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Keywords: Prisoners and prisons

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 72090

Report on cotton for prison, New Orleans, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Baton Rouge Media: Ink on paper

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Item 103805

Camp Houlton POW area, Houlton, ca. 1945

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1945 Location: Houlton Media: Photograph

Item 74247

Col. Kimball request for release of prisoners, New Orleans, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper

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Item 108923

US officer and a German POW officer, Houlton, ca. 1944

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1944 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 103764

POW stockades with buildings at Camp Houlton Air Base, Houlton, ca. 1945

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1945 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 25809

Maine State Prison, Thomaston, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1915-02-03 Location: Thomaston Media: Photograph on postcard

Item 105302

German POW with Richard Rhoda, Hodgdon, 1944

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1944 Location: Hodgdon; Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 61643

Prisoner request for Parole, Annapolis, Md., 1864

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

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Item 108922

Snowblower clearing the runway at the air base, Houlton, ca. 1944

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1944 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 10895

Lois Porter, Houlton, ca. 1945

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1945 Location: Houlton Media: Oil painting

Item 7861

Admirals Cervera and Carpenter, Kittery, 1898

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1898 Location: Kittery; Portsmouth Media: Photoprint

Item 108921

Seaside vista, Houlton, ca. 1945

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1945 Location: Houlton Media: Oil painting

Item 6880

Fife, ca. 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1863 Media: Walnut, brass

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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Item 13518

Gerhard Kleindt, Houlton, ca. 1944

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1944 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 26128

Kitchen, Maine State Prison, Thomaston, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1915 Location: Thomaston Media: Postcard

Item 10653

Maine State Prison, Thomaston, 1979

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1979-10-08 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print

Mystery Corner Item

Item 6318

Maine State Prison barber, Thomaston, ca. 1900

Mystery Corner Item What is this man's name?

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Thomaston Media: Stereograph

Item 64611

John P. Sheahan from POW prison, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Danville; Dennysville Media: Pencil on paper

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Item 64614

POW John Sheahan to Lizzie Shriver, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Columbia; Westminster Media: Ink on paper

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Item 17047

Letter concerning Walter Hustus prisoner status, 1944

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1944 Location: Gneixendorf; South Portland; South Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 26126

Maine State Prison yard, Thomaston, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1915 Location: Thomaston Media: Postcard

Item 13528

German barber, Camp Houlton, 1945

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1945 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 79210

View of Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia, ca. 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1863 Location: Richmond Media: Stereograph