Search Results

Category: Social Movements & Services, Civic & political activity, Abolition

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 88023

Mansion House, Robbinston, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Robbinston Media: Glass Negative

Item 10081

Letter to Elizabeth Mounfort from a friend in Trinidad, Cuba, July 4, 1847

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1847-07-04 Location: Trinidad; Portland Media: Ink on paper

  view a full transcription

Item 16563

Title page from First Edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852

Contributed by: Bowdoin College Library Date: 1852 Media: Paper

Item 1121

Slave ship evading the Royal Navy, 1878

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1877 Location: Portland Media: Oil painting

Item 6626

Eldress Elizabeth M. Noyes and Sister Edith Green, New Hampshire, ca. 1915

Contributed by: United Society of Shakers Date: circa 1915 Location: Canterbury Media: Photographic print

Item 7346

Maine Anti-Slavery Society report, 1836

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1836-10-27 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

  view a full transcription

Item 7485

Maine Anti-Slavery Society constitution, ca. 1833

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1833 Media: Ink on paper

  view a full transcription

Item 9208

Capt. John Davison letter to wife, 1845

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1845-03-13 Location: Franklin Media: Ink on paper

  view a full transcription

Item 10082

Letter from Betsey to Elizabeth Mountfort, June 4, 1849

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1849-06-04 Location: Portland; Boston; Portland; Portland; Portland Media: Ink on paper

  view a full transcription

Item 10086

Portland Anti-Slavery Society Letterbook, 1850-51

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1850 Location: Portland; Portland Media: Ink on paper

  view a full transcription

Item 10087

Letter from Hiram Wilson to Elizabeth Mountfort, Aug. 29, 1848

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1848-08-29 Location: Portland; Detroit Media: Ink on paper

  view a full transcription

Item 10088

Hiram Wilson letter to Elizabeth Mountfort, Nov. 29, 1848

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1848-11-29 Location: Portland; Dawn Mills Media: Ink on paper

  view a full transcription

Item 10089

Letter from Hiram Wilson to Elizabeth Mountfort, March 8, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-03-08 Location: Portland; Dawn Mills Media: Ink on paper

  view a full transcription

Item 10090

Letter from Wendell Phillips to Elizabeth Mountfort, April 19, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-04-19 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

  view a full transcription

Item 10091

Letter from C.C. Burleigh to Elizabeth Mountfort, April 25, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-04-25 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

  view a full transcription

Item 10092

Letter from C.C. Burleigh to Elizabeth Mountfort, April 28, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-04-28 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

  view a full transcription

Item 10093

Letter from Charles Sumner to Elizabeth Mountfort, July 10, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-07-10 Location: Portland; Boston Media: Ink on paper

  view a full transcription

Item 10222

Minutes, Portland Anti-Slavery Society, 1844-1846, 1850-1851

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1844 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

  view a full transcription

Item 10223

Letter from C. Lenox Remond to Elizabeth Mountfort, May 30, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-05-30 Location: Portland; Salem Media: Ink on paper

  view a full transcription

Item 10226

Letter from Wendell Phillips to Elizabeth Mountfort, April 19, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-04-19 Location: Portland; Portland Media: Ink on paper

  view a full transcription

Item 10227

Letter from Charles Lenox Remond to Elizabeth Mountfort, July 18, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-07-18 Location: Portland; Watertown Media: Ink on paper

  view a full transcription

Item 10228

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison to Elizabeth Mountfort, July 19, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-07-19 Location: Portland; Boston Media: Ink on paper

  view a full transcription

Item 10229

Letter from Theodore Parker to Elizabeth Mountfort, July 20, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-07-20 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

  view a full transcription

Item 10231

Letter from Edmund Quincy to Elizabeth Mountfort, July 25, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-07-25 Location: Portland; Quincy Media: Ink on paper

  view a full transcription