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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 5447
Maine Militia, Augusta, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Location: Augusta Media: Photographic print
Item 5504
Meshach P. Larry on events of the Battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 18, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Falmouth Media: Ink on paper
Item 5505
Meshach P. Larry letter, Dec. 21, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Falmouth Media: Ink on paper
Item 5506
Meshach P. Larry letter, Oct. 18, 1863
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Fairfax Station Media: Ink on paper
Item 5715
Abner Small to Luther Emerson, Sept. 21, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862-09-21 Location: Sharpsburg; Waterville Media: Ink on paper
Item 6666
Russian Naval and Maine Militia Officers, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: circa 1870 Media: Albumen print
Item 7476
Instruction from Henry Clinton to British troops, 1779
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1779-04-15 Location: Thomaston Media: Ink on paper
Item 7860
Admiral Charles C. Carpenter, Kittery, 1898
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1898 Location: Kittery; Portsmouth Media: Photoprint
Item 9058
Uniform Rank, Canton Somerset, Skowhegan, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1900 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print
Item 9274
Willis M. Porter letter about Lee surrender, 1865
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1865-04-06 Location: Old Town Media: Ink on paper
Item 9276
Letter, John Sheahan to his family in Dennysville, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862-12-26 Location: Dennysville Media: Ink on paper
Item 10362
Water bucket from Hancock Barracks, Houlton ca. 1840
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1840 Location: Houlton Media: Leather
Item 10480
Lieut. Col. John F. Godfrey, Bangor, 1863
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1863 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print
Item 10485
Capt. Samuel Keene, Rockland, ca. 1862
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: circa 1863 Location: Rockland Media: Photographic print
Item 10554
William Bayley letter to mother, January 28, 1780
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1780-01-28 Location: Portland; West Point Media: Ink on paper
Item 10555
Letter from William Bayley to mother, October 23, 1780
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1780-10-23 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 11314
W.H. Hammond letter to wife, ca. 1862
Contributed by: Cary Library Date: circa 1862 Location: Houlton; Penobscot; Arlington Heights; Washington Media: Ink on paper
Item 11582
Spanish officers departing, Kittery Navy Yard, 1898
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1898 Location: Kittery; Portsmouth Media: Photographic print
Item 11593
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Kittery; Portsmouth Media: Photographic print
Item 13423
Conrad Heyer, Waldoboro, ca. 1852
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1852 Location: Waldoboro Media: Daguerreotype
Item 15112
Put fighting blood in your business, World War 1 poster, ca. 1917
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1917 Media: Ink on paper, poster
Item 15271
Fort McKinley CAC, Great Diamond Island, 1909
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 15272
Coastal Artillery Corps, Fort McKinley, 1909
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 15273
Coastal Artillery Corps camp, Great Diamond Island, 1909
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print