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Category: Nature & Geography, Exploration

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 17402

North Russell Mountain, 1841

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1841 Media: Transparency

Item 17403

Spider Lake, ca. 1841

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1841 Media: Transparency

Item 18714

Charles Turner account of climbing Katahdin, 1804

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1804 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 20763

Penobscot River and Chesuncook Lake, 1820

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1820 Media: Ink on paper

Item 20766

Manuscript Map of Moose River, Moosehead Lake, and Kennebeck Road, 1820

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1820 Media: Ink on paper

Item 21984

Job Prince, Turner, 1839

Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: circa 1839 Location: Turner Media: Carte de visite

Item 28940

Exploring an Inuit grave on Eskimo Island, Labrador, 1891

Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1891 Location: Eskimo Island Media: Paper, photograph

Item 28986

Ernest B. Young and classmate in sealskin clothes, Brunswick, 1891

Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1891 Location: Brunswick Media: Paper, Photograph

Item 55122

Schooner 'Bowdoin,' Greenland, 1939, 1939

Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1939 Location: Kangerdluk Fjord Media: Photo negative

Item 100213

Plan of Longfellow and Preble lots, Portland, 1838

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1838 Location: Portland Media: Pencil on paper

Item 100916

Champlain Society Report of the Secretary, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1882-1883

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: 1882–1883 Location: Mount Desert; Cambridge Media: Ink on paper

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Item 100918

Champlain Society camp log, Northeast Harbor, 1884

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: 1884 Location: Mount Desert Media: Ink on paper, bound book

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Item 10832

Map by Francis Joseph Neptune, Cobscook River, 1798

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1798 Media: Ink on paper

Item 100911

Champlain Society Meeting Records, Northeast Harbor, 1883-1886

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: 1883–1886 Location: Mount Desert; Cambridge Media: Ink on paper, bound book

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Item 101782

Champlain Society Report of the Secretary, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1886-87

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: 1886–1887 Location: Mount Desert; Cambridge Media: Ink on paper

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Item 33847

Champlain's map of Saco Bay and the Saco River, 1605

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1605 Location: Biddeford; Saco Media: Photographic print

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