Maine transportation history index cards

Collection

Identifier: Coll. 4207

Staff Only

Scope and Content note

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.

Dates

Creation: ca. 1920

Access

Unrestricted.

Copyright

Access to collections at Maine Historical Society is not an authorization to publish. Rights and reproduction requests may be submitted in writing to the MHS Image Services Coordinator or Research & Administrative Librarian, subject to format.

Extent

1 Linear Feet (2 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Provenance

Gift of Larry White of Lovell, August 2021, who purchased the cards at an antique store in Lovell, several years prior (acc. no. 2021.103).

Processing note

The index cards were removed from a large wooden box, and new tabbed separators were created to replace the acidic strips of paper that were labeled with subjects. Wooden box not retained.