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Category: Economics, Agriculture, Farms & farming

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 55188

Farm hand with cows, Fairfield, ca. 1935

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1935 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Item 67862

William Haley, Jr. letter to his wife, Miriam, 1865

Contributed by: Sebago Historical Society Date: 1865-04-25 Location: Washington; Arlington Heights; Sebago Media: Ink on paper

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Item 68147

Letter from Miriam Haley to William Haley, Jr., Sebago, 1865

Contributed by: Sebago Historical Society Date: 1865-06-28 Location: Sebago; Bridgton Media: Ink on paper

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Item 68446

Letter from Miriam Haley to her husband William, 1865

Contributed by: Sebago Historical Society Date: 1865-07-09 Location: Sebago; Baldwin Media: Ink on paper

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Item 108640

Androscoggin River from Barron Hill, Topsham, ca. 1910

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

Item 8811

Herb catalog, United Society of Shakers, New Gloucester, 1864

Contributed by: United Society of Shakers Date: 1864 Location: New Gloucester; New Gloucester Media: Paper

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Item 9530

Blueberry lease, Cherryfield, 1888

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1888-07-07 Location: Cherryfield; Cherryfield Media: Ink on paper

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Item 13262

Planting potatoes, Caribou, ca. 1947

Contributed by: Caribou Public Library Date: circa 1947 Location: Caribou Media: Photographic print

Item 13520

SBC 3 Helldiver being Towed to Canada, ca. 1941

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1941 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 13562

German POWs on the farm, Houlton, ca. 1945

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1945 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 13567

POW farm workers, Houlton, 1944

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1945 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 13568

Prisoners of War in the farm field, Houlton, 1945

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1945 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 15267

Silas W. Taber patent 719,531, Houlton, 1902

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1902 Location: Houlton Media: Drawing

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Item 18799

Carl A. Olivenbaum farm, New Sweden, ca. 1922

Contributed by: Nylander Museum Date: circa 1922 Location: New Sweden Media: Photographic print

Item 19349

Black Hawk and Jursha Snell Putnam, Houlton, ca. 1885

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1885 Location: Houlton Media: Oil painting

Item 21298

Potato harvest, Woodland, ca. 1922

Contributed by: Nylander Museum Date: circa 1922 Location: Woodland Media: Photographic print

Item 21762

Nylander samlat 4, Woodland, 1922

Contributed by: Nylander Museum Date: 1922 Location: Woodland Media: Photographic print

Item 22306

Potato harvest, Woodland, ca. 1922

Contributed by: Nylander Museum Date: circa 1922 Location: Woodland Media: Photographic print

Item 31061

Bog Shoe, Scarborough, 1870

Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: 1870 Location: Scarborough Media: Wood, iron

Item 33909

Barn Watercolor, Blue Hill, ca. 1826

Contributed by: Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc. Date: circa 1826 Location: Blue Hill Media: Watercolor on paper

Item 33914

Garden Pea watercolor, Blue Hill, 1810

Contributed by: Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc. Date: 1810 Location: Blue Hill Media: Pen and ink and watercolor on paper

Item 33925

Hen and Chicks, Blue Hill, 1824

Contributed by: Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc. Date: 1824 Location: Blue Hill Media: Woodblock print on paper

Item 35882

Presque Isle potato field, ca. 1910

Contributed by: David Gallagher through Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Presque Isle Media: Postcard

Item 35883

Aroostook potato field, Presque Isle, ca. 1915

Contributed by: David Gallagher through Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library Date: circa 1915 Location: Presque Isle Media: Postcard