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Bowdoin College

 Organization

Found in 156 Collections and/or Records:

Breckinridge Public Affairs Center (River House): records

 Record Group
Identifier: A03.41
Scope and Content This collection contains agreements, inventories, reports, correspondence, and other material concerning the administration of Breckinridge. Also included are images of River House, historical information about the house, biographical information about Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, and printed ephemera.See Barry Mills: Subject Files for information about the College's sale...
Dates: 1885 - 2003; Majority of material found within 1974 - 2003

Bugle

 Record Group
Identifier: A04.12
Scope and Content

This collection contains the complete run of the Bugle from 1858. Two special issues were published in 1944, one of which is a wartime issue. Also included is an account book for 1915-19. The Bugle contains information about class, fraternity, and society memberships, athletic teams, student organizations, and faculty. Later Bugles provide photos of students and activities, athletic teams, and special events, eg. commencement. The format varies greatly from year to year.

Dates: 1858-2012

Bureau for Research in Municipal Government Publications

 Record Group
Identifier: A06.07
Scope and Content

This series contains the twenty-five monographs published by the Bureau for Research in Municipal Government between 1915 and 1964 on various aspects of state and local government in Maine. The monographs comprise the Bureau's Municipal Research Series, many of which are also issues of the Bowdoin College Bulletin.

Dates: 1915-1964

Campus Center [Smith Union] Planning Committee: records

 Record Group
Identifier: A01.27
Scope and Content

The collection documents the planning and construction of the David Saul Smith Union at Bowdoin College. Material includes subject files of Mark Wethli, the committee Chair, architectural plans and drawings of proposed and actual construction, and samples of materials, finishes and furnishings for the building. In addition, there is a series of minutes of meetings with the building contractors from the construction phase of the project.

Dates: 1992-1995

Capital Campaign of Bowdoin College: records and publications

 Record Group
Identifier: A01.11
Scope and Content

This collection contains records of the Capital Campaign of Bowdoin College. Files contain general information on the campaign, including correspondence regarding plans, progress and committee activities. Files also include summary information of campaign activities, including official reports and appeal and progress brochures.

Dates: 1956-1967

Catalogue of Bowdoin family material preserved at Bowdoin College

 Collection
Identifier: M194 .B738 C3
Scope and Contents

Typescript inventory of printed material, art work, decorative arts, and manuscripts acquired by Bowdoin College from the estate and family of James Bowdoin

Dates: 1959

Chandler-Cleaveland family papers

 Collection
Identifier: M029
Abstract The collection documents three generations of the personal and, to a lesser extent, professional lives of the Chandler-Cleaveland family. The collection includes extensive information about Peleg Whitman Chandler and Martha Ann Bush Cleaveland, who married in 1837, as well as their son, Horace P. Chandler, and his two daughters, Grace and Ellen. There is also materials related to Parker Cleaveland, the father of Martha; Theophilus Chandler, the brother of Peleg; and Charles Peleg Chandler,...
Dates: 1803-1949, undated

Charles Everett Ranlett papers

 Collection
Identifier: M270
Abstract

Copies of thirty items, mostly letters from Professor Paul Chadbourne (sent while he was a visiting professor at Bowdoin College) to Captain Charles Everett Ranlett. The correspondence concerns arrangements for the Williams College Lyceum of Natural History expedition to Greenland in 1860.

Dates: 1860-1897 undated

Charles H. Foster papers

 Collection
Identifier: M246
Abstract

Primarily correspondence between Charles H. Foster and Herbert Ross Brown and correspondence between Foster and Louis Coxe regarding academics, scholarship, and Bowdoin affairs.

Dates: 1958-1981

Charles Henry Foster journals

 Collection
Identifier: M065
Abstract

Contains a "Manuscript of Original Compositions."

Dates: 1843-1852

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Collection 155
Archival Object 1
 
Subject
Universities and colleges -- Maine -- Brunswick -- History 31
Personal correspondence 26
College presidents -- Maine -- Brunswick -- History 13
Biographies 9
College students' writings, American -- Maine -- Brunswick 9
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Speeches, addresses, etc, American 7
Diaries 6
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns 6
College presidents -- Maine -- Brunswick 5
College teachers -- Maine -- Brunswick 5
Lectures and lecturing -- Maine -- Brunswick 5
Personal narratives 5
Legislators -- United States 4
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 4
Account books -- Maine -- Brunswick 3
College students -- Maine -- Brunswick 3
English literature -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States 3
English teachers -- Maine -- Brunswick 3
Examinations 3
Interviews 3
Speeches, addresses, etc, American -- Maine -- Brunswick 3
Universities and colleges -- Maine -- Brunswick -- History -- 20th century 3
Account books 2
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Family relationships 2
Authors, American -- Maine 2
Baccalaureate addresses -- Bowdoin College 2
Brunswick (Me) -- Commerce 2
Brunswick (Me) -- Social life and customs 2
Business records -- Maine -- Brunswick 2
College administrators -- Maine -- Brunswick 2
College buildings -- Maine -- Brunswick 2
Educational fund raising -- Maine -- Brunswick 2
Educational fund raising -- Maine -- Brunswick -- History 2
English literature -- Examinations, questions, etc 2
Maine -- Social life and customs -- 19th century 2
Memorials -- Maine -- Brunswick 2
Military cadets -- Maine -- Brunswick 2
Sermons, American -- 19th century 2
United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century 2
Universities and colleges -- Maine -- Brunswick 2
Account books -- Maine -- Portland 1
Adaptations 1
African American women -- Maine -- Brunswick 1
African Americans -- Civil rights 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Maine -- History 1
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism 1
American wit and humor, Pictorial. 1
Animated films. 1
Animated television programs. 1
Architects and patrons -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
Architectural drawings 1
Architecture, Modern -- 19th century 1
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration 1
Art museum buildings -- Maine -- Brunswick -- Design and construction 1
Art museum directors -- Maine -- Brunswick 1
Art museum directors -- United States 1
Autograph albums 1
Baptists -- Maine 1
Bibliographies 1
Biology -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States 1
Biology teachers -- Maine -- Brunswick 1
Boston (Mass) -- Commerce 1
Boston (Mass) -- Description and travel 1
Boston (Mass) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century 1
Bricklayers -- Maine -- Brunswick. 1
Bricklayers -- Maine -- Portland. 1
Brunswick (Me) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century 1
Brunswick (Me.) -- History -- 19th century. 1
Buildings -- Maine -- Brunswick 1
Business records -- Maine -- Portland. 1
Business records -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
Campaign speeches -- Maine 1
Cartoons (Humor) 1
Catalogs 1
Cemeteries -- Maine -- Brunswick 1
Chemistry. 1
Children's literature, American -- History and criticism 1
Children's writings, American -- Maine 1
Choruses (Men's voices) with piano 1
Choruses (Men's voices), Unaccompanied 1
Church and college -- Maine -- Brunswick -- History 1
Church buildings -- Maine -- Brunswick -- Design and construction 1
Civil engineers -- United States -- Biography. 1
Civil rights movements -- Maine -- Brunswick -- History. 1
Coeducation -- Maine -- Brunswick -- History 1
College buildings -- Maine -- Brunswick -- History 1
College campuses -- Social aspects 1
College students -- Books and reading -- United States 1
College students -- Housing -- Maine -- Brunswick 1
College students -- Maine -- Brunswick -- History 1
College students' art -- Maine -- Brunswick. 1
College students' writings. 1
College teachers -- United States -- Biography. 1
College theater -- Maine -- Brunswick 1
College trustees -- Maine -- Brunswick 1
College wit and humor. 1
Community and college -- Maine -- Brunswick 1
Congregational churches -- Maine -- Brunswick 1
Drama in education 1
Education -- Maine 1
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