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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 19030

John Neal letter from Baltimore, 1815

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1815 Location: Baltimore; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 19031

John Neal on love and happiness, ca. 1815

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1815 Location: Baltimore; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 19032

John Neal letter to sister, 1815

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1815 Location: Baltimore; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 19033

John Neal to Rachel Neal, 1815

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1815 Location: Baltimore; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 20582

John Neal letter about writing career, 1816

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1816 Location: Baltimore; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 20782

Marguerite Yourcenar, Northeast Harbor, 1980

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1987-12-18 Location: Northeast Harbor Media: Photograph, text

Item 21066

Josiah Pierce on his 30th birthday, 1786

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1786 Location: Baldwin; Woburn Media: Ink on paper

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Item 21203

Poem from Josiah Pierce to Phebe Thompson, ca. 1786

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1786 Location: Baldwin; Woburn Media: Ink on paper

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Item 21213

Josiah Pierce eulogy poem, ca. 1786

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1786 Location: Baldwin Media: Ink on paper

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Item 21215

Josiah Pierce essay on happiness, ca. 1825

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1825 Location: Baldwin Media: Ink on paper

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Item 21216

Josiah Pierce poem, 1786

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1786 Location: Baldwin Media: Ink on paper

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Item 22218

John Neal to sister, 1815

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1815 Location: Baltimore; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 25019

Dr. Rockwell's Mustard Plaster, March 1929

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1929 Media: Ink on paper

Item 25020

Dr. Rockwell's Mustard Plaster, February 1929

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1929 Media: Ink on paper

Item 25021

Ye Olde Mustard Plaster, 1928

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1928 Media: Ink on paper

Item 25302

Nathaniel Hawthorne, ca. 1860

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1860 Media: Carte de visite

Item 25303

Nathaniel Hawthorne, London, 1860

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1860 Location: London Media: Photographic print

Item 34758

Asa Clay Sr., Lincoln, ca. 1932

Contributed by: Lincoln Historical Society Date: circa 1932 Location: Lincoln Media: Photographic print

Item 66379

Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Brunswick, ca. 1938

Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1935 Location: Brunswick Media: Linen texture postcard

Item 100335

William Dean Howells' letter to Eunice Sewall, Boston, 1866

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1866-09-08 Location: Boston Media: Ink on paper

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Item 104493

Daguerreotype of Horatio Woodman in fur, ca. 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1850 Location: Portland; Buxton Media: Daguerreotype

Item 116366

Elizabeth Ricker reading to Togo, Poland Spring, 1928

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1928-05-12 Location: Poland Media: Glass negative

Item 4007

Eastern Maine Insane Hospital, Bangor, 1896

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1896 Location: Bangor Media: Architectural drawing

Item 6156

Signals at Portland Observatory, 1807

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1807 Location: Portland; Cape Elizabeth Media: watercolor on paper