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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 102671

Emrush Zeqiri, Portland, 2009

Courtesy of Jan Pieter Van Voorst Van Beest, an individual partner Date: 2017 Location: Portland Media: Digital photograph

Item 7349

Report on the French and Indians, August 14, 1708

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1708 Location: Albany Media: Ink on paper

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Item 22508

William Pepperrell letter about Louisbourg, 1751

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1751 Location: Kittery Media: Ink on paper

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Item 22510

William Pepperrell to John Bradstreet, 1746

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1746 Location: Kittery; Louisbourg Media: Ink on paper

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Item 22518

Nathaniel Sparhawk to William Pepperrell, 1755

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1755 Location: Boston; Kittery Media: Ink on paper

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Item 22546

John Winslow, Boston, ca. 1765

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1770 Media: Etching

Item 4287

Battlefield of the United States Civil War, 1861-1865

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1861 Media: Photographic print

Item 5201

View from Little Roundtop, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Gettysburg Media: Photographic print

Item 5225

Battle of Gettysburg painting, 1884

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Gettysburg Media: Photographic print

Item 5257

Civil War emblem, ca. 1865

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

Item 9291

Luther Lawrence, ca. 1861

Contributed by: North Yarmouth Historical Society Date: circa 1861 Location: Gray; Pownal; North Yarmouth Media: Photoprint

Item 9293

James Lawrence, ca. 1861

Contributed by: North Yarmouth Historical Society Date: circa 1861 Location: Pownal; North Yarmouth; Gray Media: Photoprint

Item 10540

Letter from William Bayley to his mother, ca. 1777

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1777 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10541

William Bayley letter to mother, Jean Bayley, from Continental Army, ca. 1778

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1778 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 13412

Letter requesting aid for losses to British, 1783

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1781 Location: Castine Media: Ink on paper

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Item 13727

William Allen letter from Camp Seward, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Baltimore Media: Ink on paper

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Item 13970

Lt. Col. Thomas Davee Chamberlain

Contributed by: Brewer Public Library Date: 1865 Location: Brewer Media: Photographic print

Item 14328

James Taylor, Hodgdon, ca. 1865

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1865 Location: Houlton; Hodgdon Media: Photographic print

Item 14694

Flags, Portland, 1898

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1898 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 16694

Spanish American War soldiers in Brunswick

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1898 Location: Brunswick Media: Photograph, print

Item 16695

Corp. L.A. Clarke

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1880 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print

Item 17098

Henry Knox letter concerning Battle of Monmouth, 1778

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1778 Location: Monmouth; Thomaston Media: Ink on paper

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Item 20167

Proclamation urging resistance to British, 1779

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1779 Location: Castine Media: Ink on paper

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Item 20813

Samuel Whiting letter on occupation of Castine, 1814

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1814 Location: Castine Media: Ink on paper

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