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Temperance

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Neal Dow scrapbook indexes

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 939
Scope and Content note

Photocopies of scrapbook indexes of newspaper clippings pertaining to Neal Dow. Topics include law and temperance in Maine.

Dates: 1851 - 1897

Temperance collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 2093
Scope and Content note Materials relating to the temperance movement, chiefly in Maine, but also in the U.S. Includes clippings, correspondence, advertisements, ballot information, short stories and poems, sheet music, Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) information, records of various temperance organizations (by-laws, constitutions, membership statistics), laws, posters, minutes, pledges, tavern records, mss., and printed information. Also contains materials of/and relating to Lillian M.N. Stevens and...
Dates: 1830 - 1966; Majority of material found within 1830 - 1920

Wentworth-Merrill family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 261
Scope and Content note Correspondence, diaries, account books, survey books, deeds, hymnbooks, school books, and genealogical data relating to the Wentworth and Merrill families of Brownfield and Gray, Maine. Papers relate primarily to Deacon William Wentworth (1776-1865) and his grandson Ansel W. Merrill (1855-1910), but also include material of Betsey Merrill Wentworth (1781-1853), Paul Wentworth (b.1779), Robert Wentworth (1786-1866), Thomas Wentworth (b. 1791), Mary Paine Wentworth (b. 1823), Sophronia...
Dates: 1796 - 1933