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Photograph collections

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

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
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

Farm journals collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4125
Scope and Content note

This collection consists of journals, diaries, trade catalogs, photocopies and one black and white photo and two ferrotypes.

Dates: 1830 - 1924
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

Glass plate negatives from Charles E. Clark building, Portland, Maine

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4270
Scope and Content note

Eighteen 8x10 glass plate negatives, several on Description of Gift list were not found. Total of 178 3.5x5.5 and several 3.5x4 glass plate negatives in two photo boxes. There are five prints, the paper is brown and images are very faint; these are in an envelope. The photographs are mostly of Portland scenes, such as First Parish Church, Munjoy Hill Reservoir, Deering Mansion, and various banks, businesses, and houses.

Dates: ca. 1911
Found in: Maine Historical Society

Glass plate negatives of Maine scenes

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4272
Scope and Content note

Total of 100 glass plate negatives in two photo boxes, divided into Series 100-700; contact sheets; scans on a CD; and detailed notes from the donor. Includes images of Moosehead Lake, fishing, ice fishing, shooting, Adams St. neighborhood, houses, interiors, homes, portraits, people, and animals.

Dates: ca. 1890s
Found in: Maine Historical Society

Glass plate negatives possibly of West Baldwin, Maine

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4271
Scope and Content note

Five 8x10 glass plate negatives, five black and white photos of each glass plate negative, and one envelope found in the same location. Includes views of water, shoreline, buildings, houses, and possibly man cutting hay. Found in a farmhouse, possibly in West Baldwin, Maine, near what was Camp Winaco in 1962.

Dates: ca. 1890s
Found in: Maine Historical Society

Great Northern Paper Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 2950
Scope and Content note This collection documents the administration and properties of the Great Northern Paper Company in Maine. Consisting of manuscript material (primarily in the form of ledgers and photographs) and drawings (including engineering and architectural) and maps, the collection reflects aspects of the financial and operational activities of the company, as well as its extensive land and facilities management. Manuscript material includes inventories, accounting records, land purchase and sale...
Dates: 1813 - 2002; Majority of material found within 1899 - 1980
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

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