Autographs
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 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
Found in:
Maine Historical Society
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
Found in:
Maine Historical Society