Abstract

Photocopy of the records of a temperance society in Maine. Location of originals is unknown. Included are the constitution, minutes of meetings, lists of officers and committee members, and a genealogy of the Blake family. Included also are eight pages of the accounts of W.H. Comstock of Cape Rosier from 1880 to 1890.

Abstract

Scrapbook from an unidentified compiler of clippings related to the historic properties, landmarks, and vacation destinations in several communities in southern Maine, particularly the areas of Kittery and Kittery Point.

Abstract

A scrapbook from an unidentified compiler containing clippings about the Spanish-American War taken from newspapers and magazines.

Abstract

The collection contains copies of photographs of Penobscot Indian life taken in the field by Frank G. Speck around 1911, as well as copies of some photographs collected by him. Many pieces depicted now belong to the National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center. Heye sponsored some of Speck's work. The photographs depict individual Penobscot Indians as well as objects such as baskets, snowshoes, tools, clothing, etc.

Scope and Contents The record groups contains copies of the club constitution, a history of its founding, group photographs of members taken on three different dates, a list of program topics, a few event programs, letters, bills, receipts, and minutes from meetings 1911-2000. Many of the letters offer thanks for support of various causes. Other letters thank the group for gifts and condolences following the death of one of the members. Minutes include detailed accounts of meetings along with lists of...

Abstract

The papers of a bridge builder in Eliot, Maine. Included are 15 diaries from 1883-1892, 1894, and 1898-1901; 2 weekly time books covering 1895-1897; receipts; lists of goods purchased; lists of materials for bridge construction; and notices of sale of lands for unpaid taxes in Eliot in 1920 and 1921.

Scope and Contents

Financial accounts of a prominent landowner in Kittery Depot, Maine.

Abstract Letters collected by the Spinney family of Kittery Depot, Maine in the late 19th century. There are 16 letters, most of them sent to Alice Spinney. Five of them are from her cousin Addie Hale; the others are from S.G. Smith, Mary Cate, her friend Lydia Shaw, her niece Elsie R. Francis, and her nephew Woodbury. Three of the letters are to Ephraim: two of them from M.P.L. and one from W.A. Wallace. There is one letter from Woodbury to his mother and one letter from C.M. Gignoux to D.B....

Abstract A small collection of papers of a prominent family in Kittery, Maine. Included are two handwritten copies of the will of Nicholas Spinney dated April 18, 1797; a printed form used to record the value of household furniture and of gold and silver watches in 1815 in the eighth district of the State of Massachusetts; an account of money Caleb Spinney owed to Charles Greene covering the years 1816 to 1819; three bills for expenses incurred by Nicholas Spinney in the administration of the estate...

Abstract

Diary kept by Spinney of his bird sightings in Maine. The volume also has newspaper clippings about Spinney and the Maine Ornithological Society pasted in the first few pages.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a series of interviews and recordings of various meetings and sessions of the Spiritualist Church in Maine and especially at Camp Etna. The interviews were conducted by Bonita Freeman Witthoft in connection with her thesis From the Other Side of Life: Modern Spiritualism in Maine, in 1975. Witthoft was primarily interested in fundamental religious concepts, forms of apprenticeship, acquired patterns of perception and behavior, the discipline of mediums as...

Scope and Contents

An inventory of the estate of Joseph Sprague of Thomaston, Maine who died in 1826.

Abstract

The papers of Professor Richard Sprague concern primarily his research and includes a number of unpublished manuscripts, and notes and correspondence to accompany the manuscripts. Included are materials about Carl Sprinchorn, artist, John Springer, woodsman, George Chapman and Albert Gallatin.

Abstract The collection contains correspondence of Fred E. Spratt and Chessman Chadwick Spratt, two brothers born in Palermo, Maine. Most of the letters were written by Fred to Chessman and reflect his life on the family farm. They include comments on agriculture, crops, planting, and prices, general comments on the weather and its effects on crops, as well as family and local news. The collection also contains letters to various other Spratt family members, some unidentified family photographs, and...

Abstract

The Sprinchorn papers are the work of an artist and art historian. He was in contact with many of the important artists of the early 20th century such as Marsden Hartley and Rex Slinkard. The papers include correspondence, art exhibition materials, unpublished manuscripts, and notes of Sprinchorn during his working life.

Abstract Copies of two photographs of Carl Sprinchorn. One photograph, taken in 1916, depicts Sprinchorn on the Cape Cod dunes in Massachusetts and is inscribed "To Esther from Carl." Information given in a letter from the donor indicates that Esther was Esther Johnson Pennington. The other photograph, taken in 1918, is inscribed to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Anderson and is signed Carl Sprinchorn, Monson, Me., 1918. The photographs are accompanied by a letter from the donor, Evangeline Anderson Jackson,...

Scope and Contents

A history of the Associated COLT Staff of the Universities of Maine.

Scope and Contents

The record group contains the meeting minutes and financial and membership information for the University of Maine's Faculty Arts Club.

Scope and Contents

The volume includes meeting minutes for the Mathematical and Physical Section of the Scientific Society starting on October 16, 1902. Professor Hart was the section's first chair. The meetings featured presentations on a range of subjects related to mathematics and science.

Scope and Contents

The record group contains the Philological Club's Secretary and Treasurer books including meeting minutes and financial records for the club. The record group also includes miscellenous bills, checks, and meeting invitations.

Scope and Contents

University of Maine Press Club's meeting minutes, starting in 1904.

Scope and Contents

Notebook and loose papers, 1907-1909, contains handwritten stories, anecdotes, and poetry by Jasper Jacob Stahl, a high school teacher at Friendship High School and the Lincoln Academy. Notebook is labeled "Themes." Some entries appear to have been graded with a "Rein gut" (literally "purely good" in German). They may be translations.

Abstract

Papers of a historian of Waldoboro, Maine including correspondence, research notes, and clippings relating to Stahl's history of Waldoboro and to Germans in Maine.

Abstract

Financial records of a sawmill in Turner, Maine.

Abstract

Personal correspondence, bills and receipts from various members of the Staples family of West Baldwin and Naples, Maine. All of the letters touch on family matters.

Abstract

A copybook containing penmanship exercises and poetry.

Abstract

The collection contains photographs taken by Edwin R. Starbird, a professional photographer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, specializing in views of the Maine woods. Collection also contains one folder of Starbird family papers.

Abstract

Includes one photograph from Starbird's Rangeley Lake Views series, one from his Views of Tim Pond and the Seven Ponds series, seven from the Woods of Maine series, and four from the area around Katahdin Iron Works.

Abstract

A copybook containing penmanship exercises and poetry.

Abstract A volume used by Starboard to record purchases made by customers presumably at a general store in Charlotte, Maine. Goods purchased include cotton, buttons, tea, soap, candles, potatoes, etc. Entries are headed both Charlotte and Pembroke, Maine. The volume also records Starboard's work for others, much of which involved making barrels, hoop poles, and tubs. Another part of the volume contains records of Enoch Fisher of Charlotte, Maine, and details his activities as justice of the peace,...