Guide to the Androscoggin River oral history collection, 2006


Scope and Content Note

Organization and Arrangement

Restrictions

Index Terms

Related Material

Administrative Information

Inventory

Collection Summary

Title Androscoggin River oral history collection
Creator Pfeiffer, Mariah
Dates 2006
Extent 1 manuscript box
Collection ID AROH
Abstract A collection of 14 oral histories about the social and political effects of economic change in the Androscoggin River Valley.
Repository Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, Bates College

Scope and Content Note

In 2007, Bates College student Mariah Pfeiffer wrote Visions and the Valley: A Reconstructed History of the Androscoggin River and its Industrial Communities, a senior Honors Thesis on the social and political effects of economic change in the Androscoggin River Valley. Pfeiffer conducted over a dozen oral histories in the summer of 2006 for her thesis. She conducted the oral histories in Berlin, New Hampshire; Lewiston, Maine; Rumford, Maine and surrounding towns along the River. She donated 14 of her oral histories to the Muskie Archives in the summer of 2007; these interviews form the Androscoggin River Oral History Collection.

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Organization and Arrangement

Alphabetical by interviewee.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

The collection is the physical property of Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library. Bates College holds literary rights only for material created by College personnel working on official behalf of the College, or for material which was given to the College with such rights specifically assigned. For all other material, literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for obtaining permission from rights holders for publication or other purposes that exceed fair use.

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Related Material

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Index Terms

These records are indexed under the following headings in the Bates College Library catalog. Researchers wishing to find related materials should search the catalog under these index terms.



Geographic Subjects:

Androscoggin River (N.H. and Me.)

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Administrative Information

Acquisition and Custody Information

Gift of Mariah Pfeiffer, 2007. Accession No.: 07-025.

Alternative Formats Available

Rough transcripts, done by Pfeiffer, are available for all but the Marden interview.

Preferred Citation

Androscoggin River oral history collection, Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, Bates College.

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Inventory

box
Errol Additon interview, 2006 July 23
1 tape
Don Barker interview, 2006 July 26
1 tape
Normand Charest interview, 2006 10 July
1 tape
Raymond and Hildreth Danforth interview, 2006 July 13
2 tapes
Wendell Easter interview, 2006 December 8
1 tape
Lucien Gosselin interview, 2006 July 31
1 tape
Margaret Guild interview, 2006 July 19
1 tape
Judy Marden interview, 2006 June 29
1 tape
Don Nicoll interview, 2006 August 01
1 tape
Birger Nottestad interview, 2006 July 11
1 tape
Teresa Riley interview, 2006 August 07
1 tape
Paul Tardiff interview, 2006 July 11
1 tape
Robert Treamer interview, 2006
1 tape
Neil Ward interview, 2006
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Page author: Jim Hart
Date: 12/09/2007


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