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Category: Government, Politics & Law, Political & Social Justice

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 1450

Letter from the Friends of Separation in York County, 1816

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1816-07-20 Media: Paper

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Item 9290

Lebanon voting record for separation from Massachusetts, 1816

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1816-09-02 Location: Lebanon Media: Ink on paper

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Item 20116

Arguments against separation from Massachusetts, 1819

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1819 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 21217

Reuben Bartlett to Josiah Pierce, 1833

Contributed by: Pierce Family Collection through Maine Historical Society Date: 1833 Location: Garland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 36142

Appeal for District of Maine to be set off from Massachusetts, ca. 1790

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1790 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 102650

Jose Castaneda, Portland, 2009

Courtesy of Jan Pieter Van Voorst Van Beest, an individual partner Date: 2009 Location: Portland Media: Digital photograph

Item 102682

Ismail Ahmed, Lewiston, 2009

Courtesy of Jan Pieter Van Voorst Van Beest, an individual partner Date: 2009 Location: Lewiston Media: Digital photograph

Item 103661

Town meeting regarding a Gorham convention, Berwick, 1787

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1787-01-25 Location: Berwick Media: Ink on Paper

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Item 25835

Edmund S. Muskie letter to the editor, 1971

Contributed by: Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library Date: 1971-12-09 Location: Waterville Media: Ink on paper

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Item 112040

Portland League of Pissed Off Voters, ca. 2007

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 2007 Location: Portland Media: Cotton, ink

Item 103794

Eleanor Roosevelt posed under a tree, Mount Vernon, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1930 Location: Mount Vernon Media: Glass Negative

Item 1148

Probate Courts Proceedings List, 1832

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1832-12-03 Location: York Media: Ink on paper

Item 1322

Oath of allegiance record for Daniel Lane, 1778

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1778-02-03 Location: Albany Media: Ink on paper

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Item 1449

Receipt of monies transferred from Massachusetts, July 19, 1822

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1822-07-19 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 1491

Town of Sidney separation election record, 1816

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1816-09-02 Location: Sidney Media: Ink on paper

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Item 1492

Washington County votes on separation from Massachusetts, 1816

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1816 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 1495

William Preble's controversial interpretation of a vote on separation from Massachusetts, 1816

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1816 Location: Brunswick Media: Paper

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Item 1497

Delegate election results, Bethel, 1816

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1816-09-02 Location: Bethel Media: Ink on paper

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Item 1498

Election record from Town of Freeman, 1816

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1816-09-02 Location: Kingfield Media: Ink on paper

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Item 5468

Men's Equal Suffrage League of Maine brochure, ca. 1917

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

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Item 5470

Anti-suffrage stamps, 1918

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

Item 5473

Anti woman suffrage booklet, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1915 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 5475

Bylaws, Maine Association Opposed to Suffrage for Women, 1914

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1914 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

Item 5491

Lucy Stone, Henry B. Blackwell, 1916

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1916 Media: Photographic print