2024-03-28T21:53:48Z
http://api.mainememory.net/oai
oai:mainememory.net:21400
2017-07-13T08:39:02Z
contributor:camden
circa 1892
Lincolnville, Knox County, ME, USA
Lincolnville Historical Society
circa 1892
The Beach School was built in 1892 and closed in 1947. Class was held in the upstairs room, heated by a woodstove, no running water or electricity and with outhouses. Experienced teachers were difficult to find.
The main reason for having a school in every rural neighborhood was so children could walk to school, due to large drifts of snow in the winter and mud in the spring that could render roads impassable for days.
Currently, the school serves as the Schoolhouse Museum and home to the Lincolnville Historical Society.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/21400
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
School children--Maine--Lincolnville
Beach School (Lincolnville, Me.)
Rural schools--Maine--Lincolnville
Schools--Maine--Lincolnville
Beach School, Lincolnville, ca. 1892
Image
oai:mainememory.net:21405
2017-07-13T08:39:02Z
contributor:camden
1895
Rockport, Knox County, ME, USA
1895
The "Heather Bell" was built in 1890 at St. John, New Brunswick to support the lime industry in Rockport.
Rig - two-masted schooner
tonnage - 99
Photo was taken in Rockport in 1895
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/21405
Edward Coffin Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Piers & wharves--Maine--Rockport
Ships--Maine--Rockport
Cargo ships--Maine--Rockport
Lime industry--Maine
Heather Bell (Ship)
Rockport (Me.)--Views
Heather Bell in Rockport, 1895
Image
oai:mainememory.net:6924
2018-10-18T08:23:18Z
contributor:camden
1941-05-19
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
Lincolnville, Waldo County, ME, USA
Camden-Rockport Chamber of Commerce
1941-05-19
Caption on the back of photograph: "Camden, Maine. Subject: Cross on Maiden's Cliff, Mt. Megunticook, where girl lost her life nearly 100 years ago. Date: May 19, 1941. Photographer: Betty Foxwell."
On May 7, 1864, Elenora French of Lincolnville accompanied her older sister and some of her sister's friends to the top of Mt. Megunticook, where she fell to her death. A few years later a cross was erected on the site, and one has been maintained there ever since.
The cross in this picture, erected in 1924, was the third one to grace Maiden Cliff. It was made out of hard pine and stood 30-feet tall.
It was replaced in 1980 after a winter storm blew it down. The cross overlooks Megunticook Lake.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/6924
VF Maiden Cliff
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Accidents--Maine--Camden
Maiden Cliff (Mt. Megunticook, Camden, Me.)
Monuments & memorials--Maine--Camden--Mt. Megunticook--Photographs
Mt. Megunticook (Me.)--Photographs
French, Elenora
Maiden Cliff, Mt. Megunticook, 1941
Image
oai:mainememory.net:7256
2018-10-18T08:23:22Z
contributor:camden
circa 1909
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
circa 1909
This picture of Edna St. Vincent Millay and some of her female friends was probably taken shortly before her graduation from Camden High School in 1909.
Just three years later Vincent, as she was known, took the literary world by storm with the publication of her poem "Renascence" in the <em>Lyric Year</em>. She is in the back row, third from right.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/7256
ESVM Collection V. 1
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Students--Maine--Camden
Authors, Women
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)--Photographs
Schools--Maine--Camden
Millay, Edna V.
Edna St. Vincent Millay and high school friends, Camden, 1909
Image
oai:mainememory.net:7257
2018-10-18T08:23:22Z
contributor:camden
circa 1909
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
circa 1909
This photograph of the young poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and a group of her Camden friends probably was taken shortly before their graduation from Camden High School in 1909.
Millay is third from the left and appears to be working on something, possibly sewing.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/7257
ESVM Collection V. 1
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Camden High School (Me.)--Photographs
Schools--Maine--Camden
Authors, American
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)--Photographs
Authors, Maine
Students--Maine--Camden
Authors, Women
Millay, Edna V.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Camden, ca. 1909
Image
oai:mainememory.net:7258
2018-10-18T08:23:22Z
contributor:camden
circa 1907
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
circa 1907
Edna St. Vincent Millay, back row, far right, on the Camden High School girl's basketball team, probably in about 1907.
If the activities listed in her high school yearbooks are any indication, the future poet's interests tended much more to dramatic and literary pursuits than organized sports. Her basketball career does not appear to have lasted long.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/7258
ESVM Collection V. 1
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Basketball--Maine--Camden
Girl's Basketball--Maine--Camden
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)--Photographs
Schools--Maine--Camden
Students--Maine--Camden
Authors, Women
Camden High School (Me.)--Photographs
Authors, American
Authors, Maine
Millay, Edna V.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Camden, ca. 1907
Image
oai:mainememory.net:21410
2018-10-18T08:27:00Z
contributor:camden
1912
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
1912
An ice wagon makes deliveries along Main St. in Camden in 1912.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/21410
Frank Claes Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Carts & wagons--Maine--Camden
Camden (Me.)--Views
Ice industry--Maine--Camden
Ice Wagon, Camden, 1912
Image
oai:mainememory.net:21415
2018-10-18T08:27:00Z
contributor:camden
1925-07-26
Phippsburg, Sagadahoc County, ME, USA
Rockport, Knox County, ME, USA
1925-07-26
A large colonial mansion, known as "Spite House," was loaded on a railroad lighter at Phippsburg Center to be transported 85 miles to Rockport on July 26, 1925.
The 119-year-old mansion had been sold to Donald D. Dodge of Philadelphia, who wanted it located in the summer colony of Rockport. It took three hours to load it onto the lighter and then was delivered the same day.
Ambrose C. Cramer, Historic Buildings Preservation Officer of The American Institute of Architects, calls Spite House and the Kavanagh Mansion at Damariscotta Mills "the two finest examples in Maine of residential architecture in the Federal style."
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Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/21415
Betty Frost Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Dodge, Donald B.--Homes and haunts--Maine--Rockport
Moving of structures--Maine--Rockport
Moving of structures--Maine--Phippsburg
Dwellings--Maine--Rockport
Houses--Maine--Rockport
Workboats--Maine
Barges--Maine
Dodge, Donald D.
Spite House on Its Way to Rockport, 1925
Image
oai:mainememory.net:72849
2018-10-18T08:36:05Z
contributor:camden
1915-10-11
Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, NY, USA
1915-10-11
Future Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Vassar College student Edna St. Vincent Millay, who was born in Rockland and grew up in Camden, participated in the Pageant of Athena in honor of Vassar's 50th anniversary in October 1911.
Marie de France, the 12th century Breton poet, was the first known woman to have written poetry in France's history.
Photographic print
25 cm x 15 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/72849
ESVM Collection V. 1
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Pageants--New York--Poughkeepsie
Vassar College
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1915
Image
oai:mainememory.net:72930
2018-10-18T08:36:05Z
contributor:camden
circa 1909
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
circa 1909
Edna St. Vincent Millay and her Camden High School classmate and best friend, Corinne Sawyer, around 1909, the year of their graduation.
Millay was "discovered" in 1912 reading her poetry at Whitehall Inn in Camden, which enabled her to go to Vassar College and launch her literary career. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1923 for "The Ballad of the Harp Weaver." She received $1,000 for the award, and said she would use it to return to Maine.
Corinne Sawyer remained in Camden, and became the librarian at the Camden Public Library. She was responsible for building the extensive Millay collection at the library.
Paper
25 cm x 20 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/72930
ESVM Collection V. 1
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Outdoor recreation
Photographs
Women--Maine
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Sawyer, Corinne
Edna St. Vincent Millay and Corinne Sawyer, Camden, ca. 1909
Image
oai:mainememory.net:72931
2018-10-18T08:36:06Z
contributor:camden
circa 1913
NY, USA
circa 1913
Edna St. Vincent Millay, a writer and Pulitzer Prize winning poet who grew up in Camden, is shown in her early 20s in a portrait taken at a studio in New York. Studio name is not legible.
Photographic print
24 cm x 19 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/72931
CAHC 2006.67.1
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 --Portraits
Portrait photographs
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Portrait of Edna St. Vincent Millay, ca. 1913
Image
oai:mainememory.net:72933
2018-10-18T08:36:06Z
contributor:camden
circa 1909
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
circa 1909
This image of Edna St. Vincent Millay appears to be one taken around the time of her graduation from Camden High School in 1909.
Millay went on to become a well-known poet and writer.
Paper
17 cm x 12 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/72933
ESVM Collection V. 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950.
Portrait Photographs
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Camden, ca. 1909
Image
oai:mainememory.net:72946
2018-10-18T08:36:06Z
contributor:camden
circa 1935
New York, NY, USA
circa 1935
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay is shown in the New York City office of Margaret Cuthbert, director of public affairs programs for the National Broadcasting Company.
Written on the back of the photograph is, "gift of Vincent's Auntie Kem." Clementine M. Parsons, known as "Auntie Kem," was a sister of Millay's mother, Cora Buzzell Millay.
Edna St. Vincent Millay autographed the photograph.
Photographic print
25 cm x 20 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/72946
ESVM Collection V. 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Women
Photographs
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Parsons, Clementine
Edna St. Vincent Millay, New York, ca. 1935
Image
oai:mainememory.net:72950
2018-10-18T08:36:06Z
contributor:camden
1911
Knox County, ME, USA
1911
A playful picture of Edna St. Vincent Millay and her Camden High School friends was taken in August 1911, two years after their graduation.
Gladys Snelly is at the bottom, then Martha Knight behind her. Millay is the third from the bottom, leaning left. Corinne Sawyer, future librarian at the Camden Public Library, is third from the top at right.
Photographic print
11 cm x 17 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/72950
ESVM Collection V. 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Outdoor recreation
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Women--Maine
Photographs
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Sawyer, Corinne
Snelly, Gladys
Edna St. Vincent Millay and friends, Camden, 1911
Image
oai:mainememory.net:21403
2019-10-02T08:34:32Z
contributor:camden
circa 1880
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
circa 1880
The Camden High School Baseball Team in the late 1800s.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/21403
Barbara F. Dyer Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Baseball players--Maine--Camden
Baseball teams--Maine--Camden
Baseball--Maine--Camden
Camden High School (Me.)--People
Group portraits
Schools--Maine--Camden
Students--Maine--Camden
Camden Baseball Team, ca. 1880
Image
oai:mainememory.net:21413
2022-06-29T05:26:19Z
contributor:camden
1906
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
Frank E. Claes
1906
Loading ice cakes onto a schooner in Camden, 1906. Ice was cut on the Lily Pond in Rockport and transported by schooner as an area industry.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/21413
Edward Coffin Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Waterfronts--Maine--Camden
Ships
Piers & wharves--Maine--Camden
Ice industry--Maine--Camden
Cargo ships--Maine
Camden (Me.)--Views
Loading Ice Cakes, Camden, 1906
Image
oai:mainememory.net:21414
2022-06-29T05:26:19Z
contributor:camden
circa 1900
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
Frank E. Claes
circa 1900
The interior of the Camden shipyard, which Holly M. Bean purchased in 1875.
The shipyard was known as the largest builder on the coast, building or working on 71 ships, totaling $2.5 million.
It is now known as Wayfarer Marine Corporation.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/21414
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Wayfarer Marine Corporation (Camden, Me.)
Boat & ship industry--Maine--Camden
Camden Shipyard (Camden, Me.)--Interiors
Holly M. Bean Shipyard (Camden, Me.)--Interiors
Shipbuilding--Maine--Camden
Shipyards--Maine--Camden
Camden Shipyard interior, ca. 1900
Image
oai:mainememory.net:21416
2022-06-29T05:26:19Z
contributor:camden
circa 1880
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
Frank E. Claes
circa 1880
Higgins Stage Coach made regular trips between Camden and Rockland in the late 1800s.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/21416
Frank Claes Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Stagecoaches--Maine
Transportation--Maine--Camden
Higgins Stage Coach, Camden, ca. 1880
Image
oai:mainememory.net:72944
2022-06-29T05:41:58Z
contributor:camden
circa 1906
Newburyport, Essex County, MA, USA
Clementine Buzzell Parsons
circa 1906
This image of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was taken by her aunt Clementine Parsons, known as "Auntie Clem" or "Auntie Kem."
The back of the photo is inscribed by Parsons to Millay's best friend, Corinne Sawyer, saying, "This is a snap shot I took of Vincent when she was 15 and made us a visit. It is a good likeness but not a real clear picture, because she was coming toward me when I snapped her. I'm sure that you will see a familiar expression of those school-girl chum days. I hope that you will love it, as I do."
Paper
17 cm x 12 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/72944
ESVM Collection V. 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950.
Photographs
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Camden, ca. 1906
Image
oai:mainememory.net:73336
2022-06-29T05:42:06Z
contributor:camden
1914-05-04
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, NY, USA
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1914-05-04
Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, who spent most of her childhood in Camden, wrote a thank-you note to her best friend, Corinne W. Sawye, in Camden in May 1914.
This letter may be in Sawyer's handwriting as she is known to have copied several letters she received from Millay.
Paper
28 cm x 22 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/73336
ESVM Collection V. 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Gifts
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950--Correspondence
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Sawyer, Corinne
Edna St. Vincent Millay to Corinne Sawyer, 1914
Text
oai:mainememory.net:77898
2022-06-29T05:43:53Z
contributor:camden
1955
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
Long Island, Suffolk County, NY, USA
Corinne Sawyer
1955-10-11
Camden Public Library librarian Corinne Sawyer wrote to Mary S. Komerda of Long Island, New York, to describe her friendship with poet Edna St. Vincent Millay during their years at Camden High School.
The letter gives insight into Millay's personality, discusses her participation on the basketball team, and her skill at music and recitation.
Ink on paper
27 cm x 18 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/77898
ESVM Collection, V. 2
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Friendship
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Correspondence
Schools--Maine--Camden
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Sawyer, Corinne
Letter from Corinne Sawyer to Mary S. Komerda, 1955
Text
oai:mainememory.net:7081
2023-03-12T08:27:02Z
contributor:camden
circa 1931
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
circa 1931
In 1931, the land adjacent to the Camden Public Library was transformed into the Camden Amphitheatre.
Designed by the prominent landscape architect Fletcher Steele on land donated by Mary Louise Curtis Bok, the amphitheatre was intended to be a public space where concerts, plays and programs could be staged.
This picture shows the amphitheatre from side to side, with the back of the Camden Public Library in the background. Workers are putting finishing touches on the lawn.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/7081
Amphitheatre and Harbor Park
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Camden Amphitheater (Me.)--Photographs
Music--Maine--Camden
Concerts--Maine--Camden
Libraries--Maine--Camden
Lawns
Camden Public Library (Me.)--Photographs
Gardeners
Concert halls--Maine--Camden
Exhibition facilities--Maine--Camden
Gardens
Bok, Mary Louise Curtis
Steele, Fletcher
Camden Amphitheatre, ca. 1931
Image
oai:mainememory.net:21406
2023-03-12T08:29:09Z
contributor:camden
1905
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
1905
The <em>Helen J. Seitz</em> 5-masted schooner, named after the wife of Arthur Seitz, V. P. of Coastwise Transportation, was built in Camden by the Holly M. Bean shipyard.
The schooner, launched October 30, 1905, was the deepest vessel ever built by the Bean shipyard. It carried 4,500 tons of coal. It was known as one of the prettiest schooners ever built.
The keel was 272 feet, the Beam was 48 feet, the depth 27 feet, and the LOA 308 feet.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/21406
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Launchings--Maine--Camden
Sailing ships--Maine
Seitz, Helen J.--Commemoration
Holly M. Bean Shipyard (Camden, Me.)
Shipbuilding--Maine--Camden
Helen J. Seitz (Ship)
Shipyards--Maine--Camden
Seitz, Arthur
Seitz, Helen J.
'Helen J. Seitz,' Camden, 1905
Image
oai:mainememory.net:72840
2023-03-12T08:33:34Z
contributor:camden
1911
North Haven, Knox County, ME, USA
1911
Photograph of Edna St. Vincent Millay (3rd from left) with her friends at Pulpit Harbor on North Haven. Millay and friends are laying in the grass, chins in hands. The image is labeled on verso "August 1911, Pulpit Harbor. Left to right: Gladys Snelley, Corinne S., Vincent, Martha, [illegible], Hazel, Ethel."
Paper
11 cm x 17 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/72840
ESVM Collection V. 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Photographs
Women--Maine--North Haven
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Outdoor recreation
Knight, Ethel
Knight, Martha
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Sawyer, Corinne
Edna St. Vincent Millay with friends at Pulpit Harbor, August, 1911
Image
oai:mainememory.net:72850
2023-03-12T08:33:34Z
contributor:camden
1909
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
1909
Edna St. Vincent Millay posed with her high school friends at Baccalaureate Sunday in June 1909, the year she graduated from Camden High School.
From left are Martha Knight, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Corinne Sawyer, Marion Payson, Maude Fuller, and Margaret Cripps.
Corinne Sawyer became a librarian at the Camden Public Library and collected photos, clippings and letters about Millay's career as a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
Paper
11 cm x 17 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/72850
ESVM Collection V. 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Students--Maine--Camden
Women--Maine--Camden
Graduation ceremonies--Maine--Camden
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Cripps, Margaret
Fuller, Maude
Knight, Martha
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Payson, Marion
Sawyer, Corinne
Baccalaureate Sunday, Camden, 1909
Image
oai:mainememory.net:72851
2023-03-12T08:33:34Z
contributor:camden
1909
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
Frank L. Harris
1909
Photograph of the Camden High School Class of 1909 in front of Camden High School on Knowlton Street. Edna St. Vincent Millay is seated in front center with dark skirt and corsage.
Back, L to R: Henry Hall, Harold Newton, Harold Nash, Clyde Groves and Gershom Rollins
Middle, L to R: Guy Blood, Hale Hanley, Nathan Pease, Margaret Cripps, Henry Treat Pendleton, Maude Fuller, Percy Sawyer, Harold Beedy and George Frohock
Front, L to R: Martha Knight, Corinne Sawyer, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Stella Derry, Mary Pendleton and Marian Payson.
Photographic print
21 cm x 25 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/72851
CAHC 2006.29.1
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Students---Maine--Camden
Schools--Maine--Camden
Portrait photographs
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Beedy, Harold
Blood, Guy
Cripps, Margaret
Derry, Stella
Frohock, Georgie
Fuller, Maude
Grove, Clyde
Hall, Henry
Hanley, Hale
Knight, Martha
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Nash, Harold
Newton, Harold
Payson, Marian
Pease, Nathan
Pendleton, Henry Treat
Pendleton, Mary B.
Rollins, Gershom
Sawyer, Corinne
Sawyer, Percival
Camden High School Class of 1909
Image
oai:mainememory.net:72845
2023-03-12T08:33:35Z
contributor:camden
1901-03-06
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
Kingman, Penobscot County, ME, USA
Harry French
1901-03-06
This letter to J.H. Montgomery from Harry French tells of the culmination of Sheriff Harry French's search.
Cora Buzzell Millay, mother of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, had some difficulty in serving her husband Henry with divorce papers. Having moved to Kingman, in northern Penobscot County, he proved difficult to track down for Cora's lawyer, J.H. Montgomery of Camden.
Paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/72845
ESVM Collection V. 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Actions & defenses
Divorce
Domestic life
Law & legal affairs
French, Harry
Millay, Cora Buzzell
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Millay, Henry
Montgomery, J. H.
Letter from Sheriff Harry French to J.H. Montgomery, March 1901
Text
oai:mainememory.net:72847
2023-03-12T08:33:35Z
contributor:camden
1901-02-23
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
Harry French
1901-02-23
This letter to J.H. Montgomery from Harry French is the first record of Sheriff Harry French's search for Henry Millay.
Cora Buzzell Millay, mother of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, had some difficulty in serving her husband Henry with divorce papers. Having moved to Kingman, in northern Penobscot County, he proved difficult to track down for Cora's lawyer, J.H. Montgomery of Camden.
Paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/72847
ESVM Collection V. 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Domestic life
Divorce
Actions & defenses
Law & legal affairs
French, Harry
Millay, Cora Buzzell
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Millay, Henry
Montgomery, J. H.
Letter from Harry French to J.H. Montgomery, February 1901
Text
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contributor:camden
1901-02-26
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
Harry French
1901-02-26
Cora Buzzell Millay, mother of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, had some difficulty in serving her husband Henry with divorce papers. Having moved to Kingman, in northern Penobscot County, he proved difficult to track down for Cora's lawyer, J.H. Montgomery of Camden. This letter is the second report of Sheriff Harry French's search.
Paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/72848
ESVM Collection V. 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Divorce
Law & legal affairs
Actions & defenses
French, Harry
Millay, Cora Buzzell
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Millay, Henry
Montgomery, C. O.
Montgomery, J. H.
Letter from Harry French to J.H. Montgomery, 1901
Text
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contributor:camden
circa 1908
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
circa 1908
Camden High School classmates Edna St. Vincent Millay, at rear leaning against a tree; Martha Knight, seated at center; Corinne Sawyer, seated at far right; and an unidentified person pose, probably in Camden. The group of friends graduated from Camden High School in 1909.
Millay went on the become a noted poet and playwright.
Photographic print
24 cm x 19 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/72948
ESVM Collection V. 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Women--Maine--Camden
Outdoor recreation
Students--Maine--Camden
Knight, Martha
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Sawyer, Corinne
Millay and three friends, ca. 1908
Image
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2023-03-12T08:33:39Z
contributor:camden
1909
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
1909
Edna St. Vincent Millay and five friends posed on the fire escape at Camden High School in 1909, the year of their graduation.
From left are Mary Pendleton, Stella Derry, Marion Payson, Margaret Cripps, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Corinne Sawyer.
Photographic print
11 cm x 17 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/72952
ESVM Collection V. 1
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Women--Maine--Camden
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950.
Photographs
Cripps, Margaret
Derry, Stella
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Payson, Marion
Pendleton, Mary
Sawyer, Corinne
Edna St. Vincent Millay and friends, Camden, 1909
Image
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2023-03-12T08:33:40Z
contributor:camden
1951-10-17
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
Newburyport, Essex County, MA, USA
Clementine Todd Parsons
1951-10-17
Handwritten letter from Clementine Buzzell, Millay's "Auntie Kem", to Corinne Sawyer.
Sawyer was Millay's childhood friend and librarian at the Camden Public Library. "Auntie Kem" was sister to Edna St. Vincent Millay's mother Cora.
The letter refers to copies of Edna St. Vincent Millay's photos (a gift from Parsons to Millay) taken at the time of her graduation from Camden High School in 1909. She mentions the seriousness of Millay's expression, "the whimsical Puckish cute smile of hers seems to have been absent." Ms. Parsons also mentions sending a letter "to Mr. MacDougall in N.Y." - she likely means Allan Ross MacDougall, columnist for the Paris Evening Telegram.
Paper
28 cm x 22 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/73078
ESVM Collection V. 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Buzzell, Clementine--Correspondence
Photographs
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
MacDougall, Allan Ross
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Parsons, Clementine Buzzell
Sawyer, Corinne
Clementine Buzzell Letter to Corinne Sawyer, October 1951
Text
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2023-03-12T08:33:40Z
contributor:camden
1953-09-01
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
Newburyport, Essex County, MA, USA
Clementine Todd Parsons
1953-09-01
Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Auntie Kem" wrote to Corinne Sawyer, Millay's high school friend who was the librarian at the Camden Public Library.
"Auntie Kem" was Clementine Buzzell, sister to Edna St. Vincent Millay's mother Cora.
The letter referred to photographs of Edna St. Vincent Millay and her childhood friends and two photos of Vincent's parents, Henry and Cora Buzzell Millay. Parsons wrote of her fondness for Henry Millay and noted that she lived with them for a time before Edna St. Vincent Millay was born.
Ink on paper
28 cm x 22 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/73082
ESVM Collection V. 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Women--Maine
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Buzzell, Clementine--Correspondence
Photographs
MacDougall, Allan Ross
Millay, Cora Buzzell
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Millay, Henry
Parsons, Clementine Todd
Sawyer, Corinne
Letter to Corinne Sawyer from Clementine Parsons, 1953
Text
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contributor:camden
1913-02-27
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
New York, NY, USA
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1913-02-27
Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote on February 27, 1913 to her friend Corinne Sawyer in Camden. Millay and Sawyer attended Camden High School together, graduating in the class of 1909.
In the letter "Vincent" Millay thanks Corinne for a birthday gift. She mentions that she is "still with Miss Dow," referring to her benefactor Caroline B. Dow, dean of the New York Y.W.C.A. Training School who "discovered" Millay while attending her reading of "Renascence" at Whitehall Inn in Camden.
Millay also refers to Jessie Rittenhouse, influential poetry critic and officer of the Poetry Society of America.
This letter may not be in Millay's own handwriting. Sawyer apparently recopied several letters she received from Millay.
Ink on paper
28 cm x 22 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/73337
ESVM Collection V. 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Gifts
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950--Correspondence
Poetry
Dow, Caroline
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Rittenhouse, Jessie
Sawyer, Corinne
Letter to Corinne Sawyer from Edna St. Vincent Millay, February, 1913
Text
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2023-03-12T08:33:40Z
contributor:camden
1919-01-30
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
NY, USA
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1919-01-30
Edna St. Vincent Millay and Corinne Sawyer were classmates and best friends, graduating from Camden High School in 1909.
Millay became a sensation upon reading her poem "Renascence," and she left Camden to attend Vassar. Corinne Sawyer became the librarian at the Camden Public Library and created a large collection of Millay-related material.
In the letter, Millay thanked Corinne for writing to her about a recent review of Millay's work, saying "It has become a sort of fad lately to review my poems." She also mentions the heat of the summer in the city and missing Camden and her old friends, especially Martha Knight.
Millay wrote, "Please remember me to old friends and tell them I shall see them again just as soon as I get rich enough to spend my summers in Camden."
This letter may not be in Sawyer's handwriting as she apparently recopied several letters she received from Millay.
Ink on paper
28 cm x 22 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/73340
ESVM Collection V. 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950--Correspondence
Poetry
Summer--Maine--Camden
Knight, Martha
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Sawyer, Corinne
Letter to Corinne Sawyer from Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1919
Text
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2023-03-12T08:34:07Z
contributor:camden
1958-04-25
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
Fryeburg, Oxford County, ME, USA
Corinne Sawyer
1958-04-25
Camden Public Library librarian Corinne Sawyer wrote to student Sandra E. Walker of Fryeburg, to provide information about Edna St. Vincent Millay for a project the student was writing.
This letter describes Sawyer's friendship with poet Edna St. Vincent Millay during their years at Camden High School and it gives insight into Millay's personality.
Ink on paper
16 cm x 25 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/77897
ESVM Collection, V. 2
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Correspondence
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Friendship
Schools--Maine--Camden
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Sawyer, Corinne
Letter from Corinne Sawyer to Sandra E. Walker, 1958
Text
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2024-02-24T09:25:33Z
contributor:camden
1941-05-15
Camden Harbor, Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
Camden-Rockport Chamber of Commerce
1941-05-15
Caption on back reads: "Camden Harbor. Camden, Maine. Subject: riggers, caulkers. Getting windjammer fleet of Captain Frank Swift in commission for summer vacation cruises. Photographer: Betty Foxwell. Date: May 15, 1941"
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/7060
VF Ship
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Sailors--Maine--Camden
Sailing ships
Ships--Maine--Camden
Swift, Frank
Windjammer, Camden, 1941
Image
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contributor:camden
1905
Ducktrap, Lincolnville, Knox County, ME, USA
1905
The L. D. Ames General Store, located at Ducktrap just beyond the north end of the bridge, was owned and operated by Leslie D. Ames. The store's inventory consisted of mainly groceries and general merchandise. The building no longer exists.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/21411
Frank Claes Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Stores & shops--Maine--Lincolnville
L.D. Ames General Store (Lincolnville, Me.)
General stores--Maine--Lincolnville
Ames, Leslie D.--Homes and haunts--Maine--Lincolnville
Ames, Leslie D.
L. D. Ames General Store, Lincolnville, 1905
Image
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2024-02-24T09:32:35Z
contributor:camden
circa 1945
Steepletop, Austerlitz, Columbia County, NY, USA
circa 1945
Edna St. Vincent Millay and her husband, Eugen Boissevain, are shown on the porch of their home "Steepletop" in Austerlitz, New York.
Purchased in the spring of 1925, the farmhouse was situated on 300 acres and named after a wildflower that was growing on the property.
Photographic print
12 cm x 9 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/72943
ESVM Collection V. 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Houses--New York--Austerlitz
Boissevain, Eugen
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Edna St. Vincent Millary and Eugen Boissevain, Austerlitz, NY, 1945
Image
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2024-02-24T09:32:35Z
contributor:camden
1912
Oakland Park, Rockport, Knox County, ME, USA
1912
Edna St. Vincent Millay and several friends are shown at a Sunday school picnic at Oakland Park in Rockport.
From left are Jess Hosmer, Ethel Knight, Gladys Snelley, Martha Knight, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Corinne Sawyer.
The photo was taken July 1912, just a month before Millay's "discovery" at Whitehall Inn in Camden. She later attended Vassar and became and became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Photographic print
17 cm x 24 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/72945
ESVM Collection V. 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Women--Maine--Rockport
Picnics
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Parks--Maine--Rockport
Hosmer, Jess
Knight, Ethel
Knight, Martha
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Sawyer, Corinne
Snelley, Gladys
Edna St. Vincent Millay and friends, Rockport, 1912
Image
oai:mainememory.net:72947
2024-02-24T09:32:35Z
contributor:camden
1912-08-17
Ash Point, Rockland, Knox County, ME, USA
1912-08-17
Edna St. Vincent Millay. at left, and her Camden High School classmates are seated on a seaside porch, likely at Ash Point in Rockland. On the back of the photo is written, "August 17, 1912."
The group of friends graduated from Camden High School in 1909. The photo was taken just days before Millay's "discovery" at Whitehall Inn in Camden on August 29, 1912.
Her sister Norma worked in the Whitehall Inn dining room and at a party the end of the season, Edna entertained the guests and staff with her singing and playing the piano. Her recital of her poem "Renascence" enthralled everyone including Caroline Dow, who arranged for Millay's scholarship to Vassar College. Mrs. Dow introduced Millay to the literary community in New York, the launching pad for Millay's meteoric rise as poet and playwright.
Photographic print
17 cm x 24 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/72947
ESVM Collection V. 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Outdoor recreation
Women--Maine--Rockland
Porches
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Edna St. Vincent Millay and friends, Rockland, 1912
Image
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2024-02-24T09:32:35Z
contributor:camden
1912-08-17
Ash Point, Rockland, Knox County, ME, USA
1912-08-17
Edna St. Vincent Millay, second from right, is pictured with her high school friends on August 17, 1912 at Helena Blethen's cottage at Ash Point in Rockland.
On August 29, 1912, Millay's rise to fame began when she entertained guests at the Whitehall Inn dining room in Camden by reciting her poem "Renascence." That reading led to a scholarship to Vassar and the beginning of Millay's career as a poet and playwright.
Photographic print
12 cm x 17 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/72949
ESVM Collection V. 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Photographs
Women--Maine--Rockland
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Blethen, Helena
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ash Point, 1912
Image
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2024-02-24T09:32:35Z
contributor:camden
1911
Pulpit Harbor, North Haven, Knox County, ME, USA
1911
Edna St. Vincent Millay and her close friend and Camden High School classmate Ethel Knight are shown at Pulpit Harbor on North Haven.
Written on the back of the photo is, "On Pulpit Harbor, 1911 picnic with the Knights in Capt. Elwell's boat. Vincent and Ethel." The two graduated from Camden High School in 1909.
in 1912, Millay was "discovered" after enthusiastic reviews of her recitation of her poem "Renascence," which enabled her to attend Vassar and launched her literary career.
Photographic print
17 cm x 11 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/72951
ESVM Collection V. 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Outdoor recreation
Women--Maine--North Haven
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Knigh, Ethel
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ethel Knight, North Haven, 1911
Image
oai:mainememory.net:72953
2024-02-24T09:32:35Z
contributor:camden
1912
Ash Point, Rockland, Knox County, ME, USA
1912
Edna St. Vincent Millay and her Camden High School classmates are shown on a seaside porch, likely at Ash Point in Rockland.
The photo is not dated, but the same women appear in a similar photo labeled "August 17, 1912." Corinne Sawyer is at the left, and Millay is next to her. The image was taken just days before Millay's "discovery" at Whitehall Inn in Camden on August 29, 1912, when she read her poem "Renascence" to great acclaim.
Photographic print
17 cm x 24 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/72953
ESVM Collection V. 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Outdoor recreation
Women--Maine--Rockland
Porches
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Millay, Edna
Sawyer, Corinne
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Corrine Sawyer, Rockland, 1912
Image
oai:mainememory.net:72838
2024-02-24T09:32:36Z
contributor:camden
1960-04-22
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
Steepletop, Austerlitz, Columbia County, NY, USA
Norma Millay
1960-04-22
Norma wrote to Corinne Sawyer to discuss the actress Dorothy Stickney's performance of Millay's material.
Norma also complains that the local newspaper is not interested in the critics' reviews of Stickney's work. "I doubt if the Camden Herald, with its club meetings to keep straight and all the local excitements to record, would give the New York critics' accounts of the Millay-Stickney triumph an interested glance."
Norma Millay (1893-1986) was the sister of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. She inherited Millay's intellectual property and her estate "Steepletop" in Austerlitz, NY upon the death of Edna in 1950. Corinne Sawyer was Millay's best friend from childhood and the librarian for the Camden Public Library.
Paper
20 cm x 15 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/72838
ESVM Collection V. 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Theatrical productions--New York
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Farr, Robert
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Millay, Norma
Sawyer, Corinne
Stickney, Dorothy
Letter to Corinne Sawyer from Norma Millay, 1960
Text
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2024-02-24T09:32:36Z
contributor:camden
circa 1940
Camden, Knox County, ME, USA
Steepletop, Austerlitz, Columbia County, NY, USA
Edna St. Vincent Millay
circa 1940
Undated, typed letter from Edna St. Vincent Millay enclosing her 50 cent payment of the annual dues to the Camden High School Alumni Association.
Millay graduated from Camden in 1909. The letter also bears the signature of Millay's husband Eugen Boissevain.
Paper
20 cm x 15 cm
http://www.mainememory.net/item/72846
ESVM Collection V. 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Alumni & alumnae--Maine--Camden
Boissevain, Eugen, d. 1949
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950--Correspondence
Boissevain, Eugen
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Camden High School dues, ca. 1940
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