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Keywords: Prisoner of War

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 65093

Letter seeking information on POW husband, Saco, 1864

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

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Item 61634

Request for information about missing soldier, Princeton, 1864

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

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Item 79225

Neal Dow on capture in Louisiana, Portland, 1891

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Portland; Conway Media: Ink on paper

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Item 16304

Black Hawk Tavern, Houlton, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1920 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 64626

Letter to John Sheahan about son, 1865

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

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Item 11586

American officers, Kittery Navy Yard, 1898

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1898 Location: Kittery; Portsmouth Media: Photographic print

Item 17046

Missing in action letter, 1944

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1944 Location: Gneixendorf; South Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 17044

Letter from Grace Hustus to son, 1944

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1944 Location: South Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 60176

Receipt for Contraband Camp donation, Washington, 1863

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

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Item 81153

John Conley, Bangor, ca. 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1863 Location: Bangor Media: Carte de visite

Item 17030

Postcard concerning capture by Germans, 1944

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1944 Location: Gneixendorf; South Portland Media: Postcard

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Item 72090

Report on cotton for prison, New Orleans, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Baton Rouge Media: Ink on paper

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Item 11562

Col. Forney and Admiral Cervera, Kittery Navy Yard, 1898

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1898 Location: Kittery; Portsmouth Media: Photographic print

Item 4305

Major Abner R. Small of the 16th Maine Infantry, ca. 1861

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1861 Media: Photographic print

Item 74501

Annie Thornton to Gen. George F. Shepley, Scarborough, 1862

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

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Item 5536

Neal Dow, Portland, 1851

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1851 Media: Photographic print

Item 18108

Roswell Prescott, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print

Item 10802

Letter from Peleg Wadsworth to wife, Betsey about prison, 1781

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1781-02-20 Location: Portland; Castine Media: Ink on paper

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Item 104534

Rendall Tolman Gammon, ca. 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1863 Location: Machias Media: Ambrotype

Item 96591

Nurse M.E. Dupree on soldiers' needs, City Point, VA, 1865

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

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Item 82257

16th Maine flag fragment, ca. 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1863 Media: Silk, bullion

Item 62539

Chart of the Penobscot River, ca. 1779

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1779 Location: Castine Media: Ink on paper

Item 97581

Pvt. John Sheahan letter on picket duty, Virginia, 1863

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

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Item 36268

Letter concerning Madawaska census, 1837

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1837 Media: Ink on paper

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