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LC Subject Heading: Recruiting & enlistment

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 16118

Civil War Recruiting Poster, Bancroft Mills, 1862

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1862 Location: Bancroft Mills Media: Paper

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Item 20143

Recruitment notice for Civil War soldiers, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Bridgton Media: Ink on paper

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Item 16699

Recruits, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, 1917

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1917 Location: Brunswick Media: Photograph, print

Item 14777

Gee!! I wish I were a man World War I poster, 1917

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1917 Media: Ink on paper, lithograph, poster

Item 98681

8th Maine Regiment recruitment poster, Belfast, ca. 1861

Contributed by: Belfast Historical Society Date: circa 1861 Location: Belfast Media: Ink on paper

Item 1322

Oath of allegiance record for Daniel Lane, 1778

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1778-02-03 Location: Albany Media: Ink on paper

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Item 6704

Civil War recruiting broadside, 1861

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1861-10-01 Location: Scarborough Media: Ink on paper

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Item 16111

Civil War Recruiting Poster, Houlton, 1862

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1862-09-08 Location: Houlton Media: Paper

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Item 74862

Militia trains in Baldwin, 1815

Contributed by: Baldwin Historical Society Date: 1815 Location: Baldwin; Baldwin Media: Ink on paper

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Item 81994

Army Recruits, Lewiston City Hall, 1918

Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1918-10-02 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print

Item 81995

Army Recruits, Lewiston City Hall, 1917

Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1917 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print

Item 103105

Selective Service Draft Law registration poster, 1917

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1917 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 100276

Charles C. G. Thornton, Scarborough, 1863

Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: circa 1863 Location: Scarborough Media: Carte de visite

Item 100364

George D. Bisbee, Peru, ca. 1861

Contributed by: Greater Rumford Area Historical Society Date: circa 1861 Location: Peru Media: Photographic print

Item 11783

Letter about J. L. Barton and Civil War substitutes, 1863

Contributed by: Cary Library Date: 1864-02-03 Location: Houlton Media: Ink on paper

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Item 13274

Letter from Albion K. Parris to his father, 1832

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1832-07-16 Location: Boston; Hebron Media: Ink on paper

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Item 13921

George W. Dyer report on soldier enrollment, 1862

Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: 1862 Location: Lubec; Machiasport Media: Ink on paper

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Item 13922

George W. Dyer letter on soldier recruitment, 1862

Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: 1862 Location: Columbia Media: Ink on paper

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Item 17181

Peter Sanborn letter to brother, 1861

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1861 Location: Readfield; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 28477

Swanton Infantry Election Papers, Bath, 1863

Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: 1863-07-21 Location: Bath Media: Ink on paper

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Item 64134

Civil War Substitute Volunteer Enlistment, Auburn, 1864

Contributed by: Strong Historical Society Date: 1864-09-05 Location: Strong; Farmington; Auburn Media: Ink on pre-printed paper form

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Item 75086

Inquiry about lack of soldier's promotion, Auburn, 1863

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

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Item 76609

Gen. Butler to Gen. Shepley on duties in Virginia, 1864

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

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Item 79276

Exemption from military service, Westbrook, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Westbrook Media: Ink on paper

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