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University Hymn /: Words and Music by Horace Melvyn Estabrooke

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1520

Dates

  • Other: 1908?

Creator

Restrictions on Access

This item is kept at Fogler Library's offsite storage facility. One week's notice is required for retrieval.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Information on literary rights available in the repository..

Biographical / Historical

Horace Melvyn Estabrooke was born in 1849 in Linneus, Maine. He was a member of the class of 1876 at the University of Maine, received an M.S. from Maine in 1884 and an M.A. from Bowdoin College in 1891. He was a professor of rhetoric and modern languages at the University of Maine from 1891-1895 and a professor of English there from 1895 to 1908. He married Kate A. Clark in 1880. Horace Estabrooke died in 1908.

Extent

1 photograph (1 picture ; 34 x 83 cm. + 1 folder)

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Presented by Kate A. Estabrooke on August 20, 1926..

Publication Date

[1908?]

Summary

The collection, a mounted and framed collage, includes the original score and lyrics of the university hymn, both written by Horace Estabrooke, as well as a printed copy, a photograph of Estabrooke, and brief biographical and presentation summaries. Also included in the collection are a manuscript and typescript copy of the hymn from an unknown source.

Title
Guide to the University Hymn /: Words and Music by Horace Melvyn Estabrooke
Status
In Progress
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the Raymond H. Fogler Library University Archives Repository

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