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World War, 1914-1918

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Academic Affairs. Dean, College Of Natural Sciences, Forestry, And Agriculture. College Of Agriculture (University Of Maine) Records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA RG 0006-007-017
Scope and Contents The records mainly contain textual information created by the University of Maine College of Agriculture, but there are also some maps. The record series College Of Agriculture Faculty and Executive Committees Records contain meeting minutes, correspondence regarding faculty meeting meetings, items related to the Course Committee that looked at changes to agriculture courses, and details of degree, scholarship, and faculty recommendations. Also, includes lists of College of...
Dates: 1868-1989; Majority of material found within 1900-1980

Academic Affairs. Dean/Director, Cooperative Extension Service (University Of Maine) Records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA RG 0006-008
Scope and Contents The records mainly contain textual information created by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, but there are also photographic, visual, and audio visual material. Some of the report record series also contain photographs of Cooperative Extension Service operations, events, and staff. The reports submitted during the First World War and Second World War years detail the effects the wars had on agriculture in Maine. County Agent Reports were submitted by the...
Dates: 1869-2006; Majority of material found within 1915-1962

David S. Brown, interviewed by Kenneth Whitney

 Series
Abstract David S. Brown, interviewed by Kenneth Whitney for FO 107 , October, 1973; by Susan Tibbetts for AY 125, November, 1975, Tenant’s Harbor, Maine. Brown talks about the Pea Cove log-sorting boom on the Penobscot River; his work on the boom in the summers of 1902-04 when he was 12 to 14 years old; the jobs of rafters, sorters, and runners; use of wedges to build rafts; meals; bosses; his marriage and work at Mt. Kineo; breaking up jams; daily pay; construction of boom and crib-work piers;...
Dates: 1973-1975

Francis R. Fuller Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0194
Abstract

Papers of an Army officer and professor of Military Science and Tactics at the University of Maine, Orono. Includes reports, maps, photos and other papers relating to World War I and World War II and the period in between.

Dates: 1918-1949

Floyd Phillips Gibbons Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0200
Abstract

Papers contain correspondence, columns, comic strips, manuscripts of his writings, radio scripts, recordings, newsclips, photographs, and Gibbons family memorabilia.

Dates: 1900-1940

Melvina Paradis, interviewed by Amy Bouchard Morin

 Series
Scope and Contents From the Collection: A 1992 community based oral history project co-sponsored by the Maine Folklife Center and the Franco-American Center at the University of Maine generated a series of 35 interviews focusing on the culture and history of the French Canadian immigrant community located on French Island, Old Town, Maine. The project also resulted in a book of photographs, interview excerpts, and articles, Nos Histoires de I’lle: History and memories of French Island, Old Town, Maine (1999) ...
Dates: 1992-1993

Scrapbook (Early 1900s)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1840-sc
Content Description

Scrapbook consisting of newspaper clippings of poetry, literary articles, quotations, etc., from an unidentified compiler. Clippings are not dated (probably early 20th century) and do not indicate newspapers they came from. The majority deal with events related to World War I.

Dates: Early 20th century

Vintage postcard depicting La Grande Roue, Paris

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1791 sc
Content Description

Vintage post card depicting La Grande Roue, Paris on the front; verso has message dated Oct. 20, 1918 describing conditions at camp and being confined due to “flu.” Signed “H” and addressed to his mother Mrs. FT Wood, Steuben, Maine, USA .

Dates: October 20, 1918

World War I Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MF184
Scope and Contents

This is an arbitrary collection of accessions created in June 2014 to bring together interviews that deal with World War I. There are 31 series in NAFOH that relate to WWII, but 1 belongs soley to this collection.

Dates: Event: 1914-1918

World War I Pamphlet Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0169
Scope and Contents

Pamphlets published 1910 to 1922 relating to the war, countries involved, problems, and other subjects.

Dates: 1910-1921