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A scrapbook showing pictures of students and activities at the Children's House Montessori School from 1976 to 1983.

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The records of a moral and educational corporation. Included are by-laws, minutes of meetings, newspaper clippings, reports of treasurers, and correspondence. Included also is a copy of a contract between the Anti-Saloon League of America and the Christian Civic League of Maine dated March 28, 1919.

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Records of the Society, founded in Skowhegan, Maine, in 1903. Includes by-laws, a list of original members, and minutes of meetings for 1903-1920.

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A daybook kept by George D. Chubbock of Portland, Maine. The first page of the volume states "Geo. D. Chubbock commenced business at Kidder, March 1st, 1865." The volume records purchases made by customers presumably at a general store. Goods purchased include tea, cheese, gingham, locks, ribbon, soap, etc.

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Financial records, annual reports, and membership and historical information of the Church of Universal Fellowship, Orono, Maine, and its predecessors including the First Universalist Society, St. John's Universalist Church and the Fellowship Church. Records of the First Universalist Meeting House Corporation, the Orono Universalist Parsonage Association and the Women's Alliance of the church are also represented in the collection.

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A volume listing names presumably of members of an unidentified church in Portland, Maine, with dates people joined the church and information about their membership status.

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Legal documents and research material compiled and collected by Edwin A. Churchill in his work as an expert witness in two land cases in Wells, Maine, in 1988 and 1999, and in the boundary issue case between New Hampshire and Maine in 2000.

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The papers of a Bates College professor, a biologist, and a poet. Included are correspondence, manuscripts of writing and poems. Materials concern biology, ecology, poetry, and class work.

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A collection of Civil War letters. The collection includes letters from Henry Stillman McIntire to Lyman Bolster; from R. O. Stockbridge to Albert C. Bolster in West Peru, Maine; from James H. Hammon to Albert C. Bolster; and from Dexter Delano. The letters date from 1861 to 1864. The collection also includes carbon copies of typescripts of the letters and a letter of transmittal from Phillips V. Brooks dated January 5, 1966.

Scope and Contents This collection includes a series of interviews conducted by MFC staff with men who were enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930s, who and served at one of the three camps run by ANP: the Eagle Lake or Bar Harbor camp, the Long Pond or Southwest Harbor camp; and the Ellsworth camp. Also included in the collection are interviews with women who married men from the camps and other local residents who remember the camps. Included are 226 photographs (P08475-P08701). In...

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A volume containing minutes of meetings from 1932 to 1949 of the church school board, executive committee, vacation bible school, committee on religious education, etc. A list of guests at the homecoming of Sept. 27, 1987 is also included in the volume.

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A ledger used to record sales of cattle, oxen, and other livestock. No information is given in the ledger to indicate Dwight Clarke's place of residence.

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Contains items relating to various classes at the University of Maine, 1872-1974. Included are photographs of class members, both as students and at the time of their 50th class reunion; booklets and programs for class day, commencement week, calendars, etc.; and reports of class officers as alumni. Also included is correspondence and other documents from the Alumni Association to class officers concerning contributions of members and planning for class reunions and other events.

Scope and Contents The records mainly contain textual information created and compiled by Stephen L. Jacobs during his research project (1988-1994) on the University of Maine class of 1944. Mostly contains individual biographical profiles of members of the class including their service record and lives post World War II, there are also some photographs of specific class members, and cassette recordings of interviews with some of the class. Also, included are a binder of research material complied by Jacobs,...

Scope and Contents The records mainly contain textual information created and collected by the University of Maine Classified Employees Advisory Council. The record series Council Meeting Records contains agendas, minutes and supporting material from regular Council meeting, annual meetings, and meetings held by other University of Maine campus employee advisory councils. The record series Council Membership Records contains copies of Council bylaws, correspondence regarding Council...

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Photographs mounted in an album showing construction done in 1907 on the "Medford cutoff" of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad in the vicinity of Lagrange and Medford, Maine. Accompanied by a booklet entitled "The Medford Cutoff" written by G. Vincent Cuozzo, the donor of the collection. Cuozzo's father, George Cuozzo, worked on the construction project and supplied laborers for it.

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The papers of a Maine author. Included are notes for his book Charlie York, Maine coast fisherman; correspondence with publishers and with L. Felix Ranlett, librarian at Bangor Public Library; 2 letters from Charlie York; and a newspaper clipping about Charlie's appearance on the television show People Are Funny. Included also is a typescript of his book about Charlie York.

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The manuscripts of poems by Milton S. Clifford. Also transcriptions of the diaries of Alice Clifford, George F. Godfrey, the letters of John Franklin Godfrey, the Journal of H.E. Prentiss' trip to Europe (1866) and family photographs.

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Interviews done in 2013-2015 by Maine Folklife Center's Director Pauleena MacDougall and graduate research assistant Adam Cilli for the 40th anniversary of the UMaine Climate Change Institute. The interviews focus on the history of the Climate Change Institute, climate change in general, and the interviewees' specialties.

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The diary of a farmer from Readfield, Maine covering the years 1867-1870.

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Collection includes minutes, programs, photographs, publications, notes, and correspondence of various clubs and organizations at the University of Maine at Orono. Also includes some newsletters produced by these clubs and organizations.

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Contains notebooks and diaries of Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth, a noted poet and author of children's books.

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Scrapbook of Jean R. Cobb of Brownville Junction, Maine, documenting her experiences at the 13th annual institute of the Epworth League held in Bucksport, Maine in 1931. The institute was made up of young people from 23 Methodist churches in eastern Maine. Volume includes notes about lectures and other activities, programs, newspaper clippings, autographs of attendees, etc. Some information about institutes held in Bucksport in 1932 and in Castine, Maine in 1934 is also included.

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Transcription of a diary of an assistant surgeon written during his service with the 4th Maine Volunteers during the Civil War. The dates of his diary are from 26 May 1863 to 14 June 1864. The diary was transcribed by Richard F. Potter of Woodstock, Connecticut in July 1996, and he also included information about other events and people during Albion Cobb's service. Included are photocopies of short biographies of Brigadier General John H. H. Ward and of Major General David Bell Birney.

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A record of accounts. It would appear that the first part of the ledger is a practice ledger which includes definitions and notes about how to keep a book of accounts. The last part of the ledger beginning on p. 39 includes personal expenses of John D. Coburn.

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Consist primarily of business records of the brothers Eben S. Coe and Thomas Upham Coe, with a few papers of Thomas's wife, Sada L. Coe.

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Log of Captain Clyson James Coffin of a fishing trawler (unnamed) operating off the Maine and Canadian coast, 1933-1947, with loose notes and charts inserted in pages. Documents fishing depths, times and courses on trawl, and totals trawled as well as times passing buoys and marks.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence to various members of the Coffin family. The largest number of letters are to Clara B. Coffin and date from 1928 to 1955; most are from various family members especially her daughters and her son Millard. The collection also includes letters to Clarine Coffin from 1925 to 1936 as well as letters from Clarine to John R. Gehring, 1931-1934. A few letters to Millard F. Coffin, Sr., H. Bartlett Coffin, Lloyd Coffin, and Millard Coffin, Jr. are also found...

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Letters and papers of the Coffin Family of Bangor, Me. Includes letters between Harold W. and Grace Bristol Coffin and their children, and a number of manuscripts written by Harold W. Coffin.