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Category: People, National Figures

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 104212

Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink performance flyer, Portland, ca. 1928

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1928 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 104868

General Pershing's visit to Portland, 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1920 Location: Portland Media: glass negative

Item 1375

Weathervane, Booth Tarkington home, Kennebunkport, 1938

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1938-07-27 Location: Kennebunkport Media: Photographic print

Item 1376

Lively Lady figurehead, Booth Tarkington home, 1938

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1938-07-27 Location: Kennebunkport Media: Photographic print

Item 1378

Ship model, Kennebunkport, 1938

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1938-07-27 Location: Kennebunkport Media: Photographic print

Item 1417

Booth Tarkington, Emmie Whitney, Kennebunkport, 1938

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1938-07-27 Location: Kennebunkport Media: Photographic print

Item 5997

My Debt to Maine, Theodore Roosevelt, 1918

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1918-03-20 Location: Island Falls Media: Pencil on paper

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Item 6775

Copy of letter from Capt. Mowat to Adm. Graves, 1775

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1775 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 6776

Thomas Jefferson letter to William King, 1819

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1819-11-19 Location: Monticello Media: Ink on paper

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Item 6777

Capt. Mowat's warning to Falmouth, 1775

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1775-11-16 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 7483

Invitation to American Anti-Slavery Society anniversary, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863-12-03 Location: Boston; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 7749

Meeting place, Russian and Japanese Peace Commission, 1905

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1905 Location: Kittery; Portsmouth Media: Postcard

Item 7750

Russia Japan Peace delegations, 1905

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1905-09-05 Location: Kittery; Portsmouth Media: Postcard

Item 7751

Russian and Japanese Peace Envoys in session, Kittery, 1905

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1905 Location: Kittery; Portsmouth Media: Postcard

Item 9886

Franklin D. Roosevelt letter to Llewellyn Barton, 1932

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1932-10-18 Location: Albany; South Portland Media: Ink on paper

Item 10619

Edmund S. Muskie Archives Dedication, Lewiston, September 28, 1985

Contributed by: Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library Date: 1985-09-28 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print

Item 10946

Senator Kennedy on campaign tour, 1980

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1980-01-15 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print

Item 15885

Longfellow National Historic Site, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990

Contributed by: NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site Date: 1990 Location: Cambridge Media: Wood

Item 15888

The study at the Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House, 1882

Contributed by: NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site Date: 1882 Location: Cambridge Media: Wood, metal

Item 16128

Mildred Burrage's painted map of 1775 destroyed Falmouth Neck, 1925

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1775-10-18 Location: Portland Media: Painted gesso

Item 16520

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1875

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1875 Location: Brunswick Media: Print

Item 17383

Continental Congress resolution, 1776

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1776 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 23621

President Taft arrives in Biddeford Pool, July 28, 1910

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1910-07-28 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 27101

Theodore Roosevelt on Islesboro, 1917

Contributed by: Islesboro Historical Society Date: 1917 Location: Islesboro Media: Postcard