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Letters

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 93 Collections and/or Records:

E. Christopher Livesay papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4242
Scope and Content note This collection consists of correspondence, invoices and bills of sale, memos, financial records, reports, trip itineraries, publications, and photographs. The material details Livesay’s years as a collector of Maine-related manuscripts and printed matter, including prices, sources, and research. There are drafts of and records related to Livesay’s contributions to The Mirror of Maine: Four Centuries of Great Books published by the Baxter Society and the...
Dates: 1970 - 2018

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

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

Eleanor Pickering Sprague genealogical papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 391
Scope and Content note

Information on the Bartlett, Cannery, Clark, Crooker, Denny, Fowle, Gay, Holbrook, Lord, March, Mathes, Nedham, Pickering, Randall, Rugg, Shapleigh, Shaw, Smart, Sprague, Stowe, Taylor, Trott, Vaughan, and Winship families, includes miscellaneous correspondence.

Dates: 1977 - 1979

Ella Fannie York Craig papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 252
Scope and Content note

Correspondence, newspaper clippings and notes relating to the ancestry of Ella F. Craig, including the Gilbert, Hamlin, Robbins, Williamson, and York families, and includes allied families.

Dates: 1893 - 1938

Eveleth family genealogical papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 119
Scope and Content note

Genealogical papers of the Eveleth family and the related lines of the Davis, Stevens, True, Bailey and Woodford families, compiled by Ellen Lolita Eveleth. Includes letters, newspaper clippings, printed material, manuscript notes, and photographs of Eveleth and Woodford family members. The family, in this collection, dates back to the 1600s.

Dates: 1895 - 1972

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

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

Genealogy of the descendants of Daniel Goodwin of ancient Kittery, Me.

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 355
Scope and Content note

Manuscript and typescript. Includes correspondence, questionnaires, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: ca. 1950

Glenn Skillin papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4317
Scope and Content note

This collection houses the personal and research papers of Glenn Skillin, documenting his life, relationships, genealogical research of the Skillin family, and research conducted for his book A bibliography of Maine imprints 1785-1820. Contents include correspondence, notes, writings, reports, vital records, genealogical data and charts, publications, news clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs.

Dates: 1789 - 2022; Majority of material found within 1930 - 2022