Collection

5) 2298.0001 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 1

Date from edge codes on film. // Note in can: 'Desert of Maine. Nelson family on vacation. Poland Spring House with golf. Fish hatchery (?). Branch Pond in fall foliage. Spirit ...

9) 2298.0002 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 2

Date from edge code on film. // Note in can: 'Papa Howards and Family. Skiing and sliding at Molsons and Dowes. Skiing at Liberty with rope lift. Sulky horse racing on ice.' // ...

7) 2298.0003 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 3

1947 and 1948 edge codes on film. // Can label: '(?) Lake / Picnic';Views of unknown lake, houses at water's edge, mountains in background surrounded by the lake. Family clamming on beach. Multi-generational family picnic.

4) 2298.0004 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 4

Date from edge code on film. // Note in can: 'Town Meeting. Auction. Sliding. Burning grass fire department.'

5) 2298.0005 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 5

Dates from edge codes on film. // Note in can: 'Pipe Line Construction. Memorial Bridge in Augusta Construction.';Seaweed harvesting from Boat. Recreational sailing, men fishing from large dory and from side of lobster boat. Clearing with bulldozers, laying pipeline. D.A. Fogg Excavating...

10) 2298.0006 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 6

1947, 1958, 1959 edge codes on film. // Label on reel: 'Newport Fire Truck and New Fireman's Picnic. ML's Wedding.' Partially illegible note in can: 'Play and Charters. New Chev...;Intertitle: "Silas Smudge from Turnip Ridge Oct. 9-10, 1947" 16:32-20:17 Firetruck, says "Palermo Fire Dept." on door. Young children play in yard. 24:00-28:00 Fireman's p...

11) 2298.0007 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 7

Date from edge code on film. // Note in can: 'Merry Farmer [Boys]. Manley Nelson and [?]. Nelson Family.';Merry Farmer Boys band playing, drum with sign "Les, Glen, Andy, Chuck, Slim, featuring Blondie." Manley Nelson on drums.

8) 2298.0008 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 8

Date from edge code on film. // Note in can: 'Deer Hunting Topsfield with Bear. Boat Racing. China Lake? Family shots.';Hunters with deer on cars in snow. Dead bear hung from pole. Cats in tree, boat races [China Lake?], family picnic.

9) 2298.0009 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 9

Date from edge code on film. // Can label: 'DC-3 Air Flite to New England Expo and Show. Fish [Puma] Black Bear.';Northeast Airlines DC 3 landing at a snowy airport. View out window of plane on takeoff with snowy landscape. New England Expo shows pool where people and seals swim, log bala...

14) 2298.0010 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 10

1948, 1949 edge codes on film. // Can label: 'Hunt 48. Fish 49. Lobster.';Hunters by campfire making sandwiches. Pans of lake; hunter drags dead deer through lake. Deer on top of car. Large family eating meal at table (special occasion?) then playi...

11) 2298.0011 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 11

1948, 1949, 1958(?) edge codes on film. // Can label: 'Hunting 49-51-52-53.' // Vertical scratch throughout reel. ;Village view with church at end of street. Man admires buck hanging from ladder. Loading car outside Dowe's General Store, Palermo. Hunters at campfire, dead deer lying in gr...

16) 2298.0012 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 12

1948 edge code on film. // Box label: 'Party 1949 / Jan 9.' ;Large Gathering of friends at party as homemade band plays.

13) 2298.0013 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 13

Date from edge code on film. // Box label: 'Malcolm's Burial.' Note in can: 'Malcolm Glidden Funeral.' // Vertical scratch throughout. ;Various military participants stand outside church, around hearse for Malcolm Glidden funeral. Flagged coffin taken out of house. Full military honors at gravesite.

18) 2298.0014 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 14

1948 edge code on film. // Box label: 'Xmas 49. Bridge Party.' ;Three generations of family sit near Christmas tree and a young boy shows his new gun. Men play cards at table. Several tables of women play cards, probably a bridge game.

32) 2298.0015 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 15

1934 edge code on film. // Box label: 'Nelson Reunion.' Note in can: '1936 Nelson Family Reunion.' ;Pans of large multi-generational Nelson family posing outside school or church at 1936 reunion.

16) 2298.0016 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 16

1949 edge code on film. // Box label: 'Trip to [?] 1950 Oct 1 and Firetruck.' // Vertical scratch throughout. ;Women near car on outing, posing for camera, drinking from cups. Some double exposure footage. Men trying out new fire hose and views of new fire truck near pond.

21) 2298.0017 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 17

1949 edge code on film. // Box label: 'Snowstrom 1952.' Note in can: [illegible]. // Vertical scratch throughout. ;Village views after large 1952 snowstorm. Villagers in group effort to dig out large drifts, walk to store, help dig out snowplow.

18) 2298.0018 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 18

1949 edge code on film. // Box label: 'Mary [?] Washington Trip [?] Boys.' // Vertical scratch throughout. ;Young women pose for the camera in spring. One holds a pennant from Washington DC with the year 1952 on it to celebrate her Washington trip. Teenage boys exit a building at Er...

23) 2298.0019 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 19

1953 edge code on film. // Box label: 'Erskine Band.' ;Parade in village (China, Maine?) which may be a Memorial Day parade. Band is from Erskine Academy in South China, Maine. Military salute with guns at memorial. Majorettes an...

24) 2298.0020 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 20

Date from edge code on film. // Box label: 'Accidents. Town Meeting.' Note in can: 'Car Accidents. Manley Wrecker. Fire Truck at Town Meeting. 1950?' Men clear trees around w...

25) 2298.0021 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 21

1948, 1949 edge codes on film. // Can label: 'Bob and Cindy.' ;Three children play in yard with wheelbarrow and wagon. Parents with children. Family decorates Christmas tree and plays with cat. Two men stand outside grocery store. Panni...

24) 2298.0022 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 22

1948, 1949 edge codes on film. // Can label: 'Party at Camp. C. Bradstreet Planting Potatoes. Last Day of School at BM.' ;Family and friends at campsite cooking and enjoying meal. View of E.J. Leavitt store and post office in Flagstaff, Maine. Views of Lake (Flagstaff?) and mountains. Men and bo...

23) 2298.0023 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 23

1949, 1954, 1955 edge codes on film. // Can label: 'Graduation Erskine Academy.' Note in can: 'Doug Nelson's Graduation. Barry Nelson's Graduation From Erskine Academy. Snowstor...;Views of family member high school graduates posing for camera. Views from shore and boat of boating activities on lake, including water skiing, and views of camps along the sh...

23) 2298.0024 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 24

Can label: '1954 Sesquicentennial.';Palermo Sesquicentennial, June 26, 1954. Kids dressed up as Indians with tent that has a sign, "We want our land back," older woman on a float depicting colonial days, man in e...

25) 2298.0025 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 25

1949/1959 edge code on film. // Box label: 'Seashore picnic.';Multi-generational beach picnic, children and adults wading or sitting on shore. Looks like several events at different times. Views of rugged mountain and drive along mountai...

26) 2298.0026 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 26

1954 edge code on film. // Box label: 'Hunting 1954-55.';Hunters wearing red at campsite eating meal. Men carrying deer out of woods on cots and sleds, loading car with multiple catches. Hunting 1954-1955.

20) 2298.0027 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 27

VINEGAR // Date from edge code on film - may be 1954. // Can label: 'Forestry.';Men at construction site in woods, picking logs to temporary foundation for Maine Forest Service cabin. Cabin is jacked up and then moved on a flatbed truck from one site to an...

11) 2298.0028 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 28

Date from edge code on film - may be 1957 or 1963. // Box label: 'Airport at Caribou. Reunion at Mothers.';Single engine planes of various types taxiing and taking off from rural [Caribou?] airport. Maine Forest Service fuel tanks at airport. Shots of various children and adults as...

32) 2298.0029 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 29

Box label: 'Reunion at Camp 1959.' Additional info on illegible note in can.;Family reunion at forest camp, 1959. Children and adults sitting, grilling, eating, talking, and taking boat rides.

30) 2298.0030 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 30

Date from edge code on film. // Box label: 'Bar Harbor. Hunting 1961 or ?'

16) 2298.0031 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 31

1961 edge code on film. // Box label: 'Reunion at Camp '63.'

36) 2298.0032 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 32

Date from edge code on film.

1) 2298.0033 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 33

Date from edge code on film. // Label on box: 'Florida.'

2) 2298.0034 [Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 34

Date from edge code on film. // Note in can: 'Trip to [Katahdin] Iron Works 49/69. Sliding to [illegible] Lake.'