Guide to the General Joshua L. Chamberlain Statue Committee Records, 1999-2006, undated
Some material restricted. Consult series description for specific information.
General Joshua L. Chamberlain Statue Committee Records, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine
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The General Joshua L. Chamberlain Statue Committee was a free-standing committee of Brunswick citizens who led the effort to commission and install a statue to honor the memory of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. Committee efforts were supported by the Town of Brunswick, the Pejepscot Historical Society, and Bowdoin College. Richard Morrell and Campbell Niven co-chaired the Committee. The sculptor was Joseph Query and the landscape architects were Richardson and Associates.
General Joshua L. Chamberlain Statue Committee records, the bulk documenting the planning, fund-raising, design, construction, and dedication of the Chamberlain statue and memorial sited at the corner of Maine Street/Bath Road, Brunswick, Maine. Additional files document 2004-2006 Committee involvement in the renovation of the Chamberlain burial site at Brunswick's Pine Grove Cemetery.
Correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, contracts, financial records, construction plans and drawings, dedication programs, and photographs of the Joshua L. Chamberlain memorial statue which was dedicated May 31, 2003.
Arranged alphabetically.
Fund-raising donor information in box 3 is restricted until 2079.
Correspondence, 1999
Correspondence, 2000
Correspondence, 2001
Correspondence, 2002
Correspondence, 2003-2004, n.d.
Correspondence re: construction, 2001-2003, n.d.
Correspondence re: construction site, 2001-2003
Correspondence re: dedication, 2000-2003, n.d.
Dedication ceremony materials (invitations, programs), 2003 May
Documents (contracts, permit, project manual), 2000-2002
Financial material, 2000-2003, n.d.
Financial material, accounts payable (non-Richardson & Associates), 2001-2003
Financial material, accounts payable (Richardson & Associates), 2001-2003
Financial material, Ken McAfee's report, 2003 May 5
Financial material re: Joseph Query's Chamberlain sculpture, 2000-2003, n.d.
Financial material re: Richardson & Associates' landscape architecture for Chamberlain memorial, 2001-2003
Financial material - statue account, 2002-2004
Fund-raising, correspondence re: donations, 2000-2004, n.d. [RESTRICTED]
Fund-raising, donor lists, 1999-2003, n.d. [RESTRICTED]
Fund-raising material (brochures, form letters, pledge cards, stationery), 2001, 2003, n.d.
Fund-raising, Stevenson, Dick - historical material
Images - Chamberlain statue plaster model, 2001-2002, color prints (snapshots)
Images - memorial construction, 2002-2003, n.d., color prints (snapshots)
Images - memorial construction and dedication (CD with printed thumbnails)
Images - memorial dedication, 2003 May 31, color prints (snapshots)
Images - negatives
Images - other memorials (color prints)
Information re: materials and vendors, 2001-2002, n.d.
Interview with Joseph Query in Swanville, Maine, by Amy Sinclair, WGME 13 re: Chamberlain statue, n.d. (VHS tape and DVD)
Maintenance of Chamberlain memorial, 2002-2003, n.d.
Meeting agendas, 2000-2003, n.d.
Meeting minutes, 1999-2003
Miscellaneous material
Miscellaneous material re: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Newspaper clippings re: Joshua L. Chamberlain
Newspaper clippings re: Joshua L. Chamberlain statue, 2001-2003, n.d.
Notes (handwritten), 1999-2003, n.d.
Plans and drawings of the memorial and site, 2001-2003, n.d.
Plans and drawings of statue base and site, 2001-2002, n.d.
Plans and drawings of statue base and site, 2001-2003
Text for Chamberlain plaque (floppy disk - Adobe Pagemaker file), 2003 Apr
Text for memorial, 2001-2003, n.d.
Text for memorial flagpole and granite benches (mock-ups), 2003, n.d.
Text for memorial flagpole and granite benches (mock-ups), 2003, n.d.
Members of the Chamberlain Statue Committee, Bowdoin College, the Pine Grove Cemetery Committee, Richardson & Associates, and the Maine National Guard Engineers collaborated to renovate Chamberlain's grave site in Pine Grove Cemetery. The rehabilitated grave site was dedicated September 30, 2006. This series contains correspondence, financial material, and other Chamberlain Statue Committee records concerning the grave site project.
Arranged alphabetically.
Agendas and minutes, 2005-2006, n.d.
Color prints (snapshots) - Pine Grove Cemetery stones, n.d.
Correspondence, 2004-2006
Dedication, 2006 Sep
Financial material, 2004-2006
Financial material - invoices, 2004-2006
Miscellaneous material, 2004-2006
Newspaper clippings, 2006 Nov
Notes - handwritten, 2006, n.d.