Stories about "Muskie Archives and Special Collection Library"
From the Archives: Old hockey puck and horse-drawn mail delivery
Friday, January 25, 2019 10:42 am
Mail delivery by horse-drawn carriage, and the hockey puck from a 1927 game that was “fast and furious and marked by many swinging sticks.”
From the Archives: Chase Hall barbershop and 1939 Wedgwood
Thursday, December 20, 2018 12:54 pm
From Brylcreem to bow ties, here are a few items from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, elsewhere on campus — and beyond.
8 reasons why Edmund Muskie ’36 was an amazing political candidate in 1968
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 3:37 pm
Fifty years ago, Edmund Muskie '36 ran one of the “exemplary national campaigns of modern times.”
From the Archives: Ode to a 30-cent hot dog
Monday, November 26, 2018 12:00 am
A few items from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library and elsewhere on campus — and beyond.
Video: Watch ski jumping off Mount David in 1936
Wednesday, February 21, 2018 2:51 pm
The spectacle of ski jumping from Mount David in 1936 was no less grand, or less popular, than the Olympic version.
Look What We Found: Jakub Kazecki’s 1905 Bates German Club medal
Saturday, October 7, 2017 11:45 am
“Students graduate and start their lives." But there are material things that will "bring them back to Bates and create a Bates identity.”
How did Ed Muskie ’36 get baseballs signed by the Yankees, Giants, and Dodgers?
Friday, May 5, 2017 8:00 am
The signed baseballs include Hall of Fame signatures of Jackie Robinson, Yogi Berra, and Mickey Mantle.
Video: Audubon’s ‘Birds of America’ lands at the Bates library
Friday, April 29, 2016 11:53 am
Known as the "Bien" edition, the volume is huge — 57 pounds, with each page measuring 39 1/8 inches by 26 1/8 inches. Its Bates provenance is equally outsized.
On Ed Muskie’s 100th birthday, six things everyone should know
Thursday, March 27, 2014 2:08 pm
On his centennial today, what everyone should know about Edmund Muskie '36, our iconic U.S. statesman and environmental pioneer.
Past is prologue, says new Muskie Archives director Pat Webber
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 10:00 am
The archives supports the academic community by keeping one foot in the past and one in the present.