Keywords: cornelia crosby
Item 15315
Cornelia Crosby, Moosehead Lake, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Media: Lantern slide
Item 28841
Portrait of Cornelia "Fly Rod" Crosby, 1894
Contributed by: Maine State Museum Date: 1894 Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.
Exhibit
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3
"… "Fly Rod" Crosby (1854-1946)Maine State Museum Cornelia “Fly Rod” Crosby (1854-1946) was not only a fly fisherwoman extraordinaire, but also…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 3 of 3
"Strong Historical Society Cornelia “Fly Rod” Crosby died on Armistice Day in 1946 at the Marcotte Home in Lewiston."