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Mf058 "Suthin" Project, 1976, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Ten interviews totaling 23 hours conducted for a course at University of Maine taught by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives in 1976 about a pulpwood operation at Little Musquash Lake run by Grover Morrison. This project included the publication of Northeast Folklore: "Suthin," XVIII. These interviews were the basis of "Suthin:" It's the Opposite of Nothin': An Oral History of Grover Morrison's Wood's Operation at Little Musquash Lake, 1945-1947 (Northeast Folklore XVIII: 1977 ). Collection includes the text of the poem, "Suthin'"; other poems; information about daily work in the woods and with the portable sawmill; life in the woods camp; …

Woodsmen's Team (University Of Maine) Memorabilia, 1970-1976, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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The University of Maine Woodsmen Team is a co-ed organization dedicated to maintaining the old woods skills and competing on the intercollegiate level throughout the Northeast and Canada. This team has been a University of Maine tradition for over 40 years. The Women's Woodsman's Team first started competing in 1975. Various photographs of team members, programs, team scores, and rules (1970-1976).

Campana, (Richard J.) Papers, 1937-1989, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Born in Everett, Massachusetts, Richard J. Campana (1918-2005) received a BSF from the University of Idaho in 1943. Campana then served as a surgical technician in the U.S. Army, and earned a Bronze Star award during WWII after being held as a prisoner of war (1943-1946). After the war, Campana earned an MS in Forestry from Yale University in 1974 and a Ph.D. in Forest Pathology in 1952. Soon after, Campana began his professional study and observation of Dutch Elm Disease

In 1958, Campana came to the University of Maine as the head of the Department of Botany and Plant …

Mf033 Machias River Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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This collection consists of nineteen interviews totaling approximately thirty-two hours conducted by Edward D. “Sandy” Ives in 1986 with men who worked in the woods and on the river drives along the Machias River. In part it grew out of the "Stump to Ship" project in which the 1930 logging film was revived and shown around the state. Many of the interviewees in the Machias River Project came from the audiences for the film.

Sewall Company Aerial Photographs Collection, Circa 1940-2014, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Founded in 1880, Sewall began offering aerial photography services in the 1940s. The photo archive the company produced captures aerial views of nearly every part of Maine, as well as various locations in New England, Alaska, Canada, and the southern and central U.S. Many regions were photographed multiple times over the course of decades. The collection includes 1 million images.

A small representation of images has been digitized is available to the public through DigitalCommons@UMaine.

Prentiss And Carlisle Co., Inc. Business Records, 1874-1938, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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The business records of the estate of Henry E. Prentiss, as administered by Henry M. Prentiss, concerning timberland holdings. Includes stumpage bills, records of checks received and sent, and correspondence. Also includes the Aroostook Land Company records.

Weed Family Records, 1831-1911, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Records document the life and death of Wyatt J. Weed, originally of Veazie, Maine. Included are official government papers and awards stemming from his election to the Maine State Legislature and his membership in the Militia of Maine's band. Weed's family was involved in logging and this collection contains records directly related to the business, including memorandums and financial records, as well as original land deeds.

Demeritt (Dwight B., Jr.) Collection, 1866-1998, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Dwight B. Demeritt, Jr. graduated from the University of Maine in 1951 with a degree in History and Government. Postcards, photographs, news clippings, brochures, photocopies and original documents related to the history of Mount Kineo House at Moosehead Lake and Maine logging and river driving.

J. F. Witter Teaching And Research Center (University Of Maine) Records, 1916-1992, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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The J.F. Witter Teaching and Research Center, the livestock research facility at the University of Maine, often referred to as the Witter Farm, consists of 300 acres of land in Old Town, Maine, near the campus. Until the facility was constructed in 1972, livestock such as cattle and sheep were housed in barns on the main part of the campus in Orono.

The record group contains historical records of cattle herds maintained at the Orono campus of the University of Maine and other university farms, 1936-1946; records of various kinds of cattle sold, 1957-1967; as well as general information about …

Mccormick (Ada Peirce) Papers, 1850-1998, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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The papers of Ada Stetson Peirce McCormick, a social activist, author, editor of Letter Magazine (Tucson, Arizona), and founder of the Little Chapel of All Nations. The bulk of the papers are family letters or materials concerning the Peirce timberlands. Included also are copies of Ada Peirce McCormick's magazine Letter, magazine articles and clippings, correspondence, genealogies, wills, diaries, and photographs.

Vigue (Raymond F.) Lumber Transport Notebooks, 1927-1997, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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This collection includes photocopied notebooks of the various aspects of Mr. Vigue's jobs. Mr. Vigue has recorded every aspect in minute detail. The notebooks mostly concern transport in logging operations. Some marksmanship records are also in the collection.

Sherman Lumber Company Records, 1875-1955, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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This small collection contains records that provide insight into all operations of the Sherman Lumber Company. The records are arranged according to the following functions: administrative and organizational, financial, production, sales, and labor.

The company account registers, 1930 and 1932, contain sections giving financial information about customer accounts, information about business expenses of Sherman Lumber itself, and information about types and amounts of wood supplied to Sherman. These are followed by invoices, 1909-1915, for equipment, groceries, hardware, etc., purchased by Sherman. A ledger lists orders to Sherman from F.E. Blodgett Lumber, Suncook, New Hampshire, listed on its letterhead as a …

Mccrillis (William H.) Papers, 1830-1982, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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The collection contains the personal and business papers of William H. McCrillis of Bangor, Maine. Papers of his sister, Harriet S. Griswold, and business records of her heirs are also included.

Gilbert (Fred Alliston) Papers, 1900-1973, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Papers relating to the logging industry in Maine and the Great Northern Paper Company. Included are items concerned with harvesting, stumpage, and logging operations, as well as correspondence with Great Northern's President, Garret Schenck.

Engel (William) Papers, 1902-1914, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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The collection contains records of William Engel's timberlands business and of the firm of Lowell & Engel. The records are mainly from the logging and lumbering operations carried on by Lowell & Engel in the years after William Engel's death in 1909.

The major part of the collection contains bills and receipts to Engel's companies. Those from 1902-1908 are primarily bills for insurance, taxes, etc., on Engel's many land holdings. The bills and receipts from 1909 on are from the logging and lumbering side of the business and focus on supplies and equipment needed for the various logging camps.

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Baker (Gregory ) Papers, 1902-1973, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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The collection contains Gregory Baker's photographs and negatives of logging and lumbering operations and railroad construction in northern Maine in the early part of the 20th century. The collection contains glass plate negatives, photographs and cellulose negatives.

Howlett (Duncan) Papers, 1968-1998, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Duncan Howlett was born in 1906 in Newton, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard, receiving an LLB degree in 1931. After practicing law for two years, he returned to Harvard in 1933 to study religion, receiving an STB degree in 1936. He was ordained to the Unitarian ministry in 1936 and served in churches in Salem, New Bedford, and Boston, Massachusetts. He moved to Center Lovell, Maine, and began to manage the forestland adjacent to his home. Interested in good forestry management and realizing the challenge this presented, in 1971 he enrolled in the School of Forest Resources at the University of …

Bussell Family Papers, 1856-1912, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Papers and business records of the Bussell family of Argyle and Old Town, Maine. Alfred Bussell's papers include a small amount of incoming correspondence; deeds; receipts for food, payments on notes, taxes, etc.; plus tax receipts and documents, 1862-1878.

Dunn (George B.) Papers, 1851-1958, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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The papers of George B. Dunn, a lumberman and farmer in Houlton, Maine. Included are account books, financial records, correspondence, deeds, leases, ledgers, receipts, Dunn family papers, stumpage records, tax information, and time books.

Halls Mills Lumber Company Records, 1855-1975, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Business records of Halls Mills Lumber Company located near Whiting, Maine, along with information about the history of the mill, area homesteads, and the logging industry in Washington County, Maine.

Cronk (Corydon P.) Papers, 1812-1967, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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The collection contains the personal papers and business records of Corydon P. Cronk of Wellesley, Massachusetts. It contains correspondence, job-related documents, photographs, subject files, and publications relating to Corydon Cronk's long and varied career in forestry. Included are speeches, reports, notes, memos, meeting notices, and conference programs. Also included are early records of the More, Mitchell, Millard, and Smith families.

Coe Family Papers, 1836-1943, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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The Coe family papers consist primarily of business records of the brothers Eben S. Coe and Thomas Upham Coe, with a few papers of Thomas's wife, Sada L. Coe. The materials reflect the involvement of the Coes in land acquisition and management and the lumber industry in the northern part of Maine, as well as Eben Coe's partnership in the S.R. Bearce and R.C. Pingree companies in Lewiston, Maine. Much information is also included about the administration of the very sizeable estate left by Thomas Upham Coe at his death in 1920.

Mitchell (Frances Robinson) Papers, 1893-2005, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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This collection contains both materials reflecting the life, interests, and activities of Frances Robinson Mitchell and materials which document the Robinson family's work in the lumbering and timberlands business in northern Maine. Included are correspondence, business records, photographs, newspaper clippings, deeds, leases, reports, tax documents, and plans.

Mcchesney (Earl M.) Papers, 1930-1995, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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The collection is arranged in two series: I. Forestry study files and II. Business records. Series II is further sub-divided into seven sub-series: 1. General office files; 2. Land survey account records; 3. Survey field books; 4. Forester client files; 5. Land survey client files; 6. General information files; and 7. Maps and plans.

The final sub-series contains maps and plans generated by McChesney for his clients as well as those copied from other sources, primarily registries of deeds and town offices. These maps are arranged alphabetically by place and then by client name. General maps of a community follow …

Labonte (George A.) Forestry Papers, 1949-1984, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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The papers of George A. LaBonte, a forest entomologist working for the Maine Forest Service. Included are University papers, reprint notes, field reports, articles, and numerous publications by LaBonte.

Graffte (Amos And Octavia Moulton) Papers, 1890-1974, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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The collection reflects the business and civic activities of both Amos A. and Octavia Moulton Graffte. It is arranged in one series with three sub-series: Papers of Amos A. Graffte, Papers of Octavia Moulton Graffte and Papers of the Graffte Family. The collection is enriched by notes of explanation added to most items by the Grafftes' daughter, Marjorie Graffte Prout, the donor of the collection.

Trask, Henry O. Papers, 1917-1970, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Items in this collection include Trask’s class assignments and a number of items related to campus life at the University of Maine. Trask saved several programs from campus activities including the Swarthmore Chautauqua Festival in 1925, Winter Carnivals from 1925-1926 and theater productions of the Maine Masque Club from 1925-1927.

Many of the charts, graphs, and reports were submitted as assignments for undergraduate courses. Several reports focus on operations of various manufacturing companies in Maine and New Hampshire and typically include information about the location of the facility, a floor plan, and an explanation of the workings and products of …

Maine, Volume 77, Number 2, Spring/Summer 1996, University Of Maine General Alumni Association

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Contents:

AFFIRMing a Future for the University of Maine: President Hutchinson '53 Reorganizes Colleges in the Face of a Lack of Support --- Job Search, '90s Style: Today's Graduates Have a More Difficult Road To Employment --- The 'Old Man' and the River: Howard Trotzky '71 Is the Oldest Among the Many UMaine Alumni Guides --- It's Not That Clear Cut: November's Controversial Referendum Has Spurred a Debate About the Future of the Maine Forest --- 'Teaching Is What I Am': A Profile of Legendary Bangor Teacher Maria Brountas '85

Maine Alumnus, Volume 60, Number 1, Fall 1978, General Alumni Association, University Of Maine

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Contents:

Diamond Jubilee of UMO's School of Forest Resources --- Homecoming Honors Alumni --- Questions, Anyone? (Stephen Weber's column in the Weekly Calendar, "Dialogue") --- $12 Million A Great Beginning for Founders Endowment Fund --- Our Rightful Name (alumni disappointment with dropping "at Orono" in the name of the university) --- The International Student Program at Orono... a Photo Review

Maine Alumnus, Volume 21, Number 4, January 1940, General Alumni Association, University Of Maine

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Contents:

From Seed to Sawmill --- An Editor Takes a Bow (J. Newell Stephenson, '17) --- Rendall '16 Named Forest Commissioner