Special Collections now has a station where patrons can scan photographs, pages from books, and documents and save them to email, USB, or cloud storage. Settings offer the option to scan in color, grayscale, or black and white, and save as searchable PDF files or jpeg files. This ScannX book scanner automatically crops images, easily […]
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University Archivist Matthew Revitt has a new favorite, and has shared these details: I recently processed an unusual addition to the University Archive: a set of WW2 propaganda publications that had been transferred to Special Collections by the then UMaine Department of History & Government. Being originally from the UK, but now living in the […]
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In celebration of Homecoming Weekend, Fogler Library has three new exhibits showcasing unique items from our University Archive. On the first floor, by the Oakes Room (north entrance to the Library), is an exhibit with items related to those classes holding reunions this year. For any Black Bear football fans, on the Center Hallway on […]
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This 1929 Maine Development Commission guide provides a glimpse of Maine roadways in the early days of motor travel. The text reports, “Maine’s good roads are the result of a progressive program of highway construction, improvement and maintenance that has been consistently adhered to for many years. During the last fourteen years $84,000,000 has been […]
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Digitized primary sources documenting student activism at the University of Maine are now available in the Reveal Digital’s Student Activism collection. The collection hosted by JSTOR aims to provide access to unique, yet essential, primary sources documenting the deep and broad history of student organizing in the United States. UMaine is among the first institutions […]
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A condensed version of John McLeod’s history of Great Northern Paper Company was published in 1981 as The Northern: The Way I Remember, but McLeod worked on a much longer manuscript for more than 15 years. The full work is more than 2,700 pages long and was included in his research papers donated to Fogler […]
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Z107.3 featured information from the University of Maine Digital Commons in a story about the origin of Penobscot County town names. Digital Commons contains a document written by William F. Fox in 1956 called An Investigation of the Origin of Place Names of Towns in Penobscot County, Maine. The thesis was recently scanned as part of […]
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Albert W. Stevens was an aerial photographer, balloonist and U.S. Army officer. Born in Belfast, Maine in 1886, he received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1907 and a master’s degree in 1909 from the University of Maine. Stevens, a U.S. Army officer, balloonist, and early aerial photographer, took the first photograph of Earth’s […]
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Special Collections at the University of Southern Maine recently transferred to our department two oversized aerial views of the Orono campus that were taken in the 1960s. These photos have become a favorite of several visitors, including students, staff, and community members, as well as our interim Department Head, Greg Curtis. Particularly at their size, […]
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Few names in the field of landscape architecture are as well-known as that of Frederick Law Olmsted. He and his firm were involved in nearly 6,000 projects over a period of 100 years and include designs for New York’s Central Park, Boston’s Emerald Necklace, the grounds of the United States Capitol, and many land grant […]
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