Category Archives: Family Collections

Douglass family papers (MS 14)

Posted on April 28, 2017 by McArthur Library

Lloyd Douglass (1912-1984) worked as an apprentice in the Metallurgy Laboratory at the Saco-Lowell Shops in Biddeford in the years leading up to WWII. This collection includes plans, workshop books, and mettalurgy texts; it is particularly good at showing the … Continue reading →

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George Thacher papers (MS 1)

Posted on November 19, 2014 by McArthur Library

The Thacher collection consists of a folio album containing an account between George Thacher and his nephew, Silas Lee; one photograph of George Thacher’s portrait, painted by Henry Williams; and eighteen pieces of correspondence. The correspondence includes a letter written … Continue reading →

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