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Keywords: Wartime

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 100331

Eunice Sewall on wartime shortages, Chocktaw County, Alabama, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864-02-23 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 105712

Margaret Payson's square shouldered dress, Portland, ca. 1943

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1943 Location: Portland Media: rayon, plastic, metal
This record contains 12 images.

Item 16262

Nurses, Eastern Maine General Hospital, ca. 1943

Contributed by: Eastern Maine Medical Center Date: circa 1943 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

Item 104325

An issue of "Big Guns" for selling war stamps, World War II pamphlet, ca. 1943

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1943 Media: Lithograph

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Item 21609

Broadview Park housing unit, South Portland, 1959

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1959-12-09 Location: South Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 9329

World War II ration book,1943

Contributed by: Norway Historical Society Date: 1943 Location: South Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 102861

S.S. "Falmouth" under construction, South Portland, 1918

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1918-02-26 Location: South Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 102770

Ruth True's afternoon suit, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Portland Media: Wool, silk
This record contains 13 images.

Item 9185

Mother's day V-mail from Joseph Walker, San Francisco, 1944

Contributed by: Norway Historical Society Date: 1944-04-30 Location: Norway; San Francisco Media: Ink and pencil on paper

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Item 21622

Hose 4, South Portland, 1952

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1952 Location: South Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 108922

Snowblower clearing the runway at the air base, Houlton, ca. 1944

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1944 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 77759

Peter Thacher congratulations to G.F. Shepley, Rockland, 1869

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1869 Location: Portland; Rockland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 99270

Panorama of Buck's Harbor, South Brooksville, ca. 1955

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1955 Location: Brooksville Media: Photo negative

Item 108975

Farmington State Normal School women's basketball team, 1944

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1944 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print

Item 99428

K.B. Sewall on war, inability to travel, Mobile, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Mobile; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 102872

S.S. "Lewiston" before launch, South Portland, 1918

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1918-10-31 Location: South Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 148456

Guy P. Gannett posing with members of the Civil Air Patrol, ca. 1943

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1943 Media: Photographic print

Item 19264

Letter written by Capt. John G. Dillingham to his wife Margaret, November 21, 1861

Contributed by: Freeport Historical Society Date: 1861 Location: Freeport; Hamburg Media: Paper

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