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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 101271

Robert Paine on manufacturing saltpeter and gunpowder, Philadelphia, 1776

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1776-03-16 Location: Philadelphia, PA Media: Ink on paper

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Item 101273

Caesar Rodney on Revolutionary War, Philadelphia, 1776

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1776-08-03 Location: Philadelphia, PA Media: Ink on paper

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Item 101277

James Wilson on troop readiness, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1775

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1775-05-09 Location: Carlisle, PA; Lancaster, PA Media: Ink on paper

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Item 101754

Theodosia Prevost to Col. J. Wentworth about a visit, 1781

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1781-01-11 Location: Sharon, CT; Paramus, NJ Media: Ink on paper

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Item 102148

Carter Braxton seeking advice from his uncle, Philadelphia, 1776

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1776-04-14 Location: Philadelphia, PA Media: Ink on paper

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Item 102156

Joseph Hewes on Revolutionary War intellegence, Philadelphia, 1776

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1776-03-26 Location: Philadelphia, PA; North Carolina Media: Ink on paper

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Item 102164

Samuel Huntington to James Bowdoin on suppressing Shays' Rebellion, Hartford, 1787

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1785-05-26 Location: Hartford, CT; Boston, MA Media: Ink on paper

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Item 102166

Francis Lightfoot Lee discussing independence in Congress, Philadelphia, 1776

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1776-04-09 Location: Philadelphia, PA; Warsaw, VA Media: Ink on paper

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Item 102168

Phillip Livingston to George Clinton regarding criminal court case, New York, 1778

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1778-03-04 Location: New York Media: Ink on paper

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Item 102170

Thomas McKean to Benjamin Franklin regarding Fontaine de Brassine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1786

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1786-12-09 Location: Philadelphia, PA; France Media: Ink on paper

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Item 102184

Richard Stockton regarding details of a court case, New Jersey, 1774

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1774-10-03 Location: Morven, NJ; New Jersey Media: Ink on paper

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Item 102187

George Walton on the state of the war prisoners to General Lincoln, Georgia, 1779

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1779-10-13 Location: Sunbury, GA; Savannah, GA Media: Ink on paper

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Item 102769

American dye-crisis dress, Portland, ca. 1917

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1917 Location: Portland Media: Cotton
This record contains 9 images.

Item 102821

A plan of the city and harbour of Louisburg, 1758

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1745 Location: Cape Breton Island, NS, Canada; Canada Media: Ink on paper

Item 104505

Home of John Moreland Cummings, Richmond's Island, ca. 1855

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1855 Location: Cape Elizabeth Media: Ambrotype

Item 111703

Beale & Inman corduroy suit, London, ca. 1970

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1970 Location: London, England Media: cotton, nylon

Item 116493

Crooked Lake and Lake Namacan, ca. 1820

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1820 Location: Minnesota; Ontario, Canada Media: Ink on paper
This record contains 2 images.

Item 116495

Manuscript map of Loon's Narrows & Lac Du Bois, ca. 1822

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1822 Location: Minnesota; Ontario, Canada Media: Ink on paper
This record contains 2 images.

Item 116498

Manuscript survey of Lac La Croix, Vermillion Lake, ca. 1820

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1820 Location: Minnesota; Ontario, Canada Media: Ink on paper
This record contains 2 images.

Item 149392

Benedict Arnold letterbook, 1775

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1775 Location: Maine; Québec, Canada; Saint-Henri, QC, Canada; Caratunk; Waterville; Winslow; Augusta; Sartigan, QC, Canada; Norridgewock; Montreal, QC, Canada; Quebec, QC, Canada; Montreal, QC; St. Maria, QC, Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; Cambridge, MA Media: Ink on paper
This record contains 149 images.

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Item 149690

Marie Louise Thériault prayer card, Fort Kent, 1914

Contributed by: Acadian Archives Date: 1914 Location: Fort Kent; St. Francis Media: Ink on paper

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Item 6665

Pascatway River in New England, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: circa 1670 Location: Maine; New Hampshire Media: Paper

Item 135882

Manuscript map of Maine, 1761

Contributed by: Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education Date: 1761 Location: Maine Media: Ink on paper

Item 112092

Pejepscot Company Records, Volume 10, 1670-1840

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1670–1840 Location: Brunswick; Harpswell Media: Ink on paper
This record contains 764 images.