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Joseph Dow family papers
Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4227
Scope and Content note
The collection consists of the correspondence, financial records, account and day books, and legal papers of Joseph Dow and other members of the extended Dow family. Included are deeds and correspondence between Dow family members and the related Marstons, as well as a selection of Civil War letters from James Bradbury to his family. A significant portion of the collection is comprised of the legal writs and complaints presented to Joseph Dow during his tenure as Justice of the Peace in...
Dates:
1812 - 1894
Found in:
Maine Historical Society
Josiah Harris papers
Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4229
Scope and Content note
The collection consists of a mixture of personal, business, and legal correspondence, financial records, various vital records for the town of Machias, disputes and writs, and administrative material related to personal estates. This material reflects the personal and business activities of Josiah Harris, as well as his various positions in local and regional government. Through the town’s vital records, the development and management of Machias is reflected, as are marriages in the area....
Dates:
1787 - 1867
Found in:
Maine Historical Society
Joyce Butler papers
Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4245
Scope and Content note
This collection documents research collected and conducted by Joyce Butler on an array of Maine-related topics. Contents include news clippings, publications, pamphlets, printed articles, and notes. The material in Boxes 2-4 relates to Butler's research on various aspects of Maine’s 19th century social history, and includes a collection of notes on index cards organized both alphabetically and topically. Correspondence filed with this material indicates this research may have been conducted...
Dates:
1961 - 2017; Majority of material found within 1972 - 2000
Found in:
Maine Historical Society
Lee Webb collection
Collection
Identifier: Coll 2928
Scope and Content note
This collection documents Lee Webb’s research into Maine history from 1820-1920, as well as his personal papers. Contents include journal articles, academic papers, newspaper clippings, photocopies and originals of primary sources, reports, notes, drafts, memos, correspondence, and publications. These items reflect Webb’s extensive research into various topics of Maine history, including his academic writings and annotations, as well as his long involvement in community and political...
Dates:
1820 - 2021
Found in:
Maine Historical Society
Life Story Center archive
Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4102
Scope and Content note
Papers, recordings (cassettes, VHS, DVDs, film, Beta), photographs, and oral history-related content of approximately 150 "life stories."
Dates:
1988 - 2009
Found in:
Maine Historical Society
Lillian Blauvelt papers
Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4275
Scope and Content note
This collection documents the professional life of opera singer Lillian Blauvelt, particularly during her years as a grand opera soprano. Contents include promotional material, performance programs, press clippings, photographs, and memorabilia. A number of items arrived mounted on board with numbered and adhered typescript captions. The collection reflects Blauvelt’s work and public stature as a turn of the century performer.
Dates:
1888 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1891 - 1905
Found in:
Maine Historical Society
Maine Medical Center collection
Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4221
Scope and Content note
This collection documents the administration, operations, and history of Maine Medical Center (MMC). Contents include reports, meeting meetings, financial documents, correspondence, memos, ledgers, publications, press clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, and audiovisual and digital material. These items reflect the range of activities, functions, and participants that contributed to and sustained the hospital since its incorporation in 1868, including its governance, administration, medical...
Dates:
1846 - 2020; Majority of material found within 1868 - 2020
Found in:
Maine Historical Society
Maine transportation history index cards
Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4207
Scope and Content note
Index cards (5x8) with various typescript and manuscript historical information, usually a citation for a book or resource, mostly dealing with transportation (including public documents, "Sprague's Journal," land agent reports). May have been used to write a book about transportation in Maine. Subjects include bridges, ferries, railroads, roads, mails and stages, travel, taverns and inns, canals, lumbering, and shipping.Cards organized in boxes by subject; inventory lists...
Dates:
ca. 1920
Found in:
Maine Historical Society
Mildred Cole Péladeau papers
Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4288
Scope and Content note
Collection documents the research and scholarship of Mildred Cole Péladeau, an expert on hooked rugs and the Maine artists and industries that popularized them. Contents include articles, correspondence, papers, photographs, slides, and digital files.
Dates:
1881 - 2017; Majority of material found within 1980 - 2017
Found in:
Maine Historical Society
Moody family genealogical research
Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4171
Scope and Content note
Notebooks of manuscript genealogical notes, which includes newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1916 - 1958; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1958
Found in:
Maine Historical Society