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Collection consists of fourteen interviews with employees of the Deering Lumber Company.

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A series of interviews conducted by John T. Meader with and about his grandfather, Dell Turner. Topics covered in the interviews include Dell's life, woods cooking, lumber camps, farming, and fishing stories.

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The records of an honorary society of women educators in Maine. Included are histories of state and local chapters, copies of Mainspring, scrapbooks, minutes of meetings, newsletters, conference materials, treasurer's records, a fifty year history (1943-1993), and the biennial report (1991-1993).

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Postcards, photographs, news clippings, brochures, photocopies and original documents related to the history of Mount Kineo House at Moosehead Lake and Maine logging and river driving.

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Financial records of a local electric utility in Maine. Included are cashbooks, ledgers, and journals.

Abstract Three ledgers containing the records of a sawmill in Dennysville, Maine, during the middle of the 19th century. Two of the ledgers are organized by log brands and cover the years 1835 to 1878. The third ledger seems to record the receipt of logs from a log drive. Included are records of who sawed and hauled the logs, by whom they were surveyed and rafted, by whom shipped, destination, and purchaser. Names mentioned frequently are John Kilby, Theosophilus Kilby, Benjamin Foster, John Mayhew,...

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A ledger listing the expenses of a town in Maine from 1830 to 1865.

Scope and Contents The records mainly contain textual information and photographic material created by Professor Alaric Faulkner and his survey teams. The record group also includes cartographic material, cassette tapes, and some computer discs and audio visual material. The records series Class Slides includes slides both from presentations and classes Faulkner taught on archaeological techniques and specific sites of archeological interest. The Archaeological Publications series...

Scope and Contents The records mainly contain illustrations with describing text in University of Maine Department of Art publications regarding art exhibitions, but there is also photographic material. The record group currently only contains records regarding outward facing activities of the Department, not administrative records regarding the internal workings of the Department. The record group also contains general information regarding the University of Maine's art collection. The record...

Scope and Contents The folders mainly contain textual material, but there are some photographs and plans of Aubert Hall. The series Administrative Record contains various records regarding the administration of the Department of Chemistry, College of Engineering and Science, and more generally the University of Maine information. Includes: annual reports, budgets, American Chemical Society accreditation material, faculty, staff, and various committee meeting material, missions and goals, reviews,...

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The records mainly contain textual information regarding the mathematics summer institutes held at the University of Maine, but there are also some group photographs of attendees. Mostly includes: correspondence, memorandums, press releases, clippings, grant applications, reports, and brochures.

There are also undated examination papers for University of Maine course MS 226.

Scope and Contents The records mostly contain textual information created by the University of Maine Department of Residential Life, but there are also photographs in the Stodder Hall student scrapbooks and plaques. The records include: audit and review reports for the Department of Residential Life, guides and manuals on campus living, promotion material for events and programs held on campus, Department newsletters, and promotional material and contracts regarding specific campus accommodation....

Scope and Contents The record group mostly contains textual information created by and pertaining to the Department of Zoology, including information that deals with graduate’s physiology project greenhouse renovation, where there is grant proposals, acceptance of the grant and plans to go forth with the project. In particular, one of the graduate students is deciding on whether to conduct an experiment on the reproductive cycle of Strongylocentrotus drobachiensis (sea urchin) with an emphasis on temperature...

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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.

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A daybook of a pharmacist in Augusta, Maine. Included are daily sales from 1873 to 1885 and a list of inventory on April 3, 1875 (40 p.)

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Records of the Timber Unit of the Diamond Match Company's Berst-Forster-Dixfield Division.

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.

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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.

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A daily diary for 1948 of an unidentified person, probably a woman living in the Lewiston, Maine area. Entries indicate the weather of the day and outline the woman's daily chores including working with bees, gathering eggs, gardening, doing household chores, etc.

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Final typescript draft of The dictionary of Maine place-names, by Phillip R. Rutherford. Includes editor's corrections.

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Typescripts with corrections of Dietz's books, The Allagash (1968), The Running Man, A Touch of the Wilderness (1970), The Year of the Big Cat (1970) and the Maine Finns (1976).

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Letters, diaries, (1855-59), speeches, and scrapbooks of Frank Lambert Dingley (1840-1918), editor of the Lewiston Journal, biography and other papers relating to Nelson Dingley (1832-1899), Governor of Maine, and other family members.

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A collection of Dinsmore / Rich family genealogy materials including over three hundred photos pertaining to outdoor life, women, and family gatherings.