LC Subject Heading: Letters
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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 1283
Letter describing burning of Falmouth, 1775
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1775 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 1459
Rebecca Usher on Lincoln's assassination, Virginia, 1865
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1865 Location: City Point Media: Ink on paper
Item 5504
Meshach P. Larry on events of the Battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 18, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Falmouth Media: Ink on paper
Item 5505
Meshach P. Larry letter, Dec. 21, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Falmouth Media: Ink on paper
Item 5506
Meshach P. Larry letter, Oct. 18, 1863
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Fairfax Station Media: Ink on paper
Item 9277
Letter from Emma Manson to Ellen Forbes, 1863
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1863 Location: Biddeford Media: Ink on paper
Item 9299
Letter from Nathaniel Lawrence to his son, James, July 16, 1865
Contributed by: North Yarmouth Historical Society Date: 1865-07-16 Location: Pownal Media: Paper
Item 9383
Robert Pagan to Ward Chipman, May 14, 1798
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1798-05-14
Location: Calais; St. Andrews
Media: Ink on paper
This record contains 4 images.
Item 10539
Jonathan Bayley letter to Joseph Hights, 1770
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1770-02-13 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 17378
Letter from Robert E. Lee to Gen. Braxton Bragg, 1864
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Richmond Media: Ink on paper
Item 18714
Charles Turner account of climbing Katahdin, 1804
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1804 Media: Ink on paper
Item 19239
John M. Dillingham letter to mother, 1863
Contributed by: Freeport Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Freeport; Columbia; Richmond Media: Paper
Item 20424
Letter from C.H. Bridges to John Stowell regarding French military award, 1918
Contributed by: Freeport Historical Society Date: 1918 Location: Freeport Media: Ink on paper
Item 21061
Franklin Pierce on F.O.J. Smith, 1834
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1834 Location: Washington; Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 22512
William Pepperrell to William Pitt, 1748
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1748 Location: Boston Media: Ink on paper
Item 22522
Soldier's request for relief, 1747
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1747 Location: Louisbourg Media: Ink on paper
Item 25174
Samantha Smith and Natasha Kashirina, Leningrad, 1983
Contributed by: Maine State Museum Date: 1983 Media: Photographic print
Item 25214
J.M. Brown from Morris Island, South Carolina, 1863
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Morris Island; Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 25221
John Marshall Brown to sister, South Carolina, 1864
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Folly Island; Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 25222
J.M. Brown Civil War letter, South Carolina, 1864
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Folly Island; Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 25223
J.M. Brown on Civil War 'trophies,' South Carolina, 1864
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1684 Location: Folly Island; Portland; Johns Island Media: Ink on paper
Item 25390
Receipt for mast supplies, Falmouth, 1770
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1770-08-31 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 31415
Brady Gang telegram about plane, Bangor, October 14, 1937
Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society Date: 1937-10-14 Location: Bangor Media: Ink on paper
Item 31416
J. Edgar Hoover to Shep Hurd, Bangor, 1937
Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society Date: 1937-11-24 Location: Bangor; Washington Media: Ink on paper