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Keywords: Wars

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 20301

Society of Colonial Wars, Portland, 1903

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1903-06-26 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 37384

Front page of World War II Award, Lubec, 1944, 1944

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1944 Location: Lubec Media: Ink on paper

Item 5765

Troop instructions from Governor Shute about Wabanaki, 1721

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1721-08-09 Media: Paper

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Item 1147

Keep them smiling, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Media: Ink on paper

Item 105879

"View of the Castle" at Pemaquid Beach, Bristol, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Bristol Media: Glass Plate Negative

Item 22393

Fort Halifax, Winslow, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1864 Location: Winslow Media: Oil on wood

Item 102665

Mary Otto, Portland, 2009

Courtesy of Jan Pieter Van Voorst Van Beest, an individual partner Date: 2017 Location: Portland Media: Digital

Item 15106

Halt the Hun, World War 1 poster, 1918

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1918 Media: Ink on paper, Lithograph, poster

Item 25775

Benjamin Church, ca. 1675

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1675 Location: Mount Hope Media: Engraving, ink on paper

Item 16700

Sargent's Gym, Bowdoin College, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1915 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print

Item 9188

Certificate of recognition, Madeline Tuttle, Norway, 1944

Contributed by: Norway Historical Society Date: 1944-05-14 Location: Norway Media: Ink and foil on paper

Item 16499

Death of Metacom or King Phillip, 1881

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1676-08-12 Location: Mount Hope Media: Ink on paper

Item 6434

Frederick Douglass, Old Orchard Beach, 1877

Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: 1877 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Albumen print

Item 15535

Samuel E. Stone of Brewer, military discharge paper, 1865

Contributed by: Brewer Public Library Date: 1895-05-13 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

Item 22426

Site of Fort Loyal, Portland, ca. 1840

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1840 Location: Portland Media: Pencil on paper

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 14794

Children and war stamps World War I poster, 1917

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1917 Media: Ink on paper

Item 62003

Fort Halifax, Winslow, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Waterville Public Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Winslow Media: Photographic print

Item 15116

Food--don't waste it, World War I poster, ca. 1917

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1917 Media: Lithograph, poster

Item 15105

Oh, boy! that's the girl, World War I poster, 1918

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1918 Media: Ink on paper, poster

Item 25680

Indian attacks, Brunswick area, 1756

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1756 Location: Brunswick; Topsham Media: Ink on paper

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Item 15118

"Give or we perish" World War I era poster, ca. 1917

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1917 Media: Lithograph, poster

Item 14781

Maine Potato Week World War 1 poster, 1918

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1918 Location: Bangor Media: Ink on paper, poster

Item 14785

Hey fellows! World War I book poster, 1918

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1918 Media: Ink on paper, lithograph, poster