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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 68865

Scarborough map copy, 1784

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1784 Location: Scarborough Media: Ink on paper

Item 74144

H. W. Shaylor letter, Portland, 1916

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1916-07-05 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 74535

Josiah Hayden Drummond, Portland, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Media: Glass Negative

Item 74941

Lawrance Thompson lecture announcement, Portland, 1939

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1939 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 79700

Letter to Sarah Tarbox Greenleaf from niece Sarah, Boston, 1854

Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: 1854 Location: Westport Island; Boston Media: Ink on paper

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Item 80793

Interior of first electric generating plant, Lubec, ca. 1903, ca. 1903

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1903 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print

Item 81081

Road Signs, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1955

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: circa 1955 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print

Item 82308

Jean P. Ouellette Letter on CCC, Upper Frenchville, 1985

Contributed by: Maine Conservation Corps Date: circa 1938 Location: Upper Frenchville; Bar Harbor; Southwest Harbor Media: Ink on paper

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Item 82327

James E. Kinney Letter on CCC, Thomaston, 1985

Contributed by: Maine Conservation Corps Date: 1933–1946 Location: Thomaston; Patten; Millinocket; Warren Media: Ink on paper

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Item 82330

John and Ida Smith Letter on CCC, Readville, 1990

Contributed by: Maine Conservation Corps Date: circa 1938 Location: Readville Media: Ink on paper

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Item 82339

George Chase Letter on CCC, Brownville Junction, 1991

Contributed by: Maine Conservation Corps Date: circa 1940 Location: Brownville Junction; Bar Harbor Media: Ink on paper

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Item 82342

Dr. Richard Stevens Letter on CCC, 1985

Contributed by: Maine Conservation Corps Date: circa 1938 Location: Great Barrington; Portland; Camden; Bangor Media: Ink on paper

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Item 82351

Joel W. Marsh Letter on the CCC, Randolph, 1988

Contributed by: Maine Conservation Corps Date: circa 1935 Location: Randolph; Bridgton Media: Ink on paper

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Item 82431

Civilian Conservation Corps 50th Anniversary, Sugarloaf Mountain, 1987

Contributed by: Maine Conservation Corps Date: 1987-08-14 Location: Sugarloaf Media: Photographic print

Item 94904

Portland Water District Douglass Street Meter Shop, Portland, 1933

Contributed by: Portland Water District Date: 1933 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 94905

Portland Water District Douglass Street Meter Shop 1933

Contributed by: Portland Water District Date: 1933 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 99432

K.B. Sewall list of items to take to Mobile, 1865

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1865-05-15 Location: Mobile Media: Ink on paper

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Item 100722

Dedicating the Westport-Wiscasset causeway, 1950

Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: 1950-06-25 Location: Westport Island; Wiscasset Media: Photographic print

Item 101190

William Blake, Farmington, ca. 1923

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: circa 1923 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print

Item 101782

Champlain Society Report of the Secretary, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1886-87

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: 1886–1887 Location: Mount Desert; Cambridge Media: Ink on paper

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Item 102198

George Thacher to William King regarding a vote for statehood, Saco, 1819

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1819-07-28 Location: Saco Media: Ink on paper

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Item 102686

Reza Jalali, Portland, 2009

Courtesy of Jan Pieter Van Voorst Van Beest, an individual partner Date: 2017 Location: Portland Media: Digital photograph

Item 104441

Lucy Nicolar Poolaw and Bruce Poolaw, Indian Island ca. 1940

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Location: Indian Island Media: Postcard

Item 104602

A plan of the District of Maine, 1795

Contributed by: Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education Date: 1795 Media: Ink on Paper