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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 72037

Statement denying charge of returning slaves, New Orleans, 1862

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

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Item 74246

Planters' request for return of slaves, New Orleans, 1862

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

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Item 75056

Agreement between planters, slaves, New Orleans, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper

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Item 75057

Gen. Banks on putting slaves to work, New Orleans, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper

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Item 99116

Charles Howard to O.O. Howard, Leeds, 1865

Contributed by: Bowdoin College Library Date: 1865 Location: Leeds Media: Ink on paper

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Item 99118

Lizzie Howard to Gen. O.O. Howard, Leeds, 1865

Contributed by: Bowdoin College Library Date: 1865 Location: Leeds Media: Ink on paper

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Item 99381

George Washington Kemp, Leeds, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Elaine Kemp Bragdon through Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Leeds Media: Photograph of crayon portrait

Item 4274

William H. Seward, Secretary of State, ca. 1860

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

Item 6079

Hannah Farmer, Eliot 1823-1891

Contributed by: Eliot Baha'i Archives Date: circa 1880 Location: Eliot Media: Photographic print

Item 99018

Lizzie Howard on wedding of former slaves, Leeds, 1864

Contributed by: Bowdoin College Library Date: 1864 Location: Augusta Media: Ink on paper

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Item 99117

Guy Howard to O.O. Howard about pony, Leeds, 1865

Contributed by: Bowdoin College Library Date: 1865 Location: Leeds Media: Ink on paper

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Item 99119

Guy Howard to father, Leeds, 1865

Contributed by: Bowdoin College Library Date: 1865 Location: Leeds Media: Ink on paper

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Item 99120

Gen. O.O. Howard to son James, North Carolina, 1865

Contributed by: Bowdoin College Library Date: 1865 Location: Leeds Media: Ink on paper

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Item 99121

Merrill Slate Quarry workers, Brownville, ca. 1868

Contributed by: Maine Historic Preservation Commission Date: circa 1868 Location: Brownville Media: Stereograph

Item 99122

Two quarry workers, Brownville, ca. 1868

Contributed by: Maine Historic Preservation Commission Date: circa 1868 Location: Brownville Media: Stereograph

Item 5255

President Abraham Lincoln, ca. 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1862 Media: Carte de visite

Item 5537

Neal Dow, Portland, 1874

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1874 Media: Photographic print

Item 31680

Josiah Pierce on keeping school, Brunswick, 1845

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1845 Location: Brunswick Media: Ink on paper

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Item 4273

Abraham Lincoln, 1865

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1865 Media: Photographic print

Item 9301

Letter from Luther Lawrence to his father, June 2, 1861

Contributed by: North Yarmouth Historical Society Date: 1861-06-02 Location: Pownal; Boston Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10428

Noah Barker, Corinth, 1880

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1880 Location: Corinth Media: Photoprint

Item 12832

George F. Emery, ca. 1875

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1875 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 13203

Blowing Up of the Fireship Intrepid, Tripoli Harbor, 1804

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1804-09-04 Location: Tripoli Media: Ink on paper

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Item 23979

Letter about Missouri Compromise, 1820

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1820 Location: Winslow Media: Ink on paper

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