Category: Government, Politics & Law, Political Protests
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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 7310
Petition to Parliament by George Cleeve, 1642
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1642 Media: Ink on paper
Item 104684
Men unloading contraband liquor, ca. 1920
Do you know who these people are?
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1920 Location: Bethel Media: Glass Negative
Item 5632
Truck blockade at Bill's Truck Stop, Fairfield, 1979
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1979-06-20 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print
Item 5633
Truck barricade at Dysarts Fuel Stop, Hermon 1979
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1979-06-14 Location: Bangor; Hermon Media: Photographic print
Item 11766
Tiananmen Square Protests, Portland, 1989
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1989 Location: Portland; Beijing Media: Photographic print
Item 103664
Distribution of separationist sentiment, Portland, 1816
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1816-04-21 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 5870
Potato blockade, Fort Fairfield, 1980
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1980-03-27 Location: Fort Fairfield Media: Photographic print
Item 5877
Potato blockade, Fort Fairfield, 1980
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1980-03-27 Location: Fort Fairfield Media: Photographic print
Item 6049
North Yarmouth Copy of the Declaration of Independence
Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: 1776-07-04 Location: Philadelphia Media: Paper
Item 11430
Dispute over flag lowering, Portland, 1982
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1982-07-01 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 11450
Potato protest, Mapleton, 1982
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1982-12-15 Location: Mapleton Media: Photographic print
Item 11451
Potato import protest, Presque Isle, 1982
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1982-12-16 Location: Presque Isle Media: Photographic print
Item 31004
High School protest, Lubec, ca. 1975
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1975 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
Item 66676
Ku Klux Klan march, Island Falls, 1924
Contributed by: Cary Library Date: 1924-07-12 Location: Island Falls; Houlton Media: Photographic print
Item 66677
Ku Klux Klan march, Island Falls, 1924
Contributed by: Cary Library Date: 1924-07-12 Location: Island Falls; Houlton Media: Photographic print
Item 74930
Free Bridge Broadside, Portland, 1837
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1837 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 102164
Samuel Huntington to James Bowdoin on suppressing Shays' Rebellion, Hartford, 1787
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1785-05-26 Location: Hartford; Boston Media: Ink on paper
Item 103653
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1791 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 103678
Orchard Cook on his frustration with Maine's separation movement, Washington DC, 1806
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1806-07-27 Location: Washington; Boston Media: Ink on paper
Item 104250
A petition against dividing the town of Berwick, 1799
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1792 Location: Berwick Media: Ink on paper
Item 112043
No on 1, Maine won’t discriminate t-shirt, 1995
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1995 Media: Cotton, ink
Item 5648
Protestors with Gov. Brennan, May 25, 1979
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1979-05-25 Location: Augusta; Wiscasset Media: Photographic print
Item 13251
Maine woman suffrage petition, 1858
Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: 1858 Media: Ink on paper
Item 15758
Prohibition election card, 1911
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1911-09-10 Media: Ink on paper