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Category: Military & War

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 21093

Tender, Mt. Desert, 1944

Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum Date: 1944-11-09 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print

Item 21104

Buoy Boats, Mount Desert, ca. 1943

Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum Date: circa 1943 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print

Item 21398

James F. Baldwin on effect of War of 1812 on land sales, 1812

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1812 Location: Boston; Baldwin Media: Ink on paper

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Item 22063

Memorial Day, Oakdale Cemetery, Sanford, 1906

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: 1906-05-30 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative

Item 22145

Sanford's Maine National Guard Band, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Sanford; Shapleigh Media: Print from Glass Negative

Item 22167

Planes taking on fuel, Old Orchard Beach, 1924

Contributed by: Old Orchard Beach Historical Society Date: 1924-09-06 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Photographic print

Item 22170

Winfield Scott letter to Gen. Henry Dearborn, 1839

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1839 Location: Augusta Media: Ink on paper

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Item 22345

Thaddeus Clark letter on King Philip's War, Portland, 1676

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1676 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 22416

J. M. Dillingham letter to mother, October 1861

Contributed by: Freeport Historical Society Date: 1861 Location: Freeport; Queenstown; Cork; Antwerp Media: Ink on paper

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Item 22426

Site of Fort Loyal, Portland, ca. 1840

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1840 Location: Portland Media: Pencil on paper

Item 22466

Militia Soldiers at Prouts Neck, ca. 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1850 Location: Scarborough Media: Watercolor on paper

Item 22514

Warning of possible Indian attack, 1743

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1743 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 22521

Cyprian Southack letter concerning Casco fort, 1705

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1705 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 22578

Letter to Samuel Cook, Esq., Houlton, 1844

Contributed by: Cary Library Date: 1844-05-08 Location: Houlton; Boston Media: Ink on paper

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Item 22779

Aubrey Lee Ferguson, Mapleton, ca. 1913

Contributed by: Haystack Historical Society Date: circa 1913 Location: Mapleton Media: Photographic print

Item 22780

Aubrey Lee Ferguson, Mapleton, ca. 1903

Contributed by: Haystack Historical Society Date: circa 1903 Location: Mapleton Media: Photographic print

Item 22781

Aubrey Lee Ferguson, Mapleton, ca. 1917

Contributed by: Haystack Historical Society Date: circa 1917 Location: Mapleton Media: Postcard

Item 23701

Redbank Village, South Portland, 1942

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1942 Location: South Portland Media: Ink on paper

Item 25146

Electric Station, National Soldiers Home, Togus, ca. 1908

Contributed by: Seashore Trolley Museum Date: circa 1908 Location: Togus Media: Postcard

Item 25168

Samantha Smith in Yalta, 1983

Contributed by: Maine State Museum Date: 1983 Location: Yalta Media: Photographic print

Item 25174

Samantha Smith and Natasha Kashirina, Leningrad, 1983

Contributed by: Maine State Museum Date: 1983 Media: Photographic print

Item 25175

Samantha Smith, Moscow, 1983

Contributed by: Maine State Museum Date: 1983 Location: Moscow Media: Photographic print

Item 25178

Samantha Smith at collective farm, 1983

Contributed by: Maine State Museum Date: 1983 Media: Photographic print

Item 25183

Samantha Smith at Artek Camp, Soviet Union, 1983

Contributed by: Maine State Museum Date: 1983 Media: Photographic print