Letters

Class reunion materials, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings.

Materials documenting Carroll R. Pickard’s business activities, writing projects, and family history. Contains correspondence, photographs, and other materials related to Pleasant Hill Dairy; working papers for Pickard's two books; and genealogical papers related to the Pickard, Ellingwood, Dole, Peabody, and Newcomb families.

Original record book of Congregation Ahawas Achim (Brotherly Love) of Bangor, Maine and related correspondence. Includes transcriptions of the record book in both English and German provided by the American Jewish Archives.

Handwritten transcription of a letter concerning the early settlers of Lincoln, Maine. Transcribed by Gertrude W. Mills in 1928.

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

Architectural blueprints by Crowell & Lancaster for a proposed World War II memorial building for the City of Bangor. Includes correspondence related to requirements for music and drama, and for a gymnasium.

Materials related to Webster Avenue Cemetery, Bangor's first Jewish cemetery. Includes correspondence, financial records, deeds, cemetery plans, notes on graves and plot divisions, and genealogical information.

Letter written in 1814 by William D. Williamson, then postmaster in Bangor, to Rev. Jedediah Morse, preacher, pamphleteer, and geographer, of Charlestown, Massachusetts. This letter contains the earliest known reference to a library in Bangor. The library, when opened, was called the Bangor Athenaeum. It was one of the six libraries operating in Bangor in various times between 1814 and 1883 which merged into the Bangor Public Library, founded in 1883.