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LC Subject Heading: Personal narratives

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 5505

Meshach P. Larry letter, Dec. 21, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Falmouth Media: Ink on paper

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Item 5506

Meshach P. Larry letter, Oct. 18, 1863

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

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Item 11528

Memories of Hope Island, 1935

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1935 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper, photographs

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Item 12399

Map of Draper's Claim, near Bath, 1795

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1795 Media: Ink on paper
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Item 12400

Draper's claim northeast of Bath, 1795

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1795 Media: Ink on paper
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Item 13074

Manuscript map of Kennebec River area, 1771

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1771 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 17029

Message from Walter Hustus to family, 1945

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1945 Location: South Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 17031

Letter from POW camp, 1944

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1944 Location: Gneixendorf; South Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 18714

Charles Turner account of climbing Katahdin, 1804

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1804 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 19240

Woodbury S. Purinton on capture of John M. Dillingham, 1863

Contributed by: Freeport Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Freeport; East Harpswell; Charleston; Philadelphia Media: Paper

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Item 25214

J.M. Brown from Morris Island, S.C., 1863

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

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Item 25221

John Marshall Brown to sister, South Carolina, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Folly Island; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 25222

J.M. Brown Civil War letter, South Carolina, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Folly Island; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 25223

J.M. Brown on Civil War 'trophies,' South Carolina, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1684 Location: Folly Island; Portland; Johns Island Media: Ink on paper

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Item 34136

John French letter to brother, Washington, D.C., 1861

Contributed by: Fifth Maine Regiment Museum Date: 1861-07-06 Location: Albion; Washington Media: Ink on paper

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Item 34481

Frederick H. Rogers to his mother, Hannah, Iowa, July 10th, 1862

Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Davenport; Bangor Media: Ink on paper

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Item 34485

Frederick Rogers to his mother Hannah, Virginia, March 23, 1862

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

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Item 35709

Marshall Phillips letter from Boonsboro, Maryland, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Boonsboro Media: Pencil on paper

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Item 35819

Marshall Phillips letter about Bull Run, 1861

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

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Item 35828

Marshall Phillips letter about Cold Harbor, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Media: Pencil on paper

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Item 35830

Marshall Phillips letter from Washington, 1865

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1865 Location: Washington Media: Ink on paper

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Item 35831

Marshall Phillips letter from West Point, Va., 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862-05-07 Location: West Point Media: Pencil on paper

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Item 35832

Marshall Phillips on Chancellorsville, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Chancellorsville Media: Pencil on paper

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Item 35833

Marshall Phillips on Spotsylvania, Virginia, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Media: Pencil on paper

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