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Bangor Public Library

 Organization

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Bangor at a Glance

 Collection
Identifier: S-Coll-0024
Content Description

Clippings, brochures, and information about Bangor, Maine, assembled as scrapbook pages.

Dates: 1994

Bangor Mechanic Association records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-0001
Content Description

Manuscript record books documenting the Bangor Mechanic Association from its founding in 1828. The collection contains constitution and by-laws, membership lists, Association meeting minutes, Government meeting minutes, treasurer's records, and trust fund documents.

Dates: 1828 - 1932

Bangor Public Library, 1942-1979

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-0090
Content Description

Scrapbook containing photographs, original poems, and other memorabilia documenting Bangor Public library staff activities. Dedication: "This Book of Memoirs dedicated to Marion 'The Librarian' Cluff, late 1920s-Nov. 1972."

Dates: 1942 - 1979

Copies of papers relating to the bequest of Samuel F. Hersey to the City of Bangor

 Collection
Identifier: S-Coll-0036
Content Description

Manuscript record book containing an extract from Samuel F. Hersey's will and transcriptions of municipal actions related to the Hersey Fund. Also newspaper clippings, annual reports, and financial records related to the Hersey Fund.

Dates: 1875 - 1893

Fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Bangor Public Library as observed June 7, 1933

 Collection — Item 1: [Barcode: 35109003200910]
Identifier: 027.4-B224f
Content Description

Scrapbook documenting Bangor Public Library's fiftieth anniversary. Contains commemorative booklet, newspaper clippings, and letters.

Dates: 1933

Genealogical clippings from the Daily Eastern Argus

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-0058
Content Description

Newspaper clippings from the Daily Eastern Argus related to New England families.

Dates: 1915 March 20-1919 May 10

Marion J. Bradshaw photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-0094
Content Description

Enlargements of photographs from Bradshaw's books The Maine Land (1941), The Nature of Maine (1944), and The Maine Scene (1947) as well as 15 photographs of Bangor commissioned by the Bangor Public Library. The library displayed some of these photographs September 8-19, 1959 as part of the City of Bangor's 125th anniversary celebration.

Dates: 1959 - 1961

Music in Bangor Public Library

 Collection
Identifier: S-Coll-0014
Content Description

Manuscript and typescript copies of an article by June Lowell Bright about the Bangor Public Library's music collections, and related clippings from Musical America.

Dates: 1918 October 9

Notes for a history of the Bangor Public Library

 Collection
Identifier: S-Coll-0037
Dates: 1916 - 1917

Philander Gould letter to John E. Godfrey

 Collection
Identifier: S-Coll-0033
Content Description

Letter containing "an account of the proceedings of the library members."

Dates: 1827 July 30