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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 28940

Exploring an Inuit grave on Eskimo Island, Labrador, 1891

Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1891 Location: Eskimo Island Media: Paper, photograph

Item 11828

Exploring survey, St. Croix River to Great Waggansis, 1817

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1817 Media: Ink on paper

Item 102274

Portland Company engineering drawing for the boiler in Admiral Peary's "SS Roosevelt," Portland, 1904

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1904 Location: Portland Media: Ink on Linen

Item 98552

Commonwealth Art Colony students exploring Damariscove Island off Boothbay Harbor, 1915

Contributed by: Boothbay Region Historical Society Date: 1915-08-03 Location: Boothbay Harbor Media: Photographic print

Item 28768

Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, ca. 1909

Contributed by: Maine State Museum Date: circa 1909 Media: Photographic print

Item 26587

Box of Matches Wrapped for Polar Climate, 1906

Contributed by: Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands Date: 1906 Media: Wood, canvas

Item 28983

Ralph H. Hunt aboard the 'Julia A. Decker,' Nova Scotia, 1891

Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1891 Media: Paper, photograph

Item 28994

Dennis Cole giving Jonathan Cilley a haircut on deck, 1891

Contributed by: Farnsworth Art Museum through Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1891 Media: Photographic print

Item 23753

Maude Fisher, Wiscasset, 1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1926-06-19 Location: Wiscasset Media: Glass Negative

Item 54903

Schooner 'Bowdoin' departs from Castine, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: circa 1950 Location: Castine Media: Photographic print

Item 28985

Ernest B. Young in sealskin clothing, Brunswick, 1891

Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1891 Location: Brunswick Media: Paper, photograph

Item 28774

Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary in dress uniform, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Maine State Museum Date: circa 1910 Media: Photographic print

Item 103813

General Adolphus W. Greely and Captain Donald MacMillan, Wiscasset, 1923

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1923-06-22 Location: Wiscasset Media: Glass Negative

Item 98416

Donald Baxter MacMillan bookplate, ca. 1925

Contributed by: Cary Memorial Library in Wayne Date: circa 1925 Location: Wayne Media: Ink on paper

Item 11237

Flag from North Pole, Augusta, 1982

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1982-06-27 Location: Augusta Media: Photographic print

Item 6360

Samuel de Champlain, ca. 1600

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1600 Media: Ink on paper

Item 102275

Portland Company shop drawing of a ship boiler, Portland, 1905

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1905 Location: Portland Media: Ink on Linen

Item 23295

Naval Officers, Wiscasset, 1925

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1925 Location: Wiscasset Media: Glass Negative

Item 26180

Peary family members in Greenland, 1902

Contributed by: Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands Date: 1902 Media: Photographic print

Item 6317

Thomas Steele "discovers" lake near Matagamon Lake, 1879

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1879 Location: Mattamiscontis Twp. Media: Ink on paper

Item 102778

Champlain Society log, Information about Samuel de Champlain, Cambridge, 1882

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: 1882 Location: Mount Desert; Cambridge Media: Ink on paper, softbound notebook

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Item 103814

MacMillan Arctic Expedition official farewell, Wiscasset, 1923

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1923-06-24 Location: Wiscasset Media: Glass Negative

Item 103851

MacMillan Expedition provisions, Wiscasset, 1923

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1923-06-26 Location: Wiscasset Media: Glass Negative

Item 103923

MacMillan Expedition provisions, Wiscasset, 1923

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1923-06-26 Location: Wiscasset Media: Glass Negative