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An undated notebook on the subject of biological chemistry belonging to Daniel Emerson Green, a member of the University of Maine Class of 1917, and a student in the Department of Agriculture. The notebook contains formulas and notes on experiments.

Scope and Contents Photographs of Coburn Hall Chapel, gymnasium in Alumni Hall, campus scenes, students, Lord Hall, Fogler Library, football team, and the covered bridge from Orono to Marsh Island. Also, Kappa Sigma Fraternity membership certificate for Austin Whittier Jones, University of Maine matchbox, various song sheets, program for Glee and Instrumental Clubs, University Calendar published by the Class of 1912, program from Farm and Home Week Banquet (1948), note regarding Class of 1944 Graduation...

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Scrapbook from University of Maine alumna Marion Keith. The scrapbook contains programs, photographs, and memorabilia regarding the Alpha Upsilon Chapter of the Delta Zeta Sorority (including it being reactivated), clippings and programs from events Keith sang at including as part of the Glee Club, memorabilia from events on campus (including athletics), Maine Christian Association, proms and dances, photographs of campus buildings, and student guides and handbooks.

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Photographs of University of Maine Orono campus buildings and of a group of students. One photograph of students has "1905" written on the back.

Content Description Memory book of Oscar G. Purdy from during his time as a University of Maine student. Includes: Book of Friends: List of Students(Classmates?) from 1924-1928. Faculty and Campus: Yells (Cheers) and Stein Song Student Hall of Fame Comparative Athletic Record (1924-1926) School and Social Functions My Favorites: Studies, Books, Sports, Chums, Hobby, Entertainments, Lectures, Plays, Memorable Trips, and Dates and Doings (November 1924 to May 1925)Pages of...

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The papers include a typed manuscript of recollections of various University of Maine students (1945-1960) in the North Dorms 1 item (8 p.) and responses to a 2011 request from the Alumni Association regarding remembering the North Dorm.

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Lists of courses taken by students of the Maine State College.

Content Description Scrapbook from University of Maine alumni Nelson N. "Ned" Scales. The scrapbook contains programs and newspaper clippings regarding various events (particularly athletics) on campus, hazing, development on campus, and photographs of students, campus, and towns in Maine (particularly Guilford). Also, includes a petition (which Scales signed) to the University of Maine Board of Trustees to "urge you to consider the advisability of an immediate change in the Head of the University". There are...

Scope and Contents Photographs taken by Edwin Melcher Smith during his time as a student at the University of Maine. Includes photographs of various seasonal campus scenes on the University of Maine's Orono campus, Oak Hall, students on campus and at camps, members of the Delta Rho fraternity, Field Day, Football Team (1898), Wingate Hall, soldiers, military drills and camps on campus and in Bath, Maine, Machine Shop and Engine Room, Track Team (1898), camp on Holbrook Pond, camp in Presque Isle (1895),...

Scope and Contents Scrapbook from University of Maine alumni Loren F. Stewart. The scrapbook contains clippings regarding University of Maine athletics and programs from meets and games, various dance cards, programs, photographs, and memorabilia regarding Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Alpha Tau Omega, clippings and programs from various Maine Masque Theatre performances, clippings regarding a fire at the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house in Orono, a copy of the student handbook (1942), and various clippings and...

Scope and Contents Scrapbook from University of Maine alumni Loren Prescott Stewart. The scrapbook contains photographs of the University of Maine's Orono campus and buildings, students, staff, and faculty, Bananas the University of Maine's mascot, Military Department certificates, clippings and photographs regarding University of Maine athletics and programs from meets and games, various dance cards, programs, photographs, and memorabilia including regarding Sigma Alpha Epsilon and trips Stewart took,...

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Diary of Maine State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts student and Camden, Maine native James Walter Weeks (Class of 1877). The diary describes Weeks' time as a mechanical engineering student at the college and following his graduation in 1877 work as a military instructor in Camden, Maine.

Inserted inside the front cover of the diary is a letter from President Arthur A. Hauck thanking Mrs. H.W. Devereux for the donation of the diary.

Content Description Miscellaneous items from Wallace Augustus Weston (Class of 1901), Virginia Smith Weston (Class of 1944), and William Weston (Class of 1949) curated during their time at the University of Maine. Includes: University of Maine bills, invoices, and payment receipts for expenses occurred at the University including for Omega Mu Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta, Y.M.C.A. Topic Card (1899), Women's Athletic Association Banquet program (1941), football schedules and tickets, copies of the...

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The records of a granite company in Sullivan, Maine. Included are copies of the act of incorporation (1834) and of the by-laws of 1834 and of 1855. Included also are maps of the lands of the Sullivan Granite Company, minutes of the annual meetings from 1866 to 1874, abstracts of titles, and other legal papers. Included also is a judgment in a case filed in the Circuit Court of Milwaukee County (Wisconsin) titled Grant Marble Company, a corporation, plaintiff vs Edwin H. Abbot, defendant.

Scope and Contents The collection contains both incoming and copies of outgoing correspondence of J.J. Sullivan from 1928-1930. Most of the correspondence concerns his activities advising various paper companies on procuring types of pulp and rag to be used in the mills or deciding which types of machines were best for their operations. Some of the letters concern an experimental paper drying machine developed by Proctor & Schwartz and in use at the Brown Co. in Berlin, N.H. Also included in the collection...

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The records mainly contain textual information created on and by various summer institutes held at the University of Maine includes: correspondence, memorandums, press releases, clippings, grant applications, reports, and brochures. There are also photographs of attendees of the Education for Intercultural Understanding Workshop.

Scope and Contents Ten interviews totaling 23 hours conducted for a course at University of Maine taught by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives in 1976 about a pulpwood operation at Little Musquash Lake run by Grover Morrison. This project included the publication of Northeast Folklore: Suthin, XVIII. These interviews were the basis of “Suthin”: It’s the Opposite of Nothin’: An Oral History of Grover Morrison’s Wood’s Operation at Little Musquash Lake, 1945-1947 (Northeast Folklore XVIII: 1977 ). Collection includes the...

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School papers by Ann Sutton and genealogy of the Whitney family of Old Town, Maine.

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Two diaries covering the years 1871 and 1872. The diaries record the daily weather and daily life on a farm in Bethel, Maine.

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Interviews about Swan’s Island conducted by the Swan's Island Historical Society.

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Materials include budgets, plant lists, landscape drawings, and color photographs of landscape design projects by James E. Swasey, University of Maine Landscape Designer and Professor of Ornamental Horticulture.

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The papers consist of letters, diaries, photographs, and memo books of the Sweetser family from Cumberland Center, Maine.

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Diary of Samuel Hobart Sweetser a farmer and trial justice from North Yarmouth, dating from 1883-1886. He is a dedicated diarist and notes names, dates, and events whle also recording the weather conditions. Many entries refer to his work as an orchardist with an apple orchard as well as noting tasks associated with his work as a trial justice.

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A series of six interviews about swordfishing in Nova Scotia conducted by James Moreira and David Sanger of the University of Maine Anthropology Department in 2003. This collection consists of six audio interviews, one video and 2 cds containing photographs. Themes include experiences growing up in fishing families; techniques used in catching swordfish; processes involved after swordfish is spotted and harpooned; how to spot and track swordfish.

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An incomplete set of syllabi for University of Maine courses. Box 1 Folder 1 includes correspondence and memorandums regarding James C. MacCampbell's, Director of University of Maine Libraries request to University of Maine faculty to send their course syllabi to Fogler Library for the use of students.

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A daily diary begun when Sylvester was ten years old. The volume records his daily activities, the weather each day, and his school and work life.

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Financial records of a general store in Dennysville, Maine, owned by Theophilus W. Allan and his sons. Volumes include two daybooks, dated 1869 and 1894-1895, as well as two ledgers dated 1889-1902 and 1901-1912. The store sold groceries, dry-goods, hardware, etc.

Abstract Records of a general store in Sebec, Maine, owned by Thoedore Wyman and his son, Theodore H. Wyman. Included are three ledgers dating from the 1830s to 1883. The earliest ledger appears to record transactions of a business called Jewett & Wyman. The ledgers include names of customers but do not record specific purchases made by each customer. Also found in the collection is a daybook dating from 1871-1873 which details the purchase of items such as lard, sugar, molasses, oil, etc. A...

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A ledger used by Taber to record purchases made at his general store in Unity, Maine. Taber also used the volume to record work he did for others, including fencing, haying, repairs, etc. His work as executor for various decedents' estates is also documented in the volume.