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Family papers

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Personal papers of members of a single family; usually of parents and their children, but sometimes including papers of spouses and their families as well.

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Chandler Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0094
Abstract

Consists of business and personal papers of several generations of the family as well as materials concerning the town of New Gloucester, Maine.

Dates: 1750-1956; Majority of material found within 1795-1886
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

Dingley Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0141
Abstract

Letters, diaries, (1855-59), speeches, and scrapbooks of Frank Lambert Dingley (1840-1918), editor of the Lewiston Journal, biography and other papers relating to Nelson Dingley (1832-1899), Governor of Maine, and other family members.

Dates: 1855-1916
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

Edwin F. Littlefield Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0301
Abstract

Business and personal papers of Edwin F. Littlefield, a ship captain from Winterport, Maine. Very little biographical information is available about Littlefield, but it appears that he was a ship owner, captain and agent between 1854 and 1897, the year of his death.

Dates: 1814-1922; Majority of material found within 1859-1897
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

Shipley Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0951-sc
Abstract

A small collection of financial papers of the Shapleigh family of Eliot, Maine.

Dates: 1793-1892
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

Spinney Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1056-sc
Abstract A small collection of papers of a prominent family in Kittery, Maine. Included are two handwritten copies of the will of Nicholas Spinney dated April 18, 1797; a printed form used to record the value of household furniture and of gold and silver watches in 1815 in the eighth district of the State of Massachusetts; an account of money Caleb Spinney owed to Charles Greene covering the years 1816 to 1819; three bills for expenses incurred by Nicholas Spinney in the administration of the estate...
Dates: 1797-1854
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

Stetson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0480
Abstract

The Stetson family papers consist primarily of the business and personal papers of George Stetson, his sons Edward and Isaiah Kidder, and Isaiah's son Irving G. Stetson. They reflect the involvement of the Stetsons in the lumbering, slate mining, ice harvesting, and banking businesses in Bangor, Maine, the northern woods of Maine, and in New Brunswick.

Dates: 1846-1952; Majority of material found within 1880-1925
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

James B. Vickery Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0602
Abstract The Vickery manuscript collection contains a wide range of material related to Maine history, Maine families, Maine towns, and the Civil War, as well as a lot of general Maine material and some general interest material. The most prominent subjects include: Bangor, ME; Joshua L. Chamberlain; Civil War (mostly letters, organized by family name). Types of material include: correspondence; deeds; diaries; Maine families (history, genealogy,and letters); letters; Maine; marriage records;...
Dates: circa 1711-circa 1997; Majority of material found within 1800-1899
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

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