The items in this collection were gathered throughout Mrs. Violette’s lifetime and archivally duplicated by her daughter-in-law, Holly Ramsdell Violette. Materials in this collection include newspaper articles, church programs, photos, letters, cards, telegrams, postcards, brochures, and other items. This collection will be of interest to historians, politicians, educators, St. John Valley and Maine residents, and others.
This collection consists of materials collected by Gerry Morin concerning various people, businesses, and events in Aroostook County. Included are correspondence, financial records (including accounts, bills of sale, and telephone bills), land documents, images, and maps. The financial records are for many businesses, both in Aroostook County and elsewhere, many in retail and agriculture, including American Agricultural Chemical Co. The telephone bills are from three separate telephone companies: White Mountain Telephone Company, New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, and Aroostook Telephone and Telegraph Company. Also included are twenty-two issues from various newspapers, 1837-1841, containing articles on the Northeastern Boundary dispute. Included in the images are cabinet cards of Major William Dickey and Hannibal Hamlin. A large portion of the correspondence and the financial records concerns Horace G. Richards of Fort Fairfield, Maine, and his brother, George W. Richards of Houlton, Maine, as well as A.S. Richards of Van Buren, Maine. George W. Richards owned G.W. Richards and Co., a merchant of dry goods and other "small wares." The collection also contains sheet music for "Come to the Heart that is Thine," from an opera based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, Evangeline. Note that the Archives hold other collections associated with Gerry Morin.
This collection consists of a scrapbook, photographs, Thibodeau family genealogy, Thibodeau’s Insurance documents, stenographer/shorthand booklet, newspaper articles. The scrapbook belonging to Mr. Paul D. Thibodeau contains correspondence, meeting minutes, resolutions, and newspaper articles regarding the organization of the First National Bank of Fort Kent in Fort Kent, Maine. The correspondence is mostly between the President of the bank, Mr. Paul D. Thibodeau and the office of Currency at the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C. The bank was organized by Paul D. Thibodeau on July 7, 1919. The officers elected were as follows: President, Paul D. Thibodeau; 1st vice president, Henry W. Nadeau; 2nd vice president, Fred E. Michaud; cashier Arthur A. Hebert; directors, Paul D. Thibodeau, Henry W. Nadeau, Fred E. Michaud, Irenee Cyr, Ulderic Dumond, Maxime P. Gagnon, Albert R. Michaud, Saul Michaud, T. T. Michaud, Cleophas Nadeau, Philip A. Roy, William L. Savage, T. A. St. John, Frank A. O’Connell, Henry W. Theriault. The photographs are from the Thibodeau, Nadeau, and Collin families. The collection is divided into 4 series: Series I: The First National Bank of Fort Kent; Series II: Thibodeau’s Insurance Agency; Series III: images; Series IV: Thibodeau family
The A. and S. Dufour Ledger spans the years 1844 - 1848 and transactions were documented as they were taking place in the Dufour store at the time. All transactions were written in French and items sold in the store consist of groceries, shoes, tobacco, nails, wheat, etc.. These documents shed light on how and what transactions were done in the years past. Original ledger, now apparently missing, was the property of the Madawaska Historical Society. This photocopy edition was donated tp the Acadian Archives by Beatrice Craig c. 1993. This collection consists of photocopies of photocopies of a handwritten ledger for the A. and S. Dufour store. Photocopies are in good condition but the handwritting is hard to read. Guy F. Dubay. The index was prepared by Béatrice Craig c. 1993.
