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2286Publications "The History Journal of MDIHS Volume V 2003" and "The History Journal of MDIHS Volume IV 2001-2002"
  • Publication, Other Publication
Description:
Volume V 2003 Contains a review of the publication "A History of Little Cranberry Island" by Hugh Dwelley on page 80
2287Maine History Publication Volume 40 Summer 2001
  • Publication, Other Publication
22883 Ring binder labeled "Souvenirs from the three Islesford Painters"
  • Image, Photograph
Description:
Photos of the Blue Duck and copies of the paintings by C. Scott White, Charlie Kinkaid and Harold Warren who styled themselves The Three Islesford Artists (TIPS). Also includes letters form Bob Pyle, and Christina Sawtelle Teal. A letter from Hugh Dwelley to Bob Pyle transmitting material regarding the TIPS collected from the IslesfordJournalsof Dr. Vincent Y. Bowditch
2289Nicely framed photo of a portrait of Capt. Samuel Hadlock Jr.
  • Image, Photograph
Description:
The portrait was painted in 1824 in Hamburg Germany by an artist named Krugg. The origina is owned by Mrs. Constance Aygun of 85 5th Street, Stamford, CT.
2290Framed copy of a photo of Capt. Fred Spurling (1868-1958) playing his fiddle. It is probably his fiddle that we have in our collection. See Acq. #0130
  • Image, Photograph
2291copy of the Opera Three little wolves and the big bad pig
  • Publication, Literary, Musical Composition, Opera
Description:
Written by the Islesford school students Sally Bloom from Great Cranberry Helped with the music
2292Framed photo of Capt. Clarence Spurling (1886 - 1962), Ted's Father, reading a paper. A collection of bait bags that he had knotted beside him.
  • Image, Photograph
2293File carrier containing the chapter by chapter working papers for "A History of Little Cranberry Island" published in 2000
  • Document, Other Documents
2294Geneology of Nancy Ann Joy by Philip Curran
  • Document, List, Register, Family Register
Description:
Being the families of Abraham Somes, Benjamin Joy, Solomon Littlefield, William Henry Pride and Joshua Woodbury
2295Vol. 2, #26, April 1, 1896: "Sowing and Reaping" by D.L. Moody
  • Publication, Book
Description:
From the library of Rev. Charles N. Davis who was the pastor of the Cranberry Isles churches for several years. Inscription: "From the collection taken for books by Edwin Hadlock, Islesford, August, 1897
2296Vol. 2, #28, May 1,1896: "Probable Sons"
  • Publication, Book
Description:
From the library of Rev. Charles N. Davis who was the pastor of the Cranberry Isles churches for several years. Inscription: "From the collection taken for books by Edwin Hadlock, Islesford, August, 1897
2297Vol. 2, #40 Nov. 1 18961
Kadesh Barnea by J. Wilbur Chapman, D.D.
  • Publication, Book
Vol. 2, #40 Nov. 1 18961
Kadesh Barnea by J. Wilbur Chapman, D.D.
Description:
From the library of Rev. Charles N. Davis who was the pastor of the Cranberry Isles churches for several years. Inscription: "From the collection taken for books by Edwin Hadlock, Islesford, August, 1897
2298A 4-page handwritten letter dated June 4, 1900 from CM Richardson to Rev. CN Davie, pastor of the church on Great Cranberry Island, transmitting a 13 page notice dated June 25, 1897.
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
Description:
Rev. Davie was pastor of the churches on both Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry Islands, His files and library were discovered in the house of the late Rev. Paul Olander at Islesford in 2002. The files were turned over to the Islesford Church and by them to the Islesford Historical Society. These documents record the difficulties that the Church on Great Cranberry was having involving ownershipof pews and the conversion from a Christian meeting house to a Congregational church with open pews. The original documents have been given to the GCI Historical Society. [show more]
2299Book storms and Shipwrecks of New England by Edward Rowe Snow
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Includes, beginning at page 61, the wreck of the Grand Design at Sea Wall in 1741
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
2301VHS "An Interview with Marjorie Phippen 1904-2002"
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
Description:
2 Copies
2302Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of the Emilu F. Norton
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Description:
copy #2 Reproduced from Down East magazine of March 1974 by the Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
2303Minstrelsy of Maine
  • Publication, Literary, Musical Composition, Music Book, Songbook
Description:
Songs of Maine. Capt. Archie Spurling and other Cranberry Islanders were the sources of many of the sea shantys in this collection. Co-author Mary Smyth, and her sister were long-time summer residents on Islesford. Their father was Rev. Newman Smyth who built the summer cottage later owned by the McAvoy and Land Families, in the 1940's. The Smyth sisters boarded in Mary Morse's old Stanley houe and "mealed" at Woodlawn
2304An Interview with Ralph Stanley
  • Document, Oral History
Description:
copy #1
2305VHS "Ralph Stanley & Friends at the GCIHS Annual Meeting"
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
Description:
Ralph Stanley & Friends playing at the GCIHS Annual Meeting 8/15/2002
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.
2267Catalogs from the Higgins Classical Institute from 1927-1931
  • Publication, Catalog
Description:
Many Islesford school children have attended the Higgins Classical Institute among them are Marjorie Bunker, Laurence Phippen, Robert Morse, Harold Phippen, Clayton Bunker, Sylvia Gilley, and Elizabeth Dwelley
2268Book THE MAINE TOWNSMAN published 1910
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Autographed "The Property of A.J. Bryant." A.J. was an official of the Town of Cranberry Isles and this book supplied guidance for everything from the running of Town Meetings to the administration of Fish and Game laws.