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LC Subject Heading: Legends

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 36243

Letter about Longfellow poem set to music, London, 1886

Contributed by: Pierce Family Collection through Maine Historical Society Date: 1886 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 28643

John Bear Mitchell, 'Glooskap, the Great Chief,' 2008

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2008-01-09 Location: Orono Media: Audio recording (born digital), MP3

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Item 28644

John Bear Mitchell, 'The Year Summer Was Stolen,' 2008

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2008-01-09 Location: Orono Media: Audio recording (born digital), MP3

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Item 28650

The Chenoo and the Lizard, ca. 1884

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1884 Media: Ink on paper

Item 28651

The Woman and the Serpent, ca. 1884

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1884 Media: Ink on paper

Item 28652

The Indian Puck, or Robin Good-Fellow, ca. 1884

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1884 Media: Ink on paper

Item 28653

Glooskap Killing His Brother, The Wolf, ca. 1884

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1884 Media: Ink on paper

Item 28654

Glooskap Setting His Dogs on the Witches, ca. 1884

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1884 Media: Ink on paper

Item 28655

The Mud-Turtle Jumping Over the Wigwam of His Father-In-Law, ca. 1884

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1884 Media: Ink on paper

Item 28656

Glooskap Turning a Man Into a Cedar Tree, ca. 1884

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1884 Media: Ink on paper

Item 28657

Lox Carried Off By Culloo, ca. 1884

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1884 Media: Ink on paper

Item 28658

The Indian Boy and the Musk-rat; Seeps the Duck, ca. 1884

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1884 Media: Ink on paper

Item 28659

The Rabbit Magician, ca. 1884

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1884 Media: Ink on paper

Item 7532

Glooskap looking at the whale smoking his pipe, 1884

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1884 Media: Ink on paper

Item 105127

Marie Antoinette House, Edgecomb, ca. 1925

Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: circa 1925 Location: Edgecomb; Westport Island; Wiscasset; Paris Media: Postcard

Item 105208

Marie Antoinette house, North Edgecomb, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1793 Location: North Edgecomb Media: Postcard

Item 7531

Glooskap and Keanke spearing the whale, 1884

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1884 Media: Ink on paper

Item 71746

Frye's Leap, Sebago Lake, ca. 1938

Contributed by: Boston Public Library Location: Raymond Media: Linen texture postcard

Item 71748

Frye's Leap, Sebago Lake, ca. 1935

Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1935 Location: Raymond Media: Linen texture postcard

Item 105207

Marie Antoinette House, North Edgecomb, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1915 Location: North Edgecomb Media: Glass Plate Negative