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27221890 Autograph book Cora Spurling
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Autograph Album
Description:
Cora Spurling's Autograph Book Circa 1890
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
21371897 Calendar from the Berlin Iron Bridge Co., East Berlin, Conn.
  • Document, Calendar
Description:
Found in the basement kitchen of the Islesford Congregational Church. Construction of the Church began in Nov.1898
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
25061934 Morse Strore Calendar
  • Document, Calendar
Description:
F.W. Morse Estate General Merchandise, 1934 Calendar
27061934 Postcard
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
22341990 Islesford Historical Program
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording
Description:
Video filmed by Dale Hadlock
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.
20312004 Annual Report of the Town of Cranberry Isles
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
20302009 Annual Report of the Town of Cranberry Isl
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned This report won the “Supreme Award” from the Maine Municipal Association
25942010 Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
20802010 Annual Report Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
21102011Town of Cranberry Isles Ann. Report
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Town Report 2011
21112012 Town of Cranberry Isles Ann. Report
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Town Report 2012
24492013 Ann. Report Town of Cranberry Isles, ME
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
256825 Photos for the Islesford Page taken by Hugh Dwelley
  • Image, Photograph
257128 photos of Francis & Berry Fernald & Family
  • Image, Photograph
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.
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
20543-ring binder labeled “Islesford Historical Society Publications Volume #1”
  • Publication, Other Publication
Description:
Collection includes: “An Islesford Jabberwocky and other Stories of the Cranberry Islands”, “George Gilley and the Medicine Chest”, “Ensign Ben Bunker of Mount Desert and the Cranberry Isles”, “Footnote to History-Salvage of the USN Blimp k-14”, “The Houses of Islesford, Little Cranberry Island, Maine”, “Ray Dwelley of Islesford, Maine”, “Pioneer Settlers of Islesford”, “Reflections of a Winter’s Night”, “Pioneer Settlers of the Cranberry Islands”, “Rusticators at Large-The Islesford Summer Colony” finished copy and rough copy, as well as “Cranberry Isles Sketches”. [show more]
23113-Ring loose leaf binder containing list of vessels built-Mount Desert Island, Cranberry, Tinker Thompson's and Long Island (Frenchboro) compiled by Ralph W. Stanley
  • Document, List
27234 Islesford Negatives
  • Image, Photograph
Description:
2 boats, 1 dock, 1 cemetery, dock and cemetary are glass negatives
212948-star American Flag
  • Object, Flag
Description:
The flag of Rockbound Grange#568 was active on Islesford From 1939-1979
27006 Plates for Woodlawn Pamphlets. Circ. 1952
  • Object, Printing, Printing Surface, Printing Plate
Description:
Copper plates on wood for printing brochures for the Woodlawn House.
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]
2092A collection of 27 “old island photographs”
  • Image, Photograph
Description:
Photos scanned into Islesford Photos Collection
2096A collection of articles, genealogies, and pictures of George Hadlock and his sons. Including a story written by Hugh Dwelley about George Hadlock's Weir.
  • Document, Other Documents
2097A collection of newspaper articles, Obituaries, copies of town records and genealogies about the Hadlock family
  • Document, Other Documents
2098A collection of newspaper articles, obituaries, copies of town records and genealogies and photographs of Elmer and Bill Hadlock
  • Document, Other Documents
2099A collection of newspaper articles, obituaries, copies of town records and genealogies and photographs of
  • Document, Other Documents
2548A copied photo of the Islesford hote, and an Islesford Hotel pamphlet
  • Image, Photograph
Description:
"Hotel IslesfordA.M. Falt, Manager. Open from early June to late September"Islesford, MaineOperated in conjunction with the Rockend, Northeast Harbor
2211A copy of the diary that Rev. Hall kept at Islesford in 1922 and a number of love letters that he wrote
  • Publication, Book, Journal, Diary
Description:
Rev. Hall and Mrs. Mills were found murdered in a lover's lane shortly after Rev. Hall returned to New Jersey from Islesford. The case was never solved
2010A disk containg a video titled 'Troubled Waters: Fishing in the Gulf of Maine'
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording
Description:
The video was a student project by Mr. Taylor and others at Bowdoin. It is of high quality and contains excellent interviews with LCI fishermen Jack Merrill, Warren Fernald, Leeman Ham, Paul Thormann, and Curtis Thormann and other lobstermen from Vinalhaven
2335A framed NOTICE of Station Bills & Drills required on steamers carrying passengers
  • Document, Other Documents
Description:
When not on display, in painting storage
2100a guide to rescuing pioneer gravestones
  • Publication, Guidebook
2179A Hadlock account book with entries from 1846 and 1847 as well as some from 1852
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book
Description:
Mostly individual accounts but a few schooner accounts. A list of sales from the Hadlock Farm
2360A History of Little Cranberry Island, Maine By: Hugh Dwelley
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Published in 2000 with additional printings in 2004. Published by the Islesford Historical Society
2556A photo of Mr. Schirmer, who built the cottage owned, in 1996, by the Zuckermans. Found in the home of Archie and Lillian Spurling. Aug. 1996.
  • Image, Photograph
2174"A Poor Wiseman" by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Curtis Publishing Co., 1920.
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Description:
Ms. Rinehart did some of her writing at the Shermer cottage at Islesford
2481A "racin" or fish knife found at Sam Gilley's farm when it was restored in 1981
  • Object, Food Cutting Tool, Kitchen Knife
2282A report on the downing of the K-14 dated May 1998
  • Document, Report
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.)
2043“A Sense of Place a Sense of Time: A portrait of a Maine island community”
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording
Description:
A 52 min. video highlighting Islesford
2094A variety of materials including news clippings, genealogies, and photos of and about Wendell Hadlock.
  • Document, Other Documents
2406“A Way of Life Worth Keeping: Investing in a foothold on the mainland for the future of Cranberry Isles”
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Description:
A publication explaining the reasoning behind investing in the Manset Town Parking Lot in Southwest Harbor
2185Abbe Museum Bulletin #5 "The Taft Point Shell Mound at Gouldsboro, ME" by W.S. Hadlock 1939
  • Publication, Bulletin
2657Acadia National Park, Maine - General Management Plan - October 1992
  • Publication, Other Publication
2701Account Book for Dwelley Store
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book
2376Account book from Stanley store beginning about 1900
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book
2733Act of Congress Medal for Heroic Deeds
  • Object, Award, Decoration of Honor, Medal
Description:
Capt. Gilbert T. Hadlock medal for rescuing the crew of the Schooner Effie T. Kemp 6/14/1894
2530"All This And Heaven Too" by Rachel Field
  • Publication, Book
2200"American Agriculturalist Almanac for 1896"
  • Publication, Book
Description:
A great variety of statistics, data and information from the time period
2536"Amherst, Maine - Her Settlement and People - 1790 - 1975" by Constance Hanscome
  • Publication, Book
2317An early version of "The Houses of Little Cranberry Island-Islesford" By Marion Spurling
  • Publication, Literary, Article
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
2304An Interview with Ralph Stanley
  • Document, Oral History
Description:
copy #1
2244An interview with Tud Bunker
  • Document, Oral History
Description:
Intreview by Patti D'Angelo, College of the Atlantic Ed. by Bruce Komusin, July 1994. 2 Copies
2476An Islesford Jabberwocky
  • Publication, Literary, Poem
Description:
Original Jabberwocky Parody poem by Rosamon L. Lord
2522"-and then again-" by Mark R. Lawler
  • Publication, Book
2471Androck 1/4 cup measure - metal scoop with green handle
  • Object, Culinary Measure, Measuring Cup
2353"Annie the Chamber Maid"
  • Publication, Literary, Article
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
2620Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1958
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2608Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1945-1946
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2609Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1946
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2610Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1947
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2611Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1948
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2612Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1949
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2614Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1950
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2615Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1952
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2616Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1953
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2617Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1954
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2618Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1955
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2619Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1956
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2621Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1959
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2623Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1960
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2624Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1961
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2625Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1962
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2626Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1963
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2627Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1965
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2628Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1966
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2629Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1967
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2630Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1968
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2631Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1969
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2633Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1970
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2634Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1971
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2635Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1972
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2636Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1973
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2637Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1974
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2640Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1975
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2638Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1976
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2639Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1977 (two copies)
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2641Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1979
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2645Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1980
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2646Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1982
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2647Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1985
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2649Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1994
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2650Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1996
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2651Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1997
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2652Annual Report - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1999
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2600Annual Report of the Municipal Officers of the Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1929-1930
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2602Annual Report of the Municipal Officers of the Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1934-1935
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2603Annual Report of the Municipal Officers of the Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1935-1936
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2604Annual Report of the Municipal Officers of the Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1936-1937
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2605Annual Report of the Municipal Officers of the Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1937-1938
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2606Annual Report of the Municipal Officers of the Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine 1939-1940
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2450Antique Stereoscope Slide Viewer and 37 Various Slides
  • Object, Visual Communication, Slide Viewer
Description:
Each slide has a description on it about what it is showing
2258Architectural drawings for the summer cottage built for Gustavo Shermer
  • Image, Art, Drawing
Description:
A.J. Bryant was head carpenter on this cottage
2738Article, Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of the Emily F. Northam
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Description:
Downeast Magazine 3/1974, Salvaging cargo from the Wreck of the Emily F. Northam (photo copy)
2034A-Town Report 1923-1924. B- Complete collection of Town Reports from 1911-1916
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
2483Bait bags knitted by Francis Fernald.
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Container, Bait Container
Description:
Nylon.
2361Baker Island Letters
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
Description:
Letters from Alfred Stanley to his parents on Baker Island from 1901 to1928
2447Baker Island the Early Years
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Description:
By Wini Smart
2696Bible presented to Harley J. Baker by his aunt, Miss Ruhama James.
  • Object, Religious Text, Bible
Description:
• Letter found in a bible inscribed: “Presented to Harley J. Baker by his aunt, Miss Ruhama James. East Thompson, CT. Sept. 10th, 1896. Note mentions of ‘Rheuma May’ in margin.” • Recipes marked Freeman T. James. Found in a bible inscribed: “Presented to Harley J. Baker by his aunt, Miss Ruhama James. East Thompson, CT. Sept. 10th, 1896 (Bible falling apart. Letter and Recipes kept in plastic sleeve.)
2087blue print Sandbeach Cemetery 1913
  • Document, Reprographic Copy, Blueprint
Description:
some names and photos along with blue print of sandbeach cemetery 1913
2388Book "1994 Inventory of Historic Light Stations"
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Page 385 includes Baker IslandBear Island on page 86
2178Book "40 Days with the Enemy" by Richard Dudman. The story of Dudman's capture with two other journalists, by guerrillas in Cambodia in 1970.
  • Publication, Book
Description:
See also an oral tape of Dudman's July 1994 talk to the Islesford Historical Society about his return to Vietnam in April 1994 in order to meet with his former captors
2368Book "All About Maine" by John E. Cayford. Published in 1981
  • Publication, Book
2209Book "Along The Union River" By Connee Jellison
  • Publication, Book
Description:
An account of settlement in 1762 around when the Cranberry Isles were getting their first settlers
2278Book "And Then Again.." by Mark R. Lawler
  • Publication, Book
Description:
A collection of humorous short stories published in 1962. Rosemary Lawler was a teacher in the Islesford school from about 1942 to 1945. She boarded with Betty and Francis Fernald and they became good friends. Rosemary's father ran the ice business out of Southwest Harbor. Her uncle, Mark Lawler was an engineer working on the Mississippi and living in New Orleans. This copy of his book was a gift to Francis and Elizabeth Fernald.
2172Book "Annual Report of the United States Life Saving Service: for the fiscal year ending July 30, 1899"
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Page 280 records the award to Gilbert T. Hadlock of a silver medal for "Daring Seamanship in rescuing 13 men from the wreck of the schooner Effie T. Kemp on June 19, 1894
2308Book "Book of the Cranberry Islands" by Richard Grossinger, 1974
  • Publication, Book
Description:
A "stream of conscience" tale of little value to the Cranberry Isles.
2201Book "Carry on Mr.Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham. Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1955
  • Publication, Book
Description:
A novelized version of the life and time of Nathaniel Bowditch, the navigator.
2057Book “Centennial: A Century of Island Newspapers” by James M. Aldrich
  • Publication, Book
Description:
A collection of newspapers, descriptions, and copies of clippings from newspapers in the Deer Isle/Stonington area. No direct relation or mention of Islesford or the Cranberry Isles
2169Book "Chancellorsville and Gettysburg" by Major General Abner Doubleday. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY 1882.
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Page 170. "The 20th Maine made a grand final charge, and drove the rebels from the valley between the Round Tops, capturing a large number of prisoners. Not a moment too soon, for Chamberlain (Col. Joshua Chamberlain) had lost a third of his command and was entirely out of ammunition."
2432Book “Civil War Maine Hall of Fame, Political, Judicial, and Military Leaders 1861-1865: an encyclopedic historical survey and directory of 446 individuals” By Kenneth M. Thompson
  • Publication, Book
2355Book "Eldridge's Coast Pilot No.1"
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Incription on the first page: George E. Gilley Islesford, Maine
2014Book "Eminent Mainers, Suucint Biographies of thousands of amazing Mainers, Mostly Dead, and a few from away who have done something useful within the state of Maine" by Arthur Douglas Stover
  • Publication, Book
2273Book "Fatal Tryst" by Gerald Tomlinson
  • Publication, Book
Description:
The minister and his wife were guests at Woodlawn in July and August 1922. Shortly after they returned home Rev. Hall and a member of his choir were murdered.
2055Book “Island Sketchbook, Artists’ Impressions of the Acadian Islands, Compiled for the Islesford Historical Society”
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Includes sketches from TIPs, Rick Alley, Corey Alley, Mark Howard, Dan Fernald, and Sarah Corson
2009Book "Joh Gilley, Maine Farmer and Fisherman" by Charles W. Eliot
  • Publication, Book
2448Book Leaving Home
  • Publication, Book
Description:
ficitional version of life and leaving Islesford
2128Book "Life and Correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch" by his son Vincent Y. Bowditch. Published by the Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1902. Volume I of II
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Inscription - Presented to the Islesford Library by the children of henry I. Bowditch
2184Book "Life Saving Station Annual Report, 1912"
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Indicates that the life saving station was fully manned for an "active season" of only ten months per year. Only the captain was on duty in June and July. See page 107.
2051Book “Maine Almanac: Maine’s most comprehensive general reference handbook, concise, accurate, up-to-date information about all aspects of the state of Maine 1978”
  • Publication, Book
2218Book "Maine in Transition: Writings from the York County Coast Star 1961-1973" By Betty Joyce
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Nothing regarding Cranberry Islands
2056Book “Memories of a Maine Island” by Marie Locke and Nancy Montgomery
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Turn of the century life on Little Cranberry Island, Maine told through photographs and memories of Irene Morse Bartlett, a life-long island resident
2224Book "Memories of a Maine Island" by Marie Locke and Nancy Montgomery
  • Publication, Book
Description:
This book is based on interviews by Marie Locke with her grandmother, Irene Bartlett, and with glass plate photographs by Irene's father Fred Morse of Islesford. The Islesford Historical Society served as a fiscal agent for the project. Irene Bartlett died on June 27, 1998 and a copy of her obituary has been inserted in the book
2254Book "Mount Desert - A History" by George E. Street.
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Reprint of the book originally published in 1905. Includes material about the Cranberry Isles
2319Book "Mount Desert - The Early French Visits" by Charles Savage
  • Publication, Book
2213Book "Mount Desert An Informal History" Edited by Gunnar Hansen, 1989
  • Publication, Book
2694Book of Notes from Harold Phippen’s grandmother, who was the secretary for the Ladies Auxiliary and left it for her family after she died.
  • Document, Other Documents
Description:
Also enclosed is an old post card of Sand Beach on Islesford.
2219Book "Poems for Sutton Island by Hortense Flexner afterword by Carl Little"
  • Publication, Book
Description:
See also fear is the thorn by Rachel Field acquisition #35
2163Book "Revolution Downeast: The War for American Independence in Maine" By James S. Leaman 1993.
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Purchased from the author at the 1993 Annual Meeting of the Maine Historical Society
2186Book "Seth Parker's Hymnal"
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Inscribed on the fly leaf - "Addie L Muster, 17 Land Place So. Weymouth, Mass. Dec. 4, 1931. Seth Parker was a humorist from Jonesport, ME
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
2011Book "Tables of Computed Altitude and Azimuth, Vol. V"
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Repairing and adjusting compasses was Ted's specialty after his retirement
2127Book "The Bluejackets' Manual" Published by the United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, Maryland. Fourteenth edition 1950.
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Inscription on front cover - Given to Milton A. Phippen by Thomas L. Benton, JR.
2262Book "The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines" by Margaret Vandercook
  • Publication, Book
Description:
The book appears to have been given to the Islesford School by the Sea Coast Mission in 1939. It is of interest because it contains numerous autographs of Islesford students from 1939-1949. The autographs often include comments on the weather such as "Agood day", "A slippery day", etc.
2378Book "The Great Fire of Ellsworth - 1933" by Darlene Springer
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Ms Springer was Darlene Dunn of the H.W. Dunn & Co. in Ellsworth. That company has been contracted by the Islesford Historical Society to restore the cemetery on Baker Island in 2009
2004Book "The illustrated Coast Pilot"
  • Publication, Book
Description:
A 2nd edition with sailing directions and photos of most light houses and light ships along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the US. The book is marked Smith Stanley and was probably found in the house after purchased by Francis Fernald
2277Book "The Lady of the Lake" by Sir Walter Scott. From the Riverside Literature Series. Copyright 1908
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Marked on the inside cover as property of Islesford School Library. Loan List includes - Theodore L. Spurling, Marion Spurling, Malcolm Fernald, Pauline Stanley (1936), Francis Stanley, and Warren Fernald (1940)
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.
2202Book "The Pine Tree Coast" by Samuel Adams Drake, Estes and Lauriet, Boston, 1891
  • Publication, Book
Description:
A first person narrative of a trip taken along the entire coast of Maine in 1890. Includes a reference to Cranberry Isles
2372Book “The Story of Bar Harbor: an informal history recording one hundred and fifty years in the life of a community” by Richard Walden Hale, JR.
  • Publication, Book
2374Book “The Story of the Third Army Corps Union” By William P. Shreve
  • Publication, Book
2002Book "The Sword of Honor, A story of the Civil War" by Lieut. H.A. Johnson
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Little or no relevance to the Cranberry Isles
2217Book "The Tracy Log Book 1855 - A month in Summer"
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Charles Tracy's diary of a several week visit by him and a party of 20ish people to Somesville in 1855.
2230Book "Time Out of Mind By Rachel Field
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Rachel Field is a local author who used to live on Sutton's Island. She is also the author of "God's Pocket" and "Calico Bush" which have references to the Cranberry Isles
2187Book titled "Gospel Hymns No. 6" By Ira D. Sankey, James McGranahan and Geo. C. Stebbins
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Inscribed on fly leaf - Fannie M. Stanley, May 4th, 1892
2223Book "Washington's Farewell Address - to the people of the United States"
  • Publication, Book
2131Book-Anchor to Windward by L Edwin Valentine Mitchell. New York, Coward McCann, Inc. 1940
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Dedicated to Neil Dow Bousfield. A story of the Maine Seacoast Mission
2160Book"Commercial Fisheries of Maine" by the Department of Sea and Shore Fisheries, Augusta, ME, January 1957
  • Publication, Book
2226Booklet - "Mount Desert 1872" by George Ward Nichols
  • Publication, Booklet
Description:
Printed in 1977
2205Booklet "A Souvenir of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island" Pencil noted as "Ca. 1906" $10
  • Publication, Booklet
Description:
text and photots of Bar Harbor around the turn of the century.
2140Booklet "Chaplain to Bernard" by William Otis Sawtelle
  • Publication, Booklet
Description:
1 of 2 copies found
2144Booklet "Daniel Gott, Mount Desert Pioneer his Ancestors and Decsendents" by William Otis Sawtelle
  • Publication, Booklet
2276Booklet "Dedication Hadlock Memorial Park" on July 17, 2001
  • Publication, Booklet
2168Booklet "Facts About Maine" Published by the Maine Development Commission in 1950
  • Publication, Booklet
2407Booklet Incident at Carbon Junction
  • Publication, Booklet
Description:
Written by Jay Speakman
2064Booklet “My Bible Story Book: Stories of Some of God’s Helpers, Third Grade, Part one”
  • Publication, Booklet
Description:
Inscription on inside “Date: Oct. 1945, My Teacher’s Name: Phyllis Colson”
2142Booklet "Notes of the Norwood Family" by William Otis Sawtelle
  • Publication, Booklet
Description:
2 Copies
2091Booklet “Old Time New England: The Bulletin of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Vol. XII, No.4, April, 1922”
  • Publication, Booklet
Description:
Article about the “Blue Duck” museum building can be found on page 185
2145Booklet "Sir Francis Bernard and his Grant of Mounmt Desert" by William Otis Sawtelle
  • Publication, Booklet
Description:
Only 1 copy found
2141Booklet "Sir Samuel Argall - The First Englishman at Mount Desert" by William Otis Sawtelle
  • Publication, Booklet
2138Booklet "Sprague's Journal of Maine History 1924, Vol. XIII No.1 & No.2"
  • Publication, Booklet
Description:
These volumes include "The Gilley Family of Mount Desert" by William Otis Sawtelle in two installments
2198Booklet "Sprague's Journal of Maine History, Vol. XIII, No. 3, 1925
  • Publication, Booklet
Description:
Contains Sawtelle's article Chaplain to Bernard
2146Booklet "The Electric Spark" by William Otis Sawtelle. Reprint from the Astrophysical Journal, Vol. XLII, No.2 September 1915
  • Publication, Booklet
2143Booklet "Thomas Pownall Colonial Governer and Some of his activities in the American Colonies" by William Otis Sawtelle
  • Publication, Booklet
2341Booklet titled Island Life-An Educator's Guide to the Cranberry Isles in the 1800s
  • Publication, Booklet
Description:
Has some photos and brief histories of early settlers. Some Quotations from Ted Spurling, Sr.
2188Booklet titled "The One Hundred and One Best Songs for the Homeschool and Meeting.
  • Publication, Booklet
Description:
Inscribed with pencil on inside cover: Archie S. Spurling
2130Book-Maine, Its History, Resources & Government by: Glenn W.Starkey 1920
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Inscribed "Property of Town of Cranberry Isles" Two Copies
2126Book-Maine Register State Year Book and Legislative Manual 1931-32 Published by Fred L. Tower Companies Portland, Maine
  • Publication, Book
2339Books 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"
  • Publication, Book
2284Books "The Minister and the Choir Singer" and "Fatal Tryst"
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Both books tell the story of the Halls-Mills murder case. Rev. Hall and his family were guests at Woodlawn in 1922. Shortly after their return home, Rev. Hall and a member of his choir were found murdered. The mystery has never been solved.
2122Book-The Island of Mount Desert Register with the Cranberry Isles 1909-1910 compiled by Lawton, Jordan, Maddox, Auburn, Maine
  • Publication, Book
2358Bowditch's Practical Navigator:1868 edition
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Ted's career as a Merchant Marien officer and navigation was a specialty for him.
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.
2512"Brief History of Acadia. 1604 - 1992" by Rene Babineau
  • Publication, Book
2539Brochure for the Cranberry Isles "Town of Five Islands"
  • Document, Advertising, Brochure
2698Brochure from The Ashley Bryan Center
  • Document, Advertising, Brochure
2475Brown Suitcase with various keepsakes
  • Object, Personal Case, Suitcase
2197Bunker Genealogy
  • Document, List, Register, Family Register
Description:
Seems to be a double entry for acquisition #106 decided to rename this entry as 0106a
2155Business Record Book 1922-1957 of the Woodlawn Hotel, James R. Dwelley, proprietor
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record
Description:
Hotel register can be found in the Islesford Museum
2154Business record book of the Hotel Islesord Loring A. Stanley, Proprietor 1893-1909
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record
Description:
Hotel opened in 1887. Hotel regester is at the Islesford Museum
2117Card with “A Fark Girl Off To Market” by Native Capt. Bryant 1991-97
  • Image, Artwork
Description:
Artwork done by Roy Bryant
2734Case for the Gilbert T. Hadlock Medal for rescuing crew of Schooner Effie T. Kemp
  • Object, Award, Decoration of Honor, Medal
Description:
Case for Medal
2680Cassette Tape. Interview with Maurice Phillips 10/23/95
  • Object, Audiotape, Audiocassette
2681Cassette Tape. Joy Sprague re The Islesford Post Office 7/97
  • Object, Audiotape, Audiocassette
2673Cassette Tape. Richard Dudman - Return to Vietnam. Islesford, July 13, 1994
  • Object, Audiotape, Audiocassette
2679Cassette Tape. Ted Spurling Sr. Interviewed by Jane Moran Porter. Winter 2001/02
  • Object, Audiotape, Audiocassette
2677Cassette Tape. Wendell S. Hadlock interviewing himself and interviews with Capt. Warren Spurling by Wendell S. Hadlock
  • Object, Audiotape, Audiocassette