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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 76624
Request to send Freedmen's teachers to Richmond, 1865
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1865 Location: Boston; Richmond Media: Ink on paper
Item 20813
Samuel Whiting letter on occupation of Castine, 1814
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1814 Location: Castine Media: Ink on paper
Item 130
Dave the Guesser, Old Orchard Beach, ca. 1990
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1990 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Photographic print
Item 5643
Portland High School classroom, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 70237
Plea for medical school, New Orleans, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862-05-16 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper
Item 70815
Report on occupied New Orleans, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862-05-14 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper
Item 70890
Letter on seized flags, ship, New Orleans, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862-05-18 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper
Item 71948
Plea for return of skiff, New Orleans, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper
Item 72037
Statement denying charge of returning slaves, New Orleans, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper
Item 73960
Petition for return of possessions, New Orleans, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper
Item 74246
Planters' request for return of slaves, New Orleans, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper
Item 75056
Agreement between planters, slaves, New Orleans, 1863
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper
Item 75057
Gen. Banks on putting slaves to work, New Orleans, 1863
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper
Item 75058
Military governor staff list, New Orleans, 1863
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper
Item 79989
Thomas W. Hyde letter about cigar, Richmond, Va., 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Richmond; Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 84253
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Media: Tobacco, paper
Item 16892
Guessing booth sign, Old Orchard Beach, ca. 1980s
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1980 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Wood
Item 16885
Dave the Guesser sign, Old Orchard Beach, ca. 1970
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1970 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Posterboard, print
Item 102414
Lucy Butts Carvill, New Portland, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Stanley Museum on deposit at Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: New Portland Media: Lantern slide, hand colored
Item 102415
Lucy Butts Carvill with spinning wheel, New Portland, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Stanley Museum on deposit at Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: New Portland Media: Lantern slide, hand colored
Item 71042
Letter to Col. Shepley on circumstances in New Orleans, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862-06-02 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper
Item 79906
Capt. Charles Barnard letter from Ship Island, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: New Orleans; Mobile; Mississippi City Media: Ink on paper
Item 79920
Charles Barnard to wife, New Orleans, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862-06-02 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper
Item 19101
Woods camp, Aroostook County, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library Date: circa 1890 Media: Photographic print