Bangor (Me.) -- History -- 19th Century

Monthly publication documenting the activities of the Bangor Young Men's Christian Association. Includes local advertisements.

Photograph showing nineteen men, some holding carpentry tools, standing in front of the original Bangor Auditorium. The Auditorium was built to house the Maine Music Festival and was completed in October 1897. Inscription reads: "New Auditorium and Carpenters, Bangor, Me. Erected in 24 days."

Newsletter covering the activities of the First Baptist Church of Bangor, Maine, including a list of members of the church.

Manuscript record book containing accounts of the Penobscot County Missionary Association, auxiliary to the American Missionary Association.

Album containing cabinet photographs of Boston and Bangor Steamship Company employees in uniform. The portraits are by Bangor photographer Frank E. Weston. Many subjects have been identified in pencil by Ernest A. Wood.

Manuscript record book containing minutes of the Bangor Philomathean Society (formerly the Bangor Dirigo Association), a young men's debating society organized in 1857.

Typescript history of Bangor, Maine, written for a University of Maine education course. Includes clippings, photographs, and hand drawn maps. Information about settlement, early schools, churches, and prominent citizens.

Diaries kept by Bangor merchant Walter B. Gould beginning when he was a student at East Corinth Academy. The diaries document his personal life, travels, and business enterprises.

Newspaper created by the students of the West Side Grammar School of Bangor, Maine. Three issues are handwritten; one is printed by John H. Bacon. The student editors and reporters are Fred Bradford, Mabel Butters, Alice Gibson, Eddie Hill, Walter Jennings, Louise McLaughlin, Fred Paine, John Patten, Kate Patten, Carrie Zelie, and John Zelie.

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.