Category: Nature & Geography, Exploration, Equipment
- Historical Items (18)
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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 11773
Surveyor's half chain, ca. 1800
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1800 Media: Iron, brass
Item 26587
Box of Matches Wrapped for Polar Climate, 1906
Contributed by: Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands Date: 1906 Media: Wood, canvas
Item 6640
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1770 Location: Boston Media: Pine covered with paper
Item 11772
Surveyor's Vernier Compass, ca. 1840
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1840 Media: Brass, glass and pine
Item 14610
Surveyor's compass, Fort Kent, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Fort Kent Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Fort Kent Media: Metal, glass
Item 18429
Surveyor's compass, Portland, ca. 1850
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1836 Location: Portland Media: Brass, wood, glass
Item 34714
John Winter invoices, Richmond Island, 1634
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1634 Location: Cape Elizabeth Media: Ink on paper
Item 54915
The schooner 'Bowdoin' at sea, 1934
Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1934 Media: Photographic print
Item 102274
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1904 Location: Portland Media: Ink on Linen
Item 6641
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1800 Location: Westbrook Media: Metal, paper, wood
Item 13932
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1850 Media: Brass, glass, wood
Item 14613
Measuring wheel, Fort Kent, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Fort Kent Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Fort Kent Media: Steel, wood
Item 100346
Cross Roads, St. Albans, ca. 1895
Contributed by: St. Albans Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: St. Albans Media: Photographic print
Item 6036
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1800 Media: Ebony, ivory, brass
Item 6317
Thomas Steele "discovers" lake near Matagamon Lake, 1879
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1879 Location: Mattamiscontis Twp. Media: Ink on paper
Item 9597
View from Station 212, Talcott survey, 1841
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1841 Media: Phototransparency
Item 17395
Sketch with Camera Lucida, ca. 1841
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1841 Media: Transparency
Item 9600
Cocumgomucsis Lake view to Katahdin, Talcott Survey, 1841
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1840 Media: Phototransparency
