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Camp Moy Mo Da Yo collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0425
Collection Scope and Content This collection contains records primarily dating from 1907 to 1972 including administrative records, publications and ephemera. The majority of the collection is made up of photographs documenting the camp throughout its existence. The images include photographs of the camp, various activities and groups of campers and staff.
Dates: 1907-2009; Majority of material found within 1907-1972
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Daphne Winslow Merrill papers

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Identifier: 0226
Collection Scope and Content This collection includes manuscripts of Merrill's articles and the book "More Cones From the Pines of Maine," as well as copies of published articles. Also included is literary correspondence with the publishers of Merrill's poetry. A scrapbook contains reader responses and clippings pertaining to "More Cones." There is material on the history and activities of the Maine Writers Research Club, as well as publications of other organizations with which Merrill was affiliated.
Dates: 1954-1992
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Dolores Cairns collection

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Identifier: 0059
Collection Scope and Content The collection includes a biographical information sheet and photocopies of scrapbooks containing Cairns' published poems and essays.
Dates: 1927-1947
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Dorothy Clarke Wilson papers

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Identifier: 0394
Collection Scope and Content This collection consists of two series. Series 1 contains articles about and interviews with Wilson, typescripts of some of the author's writings and one of her poems, her autobiography (74 pages), and copies of her writings published in pamphlets and periodicals. In addition there is a large collection of personal scrapbooks documenting her published works from 1933 to 1949, as well as a scrapbook chronicling a trip to India in 1950. Series 2 consists of a number of decorative objects and...
Dates: 1926-1990s
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth papers

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Identifier: 0060
Collection Scope and Content This collection includes manuscripts, diaries and notebooks, personal and professional correspondence and memorabilia, appointment books, scrapbooks, and other papers from Coatsworth's life. It is possible that Coatsworth used the scrapbooks she constructed of clipped images from magazines and other sources as inspiration for her own work. The scrapbooks also contain personal mementos from her family such as a short poem from her husband, Henry Beston, signed the Chimney Farm Farmer, a child’s...
Dates: 1854-1986
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Ellen Hamlin Butler collection

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Identifier: 0024
Collection Scope and Content This collection includes a scrapbook.
Dates: 1911
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Ellen James collection

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Identifier: 0190
Collection Scope and Content This collection includes correspondence, family history materials, poems and drafts, autobiographical essays, spiritualist communications, photographs, a Monhegan Island scrapbook, and a commonplace book. Also included is a three inch bronze bust of Ellen James.
Dates: 1904-1977
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Florence Burrill Jacobs papers

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Identifier: 0191
Collection Scope and Content This collection includes extensive files of Jacobs' manuscripts, both published and unpublished, as well as correspondence from publishers dating from the 1920s through the 1970s. Also in the collection is biographical information, including autobiographical notes, student essays about Jacobs, photographs and school-related notebooks and memorabilia. Material relating to literary organizations and poetry awards is found in folders 121-124. The collection also includes clippings and scrapbooks...
Dates: 1904-1976
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Frances Peabody papers

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Identifier: 0276
Collection Scope and Content Series 1 consists of the files set up by Peabody as she worked her way through the process of writing and publishing Tate House: Crown of the Maine Mast Trade. The files document the steps necessary to see a project through, ie., multiple drafts, publicizing, printers, funding, and reviews by peers. Peabody's original file titles and order were retained as much as possible. Series 2 contains multiple black and white images in publication layout telling the story of the merger between Sweetser...
Dates: 1920-1997; Majority of material found in 1930-1940
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Helen Pitman collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0281
Collection Scope and Content Collection includes typescript carbon of account of Canadian trip, notebook with itinerary, postcards, and diary of 1957 European travels of Helen Pitman and Anna S. Perry.
Dates: 1957, undated
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Josephine Diebitsch Peary papers

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Identifier: 0283
Collection Scope and Content The collection consists of a large variety of historical items, including four important scrapbooks compiled by Rear Admiral and Mrs. Peary's daughter, Marie Peary Stafford, which place in chronological order, papers and photographs telling the story of their lives, the majority of the contents focusing on Josephine Peary. As in the scrapbooks, the collection contains letters of correspondence between Josephine and Robert as early as 1884 through 1910, publication and speech manuscripts, early...
Dates: 1861-2003
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Katharine O'Brien papers

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Identifier: 0266
Collection Scope and Content This collection documents O'Brien's creative work as well as her high school teaching career. Among the creative works included are poetry notes and drafts, published verse, musical scores, and literary correspondence. The collection includes O'Brien's Deering High School files from 1940-1971. These files are made up of class schedules, correspondence, programs from events, annual reports of the Math Department, and clippings about students and the school (especially regarding honors won by her...
Dates: 1905-1986
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Lael Morgan papers

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Identifier: 0239
Collection Scope and Content Contained in the Lael Morgan papers are: newspaper clippings; photographs, including a large number of slides and transparencies; manuscripts; scrapbooks; travel logs; correspondence; media; and memorabilia. Series I. Clippings 1954-2011, includes clippings of articles by and about Morgan, many with photos by Morgan; clippings of articles of interest collected for her by Morgan’s parents; newspaper editions published or overseen by Morgan; clippings concerning friends, colleagues and family;...
Dates: 1936-2017
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Maine Association of Women in the Fine and Performing Arts records

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Identifier: 0434
Collection Scope and Content The Maine Association of Women in the Fine and Performing Arts (MAWFPA) records contain the papers and visual materials of this female-driven, artist-run organization active in the state from 1977 through 1983. The MAWFPA records are arranged into four series documenting the activities of the organization with majority focusing on Spectra 1 and Spectra 2, the two all-female multi-disciplinary arts celebrations produced by the organization in 1979 and 1982. The bulk of the material in this...
Dates: 1977-1983, undated
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Maine Media Women records

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Identifier: 0246
Collection Scope and Content The Maine Media Women Records consist of the papers generated by officers of the organization in the course of carrying out their functions. It also contains membership directories, newsletters published by MMW, newspaper clippings, and photographs. The vast majority of the materials are paper-based, although there are a few computer disks, two VHS tapes, a plaque, and a ribbon and pin decoration. The records are arranged in seven series, following an organizational framework that MMW members...
Dates: 1951-2012
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Manuscript Volumes collection

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Identifier: 0256
Collection Scope and Content The Manuscript Volumes collection is an artificial collection made up of diaries, albums, scrapbooks, ledgers, day books, copy and commonplace books written by various unpublished Maine women writers. The Manuscript Volumes collection includes writings by Kate Flora and Alice Douglass, Mrs. F.E. Grinuell, Eleanor Hamlen, Nancy Smith, F.M. Whittemore, Emma Whittemore, Abbie Buzzell, Grace Hoyt, Mrs. Bennett, Effie May Gray, Grace Merrill, Agnes Glover, Anne Maria Bracket, Eugenia Maude Mitchell,...
Dates: 1838-1952, undated
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Margaret J. M. Sweat papers

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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 Annals...
Dates: 1835-2005, undated; Majority of material found within 1855-1908, undated
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Marie Ahnighito Peary papers

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Identifier: 0348
Collection Scope and Content This collection consists of a wide variety of material documenting Marie Peary Stafford's life. There is a large amount of manuscript material including typescripts of her many publications, both books and stories submitted to magazines. The collection holds the published copies, the publishers’ contracts, reviews of her writings, and Marie’s notes for her stories. Also included are drafts of her lectures and speeches, extensive memos about various responsibilities she accepted as the daughter...
Dates: 1862-1995
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Mary Elizabeth Neal Copeland collection

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Identifier: 0073
Collection Scope and Content This collection includes a scrapbook of published poetry clippings, photocopies of her 1938 and 1947 travel journals and a brief biographical sketch.
Dates: 1925-1985
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Mildred Burrage collection

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Identifier: 0039
Collection Scope and Content This collection contains scrapbooks Burrage maintained of her columns on arts and historical subjects that were written for the Boothbay register and the Kennebec journal, correspondence with the Maine Women Writers Collection, and articles about her.
Dates: 1956-1991
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Myrtle Doane collection

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Identifier: 0102
Collection Scope and Content This collection consists largely of clippings of Doane's newspaper columns and poetry from the Advertiser-Democrat and other local papers. Also included are her self-published poetry booklets, material relating to her 1970 campaign in support of school prayer, and research material regarding Dr. Adrian Scolten, a 1948 Maine Senatorial candidate. There is also mixed correspondence to Doane from 1964-77, and a small amount of biographical material, including several photographs and a resume.
Dates: 1925-1981
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Nellie Wade Whitcomb collection

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Identifier: 0411
Collection Scope and Content The collection consists of ten folders, seven of which include notebooks, and one scrapbook of clippings of her published material.
Dates: 1884-1902
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Nora Archibald Smith papers

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Identifier: 0356
Collection Scope and Content The Nora Archibald Smith papers document Smith's life as an author and school administrator. The collection includes scrapbooks of her writings in publications such as Kindergarten Review, The Outlook, Primary School Popular Educator and New England Magazine. The collection contains correspondence to Kate Douglas Wiggin collected by Smith while writing her biography of Wiggin; correspondence with...
Dates: 1878-2009; Majority of material found within 1889-1924
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Phyllis Schuyler Thaxter collection

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Identifier: 0380
Collection Scope and Content This collection consists of several manuscripts written by the author, a few pieces of correspondence, and some playbills and professional photos of Thaxter from her stage career, which spanned the 1920s-1940s. There is also a large collection of playbills from the 1930s-1960s, many related to her theater column “Through the Stage Door With Phyllis Schuyler Thaxter,” written for the Guy Gannett newspapers (Portland Press Herald) and covering theaters in Maine, Boston and New York, as well as a...
Dates: 1890-1998
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Ruth Moore collection

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Identifier: 0252
Collection Scope and Content This collection includes manuscripts of Moore's post-1955 novels and poetry collections, as well as editor's notes, advance copies and galleys of these works. Also included are scrapbooks and loose clippings of reviews and publicity, as well as fan mail and literary correspondence. The collection includes biographical material about Moore and some memorabilia.
Dates: 1917-1995
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Scrapbooks

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Identifier: 901
Dates: 1907-1995
Found in: Westbrook College History Collection

Sidney Baldwin papers

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Identifier: 0047
Collection Scope and Content This collection is composed largely of newspaper columns written by Baldwin, mostly for the Peoria star (Illinois), dating from the late 1890s through the 1950s. There is also biographical and genealogical information included, as well as some early family correspondence and several photographs of Baldwin in her later years. Also included in the collection is unpublished poetry, student responses to Ben of Old Monhegan, engraving plates, and a reel tape of a radio interview.
Dates: 1891-1986
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Virginia Chase papers

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Identifier: 0085
Collection Scope and Content This collection includes correspondence with both Dorothy Healy and Grace Dow as well as with others, typescripts of Virginia Chase Perkins’ novel, This American House and other publications, and interviews, clippings and reviews of her work in publications such as Down East and Yankee, including a very representative collection of her short stories from the 1930s into the 1980s. There is also ephemera collected from various speaking engagements and tributes and a few photographs. The five...
Dates: 1910-1987
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Woman's Woodfords Club records

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Identifier: 0063
Content Description Records of the Woman's Woodfords Club, including annual reports, notes, calendars, guest books, bylaws, membership lists, clippings, scrapbooks, photographs and slides.
Dates: 1915-2015
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

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