Genealogy
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Abbie S. Beede papers
Collection
Identifier: 0020
Collection Scope and Content
This collection includes family correspondence, postcards, property deeds, Pinkham family genealogy and a photograph of the Beede home.
Dates:
1837-1985, undated; Majority of material found within 1878-1926
Found in:
Maine Women Writers Collection
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Abbie S. Beede papers
Florence Burrill Jacobs papers
Collection
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This collection includes extensive files of Jacobs' manuscripts, both published and unpublished, as well as correspondence from publishers dating from the 1920s through the 1970s.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...
Dates:
1904-1976
Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford collection
Collection
Identifier: 0337
Collection Scope and Content
This collection consists of the author's pieces published in late 19th and early 20th centuries magazines, biographical material, a pencil sketch of Spofford, and research about Spofford by scholars. Approximately one dozen periodicals containing over 40 of the author's works are housed in the periodical collection. Approximately two dozen books from the author's personal library, listed in folder 009, are also available.
Dates:
1860-2004
Hulda Greenwood diaries and Fellows family papers
Collection
Identifier: 0149
Collection Scope and Content
This collection contains twenty diaries written by Hulda Greenwood, two diaries of Julia G. Brown, as well as photographs, genealogical data and correspondence pertaining to the Fellows family. The diaries of Hulda Greenwood and the Fellows family papers reflect rural living in Maine communities. Hulda Greenwood's diaries document her life in Farmington, Maine from 1868-1892. Greenwood's intimate written accounts detail the hardships of living in a rural Maine community. Greenwood frequently...
Dates:
1868-1902
Ina N. Emery collection
Collection
Identifier: 0121
Collection Scope and Content
This collection includes a paper read by Ina Emery at the Stanley-Gould reunion, August 29, 1931.
Dates:
1931
Josephine Diebitsch Peary papers
Collection
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,...
Dates:
1861-2003
Manuscript Volumes collection
Collection
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...
Dates:
1838-1952, undated
Marie Donahue papers
Collection
Identifier: 0101
Collection Scope and Content
The Marie Donahue papers offer a unique portrait of a literary life anchored in South Berwick, Maine, much of it centering around Sarah Orne Jewett. There is correspondence between Donahue and numerous literary figures including Gladys Hasty Carroll, Dorothy Healy, and Douglas Alvord, as well as Senators Margaret Chase Smith and George Mitchell. The collection also includes letters between Donahue and her editors at various magazines, as well as letters from her former students. There is a...
Dates:
1904-2008
Found in:
Maine Women Writers Collection
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Marie Donahue papers
Marjory Bates Pratt collection
Collection
Identifier: 0288
Collection Scope and Content
Includes correspondence, self-published manuscripts which include her personal musings on life, and two haiku booklets.
Dates:
1965-1992
Mildred McKinley Abele papers
Collection
Identifier: 0223
Collection Scope and Content
The Mildred McKinley Abele Collection spans the dates 1912-1948. This collection includes personal correspondence, examination notes from nursing school, earlier education materials, graduation certificates as well as a diary, bank book and CD of scanned images. The correspondence begins in her first year as a probationary nursing student (1927) at Cary Memorial Hospital in Caribou, Maine. The bulk of McKinley's correspondence are written to her mother and sister in New Brunswick. These...
Dates:
1912-1948
Trafton collection of Sarah Orne Jewett materials
Collection
Identifier: 0195
Scope and Contents
The collection includes a large variety of research pertaining to the life of Sarah Orne Jewett. There is information on Jewett geneology, as well as The Old Berwick Historical Society and the Sarah Orne Jewett House restoration. There is an essay on Jewett by John Frost, as well as one by a Harvard student. The collection includes numerous transcriptions of letters and journal entries, many from the Houghton Library, as well as the Boston Public Library, Princeton, New York University,...
Dates:
1856-1990