Portland (Me.) -- Biography
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Chapman-Doten family collection
Correspondence, photographs, Wellesley English assignments, poetry, illustrations, book reviews, newspaper clippings, papers related to the Junior League of Portland and a financial ledger, among others.
Deering, Orr, and Warren family collection
Correspondence, diary, photographs (including tintypes), documents, newspaper clippings.
Flash drive with transcriptions available (contains photographs, letters, documents, some of which are in this collection but more are added). This flash drive is in the source file. Also in the source file is donor correspondence with MHS and her family, which summarizes the family history, with bibliographical sources.
Goold family papers
Pierce family collection
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.
Sweetser Children’s Home records
Records include minutes of monthly, special and annual meetings, rules and regulations of the home, copies of the constitution and by-laws, the indenture of Hannah A. Devine, and other miscellaneous items.