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Category: Military & War, Wars

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 20939

Letter to Francis Pratt from family, 1865

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1865 Location: Wilton Media: Ink on paper

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Item 22287

Garrison Hill, Houlton, ca. 1945

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

Item 22669

John Mahoney, ca. 1865

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1865 Media: Tintype

Item 23364

Granville Sparrow, Portland, ca. 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1862 Location: Portland Media: Tintype

Item 23850

Josiah Pierce on Civil War, Gorham, 1861

Contributed by: Pierce Family Collection through Maine Historical Society Date: 1861 Location: Gorham; Baldwin Media: Ink on paper

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Item 25217

J.M. Brown to sister from South Carolina, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Folly Island Media: Ink on paper

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Item 28466

Charles T. Lord to wife, Baton Rouge, 1863

Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: 1863-05-29 Location: Bath; Port Hudson Media: Ink on paper

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Item 28472

Civil War letter, George Pepper, 1862

Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: 1862-05-23 Location: Bath; York Media: Ink on paper

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Item 28938

New Brunswick border dispute proclamation, 1839

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1839-02-13 Location: Fredericton Media: Ink on paper

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Item 31851

Letter from Luther Lawrence to his brother Frank, March 1, 1863

Contributed by: North Yarmouth Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: St. Helena Island Media: Ink on paper

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Item 34471

Major General George McClellan, 1862

Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society Date: 1862 Media: Carte de visite

Item 36268

Letter concerning Madawaska census, 1837

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1837 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 50450

Charles H. Ring, Newport, ca. 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1862 Media: Tintype

Item 59883

Isaac A. Pennell, New Portland, ca. 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1863 Location: New Portland Media: Tintype

Item 59888

16th Regiment Maine Volunteers officers, ca. 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1862 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

Item 64463

John P. Sheahan on sorrow at brother's death, Virginia, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Warrenton; Dennysville Media: Ink on paper

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Item 66027

Charles Garcelon to Jane Waldron, ca. 1863

Contributed by: Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library Date: circa 1863 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 67448

Sebago votes to raise money to pay soldier's bounties, 1862

Contributed by: Sebago Historical Society Date: 1868-12-14 Location: Sebago Media: Ink on paper

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Item 68626

William Brown letter on Charles Cole death, near Washington, D.C., 1862

Contributed by: John Micavich through Sebago Historical Society Date: 1862-12-17 Location: Sebago Media: Ink on paper

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Item 68632

Brown assurances about Pvt. Charles Cole's death, Georgetown, 1863, 1863

Contributed by: Sebago Historical Society Date: 1863-01-09 Location: Sebago Media: Ink on paper

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Item 68636

William Brown on Pvt. Cole memorial, Washington, D.C., 1863, 1863

Contributed by: John Micavich through Sebago Historical Society Date: 1863-03-15 Location: Sebago Media: Ink on paper

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Item 69552

Corporal John K. Richards, Civil War soldier, ca. 1864

Contributed by: Ben Conant through Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1864 Media: Tintype

Item 69553

Pvt. Abner H. Foster, Union soldier, ca. 1864

Contributed by: Ben Conant through Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1964 Location: Freeman Media: Tintype

Item 70471

Charles W. Cole of Sebago in Civil War uniform, ca. 1862

Contributed by: John Micavich through Sebago Historical Society Date: circa 1862 Location: Sebago Media: Photographic print