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| Bangor and Bar Harbor Steamboat Stock Certificate Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Bangor and Bar Harbor Steamboat Stock Certificate Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Certificate for six shares of the Bangor & Bar Harbor Steamboat Co. made out to a Miss Roberts on December 19, 1895. | |
| Mount Desert Granite Co., Hall Quarry Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Mount Desert Granite Co., Hall Quarry Northeast Harbor Library Description: Mt. Desert Granite Company Quarry Showing work houses and drilling equipment. James Grant Photographs | ||
| "Bangor Weekly Commercial" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "Bangor Weekly Commercial" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A receipt for the Bangor Weekly Commercial. It is a 12 month subscription or $1 a year, and is for William Preble. | |
| W.S. Brown Account Book Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  W.S. Brown Account Book Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Account book kept by W.S. Brown, master of the schooner J.S. Butler, and other vessels. Includes references to cargoes carried, ports visited, and men employed on the schooner. Also includes records of expenditures, mostly for food, but some references to items like knives. Brown may be William Sheldon Brown but additional research is needed. The book may have been used at an earlier time, as several pages have be ripped out, and Brown's name is found in pencil with the date of 1880 near the beginning [show more] |
| Bangor Weekly Commercial, Receipt. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Bangor Weekly Commercial, Receipt. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A receipt for the Bangor Weekly Commercial. This receipt was for $1.00 , and 12 months worth of papers. | |
| Bunker Brothers letterhead and Annie M. Bunker ledger Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Bunker Brothers letterhead and Annie M. Bunker ledger Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A=Letterhead for Bunker Brothers, Dr., Ship Brokers and Commission Merchants, Chas. E. Bunker and M.S. Bunker of Portland 187_. B=Annie E. Bunker ledger 1899 (cover and page 1 of 15 scanned). Other names in ledger include: C. W. Hammond, Thos. J. Johnston, Frey Thomas, A. Paul Jr., J.A. Grimmin, A.J. Gouley, C. Wilt & Son, and Annie M. Bunker. This ledger is part of collection of Clara Rice items (Clara Adeline Richardson Bunker Rice (1847-1923). (Charles E. Bunker was Clara's second husband of three. Clara Rice was postmistress on Sutton Island in the Cranberry Isles. She may have married a Fernald, then Charles Edward Bunker, and then wed Wilbert Augustus Rice in 1893. ) [show more] | ||
| Documents pertaining to the Schooner Wild Rose Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Documents pertaining to the Schooner Wild Rose Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Documents. Five small, folded packets of receipts and ledger sheets, each tied with twine. Most pertain to the Schooner Wild Rose provisioning and selling fish in the 1890s at local stores. Initials of Wild Rose fishermen and amounts (or weights) of fish for each fisherman often appear on reverse of these ledger sheets. The Wild Rose was 47.5 ft. built in Boothbay. Owned in 1885 by Willis Bunker. Mentioned in the records of a 1938 hurricane (per gcihs.org/1/photos/ci_notes.html). (See also 2016.332.2095 for Willis Bunker photos; his wife's name was Rosalee.) (A) Packet one: various dates, various years 1893, 1890, 1895 receipts for Wild Rose. Receipts and purchases for provisions of ships from local stores including specific parts of cod fish like 'sounds' i.e., the air bladder of a cod. (B) Packet two: 1895 receipts and purchases. (C) Packet three: 1896 receipts for Wild Rose sales of fish to Southwest Harbor, ME, store. (D) Packet four: 1888 receipts for Wild Rose. (E) Packet five: Receipts for Wild Rose. An 1899 receipt for items purchased at Nettie Spurling Stanley's store on GCI. Her store was attached to the south side of the old Stanley house (a.k.a. 2016 as Rome house). See LB2007.1.100445 Penobscot Marine Museum collection photo, saved at GCIHS in public\2001\Penobscot. [show more] | ||
| Business cards and railroad ticket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Business cards and railroad ticket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Miscellaneous documents (late 1800s-early 1900s) from Preble House. A. Business card: George Shaw Grocer Portland Maine. B. Business card: S.T. Mugridge Sailmaker Rockland Maine. C. Second class railroad ticket Pullman’s Palace Car Co. from Bangor to [xxx], punched, October 2, [no year], Line 151, Conductor name illegible. Reverse shows rules and disclaimer (a statement from General Ticket Agent Chicago). D. Business card. Cranberry Isles Mutual Fish Company listing officers: Wm. P. Preble, A.C. Fernald, and directors: A. C. Savage, O.A. Richardson, A. L. Manchester: Curers, Packers and Shippers, Cranberry Isles etc. Reverse side lists kinds of fish they deal in. E. Undated (18xx) Collector’s Bond form. Partially filled in, listing Charles E. Spurling, Samuel N. Bulger and John Gilley as sureties of the Town of Cranberry Isles for $500. F. Blank shipping order form (two pages). C.K. Darling, Stationer, 15 Exchange St., Boston. [show more] | ||
| Letter to Enoch B. Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Letter to Enoch B. Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter, handwritten ad for Erie Medical Co., 21 Feb 1893, to Enoch B. Stanley | ||
| Ad for boat paint Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Ad for boat paint Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Envelope with advertising cards, from Tarr and Wonson Ltd., Gloucester MA, 9 Mar 1893, to E.B. Stanley, for boat paints | ||
| Arno Stanley Market invoice forms Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Arno Stanley Market invoice forms Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Invoices, blank, ten, "Northeast Harbor, Maine, 189_ / To Arno P. Stanley Dr. / Fresh Fish Market" "Dr." probably means "Dealer". | ||
| Bill for liquor Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Bill for liquor Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter, from W.H. Jones & Co., Boston, 12 Apr 1895, to S.G. Stanley, dunning letter for $5.05 of liquor bought in 1894 | ||
| Advertisement for baking supply and free trip Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Advertisement for baking supply and free trip Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Advertisment in printed envelope, for baker's supplies made by Baker Extract Co., Portland, with coupon to win a free trip to World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893, to Enoch Stanley | ||
| Booth Bros. & Hurricane Isle Granite Co. Quarry Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Booth Bros. & Hurricane Isle Granite Co. Quarry Northeast Harbor Library Description: Booth Brothers Granite Company mining operation at Hall Quarry showing work houses and crane. James Grant Photographs | ||
| Booth Bros. Hurricane Isle Granite Co., Hall Quarry Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Booth Bros. Hurricane Isle Granite Co., Hall Quarry Northeast Harbor Library Description: Showing workers on the granite field at Hall Quarry with cut slabs of granite. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions. | ||
| Salisbury Market (Knowles Co.), Northeast Harbor Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Salisbury Market (Knowles Co.), Northeast Harbor Northeast Harbor Library Description: Almenia Herrick Wagner (mother), Isaac Wilbur Herrick (grandpie), Ida Sumner Herrick (nana) labeled on front of photograph. Now the location of the Knowles Company. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions. | ||
| Telephone office, Northeast Harbor Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Telephone office, Northeast Harbor Northeast Harbor Library Description: The telephone office was in present newspaper store. | |
| Bar Harbor buildings. Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Bar Harbor buildings. Northeast Harbor Library Description: Fanuiel Hall Market and Porcupine Hotel in Bar Harbor. Horse-drawn buggy in in the street. | |
| Ober's Market, Northeast Harbor Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Ober's Market, Northeast Harbor Northeast Harbor Library Description: Owners and workers in front of Ober's Market, Main Street, Northeast Harbor. Building also has signs for N. E. Harbor Bakery and Dr. G. W. Anderson, dentist. | ||
| Storefronts on Main Street, Bar Harbor Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Storefronts on Main Street, Bar Harbor Northeast Harbor Library Description: Green and Reynold stores on Main Street, Bar Harbor draped in flags and banners for the U.S. Navy visit. | |
| S. R. Tracy and "Gink" Hamor. Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Main Street Looking North Southwest Harbor School House with Bell tower on the left. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Main Street Looking North Southwest Harbor School House with Bell tower on the left. Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Clark Point Road goes off to the right in the foreground. The Left side of Main Street: J.C. Ralph's Studio is the first whole building visible on the left. One of the old street lights and the wall of the Southwest Harbor Public Library are visible on the far side of the Ralph building. The Right Side of Main Street: The "fountain" sitting in the road in just about at the corner of Clark Point Road, is a horse watering fountain. The white two-story building with the belfry was Southwest Harbor’s first high school before the building was turned ninety degrees and moved to become the Harmon Block at 337 Main Street. Gilley Plumbing, later the Gilley Plumbing Company, is visible beyond the school building. [show more] | |
| Capt. William Bill Horace Herrick Leading John Whitmore's Fast Speed Horse To Be Shot Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Capt. William Bill Horace Herrick Leading John Whitmore's Fast Speed Horse To Be Shot Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Written on the back of the photograph: "Old Horse J. Sargent" One of the trees on the front lawn of the library and the library wall can just be seen over the back of the horse. The building visible beyond the library property is the Freeman J. Lurvey building. | |
| Letter from William H. Preble to William P. Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Letter from William H. Preble to William P. Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter is from William H. Preble to his father William P. Preble in 1891. He explains there have been many fatal cases of the grippe (flu); suggestions for how to handle repairs and sale of the GCI meeting house (church); and that his brother Andrew is disposing of his interests in the company (presumably Chicago Rawhide Mfg); Transcribed. | ||
| Bangor Weekly subscription receipt Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Bangor Weekly subscription receipt Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Business receipt, Caroline Stanley 7 Sep 1899, $1 for the Bangor Weekly Commercial for 1 year |
