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LC Subject Heading: Manuscripts

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 12628

Sebascodegan Island, 1741

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1741-08-06 Location: Brunswick Media: Ink on paper

Item 12629

Small Point, 1738

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1738-01-09 Location: Phippsburg Media: Ink on paper

Item 110889

Sketch of the Strait of Detroit from Lake Erie to Lake St. Clair, ca. 1823

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Media: Ink on paper
This record contains 3 images.

Item 5314

Plan of rivers of Saco and Kennebunk, 1731

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1731 Media: Ink on paper

Item 6777

Capt. Mowat's warning to Falmouth, 1775

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1775-11-16 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 6798

Copy of letter from Samuel Graves to Philip Stephens, 1775

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1775-10-09 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 7330

Indian Raid on Casco Bay, 1676

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1676-09-13 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 7350

Letter about Abenaki village raid, 1721

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1721-01-21 Location: Norridgewock; Brunswick Media: Ink on paper

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Item 7578

Franklin County voting record, 1816

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1816 Location: Mercer; Moscow Media: Ink on paper

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Item 7579

Somerset County voting record, 1816

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1816 Location: Anson; Avon; Athens; Bloomfield Media: Ink on paper

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Item 7595

Samuel Freeman letter to Abiel Abbot, Nov. 9, 1813

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1813-11-09 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 18722

Modern rendering of John Small's map of Falmouth, 1753

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1753 Location: Falmouth Media: Map, ink on paper

Item 33695

White's Wharf and vicinity, Biddeford, ca. 1840

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1840 Location: Biddeford; Saco Media: Ink on coated cotton

Item 116540

Map of the boundary lines between the United States and the adjacent British provinces, 1843

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1843 Media: Ink on paper

Item 37701

Penobscot Bay area, ca. 1750

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1750 Media: Ink on paper
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Item 174

Signal flags, Portland, ca. 1800

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1800 Location: Portland Media: Paper

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Item 177

Observatory timber contract, Portland, 1807

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1807-04-08 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 179

Portland Observatory subscriber agreement, 1807

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1807-03-20 Location: Portland Media: Paper

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Item 188

Share certificate, Portland Monument Ground, 1807

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1807-10-01 Location: Portland Media: Color transparency

Item 1138

Reverse of Stock Certificate, 1896

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1896-02-08 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

Item 1177

Letter concerning Harbinger of Peace, 1953

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1953-11-25 Location: Milbridge; Jonesport Media: Ink on paper

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Item 1322

Oath of allegiance record for Daniel Lane, 1778

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1778-02-03 Location: Albany Media: Ink on paper

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Item 1368

Letter with paper from Arnold's march to Quebec, 1868

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1775 Location: Augusta Media: Ink on paper

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Item 1450

Letter from the Friends of Separation in York County, 1816

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1816-07-20 Media: Paper

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