Keywords: imagery
Item 84227
GAR banquet program, Portland, 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1865 Media: Letterpress on paper
Item 116244
Re-Elect (David) Crook District Attorney, ca. 1994
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1994 Media: Cotton, ink
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Imagery on letterhead soldiers used, on soldiers' memorials produced after the war, and on many other items captured the themes of the American Civil War: union, liberty, and freedom.
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Memorializing Civil War Veterans: Portland & Westbrook
Three cemeteries -- all of which were in Westbrook during the Civil War -- contain headstones of Civil War soldiers. The inscriptions and embellishments on the stones offer insight into sentiments of the eras when the soldiers died.
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"This section of imagery is a combination of some of those scanned documents with photographs I took on my visits to the island during a two and a…"
