Penobscot County (Me.)

Abstract The collection includes correspondence, notes, deeds, land records, mortgages of the Old Town, Maine area, and Penobscot River Navigation Company certificates. Folder 1 contains bills, receipts, and letters relating to Old Town from 1833-1878; a copy of the Eagle Literary Fraternity College Gazette, v. 1, no. 3, ca. 1869; a copy of a list of plants analyzed by class in the year 1869 by Heddle Hilliard; letters from G.E. Hammond (1871-1873), E.J. Haskell, and others; and 2 letters to Cornelia...

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Papers and business records of Earl M. McChesney, a forester and land surveyor from Bangor, Maine.

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The Penobscot Lumbering Association records consist primarily of legal, financial, and lumbering records maintained by the Association from the time of its incorporation in 1854 through the early 20th century. The collection is arranged in seven series: Organization and Administration, Financial, Purchasing, Labor, Lumbering Operations, Miscellaneous, and Ancillary Companies.

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The Sewall Company Aerial Photographs collection, 1940 to circa 2014, consists of nearly 1 million aerial images donated by the James W. Sewall Co. in Old Town, Maine. The collection contains original aerial photography of Maine and New England, as well as a series of aerial photographs of Vietnam in 1966, captured by Sewall over the span of 65 years. In addition, nearly 100 boxes of maps and documentation are included.