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A ledger dated 1807-1810 from Timothy Johnson's general store in Farmington, Maine. Arranged by customer name, the volume lists purchases made and prices paid. Items sold include rum, vinegar, flour, tea, buttons, sulphur, nails, etc. Customers were from Farmington and surrounding towns such as Industry, Wilton and New Vineyard.

Scope and Contents The record group includes various reports on projects at Maine academic institutions that were funded under Title I of the Higher Education Act (1965). The reports were submitted by the Maine Maritime Academy, University of Maine at Orono (now known as the University of Maine), University of Maine at Machias, University of Maine at Augusta, University of Maine at Portland, Ricker College, and other Maine institutions. Research was carried in a number of areas related to higher education,...

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Ledger listing the titles of acts and resolves passed by the Maine legislature in 1880.

Scope and Contents Diaries kept by William J. Tobey of Waterville, Maine, for the years 1882 to 1922 and 1929 to 1935. Tobey recorded daily events, the weather, principal occupations of the day, sales and purchases, cash received and paid out, and bills receivable and payable. From various entries it appears that Tobey may have been a farmer. One of the volumes was also used by Tobey's daughter, Mary E. Tobey, to record transactions for a general jobbing business that she started in Waterville in 1916. Later...

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The papers, mostly correspondence, of a family living in Phillips, Maine.

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Drafts of an unpublished autobiography written by Totman and concentrating especially on his career in the U.S. Marine Corps as well as his activities in forestry after his retirement to Maine.

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Issues of The Town Crier from v.2, no. 9, 1963 Feb. 28 to v. 15, no. 7, 1976 Feb. 12.

Scope and Contents A scrapbook compiled by Brenna Blaisdell Tracy while a student at the University of Maine from 1926-1930. It includes signatures and comments of class members as well as programs, photographs and memorabilia of campus activities and sorority life. Of interest within the scrapbook are handbooks of the Women's Student Government Association, memorabilia and programs documenting activities of the Delta Delta Delta sorority and the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, and party invitations, favors,...

Abstract The collection contains financial records of a boat shop and dock owned by Herbert E. Tracy in Winter Harbor, Maine. The collection contains five volumes of records. Tracy records expenses for services he provided to boats in his yard, including repairs, refittings, berth rentals, towing charges, wharf accounts, and sales of all kinds of nautical supplies. One of the volumes, listed as a memo book, contains town financial records for Winter Harbor for 1896, as well as a list of names and...

Scope and Contents The collection includes 37 cassette recordings of interviews (now digitized) with 44 individuals in addition to performances. Traditional Music of Maine celebrates the musical legacies of a variety of Maine folk communities by exploring their cultural and historical significance through oral history interviews with musicians and other community members. The tapes introduce the general public to the remarkable diversity and vitality of Maine's musical traditions. Program...

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Records from Trask's roles as a student a the University of Maine and the Yale School of Forestry and writings related to Trask's career as a silviculturist with the United States Forest Service.

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An account book of school money disbursed by school districts in the town of Tremont, Maine in 1849. Included also is a copy of a proposed letter to the superintendent of the Maine Insane Hospital dated August 9, 1849 recommending that Thomas Stanley, Jr. of Tremont become a resident of the hospital.

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The papers of Harry T. Treworgy include advertisements from his establishments and items from his service to the state of Maine. Included in this are correspondence, petitions, and reports. There are a few photographic prints.

Abstract A collection of materials by and about one of the outstanding figures of New England Methodism and a chaplain in the United States Navy. Included are a historical address delivered at Machias in 1922, a historical address delivered at Bucksport in 1913, "Derelicts" printed in the Naval Home Calendar in 1920, a sermon titled The World's redeemer: the perfect man, letters to Alfred and Ellen Hempstead from David Howard Tribou, an obituary taken from the Zion's Herald of June 7, 1922, lines on...

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Eleven diaries of a county sheriff and farmer in Portland and Pownal, Maine covering the years 1884 to 1894.

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A diary of a housewife in Gardiner, Maine.

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Letters to Jabez True from numerous correspondents including Hannibal Hamlin.

Abstract The collection contains letters of the Tryon family of North Yarmouth, Maine. Most of the letters are to Cora B. Tryon from her children and her sister who appears to have lived in Medford, Massachusetts. The letters discuss daily events and family matters. A few items belonging to Cora's husband Samuel A. Tryon are also included, as well as a few letters to Carl R. Tryon and George M. Tryon, sons of Samuel and Cora Tryon. Most of the letters are addressed to North Yarmouth, but letters from...

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The official records, papers and personal papers of a U.S. Congressman from Maine.

Abstract Papers of Walter W. Turner, a professor in electrical engineering at the University of Maine at Orono, from his work on two committees: the Special Committee of Maine Engineers appointed to study the 1959 report by the International Passamaquoddy Engineering Board to the International Joint Commission, and the Baccalaureate Electrical Engineering Planning Committee formed in 1985 to begin the planning process for an undergraduate program in electrical engineering at the University of...

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A volume recording names of persons receiving payments for service at an unidentified marine hospital, presumably in Portland, Maine.

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Volume used at the customhouse at Mt. Desert, Maine, to record information about items received from abroad through the mail. Volume lists names of persons, amounts of duty or fine owed, and places from which items were received.

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Volume recording moneys received and paid at the customhouse at the port of Ellsworth, Maine, Oct. 1887-Dec. 1897.

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Volume from an unidentified customhouse with entries from July 5, 1905 to Dec. 16, 1913. Each entry lists date of bond, principals and sureties, amount of bond, duty on entry, how and when canceled and character of bond. Concerns "persons employed in curing fish."

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a series of interviews done for a University of Maine at Augusta course in Speaker-Audience Communications, Fall 1977. Topics covered include: the Farnsworth Museum; the Robert Abbe Museum; Lucy Farnsworth; Rockland, Maine, in the early 1900s; Northport in the War of 1812; Waldoboro News Stand; Knox Arboretum in Warren, Maine; lace mills and the lace business in St. George, Maine; lime kilns; Clark Island Quarry and quarry stone cutting; farm life in Vassalboro in...

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Interviews conducted for UMaine’s 150th anniversary celebrations.

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A series of fifteen interviews recorded between 1994 - 1997 by Laura Finkel concerning anti-war movement, protests, and activities on the campus at the University of Maine during the Vietnam War era (1964 - 1973).

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Financial records of a local electric utility in Maine. Included are cashbooks, journals, and ledgers of the Union Electric Company and the Union Light & Power Company.

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Records of a local plumbers' union in Rockland, Maine. Included are the minutes for 9 meetings held Oct. 20, 1925; Jan. 5, 1926; March 16, 1926; May 4, 1926; July 19, 1927; August 1927; Dec. 20, 1927; Jan. 3, 1928; and Aug. 20, 1929.

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Records include annual reports, clerk's records, financial documents, and membership records. Also included are histories and records of various church society groups, fellowships, and missionary groups.