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Philip Morse Stubbs correspondence
Letters, including Nehemiah Abbot, John Stevens Abbot, Hannibal Belcher, Israel Washburn, Jr., Reuel Washburn, and others, relating largely to legal matters but also to family business and political affairs.
Pierce family collection
Family documents and papers dating from early eighteenth century Colonial America to the twentieth century. The correspondence is predominantly between family members, although other significant national figures and personal friends are represented. Documents also include legal papers regarding wills and estates, property and the homestead in Baldwin, Me., personal journals and diaries, and other records of local and state history.
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Pierce family collection
The collection includes original documents such as letters (including Civil War and WWII), diaries, photographs and negatives, newspaper clippings, certificates, a guest book, scrapbooks, account books, charts, court cases, as well as transcriptions of letters and diaries, and research materials. There are Houlton town records, as Leonard Pierce, Sr. was a Justice of the Peace, as well as being the postmaster. Some of the transcriptions are in electronic format.
Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) Records, 1625-1824
Portland Camera Club records
This collection documents the activities of the Portland Camera Club and its members. Contents include meeting minutes, correspondence, financial records, promotional material, publications, essays, research, news clippings, scrapbooks, photographic prints, negatives, slides, glass lantern slides, and digital files. The collection reflects the founding, governance, management, and programs of the club, as well as the photography of its members.
Portland Female Charitable Society records
Primarily secretary's minutes and treasurer's accounts, but also includes copies of the act of incorporation, the rules of the society and other miscellaneous papers. Includes both originals and photocopies.
Portland Fraternity papers
Directors' records, reports, subscription books, deeds and real estate papers and correspondence.
Portland, Me., Overseers of the Poor record books
The manuscript volumes kept by the Portland Overseers of the Poor.
Portland, Me., Overseers of the Poor record books
Completed forms bound in two volumes, 1885-1893 and 1901-1909, consisting of form letters from Portland to various other town Overseers of the Poor, concerning the inhabitants of other towns who have become a burden to Portland, billing for expenses for care and requesting removal (formerly called "warnings out").
Portland Post Office time capsule collection
This collection contains items included in a time capsule box laid beneath the cornerstone of the Portland Post Office on May 6, 1868. Contents include papers, published reports and booklets, bound volumes, and newspapers documenting city, state, and national issues.