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WLBZ Radio Station Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0608
Scope and Contents The collection includes photographs, administrative, and marketing related documents stemming from station activities from 1926 through the 1970s. Several publications and documents were added, ranging in date through 2015, and reflect on the history of the station. These include a publication by the Maine Association of Broadcasters, summaries written by Edward E. Guernsey and Barry Darling, and a draft of a doctoral dissertation written by Erica Risberg, "We broadcast what people wanted to...
Dates: 1926-2015
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Sebec, Me.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1043-sc
Abstract Records of a local union of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the late 19th century in Sebec, Maine.
Dates: July 23, 1894-March 23, 1899
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Winterport, Me.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1044-sc
Abstract Records of a local union in Winterport, Maine, of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Included are 3 record books: a Secretary's Book from April 29, 1897 to Sept. 12, 1899; a notebook containing minutes of meetings from April 26, 1939 to July 12, 1955; and a Treasurer's Book from Aug. 4, 1953 to Nov. 20, 1957. Included in the record books are minutes of the meetings, lists of members, lists of officers, and financial records. Removed from one of the books are two receipts: one for a pledge...
Dates: April 29, 1897-November 20, 1957; Majority of material found within 1897-1899; Majority of material found within 1939-1957
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

Woman's Club of Orono Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0637
Abstract The collection consists of the records of the Woman's Club of Orono from the founding of the Club. Many prominent Orono families are represented in the membership.
Dates: 1887-
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

Woman's National Farm and Garden Association, Maine Division Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0636
Abstract The collection contains administrative records of the Women's National Farm and Garden Association, Maine Division as well as subject files, scrapbooks, information from the national organization and from the Associated Country Women of the World.
Dates: 1951-1993
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.), S. J. Oakes Post No. 121 Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1593-sc
Abstract Includes minutes of meetings of S. J. Oakes Post No. 121, Woman's Relief Corps for 1896-1900 and 1959-1966. Also includes copies of general orders issued 1921-1943 by the Woman's Relief Corps, Dept. of Maine.
Dates: 1896-1966
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

Women in Maine Project

 Collection
Identifier: MF068
Scope and Contents The collection consists of a series of interviews conducted from 1974 to 1980 by students for a course (IDL 105, Women in Maine: An Autobiographical Approach) taught by Maryann Hartman in the department of Speech and Communications at the University of Maine. Students asked a variety of informants for their opinions about the present and future roles of women in Maine. Each informant discussed this in the context of their own lives and experiences, therefore the individual interviews cover a...
Dates: 1974-1980
Found in: Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History

Academic Affairs. Dean, College Of Liberal Arts And Sciences. Women in the Curriculum Program (University Of Maine) Records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA RG 0006-003-025
Abstract This collection contains information about the WIC office itself, such as administrative records (memoranda) and information on how to develop an office of this nature (fundraising techniques). This includes information on women in various occupations, career development, specific syllabi for Women's Studies courses, how women are portrayed/treated in educational settings, general information concerning women in the political sphere, women's health issues, and a broad range of social issues...
Dates: 1911-2012; Majority of material found within 1970-2012
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library University Archives

Women in the Military

 Collection
Identifier: MF144
Scope and Contents The Maine Women Veterans Oral History Project collected oral interviews with women veterans through a collaborative effort of the Maine commission on women veterans, the Maine Studies program at UMaine, and the Women Studies program at UMaine. Includes WWII, Vietnam, and Desert Storm.
Dates: 2000-2003
Found in: Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History

Women's Clubs Clippings Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1531-sc
Abstract A scrapbook of newspaper clippings, 1937-1940, from an unknown compiler detailing activities of women's clubs in the state of Maine especially in the Bangor area. Most of the clippings concern the Maine Federation of Women's Clubs and the Woman's Club of Orono with a few clippings about the Neeurban Club, the Bangor Woman's Club and the Norumbega Club among others.
Dates: 1937-1940
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

Academic Affairs. Dean, College Of Liberal Arts And Sciences. Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program (University Of Maine) Records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA RG 0006-003-027
Abstract The records contain information on the Maryann Hartman Award, Women's Studies Committee, Women's Studies Program, Spruce Run, and on various Women's Studies projects.
Dates: 1970-2016
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library University Archives

Academic Affairs. Division Of Lifelong Learning. Women's Resource Center (University Of Maine) Records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA RG 0006-013-009
Scope and Contents The records mainly contain textual information created and collected by the University of Maine Women’s Resource Center, but there are also photographic material, compact discs, audio cassettes, CD-ROMs, and Floppy Disks.The record series Girls Will Be Girls? & Girl Fighting Project Records contains various items regarding the Girls Will Be Girls? Conferences which the Women’s Resource Center (WRC) sponsored and were held on the University of Maine campus. Includes: conference...
Dates: 1950's-2016; Majority of material found within 1991-2012
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library University Archives

Abiel Wood Letters

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1592-sc
Dates: 1799-1828
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

Frederick A. Wood Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0638
Abstract Business papers of Frederick A. Wood of the village of East Lebanon, Maine. Very little information is available about Mr. Wood, but from materials in the collection it appears that he was in the lumber business, dealing in wood, especially cedar, cut near Caribou and New Sweden, Maine.
Dates: 1872-1885; Majority of material found within 1878-1881
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

Richard G. Woodbridge Periwinkle Research Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1738
Abstract The collection consists primarily of published articles gathered by Richard G. Woodbridge to inform his scientific work.
Dates: 1889-1986; Majority of material found within 1968-1986
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

Woods Music Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MF180
Scope and Contents These are all accessions containing songs from or about the lumberwoods. However, only six belong to this specific collection, the rest (in the related materials note) are from other collections.
Dates: 1959-1970
Found in: Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History

Woodsum Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1602
Abstract Collection contains papers of various members of the Woodsum family, especially William Woodsum, his son William Woodsum, Jr., and William's son Nathaniel B. Woodsum of Saco and Peru, Maine. A folder of papers of the Demeritt family and documents from the Free Will Baptist Church in Peru, Maine, are also found in the collection.
Dates: 1824-1890
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

Work Log (1848-1850)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1323-sc
Abstract A volume maintained by an unidentified person in Westbrook, Maine, detailing days of work performed by various individuals and their pay. Only a few entries describe the kinds of work done, such as sawing wood, mending chains, repairing irons for wagons, etc.
Dates: undated
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

World War I Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MF184
Scope and Contents This is an arbitrary collection of accessions created in June 2014 to bring together interviews that deal with World War I. There are 31 series in NAFOH that relate to WWII, but 1 belongs soley to this collection.
Dates: Event: 1914-1918
Found in: Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History

World War I Pamphlet Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0169
Scope and Contents Pamphlets published 1910 to 1922 relating to the war, countries involved, problems, and other subjects.
Dates: 1910-1921
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

World War II Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0639
Scope and Contents Pamphlets, magazines, and other materials published during World War II. Includes copies of Bulletins from Britain (no. 32, week ending April 9, 1941-no. 111, week ending Oct. 14, 1942), Facts in Review issued by the German Library of Information (v. 2 no. 16, April 15, 1940-v.3 no. 20, June 7, 1941), War in Pictures (Jan. 1941-April 1942), and other periodicals.
Dates: 1939-1949
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

World War II Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MF182
Scope and Contents This is an arbitrary collection of accessions created in June 2014 to bring together interviews that focus on WWII. There are 150 series in NAFOH that relate to WWII, but 18 belong soley to this collection.
Dates: Event: Majority of material found within 1939-1945
Found in: Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History

WST 301 Women Studies

 Collection
Identifier: MF150
Scope and Contents A series of interviews with women activists conducted by students in WST 301: Intermediate Topics in Women's Studies, spring 2006, taught by Susan Iverson.
Dates: 2006
Found in: Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History

Wyman P. Gerry Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0199
Scope and Contents This photograph collection contains a number of glass negatives of photographs of Brewer, Maine around the turn of the century. Also present are a few later photographs taken in the 1950's.
Dates: circa 1900-circa 1950
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

Yankee Moderns: Folk Regional Identity in the Sawmill Valley of Western Massachusetts, 1890-1920/Michael Hoberman

 Collection
Identifier: MF138
Scope and Contents This collection includes a series of interviews done for Hoberman’s book, Yankee Moderns: Folk Regional Identity in the Sawmill Valley of Western Massachusetts, covering years 1890-1920 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000).
Dates: 1992
Found in: Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History

Yarmouth Electric Company Records (Central Maine Power Company Collection)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0641
Scope and Contents Financial records of a local electric utility in Maine. Included are a cash book (Apr.-Aug. 1921), an operating journal (Mar. 1921-Aug. 1921), and a ledger (Apr.-July 1921).
Dates: 1921
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

Emily Yate Class Project

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1623-sc
Abstract Created as a project for a class at Old Town High School, Old Town, Maine. "A Church in Time" includes text; two CD-ROMs with script, history and photographs; and transcription of script.
Dates: 2009
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

Arthur Yeaton Correspondence

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SpC MS 0642
Scope and Contents Love letters, 1896-1897, between Arthur Yeaton and Ella Sylvester while Ella was a medical student in Philadelphia. Some of the letters were sent to Yeaton in Rochester, N.H. Ella Sylvester was living in Philadelphia and in Lisbon Falls, Maine, during the time the letters were sent.
Dates: 1896-1897
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

Erskine Clifton York Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0643
Abstract Collection relating to the circus career of "Yorkie the Clown," and restaurant owner from Camden, Maine. Includes correspondence, clippings, and memorabilia.
Dates: 1839-1955
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

York Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1330
Abstract The collection contains a daily list of farm chores, diaries, and correspondence of the York family of New Sharon, Maine.
Dates: 1866-1923
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

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