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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

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 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

Barbara Bardeen Cobb genealogical collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4139
Scope and Content note

Genealogy research including charts, internet printouts, pages from books (photocopies), and original documents, such as death certificates, Bible records, newspaper clippings, photographs, memorial cards, and correspondence. Includes photocopies of original documents. Mostly Maine ancestors and names, including Banks, Webster, Donnell, Young, Bradbury, and Wheelwright.

Dates: 1907 - 2017

Barclay collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 26
Scope and Contents This collection consists of letters, deeds, field notes, and maps between the individuals associated with determining the boundaries between British Canada and the United States, including commissioners and their agents and surveyors in the field who were mapping the areas in dispute; particularly the area of the true St. Croix River, Grand Manan and Passamaquoddy Bay, the St. John River, the northern waters of the Connecticut River, the Great Lakes west to Lake of the Woods in Ontario. ...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1764 - 1893

Bell family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4250
Scope and Content note

Mostly probates and deeds, although there are also stock certificates, a pew deed, World War I records, and estate records.

Dates: 1862 - 1978

Benjamin Carson family correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4234
Scope and Content note

This collection consists entirely of letters written by Benjamin Carson to his wife and son while traveling for work. The letters share details of the towns he visited, the people he met, his sales (and lack thereof), and the weather. A desk calendar from a hotel frequented by Carson in Calais, Maine, is also included.

Dates: 1917 - 1934

Benjamin F. Cary correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4233
Scope and Content note The collection consists of letters to and from various members of the Benjamin F. Cary family, including between Cary and his wife Sophia during their courtship and marriage, and to their children. Envelopes for letters sent between 1861 and 1869 are included and labeled with numbers corresponding to the letters. Overall, the letters concern family matters and shed light on domestic life. Letters sent by Cary to his family during the Civil War years provide insight into local and national...
Dates: 1842 - 1886

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Lewis, Lothrop, 1764-1822 2
Maine General Hospital (Portland, Me.). School of Nursing 2
McLellan, Hugh D. (Hugh Davis), 1805-1878 2
Mt. Sinai Cemetery (Portland, Me.) 2
Warren family 2
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Abbot, Elizabeth Ann, 1838-1938 1
Abbott, Nehemiah, 1804-1877 1
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden 1
Agnew, Spiro T., 1918-1996 1
Alford, John 1
Allen, Bianca 1
Anderson, Lois 1
Anderson, Richard B. 1
Andrews, Tom 1
Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801 1
Art Institute of Chicago 1
Asticou Azalea Garden 1
Atkinson, Robert (Robert Gary), 1945- 1
Austin family 1
Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894 1
Baker, Edith Clifford Prescott, 1891-1971 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
Barrows, John Stuart, 1791-1845 1
Bartlett, Walter, 1854-1924 1
Bean, Isaiah, 1813-1896 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
Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 1
Blauvelt, Lillian, 1873-1947 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
Bradbury family 1
Bradbury, Gibeon Elden, 1833-1904 1
Bradbury, James 1
Bradbury, Osgood N. (Osgood Nathan), 1828-1897 1
Brennan, Joseph E., 1934- 1
Brighton Medical Center (Portland, Me.) 1
Brinkler, Alfred, 1880-1972 1
Buck, Mary Sewall, 1762-1841 1
Burleigh, Russ 1
Burnham, Jonas (1798-1889) 1
Burnham, Seth C. (1837-1901) 1
Butler, Mildred K. 1
Byron and Roxbury Female Union Circle 1
Carol A. Wilson Architect 1
Carson, Benjamin 1
Carson, Edith McIntosh 1
Carson, Merton 1
Carver, Lucy B. 1
Cary family 1
Cary, Benjamin Franklin (1822-1900) 1
Cary, Shepard, 1805-1866 1
Cary, Sophia Howland Robinson (1823-1883) 1
Cass, Hildreth Estelle Edwards, 1918-2007 1
Cass, Malcolm Walter, 1916-2008 1
Chamber of Commerce of the Greater Portland Region 1
Chapman, Charles J. 1
Chapman, Gladys Doten, 1886-1980 1
Chapman, J. Wilbur (John Wilbur), 1859-1918 1
Chapman, Philip F., 1884-1949 1
Children's Hospital (Portland, Me.) 1
Clark, Charles E. 1
Clark, Joseph (1818-1883) 1
Cobb, Barbara Bardeen, 1938- 1
Cohen, William S., 1940- 1
Collins, Miriam 1
Colonial Dames of America in Maine 1
Common Ground Country Fair (Unity, Me.) 1
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