Description: Houses. Architectural and folk history. This updated 2018 report of investigation summarizes 2013-2017 research into nine Cape-style houses spawned by the 2013 discovery and repatriation of four ca. 1820-1830s shoes concealed in the chimney wall of the parsonage house of the Great Cranberry Congregational Church. The 2014 and 2018 revised report was submitted to the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Acadia NPS, and GCIHS. Revised version is twenty-two pages with photos and bibliography as of January 18, 2018, and includes findings of a 2015 dendrochronology project. This study of the parsonage Cape-style house with its neighboring Cape-style houses and the separate 2013 study of the nearby ca. 1826 Preble house documents a cluster of historic island houses on the verge of becoming unrecognizable through remodeling. Research reveals folk practices, the oeuvre of local 19th-century house builders; Cape-style design innovations; granite and lumber sources; dendrochronology study; and early 19th-century Bulger and Spurling family histories. One of the cape houses was the birthplace of Civil War Medal of Honor General Andrew Barclay Spurling.; the Preble House was his boyhood home. See also concealed shoe research: 2013.252.1979. See 2018 Chebacco Magazine article, Concealed Shoes and Cape Houses: Artifacts as Agents of the Past by Anne Grulich [show more]
Description: Shoes. A collection of the remains of late 19th-century leather shoes discovered in the kitchen crawlspace during the 2013 remodeling of the Great Cranberry Congregational Church parsonage house (177 Cranberry Road). Twenty soles or pieces of soles and two heel uppers with soles missing; remains of nine high boots with eyelets (some brass eyelets in-situ); and twenty leather shoe scraps. All shoe remains are leather, all soles are double- or single- row wood-pegged. [show more]
Description: Program The second Subscription Series Summer of 1938 of the Building of Arts, Bar Harbor ME. Includes advertising from a variey of establishments on the island. Has announcement of a black man (African American), a singer and musician
Description: A letter from Louise Marr about the estate of a man named Bill Chamberlin. She compares this to the managing of her sisters estate, and says "nothing the courts and lawyers do is done in a hurry." She then goes into farther detail with the pieces of property and how they will manage this. She ends the letter with a quote from the lawyers, and then adds her availability for the summer to manage this estate.
Description: A letter from Louise Marr about the estate of a man named Bill Chamberlin. She compares this to the managing of her sisters estate, and says "nothing the courts and lawyers do is done in a hurry." She then goes into farther detail with the pieces of property and how they will manage this. She ends the letter with a quote from the lawyers, and then adds her availability for the summer to manage this estate.
Description: Waitresses from the Seaside Inn in Seal Harbor, Maine. Individuals have numbers written in blue pen on their arms. Identification for each individual is written on the back. People Depicted: Blanche Bates, Grace Coggins, Florence Cole, Marie Curtis, Virginia Drury, Winifred Gray, Dorothy Green, Isabella Harper, Rose Harvey, Neva Headley, Elizabeth Hinckley, Liola Hopkins, Lola Huntley, Louise Johnson, Florence Mason, Annie Richie, Annie Ryder, Mabel Snow, Ada Sproule, Thelma Thompson, Velma Wallace, Elsie Whitmore Black and white [show more]
Description: Unidentified group of officers and civilians outside the Otter Cliffs Radio Station. The officers salute an American flag. Black and White
Description: Chiefs and radio operators of the Otter Cliffs Radio Station stand on and around the radio tower. Commanding Officer Lt. Alessandro Fabbri stands in the center in the bottom row. People Mentioned: Alessandro Fabbri Black and White
Description: Attendees pose outside during the reunion for all Otter Cliffs Radio Station men held at Hancock House in Ellsworth, ME on August 19, 1961. The men are individually identified on the back of the photograph. Men in photograph are numbered. People Mentioned: Raymond L. MacRae, Earl Brockway, Fred Grindle, Richard Hastings, William Kumpel, J. Ross Ragan, Orrin E. Dunlap Jr., Mel Whitney, Carl Herr, Fred W. Meinholtz, Harold Castner, Earl Davis, Wilmot I. Brookings, Raymond Cole, Edward Trumpfeller, Carl G. Nowack Color [show more]
Description: Radio equipment at the Otter Cliffs Radio Station. Notes on the back of the photograph identify the station as the first of Arthur Lawford with the call letters 1AT. People Mentioned: Arthur Lawford Black and White