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1896 edition of the Holy Bible published by the American Bible Society. New York.
1899 Edition of the Holy Bible published by the American Bible Society
1950's black fabric tam hat, beanie style.
1950s brown velvet hat, tam style.
1950's lace blouse,black and white patchwork skirt, and black fabric sash.
19th Century Seaman's medicine chest with contents and a copy of Ritter's Medical Manual
6 Plates for Woodlawn Pamphlets. Circ. 1952
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A "racin" or fish knife found at Sam Gilley's farm when it was restored in 1981
A runnng light from the USn blimp K-140100
A.B. Leland Company Thermometer
Act of Congress Medal for Heroic Deeds
Addie Ethel Duren WWII ID card
Alice Sargeant Memorial, Stained Glass Window
Allen J. Lawler's Clam Factory - White Star Clams Label
Anchor Light Studio sign used by W.H. Ballard
Androck 1/4 cup measure - metal scoop with green handle
Antique sewing machine from the Moorfield Storey house
Antique Stereoscope Slide Viewer and 37 Various Slides
Antique telephone with wooden box and hand crank
Antoinette (Brown) Harmon, Mrs. John Cummins Harmon's Calling Card
Apple Peeler (2)
Apron (3)
Apron PatternSomesville Sewing Circle
Archaeological fragments recovered at Macfarlan (Preble) house
Awl with bone handle, brass ferrule, and steel point
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Badge. Northeast Harbor Fire Deparment. Original owner Eliot Kimball.
Bait bags knitted by Francis Fernald.
Bait pouch, twine net with drawstring mouth
Balance Scale (2)
Balance scale with six weights
Bald Eagle (3)
Ballast bottle (2)
Bar Harbor Bank cloth deposit bag
Bar Harbor, ME, Seal Harbor Maine
Basket (4)
Basket and lid with modern sewing notions
Battery Service Company Thermometer
Bell (3)
Belle Smallidge Knowles memorial, plaque
Bellows (2)
Betsy Flagg Melcher's Sketchbooks
Bible presented to Harley J. Baker by his aunt, Miss Ruhama James.
Bicentennial Stamp for Mount Desert, Maine
Bicentennial Stamp marked Northeast Harbor
Bicentennial Stamp marked Otter Creek
Bicentennial Stamp marked with Seal Harbor
Birch bench with green cushion
Birchbark Frame with Photo of Lucie Pray
Bird nest under a glass bell-like jar
Bissell's Carpet Sweeper "Grand Rapids"
Black Capped Chickadee, Pair (2)
Black Jacket made by Cora Justine Savage
Black wool window-pane pattern skirt
Blank postcard showing the tower of Charlemagne and teh Church of St. Martin
Blouse (4)
Blue 1930's cocktail dress with beaded bodice
Blue 1930's cocktail dress with embroidered bodice
Blue and white checked doll dress
Blue crepe two-piece dress, cherry blossom pattern
Blue pitcher with wash basin and vase
Boat compass in wooden Binnacle box
Boatbuilding tool on wood base similar to nut cracker
Boatbuilding tool or garden weeder (unknown)
Book of Hours, illuminated manuscript
Booklet of Postcards, Acadia National Park
Boots (2)
Boots of lobersterman Steve Spurling
Border of fancy ball skirt or dress
Bottle, brown, marked CD horizontally
Bow stem intended for Edgar Bunker's boat ca. 1950
Bowl (2)
Bowl and stand for serving food
Box (10)
Box for Seldlitz Powders for headaches.
Box for "Vegetine. Purely Vegetable. Nature's Remedy."
Boy Scouts scoutmaster membership card
Boy's baby dress (2)
Braided rug (2)
Braided rugs and pot holder by Addie Duren
Branding Iron (2)
Broken wood frame for handline branded J. C. PIKE
Bronze plaque on exterior flagpole
Brown lace-women's leather shoes
Brown silk outfit of Hannah Corson (nee Dick) Macfarlan for 1869 honeymoon
Brown Suitcase with various keepsakes
Buckboard: wooden wheels with iron cladding made in Bar Harbor
Buoy (lobster float), double plastic buoys yellow with red
Buoy (lobster float), white & green
Buoy (lobster float) with initials B.S.
Butter Churn (2)
Butter Knife (6)
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Can for Beach Cliff Fish Steaks in Louisiana Hot Sauce
Can for Beach Cliff Fish Steaks in Mustard Sauce
Can for Beach Cliff Fish Steaks in Soybean Oil
Can for Beach Cliff Fish Steaks with Jalapeno Peppers
Can for Beach Cliff Sardines in Louisiana Hot Sauce
Can for Beach Cliff Sardines in Mustard Sauce
Can for Beach Cliff Sardines in Soybean Oil
Can for Beach Cliff Sardines in Soybean Oil with Hot Green Chilies
Can for Beach Cliff Sardines in Tomato Sauce
Can for Beach Cliff Sardines in Water
Can for Beach Fish Steaks in Soybean Oil with Hot Green Chilies
Can for Dubay Sardines in Soybean Oil
Can for General Sardines in Mustard Sauce
Can for General Sardines in Soybean Oil
Canada Goose (3)
Canceled stamp and envelope sent from Bar Harbor
Candle Lantern (2)
Candle mold with double stands
Cane (5)
Cap and tee shirt, Rooster Club
Captain's clothing belonging to Elwood Spurling, and Philmore Spurling's corncob pipe
Carpet Bag (2)
Case for the Gilbert T. Hadlock Medal for rescuing crew of Schooner Effie T. Kemp
Cash Register, Stanley Fish Market, NEH
Cassette Tape. Interview with Maurice Phillips 10/23/95
Cassette Tape. Joy Sprague re The Islesford Post Office 7/97
Cassette Tape. Richard Dudman - Return to Vietnam. Islesford, July 13, 1994
Cassette Tape. Ted Spurling Sr. Interviewed by Jane Moran Porter. Winter 2001/02
Cassette Tape. William Hadlock 7/22/89
Cast iron clamps used by Ladies Aid members when quilting
CD of Edward Dana Family Photograph Album Collection
CD-R of photos from Edward Dana's Family
Ceramic bowl made by Lillian Samenfeld
Ceramic jug (3)
Chair (3)
Check Book from Franklin National Bank for Capital Account
Chest (2)
Children's Easter Handkerchief
Child's dress balloon and flower print
Child's high-button leather shoe
Child's short-sleeve, long dress
Child's slippers with rosettes (2)
Chinese Wine Cask, reproduction
Christening gown (2)
Christmas tree candle decoration
Cigarette case and matching lighter from New Delhi
Clam hod (clam basket) handmade
Clam rake with metal tines and wood handle
Clark's Southwest Dairy one quart glass milk bottle
Clay Pipe Bowl (8)
Clay Pipe Stem (14)
Cobbler’s Sign (2)
Coffee mug from first voyage of "The Cat."
Coleman's Instant-Lite Model 4A gas iron
Collapsible Razor Ebony with Ivory (Chicago, German)
Colorful glass floats - fishing gear
Common Loon (2)
Compass (2)
Concealed shoes (early 1800s) recovered from the Parsonage chimney 2013
Copies of two small notebooks in which Ted Spurling kept notes
Cork net floats of assorted sizes, strung on a rope like beads
Corn cob pipe that appears to be lightly used
Corporate Seal for the MDI Historical Society
Corporate Seal Marked with the Town of Eden
Cotton and lace petticoat, muslin color.
Cradle (2)
Cranberry Island General Store bags
Cranberry Isles Ladies Aid Dinner Tickets
Cream silk stockings (a+b). Probably womens
Cream Skimmer (3)
Cream skimmer with oval pattern
Cream stockings (2)
Crocheted ivory colored lace purse (2)
Cup (4)
Cutwork and metal bead attachable woman's collar
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Dark brown leather soft soled boots.
Decoy Branscom Male Eider ca 1915
Description of Charles and Ada Rice home by Tom and Leslie Watson
Dinner ticket for Cranberry Isles Ladies Aid
Diorama showing fully rigged Northeast Harbor A Boat and Northeast Harbor B Boat
document from International Conciliation
Doll (4)
Doll furniture with braided rug
Double-crested Cormorant, Pair
Double-pronged pitchfork probably for flipping fish into boat
Draw Knife (3)
Dress (7)
Drum, played in the Islesford Grammar School Band 1945 and 1946
D-shaped knife with wooden handle
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Early Life on Great Cranberry + Photos
Eastern Steamship Company's steamer, "J.T.Morse," plying between Rockland and Bar Harbor, ME
Edgar Bunker Korean War commemorative
Edson Stanley’s needles for knitting heads. Large one hand carved – probably from apple wood.
Elegant Parisian outfit worn by Mrs. Gertrude Cutts Storey
Embroidered infant's dress (2)
Emmett Kelley Clown, sculpture
End of Shore Path, Kenarden Lodge
Engraver's block map of Somesville
Envelope (6)
Envelope for a small name card with “Mr. & Mrs. A.C. Fernald”
Eyeglasses (14)
Eyeglasses from Richard and Alice Stanley house
Eyeglasses from Sam Bulger's house
Eyeglasses, small gold wire bifocals from Preble house
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Fabric Samples (2)
Fan (3)
Fernald or perhaps Dwelley family Christening Gown
Fishing Weight (3)
Five metal items from fireplace of GCCC parsonage house
Flat iron with black plastic handle
Flintlock Pistol Lamp and Shade
Folding Chair (2)
Folding ruler made of wood and brass
Folding Table with Hunting Scene
Four Masted Schooner bookend, carving
Framed memorial to Harry Neilson
Francis Fernald's needle for knitting pot heads.
Fraternity keepsake from Sigma Phi Epsilon at Oregon Trail Conclave in Portland, Oregon
Frenchman's Bay and Bar Harbor
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Fringed large silk shawl with pulled thread design
Full length black taffeta dress
Function Unknown (3)
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GAR Buckle and White Fabric Belt
Garden fork with metal tines and wood handle
George C. Marshall Postage Stamp
George Washington Decorative Bowl
Gerrish Hill Milliken, memorial plaque
"Gilley's Lunch" Counter Tickets
Gilman High School Clock (1897-1950)
Glass Bottle, Mount Desert Island Dairies, Bar Harbor, ME
Glass float from herring fishing net
Glass float in a nylon twine pouch for use with herring net
Glass jug (2)
Glass medicine bottle labeled R.J. Lemont, MD
Glove (2)
Goldfinch (2)
Gordon and White Garage Playing Cards
Gouge tool used in boatbuilding
Grappling hook with ring from Victor White's old garage
Great Blue Heron (2)
Great Cranberry Island Fire Signals
Green fishing kreel (fish basket)
Green glass fishing float with tarred net around ball.
Green Mountain railway train 1880-1891, Bar Harbor, Maine
Green souvenir glass from Islesford, ME
Guide to Historic Homes of America: Part 1: The Northeast
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Hair Curler (3)
Half model of a Luders 16 Sloop
Half pint liquid creamer glass bottle
Half pint milk or cream bottle
Hammer (2)
Hammer with wood handle and metal head
Hand made fishing lines with hooks
Hand painted sign, "LOBSTERS LIVE OR BOILED"
Hand Towel (white) with monogram "M. Storey"
Handcanceler used by postmaster Ray Dwelley at the Islesford Post Office.
Handle for blade used to cut slices in fish to soak up water (to stay fresh or to add weight?)
Handmade wooden lobster boat model
Hand-Operated Metal Egg Beater
Handwritten note about all marriages births and deaths in the Preble family.
Hanging wooden sign advertising ice
Harden Glass Fire Extinguisher
Harold Stanley Memorial Trophy
Harpoon head from Victor White's old garage
Harpoon or "Lilly Iron" with swivel piece on the barb
Hats and tobacco brick from Lewis Stanley house
Hats Off Bowling Game (Phippen)
Hawksbill Sea Turtle - Eretmochelys imbricata
Head of a branding iron: W.E. BUNKER
Henry Thompson Reath Annual Pursuit Race Trophy
Herring Gull (4)
Herring net on metal hoop with wooden handle
Honor Roll of Veterans belonging to Somesville Congregational Church
Hooked rug with clamshell design
Hooked rug with diamond pattern
Hooked rug with modified diamond pattern
Hooked rug with wading waterbird
Horse (4)
Hunter's Beach Head, Bar Harbor
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Ice Cream Scoop (3)
Ice Skate (2)
Ice Skates (9)
Ice skates ca. 1890 with turnbuckle and lever to adjust length and width
Ice skates with heel and toe riveted to blade
Ice skates with wood shoe bottom and metal blade
Indigenous American barrel-shaped Sweetgrass Basket
Indigenous American Crafted Sweetgrass Braids
Indigenous American stone tools: 10 arrowheads, flakes, projectile points, and knife blade
Indigenous American Sweetgrass Basket
Infant bootees (6)
Infant's embroidered and lace bonnet
International One Design Class Sportsmanship Award
International One Design Overall Summer Champion trophy
Iron cranberry or blueberry rake
Iron ladle for pouring lead, from Lou Ladd's workshop
Islesford Ferry Shirt belonging to Warren Rice
Ivory colored gloves with beaded decorations.
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Kettle (2)
Kimball House, Northeast Harbor, ME
Knife and Fork (2)
Knife with wood handle and broken blade
Kodak Electronic Flash Instant Camera
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Label for Drummer Boy Smoked Sardines (3)
Label for Mermaid Smoked Sardines
Label for Pemco Smoked Sardines
Ladies' short brown velvet jacket
Lamp, old schooner or boat running light
Lantern (2)
Large fishing hand line with weight
Large fishing hand line with weights with wood frame
Large fishing handline with weights on wood frame
Large metal peavey or cant hook
Large metal pliers with broad head
LaRue Spiker Film Developer Tray
Lawrence Beal's ration card holder
Lawrence Beal's war ration book 1 with some ration stamps
Lawrence Beal's War Ration books 1,2,3 WW II
Leather Case for Eyeglasses (2)
Library Card for Virginia Somes Sanderson
Lid for Beach Ciff Sardines in Mustard Sauce
Lid for Beach Cliff Fish Steaks with Jalapeno Peppers
Lid for Beach Cliff Sardines in Water
List of contributors to Album Quilt of Union Church, Northeast Harbor
Little Cranberry Recycles License Plate
Lobsterman boots belonging to Steve Spurling ca. 2000
Louisa Vaughan Conrad Garden Room, dedication
Luggage Tag from the Stanley House
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Mahogany Companionway doors to schooner HESPER
Maine Studies Room, dedication
Mallard Drake (4)
Mallard, Female (3)
Mallard Pair (2)
Man's cream colored small patterned silk waistcoat.
Mantel (2)
Map of Southwest Harbor and Cranberry Isles
Marr - Louise Marr. Name Badge For A Young Louise Marr.
Mary Winslow Hodgkins wedding dress
Mastercraft electric hair dryer
Maul tool with iron head and hand-fashioned wood handle
Medical, lancet, spring loaded
Medical Speciman Bottle and protective case
Medicine Bottle (3)
Medicine Bottles and Packets of Dr. Kittredge
Mellon Room Planter, Bench, End Tables
Memorial card for infant Cora E. Stanley (sister of Carrie M. Richardson) 1892
Men's Army Shirt (2)
Metal boatbuilding tool with long handle and hook
Metal Constable Badge museum display
Military medals in leather case imprinted with with 'AIR MEDAL'
Milk Bottle (3)
Minolta (2)
Model four-mast schooner in glass bottle
Model lobster boat by George Savage
Model lobster boat made by George Savage
Model of Thetis II a.k.a. Lucia Cutts by Herman Savage
Model sailboat: Miss Cranberry Isles
Model three-mast schooner made by George Savage
Model two miniature schooners in glass case
Model Warship - Built by Arvard Savage
Modified rocking chair with swivel tray
Molding Plane (10)
Monkey Fist key chain made by Ted Spurling Sr.
Mortar (2)
Mount Desert Elementary School music jacket
Mount Desert High School Valedictorians and Salutatorians, 1951-1956
Mount Desert Island: Assorted Marine-Related Photographs, 2005
Mount Desert Island Croquet Club 2005, Vol. II, Puzzlers 1-15
Mount Desert Island Croquet Club and Woodlawn Croquet Club 2005 Records
Mount Desert Island Historical Society Photo Collection
Mounted Chelsea Clock and Barometer
Mrs. Jean Howard Wadsworth's Workshirt
Mt. Desert Bridge Co. Bills & Tolls
Mt. Desert Light Station Souvenir Dish
Mug, Shaving with Geo. F. Green Painted on it
Mug with seal of USS Samuel Eliot Morison
Music Clip for Somesville Brass Band
Mustard Yellow Hand Painted Cabinet
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Nail (2)
Name card with “Albba M. Billings” printed on it.
Name card with “Mary E. Gilley.” printed on it.
Name card with “Mr. & Mrs. Alonzo Higgins” printed on it
Natalie Beal's war ration book 1 with some ration stamps
Natalie Beal's War Ration books 1,2,3 WW II
Native American acorn-like sweet-grass basket
Native American basket of corn husks and sweetgrass
Native American comb or wall-pocket basket
Native American Indian maiden doll
Native American miniature sweetgrass basket (Passamaquoddy)
Native American sweetgrass basket (3)
Native American sweetgrass basket and lid
Native American sweetgrass basket with lid
Native American sweetgrass square shape
Native American sweetgrass tea-cup basket
Native American sweetgrass whisk brooms
Navy uniform worn by Larry Closson
Needle Case (2)
New Home Treadle Sewing Machine
Niddy Noddy (2)
Northeast Harbor Fleet Seamanship Trophy
Northeast Harbor Golf Club Board of Governors' Notice
Note basket whittled by crew at the Life Saving Station from cigar boxes.
Notebook, "United States History", Alice Marion Bulger
Nylon knitted lobster trap head. Craftsman Unknown.
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Octant (2)
Oil lamp with metal base and glass globe
Old color postcard of Bernard from McKinley, Maine.
Old color postcard of McKinley, Maine, Looking down Bass Harbor.
Old Mill at Seal Cove, Mt. Desert Island, ME
Old Shoebox with Sam Gilley Farm items from the Gilley's farm when it was restored in 1981
Oral Histories- Fernald, Somes, Kane, Smith
Osprey with Flounder on Branch
Ox Shoe (4)
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Pair of sunglasses in small leather case.
Paper board frame from photograph Object ID 998.1980.3085.36.
Paperboard photo frame origionally around the photograph Object ID 998.1980.36.
Parasol (3)
Part of a balance weighing scale
Penny Doll (3)
Pinafore (6)
Pineapple Basket with Leaf Lid
Pitcher (2)
Plane (2)
Plate with scalloped edge and Asian red design with white background.
Please Share Your MDI Marathon stories with us
Plier head tool to wrap or cut wire or barbed wire
Popcorn popper with rectangular wire basket
Postcard Asticou Stepping Stones
Postcard, Clark's Point from Head of Harbor
Postcard from Bear Island Light
Postcard from Raymond Somes to Lucy Somes (his mother).
Postcard, Norwood Cove, Southwest Harbor, ME
Postcard of Bear Island Light (2)
Postcard of Northeast Harbor with Yachts (2)
Postcard sent from Hall Quarry post office c.1900
Postcard with 1 cent stamp sent tfrom Mount Desert Ferry
Pot Hook (2)
Potato Ricer from Margaret Stanley
Powder Horn (3)
Pulley perhaps for pulling lobster traps
Pump Organ played by Carrie Richardson
Purse (7)
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QRS Piano Roll. Plays Climb Every Mountain
Quarry Bit (2)
Quilt by Leah Jeanette (Sawyer) Stanley (1874-1944)
Quilt. Cotton, white with pink basket motif
Quilt Square: Appliqued basket on floral cotton
Quilted bedspread designed for a 4 poster bed Made by Aunt Mitilda Spurling, Cranberry Isles, Me
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Raffle ticket for "centennial bustle"
Railroad tie from Green Mountain railway
Ration Books, World War II, with stamps, ca. 1943
Ray Dwelley's key to Woodlawn, etc.
Razor (3)
Red Buffalo brand peanut butter can
Red-breasted Merganser, Female
Rememberance card of Otto C. Nutting
Remembrance token made of human hair
Ribbon: Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Pemetic Lodge
Robert R. Pyle & Orton P. Jackson Jr., plaques
Round glass float in a nylon twine pouch for herring net
Roy Salisbury Collection - Objects I
Roy Salisbury Collection - Objects II
Rudder with curved blade, wood stem, and cross-piece
Rug from President of Harvard Chas. Eliot's sloop "Sunshine"
Rug, hooked, depicting schooner
Rug made by Cora Spurling Richardson Chapman
Rum Bottle (2)
R.W. Patterson Architectural Drawings at the Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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S. S. Pierce Red Label thyme spice can
Sadie Bulger store display case
Sailmaker's thimble for pushing needle through heavy canvas
Sailmakers thimble or net mender
Sawyers Mono-Vue Slide 2x2 slide viewer along with box.
Scarf (3)
School desk wood and cast iron
Scythe handle with two grippers but no blade
Seal Cove Garage Business Card, undated
Seal Cove Garage Stationary, undated
Seal Harbor, ME Gorge-Raven Cliff
Shell Midden Remains and Photographs
Ship's lights used as wall sconces
Shirt (3)
Shirt box that says "Edna Gilley's Photos" on the front
Shoe Last (4)
Shoe Mold (2)
Shoe remnants discovered in Pasonage crawlspace 2013
Shoemaker's last (2)
Shoemaker's lasts with cast iron support post
Shoes and gloves worn by Hannah (nee Dick) Macfarlan for 1869 honeymoon trip
Shuttle (6)
Sign (2)
Sign - John Somes Wi Dry Goods
Sign. Fire Alarm Call Zones (2)
Sign for Dr. Sawyer's Office (2)
Silk Blouse (2)
Silk Shawl from Canary Islands
Silver rug needle or sewing punch tool
Silver spoon from Preble House
Silver spoon from Preble house
Sitz Bath that belonged to Moorfield Storey
Six pairs of hand carved wood "tollers" (decoys)
Skirt (3)
Skirt made by Cora Justine Savage
Slate blackboard (2)
Small beaded purse with chain and ring
Small needle used to knit bait bags
Small objects from old Seal Harbor Store
Small wire-frame eye glasses from Preble house
Smoothing Plane (2)
Soldering iron with copper head from Lou Ladd's workshop
Somesville Brass Band music box
Somesville Maine, Settled 1762
Sons of the American Revolution presented to Nelson Eliot Spurling
Southwest Harbor Theatre Tickets
Souvenir Creamer (5)
Souvenir Letter, Southwest Harbor, ME, booklet of pictures
Souvenir Vase (2)
SPCA solicitation pail with stand and sign
Spectacles (3)
Spoke Shave (2)
Spotted and Solitary Sandpipers
Spurling - Julia Marie Spurling's hand-laced handkerchiefs and needlepoint pillow.
St. Ignatius Church, Northeast Harbor, ME
Stamped envelope sent from Hulls Cove post office,c.1910
Stamped envelope sent from Southwest Harbor (2)
Stanley - Ruth Stanley's Purple Velvet Hat
Stationery card with photograph by George Daniell
Stencil (2)
Stoneware jug with wooden stopper
Stool for organ with red brocade top
Store counter from Elisha Bunker's store
Sunglasses (2)
Swivel for use with a large bouy on the end of a trawl set or a gang of traps from Francis Fernald
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Table (3)
Taupe colored lace gloves with flower design at cuff.
Taupe colored lace gloves with single bead for clasping at wrist.
Taxidermist made Stuffed Pheasant
Teachers notebook, including lists of students, supplies ordered, books used, etc.
Television News Segment, Interview with Jaylene Roths re: opening of MDIHS Yellow Building
The Burton Gray Memorial Trophy - Labor Day Series
The International Order of The King’s Daughters and Sons
The Rock End, Northeast Harbor, ME
The Schooner "Trenton", plaque
The Southwest Harbor Fleet 2005 Season, Racing Records
Three Crow red pepper spice can
Three sleigh bells on leather strap
Tin oil can for sewing machine
Tinder Box (2)
Tiny wooden crate of wodden cranberries
"To My Darling" - postcard with poem
Toaster for old wood or coal stove from Margaret Stanley
Tommy Sticker: brass candle holder with metal spikes
Town of CranberryIsles check stubs 1908-1910
Trailboard from sloop; Stanley cemetery post; powder horn
Trawl line on wood frame with lead sinker and large hook
Tray (3)
Triangular pointed boatbuilding tool
Trinkets recovered from Parsonage wall during remodeling 2013
Trowel with wood handle inserted into metal trowl head
Trying Plane (3)
Two Boy Scouts of America scarves. One gold and royal blue and one green and gold.
Two carved lobster bouy decorations
Two compartment coin purse with seven bullets inside
Two Funny Eyes made from local twigs by Francis Fernald
Two necklaces and two pins in a red velvet box
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Umbrella (2)
Under Shirt (5)
Undersuit (4)
Unusual iron, 3-pronged grappling hook
U.S. flag - 48 states from Stanley home
Used to size the holes in knitted heads for lobster traps.
U.S.L.S.S. Holosteric Barometer
U.S.Post Office Department registered package (large envelope) sent from Southwest Harbor
U.S.S. Hobo Black Ribbon with gold letters
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Vaughan's Improved Pea Huller and Bean Slicer
View of Hadlock Pond, Northeast Harbor, ME
Vintage 2 hook metal balance scale
Vintage metal canteen with lid
Vintage mystery object/tool wood and leather
Vintage Red Bucket unknown age
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Waitress uniform, probably from 1940s
Wallet (3)
Wallpaper on plasterboard, circular remnant
Wallpaper uncovered during renovation of Ladies Aid
Washcloths crocheted by Postmistress Marjorie Phippen ca. 1970s
Wayne Beals ration book 2 with some stamps and back cover
Wayne Beal's war ration book 1 no stamps left
Wayne Beal's War Ration books 1,2,3 WW II
Wedding dress with cutwork and embroidery
Wet Paint - Lawler Paint Company Sign
What appears to be a green military hat with visor
White leather/kidskin women's gloves with black trim, marked as a and b
White long-sleeve ruffle blouse
Wild Island Farm seed collection
William W. King Seaman's Identification Card
Wire frame eyeglasses from Preble house
Woman's pink dress from the 1940s
Wood auger with T-shaped handle
Wood buoy carved with FLS and branded F L STANLEY
Wood buoy (lobster float) branded C. E. RICHARDSON
Wood buoy (lobster float) branded CE RICE
Wood buoy (lobster float) branded C.E. RICHARDSON
Wood buoy (lobster float) branded G V WHITE
Wood buoy (lobster float), bullet shape, branded G V WHITE
Wood buoy (lobster float), carved with GWS and BS
Wood buoy (lobster float), fish shape, orange and white carved with V WHITE
Wood chisel with wood handle and brass ferrule
Wood duck decoys carved BS and LCS
Wood mallet (3)
Wood tamper or sewing needle (unknown)
Woodcock (3)
Wooden and foam lobster buoys on a rope
Wooden barrel (2)
Wooden barrel with fishing twine
Wooden buoy (lobster float) carved with HA ALLEY
Wooden buoy (lobster float) with RH STANLEY
Wooden buoys and decoys, some from 1920s
Wooden buoys (lobster floats) and net floats on a rope
Wooden handles, pins of various sizes, small wrench
Wooden implements recovered from GCCC parsonage house
Wooden National Wood Carvers' Association Name Badge
Wooden needles for mending nets
Wooden plaque, Arms of Bermuda
Wooden taps for collecting sap
Wooden tool with eyelet (unknown)
Wooden trunk, covered in animal hide, with inititals "J G R" on top
Wooden wedge with handle, perhaps a basket splint gauge
Wooden, wedge-shaped lobster claw pegs
Woodlawn House Business Card, undated
Woolies, Sailors' Embroidered Folk Art, tapestry
Worm tool: large iron corkscrew
WW II ration book 3 stamps and back cover
WW Lunt one quart glass milk bottle
WWII Military Service, Campaign Ribbons
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Yachting Cap worn on A. Atwater Kent, Jr.'s boats