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Photograph collections

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 60 Collections and/or Records:

Reed, Abbot, Binford, and Hatch family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4280
Scope and Content note

This collection documents the activities, relationships, genealogies, and businesses of the Reed, Abbot, Binford, and Hatch families during the 19th and 20th centuries, primarily within the towns of Rumford, Roxbury, and Mexico, Maine. Contents include correspondence, personal papers, diaries, financial and business records, legal documents, scrapbooks, genealogical research, news clippings, photographs (including negatives and cased photos), albums, and maps.

Dates: 1825 - 2022; Majority of material found within 1838 - 1969

Sheldon family papers and photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4282
Scope and Content note

This collection documents the Sheldon family’s summer trips to Maine’s Katahdin region in the first half of the 20th century, through both written accounts and photographs. Contents include correspondence, diaries, calendars, maps, photographs, photo albums, and negatives.

Dates: 1900 - 1973; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1951

Smith family and Wolfe's Neck Farm papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4327
Scope and Content note This collection documents the establishment and operations of Lawrence M.C. and Eleanor Houston Smith's Wolfe's Neck Farm, in Freeport, Maine, as well as the Smiths' property purchases and land conservation and historic preservation activities in the state. Contents include correspondence, inventories, financial records, legal documents and agreements, deeds, news clippings, printed material, photographs, and property maps and drawings. The collection reflects the Smiths' contributions to...
Dates: 1805 - 1991; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1985

Stuart family collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4121
Scope and Content note Mostly photographs, including snapshots and professional images (black and white), as well as color illustrations (printed Christmas card), a letter and telegraph concerning financial matters, and a receipt, possibly for work being done on a ship. There are photographs of a farming activity, people participating in various recreational activities, formal portraits, and the family pets. Most of the photographs are unidentified. Also includes a photograph album of portraits taken in places...
Dates: 1855 - 1908; Majority of material found within 1889 - 1899

Swett family collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4224
Scope and Content note

Letters, documents, and photographs, as well as photocopies of letters, photographs, certificate. Includes volume (spiral bound) compiled by Elena L. Swett McHerron and Judith Ann McHerron in 2003 of photocopies of the letters by Henry Augustus Swett, and related material.

Dates: 1852 - 2002; Majority of material found within 1852 - 1864

This was Stroudwater: 1727-1860 manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 378
Scope and Content note

Includes miscellaneous notes, sketches of Stroudwater scenes by Rupert S. Lovejoy, photographic negatives of Stroudwater people and places, many of which were not included in the publication, and also a book containing the sayings of Andrew Hawes, Stroudwater antiquarian, recorded by Dr. Allston Hunt.

Dates: 1727 - 1860

Tom Jones photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4246
Scope and Content note

This collection documents the work and career of Maine photographer Tom Jones. Contents include photographic prints, negatives, slides, and contact sheets, as well as correspondence, financial records, personal papers, legal documents, news clippings, albums, CDs, and ephemera.

Dates: 1963 - 2017

Union meeting house brochure, n.d.

 File — Box 1: Series Series 1; Series Series 2, Folder: 12
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents

History and membership application for the Readfield Union meeting house. Possibly written by Marius and/or Mildred Péladeau.

Dates: n.d.

Watkins family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 416
Scope and Content note

Includes ledgers, daybooks, photographs and miscellaneous bills, receipts and advertisements.

Dates: ca. 1832-1930

William B. Jordan research papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 2998
Scope and Content note

This collection contains manuscripts of published works, Civil War research papers, newspaper index information, commonplace books, newspaper clippings, correspondence, speeches, and photographs.

Dates: 1836 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1958 - 1999