Contributed by Abbe Museum
Description
This image is of Henry Richards, standing in the stern, and his family in a Wabenaki birch bark canoe some time in the 1890s.
In the 1870s, Henry Richards, a young architect from Gardiner Maine, traveled by steamer to Bar Harbor to supervise the construction of a summer home for Mrs. Charles Dorr. On that same steamer, a Wabanaki canoe maker was carrying a fleet of bark canoes that he would rent to Bar Harbor's burgeoning tourist population. Richards, fascinated with these canoes, purchased this canoe before disembarking the steamer.
The canoe spent many years being used by the Richards family, first on Lake Cobbosseecontee in Kennebec County and later on Squam Lake in New Hampshire.
About This Item
- Title: Richards family, ca. 1895
- Creation Date: circa 1895
- Subject Date: circa 1895
- Location: ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Object Type: Image
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Abbe Museum26 Mount Desert Street, PO Box 286, Bar Harbor, ME 04609
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