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LC Subject Heading: Battles

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 10551

William Bayley letter to mother, July 7, 1778

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1778-07-07 Location: Valley Forge; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 18272

Battle of Lovell's Pond poem, ca. 1760

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1760 Location: Fryeburg Media: Ink on paper

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Item 22345

Thaddeus Clark letter on King Philip's War, Portland, 1676

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1676 Location: Portland 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 31991

Sgt. Louis Wilbur Trafton, Guilford, 1943

Contributed by: Guilford Historical Society Date: 1943 Location: Guilford Media: Photographic print

Item 41826

July 12 celebration, Lubec, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Matt Hoopes through Lubec Memorial Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Lubec Media: Postcard

Item 131

Painting of the "Boxer" and "Enterprise," Monhegan, 1831

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1813-09-05 Location: Monhegan Media: Watercolor on paper

Item 4327

Map of Gettysburg battlefield, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863-07-01 Location: Gettysburg Media: Ink on paper

Item 4333

Battle at Gettysburg, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863-07-01 Location: Gettysburg Media: Original is engraving on wood

Item 6777

Capt. Mowat's warning to Falmouth, 1775

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1775-11-16 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 6798

Copy of letter from Samuel Graves to Philip Stephens, 1775

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1775-10-09 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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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 9281

Letter from John Sheahan to his father, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863-07-04 Location: Gettysburg; Dennysville Media: Ink on paper

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Item 16773

Julia Ward Howe, ca., 1909

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 23347

Colliers victory in Penobscot Bay, 1779

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1779-08-13 Media: Ink on paper

Item 25215

Cmdr. Samuel Blyth, ca. 1812

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1812 Media: Ink on paper

Item 35583

Colonel Freeman McGilvery, Stockton, ca. 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1862 Location: Stockton Media: Painting

Item 36271

Letter concerning 'Boxer' prisoners, Eastport, 1813

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

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Item 36273

Letter concerning redress for killed son, 1815

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

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Item 36274

Sailor account of attack on ship, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1813

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

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Item 36275

Order for 'Young Teazer' prize money, Portland, 1813

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

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Item 36276

Letter seeking 'Young Teazer' prize money, New York, 1815

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1815 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 36517

Capt. Densmore on Plattsburgh victory, 1814

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1814 Location: Plattsburgh Media: Ink on paper

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Item 79278

Pvt. John Foster to wife, Florida, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Warrington; New Orleans; Pensacola; Vicksburg; Port Hudson Media: Ink on paper

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