Historical background

Index cards (5x8) with various typescript and manuscript historical information, usually a citation for a book or resource, mostly dealing with transportation (including public documents, "Sprague's Journal," land agent reports). May have been used to write a book about transportation in Maine. Subjects include bridges, ferries, railroads, roads, mails and stages, travel, taverns and inns, canals, lumbering, and shipping.

Cards organized in boxes by subject; inventory lists subjects in order, with further sub-categories noted in file scope and content notes.