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George W. Billings Blacksmith Shop, Tremont, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Blacksmith Business People	Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939)	1900 c.	Tremont	No Copyright - United States	George W. Billings Blacksmith Shop, Tremont, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-6250 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Blacksmith Business People Creator: Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939) Date: 1900 c. Place: Tremont
Wood is Good but Glass May Surpass Northeast Harbor Library	Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping	Businesses, Boatbuilding Business People Vessels, Boat		Feb-85			Wood is Good but Glass May Surpass Northeast Harbor Library Identifier: nehl-1711 Type: Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping Subject: Businesses, Boatbuilding Business People Vessels, Boat Date: Feb-85 Description: Article from Down East Magazine about Robert "Bob Lincoln's small boat building business, RKL Boatworks. He started with the Rangeley Guide Boat and is developing a row boat, now using the less expensive fiberglass.
"Cranberry Island Notes" by Charles 'Chuck' Liebow Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Other Documents	Businesses, Boatbuilding Business People Vessels, Boat				Copyright Not Evaluated	"Cranberry Island Notes" by Charles 'Chuck' Liebow Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-1000.23.563 Type: Document, Other Documents Subject: Businesses, Boatbuilding Business People Vessels, Boat Description: Boats. Looseleaf Binder, "Cranberry Island Notes" by Charles Liebow. Contains maps 1607-1881, "List of Vessels From Notes made by Chuck Liebow (Typed & some notes added by Hugh Dwelley 11/1994" (also on cranberryisles.com website), 1912 petition to establish boundaries of roads, census data 1839-1860, the cranberry register 1909-1910, boat building, Liebow's notes on books and articles, miscellaneous, photos, houses showing owners then and now, families, deeds. [show more]
Ledgers from Lewis Stanley boatyard, 19th century Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger	Businesses, Boatbuilding Business People		1855		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Ledgers from Lewis Stanley boatyard, 19th century Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2015.316.2077 Type: Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger Subject: Businesses, Boatbuilding Business People Date: 1855 Description: Collection of three scanned ledger account books originally from the Lewis Stanley boatyard. Ledgers were inherited by donor from his great uncle Lewis Stanley. (See scans on gcihs-nas\photo\Museum Photos\2015.316.2077_SchmidtLedgers and on DVD; ledgers were originally returned to donor August 2015; then all were donated to museum June 2017). Ledger A1: Measures 8.25H x 7: W x .5” thick. First page: George N. Spurling, Cranberry Isles; and [unreadable name below Spurling] Machias Port. Entries run from 1855-1870, with the last four pages dated 1855 pertaining to WatterWitch (Water Witch, Waterwitch, spelling and capitalization varies) stocks and specifics. Account entries recorded for the WatterWitch, Schooner Rozella, and Schooner Caressa. Names mentioned: Walton, Guptill, Haynes, Stanley, Spurling, Ferrin, Wentworth, Young, Saddler, Ladd. Commodities: fish and oil mostly; stocks and figuring notations in pen and pencil by different hands. First page states Schooner Hannah & Abigail bought in Boston May 6th, 1849. First entry is “E.B. Stanley, Cranberry Isles Oct. 9th, 1858 for $21 dollars on account of my share of fish bought on board Sch. WatterWitch this season. Asa [D?] Stanley.”Ledger B2: Measures 8”H x 6.75” W x .5” thick. Inside front cover is written: “Jonas Blood born April 15th, 1774.” First page begins with January 1st 1859 listing sale of butter, pork, and eggs. Ledger records expenses and sales of produce and other items through April 1862 and appears to be written by all the same hand. [For some info on Jonas Blood: probably born New Hampshire. http://gen.plagge.org/individual.php?pid=I16094&ged=plagge.ged Jonas Blood:b..c1774 d.5/21/1870, age 96 By genealogy.com.] Ledger C3: 14" H x 3.75" W x 1" thick. Label on front cover: Sanborn & Carter, Publishers, Booksellers and Blank Book Manufacturers, No. 55 Exchange Street, Portland, Maine. Small envelope and letter addressed to Mrs. E. B. Stanley, Cranberry Isles, Maine, postmarked Waltham MA, Nov 17/12M/1908 (03?) with 2 cent stamp. Reverse postmark is Cranberry Isles 1908(3)? Begins "North East Harbor, Lindsay,” ends: "Hastily, Carol(?)" Many pages have been cut out from the beginning of this ledger. First entry, is on page 85 and starts: “Boston Dec. 6th 1879 Sch. S.L. Foster. Page 93 is “Boston Dec 14, 1885.” Page 98 deals with the estate of Enoch B. Stanley and Lewis B. Stanley 1903 and continues with various documents and deeds to 1908 (to page 151). Then returns to accounts for the S. L. Foster 1889. Page 176 begins accounts for the Schooner Rozella 1882, then to 1881, and goes back to deeds and correspondence p. 196 for 1908. P. 198 goes back to the Sch. Foster and alternates between accounts re: Foster and Rozella. Two small loose account papers between p. 212 and 213. The ledger goes back and forth between years and schooners and deeds throughout the book. Last pages of ledger date Jan 18, 1913 and begin with “I expressly forbade Lewis to connect the new building with the original fish house of the heirs of E. B. Stanley…..” (See also 2017.389.2164 and 2017.388.2163) See also notes from Charles Liebow email 2019 re: boat builders with this ledger. [show more]
Ralph Merrill Grindle Working on a Lobster Boat Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Boatbuilding Business People			Southwest Harbor	Copyright Not Evaluated	Ralph Merrill Grindle Working on a Lobster Boat Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-11967 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Boatbuilding Business People Place: Southwest Harbor
B. W. Candage & Son Northeast Harbor Library	Document, Other Documents	Businesses, Building Business People		1902			B. W. Candage & Son Northeast Harbor Library Identifier: nehl-2071 Type: Document, Other Documents Subject: Businesses, Building Business People Date: 1902 Description: Handwritten report listing residences & buildings attributed to B. W. Candage & Sons, contractor/builders/masons beginning 1881. Samuel & Arthur became partners as carpenters/masons in 1890.
Fred Sidney Mayo at F.S. Mayo Construction in the Herrick Building Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Building Business People		1920 c.	Southwest Harbor	Copyright Not Evaluated	Fred Sidney Mayo at F.S. Mayo Construction in the Herrick Building Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-11819 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Building Business People Date: 1920 c. Place: Southwest Harbor
Fred Sidney Mayo at F.S. Mayo Construction in the Herrick Building Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Building Business People		1920 c.	Southwest Harbor	Copyright Not Evaluated	Fred Sidney Mayo at F.S. Mayo Construction in the Herrick Building Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-12063 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Building Business People Date: 1920 c. Place: Southwest Harbor Description: The house on the right with the peaked roof is the Edwin Leon Higgins House at 39 Clark Point Road, Tax Map 6 – Lot 105, built in 1884, Fred Sidney Mayo purchased the property at 45 Clark Point Road from George Harmon (1875-1942) in 1914 for $75. On it Mayo built the carpentry shop shown in the photograph.
Packing Room at the Underwood Factory, McKinley, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Cannery Business People			Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley	Copyright Not Evaluated	Packing Room at the Underwood Factory, McKinley, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-6563 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Cannery Business People Place: Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
Unloading Herring Next to the Joyce Marie at the Underwood Wharf, McKinley, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Cannery Business People			Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley	Copyright Not Evaluated	Unloading Herring Next to the Joyce Marie at the Underwood Wharf, McKinley, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-6529 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Cannery Business People Place: Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
Workers at the Underwood Factory, McKinley, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Cannery Business People			Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley	Copyright Not Evaluated	Workers at the Underwood Factory, McKinley, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-6541 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Cannery Business People Place: Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley Description: Lawrence Carter - facing camera Mitch Gordius - back to camera Unknown person in back
Frying Fish at the Underwood Factory, McKinley, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Cannery Business People			Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley	Copyright Not Evaluated	Frying Fish at the Underwood Factory, McKinley, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-6555 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Cannery Business People Place: Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
Maggie and Lucien Smith College of the Atlantic	Image, Photograph, Photographic Print	Businesses, Farming People				In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted	Maggie and Lucien Smith College of the Atlantic Identifier: coa-1454 Type: Image, Photograph, Photographic Print Subject: Businesses, Farming People Description: Maggie and Lucien Smith, Beech Hill Farm managers from about 2001-2006.
Agricultural heritage of the Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Other Documents	Businesses, Farming People		2017		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Agricultural heritage of the Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2017.399.2175 Type: Document, Other Documents Subject: Businesses, Farming People Date: 2017 Description: Research, Jessica Duma, 2014-2016 while an Island Institute Fellow at GCIHS which produced an exhibition, presentations, video, and oral history recordings. Historical and modern day materials pertaining to Duma's Agricultural Heritage of the Cranberry Isles fellowship focusing on farming, agriculture, apples, the Island Ecology project, farm stand, and more in the Town of Cranberry Isles from 19th century to present. Duma worked with mentor Todd Little-Siebold (College of the Atlantic) and used GCIHS and other local historical collections to produce an exhibition, gather oral histories, and record videos of her experiences and research while residing on Great Cranberry Island as a two-year fellow and then served as part-time manager of GCIHS and part-time manager for the CIRT (affordable housing) program for the last year. Documents in box. Digital materials located at NAS/ Catalogue/2017.399.2175_Duma. A. Exhibit materials (museum) and: NAS\Exhibits\Exhibits2015\Farming_JessiAndJillPiekutExhibitWork. B. Interviews: NAS\video\Jessi Duma Interviews 2014-20: Video by Duma and Jenny Matthews of "Chuddy" Alley in his home on April 2015. Audio of Colleen Bunker interview December 10, 2015, via telephone. Video of interview with Eva Bracy Galyean on November 22, 2015 in her GCI home with transcript. Audio of Gaile Colby interview January 15, 2015, by Duma and Sarah McCracken, partial transcript. Audio of music and singing with Arvard Savage 2015 or 2016. Video (with separate audio) of Phil Whitney in his GCI home January and February 2016. Video of Duma and Anne Gruhlich on a walkabout with Michael Macfarlan on his property discussing evidence of past farming and other occupations still visible on his historic Preble Cove property. Use of these interviews requires permission of the interviewee or their descendants. Questions: contact jessiduma@gmail.com. C. Video “A Taste of Great Cranberry Island: Agriculture Past and Present” - Duma explores agriculture on Great Cranberry Island through interviews with past and current residents. Directed, filmed, and edited by Jessica Duma. Featuring: Gaile Colby, Ben Sumner, Hallie Sumner, Kariah Sumner, Phil Whitney, Kayla Gagnon, Genny Mathews, Sarah McCracken, Colleen Bunker, Page Hill, Wendy Rackliff. Music by Jason Shaw: Serenity, Mountain Sun, Hoedown, Acoustic Meditation, Solo Acoustic Guitar. Special thanks to: GCIHS, Anne Grulich, Island Institute, Scott Sell, College of the Atlantic, Todd Little-Siebold. On YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKbktzbCqlw [Presently awaiting permissions to use the background music per Jessi 9/2017. Jessi will provide DVD copy after permissions granted.] [show more]
Wilfred S. Trussell 1906 motorized vessel license Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Permission, License	Businesses, Ferry Service People		1906		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Wilfred S. Trussell 1906 motorized vessel license Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2013.220.1875 Type: Document, Permission, License Subject: Businesses, Ferry Service People Date: 1906 Description: Document, License, framed under glass, to operate or navigate motorized vessels of 15 gross tons or less and to carry passengers, issued to Wilfred S. Trussell, 21 Sept 1906, signed by Charles O. Cousinly and Walter L. Blaisdell
Downeast Windjammer Cruise information Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Correspondence, Letter	Businesses, Ferry Service People		2011		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Downeast Windjammer Cruise information Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2012.200.1584 Type: Document, Correspondence, Letter Subject: Businesses, Ferry Service People Date: 2011 Description: Document, Downeast Windjammer Cruises dated 3/21/2011 from Captain Steven F. Pagels. Subject: Great Cranberry Island Historical Society. Article mentions the newsletter, Cranberry Chronicles). Capt. Steven F. Pagels owned the ferry, Moleska, for a period of time. Capt. Pagels "purchased Moleska from Chuck Liebow where she was lying in his boat house on Great Cranberry. We needed a vessel for a pilot launch as we were then running pilots out to cruise ships entering and leaving Bar Harbor back in the 1990's. I believe the Moleska had been built at Southwest Boat right after WWII. We later sold Moleska and I believe she went down to Belfast." See also 2018.416.2824C. [show more]
Three Lobstermen at Hampton Harbor Photograph Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph, Photographic Print	Businesses, Fishery Business Nature, Animals, Shellfish, Lobsters Object, Fishing, Fish Trap, Lobster Trap People	Armsden, Douglas		Hampton Harbor NH	Copyright Not Evaluated	Three Lobstermen at Hampton Harbor Photograph Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-1060 Type: Image, Photograph, Photographic Print Subject: Businesses, Fishery Business Nature, Animals, Shellfish, Lobsters Object, Fishing, Fish Trap, Lobster Trap People Creator: Armsden, Douglas Place: Hampton Harbor NH Description: Three lobstermen just in from the ocean at Hampton Harbor, NH. On back is a stamp from the State of New Hampshire Planning and Development Comm with a handwritten title for the photograph as "Lobster Fishermen in from the ocean at Hampton Harbor, New Hampshire." Black and white
Salting Herring Net Negative, 1944 Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph, Negative	Businesses, Fishery Business Object, Fishing, Fishing Net, Surrounding Net, Seine Net Other People	Ballard, W. H.	1944		Copyright Not Evaluated	Salting Herring Net Negative, 1944 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-1199 Type: Image, Photograph, Negative Subject: Businesses, Fishery Business Object, Fishing, Fishing Net, Surrounding Net, Seine Net Other People Creator: Ballard, W. H. Date: 1944 Description: Men salt a herring net, or seine, in 1944. Black and white
Hauling Seine Negative, 1949 Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph, Negative	Businesses, Fishery Business Object, Fishing, Fishing Net, Surrounding Net, Seine Net Other People	Ballard, W. H.	1949	Southwest Harbor	Copyright Not Evaluated	Hauling Seine Negative, 1949 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-1200 Type: Image, Photograph, Negative Subject: Businesses, Fishery Business Object, Fishing, Fishing Net, Surrounding Net, Seine Net Other People Creator: Ballard, W. H. Date: 1949 Place: Southwest Harbor Description: Fishermen haul in a seine, a type of fishing net, in 1949. People Mentioned: Ralph Stanley, Clarence L. Lunt, George M. Francis, Sanford L. Lunt Black and white
Seining at Southwest Harbor Negative, 1949 (1) Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph, Negative	Businesses, Fishery Business Object, Fishing, Fishing Net, Surrounding Net, Seine Net Other People Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel	Ballard, W. H.	1949	Southwest Harbor	Copyright Not Evaluated	Seining at Southwest Harbor Negative, 1949 (1) Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-1201 Type: Image, Photograph, Negative Subject: Businesses, Fishery Business Object, Fishing, Fishing Net, Surrounding Net, Seine Net Other People Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel Creator: Ballard, W. H. Date: 1949 Place: Southwest Harbor Description: Fishermen fish for herring with seine nets in Southwest Harbor, ME in 1949. People Mentioned: Ralph Stanley, Clarence L. Lunt, George M. Francis, Sanford L. Lunt Black and white
Seining at Southwest Harbor Negative, 1949 (2) Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph, Negative	Businesses, Fishery Business Object, Fishing, Fishing Net, Surrounding Net, Seine Net Other People Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel	Ballard, W. H.	1949	Southwest Harbor	Copyright Not Evaluated	Seining at Southwest Harbor Negative, 1949 (2) Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-1202 Type: Image, Photograph, Negative Subject: Businesses, Fishery Business Object, Fishing, Fishing Net, Surrounding Net, Seine Net Other People Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel Creator: Ballard, W. H. Date: 1949 Place: Southwest Harbor Description: Fishermen fish for herring with seine nets in Southwest Harbor, ME in 1949. People Mentioned: Ralph Stanley, Clarence L. Lunt, George M. Francis, Sanford L. Lunt Black and white
Seining at Southwest Harbor Negative, 1949 (3) Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph, Negative	Businesses, Fishery Business Object, Fishing, Fishing Net, Surrounding Net, Seine Net Other People Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel	Ballard, W. H.	1949	Southwest Harbor	Copyright Not Evaluated	Seining at Southwest Harbor Negative, 1949 (3) Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-1203 Type: Image, Photograph, Negative Subject: Businesses, Fishery Business Object, Fishing, Fishing Net, Surrounding Net, Seine Net Other People Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel Creator: Ballard, W. H. Date: 1949 Place: Southwest Harbor Description: Fishermen fish for herring with seine nets in Southwest Harbor, ME in 1949. People Mentioned: Ralph Stanley, Clarence L. Lunt, George M. Francis, Sanford L. Lunt Black and white
Receipts for fishing and vessel expenses Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Financial, Receipt	Businesses, Fishery Business People		1866		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Receipts for fishing and vessel expenses Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2018.416.2780 Type: Document, Financial, Receipt Subject: Businesses, Fishery Business People Date: 1866 Description: Three recipts: 1. 1866 (Dec. to July) ledger page with header “W.P. and W. H. Preble” to Lyman Son & Tobey, itemized expenses for oil, paints, rope, lead, etc. “Please remit and much oblige LS&T” 2. 1867 (Sept 13) statement. Schooner Intreped (sic Intrepid?) & Owners bought of Richards, Adams & Co. Boston, pounds of manila [rope], wormline, rattine, springyarn, marlin spike, etc. With a 2-cent stamp date/stamped affixed. 3. 1867 (Dec. 6): Receipt for Schooner Transfer and owners to A T Hayden for half pilotage out. [show more]
Business cards and railroad ticket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Other Documents	Businesses, Fishery Business Businesses, Transportation Business People		1890		No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Business cards and railroad ticket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2018.416.2783 Type: Document, Other Documents Subject: Businesses, Fishery Business Businesses, Transportation Business People Date: 1890 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]
Four Men with Fish Carts Near the Stanley Fisheries Wharf Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Fishery Business People		1925 c.	Southwest Harbor, Manset	Copyright Not Evaluated	Four Men with Fish Carts Near the Stanley Fisheries Wharf Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-10940 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Fishery Business People Date: 1925 c. Place: Southwest Harbor, Manset

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