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Gen Ms 07 Farm Security Administration Photographs Finding Aid, Siobain C. Monahan
Gen Ms 07 Farm Security Administration Photographs Finding Aid, Siobain C. Monahan
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Reproductions from the Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Photograph Collection, used in a 1974 exhibition at the University Art Gallery. The photographs are by Jack Delano, John Collier, Edwin Locke, Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein, Marion Post Wolcott, Russell Lee, Edwin Rosskam, Fenno Jacobs, Walker Evans, Herbert Mayer, Gordon Parks, and Walter Payton. Places represented include: in Maine, Aroostook County, Ashland, Bath, Boothbay, Caribou, Fort Kent, Fryeburg, Houlton, Lille, New Sweden, Presque Isle, Rockland, Saint David, Soldier Pond, and Van Buren; in Vermont, Bellows Falls, Brattleboro, Bridgewater, Castleton, Essex Junction, Hardwick, Lowell, Manchester, Morrisville, Orange …
Gen Ms 24 T.A. Huston & Co. Chocolate Box Finding Aid, Karin A. France
Gen Ms 24 T.A. Huston & Co. Chocolate Box Finding Aid, Karin A. France
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In the early 1920s, T. A. Huston & Co. of Auburn built a 7-story bakery building in Portland, which became the Glickman Library of USM in the early 1990s. This is the original packaging of "Clover Leaf Chocolate Peppermints," produced by T. A. Huston & Co.
Size of Collection:
0.25 ft.
Gen Ms 25 T.A. Huston & Co. Salesman's Catalog Finding Aid, Karin A. France
Gen Ms 25 T.A. Huston & Co. Salesman's Catalog Finding Aid, Karin A. France
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In the early 1920s, T. A. Huston & Co. of Auburn built a 7-story bakery building in Portland, which became the Glickman Library of USM in the early 1990s. This is a 3-ring binder containing a color facsimile of a salesman's catalog, ca. 1912, of T. A. Huston & Co.
Date Range:
ca. 1912
Size of Collection:
0.25 ft.
Gen Ms 16 Joseph Porter Papers Finding Aid, Usm Special Collections
Gen Ms 16 Joseph Porter Papers Finding Aid, Usm Special Collections
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Joseph Porter was a ship captain of Freeport, Maine. The Papers primarily document the travels of his ship, the Eliza Ann, in the years 1809-1812, although they span the years 1810-1924. They contain 55 original documents, and other materials, including correspondence, accounts, cargo lists, crew lists, receipt for wages, port forms, a Bill of Health and a Roll of Equipage. Also included are documentation on Porter's ship America in 1815, and the building of a corvett (vessel of war) in 1816.
Date Range:
1810-1924
Size of Collection:
0.25 ft.
Gen Ms 22 Hayden Anderson Papers Finding Aid, Daniel Draper
Gen Ms 22 Hayden Anderson Papers Finding Aid, Daniel Draper
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Hayden L. Anderson was a prominent Maine educator and Maine historian. He graduated from Gorham Normal School in 1925, and subsequently earned degrees from Boston University and Bates College, as well as doing graduate work at Harvard University. He served as principal and superintendent in schools in central and northern Maine, and as Dean of Instruction at Farmington State College. He also worked in the State Department of Education and served on the Board of Trustees of the University of Maine. He was a student of local history, editing the bicentennial history of Litchfield, Litchfield Yesteryears, and writing a …
Gen Ms 19 Fitts Family Collection Finding Aid, Daniel Draper
Gen Ms 19 Fitts Family Collection Finding Aid, Daniel Draper
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Bertha Rice Fitts was born in 1870, in Waterford, Maine. After graduating from Gorham Normal School in 1894, she became Master’s Assistant and eighth-grade teacher in Westbrook, Maine, before accepting a similar position at a grammar school in Quincy, MA. While in Quincy, she boarded with Mrs. Calvin Fitts, and in 1899 married her son, Arthur Fitts. She was involved in the Southern Branch of the Gorham Alumni Association for many years. The Collection consists of primarily late 19th c. commercial photographs of teachers and students of Gorham Normal School, plus photos of Gorham Normal School buildings, Bertha Fitts …
Gen Ms 21 Edith Meserve Rice Papers Finding Aid, Daniel Draper
Gen Ms 21 Edith Meserve Rice Papers Finding Aid, Daniel Draper
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Edith Meserve Rice was a student at Gorham Normal School 1942-1946, and was active in the Alumni Association from the 1970s through the 1990s. The Papers include photographs and other material documenting Rice's life as a student at Gorham Normal School in the early 1940s, as well as alumni news, songs of Gorham Normal School and the State of Maine, and information about Gorham State Teachers College and the University of Southern Maine.
Date Range:
1940s-2002
Size of Collection:
0.5 ft.
Gen Ms 17 Miriam Andrews Papers Finding Aid, Susie R. Bock, Nicole Keeler
Gen Ms 17 Miriam Andrews Papers Finding Aid, Susie R. Bock, Nicole Keeler
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Miriam Andrews was a Gorham Normal School music teacher from 1922 to 1960. She had attended the New England Conservatory of Music and Julliard School of Music in New York. She continued her education at Columbia University’s Teachers College where she received her Bachelors and Masters degrees. During her teaching tenure at Gorham Normal School, she directed plays, organized concerts and operettas, and in 1925 compiled a music book for the school called Songs of Gorham Normal School. The Papers consist of an audiocassette recording and transcript of a 1974 interview with her, an undated photograph, and a copy …
Gen Ms 15 Francis L. Bailey Papers Finding Aid, John D. Knowlton
Gen Ms 15 Francis L. Bailey Papers Finding Aid, John D. Knowlton
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Francis L Bailey was President of Gorham State Teacher's College from 1940 to 1960. The Papers consist of Certificates presented to him: Appointment as Reemployment Committeeman, Cumberland County Local Board No. 4, Maine, 1945 Je 13; Certificate of Appreciation for uncompensated Service in the Selective Service System, undated.
Date Range:
1945 & undated
Size of Collection:
1 ft.
Gen Ms 13 Kenneth T. H. Brooks Finding Aid, John D. Knowlton
Gen Ms 13 Kenneth T. H. Brooks Finding Aid, John D. Knowlton
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Kenneth T. H. Brooks received his undergraduate degree from the University of New Hampshire and Masters and Doctoral degrees from Boston University. He served as President of Gorham State Teacher’s College from 1960-68, then continued as President of the University of Maine at Gorham from 1968-1970. He stepped down when Gorham merged with the University of Maine at Portland. He wrote See the Green and White Advancing: A History of Gorham Normal School, Teachers College, and State College 1878-1970, which was published in 1995. Kenneth Brooks died December 4, 1995. This small miscellaneous group of papers focuses on Brooks …
Gen Ms 08 Walter E. Russell Papers Finding Aid, John D. Knowlton
Gen Ms 08 Walter E. Russell Papers Finding Aid, John D. Knowlton
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Dr. Walter E. Russell Papers span the period 1874-1945, the bulk of them 1870s-1880s, consisting of writings on education and allied topics as well as his sermons. There are a small number of printed items and a photograph of the1928 School Summer Session. Russell often used printed material as scrap paper, so forms usually found in the office of an education administrator of the time occur in these Papers.
Date Range:
1874-1945
Size of Collection:
2 ft.
Gen Ms 10 Harriet Sweetser Letters Finding Aid, John D. Knowlton
Gen Ms 10 Harriet Sweetser Letters Finding Aid, John D. Knowlton
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Harriet Sweester attended Gorham Normal School in the 1890s. She became a teacher and the first Administrator of Home Economics for the Maine State Department of Education. The collection contains letters Sweetser wrote home describing her daily life as a student.
Date Range:
1890s
Size of Collection:
0.5 ft.
Gen Ms 01 Katharine E. O’Brien Papers Finding Aid, Susie R. Bock
Gen Ms 01 Katharine E. O’Brien Papers Finding Aid, Susie R. Bock
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Katharine E. O’Brien (d. 1998) was raised in Portland, Maine. She taught mathematics for more than 30 years at Deering High School in Portland, of which she was an alumna, and was a published poet. The Papers includes typescripts of her poems, correspondence, photographs, and miscellany.
Date Range:
1947-1998
Size of Collection:
1 ft.