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2020

World War 1939-1945

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Mf021 Morgiana Halley Projects, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine Jan 2020

Mf021 Morgiana Halley Projects, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids

Research materials assembled by Morgiana P. Halley (1942-2019) for her PhD “An Ethnography of Marine Convoys of World War II”, completed October 1995 at the University of Sheffield. The collection includes interviews conducted by Halley as part of her research related to marine convoys and those who played a part in them during the Second World War. 87 audiotapes copied September 1991. Tapes: C 0747 - C 0833. Text: 243 pp. paper. Thesis: 382 pp. paper.


Mf011 R. B. Hall And The Community Bands Of Maine / Gordon W. Bowie, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine Jan 2020

Mf011 R. B. Hall And The Community Bands Of Maine / Gordon W. Bowie, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids

Interviews and photographs compiled by Gordon Bowie relating to band music in Maine, and leading to Bowie’s UM dissertation entitled R. B. Hall and the Community Bands of Maine (May, 1993). Collection includes interviews with nine individuals. Topics covered include local performances at dance halls, theaters, and radio stations, musicians, Musicians Union Local 768, and other matters relating to community bands.

NOTE: A very large collection of materials relating to R. B. Hall and community bands of Maine and New England is located in Fogler Library Special Collections. This collection includes approximately 800 reels of tape containing performances and interviews …


Mf120 Civilian Conservation Corps (Ccc) In Acadia National Park, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine Jan 2020

Mf120 Civilian Conservation Corps (Ccc) In Acadia National Park, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids

A series of interviews conducted by Maine Folklife Center staff with men who were enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corp. in the 1930s and served at one of the three camps run by ANP: the Eagle Lake or Bar Harbor camp (on the site of the current park headquarters), the Long Pond or Southwest Harbor camp (off Clark Point Road); and the Ellsworth camp (on the Buttermilk Road). Also included are interviews with women who married men from the camps and other local residents who remember the camps. Included are 226 photographs.