 in Philadelphia. Two pairs of white kid gloves: smaller pair (A), larger (B); one pair white shoes (C); one beige hat with flower buds and a long ribbon tail (D); and one fringed, beige, silk collapsible parasol with ivory handle and ivory decorative top element (E). Handwritten pencil note inside shoe reads: "Shoes & gloves worn by Hannah Dick when she married Malcolm Macfarlan April 21, 1869." (See 2009.11.1180 skirt with jacket and 2009.11.1181 fan.) [show more] | |||
| Mrs. Jean Howard Wadsworth's Workshirt Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Mrs. Jean Howard Wadsworth's Workshirt Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Clothing. Shirt, work, worn by Jean Howard (Mrs. Wadsworth) during the building of the Charles & Jean Wadsworth home | |||
| Cherub Wall hanging Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cherub Wall hanging Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Wall Hanging gifted to Jan Moss from Gaile Colby in 1992 to celebrate Jan's first Grandchild. | ||
| Hand Towel (white) with monogram "M. Storey" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hand Towel (white) with monogram "M. Storey" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Towel. Hand Towel (white) with monogram "M. Storey"; belonged to Moorfield Storey | |||
| Male doll Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Male doll Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Wooden male doll dressed in South American or Spanish style | |||
| Hair curling iron Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hair curling iron Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Hair curling iron: wood handles with long metal jaw that opens and closes. | |||
| Clothespin doll Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Clothespin doll Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Clothespin doll reminiscent of Hitty in pink dress with black apron and cap on white metal stand. | |||
| Military medals in leather case imprinted with with 'AIR MEDAL' Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Military medals in leather case imprinted with with 'AIR MEDAL' Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Medals. Four military pins in a black leather case with 'AIR MEDAL' imprinted in gold on case. These pins would have been worn on a uniform shirt: one red and white pin, one ribbon board with three ribbons and four oak leaves, one blue and gold ribbon with eagle/sun medal attached. | |||
| Tud Bunker's tobacco pipe Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Tud Bunker's tobacco pipe Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Tobacco pipe, carved wooden bowl with plastic mouthpiece. "LARK, D----ow"and "IMPORTED BR---" on stem. Tud Bunker's pipe. | |||
| Tud Bunker's pocket knife Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Tud Bunker's pocket knife Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Pocket knife with folding blade, wood, brass, and stainless steel. Panther, Jr. C.I. 440 Stainless 571 Japan on blade. Blade has spots of rust. Knife is 4" long with blade folded into handle.Tud Bunker's pocket knife. | |||
| Eyeglasses, small gold wire bifocals from Preble house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Eyeglasses, small gold wire bifocals from Preble house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Eyeglasses, small gold wire bifocals, probably a woman's, for farsightedness, faint makers mark inside nose piece. With leather covered metal case, purple velvet inside, trademark on case: Stag above circle with words H.E. MURDOCK, Y.M.C.A. BUILDING, PORTLAND MAINE; from Preble house |