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Lighthouse keepers -- Maine

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Bowdoin College Folklore Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MF006
Scope and Contents

Students from Bowdoin college investigated topics and wrote papers related to the folklore and folklife of Maine communities, including beliefs of fishermen, cookery, farm life, Prohibition and rum-running, mill work, Bath Iron Works, lobstering, quilting, folk medicine, ghosts,lighthouse keeping, boat building, lumbering, ship building, carpentry, hunting, and storytelling.

Dates: 1980

A. H. Myers Daily Lighthouse Log

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0647
Scope and Contents

A daily log of weather conditions, who was on watch and general remarks by a lighthouse keeper in Maine.

Dates: June 5, 1887-May 26, 1888