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Records, letters, and photos of an Ellsworth, Maine family, and of the Wheelock, Craig, and Briggs families of Augusta. Also included are sermons by Dutton family members.

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Letter discussing the need for haulers of logs to settle amount of money due to them for log drives.

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Papers include articles, publications, etc.; materials and photographs pertaining to Baxter State Park and Mount Katahdin; and miscellaneous personal and professional papers. Also contains information about Dyer's years as a student at the University of Maine.

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A ledger recording financial transactions of Isaac Dyer of Baldwin, Maine. He appears to have owned a sawmill there.

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Ledger of an unidentified lumber business, probably that of E.L. Staples, Lewiston, Maine. The company, owned by Ernest L. Staples, was a box and lumber manufacturer and dealt in lumber, moldings, flooring, doors, windows, and box shooks. It also did band-sawing, planing and jobbing.

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The collection consists of four unidentified volumes. By their dates, it is assumed that they mostly concern the firm of E. Plummer and Sons, incorporated in 1901.

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Ledger from a general store listing names of customers, goods sold and their prices. Items include tobacco, flour, herring, needles, flannel, etc. The location of the business is not indicated.

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A collection of illustrations of Maine scenes found on pages removed from magazines and newspapers of the mid to late nineteenth century. Includes scenes of logging, lumbering, hunting and fishing, as well as illustrations of significant buildings around the state.

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Records of a company and its successor which owned a share of the power rights of the Penobscot River in Maine.

Abstract The collection contains records of the Eastern Corporation, a paper manufacturer in Brewer, Maine. The records include administrative files, architectural and mechanical drawings, patents and trademarks, company publications, etc. The records were acquired by Special Collections in 2007 and 2008 from the Maine Folklife Center at the University of Maine. The Folklife Center conducted an oral history project with former employees of the company and in conjunction with that project also...

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A receipt book (4 pages) showing business conducted with J.P. Hooper, a merchant tailor in Bucksport, Maine.

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Pauleena MacDougall, then Associate Director of the Maine Folklife Center, and Amy Stevens, then graduate student in history, conducted a series of oral history interviews and collecting photographs and documents relating to the history and culture of Eastern Fine Paper in Brewer, Maine. The mill closed in January, 2003 after operating as a paper and/or lumber mill for more than a century.

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This collection reflects the history of the School of Nursing at Eastern Maine General Hospital/Eastern Maine Medical Center from its beginning. Included are photographs, yearbooks, scrapbooks, correspondence, artifacts, etc. concerning the School of Nursing and its alumni. Rules, curricula, administrative papers, student progress reports and early corporate records are also included.

Content Description The records mainly contain textual information created and curated by Martha (Muffy) Eastman (Martha) during her time as a nurse at the University of Maine's Cutler Health Center. The record series Miscellaneous Health Care Information contains fliers and publications from various health care organizations in Maine and beyond. The record series Maine Cardiovascular Health Council Records contains Council newsletters, meeting material, member lists, plans, and fliers....

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This collection includes twenty-eight interviews with thirteen Eastport residents, plus manuscript material collected as part of French’s research. In addition to the general history of Eastport, major topics discussed include the sardine industry and community holiday celebrations.

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Photo albums of scenes of Maine, mostly Central and Eastern Maine, the coast and the mountains.

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The papers include shop drawings, blueprints, correspondence, and minutes of professional organizations.

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The collection contains correspondence, writings, speeches and research files of Fannie Hardy Eckstorm. Eckstorm's journals, notebooks and research material on ballads, Indian languages and legends and Indian place names in Maine are also included.

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A book listing surveys done in the Eden, Maine area. Includes a few drawings.

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Editorial cartoons from various newspapers in the United States compiled by an unidentified collector. A few cartoons are from Maine newspapers but most are from the New York Herald Tribune, Washington News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, etc.

Scope and Contents MF167.1 consists of interviews conducted by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives on Prince Edward Island between 1969 and 1970, as part of his work to document the folk songs of Prince Edward Island, specifically the songs “made by” Joe Scott, Larry Doyle, and Larry Gorman. Material included in this collection served as source material for Ives’ later publications, Lawrence Doyle: The Farmer-Poet of Prince Edward Island (1971); Larry Gorman: The Man Who...

Scope and Contents Material collected by Maine Folklife Center (MFC) and Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History (NAFOH) founder Edward D. “Sandy” Ives or about him (for the latter, also see NA1636, NA2290, NA2301, NA2312, NA2390, NA2539). This record group includes Ives’s other interviews, folklore collections, and miscellaneous accessions include several that focus on moose poacher George Magoon (George Magood and the Down East Game War: History, Folklore, and the Law. Urbana: University...

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Photos of UMaine campus activities and events.

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Papers of Llewellyn Nathaniel Edwards, a graduate of the University of Maine and an expert on bridges and on concrete.

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The collection contains records from Albert Eells's grocery business in Camden, Maine and his shipyard in Rockport, Maine.

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An account of an 18th century mill in the area of Baileysville, Maine for work, goods, and services performed by James Dyer.

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Records of the Eliot Farmers' Union, a store in Eliot, Maine, owned and operated by John W. Staples.

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Many entries list date and place of birth and occupation for individual members. Collection also contains a small amount of correspondence from 1918 of the lodge secretary.

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Papers of an outdoorsman, journalist, writer, and photographer who spent much of his life in Maine. The collection contains correspondence, drafts of articles, and copies of published articles that document Robert Elliot's long career as a writer and photographer.

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The records include correspondence, receipts, ledgers, check stubs, and shipping records.