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Collection contains 19 volumes compiled by Wayland Towner documenting his life history from his years as a student at the University of Maine until his retirement in 1961 from a long career in public relations and fund raising. It includes letters, photographs, publications and other documents with Towner's candid narrative of events represented. Of particular interest are Towner's letters to his parents while he was serving in Scotland and France during World War I.

Scope and Contents A scrapbook compiled by Brenna Blaisdell Tracy while a student at the University of Maine from 1926-1930. It includes signatures and comments of class members as well as programs, photographs and memorabilia of campus activities and sorority life. Of interest within the scrapbook are handbooks of the Women's Student Government Association, memorabilia and programs documenting activities of the Delta Delta Delta sorority and the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, and party invitations, favors,...

Abstract The collection contains financial records of a boat shop and dock owned by Herbert E. Tracy in Winter Harbor, Maine. The collection contains five volumes of records. Tracy records expenses for services he provided to boats in his yard, including repairs, refittings, berth rentals, towing charges, wharf accounts, and sales of all kinds of nautical supplies. One of the volumes, listed as a memo book, contains town financial records for Winter Harbor for 1896, as well as a list of names and...

Scope and Contents The collection includes 37 cassette recordings of interviews (now digitized) with 44 individuals in addition to performances. Traditional Music of Maine celebrates the musical legacies of a variety of Maine folk communities by exploring their cultural and historical significance through oral history interviews with musicians and other community members. The tapes introduce the general public to the remarkable diversity and vitality of Maine's musical traditions. Program...

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Records from Trask's roles as a student a the University of Maine and the Yale School of Forestry and writings related to Trask's career as a silviculturist with the United States Forest Service.

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A handwritten travel diary from Jan 31 to April 10, 1937. Author unknown. Sailed on the S.S. Scythia and traveled in England and Switzerland. Included also is a notice in German from Hotel Waldhaus Dolder.

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An account by an unidentified compiler written from Versailles, France, on June 28 and 29, 1919 describing the scene outside the Palace of Versailles after the Treaty of Versailles was signed and later the celebration of the signing in Paris. Addressed to "Dear Rose," the account is written on postcards depicting sights in Paris and Versailles.

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An account book of school money disbursed by school districts in the town of Tremont, Maine in 1849. Included also is a copy of a proposed letter to the superintendent of the Maine Insane Hospital dated August 9, 1849 recommending that Thomas Stanley, Jr. of Tremont become a resident of the hospital.

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A letter from F.L. Treworgy written in 1865 to "Dear sister." Treworgy describes his life in El Dorado, Kansas, especially his dealings with the Indians there. He talks of driving cattle from the south and meeting Confederate rebels who "hit one Indian and brok his arm and shot a hole through my coat. I lost my horses and had to com home without any cattle." The letter also mentions family members including Sarah and Julia Treworgy, presumably sisters from Blue Hill, Maine.

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The papers of Harry T. Treworgy include advertisements from his establishments and items from his service to the state of Maine. Included in this are correspondence, petitions, and reports. There are a few photographic prints.

Abstract A collection of materials by and about one of the outstanding figures of New England Methodism and a chaplain in the United States Navy. Included are a historical address delivered at Machias in 1922, a historical address delivered at Bucksport in 1913, "Derelicts" printed in the Naval Home Calendar in 1920, a sermon titled The World's redeemer: the perfect man, letters to Alfred and Ellen Hempstead from David Howard Tribou, an obituary taken from the Zion's Herald of June 7, 1922, lines on...

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Includes accounts relating to the schooner Lizzie Brewster primarily for labor aboard the schooner.

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Eleven diaries of a county sheriff and farmer in Portland and Pownal, Maine covering the years 1884 to 1894.

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A diary of a housewife in Gardiner, Maine.

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Letters to Jabez True from numerous correspondents including Hannibal Hamlin.

Abstract The collection contains letters of the Tryon family of North Yarmouth, Maine. Most of the letters are to Cora B. Tryon from her children and her sister who appears to have lived in Medford, Massachusetts. The letters discuss daily events and family matters. A few items belonging to Cora's husband Samuel A. Tryon are also included, as well as a few letters to Carl R. Tryon and George M. Tryon, sons of Samuel and Cora Tryon. Most of the letters are addressed to North Yarmouth, but letters from...

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The official records, papers and personal papers of a U.S. Congressman from Maine.

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Collection contains personal papers of the Turner family of Isle au Haut, Maine. The collection also contains a photograph album of scenes of Isle au Haut, 1886-1963, many taken by John C. Turner, depicting buildings, people, the harbor, vessels, etc. Postcards of island scenes are also included. Diaries of John Turner, 1867-1886, and financial and legal papers are also present in the collection.

Abstract Papers of Walter W. Turner, a professor in electrical engineering at the University of Maine at Orono, from his work on two committees: the Special Committee of Maine Engineers appointed to study the 1959 report by the International Passamaquoddy Engineering Board to the International Joint Commission, and the Baccalaureate Electrical Engineering Planning Committee formed in 1985 to begin the planning process for an undergraduate program in electrical engineering at the University of...

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Account book from an unidentified customhouse recording money received by customhouse collector and deposited to credit of Treasury Dept.

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Account book from an unidentified customhouse listing names of those from whom money was collected, impost, etc.

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A volume recording names of persons receiving payments for service at an unidentified marine hospital, presumably in Portland, Maine.

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Volume used at the customhouse at Mt. Desert, Maine, to record information about items received from abroad through the mail. Volume lists names of persons, amounts of duty or fine owed, and places from which items were received.

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Volume recording moneys received and paid at the customhouse at the port of Ellsworth, Maine, Oct. 1887-Dec. 1897.

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Volume from an unidentified customhouse with entries from July 5, 1905 to Dec. 16, 1913. Each entry lists date of bond, principals and sureties, amount of bond, duty on entry, how and when canceled and character of bond. Concerns "persons employed in curing fish."

Abstract A collection relating to the manufacturing of wood and metal hames in the United States. Included are records of the U.S. Hame Company of Buffalo, New York; a school report by John P. Carr for an economics class on the history of the wood hame industry in the United States; a typescript of a report on the history and description of Concord hames (11 leaves); a typescript of a history of the hame industry in New England (8 leaves); a price list (no date) of the Bartlett & Rowell hames...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a series of interviews done for a University of Maine at Augusta course in Speaker-Audience Communications, Fall 1977. Topics covered include: the Farnsworth Museum; the Robert Abbe Museum; Lucy Farnsworth; Rockland, Maine, in the early 1900s; Northport in the War of 1812; Waldoboro News Stand; Knox Arboretum in Warren, Maine; lace mills and the lace business in St. George, Maine; lime kilns; Clark Island Quarry and quarry stone cutting; farm life in Vassalboro in...

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Interviews conducted for UMaine’s 150th anniversary celebrations.

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A series of fifteen interviews recorded between 1994 - 1997 by Laura Finkel concerning anti-war movement, protests, and activities on the campus at the University of Maine during the Vietnam War era (1964 - 1973).

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Financial records of a local electric utility in Maine. Included are cashbooks, journals, and ledgers of the Union Electric Company and the Union Light & Power Company.