Search Results

Category: Public Events & Celebrations

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 111878

Bronze Medal awarded at exhibition, 1859

Contributed by: Mechanics' Hall Date: 1859 Location: Portland Media: bronze

Item 111880

Bronze medal from 1854 Exhibition, Portland, 1854

Contributed by: Mechanics' Hall Date: 1854 Location: Portland Media: Bronze medal

Item 111881

Maine Charitable Mechanic Association bronze medal, Portland, 1854

Contributed by: Mechanics' Hall Date: 1854 Location: Portland Media: Bronze medal

Item 111887

Bronze medal awarded at exposition, Portland, 1859

Contributed by: Mechanics' Hall Date: 1859 Location: Portland Media: bronze

Item 111991

Maine Charitable Mechanics' bronze medal, Portland, 1854

Contributed by: Mechanics' Hall Date: 1854 Location: Portland Media: bronze

Item 116257

Common Ground Country Fair t-shirt, 1996

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1996 Location: Unity Media: Cotton, ink
This record contains 3 images.

Item 116313

St. Louis Church, Fort Kent, ca. 1911

Contributed by: Acadian Archives Date: 1911 Location: Fort Kent Media: Postcard

Item 148452

Letter from Santa to Charles & Ernest Longfellow, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1853

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1853 Location: Cambridge Media: Ink on paper
This record contains 4 images.

  view a full transcription

Item 148664

Swedish festival, New Sweden, ca. 1970

Contributed by: Acadian Archives Date: circa 1970 Location: New Sweden; Stockholm; Westmoreland Media: Photographic postcard

Item 148847

Christmas program at the Head of River church, Cutler, 1956

Contributed by: Maine Seacoast Mission Date: 1956 Location: Cutler Media: Photographic print

Item 148892

Ocean Point Chapel, Boothbay, 1979

Contributed by: Maine Seacoast Mission Date: 1979-07-29 Location: Boothbay Media: Photographic print

Item 149691

Aimée Daigle funeral card, 1921

Contributed by: Acadian Archives Date: 1921 Location: St. John Plantation; Eagle Lake; Fort Kent Media: Ink on paper

  view a full transcription

Item 149692

Alcime Daigle funeral card, 1921

Contributed by: Acadian Archives Date: 1921 Location: St. John Plantation Media: Ink on paper

  view a full transcription

Item 5295

Horace Nicholas guides Governor Milliken in canoe, Portland, 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1920-07-03 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

Item 10531

Welcome Lafayette Ribbon, Portland, 1825

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1825 Location: Portland Media: Silk

Item 12436

Houlton Grange Float, 1928

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1928-07-04 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 23449

Gov. Coburn house, parade, Skowhegan, ca. 1885

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1885 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print

Item 53151

Faith Jayne Hinckley, Fairfield, 1919

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: 1919-11-11 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Item 171

View of the Whig Pavilion, Mount Joy, Portland, 1837

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1837-09-27 Location: Portland Media: Hand colored engraving, phototransparency

Item 1039

Mustering soldiers Spanish-American war, Augusta, 1898

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1898 Location: Augusta Media: Photographic print

Item 1264

Ku Klux Klan parade, Brownville Junction, 1924

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

Item 1265

Ku Klux Klan procession, Portland, ca. 1923

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1923 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 1481

2nd Maine infantry reunion badge, 1904

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2008-05-19 Location: Boston Media: Ribbon

Item 4166

Mexican War veterans, Portland, ca. 1885

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1885 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print