Scope and Contents Teacher's school registers for Mattawamkeag, Maine. Includes school district, teacher(s), school information as well as information on wages, room and board costs, and number of visits by school committee members or citizens. Also records a list of students, their ages, and their attendance records. Collection also includes school agent's census returns that recorded the students in the district between ages four and twenty-one and school agent's fiscal returns that detail expenditures in...

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A collection of photographs, postcards, and clippings about steamboats sailing in Penobscot Bay, Maine.

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The record group contains material regarding the University of Maine's Nelson B. Jones Stein Collection. Including correspondence covering the creation and growth over time of the collection, donations to the collection, photographs of steins in the collection, background information on steins, publicity material, and information on donors.

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The collection contains copies of scores of the Maine Stein Song, correspondence of university presidents and the alumni association, and articles and clippings about the song and its history. The correspondence includes letters written in 1930 from various temperance organizations voicing objections to the song's associations with drinking as well as two letters written by Rudy Vallée, one of which gives a history of the song and Vallée's involvement with it.

Scope and Contents The collection includes an account book kept by William Starrett from 1791-1797, in which he recorded items purchased and work done by various individuals. Purchases included rum, molasses, chocolate, corn, turnips, shoes, bricks, etc.; work included hauling planks and timber, using oxen, etc. Also included are two account books presumably of William Starrett's son, Aaron Starrett. One, dated 1842-1843, records labor plus material hauled from Starrett's mill; the second, dated 1853-1856,...

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Letters of a U.S. Congressman from Maine.

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Personal papers of Clarence C. Stetson who was born in Bangor, Maine, in 1884, the son of Edward and Edith Stetson.

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The Stetson family papers consist primarily of the business and personal papers of George Stetson, his sons Edward and Isaiah Kidder, and Isaiah's son Irving G. Stetson. They reflect the involvement of the Stetsons in the lumbering, slate mining, ice harvesting, and banking businesses in Bangor, Maine, the northern woods of Maine, and in New Brunswick.

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Papers contain biographical material compiled by Stevens about her family including notes she wrote in 2002 about her great-grandmother Marie-Adelphine Salois and an essay on the family tree of her grandparents Otis Young and Vernie Durant. Also included are family photographs, correspondence to Harriet Price (the donor of the collection), from Darkmoon Cliffdweller about Stevens's life, and eulogies given at the time of her death in 2003.

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Stewart's personal and professional papers; photographs and slides of her travels, family, and friends; scrapbooks covering her life as well as her parent's life; memorobilia from her student, teaching, and traveling activities; and miscellaneous art pieces including carved figurines.

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The diaries of a farmer and Baptist minister from 1880 to 1884. Included in one of the diaries are records of the United Sisters Union of the Daughters of Temperance in Corinna, Maine. The records list the name of members, date of initiation into the union, and the payment of weekly dues for the years 1848 to 1850.

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Diary, 1929, of George R. Stewart, a worker in Lubec, Maine.

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A ledger of a coal company located in Bangor, Maine. The volume contains financial information about the company such as costs for labor, insurance, furniture and fixtures, etc., as well as a record of customers.

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Log scaling book for the Stillwater Canal Corp. Shows how much lumber and for whom it was scaled. Also shows some log brands. This possibly reflects the boom operation in the Stillwater River opposite the present University of Maine.

Scope and Contents Interviews with the employees of the Stinson Sardine plant in Prospect Harbor, Maine in March 2010. These interviews were conducted a couple of weeks before the plant closed on April 18, 2010 during the work day. The Stinson Sardine plant was the last sardine canning plant in the state of Maine. Included with the interviews are notes by Pauleena MacDougall regarding the people the interviewers spoke with as well as job descriptions. Also parts of this collection include a documentary, a...

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Letters between Paul J. Dewitt and Norma E. Stockwell around the time of their marriage.

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Daybook used by Zeke Stoddard to record seat reservations for his stage line in Pembroke, Maine.

Scope and Contents The collection contains three military commissions of Frederick H. Strickland of Bangor, Maine. The first, dated Jan. 21, 1881, appointed him as aide-de-camp on the staff of the commander in chief and was issued by Gov. Harris M. Plaisted. The second, dated March 3, 1882 and also issued by Gov. Plaisted, appointed him a lieutenant-colonel of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, Maine Volunteer Militia. The third, dated July 30, 1883 and issued by Gov. Frederick Robie, appointed him an inspector and...

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The papers of a ship-owning family, Stephen W. Stuart, William H. Stuart and John B. Stuart. Some papers relate to the Richmond National Bank (1878-1884), mostly receipts. Also includes correspondence, financial records, and cargo lists.

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A handwritten mathematics workbook dated 1799.

Scope and Contents The records mainly contain textual information created by the University of Maine Student Mathematics Club and honors fraternity Pi Mu Epsilon, but there is also a photograph from both the Mathematics Club's fiftieth anniversary celebration and installation of Pi Mu Epsilon. The records include: meeting minutes, lists of members, member cards, details of member dues, copies of constitutions and charter, press releases regarding meetings and events, and details of the initiation of members...

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Minutes for the University of Maine German Club's meetings. Also, includes lists of members, correspondence, invitations for events, and grocery bills.

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The collection contains material concerning student political activity on the University of Maine campus at Orono during the late 1960s and early 1970s. It includes materials about Students for a Democratic Society, Young Workers Liberation League, General Left Caucus, Vietnam War protests, student strike in May 1970, position papers, and correspondence.

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The records contain textual information, mostly created and collected by the University of Maine Student Publications Committee during Margaret Naigle's tenure on the Committee. Includes: Committee meeting material, correspondence and memorandums on the operations and future of the Committee and the various student publications, financial material, copies of various student publications, bylaws, constitutions, and guidelines.

Scope and Contents The records mainly contain textual information created by the University of Maine Student Religious Association which represented four clubs/organizations on campus the Hillel, The Newman Club, The Maine Christian Association and Canterbury. The records includes materials on all the groups that were involved with the Student Religious Association including administration material such as meeting minutes and reports. There are other materials on subjects that were of interest to...

Scope and Contents A photograph album primarily containing carte-de-visite, calling card style portrait style photographs and tintypes. The photographs would likely have been exchanged with classmates and friends. The photographs are of members of the Maine State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (now known as the University of Maine) Class of 1876 and also of non-students, such as older couples and children. The photographs appear to have been taken by different photographers and in different states in...

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Facsimiles of newspaper articles regarding the Class of 1957 painting on the cupola in 1954 and the pardon of UMaine Alumnus Richard F. Bastow for the prank at the Classes' Golden Reunion in 2007, 9 pages. Also, recollection of Bastow and profile on him.

Content Description University of Maine scrapbook of University of Maine alumni, Somner C. Cobb who graduated in 1917. The scrapbook contains play programs, newspaper clippings, personal and professional photographs, Phi Kappa Sigma memorabilia, report cards, and photographs and materials on the UMaine cross country, track and field, and football teams. The materials in this scrapbook date from 1913-1917. In particular, there are photographs and play programs from the Maine Masque Theatre, with photographs of...

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Facsimiles of a scanned letter from UMaine student Harry Fogg to his mother Jessie M. Fogg in 1911 and a check to Theta Epsilon. The letter describes Fogg's initiation into Theta Epsilon.