Description: A petition from the inhabitants of Cranberry Isles requesting that the islands be set apart from the town of Mount Desert as a separate town. James Kelley, constable of Mount Desert
Description: Photograph. Retouched photo of portrait of Captain Samuel Hadlock, Jr. by Heinrich Gottfried Krug, in pen and ink and pastel at Hamburg, Germany, in the year 1824, owned by Constance Aygun of Stamford CT. Hadlock was the original owner of the Preble House on GCI, with long storied history of expeditions in the north and exhibitions throughout Europe. He died when the Minerva became frozen in the ice ca. 1830. Per Wini Smart 2015 Bruce Komusin book: "Samuel Hadlock portrait - Bruce was contacted from the internet by a distant relative of Capt. Hadlock who lived in Connecticut. She had an oil portrait of the captain that had been painted while he was in Germany. Until this time we only had a silhouette illustrated in Rachel Field's book, God's Pocket. I visited her in Connecticut and photographed the small portrait. It was difficult to capture since it was under curved glass. Bruce Komusin painstakingly removed the reflections in the photo to make the image clear." (See 2002 photos/C. Aygun for photos of original portrait taken on site.) (Originally catalogued as 1000.0.1327 with little info.) [show more]
Description: Copies of Wreck Reports from Life-Saving Station located at Cranberry Isle District No. One. These were from the U.S. Life Saving Station at Little Cranberry Island before it became The U.S. Coast Guard in 1913. The station was discontinued in 1946. Ted Spurling
Description: Nine photos of people: A= Hyde and Nettie Stanley who ran store by Brooks' house or store behind Rome house. B= Raymond Bunker 1929. C= Marni (Pink Bulger's mother). D= Archie Spurling. E= Marm, Pink Bulger's mother 1922. F= Tud & friend. G= Group on ice Jan 28, 1935 Elwood Spurling wnd from right, Ada, Neil Peterson. H= Seal Harbor Yacht Club: Alton Bunker, Les Bunkers boy on Saltons, Dud Bracy and the maids, Oscar Bulger, Tud Bunker. I= Seal Harbor Yacht Club: Fritz Fernald?, Oscar Bulger, Fred Bracy, Maid, Alton Bunker, Wesley Bracy Sr. [show more]
Description: Short biography of Rachel Field's life on Sutton Island and nearby Cranberry Islands and how her environment influenced her writing. Published in Down East Magazine, August 1971.
Description: Taken from above Harborside, showing Cranberry Isles. This is the best known view of Frazier's Cove which was filled in the 1950's (marina)
Description: Audio cassette tape of interview with Lindon "Tud" Bunker by Jeff Weisbruch, paid for by GCIHS, 12 Oct 1992 (might be connected with item 445)
Description: Islesford Historical Society Transcription of the genealogical notes of William Otis Sawtelle in 4 volumes. These are photocopies of the manuscripts bound in 4 folders: Volume 1: Little Cranberry Island Volume 2: Great Cranberry Island Volume 3: Mount Desert Island Volume 4: Swans Island
Description: William Kienbusch, a Retrospective Exhibition 1946-1979, published by Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland Maine, 1996, William Kienbusch first painted in Maine in 1934, eventually taking up residence on Great Cranberry Isle in 1962. Born in New York City, and a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Princeton University, he studied at the Art Students League in New York with Raphael Soyer and John. Kienbusch lived across from the tennis courts on GCI. He is Carl Little's uncle. [show more]