Chandlers RiverJonesboro · Maine

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Photographs, postcards, papers, a store ledger and a family notebook, shared from Jonesboro, Maine.

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Genealogy notebook

The Yellow Notebook

Lila Eunice (Mawhinney) Smith’s genealogy notebook

Family history written out by hand in blue ink on blue-ruled, red-margined loose-leaf pages, kept in a yellow Jewel theme book.

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From the collection

13 objects

  1. Sepia photograph of a riverside mill with a tall chimney, a sawdust pile and a stone wall, seen across a shallow, rocky river.
    No. 1Photographic print, sepia

    Lawrence Lumber Co.’s mill

  2. Sepia real-photo postcard of an unpaved village street, with people gathered outside a building on the left, telegraph poles, and white clapboard houses on the right.
    No. 2Real-photo postcard

    View, Jonesboro, Me.

  3. Sepia group photograph of more than twenty men in work clothes, caps and hats, sitting and standing on and in front of a large riveted boiler on a grassy bank.
    No. 3Photographic print, sepia

    Boiler crew

  4. Faded sepia photograph of a baseball team on a hillside, most players in dark shirts lettered JONESBORO, with a man in a suit and straw hat among them.
    No. 4Photographic print, sepia

    Jonesboro baseball team

  5. Sepia studio portrait of a baseball team in light uniforms lettered W.S.N.S., with gloves, a catcher's mitt and bats, and two young men in suits in the back row.
    No. 5Photographic print, sepia

    W.S.N.S. baseball team

  6. Photograph of a man in a hat beside a flatbed truck stacked with bundles of sawn lumber, with a wooden building at the left; handwritten across the top: Our first order 1944.
    No. 6Photographic print

    Our first order, 1944

  7. Black-and-white photograph of a river crowded with large blocks of ice, with a mill building and tall chimney on each bank.
    No. 7Photograph

    Mills and river ice

  8. Hand-tinted postcard of a dirt road curving between red-roofed houses, with a building topped by a small bell cupola on the right.
    No. 8Hand-tinted postcard

    Jonesboro, Maine

  9. The written side of a postcard with a green one-cent stamp, addressed in pencil to Miss Ida White, Harrington, Me., with a short message signed from Jonesboro.
    No. 9Postcard, written side

    Postcard to Miss Ida White, Harrington

  10. Colourized postcard of a steel truss bridge over still water, its reflection below, with houses and mill buildings on the far bank.
    No. 10Colourized postcard

    Truss bridge, Jonesboro

  11. A Look Brothers General Store envelope addressed to Mr. Geo. D. Perry, Machias, Maine, above a typed letter on Look Brothers letterhead dated April 23.
    No. 11Typed letter on letterhead, with envelope

    Look Brothers letter and envelope

  12. The worn cover of War Ration Book Four from the Office of Price Administration, issued to Richard M. Smith, Jonesboro, Maine, written in ink.
    No. 12Ration book cover

    War Ration Book Four, Richard M. Smith

  13. The worn identification page of War Ration Book Two, Office of Price Administration, filled in by hand for Richard Weston Smith of Jonesboro, Maine.
    No. 13Ration book identification page

    War Ration Book Two, Richard Weston Smith

Header: a collage of photographs and papers from the collection. Collection of Chandler River.