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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 10545

Map of Ancient Falmouth from 1630 to 1690

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1630 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

Item 100357

Lewis Island Passamaquoddy village, Schoodic Lake, ca. 1866

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1866 Media: Pencil and ink on paper

Item 5480

Battle of Antietam map, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862-09-16 Location: Antietam Media: Ink on paper

Item 101075

Slave whip, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Date: 1864 Location: Bangor Media: Ink on paper

Item 4163

Chamberlain and 20th Maine, Gettysburg reunion, 1889

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1889 Location: Gettysburg Media: Photographic print

Item 148630

Héritage Vivant commemorative card, Van Buren, 1973

Contributed by: Acadian Archives Date: 1973 Location: Van Buren Media: Postcard

Item 101408

John Quincy Adams regarding Adams' esteem for the Wadsworths, Boston, 1809

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1809-07-11 Location: Boston; Portland Media: Ink on paper

Item 54439

Bangor and Aroostook Railroad excursions, 1952

Contributed by: Presque Isle Historical Society Date: circa 1952 Location: Presque Isle; Boston Media: MP3

  Presque Isle to Boston Excursion

Item 4333

Battle at Gettysburg, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863-07-01 Location: Gettysburg Media: Original is engraving on wood

Item 6170

View of Green Acre the day 'Abdu'l-Baha arrived, Eliot, 1912

Contributed by: Eliot Baha'i Archives Date: 1912-08-16 Location: Eliot; Haifa Media: Photographic print

Item 7058

Empire Theatre, Main Street, Lewiston 1914

Contributed by: Lewiston Public Library Date: 1914-12-30 Location: Lewiston Media: Phototransparency

Item 7847

Kittery Navy Yard, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Kittery; Portsmouth Media: Card photograph

Item 13062

Shaker Meetinghouse, Sabbathday Lake, 1962

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1962 Location: New Gloucester Media: Photographic print

Item 82097

Champlain Club camp and yacht log, Mount Desert Island, 1880

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: 1880 Location: Mount Desert Island Media: Ink on paper

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Item 102549

"For Every Fighter A Woman Worker" Y.W.C.A. World War I poster, 1918

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1918 Media: Ink on paper

Item 102778

Champlain Society log, Information about Samuel de Champlain, Cambridge, 1882

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: 1882 Location: Mount Desert; Cambridge Media: Ink on paper, softbound notebook

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Item 19020

'The Liberty Pole: A Tale of Machias,' 1912

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1775-06-12 Location: Machias Media: Ink on paper

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Item 148640

Frenchville Hotel, Frenchville, ca. 1911

Contributed by: Acadian Archives Date: circa 1911 Location: Frenchville Media: Photographic postcard

Item 105441

Machegonne : Portland, also called Falmouth, 1932

Contributed by: Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education Date: 1632–1932 Location: Portland; Falmouth Media: Lithograph

Item 112088

Pejepscot Company Records, Volume 5, 1673–1856

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1673–1856 Location: Brunswick; Topsham Media: Ink on paper
This record contains 546 images.

Item 54441

Building changes on the corner of Main and State, Presque Isle, since 1940

Contributed by: Presque Isle Historical Society Date: 1940–2000 Location: Presque Isle Media: MP3

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Item 5716

Abner Small to the Emersons, Nov. 20, 1861

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1861 Location: Waterville Media: Ink on paper

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Item 148631

Acadian Village, Van Buren, ca. 1990

Contributed by: Acadian Archives Date: circa 1990 Location: Van Buren Media: Photographic postcard

Item 105433

"Falmouth Neck, as it was when destroyed by Mowett," 1831

Contributed by: Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education Date: 1775-10-18 Location: Portland Media: Lithograph