Collection of photos and postcardsPhotos and postcards. Baggie full of modern color photographs - no name, no donor just note written on bag "For Cranberry Island Museum".

From collection Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Collection

Collection of photos and postcardsPhotos and postcards. Baggie full of modern color photographs - no name, no donor just note written on bag "For Cranberry Island Museum".

Collection of modern color photos and postcards. Modern color photo (printed 2010 at Walmart) of John Henry Hamor gravestone Mar 3, 1866 to Oct 21, 1947. Fold-out postcards of Acadia National Park, Mt. Desert Island Region, Maine. Postcard Bear Island Light with note on the back to Mr. and Mrs. Rip Morrell refers to Aggie - (perhaps Addie). Old postcard with map of MDI. Hamor Tea House postcard and photo of Hamor House, several pictures of Hamor house. Article about Hillard Hamor recalling fishing days in 1912 - in the Charlotte Observer Sept 20 1955. Picture of a middle-aged Rose Wedge seated in front of Hamor House. Several photos of a small sailboat on the Pool on GCI. A make-believe postcard of possibly John and Sadi Hamor in a motor boat "Miss Miami V-1938". Photo of Charles Pink Stanley. Postcard of Hamor House dock with note on back: To Mr. and Mrs. Shirley C. Hamor 2009 Vail Ave, Charlotte NC. Sep 28, 1931 postmarked Cranberry Isles: Dear Ones - I will write very soon. Reed Shawl? and will send your cash right away. Does this dock look natural? We are fine I have 5 people yet. They are staying on a week or more longer - selling guile - cool here noon. We all okay. Hope you all the same. Love Mum." Photo of cat with whale's ribs that are down in the Hamor wel-house by their garage. (This photo is from a series of photos we have already catalogued.) Hillard and Shirley were brothers and John and Sadie were parents. (Large b&w photos with roughed edges mostly 1930s per Phil.) Photo of Red Wing with note on back "Red Wing at Entrance of Somes Sound Maine xxx up between these mountains 8 miles. Big Tea house at the head. July 6th/22. Jim Ricxxx?" Photos of men working with very long lines or cable on a dock - not sure where.(These materials are all in a baggie full of modern color photographs - no name, no donor just note written on bag "For Cranberry Island Museum". Unk donor and origin.

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