Box 1

Includes notes and drafts for talk(s), original Putnam Dyes brochures, and ad for Ralph Warren Burnham hooked rugs (1927).

History and membership application for the Readfield Union meeting house. Possibly written by Marius and/or Mildred Péladeau.

Miscellaneous collection of articles. Authors include Rebecca Falzano, Tracy Jamar, Dasha O. Morgan, Leslie Linsley, Anne Gilbert, Allison Eckardt Ledes, and images of rugs.

Miscellaneous collection of articles. Authors include Sabra Morton, Lee Cogan, Marion Grammer, Joan Young, Margaret Coffin, Wanda Shipman, Elisabeth May Blondel, and Allison Eckardt Ledes, various news journalists, and 1920s articles from The Antiquarian by Mary Johnson Carey and Katherine Quincy Holway, as well as images of rugs accompanied by appraisal amounts.

Collection of articles published in Antiques. Authors include William Winthrop Kent, Anna M. Laise Phillips, Marius Barbeau, Elizabeth Waugh, Leonard Burbank, Louise Karr, Anne R. Congdon, Estelle M. N. Harris, Mabel C. Osborne, John Ramsey, Gertrude DeWager, and Jane Bianco.

Articles and collections and catalog records regarding specific rugs, some in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Includes photocopies of the Abnákee rugs: a manual describing the Abnákee industry, the methods used, with instructions for dyeing, by Helen R. Albee (1903) and "A profitable philanthropy": the Abnákee rug industry of Helen Albee of Tamworth, by Cynthia Watkins Richardson (2001), along with other articles.

Includes correspondence, articles, notes, and photographs related to the club and its role in hooked rugmaking in Maine.

Research material regarding rugs used in the Grange, a national community organization founded in 1867.

Photocopies of various pamphlets, bulletins, and articles related to rugmaking published between 1838 and 1904.