Voter Registration Records (Portland, Maine)
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Scope and Contents
The following information was provided by the seller:
"Contains information pertaining to the 'Ward 3' voting district of the city of Portland, Maine. Volume contains about 133 pages of handwritten entries giving the name, address and occupation of hundreds of Portland's registered voters. Names are listed alphabetically and are organized by lettered tabs."
"Several occupations relate to Portland's coastal environment [lobster dealer, sea captain, naval architect, seaman, sail maker, fish inspector, fisherman, fish packer, boat builder, etc.] while many others are relevant to the period [blacksmith, carriage maker, stove cutter, cooper, peddler, telegraph office, etc]. Additional notations include 'blind,' 'sick,' etc., along with penciled notations accompanying each voter denoting 'D' for Democrat and 'R' for Republican. Also included is a section titled 'Aliens.'"
Dates
- Creation: circa 1880-1899
Creator
- Cumberland County (Me.) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.
Conditions Governing Use
Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.
Extent
0.01 Linear Foot
Language
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased in August 2009.
- Title
- Guide to the Voter Registration Records (Portland, Maine)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Research Center Repository