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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 19017

Catherine Bell remembers Christmas, Monticello, 1925-1943

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1925–1943 Location: Houlton; Monticello Media: MP3

Item 81016

Rebecca Usher on injured soldiers, war, Pennsylvania, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Chester; Hollis; Plymouth; Philadelphia; Vicksburg; Fredericksburg; Buxton; Galveston Media: Ink on paper

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Item 81047

Rebecca Usher on receipt of goods, visit to Baltimore, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Chester; Baltimore; Annapolis; Boston 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 9296

Luther Lawrence letter to brother, 1863

Contributed by: North Yarmouth Historical Society Date: 1863-06-10 Location: Pownal; Gray; Beaufort; Fernandina Media: Ink on paper

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Item 9300

Letter from Luther Lawrence to his brother, May 25, 1862

Contributed by: North Yarmouth Historical Society Date: 1862-05-25 Location: Richmond Media: Paper

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Item 31853

Letter from Luther Lawrence to his brother Frank, September 10, 1862

Contributed by: North Yarmouth Historical Society Date: 1862-09-09 Location: Yorktown Media: Ink on paper

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Item 143

Lucretia Day Sewall and children, Portland, ca. 1849

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1849 Location: Mobile Media: Daguerreotype

Item 7965

Civil War soldier's letter home, Oct. 1861

Contributed by: Fort Kent Public Library Date: 1861-10-12 Location: Washington; Fort Kent Media: Ink on paper

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Item 9283

John Sheahan letter from Belle Plain, Virginia, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863-01-16 Location: Belle Plain; Dennysville Media: Ink on paper

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Item 9284

Letter from John Sheahan to his father, Jan. 29, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863-01-29 Location: Belle Plain; Dennysville Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10540

Letter from William Bayley to his mother, ca. 1777

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1777 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 13412

Letter requesting aid for losses to British, 1783

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1781 Location: Castine Media: Ink on paper

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Item 13728

Letter from Orin Allen, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864-09-02 Location: Sanford Media: Ink on paper

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Item 15999

Moses Greenleaf letter to his family, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 16000

Moses Greenleaf Civil War letter, Jefferson City, Missouri, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Jefferson City Media: Ink on paper

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Item 16001

Moses Greenleaf letter from Fort Ridgely, Minnesota, 1863

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

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Item 16002

Letter to family from Moses Greenleaf, 1865

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1865 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 16003

Civil War letter from Moses Greenleaf, Missouri, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 16004

Moses Greenleaf letter from Mississippi, 1865

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1865 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 16005

Civil War letter from Moses Greenleaf, Tennessee, 1865

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1865 Location: Clifton Media: Ink on paper

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Item 16718

Postcard from Walter Hustus to mother, 1943

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1943-03-10 Location: South Portland Media: Postcard

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Item 18649

Elizabeth Oakes Smith account of climbing Katahdin, 1849

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1849-09-12 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 28471

William Henry Fogg Civil War Reminiscences, Bath, 1888

Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: circa 1888 Location: Bath; Richmond Media: Ink on paper

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