Scope and Contents The records contain a mixture of textual and photographic material created and curated by the University of Maine Division of Marketing and Communications. The record series Press/News Releases & Publications contains press releases on various subjects related to the University of Maine. The record series University Photograph Archive contains photographs and slide negatives of people, buildings, and scenes related to the University of Maine. The...

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The papers include shop drawings, blueprints, correspondence, and minutes of professional organizations.

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The papers of a naval architect and designer and the corporation that he owned. Included are correspondence, designs, blueprints, conference materials, advertisements and other records of Cyrus Hamlin's design firm and his company Ocean Research Corporation.

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Collection contains architectural drawings and records of Edward Leander Higgins and his son Ambrose S. Higgins, including office records, specifications, plans and elevations, architectural renderings, correspondence and blueprints for a wide variety of buildings mostly in the state of Maine. Represented in the collection are plans for business, public and residential structures in Bar Harbor, Ellsworth, Skowhegan, Portland, Camden and Cape Elizabeth among others.

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Collection contains two manuscript copies of the plan, one showing types of flowers and bushes to be planted; two blueprints of the plan; and two blueprints titled "Sections on entrance walks showing proposed surface and steps.".

Abstract The Collection is composed of correspondence, financial records, photographs, and plans that were created by Cooper Milliken and his firm, for various clients. The subject of the collection is almost entirely based on his work and is geographically focused around the State of Maine with some outliers in New York and Massachusetts. Some prominant projects included the renovations of Alumni Hall, Fernald Hall and Carnegie Hall at the University of Maine. As well as the designs for the City of...

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The records contain textual information and photographs regarding University of Maine campus buildings. Including, but not for every building: correspondence, memorandums, reports, financial information, photographs, clippings, programs from naming ceremonies, and architectural plans.

Scope and Contents Collection consists of about 525 architectural drawings including landscape architecture plans, contour drawings, planting diagrams and blueprints. There are also detailed drawings of fences, garden paths, outbuildings and gates. The drawings were done mostly in the 1920s and 1930s primarily for clients in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, with a few for clients in Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri and North Carolina. They demonstrate the process of landscape design through...

Scope and Contents The record group contains papers of William P. Randel. Although Randel was a English professor at the University of Maine, most of the material relates to Randels' writing career particuarly draft manuscripts, both published and unpublished written by Randel. The record series Miscellaneous Manuscripts, Talks & Research Notes contains draft manuscripts on a range of subjects related to literature and history. Also, in many cases the folders include research and submissions to...

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Scrapbook from University of Maine alumna Marion Keith. The scrapbook contains programs, photographs, and memorabilia regarding the Alpha Upsilon Chapter of the Delta Zeta Sorority (including it being reactivated), clippings and programs from events Keith sang at including as part of the Glee Club, memorabilia from events on campus (including athletics), Maine Christian Association, proms and dances, photographs of campus buildings, and student guides and handbooks.

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),...

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Materials include budgets, plant lists, landscape drawings, and color photographs of landscape design projects by James E. Swasey, University of Maine Landscape Designer and Professor of Ornamental Horticulture.

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The collection includes manuscripts, proofs, and notes.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a series of interviews about the local history, geography, and domestic architecture of Veazie, Maine. Many of these were the result of a fieldwork course taught by University of Maine professor Edward D. “Sandy” Ives in 1977 and 1978. The collection also includes architectural survey forms, photos, and floor plans of pre-1940 houses in Veazie. In addition, there are twenty-nine interviews conducted by students in the classes. Three earlier interviews with Addie...