208 resources

• [St. Mary's Hospital]
  
  St. Mary's Hospital in Lewiston (Me.)--roots in the early 1800s, influence on the Franco-American community. Ray Pelletier interviews teachers from central New Hampshire about the Canadian American institute.
• [Social Clubs]
  
  Anita Dubois reports on the old social clubs of Lewiston (Me.). The drinking establishments of Madawaska (Me.) A portion of a slide presentation from New Hampshire, 'I Too, am New Hampshire.'
• La Bonne Aventure/The Good Adventure #18: The Invention
  
  "La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This episode focuses on gender roles in Franco-American culture and teaches girls that it is good to be smart. It features footage of bingo and lottery drawings, and footage of the mayor of Lewiston, Maine.
• La Bonne Aventure/The Good Adventure #4: The Good Adventure
  
  "La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This episode teaches children about having confidence in themselves. It includes footage of cars crossing a bridge and of downtown Lewiston (?).
• La Bonne Aventure/The Good Adventure #1: New Friends
  
  "La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This episode introduces some of the important characters in the show and focuses on the bilingual nature of Franco-American culture. It includes footage of churches and bells, and footage of a downtown area (possible Lewiston, Maine).
• Porte Ouverte sur Les Vieilles Societes et les Nouveaux Groupements/The Old Societies and the New Groups...Survivance to Maintenance
  
  Reflets et Lumiere II, dated 2/22/82: Visits with traditional groups in the Augusta and Lewiston areas to discuss why they were created in the 1900s and if their goals have changed for the 1980s. Looks at the new local, regional and national organizations to compare and contrast their reasons for being. Professor James Gallagher, a University of Maine sociologist, discusses the reasons why ethnic groups form closed social clubs and the new reality of the 1980s. FOR REFERENCE ONLY.
• Du Mais Family Collection - Finding Aid
  
  Collection contains [Du Mais--home movies] with a mix of family events such as vacations, holiday rituals, and sporting activities. It also captures regional subjects such as Colby College’s Mayflower Hill campus when it opened, construction activities from the early 1950s, parades, fires, summer camps in Maine, herring catches in the Sheepscot River, travel footage from Guatemala in 1954, New York City scenes, and amateur footage of the Mayo Clinic.
• Vérité (Truth) (Lewiston, ME, 19??/??/??-????/??/??)
  
• Unité, L' (Lewiston, ME, 1976/05/00-1984/04?)
  
• Signal, Le (Lewiston, ME, 1929/01/??-1929/??/??)
  
• Semeur Franco-Américain, Le (Ware, MA, 1887/03/29?-????/??/??)
  
• Revue de Médecine Franco-Américaine, La (Lewiston, ME, 1906/01/15-1906/01/15)
  
• République, La (Lewiston, ME, 1896/12/28-1897/??/??)
  
• République, La (Lewiston, ME, 1887/02/17-1887/05/05)
  
• Petit Journal, Le (Lewiston, ME, 1907?-1915?)
  
• Observations (Lewiston, ME, 1972/06/23-1972/12/01)
  
• Nouveau Messager, Le (Lewiston, ME, 1966/08/25-1967/01/26)
  
• Messager, Le (Lewiston, ME, 1880/03/18-1968/05/09)
  
• Écho du Maine, L' (Lewiston, ME, 1919/??/??-????/??/??)
  
• Écho du Bazar, L' (Lewiston, ME, 1885/11/18-1885/11/21?)
  
• Dimanche, Le (Lewiston, ME, 1908/02/??-1908/12?)
  
• Défenseur, Le (Lewiston, ME, 1921/10/01-1926?/02)
  
• Courrier du Maine, Le (Lewiston, ME, 1906/07/04-1906/12/07)
  
• Courrier de Lewiston, Le (Lewiston, ME, 1885/01/??-1885/03/??)
  
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• University of Connecticut, Peoples of Connecticut Project Records - Finding Aid
  
  The "Peoples of Connecticut" Project was begun in 1974 under a grant from the Ethnic Heritage program, Office of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The goal of this program was to increase awareness, within Connecticut secondary schools, of different ethnic groups. Using curriculum guides and other instructional materials, the project endeavored to provide teaching and learning tools for discovering the cultural diversity of Connecticut's residents./n The collection contains a wide variety of materials more specifically detailed in the series descriptions. All aspects of the project are documented in the collection from the working papers of the grant to the published curriculum guides and bibliographies. Reference and resource materials pertinent to the ethnic groups represented by Connecticut's residents are included in Series IV-VII. The collection also includes some general reference materials pertaining to these ethnic groups in the United States, as well./n Series IX-XI include similar information to that found in Series I-III. The later series appears to be materials added at a later date and not integrated into the processed collection.
• George H. Gilbert Company Records - Finding Aid
  
  Based in Ware, Massachusetts, a nationally known family business that made high-grade woolen flannels. Includes employee recruitment documents, labor contracts, labor accounts, wage payment books, contracts and insurance material about the property, buildings, machinery, and stock, business correspondence, bills and receipts, company cash books, and lists of sales and orders. Also contains personal records of finances and activities of Charles Stevens and the Gilbert family, production records, department expenses, stock inventories, forms, advertisements from various companies, and notices posted in the factories and tenements concerning company rules and regulations. Charles A. Stevens was George H. Gilbert's original partner.
• George H. Gilbert Co. Records - Finding Aid
  
  In 1841, George H. Gilbert and Charles A. Stevens formed a partnership to manufacture broadcloth and cloakings in Ware, Massachusetts. The partners acquired a mill building on the Ware River and expanded in 1846-1847 erecting several new factory buildings and a number of tenements to house the growing population of workers. The records have been arranged into seven series, as follows: Legal and Property, 1844-1879, 1 box, Executive, 1848-1882, 15 boxes, Financial, 1848-1929, 2 boxes and 17 volumes, Sales, 1842-1909, 5 boxes and 1 volume, Labor, 1851-1931, 1 box and 53 volumes, Production, 1846-1930, 1 box and 54 volumes, and Miscellany, 1848-1920, 1 box and 1 volume.
• Club Richelieu-Fall River records - Finding Aid
  
  Collection includes statutes and by-laws, minutes, administrative records, correspondence, financial records and receipts, scholarship records, publications, records of programs and events, and artifacts and ephemera.
• SR227b [More News reports about Muskie response to Loeb] Date: 1972 Length: 4 min., 5 sec. Format: 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. Content: Reporters: Sam Donaldson, Gary Cutley, Douglas Kiker, Bernard Shaw; Speaker: Edmund S. Muskie, William Loeb. Broadcast Febrary 26, 1972. News reports about Senator Muskie's response to newspaper publisher William Loeb, who published a letter alleging Muskie was prejudiced against French-Americans, and referred to Mrs. Muskie as "Sweet Daddy's Jane."
  
  From the Collection: This series consists of three subseries organized by format - cassette tapes, open-reel tapes and phonograph records. The contents are similar in that they consist of recordings of Muskie's speeches and other public remarks, including question-and-answer sessions, press conferences, radio and television interviews and news broadcasts, campaign spots for broadcast over radio or television, and congressional hearings. Almost all were made by Muskie's Senate or campaign staff for later reference. The recordings also contain a large number of audio press releases, called "beepers", prepared by Muskie's senate staff. Most of the open-reel tapes were recorded in the 1960s, but that subseries also includes a wire recording of a 1954 Democratic program and a contemporaenous Republican television program, which includes remarks by Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Starting in 1968, the staff increasingly relied on cassette tapes. The cassette tapes include a recording from 1958 (originally recorded on an open-reel tape player, but donated to the archives on a cassette tape) in which Muskie shared an Old Orchard Beach stage with Louis Armstrong and Bette Davis. The cassette tapes also include brief journal entries from Muskie and several members of his staff.
• SR227a [News reports about Muskie response to Loeb] Date: 1972 Length: 13 min., 53 sec. Format: 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. Content: Reporters: Sam Donaldson, Gary Cutley, Douglas Kiker, Bernard Shaw; Speaker: Edmund S. Muskie, William Loeb. Broadcast Febrary 26, 1972. News reports about Senator Muskie's response to newspaper publisher William Loeb, who published a letter alleging Muskie was prejudiced against French-Americans, and referred to Mrs. Muskie as "Sweet Daddy's Jane." Also, some reports about Nixon's trip to China.
  
  From the Collection: This series consists of three subseries organized by format - cassette tapes, open-reel tapes and phonograph records. The contents are similar in that they consist of recordings of Muskie's speeches and other public remarks, including question-and-answer sessions, press conferences, radio and television interviews and news broadcasts, campaign spots for broadcast over radio or television, and congressional hearings. Almost all were made by Muskie's Senate or campaign staff for later reference. The recordings also contain a large number of audio press releases, called "beepers", prepared by Muskie's senate staff. Most of the open-reel tapes were recorded in the 1960s, but that subseries also includes a wire recording of a 1954 Democratic program and a contemporaenous Republican television program, which includes remarks by Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Starting in 1968, the staff increasingly relied on cassette tapes. The cassette tapes include a recording from 1958 (originally recorded on an open-reel tape player, but donated to the archives on a cassette tape) in which Muskie shared an Old Orchard Beach stage with Louis Armstrong and Bette Davis. The cassette tapes also include brief journal entries from Muskie and several members of his staff.
• November 25, 1975 : Intergovernmental RelationsOpen Forumin Lewiston, Letter Written for French Population
  
  From the Series: This sub-subseries includes the following types of files from the 94th Congressional Session: case files (including academy files); correspondence files; political files; press files; resource files; scheduling files; sponsorship/cosponsorship files; personal files of Muskie, James W. Case and William S. Cohen; and a small number of miscellaneous files. These files include substantial documentation on the Maine Indian land claim case; clean air and water legislation; the work of the Senate Budget Committee and the Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations, both of which Muskie chaired; and Muskie's responses to U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Additionally, the political files from this congressional session include information about the 1972 and 1976 Presidential election processes.
• Poster, Muskie at Lewiston Kennedy Park, 1970
  "VISIT AND HEAR U.S. SENATOR EDMUND S. MUSKIE . . . CELEBRATE MAINE'S SESQUICENTENNIAL FRENCH CANADIAN DAYS" 14" x 22" From the Series: This subseries comprises artifacts that were manufactured for a specific, limited use related to politics or a poiltical campaign. It includes items such as buttons, bumper stickers, posters, and miscellaneous promotional items, as well as original political cartoons.
• SC1188 [Speech] Length: 29 min. 58 sec. Location: Lewiston, Me. Date: Unknown. Content: Prime minister, New Brunswick speaks in French on French Canadian Day. Topics include Me.'s tree industry. Audio quality: Fair.
  
  From the Collection: This series consists of three subseries organized by format - cassette tapes, open-reel tapes and phonograph records. The contents are similar in that they consist of recordings of Muskie's speeches and other public remarks, including question-and-answer sessions, press conferences, radio and television interviews and news broadcasts, campaign spots for broadcast over radio or television, and congressional hearings. Almost all were made by Muskie's Senate or campaign staff for later reference. The recordings also contain a large number of audio press releases, called "beepers", prepared by Muskie's senate staff. Most of the open-reel tapes were recorded in the 1960s, but that subseries also includes a wire recording of a 1954 Democratic program and a contemporaenous Republican television program, which includes remarks by Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Starting in 1968, the staff increasingly relied on cassette tapes. The cassette tapes include a recording from 1958 (originally recorded on an open-reel tape player, but donated to the archives on a cassette tape) in which Muskie shared an Old Orchard Beach stage with Louis Armstrong and Bette Davis. The cassette tapes also include brief journal entries from Muskie and several members of his staff.
• Anita Turgeon
  
  Born 1920, the only child of French Canadian immigrants. Left school at age 15 to work. Spent 27 years at Pepperell Mill, then 17 years in shoe shop. Got her GED in 1989. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Glorianne Travaglini
  
  Born 1930 to Franco-American parents, and grew up in Little Canada. After marriage worked part-time as secretary, and shop manager. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Gertrude Mynahan, Catherine Connelly, Merita Fournier, Martha Friedman
  
  Sisters born 1928, 1919, 1921, who grew up at the Lewiston Poor Farm, where their father (Antoine Landry) was superintendant from 1926 to 1938. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Omer Morin
  
  Born 1917 and grew up in northern Maine. Moved to Lewiston with family in 1932. Was in Civilian Conservation Corps for two years. Worked in textile mill, then in other local businesses. Served in World War II. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Gerard Lajoie
  
  Born 1917, the fourth child of ten. Grew up in Lewiston. After high school attended seminary in Suffern, N.Y. Returned to Lewiston, married, and worked 40 years for Postal Service. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Robert Hamel
  
  Born 1918 in Lewiston, one of 13 children of French-Canadian immigrants. Worked in shoe shop and for W.P.A. After World War II service, had a 37-year career at Hahnel Brothers. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Fernande Audet
  
  Born circa 1916 in Lewiston. Began working for government in 1933. Spent entire career as interviewer in Department of Employment Security. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Ida A. Therrien, 1996
  
  Born 1917 in Lewiston, one of 12 children. Father a shoe worker. Graduated 8th grade. At 17 she also began a lifelong career as shoe worker. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Martha G. Rivard, 1996
  
  Born 1911 in Canada, one of 14 children. Came to Lewiston with parents in 1923. Left school at age 11, and began working in shoe shop at age 15. Married at age 29. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Germaine Letourneau, 1996
  
  Born 1917 in Lewiston. Parents moved a lot, she completed 5th grade. She returned here in 1933 and began a 37-year career at the Hill Mill. Married in 1937. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Jeanne P. Guy, 1996
  
  Born 1907, one of 5 children. Completed 8th grade at Frye School. Her mother, a widow, worked in the mill. She worked in a confectionery shop for 8 years, then at Styles Loading Co. for 32 years. Married in 1933. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Edgar J. Dube, 1996
  
  Born 1912. Worked in lumber industry in Van Buren during much of Depression. Moved to Lewiston and worked at American Bobbin and other jobs in Lewiston. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Francoise Cloutier, 1996
  
  Born 1916 in Canada, one of 14 children, and had 8 years of school there. Family moved to Lewiston when she was 17. Worked in the mill until she married in 1936. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Helen S. Chaput, 1996
  
  Born 1908 in Lewiston, one of eight girls. Completed one year of high school. Worked in shoe factory till marriage in 1932. Moved to Bangor, and returned to Lewiston in late 1980s. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Germaine R. Belanger, 1996
  
  Born 1908. Father was a painter. Educated at St. Peter's School, also normal school in Canada. Worked at Lunn & Sweet (shoe shop), also as a teacher and at J.J. Newberry's. Married in 1960 and lived in New Hampshire until husband died in 1971. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Colette Albert, 1996
  
  Born 1916 in Lewiston. After high school studied at New England School of Embalming in Boston, then worked in father's funeral home in Lewiston. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• The Experience of the Great Depression in Lewiston-Auburn, Maine Oral History Collection - Finding Aid
  
  This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals. Recordings and transcripts are available for all except one interview. For this one interview the recording was faulty and in place of a transcript the interviewers wrote a summary of the interview.