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Keywords: Richmond Virginia

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

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Item 79210

View of Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia, ca. 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1863 Location: Richmond Media: Stereograph

Item 46817

BPW baggage tag, 1931

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1931 Location: Richmond Media: Ink on cardboard

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

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Item 4254

Libby Prison cane, 1893

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1893 Media: Wood, metal, brass

Item 4253

Dagger crafted in the Libby Prison, Virginia, by a prisoner of war, ca. 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1864 Location: Richmond Media: Metal, leather

Item 17378

Letter from Robert E. Lee to Gen. Braxton Bragg, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Richmond Media: Ink on paper

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Item 76190

Gen. Neal Dow to Gen. G.F. Shepley, Virginia, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Richmond; New Orleans; Port Hudson; Mobile; Augusta; Atlanta; Raleigh Media: Ink on paper

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Item 31802

Confederate money, 1862

Contributed by: An individual through Biddeford Historical Society Date: 1862-12-02 Location: Richmond Media: Ink on paper

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Item 9300

Letter from Luther Lawrence to his brother, May 25, 1862

Contributed by: North Yarmouth Historical Society Date: 1862-05-25 Location: Richmond Media: Paper

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Item 46816

Business and Professional Women's Club delegates, 1931

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1931 Location: Portland; Richmond Media: Photographic print

Item 76623

Letter congratulating Gen. Shepley on appointment, Philadelphia, 1865

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1865 Location: Philadelphia; Richmond Media: Ink on paper

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Item 84643

POW dagger, Virginia, ca. 1861

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1861 Media: Steel, brass, wood

Item 75446

Obed Francis Millett, ca. 1860

Contributed by: Palmyra Historical Society Date: circa 1860 Location: Palmyra Media: Photographic print

Item 60280

POW letter requesting food, Richmond, Va., 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Farmington; Petersburg Media: Ink on paper

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Item 54436

William B. Adams letter from near Richmond, Va., 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 102166

Francis Lightfoot Lee discussing independence in Congress, Philadelphia, 1776

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1776-04-09 Location: Philadelphia; Warsaw Media: Ink on paper

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Item 100655

Israel Washburn on battle of Malvern Hills, Portland, 1864

Contributed by: Washburn Norlands Living History Center Date: 1864-05-21 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 84253

Civil War cigar relic, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Media: Tobacco, paper

Item 5486

Rebecca Usher account of Abraham Lincoln visit, Virginia, ca. 1870

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1865 Location: City Point; Hollis Center Media: Paper

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Item 76625

Copy of Grant telegraph on Lee surrender, 1865

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1865 Location: Appomattox; Washington Media: Ink on paper

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Item 76527

Fred Dow to Gen. Shepley requesting baggage, Portland, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Portland; New Orleans; Richmond Media: Ink on paper

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Item 5536

Neal Dow, Portland, 1851

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1851 Media: Photographic print

Item 97580

Pvt. John Sheahan on 'great raid,' Virginia, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Dennysville; Richmond Media: Ink on paper

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