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LC Subject Heading: Medical care

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 76607

Letter on hospital space shortage, Portsmouth, Virginia, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Portsmouth; Norfolk Media: Ink on paper

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Item 79494

U.S. Gen. Hospital, Annapolis, to R.F. Society, Portland, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Annapolis; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 79495

Adeline Walker on hospital supplies, Annapolis, 1863

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

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Item 79496

Account of items sent to soldiers, Portland, 1865

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

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Item 80991

Rebecca Usher to niece from Army hospital, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Hollis; Chester Media: Ink on paper

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Item 80993

Rebecca Usher on needs for military hospital, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Hollis; Chester Media: Ink on paper

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Item 81014

Rebecca Usher to sister on hospital needs, Pennsylvania, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Chester; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 98914

Artificial leg, Bangor, 1865

Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society Date: circa 1865 Location: Presque Isle; Spotsylvania; Bangor Media: Wood, leather

Item 98915

Wesley Martin on peg leg, Bangor, 1916

Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society Date: 1916 Location: Bangor; Presque Isle Media: Photograph, postcard

Item 100361

Amanda Cordelia Kimball, Rumford Center, ca. 1861

Contributed by: David & Ann Kimball through Greater Rumford Area Historical Society Date: circa 1861 Location: Rumford Media: Photographic print

Item 7915

Maine General Hospital School of Nursing graduates, Portland, 1934

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1934 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 10212

John R. Eaton, Wilton, 1880

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1880 Location: Wilton Media: Photoprint

Item 40330

Sgt. Horace M. White to mother, April 22, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Aquia Creek Media: Ink on paper

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Item 41173

Sgt. Horace M. White letter from hospital, 1863

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

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Item 41193

Sgt. Horace M. White on food and rations, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Aquia Creek Media: Ink on paper

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Item 42145

Horace M. White on progress of wound, Virginia, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Aquia Creek Media: Ink on paper

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Item 42243

Sgt. Horace White from Philadelphia hospital, 1863

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

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Item 42747

Sgt. H.M. White on hospital, war news, 1863

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

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Item 59531

Letter seeking back pay, Virginia, 1861

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

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Item 59532

Warren Fowler letter seeking help, 1863

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

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Item 59536

Receipt for apples for wounded soldiers, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863-04-21 Location: Emory Media: Ink on paper

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Item 60172

Letter on behalf of ill soldier, Virginia, 1863

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

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Item 60173

Letter from soldiers seeking discharge, Virginia, 1863

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

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Item 60174

Doctor's letter certifying ill soldier, Portland, 1863

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

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