Scope and Contents Photograph album, 1915, featuring a camping and hiking trip that Charles Ansell took with Bert Call, Bert's son, Bob, and Rufus Tillson in 1915. Photographs depict camping on the West Branch of the Penobscot River, as well as hiking Mount Katahdin. Collection also includes a photobook (digitally processed book) prepared by Charles Ansell's grandson, Charlie Jacobs, with the images in the album (with additional information about it). Some, if not all, of the photographs are found in the...

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The collection consistes of a typescript, photocopy of the speech, "A Discourse on American Independence," given by Reverend Samuel A. Flagg, in Nobleboro, Maine, on July 4, 1828. It was printed at the office of the “Citizen” in Wiscasset.

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Financial records of a retail store in Standish, Maine from 1849 to 1851.

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The records include receipt books (1888-1894 incomplete, 1945-1949), ledgers (1912-1950), capital stock book (1902-1951), company meeting records (1902-1951), and photographs.

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Tax collector's record book for the town of Abbot, Maine for the year 1894. Includes names of residents and amount of taxes paid.

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The papers of a student from Winterport, Maine, studying to become a physician at Maine State College in Orono and the University Medical College of New York.

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Ledger recording accounts of sawmill owned by Samuel Vincent Abbott in Rumford, Maine.

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Entries record carting and hauling of items such as hay, rum, wood, bricks.

Scope and Contents Pages from an account book of an unidentified person recording items purchased and work done. The name Alexander P. Thompson of Sebec, Maine, is frequently mentioned in the text, which includes a loan agreement for $1,000 between Thompson and Benjamin Bunker of Blue Hill, Maine, as well as a list of guarantees to Thompson's widow dated 1831. Items purchased include corn, rye, potatoes, apples, cider, etc. Payment is recorded for work such as hauling goods, working on roads, haying, use of...

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An account book of an unidentified person, probably from Westbrook, Maine. The volume details purchases made and work done for and by various individuals. The transactions involve metals such as tin plate, clocks, hardware and general labor. The volume also includes entries outlining money borrowed and loaned.

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An account book from a general store in Lovell, Maine.

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Possibly the account book of a sawmill. Entries include information on sawing.

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An account book of a store in Tremont, Maine. Includes loose page listing letters remaining in Seal Cove Post Office, Dec. 29, 1852.

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First entry, August 19, 1861 Samuel Boston.

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Account book used to record cash received and cash expenditures between 1879 and 1882 for an unidentified businessman, possibly from Bucksport, Maine. The volume records a mixture of personal and business expenses with entries for buying fruit, newspaper and magazine subscriptions, items of clothing, etc. Entries also detail travel expenses to communities in Washington County, Maine as well as to Bangor, Maine, and Boston. Some entries seem to be for expenses connected with mining.

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An account book of an unidentified lumber company possibly in the Portland, Maine area.

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Appears to be a listing of subscription accounts for people in different towns in Maine. The first entries are for people in Ashland, Maine.

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A volume used by an unidentified person, probably a resident of East Machias, Maine, to list sales of live bait from 1939 to 1944 and in 1947. The volume also lists sales of agricultural products such as pigs and eggs.

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Name list.

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Account book with clippings relating to Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain pasted over first pages. Includes autograph and photographic portrait.

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An account book containing handwritten recipes and newspaper clippings glued to the pages. The collector is unidentified.

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Two account books covering the years 1907-1917 and 1918-Jan. 1930. Also included are records of road labor during the winter months from 1907-1917 and 1918-1927.

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The collection consists of the handwritten account of Sylvanus S. Longley, a survivor of the wreck of the whaling ship, "Canton", in 1854. The narrative is dated May 9, 1918.

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Class notes kept by Adams for a course in science at the Medical School of Maine. The volume contains a dedication to Clara Boutelle of Brunswick, Maine.

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Autograph letter signed. Folded letter with envelope. Letter refers to Joshua Chamberlain. Mrs. Horace G. Allen (nee Grace Dupee Chamberlain) was his daughter.

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Autograph letter signed. A letter and complimentary tickets sent to the State Highway Commission inviting representatives to join an opening celebration for Orr's and Bailey Island Bridge. The Orr's Island Bridge was first proposed in 1829.

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Autograph letter signed. Letter to Charles Cate, son-in-law of Thomas Adams. Relates to J. Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, slavery.