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Frances Clifford Brown Prescott albums

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4307
Scope and Content note This collection contains family and travel albums compiled by Frances Clifford Brown Prescott. The family albums contain photographs of her four children, family properties, and extended family members. The travel albums document Frances Prescott’s annual trips to Europe, usually accompanied by her three daughters. Contents of travel albums include photographs, postcards, prints, travel stubs and receipts, published guides, train schedules, correspondence, visiting cards, ocean liner...
Dates: 1889 - 1914

Friends Committee on Maine Public Policy records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 2798
Scope and Content note

This collection contains the minutes and formal records of the Friends Committee on Maine Public Policy, formed in 1991, as well as copious material relating to its topical and legislative interests. The earlier material was largely collected and organized by Ed Snyder, former chair of the committee ca. 1992-2011. Contents include papers and digital files.

Dates: 1991 - 2024

Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ records

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Identifier: Coll. 4278
Scope and Content note This collection represents the institutional archive of Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ (FOKO), as gifted to MHS in 2023. The material documents the organization’s administration, press and publicity about the organ, the work and music of municipal organists supported by FOKO, the history of the organ and its namesake, and over 100 years of organ concerts. Contents include correspondence, meeting minutes, publications, news clippings, programs, music scores, photographs, scrapbooks, posters,...
Dates: 1880 - 2019; Majority of material found within 1912 - 2019

Glass plate negatives from Charles E. Clark building, Portland, Maine

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4270
Scope and Content note

Eighteen 8x10 glass plate negatives, several on Description of Gift list were not found. Total of 178 3.5x5.5 and several 3.5x4 glass plate negatives in two photo boxes. There are five prints, the paper is brown and images are very faint; these are in an envelope. The photographs are mostly of Portland scenes, such as First Parish Church, Munjoy Hill Reservoir, Deering Mansion, and various banks, businesses, and houses.

Dates: ca. 1911

Glass plate negatives of Maine scenes

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4272
Scope and Content note

Total of 100 glass plate negatives in two photo boxes, divided into Series 100-700; contact sheets; scans on a CD; and detailed notes from the donor. Includes images of Moosehead Lake, fishing, ice fishing, shooting, Adams St. neighborhood, houses, interiors, homes, portraits, people, and animals.

Dates: ca. 1890s

Glass plate negatives possibly of West Baldwin, Maine

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Identifier: Coll. 4271
Scope and Content note

Five 8x10 glass plate negatives, five black and white photos of each glass plate negative, and one envelope found in the same location. Includes views of water, shoreline, buildings, houses, and possibly man cutting hay. Found in a farmhouse, possibly in West Baldwin, Maine, near what was Camp Winaco in 1962.

Dates: ca. 1890s

Great Northern Paper Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 2950
Scope and Content note This collection documents the administration and properties of the Great Northern Paper Company in Maine. Consisting of manuscript material (primarily in the form of ledgers and photographs) and drawings (including engineering and architectural) and maps, the collection reflects aspects of the financial and operational activities of the company, as well as its extensive land and facilities management. Manuscript material includes inventories, accounting records, land purchase and sale...
Dates: 1813 - 2002; Majority of material found within 1899 - 1980

Gunpowder mills of Maine research papers

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Identifier: Coll. 4205
Scope and Content note

The collection spans the research, writing, and distribution of Whitten's pamphlet and book, along with associated lectures he prepared on the subject. Contents are divided into two series: 1. Research notes and reference and 2. Publication and promotion, comprising manuscript, printed documents, photographs, scrapbook pages and film negatives. Contains many photocopies.

Dates: 1898 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1972 - 1989

Hugh D. McLellan and Lothrop Lewis family papers

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Identifier: Coll. 4231
Scope and Content note The collection consists of personal correspondence, legal documents of various types and purposes, financial papers, receipts and accounts, notes, and essays. The material reflects the personal and professional lives of members of both the McLellan and Lewis families. The McLellan family material includes veteran bounty land papers filed by Hugh McLellan on behalf of military soldiers outlining claims to land in accordance with Congressional acts. Additionally, there are the collected papers...
Dates: 1800 - 1889

Huston and Waite family collection

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Identifier: Coll. 4142
Scope and Content note Deeds, legal documents, genealogical notes, photographs, coat of arms. The collection, in volume, is almost equally divided between deeds of conveyance and other legal documents and a collection of largely unrelated notes containing geological information. As noted in the inventory, the authors of the various genealogical notes are not identified nor did they provide their sources. The collection also includes a number of photographs, including a picture of the farm at Mast Road Falmouth...
Dates: 1739 - 1955

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Maine General Hospital (Portland, Me.). School of Nursing 2
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Mt. Sinai Cemetery (Portland, Me.) 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
Bicknell Photo Service 1
Billings, Freelove Chase 1
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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, 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
Conference on Alternative State and Local Policies (U.S.) 1
Congregation Shaarey Tphiloh (Portland, Me.) 1
Congregation Shaarey Tphiloh (Portland, Me.). Sisterhood 1
Congregational Church (Dennysville, Me.) 1
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