Maine -- History -- Sources
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
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
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