Maine. Legislature

Augusta K. Christie, interviewed by Harriet Tilley

Series

Abstract 0878 Augusta K. Christie, interviewed by Harriet Tilley, March 11, 1975, Presque Isle, Maine. Christie was the first woman to serve in the Maine state legislature and served as President of the W.C.T.U. Christie discusses her life in northern Maine and decades of campaigning against alcohol; childhood on a farm in Ashland, Maine, in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries; her education and boarding during the week to attend high school; why women’s suffrage was unimportant to her...

Dates: 1974-1980

Found in: Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History / MF068 , Women in Maine Project

Maine Legislative Acts Incorporating the Penobscot Boom Corporation and the Penobscot Lumbering Association

Collection

Identifier: SpC MS 0725-sc

Abstract

Copies of the Maine legislative acts incorporating the Penobscot Boom Corporation and the Penobscot Lumbering Association and additional acts concerning the corporation and association from 1832 to 1883.

Dates: 1832-1885

Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections / Maine Legislative Acts Incorporating the Penobscot Boom Corporation and the Penobscot Lumbering Association

State of Maine Teacher's School Registers

Collection

Identifier: SpC MS 1767-sc

Scope and Contents Teacher's school registers for Mattawamkeag, Maine. Includes school district, teacher(s), school information as well as information on wages, room and board costs, and number of visits by school committee members or citizens. Also records a list of students, their ages, and their attendance records. Collection also includes school agent's census returns that recorded the students in the district between ages four and twenty-one and school agent's fiscal returns that detail expenditures in...

Dates: 1878-1883

Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections / State of Maine Teacher's School Registers