The Mary Low-Louise Helen Coburn Letters is a correspondence between the first alumnae of Colby College, led by the first two women graduates, discussing the 1889 college administration proposal to create two divisions (men’s and women’s), a crucial moment in Colby history. The letters are part of the Colbiana (college archives) Collection. The Low-Coburn WordPress site contains letters, transcripts, photographs and a pamphlet by Low titled “Coeducation at Colby.”
The Marriner Little Talks Collection comprises radio scripts and audio recordings related to Ernest Marriner’s “Little Talks on Common Things,” a long-running and very popular weekly broadcast series commenced in 1948. The Colbiana Collection contains 197 audiotapes containing “Little Talks” programs dated from 1972 to 1982. The programs relate to local (Waterville), Colby and Maine history. Much of Marriner’s research for the programs used materials in the college archives. The Little Talks WordPress site contains the entire run of radio scripts as well as 23 digitized recordings.
The Wesley McNair Papers is a personal papers collection that contains correspondence, letters, audio/visual materials, notebooks, scrapbooks, poems, essays, manuscripts, photographs, first appearances, interviews, reviews, clippings and other materials related to life and professional career of Maine poet Wes McNair. The McNair WordPress site contains readings, notebook excerpts with transcriptions, published poems, commentary and teaching/learning tools related to the writing of poetry, also correspondence between McNair and his mentor/colleague Donald Hall.
The Waldo Peirce Collection comprises scrapbooks, letters, photographs, clippings and other materials related to Peirce, born in Bangor, Maine. He was notably a close friend of and companion to Ernest Hemingway. The Waldo Peirce WordPress site contains scrapbooks, photographs and letters with transcripts documenting Peirce’s travels with Hemingway in Pamplona, Spain and Key West, Florida.
The Pestana World War One Collection is an extensive collection of books, periodicals, artwork, posters, postcards and unpublished materials related to WWI. The Pestana WordPress site contains over 200 postcards from the Great War.
The Richard Cutts Shannon Collection comprises diaries, biographical material, photographs, and artifacts related to Shannon, Colby Class of 1862, who was a significant military figure in the American Civil War. The Shannon materials are part of the Colbiana (college archives) Collection. The Civil War WordPress site contains Shannon’s diaries with transcriptions, photographs, and a memoir written by Shannon later in his life.