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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 34447

Ground Observer Post WW II, Scarborough, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1940 Location: Scarborough Media: Photographic print

Item 36847

Lt. Commander Carleton Pike, Lubec, ca. 1944, ca. 1944

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1944 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print

Item 59531

Letter seeking back pay, Virginia, 1861

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1861 Location: Alexandria Media: Ink on paper

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Item 59533

Receipt for socks, shirt, Washington, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Washington Media: Ink on paper

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Item 60172

Letter on behalf of ill soldier, Virginia, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 60174

Doctor's letter certifying ill soldier, Portland, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 60178

Letter seeking information on husband, Temple, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Temple Media: Ink on paper

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Item 60279

Plea for furlough for ill soldier, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Annapolis Media: Ink on paper

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Item 60280

POW letter requesting food, Richmond, Va., 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Farmington; Petersburg Media: Ink on paper

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Item 61634

Request for information about missing soldier, Princeton, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Princeton Media: Ink on paper

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Item 61638

Soldier's request to be sent home, Washington, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Washington Media: Ink on paper

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Item 61842

Request for information about injured soldier, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Washington Media: Ink on paper

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Item 62539

Chart of the Penobscot River, ca. 1779

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1779 Location: Castine Media: Ink on paper

Item 65105

Letter seeking bounty pay, Virginia, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Newfield; Alexandria Media: Ink on paper

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Item 67314

Navy baseball team, Otter Cliffs, ca. 1918

Contributed by: National Archives at Boston Date: 1918 Media: Photographic print

Item 67325

'USS Braine,' Boston Navy Yard, 1945

Contributed by: National Archives at Boston Date: 1945 Location: Boston Media: Photographic print

Item 67548

Letter from Lorenzo Gammon to his cousin in Sebago, 1864

Contributed by: Sebago Historical Society Date: 1864-11-24 Location: Washington; Sebago Media: Pencil on paper

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Item 67668

Aquia Creek Landing, Virginia, ca. 1863

Contributed by: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division through Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1863 Location: Aquia Creek Media: Digital image of glass negative

Item 68410

House Island quarantine station, Portland, 1941

Contributed by: National Archives at Boston Date: 1941-05-06 Location: Portland; Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 71041

Appointment of Col. George Shepley as Louisiana governor, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862-06-03 Location: Washington; New Orleans Media: Ink on paper

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Item 71735

World War and Civil War Monument, Saco, ca. 1938

Contributed by: Boston Public Library Location: Saco Media: Linen texture postcard

Item 96820

Boothbay Harbor's Sons of Veterans' parade float, 1919

Contributed by: Boothbay Region Historical Society Date: 1919 Location: Boothbay Harbor Media: Photographic print

Item 98100

Civil War veterans, Belfast, ca. 1900

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

Item 100481

Freeland Holmes' Civil War Cap, Foxcroft, ca. 1862

Contributed by: Washburn Norlands Living History Center Date: circa 1862 Location: Foxcroft Media: Wool, brass