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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]
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
2100a guide to rescuing pioneer gravestones
  • Publication, Guidebook
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
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
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
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
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
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
1223Antique Water Pump Little Squirt
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • People
  • Transportation, Hand-Drawn Fire Pumper
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)
2447Baker Island the Early Years
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Description:
By Wini Smart
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
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
1130Bowditch Journal account of a beached whale
  • Publication, Book, Journal
  • Nature, Animals
Description:
Bowditch Journal III Page 20. Photo of beached whale attached
2358Bowditch's Practical Navigator:1868 edition
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Ted's career as a Merchant Marien officer and navigation was a specialty for him.
2512"Brief History of Acadia. 1604 - 1992" by Rene Babineau
  • Publication, Book
2065Catalog for the August 15, 1998 Treasures of the Maine Coast fundraiser with two invitations inside as well as a correspondence between Hugh Dwelley and Starr Bright concerning the commissioning of a piece of art work. The watercolor “Summertime on Little Cranberry” was painted and donated by Edith Wright of Islesford
  • Publication, Catalog
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
2466"Cemetaries of Cranberry Isles and the Towns of Mount Desert Island" by Thomas F. Vining
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Description:
"a record of names and dates on gravestones in cemetaries of Bar Harbor, Cranberry Isles, Mount Desert, Southwest Harbor and Tremont"
2108Chebacco
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
Description:
MDI hist. society magazine Vol 13 2010
2513"Cold as a Dog and the Wind Northeast" Ballads by Ruth Moore
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Inside the front cover is a note to Hugh Dwelley from Dennis Damon, who gave him the book in July 1993
2149Collection of Poems: Fear is the Thorn by Rachel Field. Hard Cover.
  • Publication, Literary, Poem
Description:
Includes a poem REMEMBERED BLUE about Sutton Island. Also, on Pages 38 & 39, poems about Sammy Sanford's life and after his death on GCI. The Shopping Expedition. on Pages 61-66 relates a trip from Sutton to the mainland and is excellent.
2425Collection of the "Maine Historical Society Quarterly" publication. Volume 28 No.4 Spring 1989 (A), Volume 28 No.2 Fall 1988 (B), Volume 29 No.2 Fall 1989 (C), Volume 29 No.1 Summer, 1989 (D), Volume 29 Nos. 3+4 Winter-Spring 1990 (E), Volume 30 No. 1 Summer 1990 (F), Volume 30 No. 2 Fall 1990 (G), Volume 30 Nos. 3+4 Winter-Spring 1991 (H), Volume 31 No. 2 Summer 1991 (I)
  • Publication, Other Publication
2427Collection of the “Maine History” publication. Volume 34 Winter-Spring 1995 (A), Volume 35 Nos. 1&2 Summer-Fall 1995 (B), Volume 36 Nos.1&2 Summer-Fall 1996 (C), Volume 37 Nos. 1&2 Summer-Fall 1997 (D), Volume 36 Nos. 3+4 Winter-Spring 1997 (E), Volume 37 No.3 Winter 1998 (F), Volume 38 No.1 Summer 1998 (G), Volume 38 No.3+4, 1999(H)
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Places
2527"Come Spring" by Ben Ames Williams
  • Publication, Book
2164Compilation of the Bangor Historical Magazine, later the Maine Historical Magazine. 1885-1894
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
Description:
Includes an everyname index
2066Copied and version of the article “Rachel Field of the Cranberry Isles” from Downeast magazine August 1971. Also included is the play written by Hugh Dwelley about the encounters between Rachel Field and Sammy Sanford that inspired the book “God’s Pocket”. 2 Copies of play manuscript.
  • Publication, Literary, Article
2387Copy of Captain Samuel Hadlock Jr.'s journal with background information from the time by Otis Sawtelle.
  • Publication, Book, Journal
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
1007Cranberry Isles: Glimpses of Island Life, 1976
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Events, Town Meetings
  • Nature, Animals, Shellfish, Lobsters
  • Nature, Seasons, Winter
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • Noether, Gerry
  • Geraldine F. Noether
  • 1976
Description:
A booklet about daily life and activities on Cranberry Island with some illustrations. Property of Hugh L. Dwelley, Islesford, Maine. Acw. #0316 Date 03/06 People Mentioned: Hugh L. Dwelley, Lura Bodwell, Tinker Colby, Charles Rice, Steve Spurling, Lynn Colby, Winslow Bunker, Maggie Denver, Gary Allen, Norma Bunker, Kenneth Lemoine, David Lemoine, Joyce Forsyte, Edith Cunningham, Dick McFalls, Gail Colby, Sonja Colby, David Westphal, Louise Sorenson, Beverly Sanborn, Wendy Sundstrom, Carl Nelson, Barbara Brooks, Charles E. Harwood, Charles N. Davie, Alexander P. MacDonald, J. W. Tingley, A. D. Knight, Daniel E. Fox, James B. Ford, Melvin Hutchins, Charles Gordon Cumming, Howard N. Bacon, Sarah Fraley, Wilfred Bunker, Amaziah Alley, Margie Phippin, Donald Allen, Julius Luck, Lyndon Colby, Robert Alley, Tud Bunker, Lil Samenfeld, Mark Samenfeld, Jack Helliker, Mickey MacFarlan, Gretna Finkelstein, Chuck Liebow, Don Hagberg, Helena Hagberg, Keith Wedge, Carl Fernald, Ada Rice, Marilyn Peterson, Irene Bartlett, Carl Brooks, Frances Bartlett, Cathy Poulin, Karen Bunker, Polly Storey, Betty Sprague, Elmer Hadlock, Polly Bunker, Ruth Stanley, Timmy Savage, Blair Colby, Ginna Murray, Lionel Sundstrom, Norman Sanborn, Ed Gray, Willie Wellman, Herman Savage, William Preble, George V. Spurling, George W. Colby, Abraham C. Fernald, W. M. Richardson [show more]
1508Death of Roland Sprague and Fred Fernald
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • People
Description:
Bangor Daily News article
2207"Directory and Handbook: Northeast Harbor, Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor, Somesville, Southwest Harbor, and Adjacent Islands 1962" by Mrs. Hollis M. Eaton
  • Publication, Directory
2438Down East Magazine December 1994
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
Description:
Story about Joy Sprague pg 9
2023Downeast December 1991
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
Description:
Article featuring Ashley Bryan on pages 53-55
2024Downeast Magazine April 1996
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
Description:
Article featuring Great Cranberry Island from pages 74-77
2025Downeast Magazine, December 1988
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
Description:
Artcle featuring Barbara Cooney, artist of "Island Boy" based off of John Gilley of Baker's Island. Article on pages 69-71
2381Editorial written by Marvin Ott for Ellsworth Americaan
  • Publication, Literary, Article
2306Eulogy for Hildagarde Fernald Smith 1917-2003
  • Publication, Literary, Speech, Eulogy
Description:
By Ted Spurling
2253Farmer's Almanac, Vol. 175 for 1992, Vol. 182 for 1999 and Vol. 183 for 2000
  • Publication, Book, Journal
2021“Finding Aid for Cranberry Isles Collection 1596-1982”
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Description:
Given acquisition #0434, Copies 1 and 2
2322Finding Aid for the William Otis Collection: 1692-1941
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Other
Description:
"Finding Aid for the William Otis Collection: 1692-1941" Located at the William Otis Sawtelle collections and Research center at Acadia NAtional Park headquarters in Bar Harbor, ME Acq #292A - "Finding Aid for the Carroll Farm Collection 1840-1966" Located at the William Otis Sawtelle Collections and research center in BAr Harbor, ME
2440Framed copy of the poem, If once you have looked for a parking space
  • Publication, Literary, Poem
Description:
Written by Chris Wriggins with apologies to Rachel Field
2695Friends Magazine from March/April 1998
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
Description:
Page 17 contains an article with a photo and mention of Warren Fernald
2500"God's Pocket" by Rachel Field
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Inside the back of the book is a type up "Afterword" by Hugh Dwelley
2501"God's Pocket" by Rachel Field
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Similar to 0625, however there is no sleeve on this book. There are numerous tabs throughout the book.
2504"God's Pocket" by Rachel Field
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Afterword mentioned in 0625 printed in the book.
2193God's Pocket. The story of Captain Samuel Hadlock, Junior of Cranberry Isles, ME by: Rachel Field
  • Publication, Book
Description:
autographed copy of a first edition
1505Golden Rod
  • Publication, Book
  • Vessels, Steamboat
2352"Growing up at Woodlawn"
  • Publication, Literary, Article
2509"Hancock County - a rock bound paradise" a Bicentennial Pictorial by Connee Jellison
  • Publication, Book
2503Hancock County Cultural Collection - A Guide to the Artists, Art Organizations, and Services for Artists in Hancock County, Maine
  • Publication, Guidebook
  • Organizations, Civic
2531Hardcover copy of "Time Out of Mind" by Rachel Field
  • Publication, Book
2529"Hepatica Hawks" by Rachel Field
  • Publication, Book
2464Higgins Classical Institute Catalogue
  • Publication, Catalog
Description:
Person in catalogue from Islesford
2121History of Maine by John S.C. Abbott. Published in 1875 by B.B. Russell, Portland
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Purchased by Mr.Palmer in 1990 at a used book store in the Washington D.C. area
2347Hitty Preble of the Cranberry Isles, Maine booklet with woodenHiitty doll on Cover
  • Publication, Booklet
Description:
A project of the GCI Historical Society based on Rachel Field's book Hitty - Her first 100 years
1006Hotel Islesford Booklet, undated
  • Publication, Booklet
  • People
  • People
  • Places, Shore
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Noether, Gerry
  • Falt, A. M.
Description:
A booklet featuring photographs of sites on Islesford. People Mentioned: A. M. Falt
1502Hugh Dwelley write up about the USCGS
  • Publication, Literary, Narrative
  • Structures, Other Structures, Life Saving Station
2389Hugh Dwelley's Memoir
  • Publication, Book
2591Island Journal - The Annual Publication of the Island Institute - Volume Twenty - Nine
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Places, Island
Description:
Page 52 is an article called "Islesford's Creative Economy - Island Artists Must Also Be Entrepreneurs" by Carl Little. Page 70 has a picture of Lil and Chuddy Alley
2683Island Journal – The Annual Publication of the Island Institute – Volume Twenty-Nine
  • Publication, Book, Journal
Description:
Page 52 is an article called “Islesford’s Creative Economy – Island Artists Must Also Be Entrepreneurs” by Carl Little. Page 70 has a picture of Lil and Chuddy Alley.
2020“Island Life: An educator’s guide to the Cranberry Isles in the 1800’s and the Islesford Historical Museum”
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Description:
Given acquisition #0433
2510"Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast - Vol. II: Mount Desrt to Machias Bay" by Charles B. McLane
  • Publication, Book
2502Islesford Church Club Bicentennial Cook Book - Islesford, Maine 1976
  • Publication, Book
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1976
Description:
Inside of book are multiple pages set inside the front cover
2408Islesford Historical Society Publication – “Ray Dwelley of Islesford, Maine: a short biography” by Hugh Dwelley
  • Publication, Other Publication
Description:
Included are photocopies of correspondences between Hugh Dwelley and a former student of Ray Dwelley (Hugh Dwelley’s Grandfather). Two Copies
2514"It's News To Me" by Don Larrabee. "A Maine Yankee Reports From Washington"
  • Publication, Book
2523"John Gilley - One of the Forgotten Millions" by Charles W. Eliot
  • Publication, Book
2532"John Gilley of Baker's Island"
  • Publication, Book
1511June 11, 1992 article about John Fernald while he was a Shriner's potentate
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • People
2526"Leave Her to Heaven" by Ben Ames Williams
  • Publication, Book
2058Magazine “Boston: Top Doctors” Issue 12, 2009
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
Description:
Article about Marya Spurling daughter of Ted and Jeri Spurling on page 96. Mention of David Brooks on page 122.
2059Magazine “Cultural Resource Management – Keeping Lighthouses a new Breed of Keepers Focus on Preservation” Volume 20, No. 8, 1997.
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
Description:
Mention of Acadia National Park and Baker’s and Bear Island as well as the Bass Harbor Head Light on page #16
2060Magazine “Down East – The Magazine of Maine: Treasured Islands, Cast Away on Cranberries” July 2007
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
Description:
Article about the Cranberry Islands can be found on page 58-65
2331Magazine "Maine Life Magazine" June 1978
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
Description:
Contains articles relating to Baxter Park, Winslow Homer, History of Jordan Pond, and others
2062Magazine “The Atlantic Monthly” April 2002
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
Description:
Article about lobster fisherman, Islesford, and lobster populations off of Islesford pages 62-81. Located on shelf #11
2323Magazines. 0294A - "The Concise Illustrated History of the Civil War" published in 1979 by the National Historical Society. 0294B-"America's Civil War" September 1991
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
Description:
Mention of the 30th Maine Regiment. Also contains an article about the 19th Maine
2498"Maine - A Literary Chronicle" by W. Storrs Lee
  • Publication, Literary, Article
2517"Maine - Its History, Resources and Government" by Glenn Wendell Starkey
  • Publication, Book
2369Maine a History. By: Charles E. Clark
  • Publication, Book
2518"Maine History - Maine Culture, High and Low"
  • Publication, Book
2269Maine History publication, Volume 39. Spring 2000 (A) Fall 2000(B) Winter 2000/1 (C)
  • Publication, Other Publication
2287Maine History Publication Volume 40 Summer 2001
  • Publication, Other Publication
2338Maine History publication. Volume 40 Winter 2001/2 (A) Volume 41, 2002. Spring (B), Volume 42 October 2005 (C)
  • Publication, Other Publication
2313Maine History publication. Volume 41, 2002. Summer (A), Fall/Winter (B)
  • Publication, Other Publication
2424Maine History publication, Volume 43 January 2007 (A), Volume 43 January 2008 (B) Notes: Located on shelf #6
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Places
2325Maine History publications. Volume 42 August 2004 (A), Volume 42 February 2005 (B)
  • Publication, Other Publication
2519"Maine In The World - Stories of Some of Those from Here Who Went Away" by Neil Rolde
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Given to Hugh Dwelley by Neil Rolde on March 7th, 2010. "To Hugh Dwelley, With my very best wishes. Neil Rolde"
2685Maine Journal from January/February of 1993
  • Publication, Book, Journal
Description:
Pg. 16 has an article called “There was no shortcut to mastering the medical manual” by James Cox
2598Maine Journal from January/February of 1993. Pg. 16 has an article called "There was no shortcut to mastering the medical manual" by James Cox
  • Publication, Book, Journal
2367“Maine Lobsterboats: Builders and lobstermen speak of their craft” by Virginia L. Thorndike, resident of Islesboro
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Has many references to MDI as well as Islesford and the Downeast area.
2165Maine Pioneer Settlements, Vol.V. By Herbert M. Sylvester W.B. Clarke Co., Boston 1909
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Final section deals with L'ilse des Monts Deserts. Includes a story re Capt. Kidd's treasure in Somes Sound as well as the story that Talleyrand might have been born at Southwest Harbor. No mention of the Cranberry Isles by name.
2697Mary Bartlett Locke (July 29, 1930 – October 25, 2015). Program/Poem from her Memorial Service on June 12th, 2016.
  • Publication, Literary, Poem
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
2525"Mount Desert - An Informal History" Edited by Gunnar Hansen
  • Publication, Book
2497"Mowee" by Cummins E. Speakman, Jr.
  • Publication, Literary, Article
1200Mrs Verner A. Gilley
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • People
2508"Mt. Desert Island and Acadia National Park - An Informal History" Photographs and Text by Sargent F. Collier
  • Publication, Book
2524"New Normal Fourth Reader" by Albert N. Raub, A.M., Ph D.
  • Publication, Book
Description:
There's a typed up note set inside the book that says, "I read this with apologies to Harry Spurling, who, as Grange Lecturor, would have read it from his station over there.
1514News article illustrating the search area for Roland Sprague and Fred Fernald
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • People
2567Newspaper article and a valentine from Sarah to Hugh and Shirley
  • Publication, Literary, Article
2342Notes & Photos from the book Maine Sea Fisheries the rise and fall of a native industry 1830-1890
  • Publication, Book
Description:
By Wayne M. O'Leary Northeastern University press, Boston 1996
2170Paper back edition of Time Out of Mind by Rachel Field. Copyright 1935. Printed March, 1971.
  • Publication, Book
2589Papers by John C. Olin (1915 - 2000) - "The Jesuits, Humanism, and History Quincentennial Reflections" by John C. Olin
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Description:
John and Marion Olin Purchased the main building at Woodlawn sometime after 1964. John was a professor at Fordham University and a recognized authority on the Dutch philosopher Erasmus.
2682Papers by John C. Olin (1915-2000) – “The Jesuits, Humanisms, and History Quincentennial Reflections” by John C. Olin.
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Description:
John and Marion Olin purchased the main building at Woodlawn sometime after 1964. John was a professor at Fordham University and a recognized authority on the Dutch philosopher Erasmus.
2398Photo copies A Laborador Journal: In search of George & Mary Niahiungitok
  • Publication, Book, Journal
Description:
Hugh Dwelley Photos inter spersed between pages
2397Photo copies of Islesford in the 1940's
  • Publication, Literary, Article
2018photo copy of article about Rachel Field Down East Magazine 1971
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Description:
article Sammy Sanford & Rachel Field of the Cranberry Isles
2511"Poems for Sutton Island" by Hortense Flexner. Woodblock prints by Polly Cote. Afterword by Carl Little
  • Publication, Literary, Poem
2279"Points East Narratives of New England" by Rachel Field
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Description:
Several good stories about Sutton Island, where Rachel Field summerd, and about Sammy Sanford and others on Great Cranberry Island
1002"Praise of the Coast Guard" Poetry, undated
  • Publication, Literary, Poem
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Bryant, Faunce A.
Description:
A poem about the Coast Guard, written by Faunce A. Bryant
2151Publication "A Downeast Yankee: from the district of Maine" by Windsor Daggett
  • Publication, Other Publication
Description:
No apparent connection to the Cranberry Isles
2409Publication “An Islesford Jabberwocky and other stories of the Cranberry Islands” Edited by Hugh Dwelley
  • Publication, Other Publication
Description:
A collection of anecdotes, poems and writings about the state of Maine and the Cranberry Isles.
2410Publication “Beyond God’s Pocket: a collection of materials about the travels of Captain Hadlock Jr., Cranberry Isles skipper and pioneer Yankee showman in Europe and the Eskimos who accompanied him. 1820-1826
  • Publication, Other Publication
2422Publication “Beyond God’s Pocket: a collection of materials about the travels of Captain Samuel Hadlock Jr., Cranberry Isles skipper and pioneer yankee showman in Europe and the Eskimos who accompanied him 1820-1826
  • Publication, Other Publication
2334Publication "Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Historical Society Volume VII 2005"
  • Publication, Other Publication
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
2052Publication “Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Volume IX 2008”
  • Publication, Other Publication
Description:
Islesford noted on page 44
2324Publication "Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Volume VI 2004"
  • Publication, Literary, Article
2363Publication "Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society" Volume VII 2005
  • Publication, Other Publication
2053Publication “Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Volume XI 2010”
  • Publication, Other Publication
Description:
Photo of Sutton’s Island on page 53
2017Publication "Chebacco" Vol. VIII 2006-2007
  • Publication, Other Publication
Description:
Contains articles about the history of MDI
2016Publication "Chebacco" Volume X 2009
  • Publication, Other Publication
Description:
No mention of the Cranberry Isles
2337Publication "Cranberry Isles, Glimpses of Island Life" by Gerry Noether. 28 Pages published in 1976
  • Publication, Other Publication
Description:
Author is a summer resident of GCI, mother of Audrey Noether
2068Publication “Descendants of George (1650-1715) & Bethiah Lovett (1652-1736) Stanley of Beverly, Mass” By Adrian O. Stanley 1997
  • Publication, Other Publication
2412Publication “Ensign Ben Bunker, Mount Desert, and the Cranberry Isles” By Theodore L. Spurling, Sr.
  • Publication, Other Publication
Description:
Occasional Paper No.2
2076Publication entitled “Cap’n Fernald” By Hugh Dwelley
  • Publication, Other Publication
Description:
Contains anecdotes about Islesford and Islesford resident Captain Francis Fernald