Browse Collections (19 total)

Bethel Historical Society Audio Collection

Audio recordings of Bethel Historical Society events and other items of local interest.

Bethel Historical Society Oral History Project

The Bethel Historical Society Oral History Project collection consists of oral history interviews produced by volunteers and staff since 1974.…

Bethel Historical Society Video Collection

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The Bethel Historical Society Video Collection consists of film, VHS tapes, DVDs, and digital recordings of BHS programs and other items of local…

Bethel Living Nativity Scrapbooks

Scrapbooks regarding the "Living Nativity" pageant put on annually in Bethel, Maine, beginning in 1964. Compiled by Susan Farrar, the director of the…

Buck's Ledge ArtReach Project Archives

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This collection consists of materials created by Telstar Middle School Community Art and Telstar High School Industrial Arts students as part of an…

Charles Horne MPR Collection

Tapes recorded by Charles Horne for segments to be run on Maine Public Radio.

Finding Aids

Finding aids are available for collections that are not fully searchable by item.

Gould Academy Archives

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The Gould Academy Archives are a large collection of books, photographs, artifacts, works of art, and paper ephemera produced by the trustees and…

Herb Shirrefs Papers

Collection of letters, photocopies, newspaper clippings, photographs, typescripts, and other materials compiled and/or written by Herbert P. Shirrefs…

Library Catalog

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The Bethel Historical Society Library Catalog includes our extensive collection of published and secondary source materials, including rare…

Mansfield Packard Tape Collection

A collection of eight audiocassette tapes containing recordings made by Mansfield Packard of Greenwood and Woodstock events from the 1980s. Many of…

Miscellaneous Items

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Items that are not part of other collections are listed here.

Online Serial Collections

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Collections of articles from, or issues of, various newspapers and journals which are available for viewing online in full.

Oxford County Grange Hall Tour Project

The Oxford County Grange Hall Tour Project collection includes oral history interviews, slides, photographs, and negatives, and a small number of…

Oxford County Historic Resource Survey

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The Oxford County Historic Resource Survey collection consists of 1,844 color slides of historic buildings in Oxford County taken by George Allen,…

Richard Ade Interviews

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Sixteen oral history interviews with residents of Bethel, Maine conducted by Richard Ade in 2001 for his Eagle Scout Leadership Project for the…

Town Records of Albany

Photocopies of some of the town records from Albany. An index to the vital records in this collection has been compiled by Agnes Haines.

Town Records of Bethel

This collection contains copies of town meeting, vital records, and other records for the Town of Bethel, Maine. These are in various formats…

Town Records of Mason

Photocopies of town records from Mason. Copied in 2004.