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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]
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]
2019A calcareous beach on the coast of maine
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Shore
Description:
By Percy Raymond and H.C. Stetson
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