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| Lifeboat Rations Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Lifeboat Rations Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Rations would have been stored in the lifeboat’s emergency kit. This one contains 8oz of dried biscuits. If a boat sunk in the middle of the Atlantic it could be many days before any lifeboats were found, so access to some food could be vital for survival. | ||
| Wooden and tin kitchenware Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wooden and tin kitchenware Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Kitchenware. Collection of five kitchen wares: (A) Wooden pounder for pounding foodstuff or packing pickles, etc. (B) Large wooden bowl (crack in center). (C and D): Two grooved wooden paddles for making butter balls. (E) One curved, perforated, tin skimmer for removing cream from milk. | |||
| White earthenware bowl Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  White earthenware bowl Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Bowl. White earthenware with red and pink rose clusters (underglaze decals) on interior; exterior has plain embossed scroll work and no rose decals. No maker's marks or ID. | |||
| Earthenware bowl with over-glaze daffodil decals Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Earthenware bowl with over-glaze daffodil decals Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Bowl. Beige earthenware with over-glaze daffodil decals on interior and exterior. Maker's ID on bottom shows a circle with Dale Hall Pottery England readable, with probably a big D and H combination logo in center of circle. Dale Hall seems to have been a late 19th century(ca. 1890) pottery works. | ||
| Silver spoon from Preble House Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Silver spoon from Preble House Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Spoon, silver plated, makers mark: (star) ROGERS & BRO. A1, with daffodil motif on bowl and handle and engraved italic M on handle, from Preble house | |||
| Silver spoon from Preble house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Silver spoon from Preble house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Spoon, silver plated, makers mark: 1847 ROGERS BROS. A1, with floral motif on handle, from Preble house | |||
| Silver tea set Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Silver tea set Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Tea set, silver plated: "Stevens - Smart Quadruple Plate" tea set, 5 pieces: lidded teapot #415, cream pitcher, double handled sugar bowl, "waste " (used tea leaves) bowl w/lid. Wheat/leaves design cut in, not embossed | |||
| Ceramic bowl made by Lillian Samenfeld Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ceramic bowl made by Lillian Samenfeld Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Bowl. Red earthenware with beige glaze; green and orange dripped pattern. Made and donated by GCI potter, Lillian Samenfeld Island Pottery which operated in the studio barn next to what is now the Bradley house. Samenfeld was a member of the faculty of the Brooklyn Museum Art School. | |||
| Cup Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cup Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Cup. Silver with "JOHN Feb 18 1934" engraved. Bottom is stamped with "Sterling 335". | |||
| Wooden bowl Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wooden bowl Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Bowl. Wood, wide and shallow, perhaps for making butter, but many short cut marks evident mid-way along sides but not in center of bowl.Turned lathe rings visible on inside and outside of bowl. Deep crack across middle. | |||
| Janet Roberts ceramics Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Janet Roberts ceramics Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Pottery, Collection of 3 clay pieces made on GCI by Janet Roberts, showing how local indigenous groups, might have made a cooking pot; a) proto-bottom showing the coiling of clay rope to form a surface, 2.5" diam; b) continuing spiraling the clay rope upwards to make a wall, and a part cut away to better show the construction, 3.5" diam x 2" H; c) smoothed, decorated, and fired final pot with incised chevrons near the mouth, raked on the body, also net-like impresses on the body, and a rounded bottom, 5.5" L, 4.25" diam, 0.5" thick [show more] | |||
| Postage-stamp quilt made for Cara (Carrie) Richardson Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Postage-stamp quilt made for Cara (Carrie) Richardson Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Quilt, postage stamp style of various colors including double pinks and brown madders with solid brown backing brought around to front with mitered corners creating a brown binding. Quilt is 97" x 75" with 1 3/8" squares. Handwritten note attached: "Quilt top pieced by Ladies from our 'Aid' in 1903 as a welcome home gift to Cara (Carrie) Richardson who had been her own captain and navigator on her second trip to the Orient in Peter's boat which she inherited on his death. Her house is near Carolyn Liebow's." [Note here that "Orient" may just mean away from Maine, per Ralph Stanley.] Mary Katherine "Carrie" Stanley Richardson (1848-1920) was the daughter of Enoch B. Sr. and Caroline H. (Guptill) Stanley. Capt. Lewis G. Stanley was her brother. She was the second wife of Capt. Meltiah Richardson (1828-1901) and mother of Emery Willard Richardson (1873-1883) and Charles Emery “Peter” Richardson (1885-1971). She attended higher education in Boston. She traveled with her husband on his vessel the Carrie M. Richardson and was an expert celestial navigator. Carrie is buried in the Stanley Cemetery. In 2001, the Great Cranberry Island Historical Society wrote and produced the original play, Carrie Richardson of Big Cranberry. [show more] | |
| Quilt. Cotton, white with pink basket motif Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Quilt. Cotton, white with pink basket motif Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Quilt. Cotton, white with pink basket motif on front, all white reverse. Pink border around three sides, one end with folded inward seem, no pink border. Sculpted in broad T shape on one end. Note from donor, Susan Bunker, reads: "This quilt was made by my father's, Raymond Bunker who was born in 1906, grandmother. She could have been a Bunker or a Spurling." | |||
| Crazy Quilt Preble House Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Crazy Quilt Preble House Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Quilt. Colorful wool, cotton, flannel, and jersey fabrics made of geometric and freeform shapes and patterns including plaids, tweeds, and solid colors. Reverse side is a solid rough beige cotton with pale blue stripes; there are decorative beige yarn ties along the blue stripes with a few pink yarn ties interspersed. Edges are folded in and machine (?) hemmed, there is no border. Possible ornate script initials - one of which is may be an "L". Some discoloration and stains. This quilt is one of two recovered from the Preble House. (See also quilt 1000.140.1138 from the same donor.) (Note: Lynne Birlem (donor 343) has a very similar framed crazy quilt at her home that is from her great grandmother Hamor's house on GCI.) [show more] | ||
| Grey metal pot Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Grey metal pot Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Metal, gray, with metal handle. Rusted. | |||
| Cast iron clamps used by Ladies Aid members when quilting Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cast iron clamps used by Ladies Aid members when quilting Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Tool. Seven cast iron clamps used by Ladies Aid members when quilting. Each clamp has a three-lobed key head on a threaded rod with floating foot. Four larger clamps (5.5" L x 2.5" W x .5" H): No. 50, E.C. STEARNS & CO., SYRACUSE N.Y.. Three smaller black clamps (4.5" L x 2.25 W x .5" H): E.C. STEARNS & CO., SYRACUSE N.Y. | |||
| Woven wool wall-hanging Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Woven wool wall-hanging Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Woven wool wall-hanging, browns and tans suggesting mountains, made by GCI artist Treg Laurence ca. 1970-1980. | ||
| Silver rug needle or sewing punch tool Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Silver rug needle or sewing punch tool Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Sewing tool. Antique rug needle or sewing punch tool, a.k.a stiletto sewing awl. Silver handle, steel shank with removable, sliding mechanism bearing patent info: PAT. 0 APR-6-09. Would have been used for a variety of endeavors like ripping seams, as a punch tool in rug making, creating eyelet holes in embroidery, and pricking patterns. Implement was recovered from Ruth "Robin" Freeman's barn across from the Preble House. Freeman is the donor's niece. [show more] | |||
| Patchwork quilt - Sanford Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Patchwork quilt - Sanford Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Quilt. Patchwork wool and polyester squares of black, grey, blue, and green one single white corduroy square. Squares are 6" x5" slightly irregular. Solid black satin with floral pattern back folded over on the parallel long edges to make a border. Machine stitching. | |||
| Hooked rug with wading waterbird Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hooked rug with wading waterbird Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Rug. Hooked, yarn and jersey material, with note "...made by Eliza Stanley." White waterbird with yellow bill wading with cattails, mountains, and butterfly in background; brown border. Faded, torn, worn, repaired at some earlier time. Eliza Stanley b. 1888 and d. 1967. (Donor bought Eliza and Pink Stanley's house 1970.) | ||
| Metal tea strainer Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Metal tea strainer Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Kitchenware. Tea strainer. Small, metal sieve basket suspended above attached metal bowl with black wooden handle. Stamped with: "Superior, Pat. Dec 22, 08, ALLCO" | ||
| Curved Steel Chopper Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Curved Steel Chopper Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Kitchenware. Curved steel chopper with riveted steel handle. "U. S. Stainless". For use in cutting dough or other foods. | |||
| Plate warmer Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Plate warmer Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Kitchenware. Plate warmer. White ceramic plate with blue rim permanently affixed to a metal bowl with two metal handles and a metal spout with screwable mouthpiece that has a tiny hole in it to allow steam to escape. Likely unscrewed the spout, filled it with hot water, or heated the whole assemblage. | |||
| Hitty Willow Thompson doll Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hitty Willow Thompson doll Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Doll, Hitty Willow Thompson, wood, carved by Pat Thompson in 2005, in green dress with white smock; donated by HittyforEveryone Yahoo group in memory of Diane Barrow-Clark. Diane was caretaker of the imaginary "Lake Thonotosassa Boarding School" in Florida (LTBS, as she referred to it) where Hitty Willow Thompson was Head Mistress. Accessories with doll: yellow-walled apartment box, hanging on its wall is a picture of Diane, a picture of the students that were at LTBS, and also a picture of Jacques, the last doll purchased by Diane and donated to the HittyforEveyrone group to use as their travel doll. Further accessories: red cotton dress, doll quilt white squares and green squares with brown star, light yellow knitted doll afghan, blue wool cape, knitted white shawl, knitted mustard-color shawl, knitted mustard-color handbag, ceramic cup and saucer white with orange-colored decorative decal, coffee pot with spout and orange colored decorative decal, orange carrots in a green bowl (all one piece plastic), green plastic caricature turtle, teddy bear with red ribbon neck kerchief, tiny "Hitty, Her First Hundred Years" book, clothes chest with one (inoperable) drawer, round coffee table, and wooden round-top treasure chest with leather straps and buckles (made in China). All these items were donated by HittyforEveryone group members: Kathie Baxter, Linda Bennett and the Yabba Dabba Doo Hittys, Elise Buhn, Sharon Horswill, Linda Knott, Judy Millman and the Sherman Oaks Hittys,and Sue Parker. (See GCIHS web page for Hitty doll information.) [show more] | ||
| U.S. flag - 48 states from Stanley home Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  U.S. flag - 48 states from Stanley home Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Flag, 48-Star U.S. flag. Ruth Westphal says, "Found in the home of Alice & Richard Stanley when we purchased it in July 1970. Home was built in 1910 by the Stanleys." |