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Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
"Preble Launches Attack On Pirate Stronghold"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Object, Other Object
  • Fred Humiston
  • 1965-01-01
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
  • In Copyright
"Preble Launches Attack On Pirate Stronghold"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Identifier:
  • gcihs-2014.506.2997
Type:
  • Publication, Newspaper
Subject:
  • Object, Other Object
Creator:
  • Fred Humiston
Date:
  • 1965-01-01
Place:
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
Description:
"Preble Launches Attack On Pirate Stronghold." Part 197 of Fred Humiston's "Blue Water Men - And Women." This part tells the story of Lieutenant Stephen Decatur and Commodore Preble destroying the captured frigate "Philadelphia." The men succeeded in their goal to destroy the Philadelphia. The article says "The Frigate's destruction took a great load off Commodore Preble's mind, for properly commissioned in pirates hand, she might have wrecked havoc in the American squadron." [show more]
First Flag Raising - Flag Going Up
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Other Object
  • 1969
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
First Flag Raising - Flag Going Up
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Identifier:
  • swhpl-9986
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Object, Other Object
Date:
  • 1969
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
Description:
The occasion of the flag raising is described in Anne's account "Making Woods a Garden" (SWHPL 353) and in Tom Coleman's handwritten book "The House that Anne Built" (SWHPL 9979). The ship model weathervane is shown atop the flagpole.