Description: Photos, 1051a-u. (a) 3 photos of the town dock from different perspectives. (b) 5 photos of Lee Klausky and Lovie Klausky. (c) Preble Beach. (d) Spurling Point. (e) Hamor Beach, now the Oppenheimer's. (f) Ida Higgins. (g) Ida Higgins. (h) Three people walking towards Lew Stanley's (Now Heliker LaHotan) to go clamming in The Pool. (i) "Hauling Boats" in front of what is now Wini Smart's house. (j) From Cranberry Island looking to Seal Harbor. (k) Jennie Antonson sitting on the front of what is now Gaile Colby's home. (l) Sherwin and Lucille Stanley as young children. (m) Three people going on a picnic from left to right: unknown, Ida Higgins, Dorothy Higgins. (n) Inscribed "Captain George Lagoutt (sp?) and friend" no one at archive meeting knew either or their relationship to the island. (o) The old Ladies Aid Barn (Now Janice Murch's chicken coop) at fair time in August. (p) Unknown woman. (q) Unknown woman. (r) Mary Stanley, wife of Gilman Stanley, and daughter of Mr & Mrs Asa Stanley. (s) May Stanley. (t) Sherwin Stanley (sp?). (u) Preble Beach. [show more]
Description: Photographs. Collection of scans of photos 2013.344.2110 (A-Y) made in 2004 from photos recovered by donor in either Hilda Spurling or Marjorie Phippen's GCI house. Unclear whether we have original photos at GCIHS. (Note: Original photo names were pw01 thru pw027, museum photos now identified as A-Y.)pw01 - pulled from an album; post-it note on back: "Moss House" (Image of Moss House with haystacks 1927)pw02 - on back: "1947"; post-it note on back: "Hilda Spurling 1947"pw03 - on back, in ink: "this is Harvard Beals Boat we are hauling on the ice" in pencil: "March 1923"pw04 - pulled from an album; on back, ballpoint ink: "Little Elener (now Buzzie)"; on post-it note: "Seimer House"pw05 - postcard; pw06 - unknown housenext 3 photos were clipped together by phil whitneypw07 - unknown man in unknown boatpw08 - skyline of New York City?pw09 - pulled from an album; unknown kids on slednext 4 photos were clipped together by philpw10 - unknown shipwreckpw11 - post-it note on back: "Spurling Cove 1923"pw12 - pulled from album; post-it note on back: "Field across from Wesley Bracy's house" but i think this is wrong as the houses across the way seem too close & numerouspw13 - post-it note on back: "Murch dock"pw14 - on back: "Sherley Louise & cat 'Jiminey'"pw15 - on back: "Margie & Hilda"; post-it note on back: "Margie Phippen & Hilda Spurling"pw16 - pulled from album; on back: "Bertie's cat 'Goody'"pw17 - on back: "Hilda & Ethel B."pw18 - pulled from album; on front: "Harriet's room, one of my rooms, my bedroom" on back: "Where we let...etc."pw19 - pulled from album, double exposure; post-it note on back: "Morrie Newell House"pw20 - on back: "Margie & Mother"pw21 - unknown vesselpw22 - unknown vessel; on back: "ship wreck on back of cranberry island" (same vessel as pw10)pw23 - on back: "The cove froxen over" post-it note on back: "Spurling Cove 1923"pw24 - on back: "Bagley's Barber shop with a little snow on the side Ha! Where I have my hair dressing done Marcel Wasco and so on Ha!"pw25 - unknown house, seems same as pw06 but has additional dormer and latticework under porchpw26 - seems to be same kids and same houses as pw14pw27 - luxury yacht passing by GCI [show more]
Description: Painting, oil on canvas, unframed, "Dancing Rock, Baker Island" by Wini Smart. Painting features people dancing in a summer scene atop the flat ledge of granite on the island.
Description: Caption reads: “This was taken in New Zealand. Think I sent you one before. At one of the gates to New Zealand's “Yellow Stone.” Rotorua is a Yellow Stone on a very small scale. Good tho!”
Description: Photocopies: 1: Magnum Donum and St. Mary's-by-the-sea 2: Hiking Green Mountain and Bubble Pond, ca. 1884 3: On Western Mountain, ca. 1884 4: Four Boating Scenes, ca. 1884 -- Anne Terry Gardiner, R. Bradley, L. Bradley, PGB, EGG 5: Four Boating Scenes, ca. 1884 -- James Terry Gardiner 6: Archbishop of Canterbury at St. Mary's with Bishop Doane, 1907 7: Archbishop of Canterbury's Cruise of the Corsair, 1907 8: Performance of play Universal Neurasthenia, 1907 -- Ye Haven 9: Performance of play Universal Neurasthenia, 1907 -- Ye Haven Photographs: 1: Gardiner Wedding, ca. 1900 -- James Gardiner and Margaret Doane 2: Northeast Harbor Clergy, ca. 1900 -- Archbishop of Canterbury, Mrs. Davidson, Bishop William Doane 3: Group on Yacht Kaiwa, ca. 1900 4: Ye Haven, interior, ca. 1900 5: Bishop Doane on Carriage with Granddaughter, ca. 1900 6: Picnic on Western Mountain, ca. 1900 -- James T. Gardiner, Eliza Doane Gardiner 7: Group on yacht Corsair, ca. 1900 -- Archbishop of Canterbury, Mrs. Davidson, Mr. and Mrs. Williams, the captain, and Mrs. Doane aboard J. P. Morgan's yacht. 8: Cast of the play Universal Neurasthenia, ca. 1900 9-15: unlabeled photos [show more]
Description: Acquisition 0009. Photograph accompanyed by sketch of buildings. Back of photograph says "app 1858-1902, EPS Stanley, about 1860, ACQ #009, 8/31/91, Donor: John Moran"
Description: Two 8"x10" black and white photographs mounted on particle board for display. A= Cranberry Road curve: Rome House, Brooks house and Weibel house. B= Wilfred Bunker's mailboat "Bobcat" heading for MDI with mountains all around. Undtd.
Description: Photos. Collection of 24 color and black and white photgraphs: several from 1940s, most 1960-70s including a wedding and other events concerning the Towns family. Subjects include Beal and Bunker dock; Great Cranberry Island town dock granite block ca. 1940s; Winslow Bunker's dock. Individuals in pictures include Sawtelle Teel with Mary Elizabeth Pratt 1949 (scanned); Mary Elizabeth Pratt with Judy Towns [Lim] 1949; Carl and Clara Wedge in their vintage 1932 Ford (?) car; Carl Nelson, Chris Johnston, Judy Towns Lim at the wedding of Rhonda and Douglas King (Gaile Colby's daughter) ca. 1970. There is a group photo of Harry and Annie Alley, David Bunker, Carl Wedge, Sonja Colby, Chuck Liebow, Leigh Liebow, Clara Wedge, and Paul Liebow possibly celebrating the launching of the "Double B" boat. Group photo of Carl Nelson, Dorothy "Dot" Towns, Debby Wedge, Keither Wedge with Freddy and Allison Hawes at a picnic. Others in photos include: "Doc" Haydock with George Savage under the Cranberry Rooster Club sign (scanned); Debby Bunker, Katie Moss Keogh; Blair Colby and Chris White in a Jeep; and Charles "Pink" Stanley at the helm late 1940s (scanned). Large photos: Harry Alley with son Robert Alley at the helm in 1959; Andrew Alley in 1959 (scanned); and Fred Start with his mother Jean Start (daughter and grandson of Charles "Pink" Stanley) at a Boy Scout event in 1954.(See 2013.243.1941 and other Towns photos in collection.) [show more]
Description: Photos of Islesford. A - Photo of man rowing a dory, in the background shows Sandbeach Rd. house pictured to the right was the Hadlock's and was burned down by the firebug in 1915. B - Postcard with photo of Islesford with Mt. Desert in the backgroundduring the mid 1970's. Postcard promotes Hugh Dwelley's publication "A History of Little Cranberry Island, Maine" C - Postcard of Church Hill on Islesford caption reads "Church Hill 100 Years Ago" [show more]
Description: Photos, 1056a-n. (a) Snowy picture taken from what is now the Wood house, showing David Bunker's home. (b) Vessel Christine Sue viewpoint looking towards Islesford shore. (c) May Gilman (also known as May Gim to distinguish between the two Mays) and Ida Higgins on Harding Point Rd. in front of the turn towards Heliker LaHotan property, May Gilman lived in the Finkelstein house. (d) Inscription "Clara D Nell, 2-Sisters". (e) Lena Stanley and Lulu Alley. (f) Cora Rosebrook Chapman. (g) May Gilman on the shore with friends. (h) Postcard photo of Sherwin Stanley, son of Lena and Perly Stanley, Christmas 1917. (i) Lee Klausky as a child. (j) Harding Point, Long Ledge navigational landmark before they replaced the barrel with the orange triangle. (k) Young Omar Mountain taken by May Gilman; inscribed "just as aunt may snapped he put his hand up with his rattle in it but it looks cute though". (l) Inscribed "this is Lovie [Klausky] and Rebecca's children and myself taken last summer when she was here" (m) Postcard photo of the Post Office in its current location. (n) Trees in the snow on Cranberry taken on February 12, 1934. [show more]
Description: Digital Photo, The Bloom Property, assessed at $585,000.00 with Carter's Real Estate, shows backside of property, advertises claw foot tub