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Category: Arts & Entertainment, Literature, Poetry

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 10598

'Lift up the star spangled banner,' 1910

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1910 Location: Marshfield; Saint Johnsbury Media: Postcard

Item 13744

Illustrated verse, Limington, ca. 1820

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1820 Media: ink and watercolor

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Item 21066

Josiah Pierce on his 30th birthday, 1786

Contributed by: Pierce Family Collection through Maine Historical Society Date: 1786 Location: Baldwin; Woburn Media: Ink on paper

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Item 21203

Poem from Josiah Pierce to Phebe Thompson, ca. 1786

Contributed by: Pierce Family Collection through Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1786 Location: Baldwin; Woburn Media: Ink on paper

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Item 21213

Josiah Pierce eulogy poem, ca. 1786

Contributed by: Pierce Family Collection through Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1786 Location: Baldwin Media: Ink on paper

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Item 21216

Josiah Pierce poem, 1786

Contributed by: Pierce Family Collection through Maine Historical Society Date: 1786 Location: Baldwin Media: Ink on paper

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Item 6770

Norway Memorial Library postcard with poem from Hortense Gardner Gregg Gates, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Norway Memorial Library Date: circa 1940 Location: Norway Media: postcard

Item 1152

Great Conflagration in Portland, 1866

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1866-07-04 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

Item 11173

Evangeline Doll, 1755

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1755 Media: Plastic, cloth

Item 11319

Longfellow Stamp First Day Cover, 1940

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1940-02-16 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 16772

May Sarton, York, 1985

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1985 Location: York Media: Photographic print

Item 23350

The rainy day poem Christmas greeting card, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Media: Postcard

Item 23767

Rainy day room, Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Portland, 1908

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1908 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

Item 28015

Julia Harris May poetry collection, 1903

Contributed by: Farmington Public Library Date: 1903 Location: Farmington; Strong Media: Ink on paper

Item 42198

'Hiawatha' score, 1902

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1902 Location: Detroit Media: Ink on paper

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Item 102277

Poem memorializing the loss of the steamer "Portland," 1899

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1898 Location: Chatham Media: Ink on paper

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Item 141

Edna St. Vincent Millay, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Media: Photographic print

Item 4138

G. H. Knight valentine, 1848

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1848-02-14 Location: Portland; Portland Media: Paper

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Item 6737

Brother Stephen Gowen, Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, ca. 1910

Contributed by: United Society of Shakers Date: circa 1910 Location: New Gloucester Media: Slide from a print

Item 6952

Sprig of Green poem, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Fredericksburg Media: Ink on paper

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Item 7257

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Camden, ca. 1909

Contributed by: Camden Public Library Date: circa 1909 Location: Camden Media: Photographic print

Item 10405

Bangor and Aroostook Conductor's hat, 1960

Contributed by: Oakfield Historical Society Date: 1960 Location: Oakfield Media: Cloth

Item 11603

Letter from John Davison to Eliza Ann Davison, New York, January 8, 1844

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1844-01-08 Location: New York; Augusta Media: Ink on paper

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Item 11611

Myles Birket Foster illustration, ca. 1880

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1880 Media: Ink on paper