Fogler Plus Friends Newsletter — August 6, 2024

Fogler Plus Friends Newsletter — August 6, 2024

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What’s “Fogler Plus”? Raymond H. Fogler Library, Merrill Library in Machias, Maine InfoNet, and the University of Maine Press provide library collections and related services under the direction of the University of Maine Dean of Libraries.

In this issue:

  • New from Special Collections and Projects: George Howard Crosby papers and the time book of the ZIZANIA

New from Special Collections and Projects: George Howard Crosby papers and the time book of the ZIZANIA

  

The Special Collections and Projects Department in Fogler Library has added new records to the online archival content management tool ArchivesSpace.


George Howard Crosby was appointed registrar of the University of Maine in 1955. Before coming to UMaine, Crosby had traveled in Europe on the schooner Bowdoin. Crosby was with the U.S. Army in the Philippines from 1937 to 1940. From 1941 to 1945 he was secretary of the Army and Navy YMCA in Manila. He also spent three years in Japanese internment camps (1942–45). Crosby’s papers contain materials from committees he served on in his capacity as registrar for UMaine. Also in the records are material related to Crosby’s tenure as Director of Education for the Civil Air Patrol; applications to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission for a byproduct material licensed to Crosby and the Penobscot County Civil Defense Organization; and details of Crosby training radiological monitors at UMaine.  


Also added to ArchivesSpace


The time book of the lighthouse tender ZIZANIA, 1913–34, includes repairs and work orders, expenses, mileage with coal expenditures, and names of individuals paid. There are gaps in the coverage, presumably the US Navy kept their own records during ZIZANIA’s service in World War I and World War II.


ZIZANIA, a steel-hulled twin-screw lighthouse tender, was built at Baltimore, Md., by Ramsey and Son, for the United States Lighthouse Service and launched on November 12, 1888. The ship served in the Gulf of Maine until transferred to the War Department by an executive order dated April 24, 1917, then subsequently reassigned to the Navy, ZIZANIA served during the Great War as a tender to section patrol craft operating in the First Naval District. When control over the Lighthouse Service reverted to the Department of Commerce on July 1, 1919, ZIZANIA’s name was stricken from the Navy List.

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