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| 2353 | "Annie the Chamber Maid" |
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Description: A letter written by Annie (Young)to Minnie Spurling when Annie was a chamber maid at one of the big Seal Harbor Summer Hotels in the summer of 1903. Salary $5.00 to $5.50 per week | ||||
| 2355 | Book "Eldridge's Coast Pilot No.1" |
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Description: Incription on the first page: George E. Gilley Islesford, Maine | ||||
| 2358 | Bowditch's Practical Navigator:1868 edition |
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Description: Ted's career as a Merchant Marien officer and navigation was a specialty for him. | ||||
| 2360 | A History of Little Cranberry Island, Maine By: Hugh Dwelley |
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Description: Published in 2000 with additional printings in 2004. Published by the Islesford Historical Society | ||||
| 2363 | Publication "Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society" Volume VII 2005 |
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| 2367 | “Maine Lobsterboats: Builders and lobstermen speak of their craft” by Virginia L. Thorndike, resident of Islesboro |
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Description: Has many references to MDI as well as Islesford and the Downeast area. | ||||
| 2368 | Book "All About Maine" by John E. Cayford. Published in 1981 |
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| 2327 | Publication "Sterling, Barnard & Related Familes, Volume I + II, by William C. Sterling, JR. |
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Description: Appendix C in Vol. II contains a comprehensive coverage of the last days of Samuel Hadlock who was hanged at Pownalborough on October 28th, 1790 for beating Eliab Gott to death with a fence post | ||||
| 2331 | Magazine "Maine Life Magazine" June 1978 |
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Description: Contains articles relating to Baxter Park, Winslow Homer, History of Jordan Pond, and others | ||||
| 2334 | Publication "Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Historical Society Volume VII 2005" |
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Description: Contains Hadlock's Eskimos in New York by Hugh Dwelley pages 52-66 and the last words and dying speech of Samuel L. Hadlock pages 107-111 | ||||
| 2336 | US Navy Journal containing watch & navigational notes kept by Andrew E.Stanley as a deck officer on the Uss Chestnut Hill on a cruise from New London Conn. to Bermuda and the Azores and return to Key West Florida from Sept26 to Nov 22 1918 |
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Description: USS Chestnut Hill appears to have been an oiler caring a cargo of gasoline and diesel oil which it pumped from time to time into the fuel tanks of USNavy vessels It sailed-often a zig zag course, in "convoy consisting of SC's... also tug Uss Conestoga." | ||||
| 2337 | Publication "Cranberry Isles, Glimpses of Island Life" by Gerry Noether. 28 Pages published in 1976 |
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Description: Author is a summer resident of GCI, mother of Audrey Noether | ||||
| 2338 | Maine History publication. Volume 40 Winter 2001/2 (A) Volume 41, 2002. Spring (B), Volume 42 October 2005 (C) |
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| 2339 | Books 0318A "Laws and Regulations Relating to the Lighthouse Establishment 1880" 0318B "Instructions to Lightkeepers 1902" 0318 C "Instructions to Employees of the United States Lighthouse Service 1915" |
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| 2341 | Booklet titled Island Life-An Educator's Guide to the Cranberry Isles in the 1800s |
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Description: Has some photos and brief histories of early settlers. Some Quotations from Ted Spurling, Sr. | ||||
| 2342 | Notes & Photos from the book Maine Sea Fisheries the rise and fall of a native industry 1830-1890 |
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Description: By Wayne M. O'Leary Northeastern University press, Boston 1996 | ||||
| 2347 | Hitty Preble of the Cranberry Isles, Maine booklet with woodenHiitty doll on Cover |
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Description: A project of the GCI Historical Society based on Rachel Field's book Hitty - Her first 100 years | ||||
| 2306 | Eulogy for Hildagarde Fernald Smith 1917-2003 |
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| 2308 | Book "Book of the Cranberry Islands" by Richard Grossinger, 1974 |
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Description: A "stream of conscience" tale of little value to the Cranberry Isles. | ||||
| 2313 | Maine History publication. Volume 41, 2002. Summer (A), Fall/Winter (B) |
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| 2317 | An early version of "The Houses of Little Cranberry Island-Islesford" By Marion Spurling |
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Description: Gifted and inscribed by Marion to "Phil" Phyllis Colson, Phyllis cared for Marion in her later years. A revised version of this booklet was published by the Islesford Historical Society in March 1993, see entry #0450 | ||||
| 2319 | Book "Mount Desert - The Early French Visits" by Charles Savage |
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| 2323 | Magazines. 0294A - "The Concise Illustrated History of the Civil War" published in 1979 by the National Historical Society. 0294B-"America's Civil War" September 1991 |
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Description: Mention of the 30th Maine Regiment. Also contains an article about the 19th Maine | ||||
| 2324 | Publication "Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Volume VI 2004" |
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| 2325 | Maine History publications. Volume 42 August 2004 (A), Volume 42 February 2005 (B) |
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