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Class notes kept by Adams for a course in science at the Medical School of Maine. The volume contains a dedication to Clara Boutelle of Brunswick, Maine.

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Autograph letter signed. Folded letter with envelope. Letter refers to Joshua Chamberlain. Mrs. Horace G. Allen (nee Grace Dupee Chamberlain) was his daughter.

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Autograph letter signed. A letter and complimentary tickets sent to the State Highway Commission inviting representatives to join an opening celebration for Orr's and Bailey Island Bridge. The Orr's Island Bridge was first proposed in 1829.

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Autograph letter signed. Letter to Charles Cate, son-in-law of Thomas Adams. Relates to J. Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, slavery.

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The records of an agricultural society. Included are the original handwritten records and 2 copies of the typewritten transcription of the original records.

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The collection consists of six interviews done by Joan Brooks and Jack Beard focused on the history of the Airline Road (Rt. 9 from Bangor to Calais, ME) and the Airline community ca. 1900.

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Series of interviews by historian Barry H. Rodrigue on life in Alaska.

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Autograph letter signed. Letter between friends and officers. Mentions a check for 45.00 for a bookcase (see letter of May 8, 1869). Update on happenings: political, military and personal.

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Autograph letter signed. Letter between friends and officers. Alden updates Walker on his request for additional marines, moving of personal effects, payment of a bookcase and political news.

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Autograph signed letter between friends and officers: an update on military requests by Walker through Alden and local updates.

Scope and Contents This collection contains 38 cassette recordings of interviews with residents of the towns of Alexander and Crawford, Maine, conducted under the auspices of the Alexander-Crawford Historical Society between the years of 1980-1991. Topics range from aspects of the history and lifeways of the area; to Townsend House; the School in the Woods; mills; stage routes; blueberries; Princeton; Pembroke; woods work; lakes; Alexander Frost; ghosts; and many other topics pertaining to Alexander and...

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A photo collection of the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in Acadia National Park from 1934-1935.

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The records include a history of the organization, membership information, correspondence, financial records, and information about special projects and events.

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Record books and daybooks of the general store at Edmunds, Maine, 1802-1925 (15 volumes), run primarily by Isaac Hobart Allan during the period of approximately 1830-1885.

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The records include 3 hotel registers (July 14, 1866-Feb. 17, 1870; Feb. 17, 1870-March 14, 1872; Dec. 6, 1878-Aug. 18, 1881).

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Business and personal letters written to Charles Allen between 1867 and 1911 by friends, business associates, political and labor figures and those interested in local history.

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Letters of a farmer and log driver in the late 19th century.

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The record group contains material created and curated by the University of Maine's Alpha Beta Chapter of Omicron Nu. The records include copies of newsletters, chapter officer packets from conclaves, handbooks, material related to events, details of scholarships, meeting minutes, member communications, reports, chapter financial information, membership lists and cards, and photographs of members.

Abstract A volume containing minutes of meetings, 1915-1930, of the Bangor, Maine, alumnae chapter of the sorority Alpha Omicron Pi. The chapter consisted of members from within a twenty-five mile radius of Bangor. The minutes record activities such as fund raising for the new Alpha Omicron Pi house on the University of Maine campus, establishing a scholarship at the university in 1921, and various philanthropic activities, as well as Founders' Day parties to celebrate the founding of the sorority in...

Scope and Contents The records mainly contain textual information created by the University of Maine Alumni Association (also known as the General Alumni Association), but there are also photographic material.The record series Alumni Association Publications contains various University of Maine Alumni Association Publications, including newsletters and the University of Maine Bulletin. The records do not contain complete runs of the publications. Copies of the publications are also stored in...

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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.

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Scrapbook with 1930s and 1940 QSL cards from around the United States and beyond, as well as a few related amateur radio station logs and other material, collected by Norman S. "Froggy" Davis, University of Maine, Class of 1925.

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Collection includes Leavitt's Farmer's Almanack (42 items) from 1856 to 1927 (not inclusive) as well as miscellaneous almanacs published in the U.S. from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Also includes photocopy of "Chronological list of Massachusetts almanacs 1639-1850" from the American Antiquarian Society, April 1912, p. 41-134.

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Correspondence, reports, minutes, membership lists, programs, history and other records of Orono Chapter of the American Association of University Women. Some statewide records are also found in the collection.

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,...