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2181zeroxed copy of a 91 page book titled General Andrew B. Spurling and Second Maine Cavalry
  • Publication, Book
Description:
1987 letter to Ted with material copied from the National Archives re the civil war military records of Lt. Col. William E. Hadlock and Brigadier General Andrew B. Spurling
2741Young - Lulu Stewart Young (1874 - 1956)
  • Reference
  • People
2247WWII Sailor's Cap
  • Object, Clothing, 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.
1296WW II ration book 3 stamps and back cover
  • Object, Coupon, Ration Coupon, Ration Book
  • Object, Coupon, Ration Coupon, Ration Book
1357Wreck Don Parsons
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Boat
1358Wreck Don Parsons
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Boat
Description:
1924
2489Woodworking tool.
  • Object, Woodworking
Description:
Tag says, "Probably Arthur Fernald's"
2493Woodlawn House Dinner Bell
  • Object, Sound Signaling Device, Bell, Dinner Bell
1003Woodlawn House Business Card, undated
  • Object, Identification Card, Business Card
  • Businesses, Lodging Business
  • Dwelley, James R.
Description:
The Woodlawn Inn was built by George Henry Fernald for George and Edna Gilley, circa 1893. After Edna's death it was closed in 1909. James Ray and Ada Dwelley reopened the inn in 1911 and ran it for over 40 years. A business card for the Woodlawn House, with rates. People Mentioned: James R. Dwelley
1150Woodlawn Hotel now private residence
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
2742Woodlawn
  • Reference
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
Description:
The Woodlawn Inn was built by George Henry Fernald for George and Edna Gilley, circa 1893. After Edna's death it was closed in 1909. James Ray and Ada Dwelley reopened the inn in 1911 and ran it for over 40 years.
1355Woodlawn
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
2731Wooden Lobster Peg
  • Object, Fishing, Lobster Peg
Description:
Whittled peg for plugging lobster claws to prevent the lobster from pinching someone with its claw. Used before the invention of rubber bands for lobster claws
2769Winter sledding
  • Image, Photograph, Digital Photograph
  • Nature, Seasons, Winter
  • 1957
Description:
Homemade island box sled to take children out sliding; Ted and Serena Spurling at the top of Church hill.
1277Winter Islesford
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Island
Description:
1996
2766Winter firewood
  • Image, Photograph, Digital Photograph
  • Nature, Seasons, Winter
  • C. Thomas
  • 2022
2768Winter coffee hour at the Islesford Library
  • Image, Photograph, Digital Photograph
  • Events
  • C. Thomas
  • 2017
Description:
Tuesday mornings during the winter months Cindy Thomas hosts coffee hour in the library. Attending this one L to R Chris Wriggins, ??? , Ann Fernald, Ashley Bryan, Christine Sandberg, Skip Stevens, Kathy Lake
2765Winter boat sled
  • Image, Photograph, Digital Photograph
  • Nature, Seasons, Winter
1215Winslow Bunker
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
1521Winfred Fernald obituary
  • Document, Announcement, Obituary
  • People
1149Winfred Fernald and Parsonage
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
1039Winfred Fernald
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
1071Willie Callahan
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
Description:
age 19 Oct 25 1905
1214William Spurling
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
1129William holding Edward, standing Dale & son Roy Hadlock
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
1354William A Young 1869-1946
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
1070William A Terris
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
2114Who fished these waters: Cranberry Isles
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Description:
Who fished these waters: Cranberry Isles fisheries & fishermen in the 19th Century
2072"What Islesford Meant to Me an Open Letter from Philip Bowditch"
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Description:
Read at the Islesford Literary Evening in July 1997
2463What appears to be a green military hat with visor
  • Object, Clothing, Hat
1211W.H. T.... Oct. 12, 1919
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
2095Wendell Hadlock’s report “A Historic and Archeological Sites Survey of Acadia National Park and Adjacent Territories
  • Document, Report
1128Wendell Hadlock
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
2046Wells & Ward Families on the Sandbeach at Islesford -1920’s
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
1004Weir or trap license application, February 25, 1944
  • Document, Form, Application
  • Object, Fishing, Fish Trap, Weir
  • 1944-02-25
Description:
An application for a weir or trap license for George Hadlock and Francis G. Fernald. People Mentioned: Francis G. Fernald, George R. Hadlock, Eleanor M. Bowditch
1294Wayne Beal's War Ration books 1,2,3 WW II
  • Object, Coupon, Ration Coupon, Ration Book
  • Object, Coupon, Ration Coupon, Ration Book
1293Wayne Beal's war ration book 1 no stamps left
  • Object, Coupon, Ration Coupon, Ration Book
  • Object, Coupon, Ration Coupon, Ration Book
1295Wayne Beals ration book 2 with some stamps and back cover
  • Object, Coupon, Ration Coupon, Ration Book
  • Object, Coupon, Ration Coupon, Ration Book
1213Wayne Beal
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
2265Wash Board
  • Object, Maintenance, Washboard
Description:
Used for scrubbing clothes when they were being washed by hand. This may have come from Woodlawn.
1323Warren Rice
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
1038Warren Fernald
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
1127Walter Hadlock
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
1212WA Bert Spurling & the Restless
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Vessels, Boat
Description:
View from steamboat warf
1069W. L. Judkins
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
Description:
Lawrence, MA
1353W. A. Young amid the coal from the wreck Don Parsons
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Places, Shore
2405Volumes 1-3 of Census Records of Cranberry Isles and the Towns of Mount Desert Island from 1790-1860
  • Document, Government, Census Record
  • Places, Town
Description:
Duplicate acquisition # changed from #0421 to #0432
2297Vol. 2, #40 Nov. 1 18961
Kadesh Barnea by J. Wilbur Chapman, D.D.
  • Publication, Book
Vol. 2, #40 Nov. 1 18961
Kadesh Barnea by J. Wilbur Chapman, D.D.
Description:
From the library of Rev. Charles N. Davis who was the pastor of the Cranberry Isles churches for several years. Inscription: "From the collection taken for books by Edwin Hadlock, Islesford, August, 1897
2296Vol. 2, #28, May 1,1896: "Probable Sons"
  • Publication, Book
Description:
From the library of Rev. Charles N. Davis who was the pastor of the Cranberry Isles churches for several years. Inscription: "From the collection taken for books by Edwin Hadlock, Islesford, August, 1897
2295Vol. 2, #26, April 1, 1896: "Sowing and Reaping" by D.L. Moody
  • Publication, Book
Description:
From the library of Rev. Charles N. Davis who was the pastor of the Cranberry Isles churches for several years. Inscription: "From the collection taken for books by Edwin Hadlock, Islesford, August, 1897
2366Vital Records of Mount Desert Island Maine and Nearby Islands 1776-1820
  • Document, Government, Vital Record
  • People
1068Virginia May Spurling
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
Description:
age 3 months
1275Vincent Bowditch's Islesford Cottage, "Treetop"
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
1377Views of Islesford
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Nature, Plants
  • Places, Island
Description:
taken by Sarah Corson
1378Views of Islesford
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Landscape
Description:
taken by Sarah Corson
1274View twards Baker's Island
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Island
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Farmhouse
1361View towards Cranberry Isles from the top of Mt Cadillac
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Island
Description:
Back view from the air Islesford mid 1970's,
1395View of Acadia from Islesford
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • Vessels, Boat
Description:
Photo by Ed Elvidge
1393View from the air, Boats at Islesford Resturant
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Island
Description:
Mid 1970's
1272View from Islesford Town Dock
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
Description:
1996
1273View from Islesford
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Island
2044VHS “True North #407: Maine Love Economy
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
2377VHS "Tim Sample Presents: Sunday Morning in Maine - a collection of the very best 'postcards from Maine an originally broadcast on CBS Sunday Morning"
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
  • Other
Description:
Includes Cranberry Island Graduation
2235VHS taped at Islesford in summer 1989 including: Wits and Nitwits, Masquerade, Cultural Evening, Schooners & Library Dedication
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
2042VHS “Snapshots” Episode #19
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
Description:
Episode about Aquaculture, Darling Center, and Swim Lobster Pound
2305VHS "Ralph Stanley & Friends at the GCIHS Annual Meeting"
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
Description:
Ralph Stanley & Friends playing at the GCIHS Annual Meeting 8/15/2002
2220VHS "Our Stories" series of 5 TV programs first aired in May 1998. A - The Cranberry Report, Islesford, Maine B - Healing Woods, Indian Township, Maine C - At the Center of Things, Bethel, Maine D - Harvest of Hope, Fort Kent, Maine E - The Big Picture: A Call-in Show.
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
2392VHS of Wells family during the 1920s at their home on Sand Beach
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
Description:
still looking for DVD mentioned in the 3 ring binder
2037VHS of Islesford Children’s Opera, Spring 2003
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
2307VHS of an episode of the "Today Show" August 25, 1997
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
Description:
Episode features interview with Phil Grossman and AShley Bryan and Emerson Ham.
2039VHS "Modern Times in Maine and America 1890-1930"
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
2038VHS "Maypole Dancing at Islesford with African Music"
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
Description:
No date.
2222VHS "Maine's Golden School Days 1890-1930 A reminiscent Video"
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
Description:
The schooling described in this video is similar to the teaching styles on Islesford during the 1920's and 1930's
2232VHS "Maine America's Coast with Jack Perkins"
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
2041VHS made from 8 mm films taken at Islesford by Victor Wyerman in the 1940’s and 1950’s
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
Description:
Tape of narrative of the Wyerman film attached.
2320VHS "Ice Harvesting Sampler, Northeast Historic Films"
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
Description:
Includes ice harvesting on Upper Hadlock Pond at Northeast Harbor
2430VHS “Home: The Story of Maine”
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
Description:
A – The Nation’s Playground. B – A Love for the Land. C – Trails, Rails, and Roads. D – Power Lines
2250VHS "Home - The Story of Maine" A - A Place Apart. B - A Part of the Main. C - They Came by Sea
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
2280VHS "Home - The Story of Early Maine"
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
Description:
Maine Public Television
2047VHS "Hitty the Legend Continues"
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
Description:
Two copies
2015VHS "Dinner Impossible" episode held on Islesford in October 2006
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
Description:
Two Copies
2045VHS Cranberry Isles. Historical "God's Pocket"
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
2221VHS "Co-management: The New England town meeting goes to sea"
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
2281VHS "Carrie Richardson of Big Cranberry Island"
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
Description:
A play written by Wini Smart and Bruce Komusin. Presented at the annual meeting of GCI Historical Society August 8, 2001. Spiralbound transcript also on shelf.
2040VHS “Building Character Episode 107”
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
Description:
Features Clayton and Starr Bright in their home on the Sandbeach at Islesford
2233VHS "Bob Elliot's Profiles of Maine"
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
Description:
No specific mention of MDI or Downeast area
2301VHS "An Interview with Marjorie Phippen 1904-2002"
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
Description:
2 Copies
2251VHS "All This and Heaven Too"
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
Description:
This movie was based on the book by the same name written by Rachel Field. The movie was purchased to show in connection with release of a new edition of God's Pocket also written by Rachel Field, a resident of Sutton's Island
2310VHS A brief video of the Islesford Coast Guard Station narrated by Ted Spurling and Jack Perkins
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
2231VHS " Earliest Maine Films: Trout Fishing, Logging, Canoeing, Potato Farming"
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording, VHS
1067Velma Teele
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
1321Velma Stanley Teale
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
Description:
daughter of Mr & Mrs Edward Stanley
1322Velma Stanley
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
Description:
Aug. 18 ,1905, later Velma Teale
2393V and E - The Story of Two Whales
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Written by Margaret Gifford in 1950. Edited by Charles Gifford and published by GiffOdess Books in 1998.
2460U.S.S. Hobo Black Ribbon with gold letters
  • Object, Insignia Ribbon
Description:
36 1/2 inches long
2470U.S.L.S.S. Holosteric Barometer
  • Object, Meteorological, Barometer
Description:
Brass - 4 1/2 inches in diameter and 2 inches tall
2688Used to size the holes in knitted heads for lobster traps.
  • Object, Other Object
2336US 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
  • Publication, Book, Journal
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."
2356US Life-Saving Service Ann. Report 1908
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
See page 326 of reprt regaring award of a silver life-saving medel to Capt. Gilbert T. Hadlock.
2357US Life-Savind Servide ann. report 1911
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
1271US Life Saving Station, Islesford Me, Nathan Stanley on Ox Buckeye
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Structures, Other Structures, Life Saving Station
2166U.S. Coast Guard uniform consisting of 1 hat with insignia, 2 dress jackets with insignia, 1 pair black trousers, 1 pea coat.
  • Object, Clothing, Uniform
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.
1018U.S. Coast Guard Members with Model Ships Photograph, c. 1930s
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
Description:
Six members of the U.S. Coast Guard holding four model ships. Inscription on back reads "#1 - Left to Right/ Payson Tucker (?) - Elmer Farnsworth, Herbert Foss (?) - Freeman Harmon (Skipper)/ Sailboats all made by Ephriam Alle - (He isn't in the photo./ I still have one of those sailboats - (Made in 1945) and in darned good shape" in black pen and is signed "Ted Sp[?] Sr., 12/29/93." People Depicted: Payson Tucker, Elmer Farnsworth, Herbert Foss, Freeman Harmon, Ephriam Alley Black and white [show more]
1017U.S. Coast Guard Life Boat Photograph, c. 1940s
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Dwelley, H.
Description:
A U.S. Coast Guard life boat with other boats in the background. Inscription on back reads "USCG Life boat/ Photo by H. Dwelley/ 1940s" in pencil Black and white
1270Up to the Main Rd. from the Church
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Town
Description:
No Date
1269Unloading mail boat Dec., 29 2000
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
1408Unlabeled Photos
  • Image, Photograph
  • Other
1407Unlabeled People
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
1036Unknown Fernalds
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
2173University of Maine "Prism 1904" Photo of George R. Hadlock on page 55. Photo of Raymond Dwelley included in the fraternity photo on page 130 - 3rd from the left in the 3rd row counting from the front
  • Image, Photograph
Description:
Hadlock and Dwelley later became brothers-in-law by marrying respectively, Edna and Ada Campbell of Islesford. They may not have known eachother at the University. Dwelley from Franklin, ME was a freshman in 1904 and Hadlock from Islesford, was in the Law School
1133Unidentified house
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
2704Two slides. “Islesford Harbor in 1940’s”
  • Image, Photograph, Transparency, Slide Transparency
2667Two postcards. One of "Looking east from old apple trees, Islesford, ME" and one of "Islesford, Maine, looking West from Hotel"
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
2642Two post cards. One of "Cory's Truck. Islesford. September 2001" and one of "The Marsh looking towards Mt. Desert Island 1900"
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
2632Two post cards from Natalie Beal. One is of the Woodlawn House on Islesford, and the other is an American Art post card of "Yankee Doodle"
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
2549Two post cards. "Church Hill 100 Years Ago" and "Lobstering"
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
2666Two photos. "Woodlawn Hotel" "View from Woodlawn"
  • Image, Photograph
2707Two photos. “View from Woodlawn” and photo of Islesford Museum. Dates unknown.
  • Image, Photograph
2607Two photos. One post card photo of Islesford/ Mt. Desert in Mid 1970's. One photo of "Islesford Market mgt. Susan "Soos" Krasnow 1999"
  • Image, Photograph
2601Two photos. One of "Nat Beal's and two Dwelley Houses 2000" and "Islesford History Room 2000"
  • Image, Photograph
2613Two photos. One of "July 4th and Islesford 1992" and one of "Farewell Islesford! Winter 1992"
  • Image, Photograph
2575Two photos of "Wash Day - Natalie Beal's House"
  • Image, Photograph
2545Two photos of Sammy Sandord's sister Dara and Elmina Preble
  • Image, Photograph
Description:
No date on photos
2597Two photos of paintings by G. Wronkow
  • Image, Photograph
2653Two photos of Maypole Dance at Islesford in 1999
  • Image, Photograph
2555Two photos of Lillian Ladd Spurling from the home of Archie and Lillian Spurling
  • Image, Photograph
2560Two photos of Lath Traps 8/98
  • Image, Photograph
2586Two photos of ice at Hadlock Cove
  • Image, Photograph
2561Two photos of Chebacco Boat on Somes Sound - July 1999
  • Image, Photograph
2546Two photos from the Islesford Maypole on July 10, 1993
  • Image, Photograph
2715Two photos and negatives. Fred & Nellie Spurling’s house. Nat Bowditch Lot.
  • Image, Photograph
2581Two of the same photo of "Uncle Fred Spurling 1868-1958"
  • Image, Photograph
2593Two of the same photo. "Blue Sails at Islesford"
  • Image, Photograph
2585Two of the same Christmas card of the Islesford Church.
  • Image, Photograph
2332two ledger books containing Francis G. Fernald'slobstering income and expenses records from 1947-1966 and from 1967-1975
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
Description:
In January 1947 he was catching 85-160 lbs or so each day he got out . Selling for 40 to 50 centsa pound. In 1975 he was catching only 40 to 60 lbs a day . selling them for $1.40 to $1.60 a lb.
2488Two Funny Eyes made from local twigs by Francis Fernald
  • Object, Other Object
2516Two copies of "The Island Cook Book". Published by the Ladies of the Islesford Church Club in 1940.
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Inside one of the books is clippings of recipes from magazines and recipes written on recipe cards.
2456Two compartment coin purse with seven bullets inside
  • Object, Carrying Bag, Purse
2459Two carved lobster bouy decorations
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Buoy, Lobster Buoy
1010Two Boys Smiling Photograph, c. 1890s
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Seasons, Winter
  • People
Description:
Two boys smiling outside on a porch. They are wearing hats and jackets. Inscription on back reads "1890s ??" in black pen Black and white
2451Two Boy Scouts of America scarves. One gold and royal blue and one green and gold.
  • Object, Clothing, Scarf
Description:
Green and gold scard has embroidery on it.
2109trustees report Maine Missionary Society, 1896
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Maine Missionary Society Year report 9/1/1896
2386Tribute to Residents of the Cranberry Isles who died in 1925
  • Document, Other Documents
Description:
probablly written by Professor William Otis Sawtell
2736Transcripts of oral tapes
  • Publication, Literary, Transcript
Description:
Transcripts: Rosemund Lord, Rebedda Wheat, Margery Biscomb, Muriel Sawtelle, Harry Spurling, Wendall Hadlock, Ted Spurlling Sr. plus Heather Spurling's interview with Ted Spurling, Sr.
2434Transcriptions. A-Transcription of interview with Lee Ham about lobstering and the lobster co-op dock. B-Transcription of interview with Richard ‘Chuddy’ Alley about lobstering and torching. Both interviews held on 12/8/2010
  • Publication, Literary, Transcript
2404Transcript Dr Vincent Y. Bowditch wisits with his good Islesfor friend"Aunt Caroline"Young 1885-1917
  • Document, Oral History
Description:
Transcript Dr Vincent Y. Bowditch wisits with his good Islesfor friend"Aunt Caroline"Young 1885-1917
2271Town Records kept by Hillis Bryant while selectman.
  • Document, Government, Government Records
  • Places, Town
2125Town of CranberryIsles check stubs 1908-1910
  • Object, Pay Order, Bank Check
Description:
In poor condition. Said to have been found in a museum trash can
2029Town of Cranberry Isles Annual Town Report 2007
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2028Town of Cranberry Isles Annual Report 2006
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
2027Town of Cranberry Isles Annual Report 2005
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
Description:
Deaquisitioned
1268Town Meeting March 1998
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events, Town Meetings
1404Top Marsh Creek, Bottom Harbor from Sand Beach
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Shore
1209Tom Phippen, Front
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
Description:
Back of photograph says "Tom "Pulty" Phippen Islesfor, Phips brother
2490Toaster for old wood or coal stove from Margaret Stanley
  • Object, Cooking Device, Toaster
2101Tiny wooden crate of wodden cranberries
  • Object, Containers, Crate
Description:
Sent to Jennie Jarvis by Phyllis Colson 1943 mail tag still attached
2709Tintypes from the home of Archie & Lillian Ladd Spurling
  • Image, Photograph
2690Tin Type Photo Album
  • Image, Photograph
Description:
Contains photos of Spurling & Fernald family.
2720Tin Type Photo Album
  • Image, Photograph
Description:
Contains photos of Spurling and Fernald Family
2671Three post cards. "Islesford Congregational Church" "Sailboat in Islesford Harbor 1900" "The Islesford Dock 1994"
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
2544Three photos. "Wits & Nitwits 1954" "Masquerade Ball 1954" and "Glen Hadlock in a play at Islesford"
  • Image, Photograph
2558Three photos of Barbara Fernald, and one photo of Lena Bryant and Barbara Fernald 1944/45
  • Image, Photograph
2579Three photo collage. Two are photos of paintings of Arthur "Garfield" Fernald and Wattie Gilley by C.E. Speakman Jr. One photo is of a painting of the Islesford Vessel.
  • Image, Photograph
2668Three of the same photo. "Charles Hulbert Jr.'s House - 1996. Perhaps formerly the Hadlock crew's quarters."
  • Image, Photograph
2705Three black and white photos of an event at the Islesford Catholic church ca. 1942-1943 from Marcia Hardy of Tinley Park, IL. Came with note: “My father is standing next to the right of the Cardinal. Roman Mazurowski 1942-43ish. Do not know names of others.”
  • Image, Photograph
2446ThreCranberry Island
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Description:
By Wini Smart
2534"The World Almanac - Commemorative Edition / The Complete 1868 Original and Selections from 25, 50 and 100 Years Ago, with and Overview by Today's Editors" Edited by June Foley, Mark Hoffman, and Tom McGuire.
  • Publication, Book
1392The Waterfront, Islesford
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Island
Description:
Back of postcard says "THE WATER-FRONT, Islesford, Maine, on Little Cranberry Island - Included in its many attractions is a Historic Museum, founded in 1919 by Professor William O. Sawtell.Passage to the Island may be obtained, during the summer, from Seal Harbor, Northeast and Southwest Harbors on the Islesford Ferry." Aeriel photo by A.D. Phillips
2521"The Voice of Maine - Interviews with 31 outspoken Maine people" by William L. Pohl, with photographs by, Abbie Sewall. Introduction by Marshall Dodge II.
  • Document, Oral History
2533"The Virginians - A Tale of the Last Century" by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Publication, Book
2210The Village & the Hill-Growing up in Seal Harbor Maine in the 1930's by Richard W. Billings.
  • Publication, Book
Description:
An interesting collection of stories and sketches.
2505"The Town of the Five Islands" by Ted Spurling Sr.
  • Publication, Literary, Article
2177The Tale of the Merchant Ships by Charles E Cartwright
E.P. Sutton, NY 1924
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Inscribed on front leaf - George R. Hadlock Feb.17, 1934
2229"The Story of New England 1620-1920" by Edward Oliver Skelton, member of the New England Historical Society.
  • Publication, Literary, Article
2204The Stanlelys of the Cranberry Islands-Genealogical Notes of William Otis Sawtelle Vol 1 ,2,3,4
  • Publication, Book
Description:
These four volumes contain zerox copies of nearly five hundred pages of Stanley Family notes made by Professor Sawtelle. Mr. Dwelley has prepared covers and a Thorough index for the ease of reference.
2445The Soldier's Grave print Rufus B. Ladd Died 10/8/1864
  • Image, Print
Description:
Rufus B Ladd died Barracks Hospital, New Orleans, LA from the Town of Cranberry Isles. Hung in the Hillenburg house till 8/2012
2439The Sailors'Magazine June 1896
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
Description:
Vol.LXVIII June 1896
2520"The Romanovs - The Final Chapter" by Robert K. Massie
  • Publication, Book
2515"The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner and Other Poems" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Publication, Book
2026The Red Book 1998
  • Publication, Directory
Description:
“The Red Book: directory and handbook, Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor, Somesville, Bar Harbor, Southwest Harbor and Adjacent Islands, 1998, 73rd Edition. By Cheryl Caughey Chase.
2243The Preble Cove Cemetery, Great Cranberry Island, Maine
  • Document, Oral History
Description:
Compiled by Bruce Komusin. 2 Copies
2442The old Gods come to Somesville, Maine
  • Publication, Booklet
Description:
paperback booklet by Rachel Field
2596The National Heritage Fellowships 1999 book. Page 19 is a page dedicated to Ralph Stanley, who is a master boat builder.
  • Publication, Book
2684The National Heritage Fellowships 1999 book. Page 19 is a page dedicated to Ralph Stanley, who is a master boat builder.
  • Publication, Book
1051The Mount Desert Stanwoods
  • Document, Other Documents
  • People
1390The Maypole
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Island
Description:
Back of postcard says "THE MAYPOLE, Islesford, Maine, on Little Cranberry Island - This Island Paradise, with its splendid panoramic view of the Mount Desert Hills, may be reached by the Islesford Ferry from Seal Harbor, Northeast and Southwest Harbors." Aeriel photo by A.D. Phillips
1507The Mary S. Hontvet
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship
1388The Marsh looking towards Mount Desert Island
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Landscape
  • Morse - Fred W. Morse
Description:
1900. By Islesford photographer Fred W. Morse. Postcard imprinted with "The Braided Rugs Inn, Little Cranberry Island, Maine 04646, [207] 244-5943"
2371The Maritime History of Maine: Three Centuries of Shipbuilding and Seafaring
  • Publication, Book
2176The Maine Townsman or laws for the Regulation of Towns. Thirtee8nth Editions, Portland, 185
  • Document, Government, Regulation
Description:
Incribed on the front cover: William E. Hadlock, Cranberry Isles, Maine. William served as the first selectman of the Cranberry Isles
2507"The Maine Islands - in Story and Legend" by Dorothy Simpson
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Page 199 is the chapter on the Cranberry Isles
2402The Lobster Bake
  • Document, Other Documents
Description:
discription of a lobster bake
2373“The Living Past: being the story of Somesville, Mount Desert, Maine and its relationships with other areas of the island” by Virginia Somes-Anderson
  • Publication, Book
1008The Islesford Thimble Club Annual Sale Poster
  • Document, Advertising, Poster
  • Events, Civic
  • Organizations, Civic
  • The Islesford Thimble Club
  • 1902-08-05
Description:
A poster for the Islesford Thimble Club Fifth Annual Sale.
1386The Islesford Steamer
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Vessels, Steamboat
Description:
Back of postcard says "The steamer 'Islesford' was launched and put in service in 1893. She was sold in 1908. She was owned and captained by Gilbert Hadlock."
1267The Islesford School Sign
  • Object, Sign
  • Structures, Institutional, School
2049The Islesford Journals of Dr. Vincent Y. Bowditch
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Places, Island
  • 1992
Description:
3 Ring binder containing “The Islesford Journals of Dr. Vincent Y. Bowditch, Journals I-IV”, Transcribed by Hugh L. Dwelley published by the Islesford Historical Society in June 1992.
2103The Island Reader
  • Publication, Other Publication
Description:
Vol. 7 Spring 2012
2441The Island Reader
  • Publication, Literary, Anthology
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Places, Island
Description:
Vol. 6 Spring 2011
2535"The Island of Mount Desert Register" by Lawton-Jordan
  • Publication, Book