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Alex Sax collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0449
Collection Scope and Content This collection consists of postcards and a booklet documenting Sax's art installation entitled "The Cobweb Club," exhibited at the Portland Museum of Art as part of "New Natural History: An Exhibition of Work by Maine Contemporary Artists." Sax's installation drew from the "The Annals of The Cobweb Club," a record kept by Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat who founded the group of women for the purpose of shared intellectual discourse and inquiry. The volume is contained in the Margaret Jane Mussey...
Dates: 2008

Maine Women Writers Reference collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0431
Collection Scope and Content

This artificial collection includes reference materials, articles, book reviews, and obituaries relating to a variety of people and organizations.

Dates: 1856-2013; Majority of material found within 1989-1999

Margaret J. M. Sweat papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0350
Collection Scope and Content This collection contains manuscript material created by the author, including personal and travel diaries from numerous international trips, essays and unpublished writings, prose and verse papers, correspondence, and translations of classical works. There are also personal and themed scrapbooks, commonplace books, a recipe book, a drawing and a watercolor done by the author, photographs and a photographic album of the author and of the author's home. Included in the collection are the...
Dates: 1835-2005, undated; Majority of material found within 1855-1908, undated

Rose Marasco papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0218
Collection Scope and Content

This collection includes exhibit catalogs, photographs, research projects, prints and publicity materials. It contains the Diary series of framed photographs from the Domestic Objects series, as well as the portrait photographs of Margaret J.M. Sweat, "Vinalhaven Women" and "Florence Burrill Jacobs". It also contains research for the Sweat photographs, diaries purchased for research, and photographs for the MWWC's 50th anniversary.

Dates: 1923-1937, 1992-2015