Category: Government, Politics & Law, Political & Social Justice, Abolition
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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 10237
Letter from Frederick Douglass to Elizabeth Mountfort, Aug. 8, 1851
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1851-08-08 Location: Portland; Rochester Media: Ink on paper
Item 10239
Letter from Samuel J. May to Elizabeth Mountfort, Dec. 12, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862-12-12 Location: Leicester; Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 10241
Letter from Samuel J. May to Elizabeth Mountfort, July 4, 1866
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1866-07-04 Location: Leicester; Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 10242
Letter from Abby K. Foster to Elizabeth Mountfort, ca. 1851
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1851 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 10435
Letter to Elizabeth Mountfort from a friend, Sept. 29, 1844
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1844-09-29 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 7345
Letter from Ambrose Crane about stolen slave, 1835
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1835 Location: Augusta; Hallowell; St. Marks Media: Ink on paper
Item 10230
Letter from Adin Ballou to Elizabeth Mountfort, July 29, 1850
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-07-29 Location: Portland; Milford; Portland; Milford Media: Ink on paper
Item 11864
Samuel Fessenden, Portland, ca. 1860
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1860 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 19278
Fugitive Slave Act cartoon, 1851
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1851 Location: Boston Media: Lithograph on wove paper, jpg
Item 29087
Austin Willey, Portland, ca. 1885
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1885 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 98699
John Nichols, Lewiston, ca. 1873
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1873 Location: Lewiston Media: Tintype
Item 99276
Lucretia Sewall to husband about dental issues, abolition, Portland, 1838
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1838 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 7483
Invitation to American Anti-Slavery Society anniversary, 1863
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863-12-03 Location: Boston; Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 7484
Maine Anti-Slavery Society request, 1836
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1836 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 9216
Letter to George Richardson from Fessenden & Deblois, 1845
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1845-07-26 Location: Portland; Rio de Janeiro; Portland; Rio de Janeiro Media: Ink on paper
Item 10224
Letter from Samuel J. May to Elizabeth Mountfort, May 10, 1850
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-05-10 Location: Portland; Syracuse; Portland; Syracuse Media: Ink on paper
Item 11865
Gen. Samuel Fessenden, Portland, ca. 1830
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1830 Location: Portland Media: Paint, wood
Item 36927
Map of underground routes to Canada, 1898
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1780–1865 Media: Ink on paper
Item 60176
Receipt for Contraband Camp donation, Washington, 1863
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Washington Media: Ink on paper
Item 101032
Israel Washburn on prohibition of inter-state slave trade, Portland, 1864
Contributed by: Washburn Norlands Living History Center Date: 1864-07-27 Location: Portland 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 71042
Letter to Col. Shepley on circumstances in New Orleans, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862-06-02 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper
Item 102253
Republican Convention poem, Whitneyville, 1860
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1860-05-25 Location: Whitneyville Media: Ink on paper
Item 103260
Letter of Attorney from John B. Russwurm to Jacob G. Loving, Liberia, 1851
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1851-02-28 Location: Cape Palmas; North Yarmouth; Yarmouth Media: Ink on paper
