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Category: Government, Politics & Law

Historical Items

These results include photographs, documents, letters, paintings, artifacts, and many other kinds of Maine related items from collections around the state and elsewhere.


Item 101414

Margaret Chase Smith on campaign spending, Washington, D.C., 1972

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1972-05-12 Location: Portland; Washington Media: Ink on paper

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Item 103237

Ransford W. Shaw’s law office, Houlton, 1908

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1908-12-29 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 103262

Allocation of money for the children of the late John B. Russwurm, Yarmouth, 1852

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1852-07-06 Location: Yarmouth Media: Ink on paper

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Item 103657

John Chandler to Henry Dearborn about coasting law and its potential repeal, Monmouth, 1816

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1816 Location: Monmouth; Boston Media: Ink on paper

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Item 112085

Pejepscot Company Records, Volume 2, 1767-1818

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1767–1818 Location: Brunswick; Durham; Topsham Media: Ink on paper
This record contains 136 images.

Item 135850

Edmund S. Muskie, 1972

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1972 Media: Photographic print

Item 140

Thomas Brackett Reed, Portland, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 159

President Roosevelt visiting Portland, 1902

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1902-08-26 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 1139

Chamberlain holiday proclamation, 1870

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1870-04-04 Location: Augusta Media: Ink on paper

Item 1196

Downtown, Old Orchard Beach, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Photographic print

Item 1217

Forest Avenue, Portland, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 1262

Wallace H. White Jr., Lewiston, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Media: Photographic print

Item 1336

Middle Street after fire, Portland, 1866

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1866-07-12 Location: Portland Media: Stereograph

Item 1341

Ruins of the Great Fire in Portland, July 4, 1866

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1866-07-12 Location: Portland Media: Stereograph

Item 1343

Exchange Street after Great Fire of Portland, 1866

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1866-07-12 Location: Portland Media: Stereograph

Item 1345

Portland City Hall after Great Fire of 1866

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1866-07-12 Location: Portland Media: Stereograph

Item 1346

Ruins of City Hall after the Great Fire, Portland, 1866

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1866-07-12 Location: Portland Media: Stereograph

Item 1365

Bounty money for Charles Chauncy, 1780

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1780-04-06 Location: Kittery Media: Ink on paper

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Item 1398

Fannie E. Stone, Edgecomb, 1939

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1939-07-16 Location: Edgecomb Media: Photographic print

Item 1411

Governor Smith House, Wiscasset, 1939

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1939-07-19 Location: Wiscasset Media: Photographic print

Item 4330

General Joshua L. Chamberlain, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Media: Photograph of painting

Item 5178

Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain, 1914

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1914 Media: Photographic print

Item 5262

Joshua L. Chamberlain, Brunswick, ca. 1871

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1871 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print

Item 5420

Water works and pumping station, Houlton, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Houlton Media: Glass Negative