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Item | Title | Type | Subject | Creator | Publisher | Date | |
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2312 | Handcanceler used by postmaster Ray Dwelley at the Islesford Post Office. |
| Description: Last used at 9AM, January 17, 1947 | ||||
2300 | Swivel for use with a large bouy on the end of a trawl set or a gang of traps from Francis Fernald |
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2264 | 3 legged milking stoosl |
| 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. | ||||
2265 | Wash Board |
| Description: Used for scrubbing clothes when they were being washed by hand. This may have come from Woodlawn. | ||||
2266 | Clothes stick |
| Description: this was used to stir clother in a washtub. It may have come from Woodlawn. | ||||
2283 | Fernald or perhaps Dwelley family Christening Gown |
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2245 | Note basket whittled by crew at the Life Saving Station from cigar boxes. |
| Description: From the home of Ben & Kate Campbell | ||||
2247 | WWII Sailor's 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. | ||||
2248 | Drum, played in the Islesford Grammar School Band 1945 and 1946 |
| Description: Victor DuPlississi was band master. Everyone played something from Humersoos and wash boards to drums. | ||||
2249 | miniature banjo |
| Description: played in the Islesford Grammar School Band in 1945 and 1946. | ||||
2260 | Branding Iron |
| Description: Iron used by Lawrence Beal to brand his name LOBeal and his license number onto wooden lobster traps and buoys. | ||||
2263 | Milk 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. | ||||
2206 | Quilted bedspread designed for a 4 poster bed Made by Aunt Mitilda Spurling, Cranberry Isles, Me |
| 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. | ||||
2212 | Earle Spurling's fiddle |
| 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. | ||||
2216 | Green souvenir glass from Islesford, ME |
| Description: Note inside the glass from the woman who donated it. | ||||
2182 | George R. Hadlock's Naval officer's caps from World War I. White topped summer version and black topped winter version. |
| 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) | ||||
2192 | A runnng light from the USn blimp K-140100 |
| 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.) | ||||
2166 | U.S. Coast Guard uniform consisting of 1 hat with insignia, 2 dress jackets with insignia, 1 pair black trousers, 1 pea coat. |
| 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. | ||||
2134 | 1899 Edition of the Holy Bible published by the American Bible Society |
| Description: Used by the Islesford Congregational Church from the time it was organized in 1898 | ||||
2135 | 1896 edition of the Holy Bible published by the American Bible Society. New York. |
| Description: Used by the Islesford Congregational Church from the time it was organized in 1898 | ||||
2136 | Hymns of the Living Age, New York The Century Company, 1923. Inscribed: "Property of the Islesford Church, 1928" |
| Description: Used by the Islesford Congregational Church until the 1980's | ||||
2120 | 19th Century Seaman's medicine chest with contents and a copy of Ritter's Medical Manual |
| Description: Chest owned and used by George Gilley (1848-191 _)of Islessford. See Islesford Historical Society Occasional Paper No. 1, June 1991. | ||||
2124 | Stanwood/Hadlock 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' | ||||
2125 | Town of CranberryIsles check stubs 1908-1910 |
| Description: In poor condition. Said to have been found in a museum trash can | ||||
2129 | 48-star American Flag |
| Description: The flag of Rockbound Grange#568 was active on Islesford From 1939-1979 |