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A Midwife's Tale documentary research collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4222
Scope and Content note

Research notes, typescripts, correspondence, printed material, slides, photographs (including negatives and slides), and audiovisual material.

Dates: 1994 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1994 - 1996

Aaron Porter papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 32
Scope and Content note

Correspondence, deeds, depositions, plans, Biddeford and Saco, Me., land titles, patents, and other legal documents; notes of comment and history; and miscellaneous material including papers collected by Mr. and Mrs. L.D.M. Sweat, of Portland. Me., on a foreign trip, papers on the Mexican War, 1846-1847, and printed matter.

Dates: 1629 - 1847

Adrian H. Scolten papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 168
Scope and Content note

Correspondence, writings, newspaper clippings, photograph, and other memorabilia including some papers relating to his unsuccessful bid for U.S. Senate in 1948, essays against marijuana, cigarettes, socialized medicine, and fluoridation.

Dates: 1926 - 1976

Alfred C. Knight genealogical data

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 385
Scope and Content note

Birth, death and marriage data relating to members of the Knight family in Maine.

Dates: ca. 1980

Archelaus Lewis papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 336
Scope and Content note

Papers of Archelaus Lewis consisting of correspondence, including two letters of Senator Justin Smith Morrill, relating to Lewis’ attempt to secure congressional approval of a bill providing pension benefits to children of Revolutionary War veterans, and also printed materials relating to the activities of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and other organizations.

Dates: 1886 - 1892

Arthur Schuh photographs and negatives

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4268
Scope and Content note

The photographs in this collection were taken in Portland, Me., between 1942 and 1949, and consist of both prints and negatives. Many photographs document activities at the US naval yard in Portland during WWII, including images of a captured Italian submarine. Additional subjects depicted in the photographs include a wedding, local residential areas, the Portland Country Club, Swearingen Motors, Thomas P. Beals Furniture Co., and a Christmas party at the Zonta Club.

Dates: 1942 - 1949

Asa Edward Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 392
Scope and Content note

Primarily correspondence from Shepard Cary, Rufus Dwinel, Ira Fish, Alvin Haynes, William P. Preble, Albert Smith, Hastings Strickland, and others, about state politics and appointments, but also includes information about personal and business affairs and a letter of Charles Plummer about gold mining in California.

Dates: 1837 - 1858

Asa Smith correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4226
Scope and Content note The collection consists primarily of correspondence, financial invoices and papers, and a handful of legal documents. Represented in this material are Smith’s various business, political, and community ventures, including records of his store stock, supplies required to care for his family and animals, building ventures, and timber and railroad papers. Efforts to build and maintain the community are evident in papers regarding the military road, the Mattawamkeag bridge, and the local...
Dates: 1832 - 1863

Atherton Bernard Furlong papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 500
Scope and Content note

According to the notes attached to the inventory, there are two, unrelated parts to this collection. The first contains biographical and career information on Furlong and his family. The second contains information on various aspects of John Bundy Brown (1805-1881), a prominent Portland merchant and banker. It is not known how the Brown materials came into the possession of the donor. This information and inventory was done by ESM 6/88.

Dates: 1818 - 1964

Augusta D. Boyd papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 379
Scope and Content note

Correspondence, diary (1881-1892), school reports, programs, invitations, newspaper clippings, and other miscellaneous items.

Dates: 1867 - 1937

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Letters 74
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Deeds 16
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Photography -- Negatives 13
Maine -- Genealogy 11
Scrapbooks 11
Architectural drawing 10
Business records 10
Photograph albums 10
Legal documents 9
Slides (Photography) 8
Portland (Me.) 7
Daybooks 6
Maps 5
Postcards 5
Real property -- Maine 5
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 5
Posters 4
Tintype 4
Wills 4
Accounts 3
Bonds 3
Business enterprises -- Maine -- Portland 3
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Guest books 3
Land surveys 3
Maine -- Photographs 3
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Military records 3
Physicians -- Maine -- Portland 3
Poetry 3
Portland (Me.) -- Biography 3
Public records 3
Receipts (financial records) 3
Architecture, Domestic -- Designs and plans 2
Baldwin (Me.) -- History 2
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Cumberland County (Me.) 2
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Jewish cemeteries -- Maine -- Portland 2
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Peace movements -- United States 2
Penobscot Nation 2
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Railroads -- New England 2
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Registers of births, etc. -- Maine 2
Saco (Me.) 2
Scores 2
Sermons 2
Ship's papers 2
Specifications 2
Tax records 2
Video recordings 2
Voting registers 2
Voyages and travel 2
Weddings -- Maine -- Portland 2
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Language
Yiddish 1
 
Names
Livesay, E. Christopher 21
Bowdoin College 4
Hazelton, Bruce W. 3
Abbott, Nehemiah, 1804-1877 2
Barrows, John Stuart, 1791-1845 2
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Bell family 2
Butler, Joyce (1933-06-27) 2
Cary, Shepard, 1805-1866 2
Chapman family 2
Gould, John Mead, 1839-1930 2
Hill, Thomas, 1818-1891 2
Jordan family 2
Lewis, Lothrop, 1764-1822 2
Maine General Hospital (Portland, Me.). School of Nursing 2
McLellan, Hugh D. (Hugh Davis), 1805-1878 2
Merrill Auditorium (Portland, Me.) 2
Mt. Sinai Cemetery (Portland, Me.) 2
Page family 2
Portland City Hall (Portland, Me.) 2
Portland Country Club (Falmouth, Me.) 2
Shettleworth, Earle G., Jr., 1948- 2
Smith, Asa Edward, 1798-1880 2
Smith, St. John, 1799-1878 2
Stevens, John Calvin 2
Stevens, John Howard, 1879-1958 2
United States. Congress. Senate 2
Warren family 2
Waynflete School (Portland, Me.) 2
Young family 2
Abbot family 1
Abbot, Elizabeth Ann, 1838-1938 1
Abbot, John S. (John Stevens), 1807-1881 1
Abbott, John S.C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877 1
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden 1
Adams, Charles F. 1
Agnew, Spiro T., 1918-1996 1
Ahlbrant, Patricia Walbridge 1
Alford, John 1
Allen, Bianca 1
Anderson, Lois 1
Anderson, Richard B. 1
Andrews, Tom 1
Armsden, Douglas J., 1918-2009 1
Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801 1
Art Institute of Chicago 1
Asticou Azalea Garden 1
Atkinson, Robert (Robert Gary), 1945- 1
Atlantic and St. Lawrence Rail Road Co 1
Austin family 1
Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894 1
Bailey family 1
Baker, Edith Clifford Prescott, 1891-1971 1
Baldwin (Me.) 1
Ballard, Martha, 1735-1812 1
Bangor Hydro-Electric Company 1
Banks family 1
Barker family 1
Barnard, Lucy Trask 1
Barrows family 1
Barrows, Ann Ayer Bradley 1
Barrows, Georgiana Souther, 1828-1914 1
Bartlett, Walter, 1854-1924 1
Baxter, Percival Proctor, 1876-1969 1
Bean, Isaiah, 1813-1896 1
Belcher, Hannibal, 1818-1889 1
Belcher, Hiram, 1790-1857 1
Bell, Franklin (1828-1913) 1
Bell, Hatevil (1802-1869) 1
Bell, Mary Dresser Dole (1896-1980) 1
Bell, William (1777-1861) 1
Bell, William Rufus (1859-1930) 1
Berkeley, G. Alfred 1
Bickford family 1
Bickford, Mahlon 1
Bicknell Photo Service 1
Billings, Freelove Chase 1
Binford family 1
Binford, Horace Jose, 1856-1944 1
Binford, Marcia Reed, 1887-1958 1
Binford, Victor Abbot, 1887-1960 1
Bingham, William 1
Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 1
Blauvelt, Lillian, 1873-1947 1
Bolling, J. N. 1
Bonebakker, Erno 1
Boody family 1
Boody, Charles E., 1819-1895 1
Boston Marathon 1
Bove, Louis 1
Bowden family 1
Bowdoin (Ship) 1
Bowdoin family 1
Bowdoin, James, 1676-1747 1
Boyd, Augusta D. 1
Bradbury family 1
Bradbury, Gibeon Elden, 1833-1904 1
Bradbury, James 1
Bradbury, Osgood N. (Osgood Nathan), 1828-1897 1
Bragdon, Lester MacKenzie 1
Brennan, Joseph E., 1934- 1
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