Potatoes -- Maine
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Academic Affairs. Dean, College Of Natural Sciences, Forestry, And Agriculture. College Of Agriculture (University Of Maine) Records
Record Group
Identifier: UA RG 0006-007-017
Scope and Contents
The records mainly contain textual information created by the University of Maine College of Agriculture, but there are also some maps.
The record series College Of Agriculture Faculty and Executive Committees Records contain meeting minutes, correspondence regarding faculty meeting meetings, items related to the Course Committee that looked at changes to agriculture courses, and details of degree, scholarship, and faculty recommendations. Also, includes lists of College of...
Dates:
1868-1989; Majority of material found within 1900-1980
Jo Ann Nivison, interviewed by Connie Allen
Series
Abstract
1131 Jo Ann Nivison, interviewed by Connie Allen, November 6 – 11, 1977, Winslow, Maine. Nivison discusses her mother’s struggle to raise seven children alone in the 1930s and 40s; potato picking in northern Maine; her responsibilities as the only daughter; buying a TV in 1956; the Christmas Fair to benefit St. John’s school in the 1970s; Victory in Japan Day; the significance of the atomic bomb; WWII air raids and blackouts as exciting to a child; Kennedy’s assassination; her views on...
Dates:
1974-1980
Faculty Records (University Of Maine). Professor Deering (Arthur Lowell) Records
Record Group
Identifier: UA RG 0011-020
Scope and Contents
The records mainly contain textual information created and curated by Arthur Lowell Deering who was a nationally known educator and expert in Maine agriculture and agricultural education, but there are also some photographic material of staff in the Extension Service and events at the University of Maine and other academic institutions and an audio recording from an outstanding farmers awards ceremony (1957). The records cover his service to the University of Maine at Orono as Director of...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1919-1957; 1909-1980
Faculty Records (University Of Maine). Professor Douglass (Irwin B.) Records
Record Group
Identifier: UA RG 0011-010
Scope and Contents
The records mainly contain textual information created and curated by scholar, a teacher, researcher and humorist Irwin Douglass who was a faculty member in the Chemistry Department at the University of Maine and a widely-known specialist in organosulfur chemistry and the chemistry of wood pulp and pulp manufacture. The record group mostly contains textual information during Douglass's tenure at the University of Maine, but there are also some photographs of events Douglass attended. ...
Dates:
1935-1974; Majority of material found within 1950-1960
Faculty Records (University Of Maine). Professor Simpson (Geddes W.) Records
Record Group
Identifier: UA RG 0011-026
Abstract
Papers from Geddes W. Simpson's association with the Department of Entomology and the Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Maine as well as editorship of American Potato journal.
Dates:
1928-2001
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