Note: Coll : 2589
Two oversize scrapbooks from the Arthur Unobskey family of Eastport and Calais, Maine. Topics include the Passamaquoddy tidal project, and business and publicity matters of the Unobskey's department stores. Scrapbooks include tipped in photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings, invitations, letters, and telegram, circa 1930s - 1950s. One of the letters (in v. 1) has "The White House" letter head, and is signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt (carbon copy?), and dated July 30, 1941 - in relation to the "President's Birthday Ball" in Calais (several newspaper clippings and ephemera related to this). The scrapbooks are tailoring books/woollen sample books, which include images of men's fashion. / rthur Unobskey, of Eastport and Calais, Maine, was chairman of the new industries committee of the Washington County Chamber of Commerce, and a proponent of the Passamaquoddy tidal project. He and his brothers, William and Charles, owned Unobskey Brothers department store in Calais, Maine. They were the sons of Joseph Unobskey, who was born in Russia, and died in Calais in 1922. Arthur also owned a large theater in Calais.