George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives

Overview

Alphabetical list of Manuscript Collections
Arranged by the last name of the creator of the collection, or in the case of an institution, by the first word in the institutional name. Choose a letter to go to collections that begin with that letter:

The Library houses over 280 manuscript collections, many of which relate to Bowdoin, its graduates, faculty, staff and board members. The collection descriptions accessed from the following list fall into two categories: general collection guides, marked , or full finding aids, marked .

The general collection guides provide quick access to material in collections not yet described through full finding aids. These guides include biographical sketches or agency histories, scope and contents notes, extent in linear feet and other broad descriptive information. Detailed paper registers are available in Special Collections & Archives for many of these collections; others are only partially processed and lack detailed inventories.

Full finding aids consist of three parts: the collection guide, containing general information about the collection; the series descriptions, which provide more detailed information about each part of the collection; and container lists, which detail box and folder-level information.

Collections that have not yet been fully processed are listed without any marking. Please inquire about these papers.

Check this page periodically for the latest additions.

A

  Abbott Memorial Collection, 1716-1928 (M1).

  Charles Matthew Abbott Collection, 1879-1949, n.d. (M290).

  Edward Farrington Abbott, Jr., Papers, 1924-1945 (M225).

  Jere Abbott Papers, 1879-1934, n.d. (bulk 1916-1934) (M284).

Albert Abrahamson Papers, 1926-1988, n.d. (M282).

  Ainge Family Papers, 1766-1833 (M2).

  Thomas Hodge Allen Papers, 1997-2009 (M296).

  William Allen Family Papers, 1805-1970, n.d. (bulk 1805-1862) (M3).

  Rufus Anderson, Jr. Papers, 1814-1888, n.d. (M295).

  Anthoensen Press Business Records, 1918-1949 (M220).

  Anthoensen Press Work Orders, 1915-1952 (M197).

  Fred Anthoensen Collection, 1901-1969 (M4).

  Jesse Appleton Collection, 1788-1837, n.d. (M5).

  Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad : Records, 1844-1894 (bulk 1844-1854) (M6).

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John Bachulus Collection (M235).

  Merton G.L. and Lula Bailey Papers, 1913-1948 (M7).

  Barbour Research Records on the Medical School of Maine, 1921-1988 (M211).

  Robert Abrams Bartlett Papers, 1888-1946 (bulk 1930-1946) (M8).

  James E. Bassett, Jr., Papers, 1930-[1977?] (M213).

  Arlo Bates Papers, 1827-1977 (bulk 1870-1911) (M9).

Philip C. Beam Papers (M10).

  Benson Lumbering Records, 1875-1876, n.d. (M11).

  Beston Family Papers, 1899-1977, n.d. (M12).

Susan Dwight Bliss Collection (M236).

  Vance Bourjaily Papers, 1942-1984 (M14).

  Bowdoin Family Collection, 1687-1996 (bulk 1687-1848) (M15).

  Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador Collection, 1891-1982 (bulk 1891-1892) (M105).

Bowdoiniana Collection (M193).

  James Ware Bradbury Papers, 1817-1891, n.d. (M16).

  Richard Wayne Bradeen Letters, 1866-1879 (M256).

Wendell P. Bradley Papers (M17).

  Ralph Owen Brewster Papers, 1909-1962, n.d. (M200).

  Brewster Family Collection, 1900-1983 (bulk 1923-1962) (M201).

  Horatio Bridge Papers, 1823-1967, n.d. (bulk 1832-1893) (M18).

  Bridge-Maurice Papers, 1837-1888, n.d. (M19).

  Joseph Bringhurst, Sr., Papers, 1792-1814, n.d. (M20).

  Charles Brockden Brown Papers, 1792-1821, n.d. (bulk 1792-1797) (M21).

  Herbert Ross Brown Papers, 1900-1991, n.d. (M22).

Brunswick Area Photo Collection (M249)

  Alexander Simms Buchanan Civil War Collection (M209).

Charles T. Burnett Papers (M23).

  Franklin G. Burroughs Papers, 1970-2006, n.d. (M240).

  Harold Hitz Burton Papers, 1927-1968, n.d. (M24).

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  Isaac Dyer Papers on Thomas Carlyle, 1889-1941, n.d. (M25).

  Thomas Carlyle Letters, 1820-1854, n.d. (M43).

Warren B. Catlin Papers (M26).

  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Collection, 1817- (bulk 1855-1914) (M27).

  General Joshua L. Chamberlain Statue Committee Records, 1999-2006, n.d. (M301).

Weston P. Chamberlain Papers (M28).

  Chandler Family Papers, 1831-1890, n.d. (M29).

  Chase-Johnson Papers, 1820-2008, n.d. (bulk 1882-1957) (M30).

Chinese Cultural Revolution Collection, 1953-2003, n.d. (M278).

  Civil War Collection, Alexander Simms Buchanan (M209).

  Civil War Miscellany, 1861-1927, n.d. (M131).

  C. Lloyd Claff Papers, 1935-1968, n.d. (M31).

  Charles Lorenzo Clarke Papers, 1780-1987, n.d. (bulk 1870-1942) (M32).

Cleaveland House Papers, 1805-1993, n.d. (M274).

  Nehemiah Cleaveland Papers, 1806-1877, n.d. (M33).

  Parker Cleaveland Collection, 1795-1994 (bulk 1805-185) (M34).

  Cleaveland-Chandler Family Papers, 1803-1937, n.d. (bulk 1803-1890) (M35).

  Elisha Coan Collection, 1831-1955 (bulk 1857-1869) (M36).

  Robert Peter Tristram Coffin Collection, 1842-1978 (M37).

Robert P. Tristram Coffin Correspondence with National Parent-Teacher Editorial Staff, 1938-1960, n.d. (M206).

Robert P. Tristram Coffin Family Correspondence, 1915-1954, n.d. (M207).

   Chris Coles Screenplay Collection, 1964-2004 (M297).

  James Stacy Coles Papers, 1903-1996, n.d. (M38).

  Manton Copeland Papers, 1882-1961, n.d. (bulk 1913-1948) (M39).

Louis O. Coxe Papers (M40).

Laurence A. Crosby Papers (M254).

  Thomas A. Curtis ("Diogenes") Collection, 1849-1989, n.d. (M239).

  William John Curtis Papers (M41).

  Curtis Family of Maine Genealogy, by Charles N. Sinnett (M42).

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D

Athern P. Daggett Papers (M266).

Edward Augustus Dana Papers, 1827-1886, n.d. (M261).

  Charles Stewart Daveis Papers, 1808-1864, n.d. (M44)

Henry S. Dawson Papers on Unitarianism in Maine (M45).

  John Calvin Dodge Papers, 1781-1932, n.d. (bulk 1842-1890) (M46).

  Dole Family Papers, 1804-1848 (M47).

  Nathan Dole Papers, 1831-1841 (M48).

  Stanley Fuller Dole Papers, 1908-1962, n.d. (M303).

John C. Donovan Papers (M49).

  Paul H. Douglas Collection, 1909-1992 (M267).

  Neal Dow Papers, 1852-1887 (bulk 1852-1859) (M50).

Nathaniel Dunn Papers (M51).

John Small Dyer Papers (M52).

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E

  Samuel Eaton and Joseph McKeen Sermons, 1783-1801 (M53).

  Annie Lawrence Edmands Autograph Book, 1879-1890 (M54).

  Kosrof Eligian's Survival in Faith (M231).

Walter Crane Emerson Papers (M55).

  Caleb Joseph Emery Medical Notes, 1871-1908 (M224).

  Edwin Emery Diaries and Memoir, 1863-1942, n.d. (M288).

  Henry Crosby Emery Papers, 1908-1985 (bulk 1917-1924) (M210).

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F

Fairchild Papers (M56).

  Augustus Bowman Farnham Papers, 1861-1916 (bulk 1861-1891) (M57).

William Farrar Papers (M58).

  Fessenden Collection, 1786-1982 (bulk 1823-1869) (M59).

  Joseph Palmer and Phebe Beech Fessenden Papers, 1803-1893, n.d. (M60).

  Joseph Fessenden Sermons, 1820-1859, n.d. (M61)

Fessenden and Barrows Family Genealogy (M218).

Fessenden Genealogical Material (M62).

George Taylor Files Papers (M63).

  Frances Fletcher Papers, 1939-1969 (M64).

  Charles Henry Foster Journals, 1843-1849 (M65).

  Charles H. Foster Papers, 1958-1981 (M246).

Roy A. Foulke Papers (M66).

  Frick Autograph Albums, 1789-1917 (M67).

  William Pierce Frye Papers, 1871-1913 (bulk 1875-1895) (M68).

  Maria Fuller Diaries, 1869-1934 (M69).

  Melville Weston Fuller Collection, 1879-1910 (M215).

  Kate Furbish Collection, 1873- , n.d. (bulk 1873-1909) (M70).

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G

Robert S. Gallagher Papers, 1860-1972, n.d. (M276).

Garcelon Family Collection, 1815-1971, n.d. (bulk 1822-1886) (M281).

  Pierre Garcelon Papers, 1747-1773, n.d. (M71).

Edward J. Geary Papers (M214).

William D. Geoghegan Oral History Interview, 2007 (M296).

  Huntington Gilchrist Papers, 1815-1922 (bulk 1912-1914) (M72).

  William Wallace Gilchrist, Jr., Collection, 1861-2000, n.d. (bulk 1886-1926) (M243)

Leonard Gilley Papers (M73).

Leland M. Goodrich Papers on the United Nations (M74).

  John Gould Collection, 1932-2004, n.d. (M75).

Graustein Papers (M76).

  A. LeRoy Greason Papers, 1952-1991, n.d. (M77)

  Theodore Meyer Greene Papers, 1935-1969 (M13).

  Alfred Otto Gross Papers, 1883-1970 (M78).

  Edward Chipman Guild Papers, 1859-1899 (M79).

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H

  Robert Hale Papers (M80).

  Hale-King Family Papers, 1787-1915 (bulk 1816-1865) (M81).

Edwin H. Hall Papers, 1874-1939 (M264).

  Lawrence Sargent Hall Papers, 1938-1993 (M82).

  Cyrus Hamlin Collection, 1798-1921 (M83).

  John Hamlin Diaries, 1846-1871 (M137).

  Daniel F. Hanley Collection, [ca. 1935]-2002 (M242).

Richard B. Harwell Collection (M84).

  Manning Hawthorne Collection, 1814-1844 (M223).

  Nathaniel Hawthorne Collection, 1819- , n.d. (bulk 1844-1864) (M85).

  Nathaniel Hawthorne Research Files, ca. 2000 (M306).

  Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Records, 1974- , n.d. (M86).

Roger Hawthorne Collection (M87).

  Paul Hazelton Papers, 1936-1996, n.d. (M237).

Merton G. Henry Papers (M294).

  Alfred Hitchcock (Bowdoin 1881) Letters, 1867-1895 (M234).

Hubert H. Hoeltje Papers (M233).

Orren Chalmer Hormell Papers (M88).

Blanche Willis Howard Papers (M89).

  Charles Henry Howard Collection, 1808-1957 (bulk 1852-1910) (M90).

  Oliver Otis Howard Papers, 1833-1912 (bulk 1846-1908) (M91).

  Rowland Bailey Howard Papers, 1807-1937, n.d. (bulk 1848-1892) (M92).

Roger Howell Papers, 1954-1989, n.d. (M93).

   Howell Document Collection (M94).

  Hubbard Family Papers, 1789-1934 (bulk 1855-1875) (M95).

  Charles O. Hunt Letters and Personal Recollections, 1861-1865 (M241).

  Henry Hastings Hunt Papers, 1862-1865 (M195).

H. A. Huse Collection (M255).

  Thomas W. Hyde Family Papers, 1831-1948, n.d. (M199).

  William De Witt Hyde Collection, 1823-1975, n.d. (bulk 1867-1923) (M96).

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J

  Needler R. Jennings Papers, 1805-1863 (bulk 1852-1863) (M97).

  Sarah Orne Jewett Papers, 1877-1903 (M238).

Allen Johnson Papers (M98).

  Henry Johnson Papers, 1811-1945 (M99).

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K

  Kellogg Family Collection, 1780-1914 (M100).

Nathaniel Cooper Kendrick Papers (M101).

  Cyrus King Papers, 1794-1819, n.d. (M102).

Edward Chase Kirkland Papers (M103).

  Frederic G. Kitton Papers, 1886-1903 (M104).

  Hilton Kramer Papers, 1950-2002, n.d. (M252).

Preston Kyes Papers, 1898-1947, n.d. (bulk 1898-1936) (M285).

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L

Elroy O. LaCasce, Jr., Papers (M216).

LaCasce Family Papers, 1890-2007, n.d. (bulk 1936-2005) (M258).

Lee Family Papers (M106).

  Leslie A. Lee Papers, 1852-1908 (M208).

Dan Levine Papers, ca. 1960-2005 (M275).

Lyman K. Lee Papers (M109).

  Little Family Papers, 1773-1853 (M108).

Charles H. Livingston Papers (M109).

  Charles H. Livingston French Autograph Collection, [15??]-1923 (M110).

Burke O. Long Papers (M111).

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection, 1821-1995 (bulk 1821-1909) (M112).

Cornelius Ruxton Love III Papers (M114).

  William E. Lunt Papers, 1904, 1918-1926, n.d. (bulk 1918-1919) (M115).

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M

  Donald Baxter MacMillan Collection, 1884-1975 (M118).

  Miriam MacMillan Collection, 1898-1987 (M119).

MacMillan-Morse Collection (M196).

  MacMillan-Snyder Letters, 1931-1953, n.d. (M289).

  MacMillan-"Thebaud" Collection, 1937 (M120).

Magoun & Clapp Papers (M121).

Frederic Wilson Main Papers, 1925-1948, n.d. (M122).

  Maine African American Archive, 1800-2001, n.d. (bulk 1979-2001) (M253).

Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance Records (M228).

Eliza Bréard Manson Family Papers, 1843-1896, n.d. (bulk 1854-1868) (M279).

Maritime Papers, 1787-1964, n.d. (bulk 1840-1880) (M123).

Phillips Mason Papers (M124).

  McArthur Family Papers, 1780-1949, n.d. (bulk 1790-1890) (M116).

  Joseph McKeen Collection, 1781-1966, n.d. (M117).

Oliver William Means Papers (M125).

  Medical Society of Maine Records, 1820-1845, 1897, n.d. (M126).

  Holman Melcher Papers, 1860-1865 (M127).

Samuel Melcher Account Books (M128).

  Mellen Family Papers (M129).

Mark Melnicove Papers, ca. 1970-2006 (M292).

Edward B. Merrill Papers (M130).

  Stephen Merrill Photograph Collection, 1930-1960 (M227).

Merrymeeting Bay Archive, 1975-2000, n.d. (bulk 1988-1992) (M283).

   Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection--Bound Materials (M194.1).

   Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection--Unbound Materials (M194.2).

   Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection--Oral History Interviews (M194.3).

Edward Page Mitchell Papers, 1867-1926 (M268).

  George J. Mitchell Papers (M202).

Model Democratic Convention, 1976, Records (M132).

  Monmouth Militia Records, 1810-1841, n.d. (M133).

David Kemble Montgomery Papers (M134).

Richard E. Morgan Papers (M135).

Augustus Freedom Moulton Papers (M136).

Geoffrey P. Murray Papers (M272).

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N

New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools (M138).

  Harrie H. Newcomb Papers, 1897-1958, n.d. (bulk 1903-1905) (M257).

Nichols Family Papers (M139).

  Paul Nixon Papers, 1904-1956, n.d. (M140).

   George Boardman Noyes Papers, 1835-1944, n.d. (M141).

  Paul L. Nyhus Papers, 1982-2007, n.d. (M305).

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  Alpheus Spring Packard Papers (M142).

  John C. Parker Papers, 1817-1950 (M143).

Patterson Papers (M144).

  Robert Edwin Peary Collection, 1855- , n.d. (M145).

Peckworth Papers (M146).

Edward Allen Pierce Papers (M147).

  Franklin Pierce Collection, 1823-2010, n.d. (bulk 1823-1869) (M148).

Pinkham Papers (M149).

  Horace Lord Piper Letters, 1870, 1873, n.d. (M298).

Ichabod and Samuel Plaisted Papers (M150).

Edward Pols Papers (M304).

   Bern Porter Collection, 1928-2002. n.d. (M212).

Katherine Porter Collection (M217).

Nathaniel Porter Papers (M151).

  Prache and Mattern Papers, 1668-1795, 1888, n.d. (bulk 1668-1688) (M205).

Henry Mellen Prentiss Papers (M152).

John J. Pullen Papers (M153).

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  George H. Quinby Papers, 1870-1982, n.d. (bulk 1923-1975) (M260).

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  Charles Everett Ranlett Papers, 1860-1897, n.d. (M270).

  John Ranlett Papers, 1953-1957 (M221).

  Thomas Brackett Reed Collection, 1838-1976 (M154).

   William Whitney Rice Orations, 1843-1850, n.d. (M299).

  Lincoln Ripley Sermons, 1806-1824 (M155).

Clement Franklin Robinson Papers (M156).

Pauline Dikeman Root Papers, 1901-1943, n.d. (M277).

William Campbell Root Papers (M157).

Rouillard Family Papers, 1857-1977, n.d. (bulk 1904-1973) (M280).

  Francis Russell Papers, 1902-1994, n.d. (M159).

  John Brown Russwurm Collection, 1819-2000, n.d. (M158).

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  Helen E. Hughes Collection on Betye Saar, 1966-2012, n.d. (M307).

Sabine-Brown Collection (M264).

Bigelow Thacher Sanborn Diaries (M160).

Elliott Schwartz Collection (M161).

Shepherd and Crie Families Letters, 1862-1879, n.d. (M302).

Shepley Papers (M162).

J. H. Sheppard Collection (M163).

  Joseph Sherman Papers, 1826-1849 (M164).

William D. Shipman Papers (M265).

Harry G. Shulman Photograph Collection (M248).

  Kenneth C.M. Sills Collection, 1814-1978 (M166).

Sirens Production Files, 1992-1993 (M250).

  Smith Brothers Student Letters, 1850-1854 (M219).

  Nora Archibald Smith Family Papers, 1867-1934, n.d. (M271).

  Samuel E. Smith Papers, 1786-1880 (bulk 1822-1860) (M167).

Seba Smith Papers (M168).

  Ellis Spear III Papers, 1923-1931, n.d. (M269).

Edward Stanwood Papers (M169).

State Biologists' Association Papers, 1966-1974, n.d (M273).

  Charles Asbury Stephens Collection, [ca.1880]-1982 (bulk [ca.1880]-1931) (M170).

Stetson Papers (M171).

  Stowe Collection (M172).

Arthur Stratton Papers (M173).

Leon B. Strout Photograph Collection, 1918-1936 (M247).

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  Thacher Family Papers, 1782-1914 (M174).

Captain John Thomas Papers (M175).

  Frederic Erle Thornlay Tillotson Papers, 1910-1963, n.d. (M203).

Town and College Club Records, 1884-1985 (M263).

Charles E. Townsend Business Records (M176).

Fred L. True Jr. Papers (M226).

  Tucker Shipping Papers, 1826-1890 (M177).

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Unitarian-Universalist Material (M178).

  Upton Family Papers, 1750-1894 (M179).

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  Thomas Curtis Van Cleve Papers, 1912-1976, n.d. (M230).

  Almon Libbey Varney U.S. Army Regalia, 1865-1904, n.d. (M300).

  Charles Vaughan Papers, 1683-1908 (bulk 1773-1861) (M180).

Vaughan Family Research Files, 1946-2002, n.d. (bulk 1946-1955) (M293).

Michael C. Viens Papers, ca. 1972-2002 (M251).

Robert L. Volz Papers (M181).

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Walker Papers (M183).

David C. Walker Papers (M182).

  Mary Sophia and Harriet Sarah Walker Papers, 1850-1904, n.d.

Warren Papers (M185).

  Howard Warshaw Papers, [ca. 1921-2004] (M244)

  Gordon Lee Weil Papers, 1954-2000, n.d. (bulk 1970-1974, 1986-2000) (M286)

  Frank Nathaniel Whittier Collection, 1889-2007, n.d. (bulk 1902-1962) (M186).

  Whittlesey Family Papers, [1821-1941] (M245).

  Kate Douglas Wiggin Collection, 1867-1985 (M187).

Joseph Williamson Papers (M188).

  William Willis Papers, 1837-1958 (bulk 1862-1869) (M189).

Elizabeth Wilson Papers, 1977-2004, n.d. (M262).

  Leonard Woods Collection, 1818-1964, n.d. (bulk 1818-1879) (M190).

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  Marguerite Yourcenar Collection, 1937, 1964-1996, n.d. (M191).

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  William Zorach Collection, 1923-1974, n.d. (M192).

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