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Photograph collections

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

A Midwife's Tale documentary research collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4222
Scope and Content note

Research notes, typescripts, correspondence, printed material, slides, photographs (including negatives and slides), and audiovisual material.

Dates: 1994 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1994 - 1996

Arthur Schuh photographs and negatives

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4268
Scope and Content note

The photographs in this collection were taken in Portland, Me., between 1942 and 1949, and consist of both prints and negatives. Many photographs document activities at the US naval yard in Portland during WWII, including images of a captured Italian submarine. Additional subjects depicted in the photographs include a wedding, local residential areas, the Portland Country Club, Swearingen Motors, Thomas P. Beals Furniture Co., and a Christmas party at the Zonta Club.

Dates: 1942 - 1949

Carol A. Wilson architecture collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4220
Scope and Content note The collection documents the architectural career of Carol A. Wilson. Contents include emails and letters, invoices, architectural drawings and models, field reports, meeting minutes, newspaper and magazine articles, publications, brochures, lecture notes, teaching material and resources, photographs, slides, and digital media. These items reflect the range of Wilson’s work and activities, including administration of her firm, architectural projects, professional partnerships and...
Dates: 1977 - 2021

Christopher P. Monkhouse family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4208
Scope and Content note This collection documents the personal and professional life of Christopher P. Monkhouse (CPM), as well as various members of his immediate and extended family. Contents include correspondence, records, research, memorabilia, news clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs. These items reflect the relationships, roles, education, interests, pursuits, collections, and property of CPM, his parents, brothers, aunts, grandparents, and extended family members. The papers of family members include...
Dates: 1852 - 2021; Majority of material found within 1947 - 2021

Colonial Dames of America in Maine colonial and Native American history papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4289
Scope and Content note

Collection consists of research papers and supplementary material prepared and gathered by members of the Colonial Dames of America in Maine about colonial and Indigenous history. Contents include research papers and essays, reports, and photographs.

Dates: 1902 - 1998

Congregation Shaarey Tphiloh records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4274
Scope and Content note This collection documents the administration and community of Congregation Shaarey Tphiloh. Contents include meeting minutes, correspondence, financial and fundraising records, ledgers, publications, certificates, news clippings, architectural drawings, and photographs. The collection reflects the governance, finances, facilities, leadership, religious activities, congregants, and community of Shaarey Tphiloh, as well as the congregation’s relationships and roles in the wider Jewish...
Dates: 1904 - 2014; Majority of material found within 1941 - 2014

Deering, Orr, and Warren family collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4212
Scope and Content note

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.

Dates: 1812 - 2004

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

E.C. Jordan & Co. records and family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4276
Scope and Content note This collection includes the personal, professional, and family papers of Edward C. Jordan (ECJ1), his nephew Henry I. Jordan (HIJ), and his grand-nephew Edward C. Jordan (ECJ2), as well as select records of their mutual engineering firm E.C. Jordan & Co. Contents include correspondence, essays, ledgers, records, publications, scrapbooks, news clippings, photographs, and drawings. Also included are detailed genealogies compiled by HIJ of the related Boody, Frost, Jordan, Leach, Pennell,...
Dates: 1748 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1857 - 1995

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