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Richard 'Chuddy' Alley Interview Transcript Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Richard 'Chuddy' Alley Interview Transcript Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Interview Transcript from an interview with Richard 'Chuddy' Alley. The interview was recorded in the 2000's (exact year unknown) by Jessi Duma and Jenny Matthews, who both lived on the island for a number of years. Chuddy came to GCI as a young boy, and recounts many memories of Great Cranberry in the early to mid 20th century. He talks about agriculture and fishing extensively with Jessi. He moved over to Islesford and his son Ricky Alley speaks about fishing with a fish trap, and Pursing. Jessi was a Cranberry Island Fellow and became the general manager for GCIHS for a few years. Interview with transcribed by Hannah Gower-Fox. She was the Archivist and Museum Curator for GCIHS in 2023. [show more] | ||
Journals, ledgers, wallet, books, scanned photos pertaining to Stanley family from 1870s-1890s Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Journals, ledgers, wallet, books, scanned photos pertaining to Stanley family from 1870s-1890s Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of journals, ledgers, wallet, books, scanned photos pertaining to Stanley family: Items A-H. (A) Enoch B. Stanley's tan leather fold-over "The Revised and Improved Collector's Tax Book....Adapted to the Revised Statutes of 1883", by W. W. Bolster, Published Portland: W. H. Stevens & Company, No. 193 Middle Street. Entries from 1890-1892 with categories for real estate, personal property, poll tax, highway tax, a section on school district tax. With three loose handwritten pages inserted. One is list of children for Hannah Lopaus(?) who moved to Mount Desert July 12th 1799 and had 10 children and includes list of 9 children born to Hannah's daughter Nancy Lopauss Richardson Clark, one of whom was Meltiah P. Richardson (spouse of Carrie Stanley Richardson). The second loose page is a petition for a fish weir at Thrumcap for Enoch B. Stanley and W.D.(?) Stanley in January 1891. The third loose page is Permission for a fish weir with full description dated Feb. 7, 1891. (B) Maroon fold-over wallet (empty). (C) Scans from loaned Schmidt family photo albums including family and one of old hearse. (D) Maroon wallet with 14 items folded inside it: receipts: Meltiah Richardson 1871 taxes; E.B. Stanley 1862 & 1864; note to Capt Stanley 1864; 1864 receipt; 1864 receipt Hadlock; 1871 tax receipt; M. P. Richardson to E.B. Stanley 1874; one faded small photo of a person on a sailboat; registered letter receipt 1878 addressed to Thomas Leighton of Millbridge Me received of E. J? Stanley; Receipt 1882 for 7.33 payment; 1876 receipt E. B. Stanley and Perley Russell goods of Haskell 14.50. Envelope addressed to Mrs. Caroline H. Stanley Cranberry Isles ME with Boston Jan 30 1898 postmark 2 cents. Two comic poem pages (not scanned). (E) Small tan leather journal full of information listing fish catches and payments to individuals 1868-1870 in Boston, Cranberry Isles, Gloucester, Schooner Rozella mentioned on one page. Names include Gilley, Bunker, Spurling, Stanley, Ladd, Wayland, Bulger, Young; only three representational pages scanned from this journal. (F) Small narrow brown marbled ledger (undated) tallying fish and bills; two pages mention schooner Harrie [or Fannie?] Forrest; 1 page scanned. (G) Book: The Matron's Manual of Midwifery and the diseases of women during pregnancy and in child bed by Frederick Hollick, MD 1843. (H) Book: How to Hunt and Trap containing full instructions for hunting Buffalo, Elk, Moose, deer, Antelope - by J. H. Batty, 1878; inscribed "Boynton Stanley" at top of page, lower down "William G. Thumbeam[?] from Papa, Christmas 1878." (See also 2015.316.2077 and 2017.389.2164) [show more] | |||
Ledger with records of fishing Schooner Rozella Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| ![]() Ledger with records of fishing Schooner Rozella Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Ledger, Pocket, with records of work, fishing, cleaning fish, fish shares sold from Schooner Rozella, found in Bob LaHotan's barn, and probably kept by Enoch Stanley | ||
Receipt for fish Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| ![]() Receipt for fish Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Receipt, tied with string, for fish | |||
Letter from George Hadlock to Francis G. Fernald Islesford Historical Society |
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| Letter from George Hadlock to Francis G. Fernald Islesford Historical Society Description: Letter and envelope from George Hadlock to Francis G. Fernald about applying for a shared weir or trap license. February 25, 1944 People Mentioned: Percy T. Clarke | |
How to Eat a Maine Lobster Jesup Memorial Library |
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| ![]() How to Eat a Maine Lobster Jesup Memorial Library | |||
How to Prepare Maine Lobster Jesup Memorial Library |
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| ![]() How to Prepare Maine Lobster Jesup Memorial Library | |||
Receipt for fish Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| ![]() Receipt for fish Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Receipt, James Parker, dealer, Southwest Harbor, bought of E.B. Stanley, 15 Jun 189_, cod, haddock, livers, $15.85 | |||
Receipt for fish caught on Schooner Rozella Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| ![]() Receipt for fish caught on Schooner Rozella Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Note, Howard Norwood's share of fish caught on board Schooner Rozella is $15.55, signed by E.B.S. (presumably Enoch B. Stanley) | |||
Bills for W.F. Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| ![]() Bills for W.F. Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection, business bills, Eastern Steamship Lines to W.F. Stanley |