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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 11393

Hiawatha Story Card 17, 1922

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1922 Media: Ink on cardboard

Item 11631

Myles Birket Foster illustration for the poem The Grave, ca. 1880

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1880 Media: Ink on paper

Item 11658

Illustration, The Building of the Ship, ca. 1880

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1880 Media: Ink on paper

Item 12512

Wadsworth-Longfellow House parlor, Portland, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Portland Media: Lantern slide

Item 13863

Walter Mansur at Camp Caribou, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1895 Media: Photographic print

Item 15633

Harry Hayman Cochrane, Monmouth, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Monmouth Museum Date: circa 1905 Location: Monmouth Media: Photographic print

Item 15919

Sketch of The Village Smithy, Cambridge by Henry W. Longfellow, 1840

Contributed by: NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site Date: 1840 Location: Cambridge Media: Ink on paper

Item 16343

Letter from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Parker Cleavelend, 1835

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1835-02-02 Location: Brunswick; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 16467

Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1881

Contributed by: Bowdoin College Museum of Art Date: 1881 Location: Cambridge Media: Oil on canvas

Item 16520

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1875

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1875 Location: Brunswick Media: Print

Item 17583

Elizabeth Oakes Smith, ca. 1851

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1851 Media: Oil on canvas

Item 18275

Commemorative pitcher with portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1880

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1880 Location: Cambridge Media: Ceramic

Item 28726

Dickens characters, Saco, 1912

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1912-06-07 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print

Item 31192

Playbook used by the Thursday Club, Biddeford, 1930

Contributed by: Biddeford Historical Society Date: 1930-02-27 Location: Biddeford Media: Ink on paper

Item 31232

Thursday Club meeting menu, Biddeford, ca. 1900

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Biddeford Media: Ink on paper

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Item 31350

Henry Knox Baker, Hallowell, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Hubbard Free Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print

Item 31630

Thursday Club meeting menu, Biddeford, 1897

Contributed by: Biddeford Historical Society Date: 1897 Location: Biddeford Media: Ink on wood, pencil and onionskin, ribbons

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Item 31631

"Rocking Chair Row" program, Biddeford, 1930

Contributed by: Biddeford Historical Society Date: 1930-02-27 Location: Biddeford Media: Ink on paper

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Item 55196

Blue marlin at the L.C. Bates Museum, Fairfield, ca. 1955

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1955 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Item 135775

South Parlour (Door to the Porch), Yellow House, Gardiner, ca. 1985

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1985 Location: Gardiner Media: photographic print

Item 135776

North Parlour (South View), Yellow House, Gardiner, ca. 1985

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1985 Location: Gardiner Media: photographic print

Item 135777

South Parlour, Yellow House, Gardiner, ca. 1985

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1985 Location: Gardiner Media: photographic print

Item 135780

North Parlour (West View), Yellow House, Gardiner, ca. 1985

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1985 Location: Gardiner Media: photographic print

Item 135785

Owl's Nest, Yellow House, Gardiner, ca. 1985

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1985 Location: Gardiner Media: photographic print