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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 10232

Letter from Sylvester Judd to Elizabeth Mountfort, August 5, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-08-05 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10233

Parker Pillsbury letter to Elizabeth Mountfort, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-08-05 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10234

Letter from Charles C. Shackford to Elizabeth Mountfort, Sept. 3, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-09-03 Location: Portland; Lynn Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10235

Letter from Thomas T. Stone to Elizabeth Mountfort, Oct. 5, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-10-05 Location: Portland; Salem Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10236

Note from Horace Mann to Elizabeth Mountfort, Feb. 3, 1851

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1851-02-03 Location: West Newton; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10237

Letter from Frederick Douglass to Elizabeth Mountfort, Aug. 8, 1851

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1851-08-08 Location: Portland; Rochester Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10239

Letter from Samuel J. May to Elizabeth Mountfort, Dec. 12, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862-12-12 Location: Leicester; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10241

Letter from Samuel J. May to Elizabeth Mountfort, July 4, 1866

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1866-07-04 Location: Leicester; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10242

Letter from Abby K. Foster to Elizabeth Mountfort, ca. 1851

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1851 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10435

Letter to Elizabeth Mountfort from a friend, Sept. 29, 1844

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1844-09-29 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 12578

Anti-Slavery Society of Waterville College petition, 1833

Contributed by: Colby College Special Collections Date: 1833-09-23 Location: Waterville Media: Ink on paper

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Item 13308

Henry Hinsdale letter on Indians, abolition, New York, 1841

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1841-11-02 Location: North Fairfield; Paris Media: Ink on paper

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Item 15254

Henry Sewall letter to son concerning slavery, 1821

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1821 Location: Augusta Media: Ink on paper

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Item 16490

Harriett Beecher Stowe, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Media: Ink on paper

Item 16509

Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Brunswick, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1915 Location: Brunswick Media: Postcard

Item 16511

Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Brunswick, ca. 1960

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1960 Location: Brunswick Media: Photograph, print

Item 16513

Harriet Beecher Stowe house, Brunswick, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1930 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print

Item 16515

Stowe house, Brunswick, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1905 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print

Item 16517

Stowe house postcard, Brunswick, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1920 Location: Brunswick Media: Postcard

Item 16518

Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Brunswick, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1900 Location: Brunswick Media: Photograph, print

Item 16519

Stowe House, Brunswick, 1968

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: 1968 Location: Brunswick Media: Photograph, print

Item 23187

Miriam Monroe recollections of Edward K. Whitney, ca. 1850

Contributed by: Western Maine Cultural Alliance Date: circa 1850 Location: Norway; Paris Media: MP3

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Item 99116

Charles Howard to O.O. Howard, Leeds, 1865

Contributed by: Bowdoin College Library Date: 1865 Location: Leeds Media: Ink on paper

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Item 99118

Lizzie Howard to Gen. O.O. Howard, Leeds, 1865

Contributed by: Bowdoin College Library Date: 1865 Location: Leeds Media: Ink on paper

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