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Autographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Autographs of special note

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 77
Scope and Content note Documents containing autographs. Documents are chiefly from 19th century local and national notables, some of whom were important in Maine history. Local notables include: Edmund Andros, Ralph Owen Brewster, Nelson Dingley, Neal Dow, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Hannibal Hamlin, James Augustine Healy, John Holmes, Sarah Orne Jewett, Nathan Lord, John Neal, Thomas B. Reed, Laura Elizabeth Richards, Lorenzo De Medici Sweat, E.B. Washburne, Wallace H. White, Tobias Lear, Samuel Finley Breese Morse...
Dates: 1650 - 1950

Blanchard family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 2239
Scope and Content note

The collection includes correspondence with friends and family and regarding business matters, much of it Civil War era, and family photographs, diaries, receipts, farming records, an autograph book, glass plate negatives, clippings, poetry, drawings, a funeral book, a baby book, and a birthday book.

Dates: 1794 - 1971; Majority of material found within 1845 - 1945

Pierce family collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 2703
Scope and Content note

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.

Dates: 1741 - 2011