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2312Handcanceler used by postmaster Ray Dwelley at the Islesford Post Office.
  • Object, Other Object
Description:
Last used at 9AM, January 17, 1947
2300Swivel for use with a large bouy on the end of a trawl set or a gang of traps from Francis Fernald
  • Object, Mechanical, Swivel
22643 legged milking stoosl
  • Object, Furnishings, Stool
Description:
Irving Spurling and earlier Islesford farmers used stools like this when milking their cows. This stool may have come from Woodlawn where Ray Dwelley had a cow in the 1920s-30s.
2265Wash Board
  • Object, Maintenance, Washboard
Description:
Used for scrubbing clothes when they were being washed by hand. This may have come from Woodlawn.
2266Clothes stick
  • Object, Other Object
Description:
this was used to stir clother in a washtub. It may have come from Woodlawn.
2283Fernald or perhaps Dwelley family Christening Gown
  • Object, Clothing, Dress, Gown
2245Note basket whittled by crew at the Life Saving Station from cigar boxes.
  • Object, Containers, Basket
Description:
From the home of Ben & Kate Campbell
2247WWII Sailor's Cap
  • Object, Clothing, Cap
Description:
Stenciled R.D. Chemlen or Ghemlen 2049-967. Perhaps a sailor at the Coast Guard Station when there were large numbers there in 1944/45.
2248Drum, played in the Islesford Grammar School Band 1945 and 1946
  • Object, Musical, Musical Instruments
Description:
Victor DuPlississi was band master. Everyone played something from Humersoos and wash boards to drums.
2249miniature banjo
  • Object, Musical, Musical Instruments
Description:
played in the Islesford Grammar School Band in 1945 and 1946.
2260Branding Iron
  • Object, Writing, Branding Iron
Description:
Iron used by Lawrence Beal to brand his name LOBeal and his license number onto wooden lobster traps and buoys.
2263Milk Bucket
  • Object, Containers, Vessel, Bucket
Description:
Irving Spurling was the island's last farmer and his mother, Aunt Nell, used to use buckets like this in processing the milk for sale.
2206Quilted bedspread designed for a 4 poster bed Made by Aunt Mitilda Spurling, Cranberry Isles, Me
  • Object, Furnishings, Bedcover, Bedspread
Description:
Matilda wa the grandmother of"Chummie" Spurling. She was born Matilda Young, Daughter of Josiah and Rosalana(Guptil) Young Married Joseph W. Spurling, was the father of Arthur and of Warren A."Bert" Spurling both of whom married and lived their libes on Little Cranberry Island.
2212Earle Spurling's fiddle
  • Object, Musical, Musical Instruments
Description:
Earle played his fidddel in the Bangor High School band and for dances ath Islesford and Elswhere. Jim Bright found it in a closet in the apartment occupied by Earle's cousin Winslow Bunker before his death.
2216Green souvenir glass from Islesford, ME
  • Object, Other Object, Souvenir Object
Description:
Note inside the glass from the woman who donated it.
2182George R. Hadlock's Naval officer's caps from World War I. White topped summer version and black topped winter version.
  • Object, Clothing, Cap
Description:
Caps were found in bad shape. They have been cleaned, laundered and restored (See framed photo of George Hadlock in uniform including winter cap)
2192A runnng light from the USn blimp K-140100
  • Object, Water Transporation, Watercraft Lamp, Watercraft Running Light
Description:
This running light and the attached fabric were salvaged by Mr. Tebbetts who served as the Quartermaster on the Uss Haigler YTB-327 which vessel towed the wreck of the K-14 into Bunker's Cove on July 4, 1944. Mr. Tebbetts has also furnished copies of Photos and testimony as to his role in the salvage operation. (Small wood sample, given by Helen Merrill in August 1996.)
2166U.S. Coast Guard uniform consisting of 1 hat with insignia, 2 dress jackets with insignia, 1 pair black trousers, 1 pea coat.
  • Object, Clothing, Uniform
Description:
Uniform belonged to Faunce Bryant while he served in the U.S. Coast Guard Station on Islesford as a cook for most of the early 1940's.
21341899 Edition of the Holy Bible published by the American Bible Society
  • Object, Religious Text, Bible
Description:
Used by the Islesford Congregational Church from the time it was organized in 1898
21351896 edition of the Holy Bible published by the American Bible Society. New York.
  • Object, Religious Text, Bible
Description:
Used by the Islesford Congregational Church from the time it was organized in 1898
2136Hymns of the Living Age, New York The Century Company, 1923. Inscribed: "Property of the Islesford Church, 1928"
  • Object, Hymnal
Description:
Used by the Islesford Congregational Church until the 1980's
212019th Century Seaman's medicine chest with contents and a copy of Ritter's Medical Manual
  • Object, Furnishings, Household Box, Medicine Chest
Description:
Chest owned and used by George Gilley (1848-191 _)of Islessford. See Islesford Historical Society Occasional Paper No. 1, June 1991.
2124Stanwood/Hadlock Bible
  • Object, Religious Text, Bible
Description:
Bible found in the house built by Capt. Gilbert Hadlock and occupied by him, by Geoarge R. Hadlock and Elmer S. Hadlock. Inscription 'This Bible was presented to my father Capt. Edwin Hadlock by my maternal grandmother Mary Stanwood after my father's decease, by my mother Mary A. Hadlock Sept. 3, 1878. -Harvey D. Hadlock'
2125Town of CranberryIsles check stubs 1908-1910
  • Object, Pay Order, Bank Check
Description:
In poor condition. Said to have been found in a museum trash can
212948-star American Flag
  • Object, Flag
Description:
The flag of Rockbound Grange#568 was active on Islesford From 1939-1979