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Keywords: Economics Trade Merchant shipping

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 20176

St. Leon merchant ship, Castine, 1835

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1835 Location: Castine Media: Photographic print

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 102023

Thomas Robison from Thomas Hodges regarding illegal slave trade, Les Cayes, April 6, 1791

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1791 Location: Portland; Les Cayes Media: Ink on paper

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Item 9611

Ship's receipt, Antwerp, 1860

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: 1860-04-03 Location: Antwerp Media: Ink on paper

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Item 20974

John Dillingham on economics of shipping, 1848

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1848-04-27 Location: Philadelphia; Freeport Media: Ink on paper

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Item 7467

Launching of the four-mast bark ROANOKE, 1892

Contributed by: Maine Maritime Museum Date: 1892-09-20 Location: Bath Media: Glass Negative

Item 103126

Benjamin Bullard to Sir William Pepperell on slave trading, Barbados, 1720

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1720-03-15 Location: Bridgetown; Kittery Media: Ink on paper

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Item 101828

Cargo of Ship Eagle, 1791

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1791 Location: Les Cayes Media: Ink on paper

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Item 18918

Theodore Barrell letter on shipping interests, 1783

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1783 Location: Boston; York Media: Ink on paper

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Item 20555

Merchant ship from the Skolfield fleet, ca. 1860

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1860 Location: Brunswick; Harpswell Media: Photographic print

Item 9612

Receipt from Rising Sun, Doel, Belgium, 1860

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1860 Location: Doel Media: Ink on paper

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Item 100333

Portuguese coin, Portland, 1752

Contributed by: Tate House Museum Date: 1752 Location: Portland Media: Copper

Item 101784

Thomas Reed to Thomas Robison regarding the Caribbean economy and slave market, Sint Eustatius, 1791

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1791 Location: Havana Media: Ink on paper

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Item 61864

Quarry boat loaded with granite stone, Swan's Island, 1900

Contributed by: Swan's Island Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Swan's Island Media: Photographic print

Item 8862

Five-mast steel schooner KINEO under sail

Contributed by: Maine Maritime Museum Date: circa 1910 Media: Photographic print

Item 9613

Receipt, Chincha Islands

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: 1861-04-09 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 9614

Receipt, Liverpool

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: 1864-03-11 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 20563

Ship Sam Skolfield, ca. 1880

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1880 Location: Brunswick; Harpswell Media: Photographic print

Item 8863

Six-mast schooner WYOMING, off mouth of Kennebec River, 1909

Contributed by: Maine Maritime Museum Date: 1909-12-21 Location: Phippsburg Media: Glass Negative

Item 9630

'Rising Sun' log book, 1863

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: 1863 Location: Callao; Cork; Queenstown Media: Ink on paper

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Item 101827

"The Owners Ship Eagle in Account Current with Henry Skinner," 1791

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1791 Location: Havana Media: Ink on paper

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Item 20560

Ship of the Skolfield fleet, ca. 1860

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1860 Location: Brunswick; Harpswell Media: Photographic print

Item 20557

Ship of the Skolfield fleet, ca. 1860

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1860 Location: Brunswick; Harpswell Media: Photographic print

Item 20558

Ship of the Skolfield fleet, ca. 1860

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1860 Location: Brunswick; Harpswell Media: Photographic print