James B. Vickery Manuscript Collection
Scope and Contents
The Vickery manuscript collection contains a wide range of material related to Maine history, Maine families, Maine towns, and the Civil War, as well as a lot of general Maine material and some general interest material. The most prominent subjects include: Bangor, ME; Joshua L. Chamberlain; Civil War (mostly letters, organized by family name). Types of material include: correspondence; deeds; diaries; Maine families (history, genealogy,and letters); letters; Maine; marriage records; newspapers; scrapbooks; ships, etc.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1711-circa 1997
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1800-1899
Creator
- Vickery, James B. (Person)
Restrictions on Access
Kept at Fogler Library's offsite storage facility. One week's notice required for retrieval.
Use Restrictions
Information on literary rights available in the Library.
Biographical Note
James B. Vickery was born in Unity, Maine in 1917, and grew up there. He was educated at Maine Central Institute and Bates College and received a master's degree at the University of Maine. He worked as a teacher in the Maine school system for many years and was a scholar, editor, historian and researcher as well as one of the foremost experts on Maine history. Over a more than thirty year period, he collected thousands of books, letters, and other documents relating to Maine history and Maine families with a special emphasis on Bangor and its surrounding areas. After his death in 1997, his extensive collection of Maine historical books and documents was divided among several institutions, including Fogler Library.
Extent
11 boxes
3 folio folders
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Vickery manuscript collection contains a wide range of material related to Maine history, Maine families, Maine towns, and the Civil War, as well as a lot of general Maine material and some general interest material. The most prominent subjects include: Bangor, ME; Joshua L. Chamberlain; Civil War (mostly letters, organized by family name). Types of material include: correspondence; deeds; diaries; Maine families (history, genealogy,and letters); letters; Maine; marriage records; newspapers; scrapbooks; ships, etc.
Organization and Arrangement
The collection is organized alphabetically into sections by subject headings, ie. "Families" or "Civil War"; however material which does not fit under a specific subject has been placed alphabetically by the title on the individual folders. For example, there is no specific section for cities and towns; they are distributed throughout the collection.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of James B. Vickery, 1997.
Subject
Genre / Form
- Deeds
- Family papers
- Genealogies (Histories)
- Letters (Correspondence)
- Marriage records
- Newspapers
- Scrapbooks
- Ships' papers
Geographic
- Bangor (Me.) -- History
- Maine -- History
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the James B. Vickery Manuscript Collection
- Status
- Box And Folder List Available
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for uncoded script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections Repository
5729 Raymond H. Fogler Library
University of Maine
Orono ME 04469-5729 United States
207-581-1686
