"Why Newburyport: The Applicability of Poverty and Progress to Other New England Industrial Communities in the Nineteenth Century" by Margaret Jean Buker. (Typescript), 1970

The collection includes research material on Lewiston/Auburn and Maine history compiled by Bates professor of history James Leamon in the course of his research on the early history of Maine. There are subject folders on the mills, architecture, economy, government, and general history of the Lewiston/Auburn area. Additionally, there is a significant amount of information about the Franco-Americans in Maine and the Penobscot Expedition of 1779, the largest American naval expedition of the American Revolution.