Students/Alumni Records (University Of Maine). Smith (Edwin Melcher) Photograph Album
Scope and Contents
Photographs taken by Edwin Melcher Smith during his time as a student at the University of Maine. Includes photographs of various seasonal campus scenes on the University of Maine's Orono campus, Oak Hall, students on campus and at camps, members of the Delta Rho fraternity, Field Day, Football Team (1898), Wingate Hall, soldiers, military drills and camps on campus and in Bath, Maine, Machine Shop and Engine Room, Track Team (1898), camp on Holbrook Pond, camp in Presque Isle (1895), Wingate Hall, Fernald Hall, engine and dynamo room, forge room, "ladies dormitory", Coburn Hall, "scrap" between the University of Maine Class of 1899 and Class of 1900, and baseball game (1895).
Dates
- 1895-1899
Creator
- Smith , Edwin Melcher (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Kept at Fogler Library's offsite storage facility. One week's notice required for retrieval.
Conditions Governing Use
Information on literary rights available in the Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections Department.
Biographical / Historical
Edwin Melcher Smith was a member of the University of Maine Class of 1899. While a student Smith was a member of the Delta Rho fraternity, played in the class baseball team, was a 1st sergeant and Drum-Major, Class Vice President and a member of the Class Executive Committee. Before attending the University of Maine Smith attended Gardner High School in Gardner, Maine.
Extent
1 albums
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred to the Library Annex from the office of former head of special collections Richard Hollinger in 2021. The album had a cover letter from Edwin Melcher Smith's son Darrell O. Smith who donated the item to the Office of the President in 1996. The Office of the President subsequently transferred the item to Muriel Sanford, Head of Special Collections in 1996.
Physical Description
Very fragile, pages coming loose.
Processing Information
Processed by Matthew Revitt, March 2022, Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections Department. Processing involved an inventory of the contents of the album.
- Bath (Me.) -- Photographs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- College buildings -- Maine -- Orono Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- College campuses -- Landscape architecture -- Maine -- Orono Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- College sports -- History -- Maine -- Orono Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- College students -- Maine -- Orono Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Delta Rho Fraternity
- Greek letter societies -- Maine -- Orono Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Military training camps -- Photographs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Orono (Me.) -- History, Military Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- University of Maine. Class of 1899
Source
- Smith, Darrell O. (Person)
- Status
- No Additional Box Or Folder List For This Small Collection
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Raymond H. Fogler Library University Archives Repository
5729 Raymond H. Fogler Library
University of Maine
Orono ME 04469-5729 United States
207-581-1686