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Aroostook County (Me.) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Aroostook Oral History Project

 Collection
Identifier: MF004
Scope and Contents Aroostook Oral History Project, 1971-1972, which resulted in a collection of 119 cassettes (now digitized), totaling 73 hours, with interviews of more than 150 people covering a wide range of topics; i.e., early county history, early farming and machinery, the Aroostook War, railroading, lumbering, potato farming, maple sugar making, folksongs, folklore, folk medicine, politics, town meetings, cross-border migration, smuggling, Indians, sporting camps, schools and schooling, tall tales,...
Dates: 1971-1972
Found in: Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History

Faculty Records (University Of Maine). Olmstead (Kathryn J.) Journalism Papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA RG 0011-051
Content Description The record group contains mostly textual material created and curated by Kathryn J. Olmstead during her tenure as a professor of journalism and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Maine and career as a journalist. Includes clippings of articles by the journalists Brooks Hamilton, Doug Kneeland, and David Lamb. There is also correspondence with Lamb and details of his induction into the Maine Press Association's Hall of Fame (2005).There...
Dates: 1954-2005
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library University Archives

Photograph Album (circa 1927)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1132-sc
Abstract

Compiled by an unidentified person, the photographs show students and instructors from the Eastern State Normal School and the Aroostook State Normal School. Album also includes some photographs showing groups of friends at Lafayette National Park (now Acadia National Park) and at Great Pond Mountain and other places in Maine.

Dates: circa 1927
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

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
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library University Archives

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