Box 1

Typescript inventory of items deposited in the capsule, as well as a manuscript invitation with partial inventory on verso.

Check for daily subscription or delivery of The State of Maine from 1857-1859 (1859); complete issues of The Enterprise (Vol. 1, No. 1) and The Portland Transcript--Extra (July 5, 1866).

Reports include updates on the new custom house (1866 and 1867) and court house (1867) in Portland, Maine. These offices comprised a portion of the building under which this time capsule was buried, May 1868, along with the post office.

Includes The commercial importance of Portland, with accompanying map (1855); Account of the great conflagration of Portland July 4th and 5th, 1866 with business guide (1866); and the Municipal register of the city of Portland (1868).

Includes the annual reports of the adjutant general of the state of Maine, the land agent of the state of Maine, and the state of Maine treasurer's report.

Includes the Fourteenth annual report of the superintendent of common schools of the state of Maine (1867) and the Annual report of the school committee of the city of Portland (1868).

Address delivered to commemorate the "planting of the Popham colony on the peninsula of Sabino, August 19th, O.S., 1607, establishing the title of England to the continent."

Includes reports of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada, a Canadian petition for a charter for the Northern Pacific Railway Company, and The railway. Remarks at Belfast, Maine, by John Poor.

Includes plans, a prospectus, and a memorial of the European and North American Railway Company of Maine.

Second edition.