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"1915 West Branch/ Katahdin Trip" Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1824-sc
Scope and Contents Photograph album, 1915, featuring a camping and hiking trip that Charles Ansell took with Bert Call, Bert's son, Bob, and Rufus Tillson in 1915. Photographs depict camping on the West Branch of the Penobscot River, as well as hiking Mount Katahdin. Collection also includes a photobook (digitally processed book) prepared by Charles Ansell's grandson, Charlie Jacobs, with the images in the album (with additional information about it). Some, if not all, of the photographs are found in the...
Dates: 1915, 2015

A. L. R. Gardner Company Store Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SpC MS 0195
Scope and Contents

The records include receipt books (1888-1894 incomplete, 1945-1949), ledgers (1912-1950), capital stock book (1902-1951), company meeting records (1902-1951), and photographs.

Dates: 1888-1951

Edmund Abbott Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0685-sc
Abstract

The papers of a student from Winterport, Maine, studying to become a physician at Maine State College in Orono and the University Medical College of New York.

Dates: 1872-1877

Amadamast Fishing Club (Orono, Me.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0689-sc
Abstract

The records of a fishing club. Included are minutes of meetings, financial records, savings deposit books, photographs, photographic negatives, slides, inventories, correspondence, receipts, original drawings, and a map of the Appalachian Trail from Katahdin to Mt. Bigelow published in 1934.

Dates: 1936-1963

American Realty Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1111-sc
Abstract Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1917-1920, of the company superintendent in Ashland, Maine, concerning timberland operations, estimates for wood peeled or yarded, transportation of pulpwood to the Oxford Paper Company in Rumford, Maine, and supplies ordered for various lumber camps. Also includes a ledger, 1932-1936, of monthly inventory sheets for equipment in storehouses in Ashland and St. John, Maine, as well as monthly wangan inventories. A few sheets for Washburn, Maine,...
Dates: 1917-1936

Andrews Family Photographs on Postcards Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1836-sc
Content Description

Collection consists of photographs of Elizabeth Andrews and Nicholas Andrews printed on postcards, accompanied by their associated film negatives. They are wearing traditional Native American dress.

Dates: circa 1915

Walter Lewellen Arnold Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0023
Abstract

Personal papers and business records of Walter L. Arnold, a businessman, guide, fur trader, trapper and author from Greenville, Maine.

Dates: 1893 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1959

Gregory Baker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0029
Abstract

The collection contains Gregory Baker's photographs and negatives of logging and lumbering operations and railroad construction in northern Maine in the early part of the 20th century. The collection contains glass plate negatives, photographs and cellulose negatives.

Dates: 1902-1973; Majority of material found within 1902-1933

C. T. Ball Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0032
Scope and Contents

Account book for a general jobbing business in Bangor, Maine, located at 127 Hammond Street. Includes unidentified photograph.

Dates: October 10, 1898-April, 1922

Bangor, Maine Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0033
Scope and Contents

Descriptive and historical materials about Bangor, Maine. Included are a copy of the 1931 city charter, information about revitalization and historic preservation of the downtown area, a pamphlet about Eleanor Roosevelt's visit in 1941, yearbooks of the Norumbega Club from 1900 to 1971 (1944-1945, 1951-1960 lacking), historical material about St. John's Catholic Church in Bangor, pamphlets describing walking tours, postcards, and photographs.

Dates: 1900-1997

Alice Barrows Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0894-sc
Abstract The papers of an American educator. Included are letters, publications, clippings, and notes, relating to Miss Barrows' work in education; a manuscript for an autobiography which she never completed; some family material, particularly concerning Charles Dana Barrows (1846-1892); a genealogy of the Prentice family; deeds (1820-1839) from Fryeburg, Maine; notes on impressions of Thomas Brackett Reed; photographs of family members; and a photocopy of an article about her in Urban Education (v....
Dates: 1820-1974

Samuel P. Bates Collection on Rudy Vallée

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1777
Scope and Contents

Collection of memorabilia, recordings, correspondence, and photographs that serves to document the relationship between Samuel P. Bates and his family with Rudy Vallee and his wife Eleanor.

Dates: 1914-1990

George Lafayette Beal Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0867-sc
Abstract

Papers of an army officer in the Civil War. Included are handwritten letters by George Lafayette Beal during the Civil War, a photocopy of an autobiography including Beal's service record, and a photograph of Beal.

Dates: 1861-1877

Edward Robie Berry Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0049
Scope and Contents

Papers include letters, family history, photographs, patent clippings, personal finances, 5 books, a Grasselli Medal for applied chemistry, 1 postccard scrapbook of Maud Henneberry.

Dates: undated

T. A. Bisson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0054
Scope and Contents

Papers of a scholar in international relations of the Far East. Included are correspondence, Yenan (1937) records, photographs, newspaper clippings, books collected by Bisson, and reprints of his works.

Dates: 1928-1980

Blaisdell Family Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1512-sc
Abstract

Photograph album by an unidentified compiler documenting members of the Blaisdell family of Winterport, Maine and New York City. Most photographs are identified and many show scenes in Winterport and Bayside, Maine. Also pictured are other areas of Maine as well as photographs taken in Bradford, Pa., Arizona, California, Tennessee, Italy, Puerto Rico and India. In addition to members of the family, the photos also show images of various family homes, businesses, etc.

Dates: undated

Harold L. Bolstad Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0858-sc
Abstract

Papers comprised chiefly of letters Harold Bolstad sent to his sister Lois Kutscha and her husband Norman P. Kutscha during his service in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was in Vietnam from August 1970 to May 1971. Included also is a short biography of Harold L. Bolstad, a photograph of him in the Marine Corps, and a newspaper clipping with a picture of him in Vietnam.

Dates: 1968-1971

Bond Wheelwright Company Business Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0061
Scope and Contents

The records of a publishing company in Freeport, Maine. Included are financial records, correspondence with authors, business correspondence, proofs, advertising materials and some illustrations, half tones, and manuscripts.

Dates: 1949-1985

Herschel L. Bricker Theater Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0070
Scope and Contents

Personal and professional correspondence of Dr. Herschel L. Bricker, and pamphlets, programs, photos, clippings, magazines, plays, reviews, playbills about the Maine Masque Theater, and theater in Maine.

Dates: 1900-1973

Bussell Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0080
Abstract

Papers and business records of Alfred W. Bussell of Argyle, Maine and John B. Bussell of Old Town, Maine.

Dates: 1856-1912; Majority of material found within 1883-1904

Henry Russ Butler Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1339-sc
Scope and Contents

Photographs belonging to Henry Russ Butler and taken between 1916 and 1920. The photos depict buildings on the University of Maine campus, as well as students and campus activities from that time period. Also included are a few photographs of the Parsonsfield Seminary, Parsonsfield, Maine, and shots taken in Bridgton, Portland and Gray, Maine.

Dates: 1916-1920

Bert Call Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0081
Abstract

Negatives of photographs taken between 1914 and 1939 by Call of outdoor scenes of mountains, lakes, woods and streams in the northern part of Maine.

Dates: 1914-1939

Camping in Maine Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0083
Abstract

The collection contains information on summer camps and fishing and hunting camps in Maine.

Dates: 1900-1976

Irvin C. Caverly, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1827
Abstract

Included are the personal correspondence and papers of former Governor Percival P. Baxter (born 1876 - died 1969) and former director of Baxter State Park Irvin “Buzz” Caverly, Jr. regarding Baxter State Park.

Dates: 20th century

Ava Harriet Chadbourne Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0090
Abstract

Writings, research materials, and notes on Maine academies, of a professor of Education, and author. Most of the papers are concerned with her writings whose topics include schools and academies in Maine, education, and place names in Maine.

Dates: 1915-1964

Solon Chase Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0861-sc
Abstract Papers of a newspaperman, school master, politician, and member of the Greenback Party in Maine. Included are a handwritten autobiography, a typescript copy, and handwritten articles by Solon Chase debunking the Church, on the conduct of life, on his candidacy for the governorship, on the decoration at the Grange Hall, and on fruit and potato farms. Included also are typescript copies of those handwritten articles. Included also is a handwritten speech to the Chase-Coll Family Association,...
Dates: 1887-1963; Majority of material found within ( 1887-1931)

Photographs of Construction Work on Bangor and Aroostook Railroad by Clement & Son

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1569
Scope and Contents

Photographs mounted in an album showing construction done in 1907 on the "Medford cutoff" of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad in the vicinity of Lagrange and Medford, Maine. Accompanied by a booklet entitled "The Medford Cutoff" written by G. Vincent Cuozzo, the donor of the collection. Cuozzo's father, George Cuozzo, worked on the construction project and supplied laborers for it.

Dates: 1907

Milton S. and Angela Clifford Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0101
Abstract

The manuscripts of poems by Milton S. Clifford. Also transcriptions of the diaries of Alice Clifford, George F. Godfrey, the letters of John Franklin Godfrey, the Journal of H.E. Prentiss' trip to Europe (1866) and family photographs.

Dates: 1860-1950

Clinton Llewellyn Cole Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0107
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1898-1975

Colwell Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1727
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1817-2012