Guide to the Library Records, 1802-2019
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Library: Records, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine
The George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, like all archives and special collections libraries, is the creation of human beings who have collected, organized, and described things in ways that reflect personal, cultural, societal, and institutional biases. Although we strive to preserve and present collections in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections, we acknowledge that our systems are neither neutral nor perfect. We encourage you to let us know if you encounter materials, descriptive language, or practices that are offensive or harmful, particularly those for which inadequate context or warning is offered. We are committed to modifying and updating our descriptive practices to use respectful and inclusive terminology and appreciate your help in this work. We look forward to supporting you in your research and learning together.
The College's library collections were founded in 1797 with the first gift of books, and were greatly enhanced in the 19th century by the 1811 bequest of the private library of James Bowdoin III and by the incorporation of the Athenaean and Peucinian Society libraries. The collections of books, journals, government documents, manuscripts and archival items have continued to grow through gift and purchase. King's Chapel and Hubbard Hall were both built to house the collections, which are now contained in the Hawthorne-Longfellow and Hatch Science libraries as well as in several departmental libraries. On-line cataloging through OCLC began in 1973, and the OPAC was installed in 1990; further automation of procedures and services continued through the 1990s. The Bowdoin College Library website was first published in 1996. Content is created by library staff and the website maintained by the Web Technologies Librarian.
Contains collection catalogs, circulation records, correspondence and memoranda, annual reports, and account books relating to the operation of the Library and the expansion of its collections and facilities. Also includes exhibit catalogs, exhibit cards and library bookplates. The bulk of the material is from 1890 on; most is contained within the historical files, which begin with the first librarian, and in the library staff's correspondence files.
This series contains general correspondence and memoranda, accession records, gift lists, procedure and policy statements, 19th century circulation records, collection catalogs, and other material. Most date from the opening of the college through the early 1960s, although some material extends into the early 1990s. Included are items created by librarians John Abbott, Edward Abbott (whose handwritten inscription dedicates the Abbott Memorial Room register of visitors to Jacob Abbott), George T. Little, Gerald G. Wilder and Kenneth J. Boyer, and by other administrators including James S. Coles. The series covers student employment; building construction and renovation; collection development, use and arrangement; and bibliographic instruction. Volumes are listed first, followed by boxes, the latter divided between manuscript and printed material.
Arranged chronologically by material type.
Closed for 20 years from date of creation.
Record Book of the Library, 1803-1807
Catalog of Books ... July 4, 1808
Record Book of the Library, 1808-1811
Record Book of the Library, 1810-1820
Record Book of the Library, 1818-1823
Catalog of the Library, 1821 (3 copies, c.3 has values or costs of books penciled in; date of notations unknown)
Catalog of the Library, 1821, interleaved and updated (2 copies, c.2 includes autograph notes by College Librarian Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Record Book of the Library, 1825-1830
Record Book of the Library, [1829-1837]
Alcove Catalog 1829
Imported Books, 1831-48
Circulation Record Book, March 1838-April 1839
Record Book of the Library, 1840-43
Record Book of the Library to the Officers (1840-59)
Accession Book 1849-1854
Alcove Catalogue, alcoves 33-36 [ca.1853]
Alcove Catalogue, alcoves 37-41 [ca.1853]
Accession Book 1857-59
Record Book of the Library, 1859-1860
Catalog of the Library 1863
Accession Book 1864-69
Record Book of the Library, 1867-1868
Record Book of the Library to the Officers 1868-1881
Accession Book 1869-73
Library Record Book, 1869-1870
Record Book of the Library, 1869-70, 1870-72
Record Book of the Library 1872-73, 1973-74
Library Accession Book 1874-1883
Record Book of the Library 1874-75, 1875-77, 1877-79, 1879-81
Library Record Book Part 1 1882-87
Record Book of the Library Part 2 1882-87
Library Catalog Volume 1 & 2 Ca. 1883
Accessions 1883-1886
Accession Book - Pamphlets 1886-1894
Accessions 1887-1889
Record Book of the Library 1887-90
Library Record Book 1890-92
Library Scrapbook 1891-1913
Accessions 1892
Record Book of the Library 1892-94
Accessions 1893-95
Library Loan Book 1894-95
Accessions 1895-97
Record Book of the Library 1895-96, 1896-97
Accessions 1897-1899
Charging Book 1898
Accessions 1899-1901
Library Record Book 1899-1900
Library Catalogue of Books Ca. 1900
Catalogue of Books in the Library Vol. I-P, Vol. Q-Z
Accessions 1901-1903, 1903-1905
Library Day Book 1904-1905
Accessions 1906-1908
Library Scrapbook 1907-1917
Accessions 1908-1910, 1910-1911, 1911, 1911-1913, 1913-1915, 1915-1917, 1917-1919, 1920-1922, 1922-1924, 1927-1926
Library Scrapbook (1925-60)
Accessions 1926-1928, 1928-1929
Books in Alumni Cases [ca. 1940]
Notes of Ken Boyer, unpublished, 1944- 1957. 1957-1961
Account Books 1966; 1967; 1967-68; 1968- 69; 1969-1970; 1970-71, 1971-72; 1972-73, 1973-74; 1973-74, 1974-1975, 1975-76; 1974-75, 1975-76; 1976-77, 1977-78; 1978-79, 1979-80; 1980-81, 1981-82; 1982-83, 1983-84; 1984-85, 1985-86; 1986-87, 1987-88; 1988-89, 1989-90; 1990-91, 1991-92
Register of visitors, Abbott Memorial Room, 1907-1968
Library, Undated
Invoice of Books Purchased with Mme. Elizabeth Bowdoin's Gift of 100 Pounds. (1802?)
President Appleton to Benjamin Vaughan, Brunswick (photocopy from Massachusetts Historical Society), 1810 Jul 31
John Abbot to Thomas Winthrop, Dec. 21, 1811
Library, 1816
Subscribers and Subscriptions, 1817
Library, 1818-1827
Library, 1829-1883
Library, 1885-1892
Library, 1893-1902
Ephemera, 1893-1902
Correspondence, 1903
Ephemera, 1903
Correspondence, 1904
Ephemera, 1904
Correspondence, 1905-1906
Ephemera, 1905-1906
Covers (Library Committee Meeting Reports), 1905-1906
Correspondence, 1907-1910
Ephemera, 1907-1910
Correspondence, 1911-1920
Ephemera, 1916-1920
Correspondence, 1921-1927
Ephemera, 1921-1927
Correspondence, 1930-1948
Ephemera, 1952-1964
Correspondence, 1952-1964
Library Papers, 1958-1959, 1961
Cooperation Among Maine Libraries, 1961
Library, 1962-1964
Correspondence - Memoranda on H-L Library Policies, 1965
Correspondence and Ephemera, 1966-1987
Faculty Studies, 1972
Provenance (Clippings), undated
Library, 1905-1955
Library Papers, 1957-1960
Library, 1959-1962, 1964-1967
Hawthorne-Longfellow Library Dedication, 1966
Library, 1968-1986
Library Papers, 1986-1988
Photograph album of Library celebrations, including Arthur Monke's 25 years of service, 1987-1988
Correspondence and Ephemera, 1988-
Library Papers, 1/1989-4/30/1990
Library Papers, 5/1990-9/1993
Committee on the Status of Women, 1991-1994
Library Papers, 1993 Retirement Party
Music in the Library series - flyers, 1995-2004
Library Rennovation, Programmatic Plan, 1995
H-L Rennovation, 1996-1997
T-shirt, "The Bowdoin College Library, A Moveable Feast!" made up during Library renovations, 2000-2001
NEMLA Annual Meeting, 2003
Library Papers, miscellaneous undated (prior to 2007)
Cafe Biblioteque
Ephemera, 2007-
Posters, 2015-
This series contains annual reports of Librarian to the Visiting Committee or to the President. The first numbered report (1885) is a manuscript and is in the Visiting Committee Reports (RG 1.1.7) with earlier informal reports; all others were printed separately or as part of the Library Bulletin (RG 5.1.3), the Bowdoin College Bulletin, or the Presidents' Reports (see RG 1.2), including two special reports (1893 and 1896) in the latter (cf. note, 14th report, 1898). See container list for details.
Arranged chronologically.
Informal Librarian's reports prior to 1885 and the 1st formal Report (1885) are contained in the Visiting Committee Reports. The Librarian's Report was published as a number of the Bowdoin College Bulletin from 1906-07 thru 1943-44. The Librarian's Report was incorporated into the President's Report from 1945 to 1990
No restrictions.
Reports of Librarian, 1885-1904
Reports of the Librarian, 1885-1905
1906-07
1907-08
1908-09
1909-10
1910-11
1911-12
1912-13
1913-14
1914-15
1915-16
1916-17
1917-18
1918-19
1919-20
1920-21
1921-22
1922-23
1923-24
1924-25
1925-26
1926-27
1927-28
1928-29
1929-30
1930-31
1931-32
1932-33
1933-34
1934-35
1935-36
1936-37
1937-38
1938-39
1939-40
1940-41
1941-42
1942-43
1943-44
Librarian's Reports 1884-1900
Bibliographical Contributions [Extensive Librarian's Report] Vol. 1-10 1891-1900
Bowdoin College Library Bulletin including the Obituary Record and the Reports of the Librarian Nos. 1-4 June 1891-June 1895
This series contains works published by the Library, including two series of Library Bulletins, the first dated 1891-1895, the second, which also begins with number 1, 1942-1968; Bibliographic Contributions describing the collections; New Books Added; New Audio-Visual Material; Library Information Sheets; From the Library, the library newsletter; keepsakes and exhibition catalogs.
Arranged chronologically within title.
No restrictions.
Bowdoin College Library Bulletin Nos. 1--40 (1942-48)
Bowdoin College Library Bulletin Nos. 41-78 (1948-53)
Library Bulletin, Nos. 1-4 (1891-1895)
Library Bulletin, Nos. 10, 15, 17-19, 24-26, 30-43, 46-48, 50-140 (1942-1968)
Library Bulletin Mailing List
Bibliographical Contributions, Nos. 1-10 (1891-1900)
A Gift to Bowdoin College by Henry W. Longfellow, 1963
"Honor Answering Honor," 1965
Hawthorne-Longfellow Library...A Brief Guide..., 1966
Longfellow, Hawthorne, and Evangeline 1966
Some Aspects of Maine, 1970
A Century and a Half of French Illustrations, 1973
Guide to Library Services, Aug 1991
Special Collections & Archives brochures, 1996-
Guidelines for Honors Projects, 1998 Mar
Information Sheets, Jan. 1987, Aug. 1987, Aug. 1988, Aug. 1989
Information Sheets, Aug. 1993
A Few Notable African Americans: Names Found in the Manuscript Files of the Bowdoin College Library's Special Collections and the Bowdoin College Archives, compiled July, 1995
Business Records, compiled March, 1995
Circulation Department newsletter, "On the Fly," 1996 Oct
From the Library, the Bowdoin College Library Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1996 Jan - 2004 Apr
From the Library, the Bowdoin College Library Newsletter, 2004 Sep - 2007 Apr
From the Library, the Bowdoin College Library Newsletter, 2009 Oct -
New Books Added, Nos. 1-100
New Books Added, Nos. 101-106, 109-200
New Books Added, Nos. 107, 201-657
New Books Added, Nos. 658-1007
New Audio-Visual Material, Nos. 1-14
Library Rededication CD Rom 8 Feb. 2002
The Bowdon College Library, brochure [2003-2004]
50 Books: Notable Books from the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, 2006
The Bowdoin College Library coloring book, 2015
This series contains correspondence of and memoranda issued by the library staff, especially the College Librarian. The contents, exchanges with Bowdoin and non-Bowdoin individuals, cover most aspects of library operation.
Arranged alphabetically within separate chronological and subject runs.
Closed for 20 years from date of creation.
1961-1963, Correspondence A-K
1961-1963, Correspondence L-Z
1963-1964, Memos A-R
1963-1964, Memos A
1963-1964, Memos B
1963-1964, Memos Coles
1963-1964, Memos C
1963-1964, Memos D
1963-1964, Memos E
1963-1964, Memos F
1963-1964, Memos G
1963-1964, Memos Harwell
1963-1964, Memos I
1963-1964, Memos J
1963-1964, Memos K
1963-1964, Memos L
1963-1964, Memos Mc
1963-1964, Memos M
1963-1964, Memos N
1963-1964, Memos O
1963-1964, Memos P
1963-1964, Memos Q
1963-1964, Memos R
1964-1965, A
1964-1965, B
1964-1965, Coles
1964-1965, C
1964-1965, D
1964-1965, E
1964-1965, F
1964-1965, G
1964-1965, Memos H
1964-1965, H
1964-1965, J
1964-1965, K
1964-1965, L
1964-1965, Mc
1964-1965, M
1964-1965, N
1964-1965, P
1964-1965, Rickard, John C.
1964-1965, R
1964-1965, Memos S
1964-1965, S
1964-1965, Memos T
1964-1965, T
1964-1965, Memos U
1964-1965, Memos V
1964-1965, Memos W
1964-1965, W
1964-1965, Memos X-Y-Z
1965-1967, A
1965-1967, B
1965-1967, C
1965-1967, Memos-Coles-1966
1965-1967, D
1965-1967, E
1965-1967, F
1965-1967, G
1965-1967, Greason
1965-1967, H
1965-1967, Memos-Harwell
1965-1967, I
1965-1967, J
1965-1967, K
1965-1967, L
1965-1967, Mc
1965-1967, M
1965-1967, Memoranda-Monke
1965-1967, N
1965-1967, O
1965-1967, P
1965-1967, Q
1965-1967, R
1965-1967, S
1965-1967, Statistics-Monthy Financial
1965-1967, T
1965,1967, U
1965-1967, V
1965-1967, W
1965-1967, X,Y,Z
1967-1969, A-B
1967-1969, Memos-A
1967-1969, B 1/2
1967-1969, B 2/2
1967-1969, Memos-B
1967-1969, C-Z
1969, Memos A-Z
1969-1970, A-Z
1971-1973, A-L
1971-1973, M-Z
1974-1978, A-L
1974-1978, M-Z
1979-1981, A-Q
1979-1981, R-Z
1982-1984, A-Z
1985-1987, A-H
1985-1987, I-Z
1988-1990, A-Z
ACRL - Building
Bliss Room - Donation Descriptions
Cataloging - Friends of the Bowdoin Library Association
CBB Consortium logo boards, 1998
Friends of Kate Furbish - Library Committee Memoranda
Library Construction - Metcalf Survey of Maine Librarians
Myrtle - New Library, Furniture
New Library, Moving - Statistics, Acquisitions
Oberlin Group annual meeting, Bowdoin College, 2006 Oct 15-17
Staff snapshots, 1990s-2000s?
Staff snapshots, retreat, 1994?
Statistics, Cataloging - Zendzian, Lynda
41806
This series contains gift acknowledgements and records, including appraisal information. Some gift information, 1944-1961, is contained in Kenneth J. Boyer's day books (RG 5.1.1, v. 77 and 78).
Arranged alphabetically within separate chronological and subject runs.
Closed for 75 years from date of creation.
Gifts, Pre-1961, A-H, J-P, R-W, Y
Gift Acknowledgements, 1965-1968
Gift Acknowledgements, A-Z
Gift Acknowledgements, 1978-1979
Endowed Library Funds According to the Date of their Founding
Gift Acknowledgements, 1980
Acknowledgements, 1981, 3/1/1982-6/30/1988
Gifts
Gifts/Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements for Gifts, 7/1/1989- 6/30/1992
Books on Order as of July 1, 1990
Gift Acknowledgements, Bearce- Transportation
Gift Acknowledgements, Appraisals, 1967- 1980, 1982-1986
Gift Acknowledgements, Appraisals for Insurance Purposes
This series contains records of receipts and disbursements of library funds, 1883-1962 and 1970-72.
Arranged chronologically.
No restrictions.
Library Account Book, 1887-1901
Library Account Book, 1921-1924
Receipts and Disbursements 1925-28
Receipts and Disbursements 1928-33
Financial Record 2/27/61-10/30/61
Financial Record 10/30/61-12/4/62
Employee and Financial Record, 1968-1972
[Financial Record - Books, 1973-1976]
Accounts of Librarian (G.T.L.), 1913-1917
Accounts of Librarian, 1917-[1944]
Summary of Finances, 1915-1926
Financial Record, 1979-1980
Financial Record, 1982-1983
Account Book, 1883-1886
Receipts and Disbursements (Financial Record), 1924-1925
Financial Record, Oct. 3, 1933-Mar. 31, 1956
This series contains records of the library departments, including reference department statistics and correspondence, and cataloging department training and statistical material.
Arranged by department, then chronologically.
Closed for 20 years from date of creation.
Reference Librarian,A-W, 1966-69
Reference Librarian, Statistics, 1969-70
Statistics, 1963-92
Arrangement of the Dictionary Catalog, 1968
Memoranda, 1991-1993
OPAC Implementation, 1991-93
Paper card catalog examples
This series contains memoranda, minutes, notes and letters dealing with the selection of and preliminary work leading to the loading of the Innovative Interfaces on line library system at the Colby, Bates and Bowdoin libraries. Material is divided into files for the committees and working groups set up as the project moved through its planning and implementation stages.
Arranged chronologically.
Closed for 20 years from date of creation.
CBB Automation Committee
CBB Automation Committee, minutes 1986
Information System Consultants, Inc., review of RFP
Request for Proposal, February 1, 1987
III - Questions for and replies from
Database Management Subsystem Working Group
Circulation/Reserves Task Force
Bibliographic Record Conversion Committee
Item Record Creation Project
Barcoding
Part of the Bowdoin College Archives (5.1.9), it contains about six hundred bookplates used at Bowdoin, some of which were designed by Edward G. Caswell, William Edgar Fisher, Arthur Nelson Macdonald, Rudolph Ruzicka, J. Winfred Spenceley, and Sidney L. Smith. Plates gathered by George T. Little, Bowdoin Librarian from 1883 to 1915, through exchanges with collectors, are kept separately. Designers include Winslow Homer, Macdonald, Spenceley, and Smith.
Arranged alphabetically.
No restrictions.
Abbott Memorial Collection to Roger Howell
John Hubbard to Peggy and Tessim Zorach
Oversize and Correspondence
Bookplates of Bowdoin College Library [19th century]
Bowdoin College Library reader card
This series contains exhibit cards or photocopies of exhibit cards and supporting materials used in library exhibits from 1965 to the present.
Organized into two subseries for files and posters, then arranged chronologically.
No restrictions.
Thanksgiving Proclamations and Sermons, 1965
Hawthorne-Longfellow, 1966
Captain John Thomas, Shipmaster, 1966
Lincoln and Washington
Books on Polar Voyages, 17th and 18th centuries, 1967
William DeWitt Hyde, 1967
Louis Agassiz, 1967
Negro History Week, 1968
Chess Sets, 1968
New England Conference on British Studies, 1968
Fine Leather Bindings from the Bliss Room, 1968
Early U.S. Documents, 1968
Longfellow in Music, 1968
Marguerite Yourcenar, 1968
Charts from The Atlantis Neptune, 1968
Ms. Plan of 1772 Survey of Lands in Bowdoinham, 1968
The Anthoensen Press, 1968
Political Campaign Literature, 1968
Artine Artinian's Collection of Original Drawings by French Writers, 1968
German Incunabula, 1969
Maritime Manuscripts, 1969
World War I and World War II and Russian Revolutionary Posters, 1969
Books in Manuscripts-Abbott to Yourcenar, 1969
Governor Bowdoin and his family, 1969-1970
Erasmus, 1969
Russian Postage Stamps, 1969
Rudolf Ackerman, 1969
Ivy Day at Bowdoin, 1969
Log of the "Tamerlane," 1969
Negro Graduates of Bowdoin, 1969
Black History and Slavery, 1970
Some Aspects of Maine-A Sesquicentennial Celebration, 1970
British Printing before 1640, 1970
Artine Artinian's Collection of Photographs of French Authors, 1970-1971
West European Incunabula, 1971
100 Years of Student Publications-Featuring the Orient, 1971
Natural History in the 19th Century, 1971
U.S. Postage Stamp Collection of Crockett '20, 1972
Maine Historical Society Centennial, 1972
The Limited Editions Club Volumes, 1972
The Making of a Book: Livingston & Van Cleve, 1972
The Gehenna Press, 1973
North American Indians by Edward S. Curtis, 1973
Selected Acquisitions, 1973
A Century and a Half of French Illustrators, 1973-1974
Fine Bindings, 1974
Kate Douglas Wiggin Collection, 1974
Five Centuries of the Bible, 1974
Maps and Atlases, 1975
The Class of 1825, 1975
Early Illustrated Books, 1975-1976
The Anthoensen Press, 1925-1975, 1976
George Washington, 1976
Hawthorne, 1976-1977
Museum Without Walls, 1977
The Class of 1877 (with one case on R.E. Peary), 1977
North American Indians, 1977
Seashores, Sails and Saltwater, 1977
William Blake, 1978
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1978
Fifty Years: The Class of 1929, 1979
A Collection of Children's Literature, 1979
Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1979
Edison's Incandescent Lamp, 1979
Shakespeare at Bowdoin, 1979-1980
Fifty Years: The Class of 1930, 1980
Selections from the Bowdoin Curriculum, 1980
Helen Keller-100th Anniversary, 1980
Bowdoin Men of Science, 1980
Pierre Jean de Beranger, 1980
Bricks and Benefactors, 1980
One-Armed Soldier Chief (O.O. Howard), 1980-1981
Result of an Inquiry into a Dispute, 1980-1981
Memorabilia and Miscellany, 1981
From Manuscript to Print, 1981
From Homer to Suetonius, 1981
The Faculty Publishes, 1981
Selected Acquisitions from Special Collections, 1981
Fifty Years: The Class of 1931, 1981
Russian Culture in Art and Literature, 1981
Kate Furbish and Abbie Huston Evans, 1981
"In That Proud Company," Sons of Bowdoin, 1981
Twelve Presidents: 1794-1981, 1981
An Historical Overview of Arctic Exploration, 1982
Presidential Commemorative Exhibits, 1982
Curtis Indian Prints, 1982
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1982
Fifty Years: The Class of 1932, 1982
The Art of Rockwell Kent, 1982
Unitarian-Universalism: Origins and Development, 1982
Banned Books, 1982
American Domestic Propaganda During the World Wars, 1982-1983
Four Maine Families: the Abbotts, the Hamlins, the Thachers, the Fessendens, 1982-1983
Christmas/Hanukkah Exhibits, 1982
The Publications of the Limited Editions Club, 1983
25,000 Years of Fashion, 1983
Roscoe Henderson Hupper: A Centennial, 1983
The Bowdoins and the Vaughans: Enlightenment Exemplars, 1983
Fifty Years: The Class of 1933, 1983
Faculty Publications, 1983-1984
Peary's Arctic, 1984
Fifty Years: The Class of 1934, 1984
The Yourcenar Collection, 1984
Anthoensen Press Books, 1984
Denis Diderot: 200th Anniversary, 1984
Ann Lee: 200th Anniversary, 1984
An Exhibit to Accompany the Symposium "Print and Protest in the Age of Luther," 1984
Image and Text: The Illustrated Book, 1984-1985
The Anthoensen Press, 1985
Dante Exhibit, 1985
A Special Collections Sampler, 1985
John James Audubon: A Commemorative Exhibit, 1985
Book Show Award Winners, 1985
Fifty Years: The Class of 1935, 1985
Helen Hunt Jackson: 100th Anniversary Commemoration, 1985
Presidential Autographs: Washington to LBJ, 1985-1986
Professor Robert Skloot, 1985
Fine Print Celebrates its Tenth Anniversary, 1985-1986
Halley's Comet, 1985-1986
Selections from the McKim, Mead & White Portfolios, 1986
Bach-Handel-Scarlatti, 1986
Evangeline, 1986
Professor Hall, 1986
In Celebration of Longfellow's Birthday, 1987
Happy Birthday Sherlock Holmes, 1987
Bach-Handel-Scarlatti: Tricentennial, 1986
Selected Books from the Thomas Wallcut Collection, 1986
Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth, 1986
Curtis Indian Prints, 1986
Three Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century, 1986
The British Imprint Books in Special Collections, 1986
Fifty Years: The Class of 1936, 1986
From the Hawthorne Collection, 1986-1987
New England Book Show Award Winners, 1986
J.C. Robin McKinley, 1986
Robert Ashley, 1986
The Dore Gallery, 1986
Biblia Pantioa: Greek Books from Special Collections, 1986
Richard Kenneth Barksdale, 1986
Celtic Ireland, 1987
Famous Names: Letters from the Lyman Abbott Autograph Collection, 1987
Bowdoin's Nineteenth Century Missionaries Abroad and Missionary Bibles, 1987
Fifty Years: The Class of 1937, 1987
"Honoris Causa...": The 1987 Honorary Degree Recipients, 1987
The Faculty Publications, 1987
Bricks and Benefactors: Athletic Buildings, 1987
Bricks and Benefactors: President's House During KCMS administration, 1987
New England Book Show Award Winners, 1987
In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age, 1987
The Orient: Retrospective, 1987-1988
Seven Centuries of the Bible, 1987
Miscellaneous, 1987
Glimpses into the History of Western Science, 1988
The Cilley Graves Duel, 1988
In Memoriam: Richard Barksdale Harwell, 1988
The New England Book Show Award Winners, 1988
Fifty Years: The Class of 1938, 1988
Life at Bowdoin: 1829 & 1871, 1988
Birds of the Pacific Slope, 1988
At a Turning Century: French Illustrated Books from the Bliss Room Collection, 1988
Special Collections Sampler: A Second Look, 1989
The Twentieth Anniversary of the Afro-American Society, 1989
Slavery through the Beginnings of Freedom, 1989
Fox Talbot's The Pencil of Nature, 1989
Twelve Original Illustrations by Hrano Janto, 1989
Ansel Adams Photographic Vision, 1989
In Memoriam: Roger Howell Jr., 1989
Leonard Baskin and his Gehenna Press, 1990
The Illuminated Printing of William Blake, 1990
In Celebration of New England Archives Week, 1990
Life Goes to a Houseparty, 1990
The Writings of Vance Bourjaily, 1990
Arthur LeRoy Greason: President of Bowdoin, 1990
Fifty Years: The Class of 1940, 1990
The New England Book Show Award Winners, 1990
The Whimsical and Fantastic World of Arthur Rackham, 1990-1991
The Historical Bowdoin Library, 1990-1991
A Plethora of Miscellany, 1990-1991
A Sampling of John Gould, 1991
Arms & Armor: Titles from the Anthoensen Press, 1991
Tom Killian's Walls, 1991
Professor Ernst Christian Helmreich, 1991
Fifty Years: The Class of 1941, 1991
The Advent of Women at Bowdoin, 1991-1992
Antiquaria from the Howell Estate, 1991-1992
Book Show miscellany, 1989-
Islands of Storm: Photographs of James Charles Roy, 1992
The U.S. Exploring Expedition: 1838-1842, 1992
Fifty Years: The Class of 1942, 1992
Anti-Slavery Materials of Bowdoin College, 1992
Edward S. Curtis's Images of the North American Indian, 1992-1993
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1993
Georgia O'Keefe, 1992-1993
The Flora of Maine: The Drawings of Kate Furbish, 1992-1993
From the Press of Elfride Abbe, 1993
World War II posters, 1993
Selections from the Wiepert Bookplate Collection, 1993 Feb - 1993 Jul
The New England Book Show Award Winners, 1993
Commemorating Roger Howell, 1993
In Memoriam: Louis Oxborne Coxe and William Taylor Hughes, 1993
Arion Press, 1993-1994
The Hawthorne-Longfellow Library Then...and Now, 1993
Commemorating Chamberlain and Gettysburg, 1993
A Small College in Maine, 1993-1994
The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, 1993
Eisenstaedt at Bowdoin College, 1993-1994
History Institute, 1993
Charter, 1993-1994
Arts Institute, 1994
Yesterday's Library, 1994
Fifty Years: The Class of 1943, 1993
Women's History Month: A Celebration in Letters, 1994
Christopher Columbus in Facsimile, 1994
The New England Book Show Award Winners, 1994
Generations of Labor, 1994
Selections from Four Portfolios, 1994-1995
A Few Fascinating Facsimiles, or, Some Splendid Sources for Scholars, 1994-1995
Women's History Month, 1995
Arctic Memorabilia, 1995
African-American History Month, 1995
Camden's Britania, 1995
Images of the College: A Photographic Retrospective, 1995
From the Kate Furbish Collection, 1995-1996
The Civil War: Images, Manuscripts and Memorabilia from Special Collections
Grand Army of Women, 1995
The Leader from Maine: George J. Mitchell, Jr., 1995-1996
From the Thomas Brackett Reed Collection [letters of T.Roosevelt and TBR], 1995-1996
Walking Sticks from the Abbott Memorial Collection, 1995-1996
Four Women: A Celebration of Black History Month and Women's History Month, 1996
Celebrating 100 Years of X-Rays at Bowdoin College, 1996
Four Collections: Selections from the Branch Libraries, 1996
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1996
Bowdoin goes to War: 1943-1944, 1996
Bowdoin's Danteiana: With an Emphasis on the Inferno, 1997
The History of Women at Bowdoin: A Brief Overview, 1997
Blissful Books and Bindings, 1998
Relics of the Civil War, 1998-1999
Gardens, Farms, Ferns & Herbs: Notable Botanical Books, 1998-1999
From the Charles H. Livingston French Autograph Collection, 1998
Selections from The Odyssey, 1998
William Pitt Fessenden and the Impeachment Trial of 1868, 1999
Matthew Henson: Arctic Explorer, 1999
Women's Diaries from Special Collections, 1999
W.E.B. Dubois and David Levering Lewis, 1999
Fifty Years: The Class of 1949, 1999
Rail and Sail in Nineteenth Century New England, 1999
A Gathering of Poets, 1999
Feathered Fancies: An Ornithological Celebration, unknown, late 1990s
Digging into Bowdoin's Past: Archaeological and Archival Discoveries, 1999-2000
Flowers of the Air: Butterflies from Special Collections, 1999-2000
Documenting our African-American Heritage, 2000
Moby Dick, 2000
Longfellow as Translator, 2000
Fifty Years: The Class of 1950, 2000
Bowdoin's Political Progeny: On the Campaign Trail, 2000
Spanish Books, 2000
John Gould, 2001
Fifty Years: The Class of 1951, 2001
Between the Covers (Library history exhibit), 2001-2002
Between the Covers (Library history exhibit), research files, 2001-2002
Hawthorne and Longfellow, 2001 fall
Bowdoin's First Class, 2002 spring
The Class of 1952, 2002 spring
The Civil War: Alumni College 2002, 2002 summer
"Old Wine in New Bottles": Publishing Old Texts in New Ways, 2002 fall and 2003 spring
Archives Sampler: Illuminating Bowdoin's History, 2002 fall and 2003 spring
Bowdoin College Class of 1953 Celebrating their 50th Anniversary, 2003 May-Jun
"Wynken, Blynken and Nod": an illustration by Barbara Cooney Porter, L.H.D. '96, program for dedication, 2003 May 31
"Declarations of Service...": Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain as Soldier, as Scholar, 2003 summer
Archives Sampler: Illuminating Bowdoin's History, 2003 Sep - 2004 Apr
Bowdoin's Literary Legacy: A Selection of First Editions from Bowdoin Authors, 2003 Sep - 2004 Aug
A Medieval Miscellany, an exhibition celebrating the annual meeting of the Maine Medievalist Association, 2003 Oct 31 - 2003 Nov 4
Artists' Books from the Collections, 2004 Jan 20 - 2004 Mar 31
Holding In, Holding On: Artist's Books by Martha A. Hall, 2004 Jan 20 - 2004 Mar 31
Archives Sampler: Illuminating Bowdoin's History, 2004 May - 2004 Dec
Bowdoin College Class of 1954 Celebrating Their 50th Anniversary, 2004 May - Sep
This Book Is Mine: Books at Bowdoin Formerly Owned by Others, 2004 May 24 - 2004 Jul
Uncommon Service for the Common Good: Sen. George J. Mitchell (Bowdoin 1954), 2004 May 24 - 2004 Jun 24
Picturing Nature: Revealing American Flora and Fauna through Artistry and Illustration, 2004 Sep - 2004 Dec
Threatened and Endangered: Artist's Books created by Rebecca Goodale, 2004 Sep - 2004 Dec
The Song of Hiawatha 1855-2005: In Commemoration of Longfellow Days, February 2005, 2005 Feb 24 - Feb 27
Faculty Publications from Bowdoin's Past: A Sampler of Works Reflecting Bowdoin's Scholarly Legacy, 2005 Jan 28 - May 11
Archives Sampler: Illuminating Bowdoin's History, 2005 Feb - May
Celebrating Bowdoin's 200th Commencement, 2005 May 23-31
Bowdoin College Class of 1955 Celebrating Their 50th Anniversary, 2005 Jun 1-6
Archives Sampler: Illuminating Bowdoin's History, 2005 Sep - 2006 May
Le Grand Siecle: 17th-Century French Sources from Bowdoin's Special Collections, 2005 Oct - 2006 Feb
Beautifully Bound: Designer bindings, artists' books, and livres d'artiste from the Jane Webster Pearce Collection, 2006 Apr-Jul
Bowdoin College Class of 1956 Celebrating Their 50th Anniversary, 2006 May-Aug
Archives Sampler: Illuminating Bowdoin's History, 2006 Fall
50 Books, 2006 Oct 6 - Dec 8
Resources in Africana Studies: An exhibit celebrating Africana Studies at Bowdoin and Black History Month, 2007 Feb
Of Time, Place, and Circumstance: An exhibition celebrating the bicentennial of Longfellow's birth, 2007 Feb-June
Archives Sampler: Illuminating Bowdoin's History, 2007 Spring
Bowdoin College Class of 1957 Celebrating Their 50th Anniversary, 2007 May-Aug
Archives Sampler: Illuminating Bowdoin's History, 2007 Fall
"Perfect in all Particulars": An exhibition celebrating the Walker Art Building and the reopening of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2007 Fall
A Gift of Flowers: An Exhibition of Floral Images from Special Collections Commemorating the Centennial of Kate Furbish's "Flora of Maine," 2008 Spring
Archives Sampler: Illuminating Bowdoin's History, 2008 Spring
Bowdoin College Class of 1958 Celebrating Their 50th Anniversary, 2008 May-Aug
Longfellow's 50th Reunion Poem: The Class of 1958 Remembers, 2008 May-Aug
Display for the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, 2008 Jun 12-15
Archives Sampler: Illuminating Bowdoin's History, 2008 Sep-2009 Aug
Peculiar Obligations: An Exhibition Celebrating the Dedication of the Joseph McKeen Center for the Common Good, 2008 Fall
Peculiar Occupations: Bits and Blasts from Bowdoin's Strange Past, 2008 Fall
Reaching for the Pole: An exhibition celebrating the centennial of Peary's North Pole expedition, 2009 Spring
Bowdoin College Class of 1959 Celebrating Their 50th Anniversary, 2009 May-Aug
Archives Sampler: Illuminating Bowdoin's History, 2009 Fall - 2010 Aug
Freedom's Journal: An Exhibition Celebrating Forty Years of Africana Studies at Bowdoin College, 2009 Fall - 2010 Spring
Illustrating African American Literature (Tess Chakkalakal), 2010 Spring
Bowdoin College Class of 1960 Celebrating Their 50th Anniversary, 2010 May-Aug
1794 to the Present: A Bowdoin College Timeline, 2010 Fall
A Day in the Life: Learning, Laughing, and Letting Go, 2010 Fall
Archives Sampler: Illuminating Bowdoin's History, 2010 Fall - 2011 Jun
Pop-Ups! They're not JUST for kids!, 2011 Spring
Joycean Revolutionaries: A Special Collections exhibit of Joyceana, 2011 Feb 2-8 and 2011 Apr 8-15
Bowdoin College Class of 1961 Celebrating Their 50th Anniversary, 2011 May-Jun
Harriet Beecher Stowe at 200: Home, Nation, and Place in the 21st Century, 2011 Jun 23-25
Archives Sampler: Illuminating Bowdoin's History, 2011 Fall - 2012 Summer
"...Of Pleasure and Utility": A Bicentennial Exhibition Celebrating the Bequest of James Bowdoin's Library to the College, 2011 Fall
"A New Vitality...": Celebrating 40 Years of Coeducation at Bowdoin, 2012 Spring
Bowdoin College Class of 1962 Celebrating Their 50th Anniversary, 2012 May-Aug
Archives Sampler: Illuminating Bowdoin's History [Bowdoin College presidents], 2012 Fall
Do Re Mi: A History of Music at Bowdoin College, 2012 Fall
A B C [examples of writing books and alphabet books from the Library's rare book collection], 2012 Fall
"Bowdoin Boys in Blue - and Gray," an exhibition commemorating the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, 2013 Jan-Aug
Archives Sampler: Illuminating Bowdoin's History, 2013 May-Aug
Bowdoin College Class of 1963 Celebrating Their 50th Anniversary, 2013 May-Aug
Archives Sampler: Illuminating Bowdoin's History, 2013 Fall
Sight & Sound: Launching the Next Century of Fine Arts at Bowdoin, 2013 Fall
Archives Sampler: Illuminating Bowdoin's History, 2014 Spring-Aug
Visualizing Uncle Tom: Pictorial Interpretations of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, 2014 Spring
Bowdoin College Class of 1964 Celebrating Their 50th Anniversary, 2014 May-Aug
Archives Sampler: Illuminating Bowdoin's History, 2014 Aug-2015 Jan
Envisioning Extinctions: Art as Witness and Conscience, 2014 Sep 1-Dec 23
Threatened & Endangered: Flora and Fauna of Maine: Artist's Books by Rebecca Goodale, 2014 Sep 1-Dec 23
Reconciliation and Reconstruction: A Sesquicentenial Tribute, 2015 Spring
BookArt: Artists' Books @ Bowdoin, 2015 Jan 15-2016 Jun 10
Bowdoin College Class of 1965 Celebrating Their 50th Anniversary, 2015 May-June
The Bowdoin Polar Bear: From the North Pole to Campus, 2015 June-Sept
Word Art Collaborations: Selections from the Mark Melnicove Collection, 1970-2015, 2015 Sept-Dec
Bowdoin Presidential Inaugurations, 2015 Fall
Archives Open House: Allhowoltide, 2015 Nov 2
Bowdoin Professsors and Pedagogy, 2015 Nov-Dec
What to Eat and How to Cook It: A Celebration of the Esta Kramer Collection of American Cookery, 2016 Jan-June
Bowdoin in Winter, 2015-2016 Winter
All Together Now: Social Gatherings in Bowdoin History, 2016 Spring
Harriet Beecher Stowe on Federal Street, 2016 Spring
Bowdoin College Class of 1966 Celebrating Their 50th Reunion, 2016 June
Hawthorne & Longfellow: 50 Years Ago, 2016 Summer
Crocker Land Expedition, 1914-1917
Le Grand Siecle: 17th-Century French Sources from Bowdoin's Special Collections, 2005 Oct - 2006 Feb, exhibit poster
Beautifully Bound: Designer bindings, artists' books, and libres d'artiste from the Jane Webster Pearce Collection, 2006 Apr-Jul, exhibit poster
50 Books, 2006 Oct 6 - Dec 8, exhibit poster
Of Time, Place, and Circumstance: An exhibition celebrating the bicentennial of Longfellow's birth, 2007 Feb-June, exhibit poster
"Perfect in all Particulars": An exhibition celebrating the Walker Art Building and the reopening of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2007 Fall, exhibit poster
A Gift of Flowers: An Exhibition of Floral Images from Special Collections Commemorating the Centennial of Kate Furbish's "Flora of Maine," 2008 Spring, exhibit poster
Peculiar Obligations: An Exhibtion Celebrating the Dedication of the Joseph McKeen Center for the Common Good, 2008 Fall, exhibit poster
Peculiar Occupations: Bits and Blasts from Bowdoin's Strange Past, 2008 Fall, exhibit poster
Reaching for the Pole: An exhibition celebrating the centennial of Peary's North Pole expedition, 2009 Spring, exhibit poster
Freedom's Journal: An Exhibition Celebrating Forty Years of Africana Studies at Bowdoin College, 2009 Fall - 2010 Spring, exhibit poster
1794 to the Present: A Bowdoin College Timeline, 2010 Fall, exhibit poster
A Day in the Life: Learning, Laughing, and Letting Go, 2010 Fall, exhibit poster
Pop-Ups! They're not just for kids!, 2011 Spring, exhibit posters (multiple versions)
"...Of Pleasure and Utility": A Bicentennial Exhibition Celebrating the Bequest of Jams Bowdoin's Library to the College, 2011 Fall, exhibit poster
"A New Vitality...": Celebrating 40 Years of Coeducation at Bowdoin, 2012 Spring - exhibit poster
Do Re Mi: A History of Music at Bowodoin College, 2012 Fall, exhibit poster
A B C [examples of writing books and alphabet books from the Library's rare book collection], 2012 Fall, exhibit poster
"Bowdoin Boys in Blue - and Gray," an exhibtiion commemorating the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, 2013 Jan-Aug, exhibit poster
Sight & Sound: Launching the Next Century of Fine Arts at Bowdoin, 2013 Fall, exhibit poster
Visualizing Uncle Tom: Pictorial Interpretations of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, 2014 Spring
Envisioning Extinctions: Art as Witness and Conscience, 2014 Sep 1-Dec 23
Threatened & Endangered: Flora and Fauna of Maine: Artist's Books by Rebecca Goodale, 2014 Sep 1-Dec 23, exhibit poster
BookArt: Artists' Books @ Bowdoin, 2015 Jan 15-2016 Jun 10, exhibit posters
Word Art Collaborations: Selections from the Mark Melnicove Collection, 1970-2015, 2015 Sept-Dec exhibit poster
What to Eat and How to Cook It: A Celebration of the Esta Kramer Collection of American Cookery, 2016 Jan-June exhibit poster
Hawthorne-Longfellow Library: Fifty Years Ago, 2016 Summer exhibit poster
To Make a Host of Friends, 2016 Summer exhibit poster
Shoot, Snap, Instagram: A HIstory of Phoography, 2017 Spring
This series, which is divided into three subseries, contains material from Special Collections & Archives. The department was named the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives as part of the February 2002 Library rededication. The first subseries, Special Collections & Archives Records - Department Forms, 1993-contains completed Call Slips, Reader Registration forms, and Request for Duplication forms generated by Special Collections & Archives. The second subseries, Special Collections & Archives Records - Reference Queries, 1963-2001 contains correspondence with questions to Library staff and responses from staff concerning the Library's special collections and archives. The third subseries, Special Collections & Archives Records - Permission Requests, 1999 Oct- contains requests to and responses from Special Collections & Archives regarding publication of Special Collections & Archives material. The fourth subseries, Special Collections & Archives Records - Accession Records, 1995- contains transmittal forms for materials accessioned into the archives for permanent and temporary retention, as well as confidential destruction.
Department forms are arranged alphabetically by form, then chronologically; Reference queries are arranged alphabetically by subject; Permission requests are arranged chronologically; and Accession Records are arranged chronologically.
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Call Slips, 1998 Jan - 2003 Sep
Call Slips, 2003 Oct - 2007 Jun
Call Slips, 2007 Jul - 2011 Jun
Call Slips, 2011 Jul - 2016 Jun
Call Slips, 2016 Jul-
Reader Registration forms, 1993-1995, A-Z
Reader Registration forms, 1995-1996, A-Z
Reader Registration forms, 1997-1998
Reader Registration forms, 1998-1999
Reader Registration forms, 1999-2000
Reader Registration forms, 2000-2001
Reader Registration forms, 2001-2002, A-Z
Reader Registration forms, 2002-2003, A-Z
Reader Registration forms, 2003-2004, A-Z
Reader Registration forms, 2004-2005, A-Z
Reader Registration forms, 2005-2006, A-Z
Reader Registration forms, 2006-2007, A-Z
Reader Registration forms, 2007-2008, A-Z
Reader Registration forms, 2008-2009, A-Z
Reader Registration forms, 2009-2010, A-Z
Reader Registration forms, 2010-2011, A-Z
Reader Registration forms, 2011-2012, A-Z
Reader Registration forms, 2012-2013, A-Z
Reader Registration forms, 2013-2014, A-Z
Reader Registration forms, 2014-2015, A-Z
Reader Registration forms, 2015-2016, A-Z
Reader Registration forms, 2016-2017, A-Z
Reader Registration forms, 2017-2018, A-Z
Reader Registration forms, 2018-2019, A-Z
Request for Duplication forms, 1999-2000
Request for Duplication forms, 2000-2001
Request for Duplication forms, 2001-2002
Request for Duplication forms, 2002-2003, A-Z
Request for Duplication forms, 2003-2004, A-Z
Request for Duplication forms, 2004-2005, A-Z
Request for Duplication forms, 2005-2006, A-Z
Request for Duplication forms, 2006-2007, A-Z
Request for Duplication forms, 2007-2008, A-Z
Request for Duplication forms, 2008-2009, A-Z
Request for Duplication forms, 2009-2010, A-Z
Request for Duplication forms, 2010-2011, A-Z
Request for Duplication forms, 2011-2012, A-Z
Request for Duplication forms, 2012-2013, A-Z
Request for Duplication forms, 2013-2014, A-Z
Request for Duplication forms, 2014-2015, A-Z
Request for Duplication forms, 2015-2016, A-Z
Request for Duplication forms, 2016-2017, A-Z
Request for Duplication forms, 2017-2018, A-Z
Request for Duplication forms, 2018-2019, A-Z
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Accession Records, 2007
Accession Records, 2008
Accession Records, 2009
George J. Mitchell Oral History Project, 2011
Love Eternal Open House, 2016
Earth Day, 2016
Dedication of Harriet's Writing Room, 2016
Audubon Monthly Page Turning, 2016-
"Statesman: George Mitchel and the Art of the Possible" book launch, 2016
Plants and Flowers of Maine: Kate Furbish Watercolors, 2016
SCA Extended Hours, 2016
Tea with Harriet, 2016-
"Rediscovering Historic Films by Alfred Otto Gross, Pioneering Bowdoin Ornithologist"
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SCA Subject Guide, 1985
Audubon page turning, "Flicker (The Reveal)", poem by Carl Little, 2019
The Bowdoin College Library Website provides access to information about Library collections and services. Since 2019, the Library website has been archived as a separate "collection" via a subscription with Archive-It, a service of the Internet Archive using the Wayback Machine technology.
The Bowdoin College Library Website is archived quarterly.
For other Bowdoin College related archived websites, see the Bowdoin College Web Archive.
Bowdoin College Library Website Archive, 2019-