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Category: Arts & Entertainment, Literature

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 34758

Asa Clay Sr., Lincoln, ca. 1932

Contributed by: Lincoln Historical Society Date: circa 1932 Location: Lincoln Media: Photographic print

Item 66379

Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Brunswick, ca. 1938

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

Item 100335

William Dean Howells' letter to Eunice Sewall, Boston, 1866

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1866-09-08 Location: Boston Media: Ink on paper

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Item 104493

Daguerreotype of Horatio Woodman in fur, ca. 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1850 Location: Portland; Buxton Media: Daguerreotype

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 28015

Julia Harris May poetry collection, 1903

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

Item 1505

Capt. Elijah Green and Rev. Elijah Kellogg, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Media: Photographic print

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 8740

Glove of Artemus Ward, ca. 1862

Contributed by: Waterford Historical Society Date: circa 1862 Media: Photographic print

Item 9725

Charles A. Stephens Laboratory postcard, ca. 1921

Contributed by: Norway Historical Society Date: circa 1921 Location: Norway Media: Postcard

Item 9783

Kate Douglas Wiggin residence, Hollis, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Hollis Center Media: Print from glass negative

Item 9981

Elisabeth Farr reading with children, Lovell, 1975

Contributed by: Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library Date: 1975 Location: Lovell Media: Photographic print

Item 14933

Captain Benjamin Thompson, Winterport, ca. 1900

Contributed by: South Portland Public Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Winterport Media: Photograph on cardboard

Item 23810

Old Dyer Library Shelf Stacks, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print

Item 27976

Farmington Social Library, Regulations, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Farmington Public Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Farmington Media: Ink on paper

Item 28013

Four sons of Jacob Abbott, Farmington, ca. 1865

Contributed by: Farmington Public Library Date: circa 1865 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print

Item 29067

Kendall's Bookstore, Biddeford, 1899

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1899 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 29297

Sally Wood cross-stitch bookmark, Kennebunk, ca. 1850

Contributed by: Brick Store Museum Date: circa 1850 Location: Kennebunk Media: Fabric

Item 33326

Joseph T. & Ella Jordan Mason home, Biddeford, 1896

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1896 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 48373

Ethel Mae Colby, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Augusta Media: Photographic print

Item 74941

Lawrance Thompson lecture announcement, Portland, 1939

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1939 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 76878

Inuit boys aboard schooner 'Bowdoin,' 1949

Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1949 Media: Photographic print

Item 80805

Walker Memorial Library, Westbrook, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Walker Memorial Library Date: circa 1940 Location: Westbrook Media: Photographic print