General Manuscript Collection
Herbert C. Adams Papers
Personal and professional papers from state representative Adams’ public career, plus material on the decommissioned Maine Yankee nuclear power plant. 3.5 ft.
Hayden Anderson Papers GEN MS 22
The Papers contain revisions/notes for his book, "Canals & Inland Waterways of Maine"; research material on canals in Maine and C&O Canal; lantern slides, photos, maps, notes of canals, locks, mills, aqueducts, and shipbuilding in Maine. 1921-1978, undated 3 ft.
Miriam Andrews Papers GEN MS 17
Audiocassette recording and transcript of a 1974 interview of this Gorham Normal School music teacher, a book she wrote, and a photograph of her. 1974 0.25 ft.
Francis L. Bailey Papers GEN MS 15
Certificates presented to Francis L Bailey, President of Gorham State Teacher's College, 1940-1960: 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, no date. 1945 & undated 1 ft.
Batchelder-Haley Letters GEN MS 2
Letters from 2 Gorham Normal School alumnae teaching in Japan at the turn of the 20th century, to their former landlady and mentor, describing the people, landscape, and society there. 0.25 ft.
Luther I. Bonney Papers GEN MS 12
Histories written by Luther Bonney, Dean of Portland Junior College 1933-1958. Also includes poetry, WWII letters from former students, honorary degrees, and a taped 1974 interview of Bonney. 1933-1974 0.5 ft.
Kenneth T. H. Brooks Papers GEN MS 13
This small miscellaneous group of papers focuses on Brooks in his role as head of the Gorham teaching institution from 1921-1971. The chronological file contains honors he received from other academic institutions as well as several of his grade school and high school papers. 1921-1971 0.25 ft.
Leo Brooks Photographs GEN MS 11
Reproductions of photographs taken in New York, in 1932 and 1933. Possibly acquired by the University Art Gallery for an exhibit. 1932-1933 4.5 ft.
Kenneth M. Curtis Collection
Papers and memorabilia of the former Governor of Maine, U.S. Ambassador to Canada, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and President of Maine Maritime Academy. The bulk of the papers relate to his tenure as Governor, including campaign advertisements, speeches, state records, news releases, and photographs. There are also copies of the book written about his governorship, The Curtis years, edited by former aide Allen G. Pease, and his biography, Kenneth Curtis of Maine : profile of a governor, by Kermit Lipez, also a Curtis aide. 1949-2004 32.5 ft.
Ilene Elowitch Papers
Poems and journals of Ilene Frances Elowitch (d.1999), part-time instructor of Communications at USM. 3 ft.
Walker Evans Photographs GEN MS 5
Reproductions from the Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Photograph Collection, used in a 1978 exhibition at the University Art Gallery. 4.5 ft.
Farm Security Administration Photographs GEN MS 7
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. 12.5 ft.
Fitts Family Collection GEN MS 19
A collection of primarily late 19th c. commercial photographs of teachers and students of Gorham Normal School. Includes photos of Gorham Normal School buildings and of Bertha Fitts and her family, and a GNS Alumni Massachusetts Branch announcement for 1945. 1882-1945 0.5 ft.
William H. Grady Transcripts GEN MS 3
Typescripts or carbon copies of writings about early Irish settlement in Maine by William H. Grady, as well as his notes, also in typescript form. 1.75 ft.
Eleanor Humes Haney Papers GEN MS 18
Papers related to her work as a feminist theologian and community activist in Maine from 1979 until her death in 1999. Issues covered include feminism, anti-racism, LGBT issues, and the environment. 1979-1999 2 ft.
Harriet Putnam Henry Papers
Papers of Harriet Putnam Henry, Maine judge. Publications and writings of donor and others. ca. 1941-1996 0.75 ft.
Edwin Kulawiec Collection
Papers and books both written and collected by Prof. Edwin Kulawiec on the subject of Janusz Korczak and his theory of education. 7.5 ft.
William W. Layton Collection GEN MS 4
Collection consists of 10 original manuscripts, an original lithograph, 2 facsimiles and 14 transcripts and/or photocopies of the manuscripts, regarding Mainers over a period of years in the 19th century, with an emphasis on William Pitt Fessenden and the US Civil War. Donated, in honor of the creation of the Gerald E. Talbot Collection, by William W. Layton, an amateur American historian and collector of historical artifacts in Virginia . 1800s 2 ft.
Maine State Nurses Association Archives
Records of the Association from 1914-1990's. Includes meeting minutes, correspondence, scrapbooks, committee reports, newsletters, pamphlets, periodicals, bound books. 1914-1990's 26 ft.
Waldeck Mainville Papers
Professional papers, looseleaf binders and VHS tapes documenting this USM math professor's career. 14 ft.
McLellan Family Photographs
Framed photograph of "the old Hugh McLellan House" [Gorham], n.d. In back of frame, under glass, is a photograph of a woman, identified as possibly the wife of the elder Hugh McLellan, n.d. 0.25 ft.
John Mitchell Papers
Mitchell was a Professor in the Department of Industrial Education & Technology at Gorham State Teacher’s College/Univ. of Maine at Portland-Gorham from 1947-1977. The Papers consist of his professional and teaching papers. 1947-1977 7 ft.
Katharine E. O’Brien Papers GEN MS 1
O’Brien 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 collection includes typescripts of her poems, correspondence, photographs, and miscellany. 1947-1998 1 ft.
Jane and Robert Pickett Papers GEN MS 20
The Papers contain materials concerning academic, athletic and student social activities at Gorham State Teacher's College in the early 1950s, including a scrapbook and newspaper clippings. 1949-1953 0.5 ft.
Joseph Porter Papers GEN MS 16
Papers of Joseph Porter, ship captain of Freeport, Maine, spanning the years 1810-1924, but primarily documenting the travels of his ship, the Eliza Ann, in the years 1809-1812. The Papers contains 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. 1810-1924 0.25 ft.
Edith Meserve Rice Papers GEN MS 21
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. 1878-2002 0.5 ft.
Walter E. Russell Papers GEN MS 8
Russell, a preacher and educator, was Principal of Gorham Normal School from 1906 to 1940. The 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. 1874-1945 2 ft.
September 11th Collection GEN MS 14
Hard copies of Maine newspapers to document how the events were covered in Maine. Remembrance ribbon, presumably produced during USM’s 2002 Remembrance events. 2001-2002 3 ft.
Ben Shahn Photographs GEN MS 6
Reproductions from the Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Photograph Collection, used in a 1976 exhibition at the University Art Gallery. 4.5 ft.
Harriet Sweetser Letters GEN MS 10
Sweetser, a graduate of Gorham Normal School early in the 20th century, became a teacher, school superintendent, and the first Administrator for Home Economics in the State Education Department. The collection contains letters Sweetser wrote home describing her daily life as a student. 1890s 0.5 ft.
T. A. Huston & Co. Chocolate Box
In the early 1920s, T. A. Huston & Co. of Auburn built the 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., Auburn Maine. 0.25 ft.
T. A. Huston & Co. Salesman's Catalog
1 ring binder containing color facsimile of salesman's catalog, ca. 1912, of T. A. Huston & Co., Auburn, Maine. ca. 1912 0.25 ft.
Thurston/Corthell Memorabilia
Artifacts and photographs found in Special Collections. Items are related to W.J. Corthell, who was the 1st principal of the Western Normal School in Gorham founded in 1878, and a female with the last name Thurston (may be Marjorie Thurston, class of 1907). 1870s-1907 1 ft.
Sally G. Vamvakias Papers GEN MS 9
The Papers consist of drafts or edited typescripts of speeches, remarks, and legislative testimony Vamvakias gave during her 10-year tenure on the University of Maine System Board of Trustees. 1990s 0.25 ft.
Robert Walkling Papers
USM newsletters, faculty notices, Honors publications, and other materials from the 1970s to the 1990s, gathered by this Associate Professor Emeritus. 1970s-1990s 7 ft.
Esther Wood Papers GEN MS 23
Wood taught at Gorham Normal School from 1930 to 1973. The Papers consist of her lecture notes on the history of New England from the 16th century through the colonial period and the Revolutionary War to the founding of the State of Maine in 1820. undated 0.5 ft.
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