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| Lead Model of Kronprinzessin Cecilie Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Lead Model of Kronprinzessin Cecilie Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Small lead model of the SS Kronprinzessin Cecile. On side near the bottom of the model reads "Norddeutscher Llyod" referring to North German Llyod, the shipping company for whom the SS Kronprinzessin Cecile was built. | ||
| Female Porcelain Figurine Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Female Porcelain Figurine Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Porcelain figurine of a woman in pastel blue, red and white dress with a large pastel blue hat. Sits inside glass dome case. Has matching male figurine. | ||
| Male Porcelain Figurine Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Male Porcelain Figurine Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Porcelain figurine of a man dressed in pastel green and purple suit with ornate matching hat. Stands in a domed glass case. Has matching female counterpart. | ||
| Mary Ward Dorr Needlepoint Artwork Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Mary Ward Dorr Needlepoint Artwork Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Needlepoint of squirrel, butterfly, and fruit in a carved wood frame. Done by Mary Ward Dorr, George B Dorr's Mother. |
| Art Show Quilt 2021 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Art Show Quilt 2021 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: This quilt was made by Beverly Sanborn for the Cranberry Island Art Show for Great Cranberry Historical Society in 2021. Karin Whitney donated it to the Museum. | |
| Quilt by Leah Jeanette (Sawyer) Stanley (1874-1944) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Quilt by Leah Jeanette (Sawyer) Stanley (1874-1944) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Quilt. Red and white (or beige) squares, 73" x 81" with solid white (or beige) reverse; filled with cotton batting. 14 5" x 6" squares long by 15 5"x6" squares wide. Each white square has a red embroidered flower, vegetable, bird, human figure, or animal in it. Donor states quilt was found in house when the property was bequeathed to the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation by Robert LaHotan's will and trust. Donor believes the quilt was made by Leah Stanley (Leah Jeanette (Sawyer) Stanley 1874-1944) who lived in the house with her husband Lewis Stanley. Quilt was displayed in 2006 GCIHS quilt exhibit. [show more] | ||
| GCI School quilt Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  GCI School quilt Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Quilt. Probably a GCI school quilt ca. 1995. Cotton, solid pink and floral borders and stripes; beige 11" x 10.5" squares with children's magic-marker drawings; many squares have names indicated: Starting left to right top left square: peace sign, Stoney may have been a dog, moon with guitar no name; sunflower with initials M.G. (Molly Gray); Heath Wedge with boat; Hillary Savage, Keith Wedge, Seth Gray, Brendon Westphal, sunrise over hills and motor bike (no name); baseball bats with G.W. (Gabriel Westphal); motorcycle and hockey sticks P.A. (Patrick Allen); school room scene Mrs. P (can't figure out name); Amy Russell 1994-1995; Sailboat panel: NYCVH 1067 on hull, Mandy Bracy. Note: The children's squares are not embroidered or stitched but simply drawn with magic markers. [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] | ||
| Patchwork quilt Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Patchwork quilt Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Quilt. Patchwork of browns, blues, greys, and black tweeds, wool, and polyster 4.5" x 4 3/4" squares with a 4.75"-5" grey border. Reverse is same grey fabric as border stitched to border on seams. This quilt may have been a gift of Sue Lyman, allegedly made of fabric from old men's suits. | ||
| Remembrance token made of human hair Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Remembrance token made of human hair Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Pin, bouquet of flowers made of human hair. Possible "sailor's treasure" - token of remembrance. Large daisies and smaller flowers on black wrapped stem. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Baby Quilt Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Baby Quilt Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Quilt, modern, infant size, made by Beverly Sanborn. Gold borders and gold horizontal and vertical panels with four-piece squares of multi-colored patterns and solid pastels. Reverse of quilt is aqua, edged with white patterned binding on four sides. Polyester fill. | ||||
| Carved wooden tree Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Carved wooden tree Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Art, carved wooden fir tree, with branches shaved away from the trunk, made in one piece by Sam Chapman; separate square base; note taped on bottom of base "Sam Chapman Made This"; see also item 1302, also made by Sam Chapman. | |||
| Black Duck Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Black Duck Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Bottom inscribed "Black Duck by W.H. Gilley. Made for Robert Kurtz." Dated 4/18/67. | ||
| Ruffed Grouse, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Ruffed Grouse, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 2/3 life-size; adult pair on driftwood base, male standing on right, tail partially spread, head turned left, female on lower left, nested on wood, left toes protruding, tail folded, neck down, head turned slightly left; both with glass eyes, metal feet, carved, burned and painted detail. Signed "Gilley" on center of base. Marked "Grouse, made for Addie Gilley" on underside of base. | ||
| Long-eared Owl, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Long-eared Owl, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; pair on driftwood piece attached to oblong carved wooden base with painted metal glass in foreground, upper owl has wings up, head turned left facing front of piece, ear tufts erect, tail fanned out, legs reaching down as if alighting, lower owl perched, wings closed, ear tufts erect; both with glass eyes, metal toenails, carved, burned and painted detail. Signed"Gilley '75" on lower left of driftwood. Marked "Long-eared Owls by Wendell Gilley" on underside of base. [show more] | ||
| Herring Gull Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Herring Gull Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Underside of carved wooden base marked: "Herring Gull by W. H. Gilley 1978" | ||
| American Brant Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  American Brant Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "by W.H. Gilley" on underside of base ; undated | |||
| Green-winged Teal Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Green-winged Teal Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Marked "G. Winged Teal" and signed "by W. H. Gilley" on underside of base | |||
| Bald Eagle Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bald Eagle Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult bald eagle, approximately one-sixth life-size, sitting upright on small driftwood knot ; lead feet with talons realistically gripping the base ; undercut wing tips crossed over carved tail ; Signed "Gilley" on left side of driftwood base; marked "Hilda, Hulda Bragdon, Xmas 1973" on underside of base | ||
| Red-shouldered Hawk Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Red-shouldered Hawk Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 1/2 life size; mounted on driftwood piece attached to oblong carved wooden base, perched in hunting posture; glass eyes, metal feet, carved burned and painted detail. Marked, dated and signed "Red-shouldered Hawk, carved 1975, painted 1978, by W.H Gilley" on underside of base. | ||
| Snowy Egret Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Snowy Egret Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Miniature adult on driftwood base stands erect, neck [?] back, head up, glass eyes, metal legs, feet, and crest feathers, painted details. Signed on lower right of base "Gilley." | ||
| Willet Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Willet Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; adult on driftwood base, standing, right foot forward, beak agape, wings outspread, tail erect; glass eyes, metal legs, carved, burned and painted detail. Signed "Gilley" on base. Marked "Made for Addie Gilley, 1974, by W.H. Gilley" on underside of base. |