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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 16930

Barrell Grove, York, 1800

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1800 Location: York Media: Watercolor

Item 18316

John Neal by George Washington Appleton, 1829

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1829 Location: Portland Media: Oil on Canvas

Item 18353

Penmanship sample, John Neal, ca. 1813

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1813 Media: Ink on paper

Item 18708

Grenville Mellen, Portland, ca. 1820

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1820 Location: Portland Media: Watercolor on ivory

Item 18712

William Goold, Westbrook, 1831

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1830 Location: Westbrook Media: Ink wash and cut paper

Item 19232

Longfellow Souvenir Palette, 1882

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1882 Location: Boston Media: Wood

Item 19275

John Neal letter about money owed his mother, 1816

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1816 Location: Baltimore; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 22433

Edward Elwell, Portland, 1892

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1892 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

Item 23350

The rainy day poem Christmas greeting card, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Media: Postcard

Item 23767

Rainy day room, Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Portland, 1908

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1908 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

Item 23902

George Pierce request for books, Baldwin, 1820

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1820 Location: Saco Media: Ink on paper

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Item 29300

Sally Wood Bible, Kennebunk, 1846

Contributed by: Brick Store Museum Date: 1846 Location: Kennebunk Media: book, Ink on paper

Item 29301

Book of Psalms and New Testament, Kennebunk, ca. 1854

Contributed by: Brick Store Museum Date: circa 1854 Location: Kennebunk Media: book, Ink on paper

Item 35585

Sylvester B. Beckett bas-relief, ca. 1851

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1851 Location: Portland Media: Plaster

Item 37055

William Willis, Portland, ca. 1846

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1846 Location: Portland Media: Daguerreotype

Item 40314

Sally Sayward Barrell, York, ca. 1761

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1761 Location: York Media: Cloth, canvas, paint, wood

Item 42198

'Hiawatha' score, 1902

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1902 Location: Detroit Media: Ink on paper

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Item 66414

Home of "Pearl of Orr's Island," ca. 1935

Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1935 Location: Orrs Island Media: Linen texture postcard

Item 82302

Preble House, Great Cranberry Island, 2011

Contributed by: Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Date: 2011 Location: Cranberry Isles Media: Digital image

Item 96819

Francis Greene home and barn on Oak Street in Boothbay Harbor, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Boothbay Region Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Boothbay Harbor Media: Photographic print

Item 102277

Poem memorializing the loss of the steamer "Portland," 1899

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1898 Location: Chatham Media: Ink on paper

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Item 112034

WZON “Stephen King” t-shirt, Bangor, ca. 1985

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1985 Location: Bangor Media: Cotton, ink

Item 7256

Edna St. Vincent Millay and high school friends, Camden, 1909

Contributed by: Camden Public Library Date: circa 1909 Location: Camden Media: Photographic print

Item 10591

Poem on box of tea, 1995

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1995 Media: Cardboard