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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 11771

Calais Frontier Guard banner, 1839

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1839 Media: Oil and gold leaf on silk

Item 36584

Sanatorium 'outfits,' Hebron, ca. 1914

Courtesy of David Sanderson, an individual partner Date: circa 1914 Location: Hebron Media: Photographic print

Item 67505

4th U.S. Colored Infantry, Fort Lincoln, Washington, D.C., ca. 1864

Contributed by: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division through Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1864 Location: Washington Media: Digital image of glass negative

Item 82375

Civilian Conservation Corps at Flagstaff Camp, 1933

Contributed by: Maine Conservation Corps Date: 1933 Location: Flagstaff Media: Photographic print

Item 100134

Encampment of 25th Maine, Virginia, ca. 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1862 Location: Arlington Heights; Gray Media: Lithograph

Item 102326

Certificate of honorable death for Herbert Cobb issued at Washington D.C., 1919

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1918-10-14 Location: Washington Media: Print on paper

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Item 5255

President Abraham Lincoln, ca. 1862

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

Item 18417

Sarah Sanborn letter to father, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Readfield; Augusta Media: Ink on paper

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Item 30224

View of Pleasant Street and Blue Hill Bay, ca. 1850

Contributed by: Blue Hill Public Library Date: circa 1850 Location: Blue Hill Media: Photographic print

Item 76529

Request for Black workers, New Orleans, 1863

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

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Item 100477

Champlain Society Meeting Records, Mount Desert Island, 1882-1883

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: 1882–1883 Location: Northeast Harbor Media: Bound book, Ink on paper

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Item 148511

Drum, Portland, ca. 1854

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1854 Location: Portland Media: Wood, hide, rope

Item 8856

Sailing vessel OLYMPIC, Bath, 1892

Contributed by: Maine Maritime Museum Date: 1892 Location: Bath Media: Photographic print

Item 14588

Spokeshave, ca. 1850

Contributed by: Davistown Museum Date: circa 1850 Media: Cast iron, steel and brass,

Item 18290

Railroad engine house with turntable, Dover-Foxcroft, ca. 1990

Contributed by: Oakfield Historical Society Date: circa 1990 Location: Dover-Foxcroft Media: Photographic print

Item 18294

Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Turntable, Limestone, ca. 1990

Contributed by: Oakfield Historical Society Date: circa 1990 Location: Limestone Media: Photographic print

Item 18533

Thermate Demonstration, Bangor, 1944

Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1944-07-26 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

Item 21711

W. R. Usher and Sons Shoe Factory, Springvale, ca. 1904

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1904 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative

Item 48247

Henry Howe Richards outfit, Gardiner, ca. 1885

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1885 Location: Gardiner Media: Velvet, lace, cotton
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Item 54539

W.B. Adams on 'Council of War,' Virginia, 1865

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

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Item 76193

I.T. Williams praise of Gen. G.F. Shepley, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: New York; New Orleans; Old Orchard Beach Media: Ink on paper

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Item 79993

Steamboat Louisa, Moosehead Lake, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Moosehead Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Greenville Media: Photographic print

Item 99269

Buck Harbor Gift Shop, South Brooksville, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1940 Location: Brooksville Media: Glass Negative

Item 11497

Wood Molding Plane, ca. 1850

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1850 Location: Littleton Media: Wood, iron