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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 19019

Naval Battle at Machias, 1775

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1775-06-12 Location: Machias Media: Ink on paper

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Item 31165

'Unity' and 'Margaretta,' Machias, 1775

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1775-06-12 Location: Machias Media: Ink on paper

Item 31167

Hand-to-hand battle on 'Margaretta,' Machias, 1775

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1775-06-12 Location: Machias Media: Ink on paper

Item 19020

'The Liberty Pole: A Tale of Machias,' 1912

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1775-06-12 Location: Machias Media: Ink on paper

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Item 31148

British naval cutlass, Machias, ca. 1804

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1804 Location: Machias Media: Iron

Item 23448

Blocked-end tubes, East Machias, ca. 550 BCE

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 550 BCE Location: Machias Media: Stone

Item 88016

The Arcade, East Machias, 1927

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: 1927 Location: East Machias Media: Glass Negative

Item 7539

Indian pipe, East Machias, ca. 1000

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1000 Location: East Machias Media: Stone

Item 7536

Wampum beads, East Machias, ca. 1000

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1000 Location: East Machias Media: Shell

Item 148830

"Sunbeam III" at Gaddis Bros Dock with the "Lucy Evelyn," East Machias, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Maine Seacoast Mission Date: circa 1940 Location: East Machias Media: Photographic print

Item 35446

Setting logs for spring drive, Aroostook County, ca. 1895

Contributed by: D'Anne Baillargeon through Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library Date: circa 1895 Media: Glass Negative

Item 6621

Summer camp of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ca. 1900

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

Item 23082

Pine log drive on Machias River, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Ambajejus Boom House Museum Date: circa 1950 Media: Photographic print

Item 21985

Stephen C. Foster, Machias, 1840

Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: 1840 Location: Machias; Pembroke Media: Photographic print

Item 80405

Letter to Sarah Tarbox from brother Valentine, East Machias, 1851

Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: 1851-12-24 Location: Westport Island; East Machias; Lubec Media: Ink on paper

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Item 104534

Rendall Tolman Gammon, ca. 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1863 Location: Machias Media: Ambrotype

Item 7473

Letter recalling capture of Margaretta, Washington, D.C., 1818

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1775 Location: Machias Media: Ink on paper

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Item 9389

Letter from Benjamin Mathes Jr. to Samuel L. Lewis, 1835

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1835-11-02 Location: Machias; Boston Media: Ink on paper

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Item 21982

John C. Talbot, East Machias, 1837

Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: 1837 Location: Augusta Media: Carte de visite

Item 16967

Frank Gray, Amelia Hanscom, East Machias, 1887

Contributed by: Alexander-Crawford Historical Society Date: 1887-04-29 Location: Jacksonville; Crawford Media: Photographic print

Item 7537

Arrowhead, ca. 1000

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1000 Location: East Machias Media: Stone

Item 23081

Long log pine drive, Ambajejus, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Ambajejus Boom House Museum Date: circa 1950 Location: T1 R9 WELS Media: Photographic print

Item 23068

Bateaux, Ambajejus, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Ambajejus Boom House Museum Date: circa 1950 Location: T1 R9 WELS Media: Photographic print

Item 102670

Zeynep Turk, Portland, 2009

Courtesy of Jan Pieter Van Voorst Van Beest, an individual partner Date: 2017 Location: Portland Media: Digital photograph