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Category: Social Movements & Services, Social services

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 10078

Letter from Leroy H. Huse to Elizabeth Mountfort, February 23, 1846

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1846-02-23 Location: Portland; Boston; Portland; Boston; Portland; Boston; Portland; Boston Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10080

Letter from Leroy H. Huse to Elizabeth Mountfort, May 19, 1847

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1847-05-19 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 14374

Cottage home, State School for Boys, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: South Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 21579

Civilian Conservation Corps Mess Hall, Bar Harbor

Contributed by: Trenton Cemetery & Keeping Society Date: 1940 Location: Bar Harbor; Mount Desert Media: Photographic print

Item 31518

Letter regarding Sarah Darling, Cumberland, July 5, 1831

Contributed by: Prince Memorial Library Date: 1831-07-05 Location: Cumberland; Phippsburg Media: Handwritten in ink on rag paper, ink on paper

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Item 31794

Pauper notice of Isiah Emery, Biddeford, 1905

Contributed by: Biddeford Historical Society Date: 1905-05-27 Location: Plymouth; Biddeford Media: Ink on paper

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Item 33429

David Webber letter to Cumberland Overseers of the Poor, 1830

Contributed by: Prince Memorial Library Date: 1830 Location: Harpswell; Cumberland Media: Handwritten in ink on rag paper

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Item 33439

Letter regarding Sarah Darling, Cumberland, June 4, 1831

Contributed by: Prince Memorial Library Date: 1831 Location: Brunswick; Cumberland Media: Handwritten in ink on rag paper

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Item 33513

Samuel Easters indenture document, Cumberland, 1826

Contributed by: Prince Memorial Library Date: 1826 Location: Cumberland Media: Printed and handwritten in ink on rag paper

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Item 81050

CCC Camp, Indian Township, 1934

Contributed by: Princeton Public Library Date: 1934 Location: Indian Township Media: Photographic print

Item 81051

CCC Camp, Indian Township, ca. 1934

Contributed by: Princeton Public Library Date: circa 1934 Location: Indian Township Media: Photographic print

Item 103948

Knitting lesson, Portland Day Nursery, ca. 1925

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1925 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

Item 7370

Auditorium, Good Will Farm, Fairfield

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: 1911 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Item 7518

George Walter Hinckley with Good Will boys, Fairfield, 1893

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: 1893 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Item 7520

First Good Will Home orphans, Fairfield, 1889

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: 1889 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Item 7522

Good Will boy on stilts, Fairfield, ca. 1915

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1915 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Item 7604

Good Will matron and boys, Fairfield, 1919

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1919 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Item 9082

Elm Street, Skowhegan, ca. 1868

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1868 Location: Skowhegan Media: Stereograph

Item 14235

Norma Fuller and pony, Good Will Homes, 1916

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1916 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Item 14356

Good Will Cottage, Fairfield, ca. 1940

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1940 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Item 14407

Bailey Cottage for boys on the campus of Good Will, 1911

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: 1911 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Item 14416

Elizabeth E. Wilcox Smith Cottage, Good Will-Hinckley Homes, 1911

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: 1911 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Item 22185

CCC Barracks at Acadia National Park

Contributed by: Acadia National Park Date: circa 1934 Location: Bar Harbor; Mount Desert Media: Photographic print

Item 22347

Children's health camp, ca. 1925

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1925 Media: Photographic print