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United States -- Maine

 Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Account Book with Clippings (circa 1878)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0005
Scope and Contents

Account book with clippings relating to Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain pasted over first pages. Includes autograph and photographic portrait.

Dates: circa 1878

Central Maine Power Company Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1008
Abstract

Records from 40 small electric companies established in Maine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The companies subsequently were acquired by Central Maine Power Company between 1910 and 1965.

Dates: 1883-1965; Majority of material found within 1902-1928

Johnston Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0267
Scope and Contents Personal papers and business records of three generations of the Johnston family, builders of dams and bridges in Maine. Included are materials of William Jasper Johnston; his son, William Percy Johnston; and Percy's son, Donald Percy Johnston. A few items belonging to John Johnston, father of Jasper Johnston are also found in the collection. The collection includes many photographs of dams and other construction projects of the Johnston family. Included are phorographs and negatives,...
Dates: 1835-1972; Majority of material found within 1890-1929

Maine Field Naturalist Bird Sightings Files

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0315
Scope and Contents

The collection contains 51 card boxes of field reports of bird sightings in Maine from the early 1950s through the early 1970s. The cards are arranged in the order that birds are listed in the Check-List of North American Birds prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union. Each card lists the bird species, the number of birds observed, the name of the observer or reporter, and the town, county and date of observation.

Dates: 1952-1972; Majority of material found within 1956-1969

Ralph S. Palmer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1063
Scope and Contents The collection contains research material and writings of Ralph S. Palmer, a professor and naturalist. It includes material related to Manly Hardy and his daughter Fannie Hardy Eckstorm, as well as an extensive reprint collection of publications in natural history and zoology. Included are notes, articles, clippings, photographs, reprints, ledgers, typescripts, illustrations, card indexes, and correspondence of Ralph S. Palmer, Jonathan Titcomb Hardy, Manly Hardy, Fannie Hardy Eckstorm, and...
Dates: 1842-2002; Majority of material found within 1880-1950