Keywords: imprisonment
Item 190
Affidavit of capture and imprisonment aboard ship, 1842
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1842-08-22 Location: Portland Media: Color transparency
Item 10801
Peleg Wadsworth to wife about wound and imprisonment, Castine, 1781
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1781-02-19 Location: Castine Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
This Rebellion: Maine and the Civil War
For Mainers like many other people in both the North and the South, the Civil War, which lasted from 1861-1865, had a profound effect on their lives. Letters, artifacts, relics, and other items saved by participants at home and on the battlefield help illuminate the nature of the Civil War experience for Mainers.
Exhibit
Anglo-Americans in northern New England sometimes interpreted their own anxieties about the Wilderness, their faith, and their conflicts with Native Americans as signs that the Devil and his handmaidens, witches, were active in their midst.
Site Page
The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.
Site Page
Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2
"He was imprisoned in Augusta, where New York police subsequently discovered that Kirby was the missing murderer of Lillian White of Brooklyn, NY."
Story
If You Knew My Story
by Anonymous (Maine State Prison)
A story about incarceration in Maine
Story
My Story of Trauma
by Anonymous (Maine Correction Center)
The process of being incarcerated is traumatic. This is my story.
