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Queer History In The Streets: A Walking Tour Of Portland, Maine, Megan Macgregor
Queer History In The Streets: A Walking Tour Of Portland, Maine, Megan Macgregor
Faculty and Staff Scholarship
The University of Southern Maine’s Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer + Collection preserves the history of LGBTQ+ communities in Maine. The collection contains books, personal papers, photographs, and newspapers documenting the LGBTQ+ activism from 1970s to 1990s.
While three research publications have some out of the collection (one article and two thesis), no overall history about Maine’s LGBTQ+ community has been written. As a result many Mainer’s, queer and straight, know very little of the history. The instruction and outreach librarian and the staff of USM’s Special Collections wanted an opportunity to …
Lorraine Grace Libby Bowdoin Interview, Susie R. Bock
Lorraine Grace Libby Bowdoin Interview, Susie R. Bock
Lorraine Grace Libby Bowdoin Papers
Lorraine Grace Libby Bowdoin, Gorham State Teacher's College '59. A Portland native, she attended King Middle School and Portland High School. Mrs. Bowdoin taught for several school districts during her long teaching career and advocated tirelessly for mental health and elder issues.
Lorraine Grace Libby Bowdoin's physical papers are expansive and cover her entire life and career, including items from her attendance at Camp Laughing Loon as a child and young teen, her school assignments from elementary through graduate school, photos of her family and friends, items from her run as a Maine house representative, and several meticulously organized scrapbooks …
Abdurraqib, Samaa, Iris Sangiovanni, Samar Ahmed
Abdurraqib, Samaa, Iris Sangiovanni, Samar Ahmed
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Samaa Abdurraqib is a Black, queer, Muslim woman living in Portland, Maine. Abdurraqib was raised in Columbus, Ohio. She attend the University of Ohio, and later the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received a PhD in English Literature. After graduating she worked as a visiting professor at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Next she went on to work the American Civil Liberties Union in Maine as a reproductive rights organizer. She now works for the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence. Her advocacy and organizing work has included places such as Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine, …
Gen Ms 10 Harriet Sweetser Letters, John D. Knowlton
Gen Ms 10 Harriet Sweetser Letters, John D. Knowlton
Search the General Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Provenance: Donated by Elizabeth Sweetser Baxter in 1999. Ownership & Literary Rights: The Harriet Sweetser Letters are the physical property of the University of Southern Maine Library. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the creator or his legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Head of Special Collections. Cite as: Harriet Sweetser Letters, Special Collections, University of Southern Maine Libraries. Restrictions on access: This collection is open for research.
Our Paper 12/1992, Our Paper
Our Paper 11/1992, Our Paper
Our Paper 10/1992, Our Paper
Our Paper 08/1992, Our Paper
Our Paper 07/1992, Our Paper
Our Paper 06/1992, Our Paper
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Our Paper 04/1992, Our Paper
Our Paper 03/1992, Our Paper
Our Paper 02/1992, Our Paper
Our Paper 01/1992, Our Paper
Our Paper 12/1991, Our Paper
Our Paper 11/1991, Our Paper
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Our Paper 09/1991, Our Paper
Our Paper 07/1991, Our Paper
Our Paper 06/1991, Our Paper
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Our Paper 04/1991, Our Paper
Our Paper 03/1991, Our Paper
Our Paper 02/1991, Our Paper
Our Paper 01/1991, Our Paper
Our Paper 12/1990, Our Paper
Our Paper 11/1990, Our Paper
Our Paper 10/1990, Our Paper
Our Paper 09/1990, Our Paper