Description: Two 3" x 5" photographs of sculptures by Agnes Yarnall LePage (1904-1998). Category "Mosaics". Ages Yarnall LePage was a sculptor, painter, poet and artistic historian. This collection of photographs was purchased at an estate auction and donated to the library in 1996.
Description: Several photographs of sculptures by Agnes Yarnall LePage (1904-1998). Category "Clowns". Most of these photographs are by Myers Studio, Ardmore, PA. Ages Yarnall LePage was a sculptor, painter, poet and artistic historian. This collection of photographs was purchased at an estate auction and donated to the library in 1996. Cover - 1: Waiting Clown 2: Smiling Clown 3: Little Clown 4: Arlecchino 5: Ringside Clown #1 6: Grieving Clown 7: Watching Clown 8: Pierrot 9: Remembering Clown 10: Carnival 11: Fat Policeman Clown 12: Clown making a Speech (sold in NY) 13: Thin Policeman Clown 14: Old Clown (bronze) - Photo by Lawrence LePage 15: Clown with Dog and Ball (sold twice) 16: Clown on a Monowheel #1 (sold in Boston) 17: Clown on a Monowheel #2 (bronze) 18: Clown on Horseback (2 versions: black & silver - gold & blue) 19: Clown with a Goose 20: Tipsy Clown 21: Clown with Dog on Head (sold twice) 22: Clown with Dog and Hoop 23: Clown with Mandolin (bronze) 24: Walking Clown 25: Clown with Dog (sold in NY) 26: Clown with Pig 27: Hunchback Clown 28: Clown with Rose 29: Acrobat Clown 30: Lady Clown (bronze) - Photo by Lawrence LePage 31: Ringside Clown #2 32: Ringside Clown #3 33: Clown with Monkey 34: Harlequin 35: Juggler Clown 36: Meditating Clown 37: Dwarf Clown (#1: sold; #2: stolen at Princeton; #3: bronze) (Several photos at different angles are available for each of these items.) [show more]
Description: Several 3" x 5" photographs of sculptures by Agnes Yarnall LePage (1904-1998). Category "Circus". Photographs are by Myers Studio, Ardmore, PA and Edward Quigley, Philadelphia. Ages Yarnall LePage was a sculptor, painter, poet and artistic historian. This collection of photographs was purchased at an estate auction and donated to the library in 1996. ELEPHANTS Cover/1: Woman held in Elephant's Trunk (collection Mrs. Arthur Newbold, Philadelphia) 2: Man on Elephant 3: Sitting Elephant (sold to Mrs. William Dexter, Boston, and Mrs. Larson, NY) GUANACOS 4: Guanaco leaping 5: Guanaco leaping over Elephant DOGS 6: Dog on Pony (collection Mrs. Alexander Biddle) 7: Dog with Ball 8: Two Sealyhams (for Mrs. Garnell) HORSES 9: Standing Horses (sold on Long Island) 10: Study for a Horse 11: Balancing Girl on Horse SEA LIONS (collection Mrs. Gerrish Milliken) 12 - 13: Sea Lion with Ball 14 - 15: Sea Lion on Rock BEARS 16: Bear in a Chair 17: Clown Bear 18: Standing Bear 19: Bear on a Ball 20: Bear with Bottle OTHER 21: Tiger (collection Mrs. Gerrish Milliken, NY) 22: Lion (collection Mrs. Gerrish Milliken, NY) 23: Dancing Monkey 24: Buffalo 25: Unicorn 26: Girl on Ball 27: Head of an Old Clown (bronze stolen at McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ; plaster at Ardmore) (Several photos at different angles are available for each of these items.) [show more]
Description: This quilt was made by Beverly Sanborn for the Cranberry Island Art Show for Great Cranberry Historical Society in 2021. Karin Whitney donated it to the Museum.
Description: This bed was a feature of the schooner ‘Carrie M. Richardson’ and was used by the ship's namesake, celestial navigator and later owner Carrie Stanley Richardson. Island legend has it that Carrie didn’t like to sleep in the bunks as the rest of the sailors did and so when the schooner was stopped at a dock, she went hunting and found this unusual folding bed. After she passed away, it was left in the boathouse at the Lew Stanley boatyard. Bob LaHotan-who co owned the boatyard with John Heliker-would sleep in the very same bed! [show more]
Object, Water Transporation, Water Transportation Accessories
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Object, Clothing, Clothing Accessories
Description: Weighing about 5 pounds, this jacket is likely made of Kapok fibre from the Ceiba pentandra tree; which is lighter in weight than the original cork life jackets and much more comfortable and pliable. Unlikely to still float. Donor unknown, likely used in the early 1900s.
Description: Basket and lid, flat bottom, Indigenous American creation, made of braided sweetgrass and natural and green flat splint fiber, with a blue card inside reading "(printed) Smart Studio Antiques, Maine Street, Northeast Harbor Maine, 276-5152, (handwritten) Penobscot Indian Sweetgrass Basket, late 1800s", and on the back of the card "$145"
Description: Sewing Machine, hand/foot-operated "A & S" sewing machine on cast iron stand with three drawers and wooden work surface table and matching wooden box-like cover; the right drawer is loose and not attached to the base; all three drawers are filled with sewing notions; the sewing machine is from the Moorfield Storey household.
Description: Native American tools: a random collection of 10 stone pieces without provenience: 1 raw stone, 6 arrowheads, 2 flakes, 1 knife blade: some of these artifacts were loaned by individuals, and one projectile point (the longest one, black) was found on GCI on May 25, 2008 by a visitor. Others may not be local points, some perhaps New Jersey origin. One 2" stone knife blade, broken, black (not obsidian) found GCI 2011 by visitor and later donated to GCIHS. (See Abbe Museum on MDI for collection of Native American artifacts from archaeological excavations on GCI.) [show more]
Description: Book. 1941 Edition of Hitty's First One Hundred Years by Rachel Field, signed by the author. (See also Field collection of books 2014.168.2004)
Description: A booklet written by Wini Smart and Bruce Komusin, regarding background information on Hitty Preble, a doll written about by the acclaimed Rachel Field.
Description: Oil lamp with metal base, brass stand and pressed glass globe with fanlike motif in poor condition. Globe was cracked and repaired in several places.
Description: Doll furniture. Five pieces of furniture for doll house (see 2014.286.2037). Grey and black braided rug (E), blue Pennsylvania Dutch motif cupboard (B). Chest with three drawers (C). Rocking Chair (A). Wicker couch (D). Donor says they were acquired randomly.
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]
Description: Basket and lid, very small barrel shaped, flat bottom, made of braided sweetgrass or twine, and perhaps ash strips, with a blue card inside, probably from Smart Studio, reading "Antique Penobscot Indian Sweetgrass Basket, late 1800s, $55". This may be one of several Indigenous American basketry items collected by Mary E. Shaw (Mrs. Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs. Shaw visit 9/25/14). [show more]
Description: Basketry, Collection of 2 Indigenous American Indian crafted sweetgrass braids, one (25" L x 0.5" W) decorated with colorful yarn, likely bought at the Abbe Museum by Wini Smart a few years after 2000, the other (39" L x 0.5" W) tied with yellow yarn; both intended to waft a sweet smell into a room
Description: Art, pen and ink drawing titled "LOBSTER TRAP ON BOTTOM" by C. Gilley, showing an old fashioned round top wooden lobster trap on the sea bed, with a rope going up to an intermediate float (a glass bottle), the rope continuing further up to a bullet shaped float on the surface; also a lobster boat approching it on the surface
Description: Scrapbook with cards, newspaper articles, pictures, announcements, a collection of blank checks, calendar photos, and holiday prints by the Wadsworth family can be found pasted in this wallpaper print book. Scrapbook ranges from the 1940's to the late 1950's album was put together by Lulu Steel Alley, Louis Alley's wife and resident of what is now the Horvath house. From the Horvath house
Description: Pottery, Collection of 3 clay pieces made on GCI by Janet Roberts, showing how local indigenous groups, might have made a cooking pot; a) proto-bottom showing the coiling of clay rope to form a surface, 2.5" diam; b) continuing spiraling the clay rope upwards to make a wall, and a part cut away to better show the construction, 3.5" diam x 2" H; c) smoothed, decorated, and fired final pot with incised chevrons near the mouth, raked on the body, also net-like impresses on the body, and a rounded bottom, 5.5" L, 4.25" diam, 0.5" thick [show more]
Description: Tools. Wooden implements recovered during the 2013 remodeling of the Great Cranberry Congregational Church parsonage house (177 Cranberry Road).Three long wooden implements were found amid the general chimney debris: Axe handle: Curved, broken wooden handle 24" long x 2 ¼" wide at butt end of handle x ½" wide at broken end of handle. 1 ½" wide along length of handle. Carved stick: Wood with pointed tip, 40" long x ¾" wide at flat end x ¼" at pointed tip. Reminiscent of a digging stick. Carved stick: Wood with pointed tip, 37 ½ " long x ¾" wide at flat end x ¼" at pointed tip. Tip hardly worn. Reminiscent of a digging stick.(See also other artifacts recovered from the parsonage: 2013.252.1979 - concealed shoes; 2013.252.1980 - shoes from kitchen crawlspace; 2013.252.2000 - metal implements; and report of parsonage house research 2015.304.2062.) [show more]