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Letters

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

Edward C. Owen and Dennison family correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4240
Scope and Content note

This collection consists entirely of correspondence from Edward C. Owen to members of the Dennison family. The letters detail his experiences living and working in the timber industry in northern California. Filed in each folder are the original envelopes, numbered to correspond to the letters.

Dates: 1862 - 1889
Found in: Maine Historical Society

Edward P. Harding papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4304
Scope and Content note

This collection documents the personal, political, and business activities of Edward P. Harding. Contents include correspondence, documents, financial records, genealogies, news clippings, bound volumes, scrapbooks, albums, photographs, negatives, and ephemera. The collection reflects Harding's contributions to state and national politics, particularly the presidential bids of Richard M. Nixon, the photo finishing industry, photography, boating, and his family life.

Dates: 1863 - 2024; Majority of material found within 1930 - 2024
Found in: Maine Historical Society

Frances Clifford Brown Prescott albums

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4307
Scope and Content note This collection contains family and travel albums compiled by Frances Clifford Brown Prescott. The family albums contain photographs of her four children, family properties, and extended family members. The travel albums document Frances Prescott’s annual trips to Europe, usually accompanied by her three daughters. Contents of travel albums include photographs, postcards, prints, travel stubs and receipts, published guides, train schedules, correspondence, visiting cards, ocean liner...
Dates: 1889 - 1914
Found in: Maine Historical Society

Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4278
Scope and Content note This collection represents the institutional archive of Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ (FOKO), as gifted to MHS in 2023. The material documents the organization’s administration, press and publicity about the organ, the work and music of municipal organists supported by FOKO, the history of the organ and its namesake, and over 100 years of organ concerts. Contents include correspondence, meeting minutes, publications, news clippings, programs, music scores, photographs, scrapbooks, posters,...
Dates: 1880 - 2019; Majority of material found within 1912 - 2019
Found in: Maine Historical Society

Gunpowder mills of Maine research papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4205
Scope and Content note

The collection spans the research, writing, and distribution of Whitten's pamphlet and book, along with associated lectures he prepared on the subject. Contents are divided into two series: 1. Research notes and reference and 2. Publication and promotion, comprising manuscript, printed documents, photographs, scrapbook pages and film negatives. Contains many photocopies.

Dates: 1898 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1972 - 1989
Found in: Maine Historical Society

Hugh D. McLellan and Lothrop Lewis family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4231
Scope and Content note The collection consists of personal correspondence, legal documents of various types and purposes, financial papers, receipts and accounts, notes, and essays. The material reflects the personal and professional lives of members of both the McLellan and Lewis families. The McLellan family material includes veteran bounty land papers filed by Hugh McLellan on behalf of military soldiers outlining claims to land in accordance with Congressional acts. Additionally, there are the collected papers...
Dates: 1800 - 1889
Found in: Maine Historical Society

International Appalachian Trail records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4213
Scope and Content note The collection documents the formation, development, and administration of the IAT. While the collection primarily documents the Maine Chapter, where the IAT was initially conceived, there is also a great deal of information from and about the international chapters. The records include emails and letters, financial statements, membership records, meeting agendas, tax and insurance records, news clippings, maps, brochures, photographs, slides, and audiovisual material. These items reflect...
Dates: 1982 - 2024; Majority of material found within 1993 - 2021
Found in: Maine Historical Society

It's Our World Too collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4204
Scope and Content note

Letters, photographs, printed material (such as newsletters), and petitions.

Dates: 1982 - 1991
Found in: Maine Historical Society

J. Peter Monro landscape architecture collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4292
Scope and Content note

This collection documents J. Peter Monro’s professional projects as a landscape designer and architect. Contents include landscape and architectural drawings, correspondence, contracts, reports, writings, news clippings, photographs, negatives, slides, and digital files. The collection reflects Monro’s work on residential, commercial, municipal, public, and conservation projects as a landscape designer, architect, and consultant, as well as trustee and advisor to non-profit public works.

Dates: 1983 - 2009
Found in: Maine Historical Society

James Gower papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4239
Scope and Content note

Legal documents, correspondence, financial papers, and various writs, deeds, and agreements of James Gower, his family, and related to his various positions in local government. Included are several documents related to Bowdoin College land sales for which Gower played a role as agent, as well as versions of his own will and testament with details regarding his estate.

Dates: 1810 - 1856
Found in: Maine Historical Society

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