Logging -- Maine

Abstract Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1917-1920, of the company superintendent in Ashland, Maine, concerning timberland operations, estimates for wood peeled or yarded, transportation of pulpwood to the Oxford Paper Company in Rumford, Maine, and supplies ordered for various lumber camps. Also includes a ledger, 1932-1936, of monthly inventory sheets for equipment in storehouses in Ashland and St. John, Maine, as well as monthly wangan inventories. A few sheets for Washburn, Maine,...

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The collection contains personal correspondence of members of the Brown family, who lived in Burton, New Brunswick and Linneus, Maine in the last half of the 19th century.

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Papers and business records of Alfred W. Bussell of Argyle, Maine and John B. Bussell of Old Town, Maine.

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The volume is arranged by customer name and primarily lists shipments of bark. It also contains financial and other information about the company, including equipment and supplies purchased for and used at various logging camps, lists of the company's wild lands, and statements of debts and credits. Much of the land was in Weld and Woodstock, Maine.

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Consist primarily of business records of the brothers Eben S. Coe and Thomas Upham Coe, with a few papers of Thomas's wife, Sada L. Coe.

Abstract Three ledgers containing the records of a sawmill in Dennysville, Maine, during the middle of the 19th century. Two of the ledgers are organized by log brands and cover the years 1835 to 1878. The third ledger seems to record the receipt of logs from a log drive. Included are records of who sawed and hauled the logs, by whom they were surveyed and rafted, by whom shipped, destination, and purchaser. Names mentioned frequently are John Kilby, Theosophilus Kilby, Benjamin Foster, John Mayhew,...

Abstract NA1078 Don Parker, interviewed by Joan Brooks, November 14, 1976, Danforth, Maine. Parker talks about working in Connecticut during World War II and then moving back to Maine in 1945; working as a teamster for Grover Morrison at his logging operation; the men’s camp; after dinner activities; picking potatoes for a living; and what Maine winters were like while he was in the camp. See NF XVIII: “Suthin’.” Text: 8 pp. catalog, notes, and newspaper article. Recording: (T 1101) Time: .75...

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Letter discussing the need for haulers of logs to settle amount of money due to them for log drives.

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Records of a company and its successor which owned a share of the power rights of the Penobscot River in Maine.

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The collection contains correspondence, writings, speeches and research files of Fannie Hardy Eckstorm. Eckstorm's journals, notebooks and research material on ballads, Indian languages and legends and Indian place names in Maine are also included.

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An account of an 18th century mill in the area of Baileysville, Maine for work, goods, and services performed by James Dyer.

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The collection contains records of William Engel's timberlands business and of the firm of Lowell & Engel.

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0844 Frank Harriman, interviewed by Ford Reiche for AY 125, Greenbush, Maine. Sandy Ives is also present at the interview. Harriman talks about being a farmer and woodsman. Text: 3 pp. catalog. Recording: T 0778 1 hour.

Abstract NA1071 Grover Morrison, interviewed by Joan Brooks, October 9 and October 29, 1976, in Lincoln, Maine. Interviews about poem “Suthin’” and related woods operation at Little Musquash Lake, 1945-1946. Morrison talks about putting a road up around Matagamon Lake in order to farm the lumber there for Diamond Match Company; building lumber camps; getting snowed in at Trout Brook Farm; the meaning of the poem, “Suthin’;” where many of the surviving workers of his woods operation are living now;...

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Business records of a sawmill located near Whiting, Maine, along with information about the history of the mill, area homesteads, and the logging industry in Washington County, Maine

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The papers of a lawyer, businessman, and Collector of the Port of Bangor, Maine. Included are letters, bills, receipts, and agreements, mostly pertaining to logging in Maine. Also included are typed transcripts of many of the bills and letters. Also included is a copy of the pamphlet A tribute to the dead: Robert Ingersoll's matchless eulogy of Roscoe Conkling. Also included is An Act to incorporate the Bangor Boom Company (approved March 22, 1843)

Abstract NA1079 Ivan Daigle, interviewed by Dona Brotz, November 13, 1976, Lee, Maine. Daigle talks about starting to work in lumber camps in 1934, when he was 29 years old; working for Grover Morrison before the Little Musquash Lake operation; the layout of the Little Musquash camp; Jim McKinnon; the scalers on the job; logging teams; log cutting competitions; how the camps have changed over the years; the Hovel; and dinner etiquette at camp. The transcript includes a rough sketch of the Hovel and a...

Abstract NA1072 Jim McKinnon, interviewed by Dona Brotz, Joan Brooks, and Edward D. “Sandy” Ives, Old Town, Maine for AY 125 (1976) in a series of interviews, McKinnon talks about Grover Morrison’s woods operation at Little Musquash. McKinnon talks about being a walking boss for Diamond Match; entertaining the crew with clownish behavior; cruising for lumber; how the camp was built; slang terms used in the camp; the naming of the camps’ roads; and cattle in the camp. The second side of the tape is...

Abstract NA1080 Lawrence Sawtelle, interviewed by Stephen Ballew, November 3, 1976, Princeton, Maine. Sawtelle talks about working for Diamond Match; working for Grover Morrison in the sawmill; Morrison’s family who worked in the camp; clerk, Joe Clancy; trucking in the spring and hauling in the winter; the location of the Little Musquash Lake camp; moving the sawmill; Ivan Daigle and the horse; drinking in the camp; and people and terms in the poem, “Suthin’.” See NF XVIII: “Suthin’.” Text: 7 pp....

Abstract NA1074 Leo Merrill, interviewed by Edward D. “Sandy” Ives, November 3, 1976, Passadumkeag, Maine. Merrill talks about working for Harlan Moores, a subcontractor that was hired for the Little Musquash Lake logging operation; the private camp built by Merrill and his wife; 2 and 3-man cutting teams; laying out “corners”; a typical day on the job; carting wood out of the forest; the Bangor rule for board measurement; scarf-cutting; twitching; and the type of axes used on the job. See NF XVIII:...

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A list of log marks used on the Penobscot River drives in Maine. Included are names of owners of the log marks, date the marks were used, and reproductions of the log marks.

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A volume from an unidentified compiler listing log surveying activities from 1869 to 1883. Many of the surveys took place in towns in western York and Oxford Counties, Maine. Entries give the names of the people requesting the surveys, the types of trees, and the number of feet of boards, planks, etc. A few pages at the beginning of the volume contain minutes of meetings in 1867 of the Denmark Degree Temple No. 34, a fraternal organization in Denmark, Maine.

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Photographs taken by an unidentified photographer of logging operations in various areas of Maine.

Abstract Records of a company located in Bangor, Maine, involved in the logging industry in the 1920s and 1930s. The records include white forms which are scale reports listing various logging contractors, specie, and quantity cut in Township 11 Range 13 in the Umsaskis and Priestly districts from Dec. 1927 to March 1928. The yellow forms list the names of individuals working for the Madawaska Company paid from its Clayton Lake office and indicate the distribution of work performed in various sources...

Abstract NA1529 Manuscript, by Edward D. “Sandy” Ives AY 125 class, October 23, 1976, Little Musquash Lake, Township 37 MD BPP, Maine. Notes, letters, sketches, and journals from a fieldwork class’s field trip to Little Musquash Lake including detailed picture drawn on graph paper demonstrating the specific range and feet between buildings along with what they looked like at the camp with each structure then enlarged exposing what exactly is inside each building. See NF XVIII: “Suthin’.” Text: 21 pp....

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Financial records of Oliver Moulton's sawmills in the area of Pittston, Maine.

Abstract NA1082 Orville Moore, interviewed by Stephen Ballew, November 3, 1976, Baring, Maine. Moore talks about yarding logs for Grover Morrison’s Little Musquash Lake operation; sleeping in the Teamster’s shack; what a walking boss’ job was; living conditions in the camp; Jim McKinnon (referred to as “McKenna”); stubbing; the introduction of the chainsaw into the camp; regulations; the bucking board; and going into the logging business for himself after the operation ended. Transcript includes two...

Abstract The records of logging and lumbering companies operating in Maine and in Nova Scotia, Canada. Included are copies of correspondence concerning logging and lumbering in Nova Scotia dating from Nov. 26, 1926 to Nov. 5, 1930 and June 16, 1942 to Oct. 3, 1946. Most of the letters are between L. J. Freedman in Great Works, Maine and John A. Sharpe in Bass River, Nova Scotia. Included also are reports on the boom logs owned by the Penobscot Development Company in 1920 and 1921. Included also are...

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NA1048 Poem by Herbert Dickey III, Lincoln, Maine. “Suthin,”is a poem about a pulpwood operation in Washington County; work he did on a farm; people he knows in relation to the towns they live in and what they were doing; how they are all meaningful to stick through life with him. See NF XVIII: “Suthin’.” Text: 8 pp. poem. Release received: December 6, 1974.