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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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The collection contains material from Clinton Cole's years as a student at the University of Maine, including diaries from 1898 and 1899, memorabilia from his social activities at the university, lecture notes and photographs. The bulk of the collection is made up of Cole's scrapbooks and individual illustrations from newspapers and magazines of a variety of ships. Also included is an index to these illustrations by Robin Tarbell.

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Family papers, calendars, correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, literary notes, photographs, and clippings of Maine author Miriam Colwell and her partner, the artist Chenoweth Hall. Cole family papers include business records of the Deasy and Handy Country Store, several Cole family businesses, journals, correspondence, photographs, and genealogical information for the community of Prospect Harbor.

Abstract An account book used by Charles Coombs of Belfast, Maine, in his taxidermy business. The volume records cash on hand as well as serving as a daybook to document work done for customers and charges for that work. The firm name Coombs & Harris also appears in the volume. The account book is accompanied by a volume entitled "Beech Wood Cottage visitors book, 1881," used by Charles Coombs' father, Robert H. Coombs, to record visitors to the cottage from 1881 to 1887. The volume was also used...

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A diary of a resident of Sedgwick, Maine. Also includes expenses, prose, and poetry.

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Diary of a resident of Milo, Maine in 1908. At end of diary are entries for births, deaths, and marriages.

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Handwritten diary covering the period November 22, 1867 to August 27, 1873. On first page: Marie W. [S?]heafer, Pottsville, Pa.; Rose Crehore, Boston, Mass., 34 West Chester Park. Includes sheet of paper inserted with instructions for fan flirtations.

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The collection contains the personal papers and business records of Corydon P. Cronk of Wellesley, Massachusetts. It contains correspondence, job-related documents, photographs, subject files, and publications relating to Corydon Cronk's long and varied career in forestry. Included are speeches, reports, notes, memos, meeting notices, and conference programs. Also included are early records of the More, Mitchell, Millard, and Smith families.

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The papers of a farmer, businessman, and lawyer, of Atkinson and Bangor, Maine.

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A diary kept by Shirley Cudlipp in 1936. From the entries it appears that Cudlipp was a teenager whose father was in the military. Most entries concentrate on Cudlipp's social life and activities. Some of the entries were written on board a ship while Cudlipp was traveling to Panama and then on to San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam and Manila.

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Five diaries covering the years 1976-1979 and 1982 of a widow living in Bangor, Maine. Included in the diaries are descriptions of the weather and temperature each day, records of how much money she spent, her activities with Earle and her other friends and relatives, what she ate at home and at what restaurants she and Earle ate. Receipts for purchases which were kept in the diaries were removed and placed in separate folders.

Abstract Papers of a prominent family living in Saco, Maine in the first half of the nineteenth century. Included is a pamphlet by George Addison Emery titled Colonel Thomas Cutts : Saco's most eminent citizen in the country's early days, published in 1917 in Saco, Maine. Also included are farmer's almanacs, most of them by Robert B. Thomas, for the years 1813-1820, 1822, 1829, 1832-34, and 1850. The almanacs are interleaved with diary entries. Thomas Cutts was probably the author of the diary...

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A diary by a farmer living in Madison, Maine.

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Personal diaries of a naturalist and columnist from 1969 to 1988.

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American actress; diary kept while on tour across the U.S. and in Canada, programs, playbills, autograph album, and clippings.

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Daily diaries kept by Annie C. Davis of West Paris, Maine, and her young son, Ellis M. Davis. Annie Davis' diaries date from 1916, 1917, 1921-1925, 1929 and 1930. Ellis Davis' diaries date from 1908, 1911-1912, 1914-1915. A few of the diaries list their residence as Woodstock or South Woodstock, Maine. Entries outline daily activities, family events, and community happenings.

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The Meyer Davis collection reflects the career of a society orchestra leader.

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The collection contains personal correspondence from the 1920s through the 1960s reflecting Day's literary interests, efforts to publish his work and his activities in various social organizations. Client files from his career in insurance are also found in the collection.

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Includes family photographs, letters, documents, and autographs of some noted personalities. Also includes genealogy of Delano and Hartwell families.

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Papers of various members of the Devereux family of Penobscot, Maine, as well as materials from other residents of Penobscot and Castine, Maine.

Scope and Contents The collection contains detailed daily diaries by an unidentified compiler written in 1914, 1915 and 1922. The entries begin when the diarist is living in Fairfield, Maine, where he seems to have worked as a farm laborer. By September 1914, he is working at the Cowan Woolen Company in Lewiston, Maine. The entries from Lewiston continue until September 1915. Entries begin again in 1922, by which time the author is working as a porter at B.F. Keith's Theatre in Boston. Each entry gives a very...

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Two diaries of a woman from Milo, Maine, covering the years 1921 and 1946 to 1950.

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Diaries kept in 1946 and 1951 by an unidentified pilot or pilots flying in northern Maine and in the Bangor, Maine area. The diary from 1946 has entries from January 1-12 only in which the pilot describes flying in the vicinity of Jo Mary Lake and around Mt. Katahdin as well as tending beaver traps, picking up mail, etc. The diary for 1951 has much shorter entries and outlines the pilot's work in the area of Bangor and Brewer, Maine.

Abstract Three volumes from an unknown compiler describing voyages between 1818 and 1827 to South America, Europe and India, many if not all on the Brig Coromandel of Salem, Mass. Robert B. Stover is listed as captain in many of the entries. One volume has a section describing the author's work in settling the affairs of a Mr. Lindsay in 1821 and 1822; John P. Rice, Esq. of Boston is mentioned in these entries. The other volumes contain daily diary entries of life at sea, weather observations, and...

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Diary of an unidentified farmer living in the Bath-Brunswick-Bowdoinham area, probably in Topsham.

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A daily diary for 1910-1911 of an unidentified person, probably a woman living in the Houlton, Maine, area. Entries outline the weather of the day, the woman's daily household chores, visits to neighbors and friends, and social activities such as attending plays, concerts, movies, etc.

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Diary of a housewife, possibly living in Maine. Entries record work done by George as a laborer and as a farmer, observations on the weather, trips to the village, household tasks, visitors.

Abstract A diary of an unidentified person dating from 1931 to 1935. In 1931 and 1932 the person worked as a forester for Central Maine Power Co.; places in Maine mentioned in these entries include Upper Togue Pond, Pockwockamus Stream, Moosehead Lake, Pleasant Pond, Patten and Quakish Lake. In early 1932 the person moved to West Newton, Massachusetts; entries from this point on detail his work building and remodeling houses, as well as his daily activities, social life and family matters. Many...

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Diary of a woman resident of Freeport, Maine.

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A diary of an unidentified individual containing sporadic entries from 1937-1940. Information received with the diary indicates its author was a young woman from Auburn, Maine. The entries detail the author's daily activities, the weather, family illnesses, etc.