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Bible (1873) belonging to Carrie Richardson with genealogy. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Publication, Book	Organizations, Religious People		1873	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Bible (1873) belonging to Carrie Richardson with genealogy. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.1037 Type: Publication, Book Subject: Organizations, Religious People Date: 1873 Description: Book, The Holy Bible from 1873 in poor condition. Belonged to Carrie Richardson. The GCIHS wrote and directed a play about Carrie Richardson which can be found on DVD in the museum. Carrie Richardson was able to navigate a boat by celestial navigation, she lived down in what is now the Heliker LaHotan foundation. Her husband Meltiah Richardson committed suicide, he tied cod weights around himself and jumped off the dock. Geneaological records that seem to have little relevance can be found tucked into the Bible. [show more]
Pew 21 in Union Meeting House Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Correspondence, Letter	Organizations, Religious People		1898	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Pew 21 in Union Meeting House Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2013.246.2756 Type: Document, Correspondence, Letter Subject: Organizations, Religious People Date: 1898 Description: Pew 21 in the Union Meeting House, formerly owned by Wm. P. Preble and given to C. E. Harwood for use of the people in 1896; with the death of Harwood 1897, the Pew reverted back to Preble, and Preble, at the request of A. C. Wheelwright, did verbally allow him right to claim said Pew [thus apparently causing legal inaccuracies]. Preble now conveys the pew to Mrs. Frances A. Spurling. Signed by Wm. P. Preble December A.D. 1898, witnessed by Carrie M. Richardson and Lucinda Fernald [show more]
Sunday school attendance record book Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Administrative Records	Organizations, Religious People		1974	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Sunday school attendance record book Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.955 Type: Document, Administrative Records Subject: Organizations, Religious People Date: 1974 Description: Megan Denver's (daughter of Bob Denver, actor in the TV show Gilligan's Island) Sunday school attendance record book from 1974-1975
Rug making and Maine Seacoast Mission Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Other Documents	Organizations, Religious Other People		1901	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Rug making and Maine Seacoast Mission Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2005.138.1078 Type: Document, Other Documents Subject: Organizations, Religious Other People Date: 1901 Description: Documents pertaining to rug making. (A) Report of the Maine Seacoast Missionary Society for the year ending 1927. (B): Nine items of correspondence pertaining to the Cranberry Island Hooked Rugs program started by the Seacoast Mission, letters date from 1901-1902. The hooked rug program was one of the first cottage industries, the Seacoast Mission took completed rugs to New York for sale
Recital by William Goldberg at GCI Church Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Program	Organizations, Religious People		1995	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Recital by William Goldberg at GCI Church Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.27.711 Type: Document, Program Subject: Organizations, Religious People Date: 1995 Description: Recital by William Goldberg, piano, and Nick Humez, tenor-baritone, 6 Jul 1995, to benefit the Library
Mrs. Andrew C. Wheelwright legacy Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Other Documents	Organizations, Religious People	Mary Cabot Wheelwright		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Mrs. Andrew C. Wheelwright legacy Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.691 Type: Document, Other Documents Subject: Organizations, Religious People Creator: Mary Cabot Wheelwright Description: Document, photocopy, 2 sheets, essay starting "My mother's interest in Cranberry...", by Mary Cabot Wheelwright, about Mrs. Andrew C. Wheelwright's efforts for GCI, including donating to the church the Sarah Whitman stained glass window, the bell, and the parsonage; paying to restore the pulpit and chairs, helping to settle the site of the Town Dock, and hiring Mrs. Schrifgrisser to teach the children games and handcrafts. Transcribed. Also included is a 2019 letter from an Eliot family descendant, Alexander Goriansky, with with Eliot family genealogy and a copy of a letter published in "Letters from Elizabeth Cabot, Vol. III, Boston 1905". The letter is about Mrs. Cabot's visit to GCI August 8, 1900 to view the new stained glass window in the church: "...It is one of Mrs. Whitman's beautiful wreathes, with gorgeus reds and blues and enough white to show them off, laid on a white Greek cross, on the arms of which is the inscription. The church is absolutely bare, but well colored as to the walls...." Goriansky states that 100 years later, he lived upstairs from where the window's creator, Sarah Wyman Whitman, had lived from 1880-1904 (#77 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston), and that she was very fine designer and maker of "stained" glass windows. [show more]
"Cranberry Isles Benediction" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Publication, Literary, Reminiscence	Organizations, Religious People		1982	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	"Cranberry Isles Benediction" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.35.127 Type: Publication, Literary, Reminiscence Subject: Organizations, Religious People Date: 1982 Description: Document, 1982 (distributed on Forrester's retirement as summer minister) (2 copies)
Children singing Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Organizations, Religious People			No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Children singing Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2012.193.1440 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Organizations, Religious People Description: Photo, Chris Sporacio, Candy Wedge, Christina Bracy, Alicia Sporacio, Unknown, Scott Bracy, Molly Gray
Children at church Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Organizations, Religious People			No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Children at church Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2012.193.1433 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Organizations, Religious People Description: Photo, Scott Bracy, Christina Bracy, Chris Sporacio, Hannah Gray, Candy Wedge
Unidentified child with hat in church Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Organizations, Religious People			No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Unidentified child with hat in church Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2012.193.1441 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Organizations, Religious People Description: Photo, Unknown child
Letter from William H. Preble to William P. Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Correspondence, Letter	Businesses, Other Business Organizations, Religious People		1891	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Letter from William H. Preble to William P. Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2018.416.2769 Type: Document, Correspondence, Letter Subject: Businesses, Other Business Organizations, Religious People Date: 1891 Description: Letter is from William H. Preble to his father William P. Preble in 1891. He explains there have been many fatal cases of the grippe (flu); suggestions for how to handle repairs and sale of the GCI meeting house (church); and that his brother Andrew is disposing of his interests in the company (presumably Chicago Rawhide Mfg); Transcribed.
Early church documents Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Financial, Receipt	Organizations, Religious People		1866	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Early church documents Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2018.416.2774 Type: Document, Financial, Receipt Subject: Organizations, Religious People Date: 1866 Description: Five documents related to the Church: (A-C)=Three receipts February to July 1866 total $950: Money received by J. W. Osgood from the Cranberry Isles Union Benevolent Sewing Circle for J. W. Osgood to build the church; payments made ‘by the honor of A. C. Preble’ [Abigail Cobb Preble], signed by J. W. Osgood, and attested to by William P. Preble. (D)= an undated and unsigned (difficult to decipher) ledger page with note: To Whom it Does or May Concern, We the undersigned active and honorary members of Cranberry Isles Benevolent Sewing Circle respectively [represent?] that we are not willing to have the money [divided but want?] the money [kept for the purpose] in which we have agreed in and are satisfied if once divided it will be the means of destroying our fund and a waste of the money. Active members/Honorary members. (E)=Poem by William P. Preble undated, honoring the dead. [show more]
The Haskels at Gray wedding Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Organizations, Religious People		1977	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	The Haskels at Gray wedding Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2012.193.1407 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Organizations, Religious People Date: 1977 Description: Photo, Mrs. Haskell, Stan Haskell (Sunbeam Minister), Al Gray- Ed/Jane Gray Wedding 8/13/1977
Manset Union Church letter Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Correspondence, Letter	Organizations, Religious People		1956	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Manset Union Church letter Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.592 Type: Document, Correspondence, Letter Subject: Organizations, Religious People Date: 1956 Description: Letter and envelope, handwritten, sent by Julia Parker (Manset Union Church) to Alice M. Stanley, Cranberry Isles, 25 Jun 1956, "The Manset Union Church to the Cranberry Cong. Church certifies Hope Bulger Bradford was received into Manset Church 20 May 1956"

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