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| Cranberry Club Chamber Set Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cranberry Club Chamber Set Great Cranberry Island Historical Society | ||
| Indigenous American Sweetgrass Basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Indigenous American Sweetgrass Basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Basket and lid, flat bottom, Indigenous American creation, made of braided sweetgrass and natural and green flat splint fiber, with a blue card inside reading "(printed) Smart Studio Antiques, Maine Street, Northeast Harbor Maine, 276-5152, (handwritten) Penobscot Indian Sweetgrass Basket, late 1800s", and on the back of the card "$145" | ||
| Indigenous American stone tools: 10 arrowheads, flakes, projectile points, and knife blade Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Indigenous American stone tools: 10 arrowheads, flakes, projectile points, and knife blade Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Native American tools: a random collection of 10 stone pieces without provenience: 1 raw stone, 6 arrowheads, 2 flakes, 1 knife blade: some of these artifacts were loaned by individuals, and one projectile point (the longest one, black) was found on GCI on May 25, 2008 by a visitor. Others may not be local points, some perhaps New Jersey origin. One 2" stone knife blade, broken, black (not obsidian) found GCI 2011 by visitor and later donated to GCIHS. (See Abbe Museum on MDI for collection of Native American artifacts from archaeological excavations on GCI.) [show more] | |||
| Oil lamp with metal base and glass globe Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Oil lamp with metal base and glass globe Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Oil lamp with metal base, brass stand and pressed glass globe with fanlike motif in poor condition. Globe was cracked and repaired in several places. | |||
| Tobacco pipe Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Tobacco pipe Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Pipe, tobacco smoking pipe with wooden bowl | |||
| Indigenous American barrel-shaped Sweetgrass Basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Indigenous American barrel-shaped Sweetgrass Basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Basket and lid, very small barrel shaped, flat bottom, made of braided sweetgrass or twine, and perhaps ash strips, with a blue card inside, probably from Smart Studio, reading "Antique Penobscot Indian Sweetgrass Basket, late 1800s, $55". This may be one of several Indigenous American basketry items collected by Mary E. Shaw (Mrs. Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs. Shaw visit 9/25/14). [show more] | ||
| Indigenous American Crafted Sweetgrass Braids Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Indigenous American Crafted Sweetgrass Braids Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Basketry, Collection of 2 Indigenous American Indian crafted sweetgrass braids, one (25" L x 0.5" W) decorated with colorful yarn, likely bought at the Abbe Museum by Wini Smart a few years after 2000, the other (39" L x 0.5" W) tied with yellow yarn; both intended to waft a sweet smell into a room | |||
| Scrapbook of Lulu Steel Alley 1940-1950s Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Scrapbook of Lulu Steel Alley 1940-1950s Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Scrapbook with cards, newspaper articles, pictures, announcements, a collection of blank checks, calendar photos, and holiday prints by the Wadsworth family can be found pasted in this wallpaper print book. Scrapbook ranges from the 1940's to the late 1950's album was put together by Lulu Steel Alley, Louis Alley's wife and resident of what is now the Horvath house. From the Horvath house | |||
| Wooden implements recovered from GCCC parsonage house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wooden implements recovered from GCCC parsonage house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Tools. Wooden implements recovered during the 2013 remodeling of the Great Cranberry Congregational Church parsonage house (177 Cranberry Road).Three long wooden implements were found amid the general chimney debris: Axe handle: Curved, broken wooden handle 24" long x 2 ¼" wide at butt end of handle x ½" wide at broken end of handle. 1 ½" wide along length of handle. Carved stick: Wood with pointed tip, 40" long x ¾" wide at flat end x ¼" at pointed tip. Reminiscent of a digging stick. Carved stick: Wood with pointed tip, 37 ½ " long x ¾" wide at flat end x ¼" at pointed tip. Tip hardly worn. Reminiscent of a digging stick. (See also other artifacts recovered from the parsonage: 2013.252.1979 - concealed shoes; 2013.252.1980 - shoes from kitchen crawlspace; 2013.252.2000 - metal implements; and report of parsonage house research 2015.304.2062.) [show more] | |||
| Plier head tool to wrap or cut wire or barbed wire Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Plier head tool to wrap or cut wire or barbed wire Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Tool. Plier head used to wrap or cut wire or barbed wire. | |||
| Garden fork with metal tines and wood handle Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Garden fork with metal tines and wood handle Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Tool. Garden fork, metal tines and neck with wood handle inserted. | |||
| Large metal pliers with broad head Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Large metal pliers with broad head Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Tool. Pliers, large, metal with broad head. | |||
| Maul tool with iron head and hand-fashioned wood handle Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Maul tool with iron head and hand-fashioned wood handle Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Tool. Maul with flat and wedge ends. Handforged (?) iron head with hole in center with hand-fashioned wood handle inserted. | |||
| Calendar page 1957 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Calendar page 1957 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Calendar page, Jan and Feb 1957, Coca-Cola ad, woman with skis, "the pause that refreshes" | ||
| Calendar page 1957 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Calendar page 1957 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Calendar page, Mar and Apr 1957, Coca-Cola ad, woman with cat and ball of yarn, "just what I need" | ||
| 1906 Calendar page Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  1906 Calendar page Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Calendar page, Sep and Oct 1906, with design of young woman with hat | ||
| Sketchbook with Pencil Drawings ca. 1960s/1970s? Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Sketchbook with Pencil Drawings ca. 1960s/1970s? Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Sketchbook, newsprint pad with pencil drawings by unknown woman artist found for sale at Ladies Aid Fair 2003. Also has notes about dieting and favorite songs. Probably from the 1960s or 1970s. | |||
| Five metal items from fireplace of GCCC parsonage house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Five metal items from fireplace of GCCC parsonage house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Tools. Five metal items, all badly corroded and some with mortar on them, were recovered from the debris of the south-facing fireplace during the 2013 remodeling of the Great Cranberry Congregational Church parsonage house (177 Cranberry Road). Pipe: 23 ¼" long x 1" wide, with two ¼" protuberances with eyeholes along one side. Pipe is presently full of dirt and there is a cotton-like fiber at one end. Chisel:14" long x 1" wide at one end; 1 ¼" wide at the other end; ¾" wide at center. Fireplace mounting bar (1 of 2): 7 ½" long bar with 3" wide, footed base and 1 ½" wide eyelet at top; eyelet diameter is ¾". Bar is 1" wide and ¼" thick with mortar still attached. Perhaps, a device inserted in brick structure to support a rod. Fireplace mounting bar (2 of 2): 10" long bar with 3 ¾" wide, footed base and a 2" wide eyelet at top; eyelet diameter is 1". Bar is 1 ¼" wide x ¼" thick with mortar still attached. Perhaps, a device inserted in brick structure to support a rotisserie rod. Y-shaped metal tool: Base to tip of complete, curved prong is 10" long; base to end of broken, curved prong is 7 ½" long. Base has a small square hole punched through it. (See also other artifacts recovered from the parsonage: 2013.252.1979 - concealed shoes; 2013.252.1980 - shoes from kitchen crawlspace; 2013.252.2001 - wooden implements; and report of parsonage house research2015.304.2062.) [show more] | |||
| Washcloths crocheted by Postmistress Marjorie Phippen ca. 1970s Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Washcloths crocheted by Postmistress Marjorie Phippen ca. 1970s Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fabric. Two crocheted, cotton washcloths: white with green scalloped edge and white with pink scalloped edge. Both made by Marjorie Phippen ca. 1970s and purchased by donor at Ladies Aid Fair in 1970s or '80s. Marjorie was the postmistress for years on GCI. | |
| Mrs. Jean Howard Wadsworth's Workshirt Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Mrs. Jean Howard Wadsworth's Workshirt Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Clothing. Shirt, work, worn by Jean Howard (Mrs. Wadsworth) during the building of the Charles & Jean Wadsworth home | |||
| Sailor's Comb Hanger Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Sailor's Comb Hanger Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Comb Hanger; tag inscription reads "From the Cranberry Isles. A Sailor's Comb Hanger. Using the "Hackamore" Knot And an Irish Pennant.". | |||
| Shaving gear in silver box Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Shaving gear in silver box Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Toiletry. Shaving gear in silver box. One complex razor with swivel head and "Wilkinson made in England, Pat. No 321115", leather strop with metal attachment, seven razor blades each in a slot within steel holder with the day of the week on them. Silver Box is lined with blue velvet and gold Wilkinson Sowrd Co. Ltd imprinted in gold on velvet lining. Probably never used. | |||
| White clay pipestem fragments Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  White clay pipestem fragments Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Pipe stem fragments, two white clay fragments from Spurling Cove beach ca. 2012. One well worn, white; the other better condition but charred burn on one side. Charred fragment bore hole measures 5/64" drill bit, and has impressed letters "LL" (possibly 'A'LL). | ||
| Smoking Pipe Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Smoking Pipe Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Pipe. Smoking paraphenalia, well used, bowl is blackened with residue. Corn cob style with wood stem, metal ring, and plastic mouthpiece. (Found amid a box of items pertaining to Tud Bunker.) | |||
| Wallet inscribed: William P Prebles Property, Cranberry Isles 1836 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wallet inscribed: William P Prebles Property, Cranberry Isles 1836 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Wallet, brown leather tri-fold with tongue & strap closure, repaired and well worn, inked inside:" William P Prebles Property, Cranberry Isles 1836." From Louise Marr collection of items recovered from the Preble House. |