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Portland League for Peace and Freedom Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0417
Abstract

This collection documents the foundation and activities of the Portland League for Peace and Freedom in the years before World War II. Included are correspondence, pamphlets, newsletters, and clippings concerning the League. Of interest are the publicity scrapbooks that include manuscript material. The collection also includes materials from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Emergency Peace Campaign.

Dates: 1933-1940

Willis G. Pratt Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0422
Scope and Contents

Papers documenting the career of a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy. Included are naval records, certificates, original orders and application to transfer to retired reserves, correspondence, and photographs.

Dates: undated

Prentiss and Carlisle Co., Inc. Business Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0423
Scope and Contents

The business records of the estate of Henry E. Prentiss, as administered by Henry M. Prentiss, concerning timberland holdings. Includes stumpage bills, records of checks received and sent, and correspondence. Also includes the Aroostook Land Company records.

Dates: 1874-1938

Harriet H. Price Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0424
Abstract

Collection contains Harriet Price's papers documenting her work with Maine's Native American population and her activities as a citizen opposed to the war in Vietnam. Also contains publications on Maine Indian laws and legal issues and a collection of articles from Maine newspapers concerning Maine Indian land claims, 1977-1987.

Dates: 1970-1995

Effie M. Pride Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1123-sc
Abstract Correspondence addressed to Effie M. Pride, Duck Pond (now Westbrook), Maine, from friends and family. Most correspondents are identified only by first name and write from such places as South Portland, New Gloucester, Upper Gloucester, and North Falmouth, Maine, although letters from Norfolk, Mass. and Chicago are also included. The letters discuss personal matters, family visits, neighborhood activities, etc. A few documents belonging to other members of the Pride family are included in...
Dates: 1886-1918

Progressive Party of Maine Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0425
Scope and Contents

Records of the Progressive Party of Maine that show the beginnings of the Party in Maine. The collection includes correspondence, announcements, press releases, and other items of the Party's early years.

Dates: 1949-1952

Ida Sedgwick Proper Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0794-sc
Abstract The papers of a Maine author. Included are correspondence with her publishers about her books about Monhegan Island and about William Shakespeare, reviews of the books, photographs, photostat negatives, lithographs, picture postcards, correspondence about a course she took at Columbia University in 1915, a signed oath when she became a registrar for the town of Monhegan, a list of passengers on a voyage to Puerto Rico in 1922, and a vita. Included also is a short biography of Ida Proper by...
Dates: 1915-1955

Prospect, Maine Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0686-sc
Abstract

A collection of materials concerning education and the town of Prospect, Maine.

Dates: 1849-1878

George Haven Putnam Letter

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1544-sc
Abstract

A letter from G.H. Putnam of the publishing firm G.P. Putnam's Sons discussing terms on which the firm would be willing to publish Joshua Chamberlain's book, The Passing of the Armies.

Dates: January 28, 1915

Remick Family Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SpC MS 0430
Abstract

Remick family papers include items that date to the late 17th century. Most of the papers concern Oliver P. Remick and his service in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, forerunner of the U.S. Coast Guard, from 1876-1895. Included are some earlier and later family materials, and historical Revenue Cutter Service materials. Also contains unpublished manuscripts of Martha Remick.

Dates: 1686-1945

Roger Wolcott Remington Papers

 Collection — Box: 312
Identifier: SpC MS 0431
Scope and Contents

Papers, correspondence, clippings, autobiography, photocopies of newspaper columns, and manuscript of Adventures of these three by Roger W. Remington. Includes Freedom Foundation award.

Dates: 1951-1979

Arthur B. Richardson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0434
Abstract

Family letters, newspaper clippings and documents relating to the geneology of the Cobb, Snow and Hopkins families.

Dates: 1915-2011

Daniel T. Richardson Business and Personal Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SpC MS 0435
Scope and Contents

The Daniel T. Richardson papers cover the period during and after the Civil War in East Baldwin, Maine. Included are records of Richardson's retail store, his town service, his political involvement, his postal service, and papers pertaining to his pension claims service.

Dates: 1841-1887

J. Francis Richardson Letters

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0798-sc
Abstract

The letters of an engraver in Portland, Maine to his friend in South Paris, Maine. The letters contain comments about daily life in Maine and Massachusetts during the middle 1800's. Also included is a typescript of portions of some of the letters.

Dates: 1852-1857

John Richardson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0932-sc
Abstract

The papers of a resident of Belgrade, Maine.

Dates: 1814-1945; Majority of material found within 1814-1878

Kenneth Lewis Roberts Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0803-sc
Abstract Papers of an historical novelist from Maine. Included are 4 signed typescript letters and one signed handwritten letter. The letters date from 1935 to 1951. One letter is to Mr. Bosworth dated January 29, 1935 relating to the sale of the Arnold journal and Maine's preservation of historic items. The second letter is to Mr. Bosworth dated February 20, 1935 and relates to Frank Deering, a collector in Maine. The third letter to the Salem Marine Society in Salem, Massachusetts dated March 1,...
Dates: 1935-1955

Seth A. Rogers Letters

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1538-sc
Abstract

Letters written by Rogers from the headquarters of the 36th Massachusetts Volunteers near Petersburg, Virginia, to his aunt Louise Farrington and his cousin Zenas R. Farrington of Holden, Maine. Rogers describes the work of his regiment in building a fort and traverse way in front of his division, the mood and attitude of the soldiers, and the activities of the Christian Commission and the Sanitary Commission on their behalf.

Dates: July 24, 1864

Rolla Floyd Letters from Palestine

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0178
Scope and Contents

Letters written by Rolla Floyd while he was a tourist agent in Jaffa, Palestine. Letters are dated 1870-1912.

Dates: 1870-1912

Albert H. Rose Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1312-sc
Abstract The collection consists of both original documents and photocopies. It primarily contains items related to Albert H. Rose, including photocopies of a few of his letters dating from 1839 to 1864; a document listing members of Company F as of Nov. 1, 1862; pension documents from 1864 to 1920; and items from the Gettysburg Reunion held in 1913 including a photograph presumably of three Civil War veterans at the battlefield. The collection also contains a few photocopies of correspondence of...
Dates: 1832-1920

Rounds Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0799-sc
Abstract

The correspondence of a family in South Waterford and in South Paris, Maine. Included also are typescripts of some of the letters.

Dates: 1834-1942; Majority of material found within ( 1834-1861)

Roundy and Smith Families Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0830-sc
Abstract Letters to family members in Beverly, Massachusetts. Included are letters to Martha J. Roundy from her brother H. Roundy from ports in East Asia, to Patty from H. Roundy, to M. Jane Roundy from her brother Augustus, to cousin from George describing life as a soldier in the Civil War, and to Hannah C. Smith from John G. Smith describing his life as a soldier in the Civil War. Also included is an account book (owner unknown), a newspaper clipping of The Nation's orphan by Lucy Larcom, and a...
Dates: 1844-1865

J. Swett Rowe Estate Record Book and Receipts

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0827-sc
Abstract

The records of the estate of George G. Goss. Included is a notebook recording the disbursement of the estate and receipts for money received by the heirs. Included also is a letter dated Aug. 3, 1883, from Lizzie C. Goss, of West Levant, Maine, informing Mr. Rowe that she has reached the age of 21 and would like her inheritance.

Dates: 1871-1888

Arnold Thomas Rubenstein Historical Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0441
Abstract

Manuscripts of Rubenstein's unpublished books (Thousand Years of Russian History, The Potemkin) and book proposals (The Two Russian Revolutions 1905 and 1907, and Russia: What It Was and What It Is). Also included are copied papers that pertain to these manuscripts, notes, and source materials. Some of this material is translated, some is in German, French, and Russian. Some materials on Trotsky are included.

Dates: 1705-1950

Ruggles and Gould Legal and Business Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0442
Scope and Contents

The papers of the law partnership of Ruggles and Gould of Thomaston, Maine. Includes correspondence, depositions, briefs, and other legal documents that pertain to their practice and clients, mostly in the then Lincoln County, now Knox County, Maine during the 1830's-1860's predominently.

Dates: 1805-1864

Peter F. Sanborn Letters

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1289-sc
Abstract

Letters written mostly during 1865 and 1866 to Sanborn discussing tax and licensing matters as well as the filling of political offices.

Dates: 1863-1869

Weld F. Sargent Letter

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1542-sc
Abstract

Letter written by Weld Sargent informing Mrs. Fogler of the death of her husband George P. Fogler on July 2, 1863 in the Battle of Gettysburg. Accompanied by letter written Sept. 26, 1964, from the donor giving biographical information about Sargent and Fogler.

Dates: July 6, 1863

C. H. Sawyer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1019-sc
Abstract

Papers of a manager of a paper company and a superintendent of a telegraph company in Bangor, Maine.

Dates: 1876-1944; 1901 (bulk)

Henry D. Sayer Research Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0450
Scope and Contents

These papers mainly relate to Sayer's work with stress and trauma on the heart. The papers primarily concern heart disease and workman's compensation, and includes correspondence, reports, and memorandums.

Dates: 1944-1957

Edmund G. Schildknecht Personal and Artistic Papers

 Collection — Box: 83
Identifier: SpC MS 0451
Scope and Contents

The papers of Edmund Schildknecht, who was an artist and art teacher in Maine and Indiana, include clippings and articles about his art and shows of his art, also the locations and illustrations of his art works, and a manuscript autobiography. The collection also includes material pertaining to Ruth S. Schildknecht, Edmund's wife.

Dates: 1920-1970

John Philipp Schott Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0454
Scope and Contents

The papers consist primarily of John Phillip Schott's military papers and correspondence concerning his military pension. Also included are a diary and photograph album.

Dates: 1898-1944