Keywords: patriotic symbols
Item 10023
Leather fire bucket, Thomaston, 1793
Contributed by: The General Henry Knox Museum Date: 1793 Location: Thomaston Media: Leather
Item 41789
Woolston School, Portland, 1922
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1922 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
Post office clerks began collecting strong red, white, and blue string, rolling it onto a ball and passing it on to the next post office to express their support for the Union effort in the Civil War. Accompanying the ball was this paper scroll on which the clerks wrote messages and sometimes drew images.
Exhibit
Imagery on letterhead soldiers used, on soldiers' memorials produced after the war, and on many other items captured the themes of the American Civil War: union, liberty, and freedom.
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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