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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 61851

Theo Buswell May talks about farm life, Swan's Island, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Swan's Island Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Location: Swan's Island Media: Mp3

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Item 96819

Francis Greene home and barn on Oak Street in Boothbay Harbor, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Boothbay Region Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Boothbay Harbor Media: Photographic print

Item 67361

Virginia Somes Sanderson, Sheep Island, Somesville Harbor, 1949, ca. 1949

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: circa 1949 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print

Item 18903

Theodore Barrell letter to brother Nathaniel, 1776

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1776 Location: Baltimore; Philadelphia; York Media: Ink on paper

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Item 28466

Charles T. Lord to wife, Baton Rouge, 1863

Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: 1863-05-29 Location: Bath; Port Hudson Media: Ink on paper

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Item 100691

Samuel Washburn dissatisfied with position, New York, 1862

Contributed by: Washburn Norlands Living History Center Date: 1862-03-17 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 17149

Carolyn Grant, Luther March at Eastern Maine General Hospital, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Eastern Maine Medical Center Date: circa 1920 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

Item 80413

Letter to Sarah Tarbox from her mother, 1841

Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: 1841-07-02 Location: Richmond; Westport Island; Woolwich Media: Ink on paper

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Item 99412

K.B. Sewall request to go to Mobile, 1865

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

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Item 104900

Sarah Tibbetts to her husband disclosing a family theft, Westport Island, 1895

Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: 1895 Location: Westport Island; Bath Media: Ink on paper

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Item 100328

Eunice Sewall on trip to Choctaw County, Alabama, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863-12-02 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 17152

Carolyn Grant, Eastern Maine General Hosptial, ca. 1925

Contributed by: Eastern Maine Medical Center Date: circa 1925 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

Item 101600

Elihu Washburne on clothes and Unitarian preachers, Cambridge, 1839

Contributed by: Washburn Norlands Living History Center Date: 1839-04-24 Location: Cambridge; Livermore; Galena Media: Ink on paper

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Item 7585

Swan camp dining room, Wesserunsett Lake, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1905 Location: Madison Media: Photographic print

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 99393

Kiah Sewall pass to leave Mobile, 1864

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

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Item 99429

K.B. Sewall to wife on leaving Mobile, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Aberdeen; Mobile Media: Ink on paper

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Item 99430

K.B. Sewall to Somers Sewall on escape from Mobile, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Washington; Mobile Media: Ink on paper

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Item 100739

Samuel Washburn request for ship's command, New York, 1862

Contributed by: Washburn Norlands Living History Center Date: 1862-03-22 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 152157

Head Harbor residents standing in front of the Mission church, Jonesport, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Seacoast Mission Date: circa 1920 Location: Jonesport Media: Photographic print

Item 29972

The Lane, North Yarmouth ca. 1900

Contributed by: North Yarmouth Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: North Yarmouth Media: Photographic print

Item 5715

Abner Small to Luther Emerson, Sept. 21, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862-09-21 Location: Sharpsburg; Waterville Media: Ink on paper

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Item 61859

Myron 'Sonny' Sprague talks about the family store, Swan's Island, 1957-1974

Contributed by: Swan's Island Historical Society Date: 1957–1974 Location: Swan's Island Media: Mp3

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Item 33326

Joseph T. & Ella Jordan Mason home, Biddeford, 1896

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1896 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print