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Maine

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 67 Collections and/or Records:

2 inch videotape: Indian, Indian, Walk, Pay Raise, Testimonial, 01 Jan 1978

 Item
Identifier: MS 106_4
Scope and Contents

Campaign ads for Cohen in his run for the Senate including his position on the Indian Land Claims issue (compared to Hathaway), his campaign walk, the Congressional pay raise issue, and personal tesitmonials. Clip is Indian Land Claims issue.

Dates: 01 Jan 1978

2 inch videotape: Testimonial 60 and Bio, 06 Jul 1978 to 05 Aug 1978

 Item
Identifier: MS 106_4
Scope and Contents

Testimonial 60 is 60 second campaign commercial with Maine people talking about Cohen; Bio is background on Cohen and his campaign including the walk, testimonials, office in Washington, background, Watergate, etc. Clip is walk section of ad.

Dates: 06 Jul 1978 to 05 Aug 1978

2 inch videotape: Testimonial 60 and Bio, 06 Jul 1978 to 05 Aug 1978

 Item
Identifier: MS 106_4
Scope and Contents

Copy 2: Testimonial 60 is 60 second campaign commercial with Maine people talking about Cohen; Bio is background on Cohen and his campaign including the walk, testimonials, office in Washington, background, Watergate, etc. Clip is Watergate section of ad.

Dates: 06 Jul 1978 to 05 Aug 1978

American Thread Company/Russell Carey

 Collection
Identifier: MF055
Scope and Contents A collection of fourteen series deposited by University of Maine graduate student, Russell Carey between March, 1992 and November, 1993. The collection features videotaped and or audio interviews with workers at the American Thread Company’s wooden spool mill in Milo, Maine, and contributed to research for Carey’s Master’s thesis entitled 3,750,000,000 Perfect Wooden Spools (University of Maine, 1994) (See NA 2329). The collective oral history of the mill’s workers documents conditions,...
Dates: 1992-1993

ANT 325 Halloween Holiday Traditions Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MF022
Scope and Contents Material collected for ANT 325 (Oral History and Folklore: Fieldwork), fall 1985. Class materials collected pertaining to Halloween traditions in Maine. Eight-two individual accessions including tapes and transcripts and note cards containing citations of Halloween references in late 19th and early 20th century Maine newspapers. Interviewee ages range from 8 to 88 years old. Topics discussed include costumes; trick or treating; school and parties; Halloween treats; Finnish Easter; pranks;...
Dates: 1985

Walter Lewellen Arnold Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0023
Abstract

Personal papers and business records of Walter L. Arnold, a businessman, guide, fur trader, trapper and author from Greenville, Maine.

Dates: 1893 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1959

Samuel G. Bachelder Account Books and Diary

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0027
Scope and Contents

Account book and diary (1856 Jan. 1-1871) and account book (1858-1881 May 4) of Samuel G. Bachelder, town of residence unknown.

Dates: 1856-1881

Stanley Foss Bartlett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0039
Abstract

The collection includes scrapbooks and papers relating to Stanley Foss Bartlett and his poetry.

Dates: 1889-1978; Majority of material found within 1925-1938

Class and gender roles in company towns in Maine and Kentucky/Betty Parker Duff

 Collection
Identifier: MF170
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a series of interviews conducted by Betty Duff in connection with her PhD dissertation for the history department at the University of Maine. They were recorded in Millinocket, Maine and Benham, Kentucky, and focused on life in a company-owned or dominated towns.

Dates: 1999-2002

Borders and Borderlands

 Collection
Identifier: MF197
Scope and Contents

Interviews of inhabitants of the Maine-New Brunswick borderlands. The interviews were conducted by members of the NEH Summer Teacher Institute, Borders and Borderlands: the Acadian Experience in Maine. The recordings are housed here with NAFOH and the Acadian Archives.

Dates: August 2014

Bowdoin College Folklore Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MF006
Scope and Contents

Students from Bowdoin college investigated topics and wrote papers related to the folklore and folklife of Maine communities, including beliefs of fishermen, cookery, farm life, Prohibition and rum-running, mill work, Bath Iron Works, lobstering, quilting, folk medicine, ghosts,lighthouse keeping, boat building, lumbering, ship building, carpentry, hunting, and storytelling.

Dates: 1980

Canada Road Survey

 Collection
Identifier: MF007
Scope and Contents

Series of interviews by historian Barry Rodrigue on immigration into Maine from Quebec along the route known as the Canada Road, which includes Route 201. The Canada Road ran from the Quebec border through Dennistown, Jackman, Moose River, West Forks, The Forks, and Caratunk, to Moscow and Bingham, Maine. 2373 Rodrigue, Barry H. July 1995.

Dates: 1994-1998

Mary Ellen Chase Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0096
Abstract

The letters of Mary Ellen Chase to Dr. Hugh Stalker, some writing, notebooks, portraits, and clippings.

Dates: 1900-1973

Edwin A. Churchill Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0777
Abstract

Legal documents and research material compiled and collected by Edwin A. Churchill in his work as an expert witness in two land cases in Wells, Maine, in 1988 and 1999, and in the boundary issue case between New Hampshire and Maine in 2000.

Dates: 1987-2000; Majority of material found within 1999-2000

Meyer Davis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0127
Abstract

The Meyer Davis collection reflects the career of a society orchestra leader.

Dates: 1880-1977

Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, Alpha Psi State (Me.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0011
Scope and Contents

The records of an honorary society of women educators in Maine. Included are histories of state and local chapters, copies of Mainspring, scrapbooks, minutes of meetings, newsletters, conference materials, treasurer's records, a fifty year history (1943-1993), and the biennial report (1991-1993).

Dates: 1941-2018

Eastport History/Hugh French Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MF046
Scope and Contents

This collection includes twenty-eight interviews with thirteen Eastport residents, plus manuscript material collected as part of French’s research. In addition to the general history of Eastport, major topics discussed include the sardine industry and community holiday celebrations.

Dates: 1979-1980

European and North American Railway Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0776
Abstract

The records consist primarily of correspondence and legal documents of the European and North American Railway Company from 1878 to -1882.

Dates: 1868-1893; Majority of material found within 1881-1882

Oscar F. Fellows Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0175
Abstract

The collection contains the papers of Oscar F. Fellows from his work as counsel to the International Commission Pertaining to the St. John River. The collection also contains some material belonging to Raymond Fellows, Oscar Fellows's son.

Dates: 1899-1926; Majority of material found within 1905-1925

Raymond Henry Fogler Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0179
Abstract

Raymond Henry Fogler was a businessman and alumnus of the University of Maine. The University's library was named in his honor in 1962, becoming the largest library in Maine and serving as a foundation for intellectual pursuits at the university. Included in the collection are letters, correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia, spanning from his early life in South Hope, Maine, through his education, business career, and naval career, as well as personal photographs and mementos.

Dates: 1893-1993

F.O.L.K. (Focus On Local Knowledge) Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MF017
Scope and Contents Produced by Don DePoy, 1994-1996, Sydney and Crawford, Maine. Footage features music groups taped at the Breakneck Mountain Bluegrass Festival in Crawford, Maine (1994) and the Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival in Sydney, Maine (1995). Artists include Evergreen, the Stevens Family, Sassygrass, Bluegrass Supply Company, the Gibson Brothers, the Sandy River Ramblers, Smokey Greene, Eddie Poirier and the Bluegrass Four, Simon St. Pierre, Kenny Baker and Josh Graves, the Lewis Family, Shady...
Dates: 1994-1996

Folksong Student Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MF018
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a series of student projects on folksongs in America.

Dates: 1960s-2001

Frank Spizuoco Dexter Town History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MF097
Scope and Contents

Interviews conducted by Frank Spizuoco from 1963 to 1970 of two residents of Dexter, Maine. Albert “Bert” Call, a retired Dexter photographer, talks about local history and about his working life before and after moving to Dexter, Maine in 1886, and Erma Bentley, a long-time resident of Dexter, records her memories about early Dexter residents and town history.

Dates: 1963-1970

Hamlin Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0219
Abstract

The Hamlin family papers consist primarily of the personal, political and business papers of Hannibal Hamlin, his sons Charles, Cyrus, Hannibal E., and Frank Hamlin, Charles Hamlin's son, Charles E. Hamlin and his wife, Myra Sawyer Hamlin, and their daughter, Louise Hamlin. The collection also includes papers of Hannibal Hamlin's brother, Elijah L. Hamlin and his son, Augustus C. Hamlin, as well as photographs, and materials about other family members.

Dates: 1802-1975; Majority of material found within 1850-1911

Islands and Bridges: Communities of Memory in Old Town, Maine/French Island Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MF026
Scope and Contents 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

Labor Relations in Maine

 Collection
Identifier: MF038
Scope and Contents A collection featuring two sets of interviews. The first was conducted from 1969-1973 under the auspices of the Maine State Federated Labor Council. Topics range widely over the spectrum of organized labor issues in Maine, but seem to deal primarily with unions, union organizing, and elections. Interviewees include top ranking union officials as well as lobstermen, longshoremen, bricklayers, quarry workers, textile and paper millworkers, sulfite workers, iron workers, shipbuilders, railroad...
Dates: 1969-1974

Donald Richard Larrabee Journalistic Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0289
Abstract

The papers are related to articles and columns written by Donald Richard Larrabee, a Washington correspondent.

Dates: 1954-1970

Rachel L. Lowe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0778
Abstract

This small collection consists almost entirely of correspondence written to Rachel Lowe, 1917-1959, from various collectors and experts in the study and identification of mosses.

Dates: 1917-1959; Majority of material found within 1951-1959