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These results include photographs, documents, letters, paintings, artifacts, and many other kinds of Maine related items from collections around the state and elsewhere.


Item 10232

Letter from Sylvester Judd to Elizabeth Mountfort, August 5, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-08-05 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 101784

Thomas Reed to Thomas Robison regarding the Caribbean economy and slave market, Sint Eustatius, 1791

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1791 Location: Havana Media: Ink on paper

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Item 102253

Republican Convention poem, Whitneyville, 1860

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1860-05-25 Location: Whitneyville Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10090

Letter from Wendell Phillips to Elizabeth Mountfort, April 19, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-04-19 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10237

Letter from Frederick Douglass to Elizabeth Mountfort, Aug. 8, 1851

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1851-08-08 Location: Portland; Rochester Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10229

Letter from Theodore Parker to Elizabeth Mountfort, July 20, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-07-20 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10235

Letter from Thomas T. Stone to Elizabeth Mountfort, Oct. 5, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-10-05 Location: Portland; Salem Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10234

Letter from Charles C. Shackford to Elizabeth Mountfort, Sept. 3, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-09-03 Location: Portland; Lynn Media: Ink on paper

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Item 18729

Sugar cane harvesting in Cuba, 1873

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1873 Location: Portland Media: Oil painting

Item 102200

Mark Hill to William King regarding Maine's admission to the Union, Washington, DC, 1819

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1819-12-30 Location: Washington Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10091

Letter from C.C. Burleigh to Elizabeth Mountfort, April 25, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-04-25 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10228

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison to Elizabeth Mountfort, July 19, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-07-19 Location: Portland; Boston Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10236

Note from Horace Mann to Elizabeth Mountfort, Feb. 3, 1851

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1851-02-03 Location: West Newton; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10088

Hiram Wilson letter to Elizabeth Mountfort, Nov. 29, 1848

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1848-11-29 Location: Portland; Dawn Mills Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10089

Letter from Hiram Wilson to Elizabeth Mountfort, March 8, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-03-08 Location: Portland; Dawn Mills Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10092

Letter from C.C. Burleigh to Elizabeth Mountfort, April 28, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-04-28 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 12578

Anti-Slavery Society of Waterville College petition, 1833

Contributed by: Colby College Special Collections Date: 1833-09-23 Location: Waterville Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10233

Parker Pillsbury letter to Elizabeth Mountfort, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-08-05 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10087

Letter from Hiram Wilson to Elizabeth Mountfort, Aug. 29, 1848

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1848-08-29 Location: Portland; Detroit Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10223

Letter from C. Lenox Remond to Elizabeth Mountfort, May 30, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-05-30 Location: Portland; Salem Media: Ink on paper

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Item 36594

White Church, Biddeford, ca. 1894

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1894 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 102203

Prentiss Mellen to William King regarding the Missouri Compromise, Washington, DC, 1820

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1820-01-25 Location: Washington; Boston Media: Ink on paper

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Item 11615

John Davison letter from Demarara, Guyana, 1848

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1848-02-29 Location: Augusta; Demarara Media: Ink on paper

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Item 16517

Stowe house postcard, Brunswick, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1920 Location: Brunswick Media: Postcard