Bonnie Farmer collection, ca. 1980-1999.

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Bonnie Farmer collection, ca. 1980-1999.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/709922843

Chiefly photographs taken of the facilities and employees of the Knox Mill (19 photographs) and Camden Tanning Corporation (23 photographs), shortly before the facilities closed in 1987 and 1999 respectively; together with photographs of individuals. Subjects of the latter photographs include Grace and Al Bird, Elmer Heal, Walter Howe, Marian Milliken, Robert Oxton, and Phil Raynes.

49 photographs.

Camden Public Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8070033

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Heal, Elmer

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Raynes, Phillip

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Bird, Al

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Farmer, Bonnie Cashin

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Maine photographer. From the description of Bonnie Farmer collection, ca. 1980-1999. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 709922843 ...

Howe, Walter Bruce, 1879-1954

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Walter Bruce Howe was a lawyer in New York City and Washington, D.C. and was an officer in the Navy League. He served as recorder for the Roberts Pearl Harbor Commission, 1941-1942, and was a member of the Inter-American Escadrille, 1940-1941. He died in Washington, D.C. in 1954. From the description of Papers, 1853-1946. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 46408937 ...

Bird, Grace

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Knox Woolen Company (Camden, Me.)

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The Knox Woolen Company began operation about the time of the Civil War and made woolen felts used in the manufacture of paper. In its heyday the mill made use of Camden's abundant resources: water power for the mill, wool from surrounding farms as well as wool shipped from around the world, and shipping by water to the paper mills upriver on the Penobscot. By 1905, the company employed 150 men and women with an annual payroll of $70,000. The year 1912 saw a three-story, 70-foot ext...

Milliken, Marian D.

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Camden Tanning Corporation (Camden, Me.)

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Oxton, Robert.

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