Lumber trade -- Maine

Abstract 2325 Andrew Redmond, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue, spring 1993, Madison, Maine and St. Georges de-Beauce, Quebec, Canada. Series of eight interviews. Redmond, a French-Irish timber jobber, entrepreneur, and Maine State Senator, talks about life on both sides of the Maine - Quebec border; people: Barry Rodrigue, Kenoci Rodrigue, Yvon Labbe, Liliane Labbe, Angela Hebert, Sylvester Redmond, and others. The interviews are in both English and French. Text: 257 pp. transcript. Recording: C...

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Records of the Timber Unit of the Diamond Match Company's Berst-Forster-Dixfield Division.

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This small collection contains both business and personal papers of Moses Giddings of Bangor, Maine.

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Lumber contracts between Amos A. Graffte and Great Northern Paper Company, also includes one building contract between Graffte and Moose River Plantation.

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Weekly report book of lumber shipped to Portland, Maine, Belfast, Philadelphia, and other cities.

Abstract 1069 Lawrence Robinson, interviewed by Edward D. “Sandy” Ives, fall 1976, Bangor, Maine. 4 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. No cat. or trans. Robinson talks about the Sherman Lumber Company, Sherman, Maine. He identifies a series of 93 photographs, mostly of lumbering in Sherman area, 1910 - 1940 and Lombard log haulers at work, donated to the Archives by his daughter, Frances Robinson Mitchell, Orono. Text: no catalog or transcript. Recording: mfc_na1069_t1082_01, mfc_na1069_t1082_02. [T 1082]....

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A ledger recording lumber shipments. Entries record lumber sold by Eastern Mfg. Co., Wm. Engel & Co., and Sterns Lumber Co. There are no entries for Sargent Lbr Co. Entries include date, raft, kind of lumber, by whom sold, purchaser, vessel, and remarks.

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The collection contains business records of the Martinon Lumber Company from 1916 to 1926.

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This collection contains both materials reflecting the life, interests, and activities of Frances Robinson Mitchell and materials which document the Robinson family's work in the lumbering and timberlands business in northern Maine. Included are correspondence, business records, photographs, newspaper clippings, deeds, leases, reports, tax documents, and plans.

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Two letter books contain correspondence relating to a lumber and logging business in East Machias, Maine.

Scope and Contents The collection contains documents dating from 1838-1845 concerning Josiah Seaver's timberlands, especially 1785 acres of spruce and pine timberland in the Dead River area that was sold to Seaver in 1839. Documents include correspondence, deeds and legal agreements, assessments on land owners, and receipts and bills of sale for logging operations. The collection also includes correspondence dated 1899-1900 of Robert Harding, one of Seaver's descendants. The letters are from Morris H. Beall,...

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A ledger of a lumber company in Maine listing trial balances beginning Dec. 1, 1913.

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Records related to operations of the Sherman Lumber Company, founded in 1894 and located in Sherman Station, Maine. The records are arranged according to the following functions: administrative and organizational, financial, production, sales, and labor.

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NA0743 Thomas Mclean, Sr., interviewed by Edward D. “Sandy” Ives, December 18 and 28, 1972, Orrington, Maine. McLean, Sr., 82, talks about his forty years in the lumber and pulp woods working for the Great Northern Paper Company. Text: 10 pp. brief catalog. Recording: mfc_na0743_t0560_01, mfc_na0743_t0560_02, mfc_na0743_t0561_01, mfc_na0743_t0561_02, mfc_na0743_t0562_01. [T 0560 - T 0562]. 3 hours

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0681 William Hudson, interviewed by Edward D. “Sandy” Ives, July 30, 1971, Machias, Maine. Hudson talks about woods work. Text: 70 pp. transcript. Recording: mfc_na0681_t0391_01, mfc_na0681_t0391_02 [T 0390 - T 0391]. 2 hours