Maps of Maine : the men and times that made them, ca. 1994.

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Maps of Maine : the men and times that made them, ca. 1994.

Working ms. document, of Charles Shain, scholar and president of Connecticut College and his wife Samuella Shain, freelance writer and photographer, residents of Maine and compilers of two anthologies relating to Maine.

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Mitchell, John, 1711-1768

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Physician and artist. From the description of Papers of John Mitchell, 1745-1749. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454577 John Mitchell (1711-1768), Virginia born and Edinburgh educated physician, botanist, and cartographer, the author of the Mitchell Map (1755). He moved from Virginia to London in 1746, and in November 1748 elected to the Royal Society. From the description of Letter from John Mitchell to Cadwallader Colden, London 1749, Mar. 25. (Huntington Lib...

Shain, Samuella

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Carleton, Osgood, 1742-1816

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Teacher of mathematics in Boston, Mass. From the description of Osgood Carleton autograph letter signed, 1795. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 228428454 ...

Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1722-1824

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Greenleaf, Moses, 1777-1834

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Moses Greenleaf, Jr., surveyor, cartographer, writer, and pioneer settler, of Williamsburg, Me. From the description of Moses Greenleaf letters to Daniel Dewey, 1808-1809. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 317286468 ...

Shain, Charles E.

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English professor and president of Connecticut College (1962-1974), retiring to Maine in 1976; with wife, Samuella Shain, freelance writer and photographer, completed and edited two anthologies: The Maine Reader (Houghton Mifflin) and Growing up in Maine (Down East Books), both published in 1991. Charles and Samuella Shain's combined backgrounds - Charles in American literature and Samuella in library science - enabled them to be the ideal editorial duo to compile these anthologies. ...

Southack, Cyprian, 1662-1745

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