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Category: Government, Politics & Law, Political Protests

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

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Mystery Corner Item

Item 104684

Men unloading contraband liquor, ca. 1920

Mystery Corner Item 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

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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

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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

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Item 103653

"An address to the inhabitants of the District of Maine upon the subject of their separation," Portland, 1791

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1791 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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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

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Item 104250

A petition against dividing the town of Berwick, 1799

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1792 Location: Berwick Media: Ink on paper

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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

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Item 15758

Prohibition election card, 1911

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1911-09-10 Media: Ink on paper