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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 5755

Result of fire, Belfast, 1885

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1885-07-12 Location: Belfast Media: Stereograph

Item 18058

Switchboard operators, 1939

Contributed by: Telephone Museum Date: 1939-04-13 Location: Lewiston; Ellsworth Media: Photographic print

Item 27059

Dark Harbor Post Office, Islesboro, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Islesboro Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Islesboro Media: Photographic print

Item 76882

Schooner 'Bowdoin' melting out, Refuge Harbor, Greenland, 1924

Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1924 Media: Photographic print

Item 101080

Kimball Block, Bethel, ca. 1870

Contributed by: Bethel Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Location: Bethel Media: Photographic print

Item 27169

Lightning Strike, Baptist Church Steeple, Thomaston 1992

Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: 1992-06-14 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print

Item 105876

Back Meadow Street, Nobleboro, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1915 Location: Nobleboro Media: Glass Plate Negative

Item 19195

Fabbri Cottage, Bar Harbor, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard

Item 35515

J.E. Mitchell to Persis Blanchard, Franklin City, LA, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: New Orleans; Franklin Media: Ink on paper

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Item 80985

Martha Osgood account of spiritualist, Bar Mills, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Bar Mills; New Orleans Media: Ink on paper

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Item 76161

Ski Team official at the Sugarloaf World Cup, 1971

Contributed by: Sugarloaf Mountain Ski Club through Ski Museum of Maine Date: 1971 Location: Sugarloaf Media: Photographic print

Item 100146

Speaking trumpet, Portland, 1849

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1849 Location: Portland Media: Silver

Item 100301

Letter from J.W. Jones to Robert Tate, West Indies, 1803

Contributed by: Tate House Museum Date: 1803-03-09 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 148493

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's flute, Portland, ca. 1825

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1825 Location: Portland Media: Boxwood, ivory, brass

Item 11055

State Office Building bomb shelter, Augusta, 1981

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1981-06-04 Location: Augusta Media: Photographic print

Item 21064

Franklin Pierce on Jonathan Cilley, 1835

Contributed by: Pierce Family Collection through Maine Historical Society Date: 1835 Location: Hillsborough; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 31089

Thursday Club's New Year's Day party, Biddeford, 1930

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1930-01-02 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 9002

Hotel Coburn ruins, Skowhegan, 1918

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: 1918-03-05 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print

Item 76881

'Bowdoin' and S.S. 'Peary' departing from Wiscasset, 1925

Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1925 Location: Wiscasset Media: Photographic print

Item 21203

Poem from Josiah Pierce to Phebe Thompson, ca. 1786

Contributed by: Pierce Family Collection through Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1786 Location: Baldwin; Woburn Media: Ink on paper

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