ABC's of 2025 Museum Donations

The ABC’s of some 2025 donations to the museum…from the ordinary to the unusual!

A- Arrowheads, Advertisement (Fuller Furniture), Airport/airplane photos 1960’s

B- Braille typewriter, Bank (coin bank Millinocket Trust), Boy Scout badges

C- Communications equipment from MFD 1960’s-2000’s, Core (section paper roll core)

D- DVD 5^th St. John Pond & East Branch 1937, SHS debate League program 1939E- End of summer playground parade photo

F- Flags (flown Katahdin, Hawaii & Alaska statehood), Football team photo (1939 SHS)

G- Genealogies (from several local families)

H- SJ Hikel store ad, Hula hoop, Honor flag (WWII Army nurse)

J- Jacket (Katahdin Rangers), jewelry box (empty from Nadeau’s Jewelry store)

K- Katahdin Ave. School construction photos 1931, Keystone (Katahdin Ave. School)

L- Lab scale, letter scale (in tiny leather pouch)

M- Madison Mill photos (early, a part of GNP), HAM Rush store ad (on mirror)

N- Newspaper (Junior High, 1960’s), National Guard uniform, NG panoramic photo

O- Optical machine, Ointment tin (Emerson’s Pharmacy

P- Panoramic photos (Millinocket), Photo Cabaret (Broadway w/Mary Ann Arnold)

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R- Rip stick, B & A Millinocket roundhouse photos, ROTC pin

S- Slicker jacket (GNP), Sign (Lloyd P. Montgomery Watchmaker)

T- Training session photos (MFD), Telos Lake Dam (photo approaching via canoe)

U- Uniforms MFD, WWII, National Guard

V- Video cassettes B & A RR

W- Whistle (brass from mill wrapper machine), Waxed & unwaxed sample paper GNP

X-Y- “You’re From Away You Know,” book by Dale Phenicie

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      And lots of photographs, paper items (ephemera) including programs, tickets, invitations, news articles and much more!! Old scrapbooks contain valuable information and are useful in answering general queries and genealogy questions. We like signs, tools, household gadgets, GNP artifacts, sports, schools, business items, mill items, logging, local newspapers and more! Remember the historical society when you are cleaning out the attic, closet, cellar, or garage. Check with us before you toss!

        Thank you to all who have donated items for the museum collection this past year (80 people/families donated several hundred items)! Remember the museum when you are ready to part with local area photos (we can scan those you don’t want to part with). We accept other items of historical interest. As we plan to set up new displays on the second floor of the museum, we would be pleased to have new items to go with those treasures already in the museum collection!